67: Building Self Trust and Self Compassion During Your Journey (Kate O'Brien)
Vibrant Happy Women
Jen Riday
4.8 • 671 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Kate O'Brien and her husband Henare both grew up in toxic environments, leaving Kate saying, "I'll never let a man treat me like that," and Henare saying, "I'll never let a woman treat me like that. Naturally fate brought them together and Kate has allowed their initially rocky 14 year relationship to help her become more self aware, more self compassionate and more accepting of her own humanity.
A visionary & global voice for bold leadership, transformation, playing it big & living from truth. Together with her husband Henare—they hold the space of Australasia's #1 Transformational Leadership Couple & produce the World's Biggest Personal Development Summit, collaborating annually with over 100 of the greatest thought leaders of our generation - Jack Canfield, Gregg Braden, T. Harv Eker, Brendon Burchard, Marci Shimoff, Dr John Demartini, Dr Joe Dispenza, Michael Bernard Beckwith and many many more.
Nuggets of Wisdom from Kate:
"The risk is a game so I may as well just play it."
"We have a huge capacity for change, a huge capacity for love and a huge capacity to evolve."'
"It took my courage to skip stepping through that door on a moment to moment basis"
"The biggest thing that I've learned is that it's okay to feel like a total human being while you're also being extraordinary."
"When we go through changes, in that process we also have to allow space for the wobbles of those changes."
"We can just ride out all of the feelings that come with being human while we keep growing and expanding and remember to enjoy life."
"When we come back together we've got new growth, new eyes and energy to infuse that with our relationship."
"A lot of times in the world, we're trying to get rid of the things that aren't feeling good."
"[I like to remind] all people that it's okay to be human, it's okay to have all of these experiences, and it has absolutely zero reflection on how amazing you are or what you are up to in the world."
"Have compassion for ourselves, and we can usually shift out of that away more faster."
"We are the solution. It is not the strategy."
Some of Kate's Favorite Things:
Personal habit: "Connecting into myself. And a cup of tea."
Easy meal: Smoothies, protein powder.
Favorite kitchen gadget: Blender.
Kate's Favorite Books: Spiritual Partnership: The Journey to Authentic Power by Gary Zukav
Best advice received: "Be yourself!"
Kate's Happiness Formula:
"Passion +truth + commitment."
A Challenge from Kate:
"After this [interview], please stop, close your computer or your phone. Go and walk into a bathroom and look into the mirror. And when you are looking into the mirror, just notice what's in your head. Do you feel really comfortable and friendly with that beautiful person in there? Or do you feel a bit awkward? Or do you feel resistant, judgmental. Do you feel guilty? Whatever comes up, if it doesn't feel loving, that is the place you go to, to bring the love. "
Resources
Spiritual Partnership: The Journey to Authentic Power
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Vibrant Happy Women podcast, episode number 67. |
| 0:04.8 | Strategies are awesome, but if we're relying on the strategy to fix us, quote, unquote, |
| 0:10.2 | we're constantly looking outside of ourselves, but when we realize that it's actually us within us, |
| 0:15.1 | and then it's just a daily showing up. |
| 0:16.9 | And then when we get that it's us, that is our own solution. Yeah, we can use strategies. |
| 0:22.1 | We can use things, but they're tools that we get to use. |
| 0:26.1 | Welcome to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast, stories of vibrant women living happy lives. |
| 0:32.5 | And now your host, Jen Ryday. |
| 0:43.5 | Hey there, my friends. |
| 0:45.3 | Welcome back to vibrant, happy women. |
| 0:49.4 | I'm Dr. Jen Ryday, women's happiness expert, and I am so glad you're here. |
| 0:55.6 | So this week, Time Mastery for Women, my online time management course is open for enrollment. |
| 1:00.7 | This is essentially a collection of everything I've learned about managing my life and time so that I have time for myself and my passions and living my purpose, which is helping |
| 1:06.5 | women like you to do the same thing. It's shift out of that place of burnout and to live in alignment |
| 1:11.5 | and to find and live your purpose. So if you would like to learn more, simply go to |
| 1:16.6 | Timemasteryforwomen.com. Enrollment closes Friday, June 23rd, and it won't open again until the |
| 1:24.4 | fall. So again, that's at Time Mastery for Women.com. On our last episode, I spoke |
| 1:29.2 | with Sonda Bernstein and Wendy Rappaport all about their 40-year friendship. If you want to |
| 1:34.0 | learn more about the art of friendship, then you need to listen to that episode. Today I'll be |
| 1:39.2 | talking with Kate O'Brien. She's a transformational leadership coach who lives in Bali, isn't that |
| 1:44.1 | so cool? And she tells her |
| 1:45.9 | story of growing up in a toxic environment and completely changing her life and learning to |
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