She is Redefined
Welcome to She Is Redefined, the podcast that feels like a chat with your best friend over coffee. I’m Katie Smith, and I’m here to help you break free from all those outdated societal expectations and embrace the amazing woman you’re meant to be!
Each week, we dive into real, relatable conversations about everything from self-discovery and confidence to living life on your own terms. I’ll share inspiring stories, sprinkle in some practical tips, and just have a blast exploring what it means to be unapologetically YOU.
So, if you’re ready to rewrite your story and make bold moves toward a life that feels authentically yours, you’re in the right place. Grab your favorite drink, get comfy, and let’s redefine the rules of success together—while having a blast along the way!
She is Redefined
Season 2 Ep 11: A Look Back at 2024: The Year I Quantum Leaped
I’m taking you behind the scenes of my biggest growth year yet—2024, my quantum leap year. I’m sharing the pivotal moments, mindset shifts, and aligned strategies that completely transformed my business and life.
If you’ve ever wondered what it takes to step into overflow, ease, and success on your terms, this episode is for you. It’s not just about the results—it’s about the transformation that made them possible.
Tune in and let’s talk about how you can create your own quantum leap in 2025.
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Welcome to She Is Redefined, the podcast that feels like a chat with your best friend over coffee. I’m Katie Smith, and I’m here to help you break free from all those outdated societal expectations and embrace the amazing woman you’re meant to be!
Each week, we dive into real, relatable conversations about everything from self-discovery and confidence to living life on your own terms. I’ll share inspiring stories, sprinkle in some practical tips, and just have a blast exploring what it means to be unapologetically YOU.
So, if you’re ready to rewrite your story and make bold moves toward a life that feels authentically yours, you’re in the right place. Grab your favorite drink, get comfy, and let’s redefine the rules of success together—while having a blast along the way!
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Welcome to. She is Redefined, the podcast where we break free from societal expectations, redefine our identities and step fully into the woman we were always meant to be. I'm Katie Smith, your host and guide on this journey of transformation. Here, we're all about embracing change, cultivating confidence and living life on our own terms. Each week, we'll dive into topics that inspire, challenge and empower you to redefine what it means to be you. Dive into topics that inspire, challenge and empower you to redefine what it means to be you. So, if you're ready to rewrite your story and live life that's bold, authentic and unapologetically yours, let's dive in. Hello, hello, welcome back. I'm so happy you're here, sending you so much love and light. I love every person who tunes in. It just means the absolute world to me.
Speaker 1:Can you believe we are wrapping up 2024? Really, real talk? I cannot, and I want to unpack the year with you. This episode is going to be raw, it's going to be transparent, it's going to be vulnerable. I might cry. I've tried to record this a couple times and ended up crying and then I start over. So I'm not going to start over again on this. So, like I don't know what's about to happen, but I want to literally like let it all out.
Speaker 1:You know, when I look back at 2024, first of all, it's my quantum leap year. I 7x my business and my income, which I'm so excited about. But I think I'm more excited about who I have become since moving to Texas and being who I am now today, in 2024. To catch you up, I moved my entire family, my little unit of four, from California to Texas last Black Friday, so in 2023, that week after Thanksgiving or that long weekend, we loaded up the car my husband did, took the dogs, I hopped on a plane with my boys and we left California to put roots down in North Texas. And what a scary move that was and that is. And honestly, when you look back, it looks a lot scarier than when you're actually going through it, and I've talked about that in previous episodes. But really, 2024 was my first full year here and it has been incredible to look at. And I really want to talk about the year, the quantum leap.
Speaker 1:I want to share the lessons, I want to share the wins, but I really want to touch on how I had to become a different person by moving and how, ultimately, my quantum leap year happened because I became a different person. Now, do you need to move states to become a different person? No, so like, hear me out, but the person who's talking to you today is not the same Katie who was talking to you in California. I have had to become a different person in order to build what I have here now, and I told myself that when I hopped on that plane, I told myself you got to be brave, you have to put yourself out there. You've got to be so vulnerable and just try and commit to the decision that you're uprooting your entire family to a new state. And I promised that to myself.
