Okay, Now What? - With Kate Gladdin

Kate Gladdin
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Okay, Now What? is a podcast by Speaker, Author and Certified Life Coach, Kate Gladdin, to help adults build the resilience we need to live our best lives regardless of the adversity we face. Kate combines her personal experience with powerful coaching tools to help you stop spinning in overwhelm and better navigate your way through all the big, and often unexpected, changes that happen. On this podcast you'll not only find tonnes of inspiration, but eye-opening advice and useful strategies to reduce your anxiety and boost your confidence so you go after what you want most. After both her mother and sister were killed by reckless drivers 12 years apart, Kate knows life is too short not to live it to the fullest.

  1. 4d ago

    Three Words That Diminish You (And How To Stop Saying Them So Much)

    There are three words most of us say every single day without noticing. They're small. Polite. They sound like humility. They sound like consideration. One of them sounds so much like good manners that you'd feel rude leaving it out. And every time you use them, you hand over a little bit of ground. Not dramatically. Nobody's life falls apart over one sentence. But language is rehearsal — and the things you say on repeat teach your brain what role you believe you're allowed to play. Say them for long enough and you stop being the woman in the room with an idea. You become the woman hoping nobody minds that she's there. In this episode, I name the three words, unpack where each one actually comes from — usually somewhere genuinely kind — and give you the swap for each, so you're not left knowing what's wrong with no idea what to say instead. Because this isn't about policing your vocabulary or never apologising again. A real apology matters enormously. But there's a difference between taking responsibility and apologising for taking up space. In this episode: The three words to start listening for — and why the first one is the hardest to give up How care quietly turns into self-abandonment in a very polite outfit The word that asks a room not to take you seriously before you've finished your sentence What the third word is really protecting you from (it isn't uncertainty) My one-week experiment for catching all three — without spiralling about it Why confidence usually turns up after you speak, not before You can be kind without disappearing. You can be humble without minimising your value. But nobody can honour a boundary they can't hear. Ready to stop making yourself smaller than the life that's calling you? If there's something you've been through that changed you — and part of you knows you want to build something meaningful from it, but you keep overthinking whether you're qualified enough to start — I'd love to help. Book a free 30-minute Direction Call with me. It's not a vague "let's connect" chat, and it's not a sales call. It's a working session: what you want to build, what's been keeping you stuck, and one real next step you can take. Schedule your call here: kategladdin.com/coaching

  2. Sep 2

    Stop Just Looking for the Good

    There's an old fable I heard again recently about a water bearer and two clay pots. One is perfect. The other has a crack in it, and leaks half its water on the walk home every single day — for two years. Simple little story. But there's a line near the end of it that quietly dismantles most of the advice we get handed when life goes sideways. Because "look for the good in it" assumes the good is already there. Hiding. Waiting for you to be observant enough to spot it. So you go looking, and you come back with nothing, and now you feel like you've failed a test on top of everything else. This episode is about what the water bearer did instead - and why it's a completely different question to the one most of us have been taught to ask. Also featuring: my neighbour Kevin, a runaway dog, and a farm gate that very nearly took me out. Turbulent episode. Wouldn't have it any other way. If you've been sitting on something you want to build from what you've been through - a podcast, a book, a speaking career, a nonprofit, a thing that just won't leave you alone - I offer free 30-minute Direction Calls.  A working session with a real outcome. You'll leave knowing exactly what's been stopping you and your one next step this week, whether we work together or not. Book yours at kategladdin.com/coaching

  3. Aug 26

    What Self-Help Gets Wrong About Feelings

    Go looking for help with how you're feeling and it's all the same promise: get rid of the anxiety. Stop the overthinking. Build the confidence. Find the motivation. Sit with what that's actually teaching us - that the feeling is the problem. That something's gone wrong. That you have to fix yourself before you're allowed to get on with your life. I don't think that's true. And I think believing it is costing us a lot. Because the nerves before the presentation? The overwhelm when your boss is away and you're carrying double? The complete absence of desire to get out of a warm bed and go to the gym? None of that is a sign you're broken. It's a brain doing exactly what it was built to do. What actually creates the problem is the second layer — the judging, the resisting, the story you build on top. I should be past this. Everyone else copes better. I'm just not disciplined enough. That's where the spiral lives. Not in the feeling. In this episode I'm sharing the four words I've been saying to myself for years without ever realising it, and the question I ask straight after — the one that gets you moving without waiting to feel ready. It won't make the nerves disappear. It's not meant to. Come for the reframe. Stay for the bit about my massage chair. Stuck circling something you want to build — or just stuck full stop? I do free 30-minute Direction Calls. Bring me the thing you keep going round in circles on and we'll work out what's really in the way. → kategladdin.com/coaching

