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It's not a big thing: Simplifying Solo Business28 | An update during our Solo Business regroup.We are sharing a little behind a Solo Business during an extended regroup. In this convo you will hear how each Solo Business Role is now actively active in Little Language Matters* while potentially picking up all the warming vibes woven into the words at work here. The point, the purpose and promise of this conversation is to be just one example. Yes we mention the resources we are working on to grow the normal norm of Solo Business (actually) feeling resourced and resourceful, but like the words we are using here, it has everything and nothing...
2025-11-2832 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 59 - "...a new sense of growing in one's knowing is so much more fun than growing up."In this conversation I share with you an example of what it is for one human to grow into one’s own a little more than before. The benefits uttered aloud are greater than what has been shared here, and yet what has been shared may be more than enough to inspire, spark, or light a fire under your human backside to grow to own your now sense of self and where you can grow from here. Enjoy. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to...
2025-11-0820 min
It's not a big thing: Simplifying Solo Business27 | Update from the LLM*'s (Solo) business Director (Lens)FocusWelcome back to our regular regulars and welcome to our new regulars. Recently we stopped sharing in our regular schedule — we stopped both with purpose and on purpose. In this conversation we share an update. As we do here, we do the thing we are talking about while talking about the thing we do (yes, language lets us be in both places at once). Here we share an update from the lens of our Little Language Matters* Business Director (lens).Lens of LanguageTo find the fe...
2025-11-0523 min
It's not a big thing: Simplifying Solo Business26 | Why you may start to notice Solo Business lead the Strategic Direction conversation.There are those moments that we all know from time to time where we find ourselves in old ways and days and undoing all the good grown before now — this is one such moment in one Solo Business.For a minute we have found those lazy conversations creeping into the room. Moving us to the type of conversations we already know, that have grown all their big grows and are now settled and set in where they are. While we enjoy leaning in and learning in these conversations, this is not the part Little Language Matters* to pl...
2025-09-2820 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 58 - "...the idea of living lightly has opened up the space and place in ways I didn't see coming, until now."You’re most welcome with the warmest of welcomes to walk among and amidst these wondering words that have a little wild that lingers as they feel the new feels of light in their days and ways. 😅Correcting and incorrect in this conversation in that I know I sat that an adverb modifies a verb or noun, this is not totally true. An adverb can modify a verb, adjective, or other adverbs. Done, now that’s totally true for you.😁🔗 Lazy links from The Line that influenced, informed, and inspired parts of this conve...
2025-09-2719 min
It's not a big thing: Simplifying Solo Business25 | How your Strategic Direction works with you to grow to know what works for you and your Solo Business.In this conversation we offer you not any one way for you to business your Solo Business. Often ‘what works’ in your Solo business comes from the delivery layer in your systems, strategies, or services/products.Sure, there are templates to trace to get started, to do it the first time, to grow it into your own. And then there are ways in your days that are already working, that need not change, but can do more of the heavy lifting across different parts of your Solo Business. Here we take what you know in the...
2025-09-2118 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 57 - "...it's my favourite wording way that opens up..."If you’re a human that has experiences where your humans asks for more on some days that feel like they’re forever getting in the way, then this working way may work for you. When it lands true for you too you can feel confident and comfy to pull it front of mind for long enough to do what it does and grow to know it then loves to fall away from the front to open up the space for you to do what you can do today. This is a public episode. If y...
2025-09-1909 min
It's not a big thing: Simplifying Solo Business24 | Why you're in good company if you too thought scaling in Solo Business was the same as growing.Have you ever been in those conversations and you think are you in sync, you are talking the same talk, and later learn you were so far off you just have to laugh out loud. Confession, we are very totally all human here and we too have been talking to ‘scaling’ and ‘growing’ being interchangeable, and to a small degree we have been right 😅Annnnnnd in the same breath, we have been missing out on a really real opportunity to be leaned on and leveraged 😃We share a little of our now knowing and we are lov...
2025-09-1520 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 56 - "...knowing when others are asking to use my weird without asking is moving the ball back into my court...and it's kinda fun."You’re most welcome to lean a little of your curiosity into a quick convo about how others can come in hot and want a little of our weird without asking. This is a light look at a light moment shared among real-humans in real-time. If this is you too then you may find parts that ring true for you and maybe a little something you can do. Whatever you choose, remember, take that which is only yours and leave the rest. K. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with ot...
2025-09-1217 min
It's not a big thing: Simplifying Solo Business23 | When to put your Strategic Direction to work in your Solo Business Strategies.How we think in our Solo Business generally often always falls into one of two cognitive comfort thinking camps. Some of us enjoy working among the big bigness of the big picture and picking the direction and destination. Some enjoy the diving into the detail taking the big picture and making it really real.We have a choice. We can stay in our lane. Or, we can learn our comfort zone and enough of the other to be fully across our Solo Business. It is totally doable by first knowing it is a thing and then practicing...
2025-09-0843 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 55 - "...our weirds can be wild and wonderful in the way they work with us and us them."Heya, this one’s a quickie to leverage and lean on my weird to inspire you to find and feels more connected with yours. That’s it. Enjoy 🤓A defined definition that lazily inspired my weird to be a little more wonderful. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kathyrast.substack.com
2025-09-0614 min
It's not a big thing: Simplifying Solo Business22 | How looking through the buying lens can work better for you and your Solo Business.Let’s have a little fun with playing with a popular ‘mindset’ — (specifically, part of the Money Mindset) — tis always a little fun to look a set mind in the face and wonder what is fixed and fused and what is open to another view. Here we slip from selling to buying and by doing so move what we see from the back-of-business to look at our Solo Business from the lens of a buyer out front.You are right in thinking they are the same and you are right when you wonder about the difference...