Speaker 1:No one told me to do that, no one put that on me. I did have a little bit of like I would say like a download from god who was like, if you're gonna do this, you better go all in, girl. And I did and I did. And so to do that I had to be not like the katie in california who would kind of dim herself when she walked in rooms like, believe it or not, as much as I like to talk, I was like I don't want to ruffle feathers, I don't want to get, get going, and we all know I fucking hate small talk. So I I'd always kind of keep to myself Could not do that.
Speaker 1:In Texas I had to observe and see, like, could this person be a good friend? Could this person end up being a friend? Could this person be my vibe? Like I had to observe and put myself out there and I had to ask people for phone numbers. I'm like, how else am I gonna make friends out here? How else so I really did that out here. How else so I really did that? And then once I met people and they invited me over, like no joke, the amount of bravery and courage it took me to show up to these strangers' houses with my two young boys could move me to tears. But I had to trust and have faith, and so the reason why I kept having to restart this episode like three times is because I started to get emotional by the idea of how supported I have been this entire year in the biggest year of growth, the biggest year of faith and the most doubt ever was in 2024 and that God always had my back.
Speaker 1:I'm literally showing up to people's houses hoping that, like I hope I'm walking into a good thing here. Do you know what I mean? Like I met this person at the airport. I met this person in a coffee shop and guess what it's? That hang time in between branch. If you're a monkey, that's my analogy. All the time God freaking delivers, and he delivered more and in more beautiful ways than I ever ever saw coming. I have closer friends here that I've met at coffee shops, at swim lessons, at the zoo, than I do or have ever had in California. Now, if you're in California, feel my heart on this, but it's wild.
Speaker 1:I tell people that God brought us to Texas, but I had to take the action to do my part. So, like you know the law of action, it is required for you to get the dreams going, to manifest the life you want. You are required to take action and I did that, and what has unfolded just blows my mind. So, moving to Texas, I had to become a different person. I had to change in order to have the life I live now. I had to put myself out there. I had to be incredibly brave and have a ton of courage and trust in God. Now that was my personal life, only my personal life, my professional life, my business. I did not take anything different to Texas in my business.
Speaker 1:Now, to get you up to speed, I've always had private paying clients, but I dabbled in affiliate marketing and digital marketing when I moved to Texas because I needed something more transactional and not so like I had masterminds before in California and I had all these different containers that required a lot of my time. So when I moved, or when I wanted to move, I was like what is something transactional that I can do to keep a roof over my head All that? So that's what I did. And I landed in Texas and I kind of was like I'm done, I want to get back to doing my own thing. So I decided to do a digital course. I'm like, oh, I could create a digital course like a big signature one. I was talking about money at the time. I'm like I'm totally going to do this, and so I went all in on that.
Speaker 1:But I was not operating my business any different than I was in California and up until this point I have had success, but in my mind I hadn't had enough success. In my mind I still treated my business like it was new. In my mind I still treated my business like I was trying to get my business off the ground. When I was successful, I had already reached six figures and was maintaining that, but I still saw my business as not a big deal. And so when I had this digital course idea and I threw everything into it, that course and my business was basically in a pressure cooker. I wanted everyone to funnel through in this one course and I was like distraught when it wasn't happening. I still had my private paying clients. I love them so much.
Speaker 1:Some have come, some have gone, but I was like why isn't more people buying this amazing program that I created? Like how it's gold. It's gold, but in hindsight, everything's 2020. In hindsight, I was like I had the universe's hands behind its back, where it's like I only want to make money this way and the universe was not delivering and I'm like what the hell is happening? So this is taking me now into like late spring and early summer, and then finally in July, middle of summer, I have my I am done moment. I am fucking done. I'm like I put all this time and energy. I have my I am done moment. I am fucking done. I'm like I put all this time and energy into this. I'm done. I don't know what I want to do now, like I'm done talking about money, I'm done with the courses, I'm done with social media. I just want to chill out. Literally, that was my exact thought. I threw up my hands and I'm like, I just want to fucking chill out. I thought it was all like I like threw up my hands and I'm like I just want to fucking chill out. I'm done.
