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 I’m Katie Smith, and I’m here to help you break free from all those outdated societal expectations and embrace the amazing woman you’re meant to be!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 25: A Quiet Shift + What’s Coming Next
In this episode, I’m letting you in on the quiet shift I’ve been moving through—and why it’s changing everything. No big announcement, no performance… just the truth. I’m sharing what’s been unfolding behind the scenes, how I’m being guided, and what’s coming next inside the God’s Got Me movement.
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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 I’m Katie Smith, and I’m here to help you break free from all those outdated societal expectations and embrace the amazing woman you’re meant to be!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. 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. Hi, remember me.
Speaker 1:It has been a few weeks. I honestly don't know the last time I dropped an episode. I should know but you know what? I should know a lot of things right now that I'm giving myself lots of grace that I don't, but today I need to catch you up. I need to share what's been on my heart. A lot has happened in my world. I've pretty much lost a month of my life. Really, the whole month of April was gone, and now I'm getting myself picked back up, back onto my feet. I do want to share some things. This is not some big announcement, but this is a returning of Katie Smith me on the she Is Redefined podcast, but there's going to be some shifts happening and a pivot because, honestly, a lot has changed. I have changed. I am not the same person I was in March than I am today, right now recording this on May 12th. So this is not some new business model, new launch kind of thing. No, no, no. But I have shifted in the way of who I am and how I move and how I show up. So a lot went down.
Speaker 1:In April my son had to go in for a routine, a very routine tonsillectomy and adenectomy. By the way, I had to have mine out at the age of seven, when I was very little, obviously, I think it was seven or eight. I just remember eating a lot of ice cream and I remember the kids in my class gave me cards and gifts and it was really, really sweet. But I was like six or seven and my son is four and his adenoids were blocking 90% of his airflow, so like we had to get them out. He couldn't even breathe, he had sleep apnea, like it was a serious thing, and I had been putting it off interviewing different doctors for as long as I could. And then finally, we had to move forward with the tonsillectomy and the adenectomy and I did all my research and decided to move forward with it and so that actually cracked open a nightmare.
Speaker 1:And I'm not here to talk poorly about a doctor, I'm not here to talk about the danger of surgery at all. It had to happen and actually should it have happened. Yes, the nightmare we walked through should not have happened. But that's neither here nor there.
Speaker 1:But I've been through this personal season and it cracked me open in ways I didn't expect through this personal season and it cracked me open in ways I didn't expect. And I'm not here to give you all the details. My son is doing swimmingly. He is a miracle. He has completely bounced back from a living nightmare in and out of the hospital.
Speaker 1:3 am, 911 calls rush to the emergency room. I cannot talk about it. I thought I would be able to share with you what happened, but I just simply can't and I don't want to relive it. Just know it was a living nightmare and we are through it and sleep is 100% okay. I am working through being okay. Physically, I'm fine, emotionally, mentally. I am still working through what I saw and what I experienced and what I had to hold myself together for, and like, here come the tears, because it was incredibly hard and scary. But again, I don't want to give all the details because I'll just cry and they really don't matter. Honestly, the details do not matter as much, as what came out of this nightmare is what matters and what I want to talk to you about.
Speaker 1:What this season gave me wasn't just these hard, difficult moments, but it gave me a lot of clarity, and it's not the clarity that you're thinking. This is cellular level clarity that I got and I want to share it with you. What this experience, this nightmare, taught me is to never second guess myself or my gut ever again. Intuition is a thing and mine happens to be really, really strong. I have learned, and maybe, if I can get to an emotionally stable place to tell you where my intuition came in, where I listened to it and where I didn't, and where it led me, I will 100% share that with you. Is that today? I'm sorry, my friend, it's not, but give me some grace, and I would love to share it with you when I'd be able to eloquently say it without breaking down.
Speaker 1:So it taught me to stop second guessing myself and trust my intuition. I started trusting my gut without needing approval or validation. Like you know when, like you want to speak up and say something, but you're stopping yourself because you think that the person has more authority over you. Yeah, that's kind of what I'm talking about. You have a right to speak up on your gut instinct, your intuition, because that's you and that's something higher. That's God source. Whatever you believe in, I believe in God. That's God speaking through you to say something. It's not for us to shrink ourselves and play small. No, no, no. So I've never felt more rooted in my voice than ever before.
Speaker 1:The trauma stripped away any noise. I used to get caught up in my head and all that is left now is truth like speaking my truth, my unapologetic, authentic self, and in my truth and finding my truth, I found peace. Like I'm literally getting chills and I found me. It like makes me want to get emotional because you're talking to someone who's done so much personal development work I've coached so many women in what I've done where it's like I still didn't know me and I'm still going to. That's why this podcast is called she's Redefined. We are always going to be redefining things. This is a walking embodiment of redefinition redefining life, redefining myself. So I am done shrinking.
Speaker 1:I am absolutely 1000% done performing, because even though things have been really good in my world and I've had to perform less and less to build my business or sustain the growth and even scale it, there was still a level of performing involved and I'm done with that. I am completely done. If it's not peace and pleasure and zero effort, I am out. That's even regarding thoughts. I'm out. If it ain't peace and pleasure and it's not performing, the absolute opposite of performing, which is calm and peace and no action, I'm all about that. I'm not into the performing. I'll be honest performing and I'll be honest. I now give even less.