2025-08-3125 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 54 - "...we don't need to take the real-life superpowers of others, knowing they're really real is more than enough."You’re welcome and warmly waved over to jump in and listen to a twisty and, at times, tangled conversation of many pondering ponders that were pointless until they weren’t. From talking to assuming extinction is inevitable (which it’s not), to realising why I was always going to be drawn to my favourite human (which was totally actually really new to me in this moment).The point and purpose of sharing this cluttered coming together of many thinking thoughts is to share a way a mind can work that is unremarkable to me and is...
2025-08-2942 min
It's not a big thing: Simplifying Solo Business21 | How we can lean on the labels of Solo Business and Small Business to do some of the heavy lifting.Small Business and Solo Business are labels lobbed about with little thought in our business conversations. And, it is this little thought out thinking that we can now realise a real opportunity to lean on and leverage these labels to do some of the heavy lifting in our front and back of business thinking. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit itsnotabigthing.substack.com
2025-08-2426 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 53 - "...maybe quiet moments aren't so quiet, but they're (a) key to knowing a know before we can grow."You’re most welcome to pop a ponder uttered out loud in your curious ears. Please note and know that this is a thinking thought that has little to no meaning in the world that’s wild and wide until it does. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kathyrast.substack.com
2025-08-2122 min
It's not a big thing: Simplifying Solo Business20 | Why growing a Solo Business garden makes more sense than building a business building.It is simple, buildings are built for a purpose, and while that purpose may change with future custodians, the walls are where they are, the floors are fixed, and ceiling keeps everything contained and concentrating on meeting that business purpose.A Solo Business needs more set structure. The idea of fixed flexibility kinda feels more like flapping in the business breeze to make something already made work.Instead we grow an idea, just one, where maybe the mobility of growing in contained containers concentrated in a fixed footprint lends itself to work more for Solo...
2025-08-1727 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 52 - "...purpose is enough of a pull and a promise to put pants on today."Heya wonder-fill human 👋 You’re most welcome to jump into a thinking thought out loud as I share a little line of thinking connecting what we have with what we do and how we can leverage this to have more say in our day-to-day view.Soz it’s a little on the quiet side of sounds, please know this means my insides are screaming and so to speak any louder doesn’t seem possible or practical. Please put your loose listening ears on and be sure to potter about as you listen to the interwoven and inter...
2025-08-1626 min
It's not a big thing: Simplifying Solo Business19 | How saying you're a solopreneur talks less to your Solo Business and more to you.So many Solo Businesses start from the self selected label of being a solopreneur (a nod to stepping out of the ever crowded crowd of entrepreneurs and being chuffed where all is done by one).Here we expand on the existing and open an option to a knowing know of when to name yourself a solopreneur and when to shift the focus to your Solo Business. This is where you having a strong sense of self in your role in your Solo business in your Strategic Direction (specifically, your Niche and Business Model-Network) come to play their...
2025-08-1014 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 51 - "...it was easy to enjoy the joy in the moment because it was just us."You’re invited into a moment where you weren’t welcomed or wanted, but one that is shared with you in mind. It’s a moment that was born and beared pure bliss because it was noticed. The point, the purpose and the promise in this particular conversation is to give you a little of the moment to share enough to enjoy the joy woven into and interwoven the words to carry and convey something you may notice in your day (too).As always, the actual event is just an example and means alot to me and little...
2025-08-0814 min
It's not a big thing: Simplifying Solo Business18 | Why 'we is me' is less to do with headcount and more about growing in Solo Business.In the context of conversations in business, scale says ‘more’ to many. What is commonly confused is the tendencies to talk to size being about headcount, assuming that more people means more capacity, more capability, more more to do more, to be more. Now some will trust when there is more, and they are right, there is a time when you need more business bums in seats to hold and have confidence in continuity of supplying a service or producing a product. And then, there are a growing number of ‘others’.Here we...
2025-08-0307 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 50 - "...saying 'soz' makes my 'sorry' mean more."A little language thang that is working for this human that may work for you too. You’re most welcome to jump in and join the conversation about the part sorry plays in our conscious and unconscious utterances. Within these words you’ll learn a little about sorry , even littler about soz, and grow a sense of how they’re different and can be more when they’re applied as shared here.In saying that last part, everything here is just only ever a suggestion and you’re egged on to break and make your own rules...
2025-07-3113 min
It's not a big thing: Simplifying Solo Business17 | When it's best to be a Solo Business Owner and when to be a CEO in Small Business.The funny thing about taking what works in big business and popping it to play a part in Solo Business that sometimes it looks a little very different. Here we draw the focus to a frame of connecting your Solo Business to resources through specific relationships, specifically those relationships assigned to exisiting business role names. In this conversation we work with business roles as a bridge between the different business makeups to make what we have work harder for us. While there is no one way to get our foot in that door, to get...
2025-07-2715 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 49 - "...over thought over thinking until it felt thought over."Oh, the bliss and beauty of rhetoric in real life is something that will forever fill one’s cup completely. Talking about the title here of “…over thought over thinking until it felt thought over” being more than a polyptoton working its wonders in the wild, but just eh joy of knowing that our minds will meander in our ways and days to work with us and it can be only us that says other wise.Here I share a little part of my paving a path out of the ditch that was depressed and feeling the feels of...
2025-07-2718 min
It's not a big thing: Simplifying Solo Business16 | How the Director and Manager lenses lighten the workload in Solo Business.We are putting forward the idea that maybe the middle can be less messy or muddy and16 be more magic with the clarity cleared up when working with a couple of key Business Role Lenses, specifically the Manager and Director.Through a real world example we share an application of how the Manager and Director can both connect and correct working in Solo Business. Some lenses feel more familiar, while others feel forced and foreign, so they are not always picked up until they are deliberately designed to be picked up.For now...