  4. Aug 20

    Why the Need to Win Is Costing You - With Jay Abbasi

    Jay Abasi spent over a year preparing for his TEDx talk. He walked on stage, delivered it, and the crowd loved every second of it. Then came the part nobody plans for. In this episode, Jay takes us back to the night everything changed — and the hour he spent on his office floor the next day, not reframing, not positive-thinking his way out of it, just sitting with it. From there, we talk about why the need to win drains your power, what high performers get wrong about detachment, and the three things Jay reckons we all need to get better at tolerating (one of them might surprise you). We also go back to 2014 — the phone call that changed the entire trajectory of Jay's life — and what it actually takes to move toward something meaningful after loss, instead of away from it. This one's for anyone who's ever put everything into something and had it not go the way they expected. Connect with Jay on Linkedin, Instagram or learn more on his website: https://jayabbasi.me/ Ready to stop waiting for later? That's exactly what a Direction Call is for. Thirty minutes, free, no pitch. You'll leave knowing what's actually been stopping you and the one step to take this week. Book yours → kategladdin.com/coaching

  5. Aug 12

    Better Than Confident - The 3 H's

    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 have to wait for. They're choices you can make right now, today, before you've achieved a single thing or proven you're any good at it. I'll walk you through what each one actually means (the first one especially - most people get it completely wrong), why they work hardest precisely when things are going badly, and the one question that unlocks each of them in the moment you need it. I also tell you about the time I walked on stage having realised something about my lapel mic that I'd very much prefer to forget. You'll cringe. I've made peace with it. In this episode: — Why "once I'm more confident" is the sentence keeping you stuck — The quality most people mistake for playing small (it's the opposite) — How to survive something going badly without it meaning anything about you — The two answers you have to every important question — and why you only ever say one out loud — What's really sitting underneath "I don't know" (in ten years of coaching, it's almost always one of four things) — Take yourself less seriously. Take your life more seriously. If something stirred while you were listening — a whisper of what you actually want, and the reason you've been telling yourself you can't go after it yet — let's talk about it. I open a limited number of free 30-minute Direction Calls each week. It's not a sales call. It's a working session, just you and me, and you'll leave knowing what's actually been stopping you and the one next step to take. Book yours: kategladdin.com/coaching

  6. Aug 5

    Why Being Wrong Helps You Get More Out of Life

    Nobody likes being wrong. It feels like losing. So we defend our thoughts - even the ones quietly costing us the most. In this episode I'm making the case that your willingness to be wrong is one of the most underrated skills you can build. Not positive thinking. Not slapping a nice feeling on top of a real fear. Something far more useful - and far more accurate. I share the thought that nearly stopped this podcast from existing at all, what the research says about how badly we predict our own futures, and the one line you can say back to your brain when it hands you a worst-case scenario. Plus a small experiment to run this week. Fair warning: you might be right. But my money's on you being wrong. Been sitting on something you want to build from what you've been through — a podcast, a book, a speaking career, a nonprofit? Book a free 30-minute Direction Call at kategladdin.com/coaching. Not a sales call. A working session with a real outcome.

  7. Jul 29

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

    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 exactly the same thing, and why you'll happily pay a gym for one and panic about the other. The three words I use instead of arguing with my brain's predictions. And the question that tells you instantly whether you're in a real emergency or just watching a very creative film your brain wrote about your future. Anxiety doesn't need to be fixed. It needs to be felt. Get better at that, and you get better at everything downstream of it. Also in this episode: the launch of the Julie Fitzsimons Library and History Scholarship — $1,500 towards study for a young person in Sydney's Bayside Council area, created in honour of my beautiful mum and the library she walked into at 18 and never really left. Apply or pass it on → nicoleandjulie.com Book a free 30-minute Direction Call Been sitting on something? The book, the podcast, the coaching business, the nonprofit - the thing that won't leave you alone. We'll spend 30 minutes getting clear on what you actually want to build and what's been stopping you, and you'll leave with one specific next step. That's yours whether we ever work together or not. I only hold 3 of these a week → kategladdin.com/coaching

  8. Jul 22

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

    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 simple sorting trick that deflates most "should I, shouldn't I" spirals on the spot — plus the one cost of overthinking that isn't hypothetical, the one you're already paying while you tell yourself you "haven't decided yet." No forced positivity. No "just trust the universe." Just a genuinely useful way to get yourself out of the loop and back on the road. By the end you'll have one decision named, sorted, and a deadline on the calendar. Come get out of the car park. In this episode: The line from my coach that reframes indecision entirely Why "hard to decide" might be telling you something surprising The three questions to ask before you flip a coin One-way doors vs two-way doors — and why we get them backwards The one cost of overthinking that isn't hypothetical If you've lived through something real and you can feel there's something you're meant to build from it — a podcast, a book, a nonprofit, a speaking career, the thing that won't leave you alone — but you keep circling instead of starting, that's the exact loop I help people out of. Book a free 30-minute Direction Call (a real working session, not a sales call): kategladdin.com/coaching

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Okay, Now What? is a podcast by Speaker, Author and Certified Life Coach, Kate Gladdin, to help adults build the resilience we need to live our best lives regardless of the adversity we face. Kate combines her personal experience with powerful coaching tools to help you stop spinning in overwhelm and better navigate your way through all the big, and often unexpected, changes that happen. On this podcast you'll not only find tonnes of inspiration, but eye-opening advice and useful strategies to reduce your anxiety and boost your confidence so you go after what you want most. After both her mother and sister were killed by reckless drivers 12 years apart, Kate knows life is too short not to live it to the fullest.

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