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 I’m Katie Smith, and I’m here to help you break free from all those outdated societal expectations and embrace the amazing woman you’re meant to be!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 27: What Happens When You Finally Stop Planning Your Escape Routes?
Ever received a message so clear it changed everything? That's exactly what happened when Katie Smith experienced what she calls a "divine download" during one of the most challenging moments of her life. Following her son's health crisis, a simple yet profound message appeared: "God's Got Me." That spiritual revelation has now sparked a movement and merchandise line that's resonating deeply with everyone who encounters it.
Katie opens up about the transformative power of surrendering control and truly believing that something greater has your back. She challenges the exhausting cycle many of us live in—constantly creating backup plans, anticipating worst-case scenarios, and carrying the weight of orchestrating our entire lives. What if instead, we simply exhaled and trusted? What might happen if we stopped the mental spinning and allowed ourselves to believe that divine timing is perfect, and that we don't need to force outcomes?
The conversation explores how this shift in perspective isn't just spiritually significant but physically healing. When we stop operating from a place of constant stress and vigilance, our nervous systems can regulate, our adrenals recover, and we experience what true peace feels like. Katie shares how she now interrupts anxiety spirals with the simple affirmation "God's got me," and the profound difference it makes. Whether you're navigating health challenges, relationship uncertainties, career transitions, or simply the day-to-day stresses of modern life, this episode offers a refreshing alternative to white-knuckling your way through life. Join the waitlist for "God's Got Me" merchandise and discover how choosing faith over worry might just be the exhale your soul has been waiting for.
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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. I have tried to make this angle look cute. I feel like so many people on Instagram who record podcasts with video, which is like what I'm doing now. If you're listening to this audibly, I am starting to record myself while I'm doing these and put them into little bite-sized clips and put them on the she Is Redefined Instagram page just to talk about the swag, show off the swag and then also give people just a little bit more insight into me and how I am. Look at that, but I don't know how people make this look so dang cute. I'm like my hair, all the things, but PS. Okay, first of all, I was going to tell you something and now I'm backtracking. I am now just doing so many more things off the cuff. I will be recording more episodes in my car with a little microphone that I got. Some will be on camera, some will be off camera. I'm just trying to have this be so off the cuff, like as natural as can be, because anything too curated I'm allergic to right now. So there's that. But so many people make this like look so cute and it took me forever to just get the angle right. I don't even know. Anyways, so happy you're here. Do you love the God's Got Me shirt? I just I can't.
Speaker 1:So if you're new here, I am creating swag that has God's Got Me on it. There's different variations of it. I'm even working on a hat, and the craziest part of all this is you know my story. You know what's happened in my life. If you don't go back a couple episodes and you can listen in about the scariest moment, the living nightmare that I lived with my son and when I was laying in bed one day and I might have said this like forgive me, I don't know who I've said what to what, I've recorded what I haven't, but when I was laying in bed with my boys putting them into bed, maybe a week after we got home from the second time from the hospital, and all of a sudden I got this download that dropped in that said create shirts. It's going to look like this. It's going to be bolded, italicized, all the things, these are the colors, this is the same. It's just God's got me and put a little whisper walk like it on the back. I'm not kidding you. I've never, ever in my entire life, have been given a vision of something and was like, without a doubt in my mind, I'm absolutely doing this, and so I did it. And then I shared it on social media and everybody wants it and it's so wild.
Speaker 1:So I want to talk about God's Got Me. That's going to be pretty much the message, because it funnels in or flows in and spills over into every part of your life. But that's pretty much the message of what you're always going to be getting out of these episodes where you're left with something that you can highly relate to and then something tangible that you can do that takes you through your day. I'm not even trying to help you get through your week. I just want to help you feel peace. That makes no sense and that there's a higher power, god, source, divine, whatever you believe in that has your back, because once you settle into that, everything changes. You instantly feel relaxed. You instantly feel like the weight of the world is off of your shoulders, simply by believing that God's got you, god's got us, you're good, no worries. And so sometimes that's really hard to do when you're in the middle of chaos. Sometimes that's really hard to do when you're used to having to prove something all the time, all the time. I don't know if you can relate to that, but that's actually when you need to lean in the most of like, what am I doing? Why am I working so hard? Why am I trying to act like I'm controlling anything? Anyways, that's a large responsibility, and it's kind of funny to think that one person would even have that responsibility. And so in those moments, that's when I have to remind myself that God's got me and the swag that I created it has a special feel.
