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Authentic
G’day, I’m Kat John, authenticity coach, author, keynote speaker and everyday human. This podcast is where we tell the truth. No highlight reels, no love and light spritzing, no pretending. Just real conversations about what it actually takes to live aligned with who you are beneath the roles, patterns, and conditioning.
I teach this work because I live this work. Together, we explore the ongoing dance between your ego self and your true self in relationships, money, work, family, and the everyday moments that shape a well-lived life.
Expect grounded guidance, raw reflections, and conversations that don’t shy away from the messy middle. This is a space to get honest, take responsibility, and come home to yourself, one real step at a time.
New episodes drop weekly on Mondays. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
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Episodes
355 episodes
Play the long game
In this episode, I speak about the pressure I used to put on myself to heal quicker, grow quicker, feel better quicker, and become “better” faster. I genuinely believed that if I was doing the work on myself, then surely I should be further alo...
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Too in our heads
I recorded this in a moment where nothing big was happening.Clouds moving. Rain on the window. Wind through the trees. The dogs snoring. And me, just sitting there, actually in it.We say we want peace, we say we want to feel bette...
There I am, in the simplest of things
We find myself in the simple things. In movement, nature, laughter, in doing what we love.We lose ourselves in the noise of the mind, the pressure to be more, do more, become more and feel disconnected from ourselves.But the...
When I stopped needing to be liked as a step-mum
This one took a while to land. The part that tried hard not to upset anyone, to do it right, to keep the peace, to earn my place was running rampant!And how exhausting that became.Somewhere along the way, I realised tr...
Kat & Steve - If we had 24 hours left ...
We asked a question ...“If we had 24 hours left on earth, what would we do?”A real, honest question to look at what actually matters when time is no longer on our side. Because questions like this have a way of showing you your life as i...
"I'm not ready yet!"
You keep telling yourself you’re not ready. Not clear enough, not confident enough, not quite there yet.But if you’re honest, you already know.You know the conversation you’ve been avoiding. You know the decision you keep circling...
Kat & Steve - To re-marry or not to re-marry
I asked Steve a question - "were you scared to get married again, to be in a relationship again after your divorce?”When something significant ends, especially a marriage, it changes you. It shapes how you see love, commitment, risk, you...
I give myself permission to ...
Permission sounds simple, but most of us are waiting for it.Waiting for someone to say it’s okay to slow down, okay to change your mind, okay to outgrow something that once made sense.But life rarely hands us that permission, and ...
Kat & Steve - What we are carrying right now (and how we can help the other)
Steve and I asked each other a simple question this week:“What are you carrying right now that I might be unaware of… and how can I support you?”When you live with someone, love them and talk to them every day there are alw...
The three stages of transition
In this episode, I wrote called Dear Change.Lately I’ve been sitting in that strange space many of us know well. The space between who we were and who we are becoming. The space where something in life has shifted, but the next ch...
Kat & Steve - Pretending to like pizza
In this episode, Steve and I revisit a story from my book that says a lot about how many of us enter relationships in the beginning: a little bit false.When we first got together, Steve was a pizza-eating machine. Every time I went to hi...
I didn't expect this at 40
I felt ready for this chapter. I honoured the versions of me who carried me here . I stepped into this decade open, grounded, certain, and then grief quietly arrived.In this deeply personal episode, I share the unexpected emotional lands...
Kat & Steve - Supporting one another through transitions
Steve’s turning 50. I just turned turning 40.This isn’t a “new decade, new me” episode. It’s more tender than that. For me, there’s been grief. Grieving parts of myself from the past. Versions of me that won’t be coming forwa...
Oh, to Be Sovereign
In this solo episode, I share a personal reflection on what it means to live as a sovereign woman. Not in defiance, not from ego, but in true, grounded devotion to your own rhythm, your own knowing, your own life.This is for the woman wh...
Kat & Steve - Limbo Land
Stevie B and I talk about limbo land, that murky space so many people end up in early on in dating. The situationship. Not quite together. Not quite nothing.We talk about how any interaction between two people is a relatio...
I was an imperfect human recently
In this episode I share a very human, very imperfect moment I had with a traffic control guy outside my house, one of those interactions where two egos meet, both think they’re right, and things go downhill fast.He was frustrated. I was ...
Kat & Steve - I think we're old and grumpy
This episode is exactly what it sounds like. No love. No light. The other day, Steve and I were driving in the car airing our annoyances, the stuff that grinds our gears and halfway through we looked at each other and thought, w...
Checking in on my word of the year - unwavered
In this episode, I share my reflections on my word for this year, unwavered, and how it’s moved itself through me this year. Change happens in our home all the time. With the girls, with living arrangements, with things shift...
Kat & Steve - if we had a magic wand, what would we adjust about the other?
We laugh a lot in today's episode, sharing what we would adjust about the other if we had a magic wand. In the many laughs, there are also some good truths to listen to, truths that we can tap into and, pardon the pun, adjust. When ...
My choice and process around not having children
This episode is my honest answer to a listener question (thank you, Sarah from Toronto): How did you land at the decision not to have children?I’ve always known I wanted deep love, but I never felt that same undeniable, biologic...
Kat & Steve - Scenic Sundays: faith, flow, and letting go of the plan
Steve and I share our learnings (and laughs) from Scenic Sundays - a day once a month we set aside with no agenda, no plan, and no rush. Just faith, flow, and following what feels good.Scenic Sundays have brought us some of the ...
Deep down, you know
You know how you want to live. You know how you want to feel in your body, in your relationship, in your life. You do know.But so often, we tell ourselves we don’t. We tell ourselves we’re confused, unsure, not ready. We hide be...
Kat & Steve - Perimenopause both our perspective
Before I knew about perimenopause, Steve had never even heard the word either. Like a lot of men (and women), it just wasn’t on his radar until it started showing up in real time, through my body, emotions, and energy. And now, thankfully, medi...
The decade of enough - reflections as I turn 40
As I approach my 40th birthday, I wanted to take a moment to honour the decade that’s brought me here, my 30s. The years of building, pushing, proving, creating, and doing the deep work to come home to myself.In the two weeks leading up ...
Kat & Steve - When your kids are growing up
Steve and I talk about the season we’re in as his girls turn 16 and almost 19, a chapter we used to ache for when they were little and life was full-on. They're more independent, seeking their own adventures and opportunities, and the this time...