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The Conversation You Need to Interrupt EVERY Single Day!

Release Date: 04/17/2025

Okay, Now What? - With Kate Gladdin

Confidence has become the thing everyone's waiting for to deliver their 'dream' life. Once I'm more confident, I'll launch it. Once I'm more confident, I'll speak up. Once I'm more confident, I'll apply, I'll move, I'll ask. And so we wait... Here's the problem with confidence - it's fragile. It goes up when things go well and falls flat the second they don't. Which means the one time you need it most is the exact moment it abandons you. In this episode I'm sharing three qualities I think are wildly underrated - and far better to build your life on than confidence. They're not feelings you...

Why Being Wrong Helps You Get More Out of Life

Okay, Now What? - With Kate Gladdin

Confidence is overrated — and honestly, it's a trap. "Once I feel more confident, then I'll…" But how do you actually get confident? By doing the thing. Which means waiting to feel confident before you start is a loop with no exit. In this episode, Kate makes the case for three qualities that beat confidence - because unlike confidence, you don't have to wait to earn them first. One takes your worth off the table so you can risk the outcome. One is what gets you through it going badly. And one is the uncomfortable one that tells you whether you're chasing the right thing at all. Three...

Get Good at Feeling Anxious (The Most Underrated Life Skill)

Okay, Now What? - With Kate Gladdin

Nobody teaches you how to feel anxious. They teach you how to make it stop. And that's the problem — because most of us aren't actually struggling with anxiety. We're struggling with our resistance to it. This isn't another anxiety toolkit. I've done the breathing episodes, and all of that still stands. These are the few things I actually use on myself and with my coaching clients that I rarely hear anyone talk about. Inside this episode: Why the answer isn't more positivity — and why your brain knows when you're lying to it. Why your body on a treadmill and your body mid-spiral are doing...

Stuck Between Two Choices? Why Hardest Decisions Often Matter The Least

Okay, Now What? - With Kate Gladdin

If you're the kind of person who can spend a week deciding which restaurant to choose or what colour to paint your nails — this one's for you. I'm tight on time this week, so this is a short, punchy one. But it's built around something one of my coaches said that completely flipped how I think about indecision — a single line that turns the usual story about why decisions feel so hard on its head. (It's the opposite of what you'd assume.) I get into why the decisions that torture you the most are often the ones that matter the least, the three questions to run before you flip a coin, and a...

You're Not Undisciplined. You're Unfenced. (How to Stop Almost-Starting)

Okay, Now What? - With Kate Gladdin

I nearly fell off the reformer. I was mid-Pilates class listening to David Epstein on Modern Wisdom when he said something so back to front I had to hear it twice: if you want to be more creative, don't give yourself more freedom. Give yourself fewer options. And then he explained why - and it cracked open something I've been teaching for years without ever having the words for it. So I went down a rabbit hole. If that's true, what else is? What else are we doing, with completely good intentions, that's quietly the very thing keeping us stuck? I found three things. They sound wrong. They...

Are You Falling for One of These 7 Excuses? (Spoiler: They're All Fear)

Okay, Now What? - With Kate Gladdin

"I don't have time." "I'm just being realistic." "Now's not the right time." "Who am I to do that?" Here's the uncomfortable truth: every one of those is fear wearing a disguise. Fear rarely shows up with a name tag. It dresses itself up as busyness, as being realistic, as gratitude, as "that's just not me" - sneaky little excuses that sound so responsible you never think to question them. And so it quietly runs the show — picking what you say yes to, what you talk yourself out of, and how small you let yourself stay. In this episode, I hold up the most common excuses I hear from my...

Why Being Bad At It Means You're Doing It Right

Okay, Now What? - With Kate Gladdin

You had the idea. You were buzzing. "I'm going to launch the podcast / become a speaker / learn Spanish / finally chase the thing." Then you actually went and tried it - and felt like absolute rubbish at it. I know that feeling intimately. I once gave a resilience talk so badly that I sat in my car afterwards and bawled my eyes out, thinking who am I to be doing this? I'm not cut out for it. Turns out, I was just bang in the middle of a stage that every single person moves through when they go after a goal or learn a new skill. There are four of them - and one in particular is where...

When Life Feels Out of Your Control, Ask This

Okay, Now What? - With Kate Gladdin

Some seasons of life just happen to you. The trip gets cancelled. The diagnosis lands. The person you love is suddenly gone - and none of it is fair, and none of it is yours to fix. That feeling - like life is happening to you and you've got no say in it - is, to me, the worst feeling of all. So this week I'm sharing one question I've reached for in my hardest, loneliest, most unfair moments. From my first year in America, crying in an empty apartment, through losing my sister - and through this past year, losing Mum. It's not "stay positive." It's not a silver lining. It's something...

When I Thought I Was Going to Get Kicked Out of the Country (a "what if" vs "what is" story)

Okay, Now What? - With Kate Gladdin

For a few weeks earlier this year, I was convinced I was about to lose everything I'd built here in the US — and have to start my whole life over on the other side of the world. This episode is about what happened in my head during those weeks — and the one shift that pulled me back out. I'm getting into why our brains bolt straight to the worst-case scenario (it's not a flaw — it's your brain trying to protect you), why rehearsing the disaster can quietly make it more likely instead of less, and the simple question I kept having to come back to when the what-ifs were at their...

What Most People Get Wrong About Confidence

Okay, Now What? - With Kate Gladdin

Have you ever told yourself you'll go for the promotion, post the thing, start the business, or finally put yourself out there... once you feel confident enough? This episode is your gentle wake-up call. I'll be honest with you, this past week was a heartbreaking one. I open up about the sentencing in my mum's case and why I went quiet for a bit. But I also share a conversation I had with a CEO that completely flipped the script on how I talk about confidence, and how most of us think about it. If you've been waiting to feel ready before you take the leap, you're not lazy and you're not...

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From a young age, we're taught not to interrupt conversations. But I've realised there is definitely a conversation we need to interrupt EVERY SINGLE DAY. It's the one happening in our between our own ears. Because let's be honest - do you ever find yourself spiraling in self-doubt, thinking things like “I’m not good enough,” “I always mess things up,” or “I’m just not the type of person who can…”?

Yeah, welcome to being human right?!

So in this episode, I dive into a powerful mental interrupt tool—one simple question that can help you stop those runaway thought spirals in their tracks!

It’s a game-changing way to pause, reflect, and finally start questioning the beliefs that have been running your life on autopilot. Whether it's a third-grade teacher who made a throwaway comment about your scissor skills (yep, been there), or a parent who unknowingly projected their own fears—this episode will help you pull those dusty old thoughts out of your mental closet and hold them up to the light.

✨ Tune in to discover:

Why your brain runs on outdated mental scripts (and how to catch them)
How to stop treating thoughts like facts
A practical mindset shift to help you reclaim your inner narrator
Real-life stories (including my own) that’ll have you laughing, reflecting, and rewriting your own narrative

If you’ve ever felt held back by labels or beliefs you didn’t even choose, this episode is your permission slip to start letting go of what’s not yours to carry.

Press play and lets find out!

Ready to take this work deeper? If you're tired of living on autopilot and want real tools to take back control of your mind, your emotions, and your life—I’ve got you.
My 1:1 coaching program is designed for women who are done with people-pleasing, perfectionism, and self-doubt and so ready to start living with more clarity, courage, and confidence.

Book a free mini coaching session today at www.kategladdin.com/coaching or DM me on Instagram @kategladdin.

You don’t have to keep believing the old story. You get to write and LIVE a new one.

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