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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
341 episodes
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...
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Episode 341
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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 ...
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Episode 340
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25:51
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...
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Episode 339
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32:55
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...
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Episode 338
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37:15
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 ...
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Episode 337
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36:45
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...
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Episode 336
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35:17
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 ...
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Episode 335
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42:09
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...
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Episode 334
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31:57
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...
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Episode 333
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40:28
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 ...
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Episode 332
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28:00
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...
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Episode 331
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35:10
Can I be loved?
How do you let go of the old way when it’s the very thing that built you? How do you trust a new rhythm when the old one got you here?Today, I share ...The 'doing' voice that tells me stay on it, stay in it, don’t you dar...
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Episode 330
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28:56
Kat & Steve - Using Esther Perel's cards for deeper conversation
After eight years together it’s easy for Steve and me to fall into the rhythm of everyday questions like what’s for dinner? how was your day? and forget to ask the kind of questions that keep curiosity and intimacy alive.Recentl...
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Episode 329
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35:16
Love after loss
I sit with Ashley Hayball-Heald, a previous client of mine, who is a widowed, brave woman, who let love in again after her husband died. She tells the story of how she navigated grief, kids, other people’s opinions, signs from her husband who d...
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Episode 328
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1:07:24
Kat & Steve - We're not good at pretending everything's 'fine'
Steve and I talk about something we both know all too well: that awkward, subtle distance that can build up in a relationship when you’re not saying what you’re really feeling.We recently found ourselves in a place of disconnection, noth...
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Episode 327
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35:10
I was so busy trying to not be my mum, I missed 'seeing' here
I share a deeply personal letter to my mum, a letter I’ve been slowly writing in my heart for years, and only now have the words, the softness, and the honesty to say out loud.It’s about the part of me that believed I had to do more ...
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Episode 326
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22:57
Remembering what decency looks like when travelling
After witnessing a series of moments on my recent travels left me gutted.People standing on coral. Ignoring signs that asked not to disturb nesting wildlife.Disrespecting sacred sites with noise, ego, and entitlement.This epis...
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Episode 325
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40:22
Kat & Steve - 5 things that annoy us about each other
Steve and I lay it all out in this one, the little daily things or habits we find annoying or frustrating about each other.It’s funny, it’s honest, and it’s the kind of real-life stuff that happens in every relationship but rarely gets t...
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Episode 324
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41:08
To the part in you that won't let up, listen up
I share a letter I wrote to the part of me that still believes I have to prove my worth to matter.The part that panics when I slow down. That thinks I’m losing my edge if I’m not pushing. That tells me if I’m not doing, I must b...
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Episode 323
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29:31
Kat & Steve - Step-parenting and the change of family dynamics
Steve and I share about the reality of step-parenting and family dynamics, especially what happens when a step-parent enters a home that already has its rhythm, its ways, its rules.Even when you try so hard not to disrupt the dy...
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Episode 322
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39:34
Real talk about money - what is 'your' enough?
In this episode, I take you back to a question that unraveled a lot for me: What is enough? Especially when it comes to money.A few years ago, I was chasing the magic million. I thought hitting that number would mean I’d made it...
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Episode 321
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33:00
Kat & Steve - repelling energy and how it messes with relationships
In this episode, Steve and I talk about something we’ve both played into in our relationship - repelling energy. That vibe you give off when you're fixated on what’s wrong with the other person, when you're simmering in judgment, frustration, o...
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Episode 320
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46:35
A letter to myself, mid perimenopause shitstorm
This episode is not wrapped in a bow.It’s not a how-to. It’s not love and light. It’s not advice.It’s a letter I wrote to myself from the middle of the hormonal hurricane that is perimenopause. From the rage that comes out of nowh...
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Episode 319
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24:11
Kat & Steve - When you love each other but you’re in different headspaces
Steve and I talk about a recent experience where I was activated by something in the media. A majorly messed up story that stirred old wounds and brought up big emotion.It wasn’t easy. I felt tender, raw, and flat. And it would’ve ...
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Episode 318
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38:56
Laying her to rest - the one that chased significance
There’s a version of me I’m laying to rest - the one who chased significance, importance, and recognition because deep down, she didn’t feel like she was enough without it.She worked hard to prove she mattered. She strived for impact, fo...
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Episode 317
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28:21