About Me

First, an admission: I have been leading a double life. As “Kathryn”, I spent nearly 25 years working in the interest of women’s reproductive rights and access to healthcare – as a researcher and as an executive for an international NGO. This work gave me purpose and sat at the intersection of my skills, my interests, and the world’s needs. Kathryn was many-degreed, traveled extensively, excelled at her job – and she just kept saying yes to the “inevitable next steps” inherent to a successful career.

Meanwhile, at home and among friends, “Katie” was busy painting in her art journal, reading poetry with bewilderment and wonder, gathering in groups asking one another questions about what it is to really be human, and reading and learning from a wide range of disciplines and teachers.

When Katie started tagging along to work, it was alarming. She kept interrupting Kathryn, whispering, “What makes me feel alive? What do I really care about?” She teared up at meetings and reveled in one-on-one human connection over research protocols. She brought guided meditation to the C-suite and emailed poetry to her team. 

Katie was disrupting well-armored Kathryn, and this split led to a profound personal transformation. 

No longer able to maintain my separate identities, I began to explore other ways that I could meaningfully contribute to the world, while honoring my creative, soulful side. I went back to school and became a certified integral development coach. In this shift, I lost no part of myself. Kathryn and Katie are simply now more integrated, singularly focused on a desire to help women bring their whole bright, shimmering selves to life – in every sense. 

It is scary to be stepping away from my successful career trajectory, scary to dive deep into coaching, first as a recipient and now as a provider. But I have no regrets, only gratitude and excitement. 

My own life has improved through this work, which ultimately reveals the broken, but no less beautiful parts of ourselves waiting and ready to soar. 

So you can call me Katie or Kathryn. Now we’re one and the same.