2025-07-2026 min
Especially On TuesdayEp.48 1/4 - "...soz, forgot to mention the two things."This is a catch up conversation to close a loop opened in our chat yesterday. I mentioned to things I realised while reading Thinking Fast Thinking Slow and totes forgot to circle back to close that loop — if it were a series, it would be a spin off of a supporting character’s life coming into their own.Until when, take a leaf from my language on Friday…keep it loose and love your best life out loud 😉K. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with...
2025-07-1919 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 48 - "...I’ve been trialling and testing different ways to talk to topics that are kinda taboo and yet they’re needed and necessary."You’re welcome and invited to jump in and join the conversation that’ll be nothing and everything in the long run. Over recently times I’ve been trialling and testing different ways to talk to topics that are kinda taboo and yet they’re needed and necessary 🤭Because we know what the words are doing here, we use them to ditch the idea of difficult conversations and bring in the curious.This conversation is the first of a couple of parts coming together, which means it’s chunky and clunky and kinda jumpy as I lean in and...
2025-07-1833 min
It's not a big thing: Simplifying Solo Business15 | How bringing Business Roles into Solo Business grows clarity, congruency, and connection.Business role lenses are so light and so little they are easy enough to pull out in our days and ways. Growing on what we are already knowing about Business roles Lenses, we keep going growing. Really leaning in to learn what we can learn, what we can leverage, and where it can lead us (on and off track). The point is in the persistent practice of pulling out the aligned lens for you to direct, decide, or do what needs doing, or to catch yourself when you find you are leaning on one lens...
2025-07-1319 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 47 - "...leaning in and leveraging a low low is a new kinda cool."You’re most welcome to jump in and listen to how I navigated (and continue to navigate) a recent experience and episode of extended deepening depression deep. The repeated sunken sad is super normal for me and now I have enough resources to really realise there is opportunity to leverage these moments and meet them with a task that needs doing which has the same characteristics.Specifically, because of my continued efforts to shape and structure my social supports and days and ways (yup, a lot through the lens of my language), I realised the real opportunity I...
2025-07-1127 min
It's not a big thing: Simplifying Solo Business14 | How a level line works for Solo Business.In big business layered layers of levels make sense. It makes sense to move the deciding, directing, and doing to be done on different floors (metaphorical and actual). In medium and small business these levels work too. In Solo Business…not so much.Here we continue to grow the idea into Solo Business ways and days where ‘all can be done by one’ by building in the Business Role Lenses. Same level, same you, different view.The view that tells you what you will can do next. This is a p...
2025-07-0717 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 46 - [Deleted Placeholder]Welcome to a placeholder that’s here to let you know that there was an important conversation conversed, that was published and public for a time and for now it has retreated out of sit to the backend. It was here for one day and one night and stopped short of the 24h cooling off publishing period. If you’re curious, it’s a podcast internet rss feed thang. Nothing scandalous, nothing cool, nothing even exciting, just one human navigating her human-ing out loud in real0life in real-time.For now, thank you being the you th...
2025-07-0701 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 46 - "...I've learnt how to make an extended moment of melancholy something to enjoy."Everything I share is not for show, which means the words will be light has I continue to navigate this moment in real life in real time. You’re most welcome to listen to how I have shapes my experience with prolonged melancholy to be one that borders on being enjoyable. In line with my personal values, this experience has grown, and continues to grow from my need and value of knowing I have a choice in my experience of my experiences — this is just one experience I have chosen to share aloud with you today.Th...
2025-07-0423 min
It's not a big thing: Simplifying Solo Business13 | How Business Roles Lenses can be a game changer in Solo business.Groan, another game changer Bear with, maybe this one really is 🙃Remember a couple of convos ago where we dared utter aloud the idea that ‘all can be done by one’ in Solo Business and said it again that we can work towards ‘all done by one’ as a normal norm by shifting your knowing of a business day away from what you may know, or is normal for the many, and instead of filling out the day to sooth that itch to be growing the business…remember that ol’ chestnut, well, we are going a little further to make ‘a...
2025-06-3041 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 45 - "...having a conversation about conversations can open up conversations."You’re most welcome to listen lightly to the idea of inviting a conversation about a conversation not yet conversationed aloud by asking a simple question. So often, almost often, we can walk away from conversations wondering what was not said aloud. You know the kinda conversations where there is the unspoken wanting to be welcomed into the room and yet it can feel a little forced and or weird just to call it out directly. If you’ve had one or more of these conversations, then this conversations about conversation may be a handy knowing to know...
2025-06-2726 min
It's not a big thing: Simplifying Solo Business12 | How knowing your Niche lightens the load to grow in Solo Business.Knowing your Solo Business Niche is only the beginning…working out where in your days and ways you actually use your Niche to navigate what we do, to indicate what we need to (and do), and to extricate us (from what we really don’t need to be doing 🤭). Yes, your Niche names who you do and what you do for/with them. And yes, your Niche ties you to that something bigger than your business. Your Niche lends itself to the little things leading you to and away from your part to play in...
2025-06-2321 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 44 - "...we're not having the right conversations yet."You’re most welcome to warm up to the idea with me that that we continue to leak in old ways into our ways and days through the littlest parts of our language languaged out loud.This conversation is for the thinkers who love thinking. This conversation is for those who want a little deliberate ambiguity out loud. This conversation is for those who want a sense of choice where other would say there is none.Here is a calamity, chaotic, and coming together of so many conversations that haven’t been conversed out loud yet...
2025-06-2120 min
It's not a big thing: Simplifying Solo Business11 | How not saying your Niche aloud may be working for your Solo Business.Knowing your solo Business Niche is one thing, saying it aloud is another. We are forever meeting our needs in every decision, every doing, every ‘darn it', why won’t you just work already!’ The funny thing they do not tell you about meeting our needs…we are amazing at meeting them in the most not great ways in our days. That’s not the point pained to provoke here — we are not the type to say be better for your business.Instead, we kindly offer an alternate route by first knowing and then growing (in your own...