Speaker 1:And guess what I did and those who are close to me or those who have been following along, you know I did that. I got into things that I've always wanted to like shuffling Dancing is the funnest thing ever Started doing that, decided to learn how to plant. I started to paint. I started to do more things with the boys, like they were playing with Play-Doh. So was I. I literally was like I just want to savor this time, these moments.
Speaker 1:I'm in a beautiful custom-built house that my husband and I customized every inch of this place. I'm on an acre and a half of land. The sunsets and sunrises here are insane. I have my horse at this beautiful property that I get to ride whenever I damn well please. Why the fuck am I worried about my business? Why the fuck am I so focused on making money a specific way, when all I want to do is chill out.
Speaker 1:So I chilled out and, oh my gosh, what changed? First of all, it was scary as hell to stop. I literally halted everything, and if you followed me on Instagram, you probably remember me talking about that. I was actually open and honest about how scary it was that I was switching gears, that I was pivoting, that I was taking everything I had created the entire year and putting pause on it. I was only keeping my private pay clients and some of them were then wrapping up with me at that time, and so that was even scarier because I was like I don't know if they're going to renew. They're not sure if they're going to renew. So what does this look like? And that two weeks of time in me chilling out, doing more things that I wanted to do that lit me up, wanting to feel the way I wanted to feel and spend time with my boys and doing whatever I wanted and just be focused on where I was at that time. Be where your feet are. If you will Not let my mind wander about stupid stuff, I just let my mind focus with where my feet were In those two weeks of time.
Speaker 1:What happened next blows my mind still to this day. I had three one-on-one people funnel in within a 48-hour period. One was a repeat and then two were brand new and they really loved the stuff I was talking about with miracle frequency, slowing down, chilling out, scaling your business by chilling out and just hitting pause, and at that time I was loving my life so much that I'm like I don't know if I actually want to even do this. I don't know if I want to go back to having private pay clients, because it's a lot of time and a hell of a lot of energy, but the biggest transformation happens and I love that. So I'm like if I'm going to sacrifice my time and energy or take it away from doing what I've been doing with planting, riding my horse, spending time with my kids, things like that I'm going to raise my prices. That's what I decided to do. Riding my horse, spending time with my kids, things like that I'm going to raise my prices. That's what I decided to do when no one on God's green earth would have told me to do that. They would have been like you're down on money right now, take whatever you can get. But I said no, fuck that you want to work with me. This is the price. This is the price. And all three of them said yes, and so I had a cash injection of 7x in a matter of 48 hours from a two-week period of me chilling out. Now I was like, okay, universe, okay God, I see you. I see what's happening here now.
Speaker 1:I now know the rules of the game. But get this I've been saying for a long time now these are the rules of the game, you just gotta follow them. That's actually incorrect, and I'm here to tell you that the rules are for my game. You need to do the work to find the rules for your game, and that is your life's purpose. So my life's purpose is continuously finding and refining the rules and figuring out the rules of the game I'm trying to play to where I wanna go.
Speaker 1:My game's different than your game. Even if we both want $100,000 a month, our games are different. Your rules to your game to $100,000 a month is very different than my rules to $100,000 a month, and that's why working with private clients is actually one of my most favorite things to do, because I get to help you define the rules, I get to help you discover them and then play by them, and it's a lot of trial and error. That's why a lot of my one-on-one clients I'm like six months we're getting ramped up. We need 12 months to really get you into that momentum and start seeing some big wins. The first six months we're warming up. The last six months it's like game on full throttle, let's go. And that's why private paying clients are like my absolute favorite.
Speaker 1:But what happened from there, my friends, is a lot of people were coming to me and they were like hey, I like what you're doing, I like your vibe. How do I get this in my business? And I started doing what I'm really good at a strategy. You know this, you know this. And I started backing people into their number without them having to sacrifice more time or effort or hours. So then what happened next is referrals started coming out of the woodwork, out of nowhere, because I was getting people these insane results I'm talking 35, 40, 50% lift in revenue without relying on new visibility or clients yes, you heard that right. And so people are naturally referring me without me doing anything.