Speaker 1:You know what if I say something that doesn't sound palatable anymore for someone, I do not care. Do not care, that might rub you the wrong way. It might be like oh, geez, wow, she's like really struggling, like I'm just being raw, real and honest with you, because I know it's been a minute and I know several people have been like hey, are you okay? Is your podcast still going? So here we are, but this is the only way I know for me to move forward to be real. And so here, that's where I'm at. This is what this taught me, and can you learn the same lessons from me without going through trauma?
Speaker 1:Yes, and that's what I'm trying to do is use my voice to help you see, and what can come from it. It's like I remember always, like hearing about people where it's like when they hit rock bottom, they popped up and became a millionaire and all these other things. I feel like I'm kind of walking through that it was not rock bottom in a financial sense of life. It was a rock bottom in the sense of, like, health and vitality, like, oh my gosh, life is precious. So now I'm getting the message, god, I'm getting what you've been trying to show me in terms of stop performing as much. I'm getting what you've been trying to tell me is use your voice more. I thought I was.
Speaker 1:Well, let me tell you, talking more is not using your voice more. Using your voice more is your authentic truth and not giving a you know what if it offends someone. So that's being bolder, being quieter. If you want to be quieter, and you've been forcing yourself to be bolder, Like whatever your alignment is, is your thing, and that's where your gut comes in like I was saying so in the middle of this mother. You know what nightmare I can't even explain to you I'm starting to get chills already what came through? Because in the middle of this nightmare, when everything felt like it was too much and I was breaking, I can be the first one to admit that I was breaking. You should have seen the text I was sending to my best friend and my mom.
Speaker 1:Three words dropped in so clearly out of nowhere and it's like I had never heard them before. And those three words are God's got me, god's got us. And I don't even know how else to describe it, other than it landed in my body like truth. I already knew. It landed in my body like truth. I already knew, but I had never let myself live that way. And those words held me in the darkest moments of like. Now we're moving you guys to the ICU. Those words held me. They didn't just soothe me. They reminded me of truth, they gave me ease and that's the energy you're going to feel from me from now on. That is the message you're going to feel from me from now on. There is no accidents in life, not just in this episode.
Speaker 1:I want to share this with you. Almost every time I share something because these words have grown into something bigger and I clearly am being called to talk about this Now. I don't want you to get anything mixed up. This has absolutely nothing to do with religion nothing, and you know I've talked about this before. God and religion can be two separate things, because I'm not your perfect churchgoer. I don't even know a line of scripture Literally. I thought faith over fear was a hashtag, had no idea that was a scripture. Real talk, real talk.
Speaker 1:And so I want you to know this podcast, my brand, who I am, is becoming even more of me, so there might be some shifts. And if you don't like it, I love you. Thanks for sticking around for as long as you did. If you want to go, I get it. If you're curious to see what this new voice and stuff is around, god's got me, god's got us and the entire movement that is building behind and it has been building on my social media, welcome, I love you, thank you, but from here on out, there are some changes happening with the podcast.
Speaker 1:I am not doing four podcasts a month anymore, I am doing two a month. Why? Because it feels way less performative for me to do two a month than it does four a month, and in the past I used to operate this podcast from a fear stance of I got to do one every week because if I don't I'm going to lose subscribers, I'm going to lose listeners and I'm sorry. I just don't believe that anymore because that would be performing, that would not be effortless, that would not feel a sigh of relief or relaxed or peaceful. So I am dropping down to two episodes a month. And again, this has nothing to do with me being less committed or not. This is me stepping more into my truth of not performing anymore. Committed or not, this is me stepping more into my truth of not performing anymore. So these won't be mindset episodes anymore. They probably won't have checklists, they probably won't have these big lessons.
Speaker 1:What you can be expecting from me moving forward are what I like to call transmissions or downloads, or truth bombs or just conversations and explaining how I'm moving through them and what I found to be true. And I might mention some clients of mine, but I hardly think I will because I don't want this to be another mindset thing. Business coaching, although I'm your girl for so many of those things, but because I have shifted since everything that had happened, I'm going in the direction that I am being called to do that, and that is more download type conversations, truth bombs, everything that I just said, basically the kind of conversations that remind you that you don't have to do it all, to be it all or to have it all. That is no longer around. So what's next?
Speaker 1:In the next episode, I want to actually decode those three words God's got me and I really want to walk through what those three words really mean and how you can use them, what those three words have given me and why. It's the lens that I see everything through now in terms of how I live, how I lead, how I create and even how I make money, because there are crazy things that have happened where I'm like how is this even possible? I have not even been working for a month and a half. And then the money conversation, and I don't really even talk about money very much anymore, although I still kind of did up until this point. But anyways, it's just wild when you live your life in a very different way than you have and sometimes God has to crack you open in a traumatic way for you to finally get the message.
Speaker 1:Okay, so if you've been shifting or you've been feeling different, or you're just over everything, or you're in a moment where nothing seems to make sense and you're so done pretending, you're so done pretending, stay close, stay tuned. I am not here to teach or be a teacher or anything like that. I am here to remind you of your truth. I'm here to remind you how to step into your self-leadership and your self-trust, because God's got me and if you're here, I know he's got you too, and so if you want to explore that conversation a little bit more, I would love to Welcome.
Speaker 1:Welcome In the next episode. We're going to have a full blown transmission conversation. It's going to be epic and until then, thank you for being here, thank you for your prayers, thank you for your messages, thank you for your grace, and I will catch you here on the next episode. Love you, goodbye. Thank you so much for tuning in to 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.