2025-06-1638 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 43 - "...looking at ai though the lens of the Luddite may hold more choice in our happy."You’re most welcome to walk among these words doing as they have done. As this one human continues to peel back the layers of complexity in our days and our ways, there is a growing knowing in choices being unconsciously silenced aloud.From this conversation I found a connection of one experience I am navigating, namely the over eager insertion of ai into my everyday experience. This conversation is neither for nor against, it’s about looking at the purpose and how it’s too easy to miss the point. It’s that growing sense of...
2025-06-1327 min
It's not a big thing: Simplifying Solo Business10 | How little language leaks can tell you where you 'really' are in your Solo Business.From the beginning we are encouraged to talk about our Solo Business aloud. While this suggestion is not paired with being particular who you share with, that is another conversation.Here we tap into the talking talking that can let anyone who knows to notice where you and your Solo Business growth are at, where you are going, and a hellava lot about who you have be talking to where you have been.While talking is telling and you may feel the urge and surge to redirect all resources to ‘watch’ what you say...
2025-06-0920 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 42. - "...maybe our prioritised priorities are the key to peel back the complexity to enjoy new in-betweens."You’re welcome to walk among these words with me. It’s funny this conversation came out of no where. It’s this kind of conversation that brings front of mind that we always have a thinking thought, meaning being made, and sense drawing in data through our senses.Growing from the knowing of the ‘in-between’ lens, in this conversation we walk with wonder in what is important and importance in our days and our ways. Continuing to peel back the layers of expectations of what we think we need to do while loving ourselves silly in the ever so small s...
2025-06-0622 min
It's not a big thing: Simplifying Solo Business9 | How Niches are nice and Markets can do more in Solo Business.From the moment we say aloud that we are beginning a business, there is that assumed assumption littered and layered into each well meaning question and queries to learn more before you know. Before you know what you do. Before you know who you do it with (or for). Before you know part you want to play in a picture that is far from painted and ready to be viewed aloud.Knowing this knowing, even when you are in a known market, and especially when you are in a new or emerging market, is enough. Then, when...
2025-06-0317 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 41 - "...maybe the bliss of the in-between is coming at the cost of hacking our human-ing."Hello Wonder-Filled Human 👋This one’s a curious one. It feels like it is what it needs to be for now. And, it feels like there is more to grow in what we know from it. Across this conversation, I look to where we'‘re going……and immediately take a sharp left.Coming back (thanks to trusting tethers of my notes keeping the promised topic front of mind), I walk us back to the idea of the idea of our responsibility of our own happiness and look at little at the real-world costs of actually...
2025-05-3043 min
It's not a big thing: Simplifying Solo Business8 | How a Business Niche can better steer your Solo Business network.Niche and networks are two terms tossed about the common business conversations like confetti sprinkling the assumed assumption everyone has them and uses them. Now, the former is truer than the latter and the latter is certainly alive and living, but the two together…not often so.Here we put forward the idea of not being driven (by what you can give) but of driving (designing what you give and get) and your decision of who gets what from you, where and when they can get it, and who is outside of this space and place....
2025-05-2633 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 40 1/4 - "...I'm chuffed that I've worked with my words to dissolve and evolve my experience in under 48 hours."To share a share in real life in real time in the moment before it moves on to being more, I share a sense of how I have reformed, transformed, and formed a new experience post people-ing in public. For me, guilt is crippling (both with and without just reason). Here I share a share as close as I could to the really real moments that followed my recent efforts to human in the world with others.Growing with what I’m knowing now, I can already see how each experience can be easier and en...
2025-05-2531 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 40 - "...I know now I need to know when the food is coming out."You’re welcome to join me among these wondering words which have so much meaning mashed into them that they are more meandering than getting where they were always going. Here in this conversation I share the sense of what it can be to make sense from moments of mess to realising we already know what we need and once we decided we are going to meet that need then it’s up to us to get on getting on.To many this conversation may to confuse, but I’m guessing, believing, and trusting this isn’t...
2025-05-2241 min
It's not a big thing: Simplifying Solo Business7 | Why Scale(able), Sale(able), and Sustain(able) mean more in Solo Business.Hello and Welcome 👋You're invited to join our growing convo about separating the Solo Business Structure from the Small Business bucket. Just by talking about it here we're taking the first steps to see the Solo Business Experience to being to stand out, to be stand lone, and to be something kinda truly special.In this conversation we're growing in what we're knowing by circling back and clicking and collecting parts of our previous conversations to connect them with where we're going. Specially, we're:- building on the 3 layers of the Solo Business Str...
2025-05-1939 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 39 - "...there's a simple way we can do the 'The Work' in something we're already doing."You're welcome to lean in and listen as you work to learn a little about something I've found that's working in doing "The Work" that's actually working in one human's ways and days.Until when, remember to take that which is only yours and leave the rest.K.🎧 Promised Playlist (on Spotify): Pineal Gland Activation 963Hz https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4vaLSJUdgEPXOCx3jyuMrf?si=0746f5c62cdf48bc This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus epi...
2025-05-1738 min
It's not a big thing: Simplifying Solo Business6 | How a bigger business vision can be better for Solo Business.Wanna know the number one way to sell yourself short in Solo Business?It’s easy, just set your vision to a short view (a give away is that your business is mentioned in the vision wording words). Go bigger! Go beyond your business! Go beyond your market, your industry! Stuff ‘em, go bigger!Go so big you are beyond the boundaries of being told what you do and how you do it. Instead see the lines that link what you are working to see as a normal norm in your our world.The...
2025-05-1243 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 38 - "...feeling the feels is like Bob the wave, who lives his best life waving, waving, waved as he's welcomed back to the wide world of his waters."Oh, walking among one's words in real-life in real-time is a wondrous wonder even onto itself. In this conversation, we took a turn from shaping the dimensions of our physical space to working with the wave of feels that comes with being back in the space and place of an old decided decisions and how we can level our experience from the present. As with each conversation, no script, no outlines, no glasses, just a human with a mic sitting in a small room looking at a big sky and wondering many whys.Please listen on your...
