Meet Katharine.

Mine is an uncommon story, with an uncommon goal.

When I was seven, I lived in Poland and made friends with my neighbor.  

My house was the same size as hers. 

In mine, four people had everything a person could need and more. 

In hers, ten families had no electricity or running water. 

I learned young that fairness is unfairly distributed. 

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When I was ten, I was sent away to school.

I was a strange, awkward only child, and suddenly fitting in was a matter of survival.

My passions and emotions made me a target. 

So I learned to ignore them both.

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Eighteen-year-old me was a hyper-achieving, social chameleon with the barest flicker of an internal compass.

I knew one thing for sure: 

Humans are forged by the systems they inhabit, and our current systems are grinding us down. 

And that knowledge left me with a quest. 

A big one. 

I wanted to learn how we could remake our society, culture, and economy to free future generations.

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In my mid-twenties, after a few false starts, I found the lever of change I had been looking for.

You see, entrepreneurs create new realities and bring us into them.  

They seed new ideas into our culture.

They devise new models of prosperity with the potential to free us all.

I set out to learn what makes great entrepreneurs great, and what makes them good.

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Over the next decade and a half, I worked for over ten entrepreneurs in different industries and at different stages.

I even spent five years working up close with two of the most successful entrepreneurs of our time.

I would ask myself a few questions every day: 

What makes them so successful? What are their blind spots? 

How do they get their best ideas? What happens with their worst ones?

What are they paying attention to that others ignore? And what are they ignoring that others pay attention to? 

How do they cope with the downsides: the loneliness, the hours, the stress, the uncertainty? 

And most importantly: Would I want to build the way they are building? 

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I was slowly working my way toward an entrepreneurial model that felt intuitively right. 

A model of visioning, creating, selling, and growing that respects our humanity and meets the demands of our society and economic system. 

A model with nothing short of joy and freedom as its goal. 

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Alongside this earthly quest to rewire society, I was on a soul quest to rewire myself.

It started at 23, a couple of years after my mother’s diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's. 

This quest was initially a slow burn. Years of therapy, questioning values, and making sense of my childhood. 

The gears slowly turning on my inner life, small valuable changes in my outer life.

Then, the year after my mother died in my early 30s, I had a second breakdown. And so began a more intense period of soul searching.  

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The ultimate goal? Nothing short of a rediscovery of self, uncovering what was under the childhood scars and grown-up coping mechanisms. 

My process? Seeking out teachers and healers across three continents, from the founders of the coaching profession to younger edgier thinkers at the vanguard of new ideas.

Picking up and reexamining every value, everything I had known to be true, and asking –  is this part of who I really want to be? 

Allowing myself periods where I committed solely to my joy, creating space to learn what lights me up, to see what would emerge if I could put down the weapons that had kept little-me intact.

Finally learning we’re not meant to do any of this alone, so seeking out and creating community to underpin my work, relationships, and play. 

The result? Nothing short of a rewiring of my nervous system and my mind.

A totally new relationship with my body and my emotions. 

Access to my intuition and capacity for generative creation. 

And a life and family that fills me with a level of joy I never believed possible.

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Today I bring this all to my current professional purpose: Sowing seeds of liberation by nurturing the unique gifts of women entrepreneurs. 

Liberation from the beliefs and habits that are keeping us small, tired, overworked, and underpaid.

Freedom from chasing visions that are not our own, freedom from using playbooks written by old, white dudes who prioritized profits over people and planet.

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Entrepreneurs work with me to develop their capacity for vision,

To unlock uncommon strategies and connect the dots to exponentially faster growth,

To craft their own entrepreneurial playbook, powerful ways of operating grounded in integrity and guided by their unique map of purpose and passion,

And to articulate what they stand for and how they can create impact beyond their business and plant the seeds of their legacy. 

My clients are building companies and lives guided, above all, by a commitment to joy – theirs, their customers, and the world’s.