Speaker 1:People would probably be so maybe some are are probably so confused by my social media because it's not as huge as my original social media with Katie Smith, but I make more money now than I ever have and I'm working less, and so are my clients. They're coming to me, they're successful. They're like I want to double this, but I don't know how because I'm tapped out, I'm at my limit and I go let me just do this. Let me do that. I run my strategy, I do all the things that I need to. I gather the information from them, I come up with some ideas of how to do this, change this, tweak, this, slice this up, boom, boom, boom. Deliver it to them. And it's an easy thing that they can implement with their team or themselves, or I do. It Depends on what the person's looking for and they start seeing money within a week because of what I'm so good at doing and I'm not here to like toot my own horn. It's just been so much freaking fun and I haven't had to work anymore either, because I'm a time management professional.
Speaker 1:If you don't know that, like, I am a time management expert and I do not budge and it like kills me when people have such a hard time with this, but it's just heavy on the boundaries and it's not willing to take yourself out of alignment by telling yourself you need to have to. You should you need to any of these bullshit things that you think you have to do? It's not it at all. You just have to follow one thing that's being in your alignment and your alignment. How do you get into your alignment? How do you find your purpose? It's your joy. What are you excited about? What is it? And no, it's not money.
Speaker 1:I know you're going to say that, I know it. No, it's not money. It's actually what lights you up. And maybe you're going to tell me it's your kids. Well then, go spend more time with your kids. But I bet you it's connection, I bet you it's love, I bet you it's nurturing. If someone tells me it's further than that, of course my kids. I freaking adore them. They do light me up. That is joy. So I'll spend time with them.
Speaker 1:But then something else happens and then I actually am like let's do this or whatever. It's the creative outlet. You have to go further than the surface level, whatever your brain wants to give you. Also, unless you're seasoned at this, your brain will give you the answer of I don't know, I don't have time for joy. Maybe that's happening to you right now. You're like yep, that's it, joy. Yeah, good one, katie, I need to make money. Yeah, I get it. That's why we have a lot of work to do, and so let me break this down for you simply this quantum leap year.
Speaker 1:First of all, I was like when is this going to happen for me? Like, is it going to happen? I was so ready for this in 2020 when I started my business, but I'm so happy it happened now because it was supposed to. But what happened was I got clarity and you're probably thinking, yeah, clarity on your goals, I got it. No, I got clarity on how I wanted to feel, and I wanted to feel rich with ease. I wanted to feel freedom. I wanted to feel like life just flowed. I wanted to feel like I was getting paid to exist. I was sick of doing the have tos, the shoulds, all these things that I thought was going to get me farther ahead, which just left me feeling burnt out and over it.
Speaker 1:The second thing is I had to really dial in my energy. You know we are all energy. That is what everything is. It's energy. Energy has no bounds. Energy cannot be destroyed. Energy just transmutes. So I started getting really clear on my own energy.
Speaker 1:As I moved here, I had to be a different person the way I held myself and handled myself, walking into different rooms, to coffee shops, to whatever. I had to have my energy and my attitude right. So I took that into my business in every part of my life. Can I leave the room better than I walked into it? How can I show up as myself right now, today?
Speaker 1:You know, I actually just got my hair done today and I was wearing eyeshadow. And my hairdresser she's so cute, she's like you look so pretty today. Oh my gosh. And I was like you know what's so funny is I never used to let myself wear eyeshadow because I thought I'd be too extra. Like look at her wearing eyeshadow, like ugh, like we're just moms, can't we just like I don't even have mascara on today. Like I fell into that and I'm like I feel better when I put my stuff together and I put a cute outfit on, like I feel better. So why am I going to not do that? So I can fit in with other people who, like, shame other moms for doing what makes them feel better, and that comes down to just stop dimming your light. If you want to wear the red lipstick because it's Christmas time, wear the fucking red lipstick, okay, like, do the things, take up the space, take up the attention, because it's you being you, rather than doing what I used to always do, like I'm trying to dim it. I don't want to be too loud, I don't want too much attention, I don't want to like what? Fuck that noise. So fuck that noise. So my energy.