2025-05-0833 min
It's not a big thing: Simplifying Solo Business5 | Why it's important to know you can always close your Solo Business for good.It is funny, everything that begins ends, everything that starts stops, everything that is already was. Yet, when it comes to business, the conversation about consider closing is kinda taboo almost like if we say it out loud that we may make it happen. Yeah. Nah. From experience, the funny thing is that as soon as it is said aloud it plays the part it needs to play. For many Solo Businesses, it is about the rush of relief knowing it is an option, an opportunity, and only one option. We encourage you to say...
2025-05-0531 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 37 - "...as these few things come together the space I've structured long before today is working in ways I didn't know was possible until now."You're invited to walk among my meandering mind as I find my feet between big things come together. While many may one to believe thought through thinking is singular, share, and simple, it's note. Thinking through something is diving into details deep and undiscovered by most. The coming together so something can be in a single moment, while others (the really good one) feel each other out to find how it could fit, how it could work, how it can become a new to you (me) way in your (my) day. Really sitting in the...
2025-05-0327 min
It's not a big thing: Simplifying Solo Business4 | Why it's time to separate Strategic Direction from Strategy in Solo Business.There are some parts in solo business where this is the same as that and this can do the same thing as that…strategy and strategic direction is not in this category.When it comes to strategy and strategic direction, one is moving and the other is the stable stability that keeps the Solo Business playing a part in something bigger.Where you will have one strategic direction, you can have many strategies in succession or at the same time. It is the parts of the strategic direction that both inspire and ensure that strategies st...
2025-04-2816 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 36 - "..sometimes saying you have nothing to say now means more later."These words are a little different because I have nothing to share in this space we are growing together. I promised previously that I would practise my practice of a consistent consistency without the cost of congesting your cognition.The purpose of the this podcast is not to create and share content, but to add value to the conversation, to not talk at you but with you.So, this short convo is here to say you were front of mind the whole time and I look forward to chatting soon.K. This...
2025-04-2602 min
It's not a big thing: Simplifying Solo Business3 | How to begin to move on from being everything, everywhere, all at once in Solo Business.Time is one of the most valued and valuable resources in a Solo Business. Something that is learnt often always the hard way and without knowing until it is known is that a work day does not equal a calendar day. Here we suggest a suggestion to shift the view from designing your work ways and days from the time you have to the time you actually need to work based on your actual Solo Business needs. Spoiler: Many find that fill was there to scratch that itch of the belief...
2025-04-2127 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 35 - "...it's not the size of the small but it's relative relationship to our big."Hello and welcome 👋You're welcome to walk among these words with me as we look at the idea of what it is actually and practically enjoy the small things in our lives. Something I've been ponding in parallel to my other ponders about size matters. Specially I've noticed a new frequency of feeling the feels of bliss that now finds its way to front of my mind on most given days. Each moment is unremarkable to many and yet to walk passed me in one of these moments (yup, they happen in public often) one wou...
2025-04-1822 min
It's not a big thing: Simplifying Solo Business2 | How sharing your business beliefs can be better for Solo Business.You are invited to consider an idea of an idea, specially why you may want to be clear on your beliefs and how you can use your values to grow trust. Working with the words we actually use, we can make to small changes that can grow what we know bigger than what we know now.In this conversation I draw a line to separate and support construct to stand strong on its own side-by-side.We clear up the nuances between:- beliefs acting as a group of shared beliefs...
2025-04-1437 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 34 - "...it feels like that moment when you're not up nor down, you're in the moment between."You're welcome and invited to join in this conversation conversed without being first rehearsed, where the words of one human human-ing wondered and walked out loud among her words.In this conversation we look a little at noticing when we are scratching an itch that may or may not be ours. We look at the moment in the middle as less of a mess and more into the idea of the bliss of being between to moments.To be honest, I'll be listening this one too as there feels like there's something important coming front...
2025-04-1119 min
It's not a big thing: Simplifying Solo Business1 | Why one Solo Business is on a mission to grow Solo Business to play a part in something bigger.Update: You may notice that the description below feels put together and has a strong sense of self. You are right! We pull this front of mind as listening to this first conversation you may feel the feels of the sense of self being out of sorts and leaning towards being more like ‘unsure of self. You are right! You see, we (Kathy and Little Language Matters*) knew we had to begin to grow what we needed to know. In the past we deleted iterations like this. Now, we have chosen to keep it here in case the feels fo...
2025-04-0735 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 33 - "...the moment landed not because of the words but because everything she does said she was already doing it.' "Oh my golly gwosh, the moment many parts come together is one I hope is forever out of the reach of research finding explanation. You're invited to here the response that prompted this unplanned conversation without my glasses.As I share the experience of thinking deep and deeply thinking a thought through, I share the idea of being deliberate in who you invite to influence your progressive ponder. I knew at some stage I was going to ask this one human a question topic and she delivered, both in guiding me on how many stitches to cast...
2025-04-0616 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 32 - "...I realised deterioration isn't equal to declining, it was more a new baseline."You're most very welcome to pick our progress ponder about the potential within the words of moving from 'getting older' to realising what we can achieved when we're 'growing older'. In this conversation I share the messy moments of making sense of a universal human experience. Since sharing last week, the frame of 'growing older' is supporting a growing sense of choice in what is happening to me (and my humans around me experiencing the same in their own human-ing) and really settling in a sense of ease in the ever changing experience.Words are...
