Things we talked about:
- Allowing ourselves to feel good when things actually go well
- The synchronicity of things happening when they’re supposed to (and when you’re ready)
- Defining success for ourselves (and it’s not always what we assume it might be)
- How lockdown taught Katherine to create her own “sense of safety” following the success of her book, by creating courses to shore up her income
- Finding ways to own your own story, message and brand
- How Katherine’s approach to Instagram evolved from “sharing pictures” to “telling stories”
- Katherine’s experience of coming back from “an anxious pattern of behaviour” around social media
- The quiet activism in the premise of Katherine’s book, Wintering, which is all about periods of life in which we feel cut off from the rest of the world
- Not always having to be “on” and “up.” As Katherine says, “The vision of us being always up discounts useful wonderful things like thinking, reflecting…”
- How we’ve all learned things about ourselves during lockdown, and the way our priorities (and what we are willing to accept) have changed
- Being diagnosed as autistic, quite late in life, allowed Katherine to make the personal changes she needed: “How to meet my own needs, rather than how to solve me”
- The experience of living life as a neurodivergent person
- Finding your right people online (if you lose followers after sharing your true self, then you’ve lost the right followers - you don’t want them)
- And this piece of wisdom from Katherine, for anyone who identifies with our “neurodivergent” conversation: "Your identification is yours. It doesn’t need the approval of a doctor or your mum.”
- The Insta Retreat - My tell all, best selling course for Instagram creatives and business owners.
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Books we mention in this episode:
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