Kate Hastings Show

Kate Hastings

The Kate Hastings Show is a platform of transformation and community. A place of specialized knowledge, communication, unity, open conversations about health, wellness,lifestyle and people of their expertise.

  1. May 28

    The Mindset of Obsession & Why It Builds You or Buries You

    There is a difference between discipline, motivation, and obsession, and almost nobody talks about it, but understanding it changes how you build your entire life. Discipline is acting without negotiating with your mood, and motivation is a feeling that comes and goes, but obsession is the only one of the three with no off switch, which is exactly why it is the most powerful state your mind is capable of producing. The same obsession can build you or quietly destroy you, and the difference is not the intensity itself but whether you are obsessed from a place of wholeness or from a place of lack and wound underneath the surface. When you become obsessed from a place of wholeness, you get a kind of locked in focus that most people will never experience in their lifetime, because your intensity is finally aimed at something worthy of it instead of trying to fill a hole that was never going to get filled by the thing on the surface. This is what it looks like to pursue something worthwhile and meaningful enough to obsess over becoming the version of yourself that is required to be that version, and that pursuit is the thing that quietly reshapes your entire life from the inside out. In this episode I take obsession apart at the level of the brain and the wound that sometimes lives underneath it and the years I spent inside my own version of it, and I want you to walk out of this knowing how to recognize which kind of obsession is running you right now and how to aim the deepest capacity you carry at something large enough to actually hold it.

    1h 12m
  2. Apr 23

    When Discipline Becomes A Cage

    I think discipline is one of the most valuable attributes and characteristics somebody could hold in their life. But for a long time, my discipline was driven by fear and rigidity rather than self-leadership and genuine regulation. And I did not know the difference until the cost of that distinction became impossible to ignore. Most people think discipline is a sign of strength. And sometimes it is. But there is another version of discipline that nobody is talking about, and it does not come from strength. It comes from a nervous system that never got the signal that the threat was over. In this episode I am going deep on the psychology of high achievement that is actually high survival. I am talking about why some people cannot slow down no matter how hard they try, how the brain becomes addicted to stress and starts treating stillness as a threat, and what it costs to build an entire identity around what you can produce and endure. I am also getting into the difference between discipline that gives you structure and discipline that has become a cage you cannot find the door to, and what it actually looks like to rebuild from the inside out. This episode is for the person who has always been the one who keeps going. The one who never stops. The one who looks like they have it together from every external angle and feels like they are outrunning something they cannot name on the inside. If you have ever wondered why achieving everything you set out to achieve still does not feel like enough, this one is for you.

    1h 1m
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