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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.
And if it lands, a rating or review genuinely helps this work reach the people who need it.
Episodes
367 episodes
What are you pretending not to know ...
What are you pretending not to know? It is a confronting question because, most of the time, we do know.We know when something no longer feels right. We know when we are outgrowing a relationship, a role, a version of ourselves or the wa...
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My daily prayer
In this episode, I spoke about a daily prayer that has become an anchor for me.“Guide me to where I’m destined to be. To the people I’m meant to meet. To the ground that calls my name. To the chances that are mine to take. To the life th...
Kat & Steve - The no fart phase in relationships
If you want to laugh, this one is pure light. Steve and I talk about what we used to do at the start of our relationship to prevent the other from hearing our farts. I know, I know, it's crass, but every relationship goes through this phase and...
Honouring pure intention
In this episode, I talk about something I've been reflecting on lately: the difference between a pure intention and all the fear we layer on top of it.I've noticed that the deepest truths in my life rarely arrive with fanfare. They don't...
Can you let go of the exact how?
In this episode, I talk about something I’ve been sitting with in my own life and business lately: can you let go of the exact how?Because when we have a desire, an idea, a next step, or a sense that something is shifting, the mind wants...
Wu Wei - effortless action
In this episode, I'm sharing a reflection on Wu Wei, a Taoist principle often translated as "effortless action" or "action without force," and why this ancient wisdom has landed so deeply for me in this current season of life.For years, ...
Kat & Steve - how we unstuck ourselves
Steve and I share the process we both come back to whenever we find ourselves stuck. Whether it's our health, our relationship, our business, money, or life in general, we've found that getting unstuck isn't usually about finding the perfect an...
Expectations sabotaging your next step
In this episode, I talk about the pressure we put on new ideas.The pressure for them to work, to succeed, to make money, to prove themselves.And how quickly something that begins as a spark, an idea, an intuitive nudge, can become...
Kat & Steve - Accepting reality even when it sucks
Steve and I talk about a phrase we come back to often:This too shall pass.Not as a way to dismiss what we're feeling or to bypass the hard stuff. But as a reminder that life is always moving, changing, shifting, and unfoldi...
Being authentic all the time is unattainable
The goal is not to be 100% authentic all the time.That’s unattainable. If you think that’s the goal, you’ll spend your life feeling like you’re failing every time you people-please, shut down, react, perform, avoid conflict, seek approva...
Kat & Steve - The load of life
In this episode, Steve and I talk about something I think a lot of couples quietly go through: when the load of life becomes so heavy that it starts impacting the relationship.Not because love is gone or because anyone’s doing something ...
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...
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...