460: Growing Up With a Wildly Successful Mom (+ Becoming One Yourself) With Kate Northrup

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Natalie Ellis

Education, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Business, Self-improvement

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

What’s it really like growing up with a wildly successful mother, and then becoming one yourself? Today, Natalie is sitting down with bestselling author, entrepreneur, and speaker Kate Northrup for a raw, powerful conversation about legacy, ambition, identity, and motherhood. Kate shares what it was like being raised by Dr. Christiane Northrup — a pioneer in women’s health — and how growing up around success shaped her views on work, freedom, and motherhood. Whether you’re balancing motherhood and ambition, healing childhood patterns, or redefining success on your terms, this conversation will leave you feeling seen, supported, and inspired. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Natalie introduces Kate Northrup and sets the scene for a candid conversation about growing up with a successful mom, building a business, and redefining success on your own terms. 00:41 - Growing up with a famous mom: what Kate learned from watching Dr. Christiane Northrup’s career up close. 05:15 - Early lessons about freedom, ambition, and why Kate knew she wanted a different kind of life. 09:06 - How Kate approaches work travel with her daughters — and why their emotional security looks different from her own childhood. 10:53 - The pivotal repair work between Kate and her mom after a childhood of distance. 17:32 - Motherhood as an identity reckoning: Kate shares how birth trauma and postpartum survival shaped her life and business. 24:09 - How motherhood actually strengthens intuitive business leadership and why trusting your instincts is critical for long-term success. 28:37 - How Kate structures her business today to align with her body, seasons, and energy — creating more freedom without sacrificing growth. 35:15 - The surprising revenue impact of launching less often and how simplifying actually led to doubling results. 38:56 - How societal conditioning ties productivity to worth + how Kate broke free from the “busy equals valuable” mindset. 47:25 - Why not savoring every moment of early motherhood is okay + how redefining your own values can free you from guilt and comparison. RESOURCES + LINKS Love This Episode? Get The CEO Mama Unfiltered Newsletter (It’s Free!) For Weekly Support, Strategy, And Real Talk — Straight To Your Inbox. Save Your Seat For Natalie’s Brand New, Free Live Masterclass On April 25 + Learn How To Turn Your Expertise Into Consistent Monthly Income — Without Big Launches Or A Massive Audience. Calling All Coaches: Brendon Burchard Is Hosting A Free Live Training For The Bossbabe Community On April 29. Get The Details To Join The Private Zoom Call Here. Join The Société: Our Exclusive Membership To Help You Build A Freedom-Based BusinessTM - start today for just $97. Drop Us A Review On The Podcast + Send Us A Screenshot & We’ll Send You Natalie’s 7-Figure Operating System Completely FREE (value $1,997).

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0:00.0	Today's conversation is such a special one. I'm sitting down with someone who truly gets what
0:04.3	it's like to grow up around entrepreneurship, success and a mother who's made a massive impact.
0:09.8	I'm joined by Kate Northrop, bestselling author, speaker and entrepreneur whose work has helped
0:14.6	thousands of women redefine their relationship with money, time and energy. Kate is the author
0:19.7	of Money, a Love Story and Do Less.
0:22.2	And she's the founder of an incredible company that teaches women how to achieve more by doing
0:27.5	less. I was really in the thick of very early new motherhood and trying to figure out like,
0:32.8	can I do both? Can I have a career and be the mum I want to be? But what you might not know about Kate
0:37.8	is that she grew up with a front row seat to the personal development world. Yeah, I mean, she was on
0:43.1	Oprah 10 times. I just wanted my mom to be like everyone else's mom. And she just wasn't. So her mom,
0:49.8	Dr. Christian Northrop, is a pioneer in women's health, and someone many of us grew up reading or
0:55.3	watching on Oprah. In this episode, we dive into what it was really like being raised by a mother
1:00.6	with such a massive platform, how that shaped Kate's own views on success and ambition, and
1:06.0	the unique lessons and pressures that come from growing up in that kind of environment. Most of the
1:10.6	women who
1:10.9	listen to this podcast are breadwinners of their family too. And so in full survival mode, like
1:16.0	basically during a year that brought me to my knees and I was just trying to make it through
1:21.7	the next five minutes. A year after Penelope was born, we sat with our accountant and we realized
1:26.9	we had made twice as much
1:28.2	money. This one is real, raw and filled with so many gems about legacy, identity and
1:34.2	redefining what success looks like on your terms. Let's dive in.
1:40.1	Okay, welcome to the podcast. Thank you. I'm so happy to be here. I'm so excited for this conversation.
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