2025-04-0422 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 31 - "...I found getting older uninspired, so I'm choosing to grow older, which..."Heyya 👋You're invited to pop in and out of a long ponder in progress. For months now I've been pondering the purpose and potential in growing older and what I can do now for my future me to be stronger.I say this ponder in progress because deep thinking into thing something to new depths happens with time, space, and effort, so I share the sense of what real-time deep thinking in progress can be.Aging is a universal experience and it's my intention that by sharing this idea ideating in progress that you...
2025-03-2819 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 30 - "...I was struggling to find a purpose and point and now I'm loving myself silly while sorting my bobby pins."You're invite to listen lightly (which means while walking, washing the dishes, or while lazily laying back and resting a restful rest). Among these many words (which there are many) I share a recent personal experience with you in mind. As a heads up and to kind to your mind, this conversation is truely what it would be if we were to jump on the phone now and you would just listen as I find myself in a shared moment. It's my hope and trust that you too will find yourself in on part of this conversation and you...
2025-03-2133 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 29 - "...this is what you can do with your word of the year (instead)."You're invited to walk among a collection of words working to focus the focus between now and the year of that begins from here. It's here I offer both an alternative way to focus your focus from a single words, or to leverage our love of threes to choose your priorities (two ways of achieving the same thing through your words).P.S. You’re seeing me stretching my comfort zone in real life and real time through sharing a new media here. Like you’ve come to expect on the Especially on Tues...
2025-01-2221 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 28 - "...ooooppps, I just noticed I took y'all on a tangent. Soz."In the last conversation, I intended to share another view to frame our focus on something...and then my mind took us elsewhere. So here it is, a conversation shared for you to consider in your new years resolution-ing.As always, and to be expected, it's a little clunky, chucky, and packed with an idea coming into clarity.Please remember to take that which lands with you new and leave the rest.K. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss...
2024-12-2633 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 27 - "...I realised it wasn't imposter syndrome it was a fear of judgement."You're invited to walk among my meaning being made in real life in real time through the words I'm actually already using. Sharing with you the mess of the middle before the moment it all comes together.It's here I share and narrate a part of my experience as I make meaning live for the purpose of illustrating one way we can direct our focus and support real change in real time.Soz, and you're welcome, for the moments of the unscripted parts that get real personal (and I didn't plan to share). As these...
2024-12-2531 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 26 - "...they laughed at me for being scared of feeling calm."Walk among my words as I share something seemingly silly and yet it makes perfect sense. I share a continuing shift that is very personal, very personable, and all the way human. In this conversation I share a part of my recent realisation that I was keeping myself stressed because I was scared of feeling the internal experience of calm. That's right, I have learned to be so good at being stressed that it was scary to not be stressed (aka calm). This is a lot more normal than many know...
2024-12-1428 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 25 - "...if we don't pick it up in the first place, we won't have to let it go."You're invite to listen loosely to a wording way that is kind to the mind and supports reduces creating unnecessary cognitions to support unconscious and conscious allocation of our personal resources. Language-ing includes (which will only make sense after listening to the Ep):1. Notice when you are asking 'why'2. Narrate the current experience (build you're own voice that could make a shopping list sound life changing)3. Ask:'What's important for me to know about that?' (answer and then ask again) 'What's important for me to know about that...
2024-12-0928 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 24 - "...we can focus our focus better with the frame 'What can I say yes to?'"This is a chunky and clunky conversation to suggest simple wording way to dissolve and evolve the resource suck of people pleasing and boundary enforcing to focus our focus with a more kind-to-the-mind to better our connections with ourselves and others.As always, unplanned, unscripted, and all the real reality as if we were started a curious conversation where no one thought to look yet.enjoy. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kathyrast.substack.com
2024-11-2633 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 23 - "...after 20 something years I only now realise what trust feels like when..."You're invited to walk a little among my wording words. I promise they are a little wayward, a little wonky, and all the while wondrous. There's a little about trust, a little about talking to ourselves, and some parts about normal norms in our information processing ways and days.As referred to, here's a short video that shares part of the part that ums and ahhs play in how we are processing information and connect in conversations with ourselves and others. 🔗 Why do we, like, hesitate when we, um, speak - Lorenzo García-Amaya This is a pu...
2024-11-1035 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 22 - "...I realised it was too personal to be public yet, so..."It's been a minute, moment, and much more than I can share since the last time I shared here. In this conversation, we connect and calibrate with what we know now and where we can go from here.It's real and unscripted so a little clunky and chunky with all the parts for you to do as only you can do.Remember, to click, collect, and connect to that which is yours and leave the rest. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or...
2024-11-0425 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 21 - "...I wondered where the flippin' water went!"You're invited to listen if you want differentiate feeling inspired and being motivated. This convo is a little wired, a lot weird, and all the wonder filled you know makes it easy to click, collect, and connect into you on ways and days from here.This one has a lot to give in work, in health, in all the parts that make up to make us us.Until when.K This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kathyrast.substack.com
2024-09-2026 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 20 - ".. .there was a warm sense that the world made sense in this moment, and.. ."You're invited to walk among my words with me. Here I word aloud my thinking thoughts as they come together in the mess before they make sense. It's an easy listen when you hold a loose wonder.. . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kathyrast.substack.com
2024-08-1832 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 19 - ".. .I had a fear of floating away."No matter how much we know and how much we do, still our minds will do as they do. Here I share with you a little of how I'm shaping my experience with one of my mind's default settings.. .Remember to only take that which is yours and to leave the rest.K. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kathyrast.substack.com
2024-08-0523 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 18 - "...didn't lose it, just had the safety on."Welcome and wonder with me as I share one human's experience so that you can click, collect, and connect with an example to pop in your personal polly pocket so that you too can (un)lose your voice too.The premise and promising potential promise is that you may find that you'll never lose your voice again. Instead you can learn an energy efficient and kind to the mind method of working with your cleverness of your body's systems too by leaning into silence, practicing patience in private, and realising in real time the value...