Speaker 1:Step two was like I'm showing up as me and we are just wrapping up or by the time this is live we have wrapped up the 21 day challenge I just had, which is so epic. It was so cool for me to walk people through everything I've done, like in a more detailed level than I am right now in this episode of my quantum leap year. And my quantum leap year happened because I've changed as a person. It's no accident. The amount of growth I've had here, moving my family to Texas, is exactly why I've had my quantum leap year, because I was forced to change by moving states. Do you have to do that to change? Absolutely not, but that was my circumstance. That was part of my game, right, the rules of my game. And then I realized I need to apply these rules to my business and stop putting so much pressure on how I want to make money and just start doing things that light me up and have good energy around it.
Speaker 1:And then the last part, which is the most important, is taking action. I had to put myself out there. I had to chill out. Chilling out is an action. By the way, action doesn't mean let me do more. Action can be doing less. You are taking action and doing less. A lot of that is upstairs, though, in your brain, right, trying to be okay with relaxing. When people think about relaxing, they're thinking about like laying on the beach and like falling asleep or laying in front of the TV and numbing out. That's not the relaxing I'm talking about. Can you just ground yourself into where you are in this life and find what's fucking good in it, rather than complain about what's not good? That's relaxing.
Speaker 1:So step three is action, and those three things I just talked to you about the clarity and feeling, the energy, and then the action was the formula for my quantum leap year, and it's just the beginning, like because now I know the rules of my game and you have to find out the rules for your game. So I want to circle back on the clarity on how the feeling happens, because, as we're heading into 2025, it's very common for people to want to pick a word for the year, and I'm going to challenge you to do something different if that's something that you've done in the past. People usually pick a word for the year, and I'm going to challenge you to do something different if that's something that you've done in the past. People usually pick a word because they want to have that be like their theme for the year and almost be their reset when, like, shit hits the fan. So then the word helps them recalibrate to whatever their vision was for that year. You following me.
Speaker 1:Well, instead of focusing on a word for the year and the definition and all that stuff, why don't you focus on a feeling for the year 2025? How do you want it to feel and can that be your reset when things are bad, when things aren't going as planned, when you want to recalibrate? Can you tap into the feeling you wanted the year to be, rather than the word that sounded really cool at the beginning of 2025. And now you're like you couldn't talk me into this if I tried, because the trick here love, my love. The trick is having it be so easy on your. I give up moments Like it's so easy where you're like. I can do this even though I'm fucking pissed. The world is crashing down, but I can still choose to feel peace. I can still choose to feel content because I'm breathing. I can still choose to feel spoiled because I'm still alive, like what is it for you? What is it? Because you need to find that out and then have that be your word to get you taking as many hits and reps of that word and that feeling you can going into 2025 and throughout 2025.
Speaker 1:So, ultimately, what it boils down to is it's not about doing more. It's actually about being more. It's about changing who you are, embodying that person. It's about stepping into the version of yourself who already has the success of everything that you want, everything you're dreaming of, and then watch how quickly your reality shifts. I'm walking proof of it. This quantum leap for me, is just the beginning. I can't even tell you how excited I am for what 2025 is going to have in store, but I'm not worried about that because I know it's going to feel fucking epic. So I'm bringing you along for the ride. I would love, love, love to hear how this landed for you. Dm me, let me know. I know your leap is coming soon. Just remember change can happen so fast when you align with your true self.
Speaker 1:So let's take 2025 and make it your year and just remember your year can be clarity on the rules of your game. Your year might be a 7x year. Your year might be a 10x, 20x year. So just focus on the feeling. Learn the rules of your game and know that learning the rules of the game that you want to play and you want to win at is your life's purpose. So anchor that in and know that you're not behind.
Speaker 1:You're exactly where you need to be and like let's buckle up, buttercup. You know what I mean. You know what I mean. I love you so much. I will catch you here next week. Bye. Thank you so much for tuning into this episode of she Is Redefined. If today's chat resonated with you, don't forget to hit subscribe so you never miss out. Remember this is just the beginning of your journey and you've got everything you need to create the life that you want. If you enjoyed this episode, I'd love for you to leave a review or share it with another woman who's ready to redefine herself too. Until next time, keep embracing who you are, because you're powerful, you're capable and you are redefined.
