028: How Tight Pants Became a Personal Growth Message, Doing All the Right Things in Life and Still Getting Sick, and the Shadow Side of Responsibility in Relationships with Kate Courageous

"Like - this is my life and I got shit to do...like good shit to do. Good, awesome, amazing things that I'm excited to do and I'm doing them and that's that." ~ Kate Courageous Meet KateKate Swoboda is creator of YourCourageousLife.com, Director of the Courageous Living Coach Certification at TribeCLCC.com and author of The Courage Habit: How to Accept Your Fears, Release the Past, and Live Your Courageous Life. She helps individuals, teams, and companies see where old, fear-based habits have kept people stuck or started to limit what’s possible for an organization, and then start creating more courageous lives by getting into “the courage habit,” a four-part process for behavioral and organizational change.Kate has appeared in MindBodyGreen, Entrepreneur, USA Today, Forbes, Lifetime Moms, The Intelligent Optimist, Business Insider, and more, and her website Your Courageous Life was named a top-50 blog for happiness by Greatist. She’s spoken at conferences and seminars on the topic of courage as it relates to personal development, releasing overwhelm, business and marketing, money mindset, wellness, increasing emotional resilience, and healthy goal-setting using habit-formation techniques.My fave moments from this conversation:I mean...first of all, Kate Courageous was my very first life coach EVER and she taught me a personal growth lesson having to do with tight pants and I've got to tell you...I've carried that lesson with me years later still!And I am SO STINKING EXCITED + PROUD of her on the release of her very first book, The Courage Habit.How fear-based behaviors become fear-based habits and what we can stop that shit and practice courage-based habits instead.Kate's journey through an auto-immune diagnosis all while thinking...I'm doing the right things SO WHY AM I SICK?The hard-won courage and knowing when you're able to say - it's ok - I'll get to the other side.How the shadow side of working on our 'stuff' can show up in relationships and boundaries.The four predominant ways fear shows up for us. I especially love that Kate takes us through a super practical and relatable example of how to practice The Courage Habit when needing to have an uncomfortable conversation with a close friend.How short-term "rewards" like a decrease in stress is a fear-based way of how we can self-sabotage our long-term goals and desires. (<==HELLOTHISISME)Kate's recent and positively mortifying 'mom' moment (zomg, I so relate!!).People + Resources MentionedKate's new book, The Courage Habit!The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey (Kate doesn't endorse the entire book but there are some good nuggets in there!)Connect with KateWebsite | Facebook | InstagramSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.