2024-06-0923 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 17 - "...I have no idea what it was or where it came from...and I'm here for it."In my forty somethin' years, I've never laughed like I did the other day. The point, the purpose, and particular takeaway from this conversed convo is not trying to imagine the sound I made, but to know and notice your own unremakable moment so that you can click, collect, and connect with your very own moment of bliss and pop it in your polly pocket to draw on anytime, anywhere, anyway. Imagine a world where we are a thought away from connect, feeling, and being bliss-filled...now that's a world I'm here for! This is a...
2024-04-2217 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 16 - "...I giggled as I realised I could use this intrusive thought to my advantage."Let's talk intrusive thoughts. Yes, this conversation about serious thangs brings a refreshing take and tumble to the dry conversation of managing intruding thoughts. Instead here, together, we can expand, extend, and enjoy the idea of our thoughts and their thinking ways in our days. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kathyrast.substack.com
2024-04-0323 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 15 - "...I found myself laughing out loud with my pants off as I played with understanding understanding."Dying a little death every day can tickle...in this convo I share what that can mean and how it can support us to continue to lighten the load on our minds and free up energy to enjoy our days more. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kathyrast.substack.com
2024-04-0236 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 14 - "...I think we're designed to suffer only for a short time..."Walk among these words in this wonderfully wonder-filled processing process of my personal experience grieving a grieve. I share this process with the intention to illustrate as another way we can dissolve and resolve a new knowing following a death to feel the feelings at first and then make enough sense to be practical and possible to support our human-ing ways in our days. This is shared only as an example, my example, it's important that if and when you need support from professional professionals that you do so as you do. Thank you wonderful human for being the...
2024-03-0935 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 13 - "...unpacking keeps us in what happened, unpicking can move us to what it means now."You're welcome to walk among these words worded while you weren't looking. These words introduce to you the new thing to replace the benchmark of sliced bread!!! Instead of unpacking, maybe unpicking an experience will work better to support you, or someone else, to move beyond an experience and to click, collect, and connect with the knowing waiting and wanting to be known. Unpicking is more than an efficient sense making process, it's results in stronger results that last longer because when we move beyond things are forever changed...step by step we can move forward with just one...
2024-02-2837 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 12 - "...instead of suffering, we can experience pain, which means..."Walk among my words of a topic tethered to my word-ing heart. This one word changed my whole human-ing experience. Every day I experience pain and every day the suffer is short and points as a specific point before it walks away for that moment in the day. By experiencing pain, we can have a high quality of life while we hurt, we can smile, we can laugh, we can enjoy the joy with those we love...yep, this one word opens up a whole new way in our day we can work with what makes us human.
2024-02-2426 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 11 - "...ooohhh, I love it...soul-lit-tude-it-tair-rian-ism!"Walking among a small collection of words constructed to share a construct that is important to inspire and keep our human-ing fires a blaze in our days. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kathyrast.substack.com
2024-02-1811 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 10 - "...I couldn't believe how quickly we could form, challenge, evolve, and put a new belief to work."It was definitely a Tuesday when I first asked the question, "How quickly could I believe something enough that it influences what I do, what I think, and what I feel?" Turns out, it was hella faster than I would have every predicted. This mini-me-experiment has be really focused on shaping my everyday human-ing experience to grow, evolve, and house a collection of belief that will work (not against me, but) with me. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kathyrast...
2024-02-0316 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 9 - "...what you say, what you mean, and what you want to communicate are three different things."Learn a little about the importance wording ways in our days. Here I suggest you refrain from reframing and instead move a meaning to influence your strongest influence in your human-ing experience in real life in real time. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kathyrast.substack.com
2024-02-0107 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 8 - "...I need to leave and work with someone else."Here I share how an example of applying the thinking lens of relationships and resources to lighten the load of breaking up and moving on to better ways to support your days. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kathyrast.substack.com
2024-01-1518 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 7 - "...I'm a little nervous to share this...I'm introducing you to my Bryan with a why."Thinking thoughts are less in our control than we realise so it's up to us to find ways we can work with what we've got. Here I share one of two ways I have adapted and apply psychology thangs to my everyday human-ing experience-ing. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kathyrast.substack.com
2024-01-1032 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 6 - "...the point, the passion, the purpose of The Human-ing Project is..."A thought thunk without pants on is one that is inspired and has room to move. Join me as I capture a cluster of words I have been walking with for days and enjoy the clunkiness as the clarity becomes clearer. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kathyrast.substack.com
2024-01-0520 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 5 - "...no one finds a burnt crotch fun."In this conversation I share an example of being curious about words we utter without thought, behaviours that are misbehaving, and how we can really realise how our everyday may be using up more energy that we think. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kathyrast.substack.com
2024-01-0417 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 4 - "...this is a thought as I'm thinking it out as I can only think it this way once."Thoughts can be only thought one way once, so I just had to catch this one. This conversation is more for me and my the sense I need to make before I move forward from here. I share with you to share an example of what it is to walk among one's words and think about one's thoughts while thinking. It's wonderfully messy and every time the mind clutter clears...you will notice this at the end and to wonder how navigating a thought with so many words can end with a blank space. This is...
2023-12-2832 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 3 - "...being lost in my thoughts tells me I need to find out what my feet are up to."In this conversation I share an example of a moment of turning myself around to 'keep going' following a success moment of 'Nah, let's call it a day.' I share with the purpose of sharing the practical process of focusing one's mind when the thoughts and feelings are flying in fast.Applied thinking device:🧠 Biopsychosocial Model This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kathyrast.substack.com
2023-12-2618 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 2 - "What's the purpose of toenails?"In this conversation, I share a moment where I bring an idea of being okay with wrong answers and not knowing. I was inspired to share this moment and start the conversation around just because we can find the 'right' answer, there's bliss in being absolutely wrong (spoiler, I am in my concluded conclusion and it still has me smiling). This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kathyrast.substack.com
2023-12-2324 min
Especially On TuesdayEp. 1 - "I just realised I was way too calm..."Hello and welcome to the Especially On Tuesday Podcast.My name is Kathy Rast and I'm the founder of The Human-ing Project for the love of thinking, where we can process real life in real time through the words that we use.I'm all for what's happening from mind to mouth and mouth to mind and how we can both learn what we're doing as well as what we can do all with the words already in our worlds.In this conversation, I share a moment of feeling weird because I didn't know...
2023-12-1825 min
Take Control With NicoleFoundations for Evolution with Kathy RastToday my business bestie, and friend of the show, Kathy Rast joins me today to talk about something we're working on in my business together, org charts in big and small business-ing. We dive into: Even as a small business, why we need org charts Looking at roles with a critical eye Ranking vs roles Change in roles during a growth period Setting foundations for evolution About Kathy Kathy Rast makes me laugh in between all the business moments I have bridged together to get where I am today....and where I'm going in my tomorrows. She won't take credit for...
2023-03-2142 min
Brand ChatsFinding your brand sound with Kathy RastThis week I'm chatting with the wonderful Kathy Rast about finding your brand sound!
Have you ever thought about utilising the power of sound for your brand? Many business owners recognise the importance of brand visuals but tapping into the other senses is a powerful way to get clear on your brand strategy.
Brand sound is a topic that not many people are talking about! Kathy shares her experiences with sound to help business owners align their brand voice, improve the way they communicate and show up in a way that is aligned with their...
2023-02-2136 min
Take Control With NicoleKathy Rast Takes Over Control with NicoleNicole is used to Taking Control, but today Nicole is letting someone else take control with an interview by her business bestie, Kathy Rast. As a podcast host, you don't really get the opportunity to stand in the spotlight so today Kathy is our host for a hilarious, unscripted chat. We dive into: Nicole's business vision Time-saving practices for your business The architecture of business structures What's important to Nicole and how she does business Connecting With Our Host - Kathy Connect with Kathy on Instagram. Visit Kathy's Website. Connect with Nicole on Instagram. Visit Nicole's Website. Get the Action Taker...
2022-04-2755 min
The Let me take a Selfie PodcastEp. 037 - Pain free?!, consent and collecting - Not so regular Joe interview w/ Kathy RastYou're not meant to be completely free of pain
On today’s episode we welcome back Linguistiologist Kathy Rast. Unlike my last interview with Kathy who shared with us the power of language, we get to hear from Kathy on a deeper and personal level where she shares with us her struggles with chronic pain and how she dealt with it to come out on the other side pain free.
Kathy shares with her struggles with dealing with anxiety and depression throughout her 20’s and 30’s and how she has very little recollection of her time as...
2022-03-151h 10
Take Control With NicoleCurious Client-ing with Kathy RastToday I'm chatting with the fabulous Kathy Rast and we are going to be introducing the concept of Client-ing. We dive into: The power of words Shaping our experience through what we say to ourselves Undercharging services How clients play their role, and how you play yours Lightening the conversation of business-ing Staying in your zone of expertise About Kathy Kathy Rast is back and talking language-ing again. If you're new to Kathy, she's a Linguistiologist who works with businesses to take what they have and what they naturally do (mostly out of their awareness) and show them ways to lev...
2022-02-151h 11The Let me take a Selfie PodcastEp. 035 - Language - Being aware of what’s ours and what’s somebody else’s w/ Kathy RastOn today’s episode we have the pleasure of chatting with Kathy Rast who is an Entrepreneur and Linguistiologist. Kathy shares with us the power of language and how language can be unique to each individual by allowing them to create and set their conditions. Language can be interrupted in different ways by others.
Therefore, Kathy explains that it’s ok to set your own conditions around your language and it’s ok to not have expectation or expect others to know how to speak to you or how others would like to be spoken too by being...
2022-02-151h 17
Humans at WorkCreating Exceptional Teams Kathy RastWelcome to Season Four of Humans at Work. In this series, Being More Human's chief conversationalist Michelle Crawford talks with leaders about Creating Exceptional Teams.
Today Michelle talks with Kathy Rast from https://www.kathyrast.com/
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2021-10-1724 min
The Courage & Career ShowCurious Creative Courage with Kathy Rast - LinguistiologistThis week's episode with Kathy Rast - Linguistiologist, is all about finding your 'jam', pondering and parking thoughts, having courage every day, staying curious and being creative. And of course how amazing the word Linguistiology is! 🙌 Kathy shares her most courageous career moment, her advice for others curious about a new chapter, and how to discover what's right for you. 🌟 Connect with Kathy 🌟 Relaxation Hypnosis Vari's LinkedIn Podcast LinkedIn Page
2021-03-1434 min
Take Me As I Am - An Introduction (May 2025 )Courage Stories with Kathy Rast (Part 2)Hello 💜Here is the second part of Kathy Rast's Courage story. In it she shares how she decided, after many years of study, not to follow her dream of becoming a psychologist. She had to front up to her family and friends and accept their feedback and in some cases, disappointment, about her decision with gratitude and grace.Kathy has experienced dibilitating and crippling pain most of her life. She was exposed to unnecessary and out-dated medical treatments for being too tall 😳 She has experienced anxiety and depression along with the pain that kept her in bed...
2020-08-1922 min
Take Me As I Am - An Introduction (May 2025 )Courage Stories with Kathy Rast (Part 1)Hi there my lovelies 💜I'm introducing a series within a series called Courage Stories where I will interview women who have HAD to employ courage and resilience in order to live their lives. I'm excited to introduce my first courageous woman, Kathy Rast. Kathy describes herself and a curious, big little person, and after talking with Kathy, I totally agree. You could also add that she is as brainy as hell, has a quirky sense of humour and is very entertaining to follow. Here is part 1 of our conversation in which Kathy describes the...
2020-08-0621 min