Speaker 1:It's taken me forever to actually find what I wanted, but I wanted a shirt that felt cozy but nothing to do with warmth. I wanted the writing to be big enough. But then I also wanted some of the writing to be small enough where it's a whisper, where there's actually more power sometimes in a whisper than there's power in like shouting, bold, cap locks type of font and language. I also wanted people to feel like they had a hug, like when they put on a sweatshirt. It was like a hug and you feel like you stand taller and your shoulders are back and you're standing up straight when you wear these sweatshirts or the shirts that I have, where you literally feel like you're wearing armor. And that's what I can relate to and why I created it myself, because I literally feel different when I wear it and that makes crazy no sense because it's the same material as any other shirt but I swear it holds different weight. So I'm super fired up about the merchandise and where it's going. There is a wait list for that. You can find that in the show notes.
Speaker 1:I do ask for your patience. I did all this stuff for myself and I shared about it and now there's a large demand which I just am shocked, like hand to God shocked. But I need to make sure if this is something people want to buy, I need to make sure it has the right feeling, it's the right color and it has the right vibe and frequency to it. That came down that night when I was laying in bed with my boys and the ones that I wear, and so give it some time. I'm looking for the right partner to do this, with the right screen printer, the right vendor for the shirts. It's got to be right, because you will be shocked. I mean, I am severely let down by the merchandise industry, at least local to me.
Speaker 1:I went to two places. The first place didn't have the right colors, like they said they did, and so I was like, okay, well, that was a giant waste of time. Second place, they literally gave me my bag for the samples and like, okay, yeah, tell us what you think. Like you know we'll, we'll chat with your order and all this stuff. I literally opened it up and none of it was right. Like the spacing was off, the text was wrong. It's like they took my files and were like we're going to edit her files and do like, come up with a different design instead that we feel might be better. And it's like why did you have me send you the files then? And I signed off on them and I even gave notes as what I didn't want and they still printed it that way anyway.
Speaker 1:So it's just been a weird like jumping through a lot of hoops where I was like, huh, okay, I thought this was just going to be easy. I mean, I just created this stuff online to make for myself. Cool, I don't know how to do that. I'm not going to just have you go sign up for something online, like I want to feel it, and make sure it's everything that you're going to want and it's going to hit the mark. Like, if it's not going to hit the mark, I don't want anyone buying or doing anything. You know what I mean. And so I'm trying to find local people because, number one, I also love to support local, like hello. But it hasn't been that easy.
Speaker 1:So I ask for your patience. If you are on the wait list, I ask for your patience with this, as we, you know, iron out all the kinks and all that. So I think the biggest message of what I want to talk to you about today is like to you about today is like it is so easy to get caught up in what we should be doing where we should be at a certain point in our life, we just get caught up in what we think, where we should be and what we think and how we should look and how life should be. When I really ask you to challenge that thought, I really ask you to challenge why you have that thought, where that thought comes from and what's missing in your life right now, and when you can take some time to reflect and think about that, are you then able to tell yourself like, hey, what if I just relaxed? And what if everything that is going to come to me or has come to me has always been exactly at the right time when it was supposed to happen?
Speaker 1:So what if I just relaxed and trusted that God's got me, whatever that might be Like? Maybe God's got me in my health journey. Maybe God's got me in my weight loss journey. Maybe God's got me in my fertility journey. Maybe God's got me in my significant other and finding a spouse, finding someone I want to spend the rest of my life with, whatever it may be. What if God's got me and he's got a plan and my job is just to relax into it? How would that feel? Would you feel more relaxed just by that thought?
Speaker 1:Because when I finally realized that, I literally exhaled Like oh yeah, I can literally chill out right now and not have to think about worst case scenario, not think about an escape plan. You know what I'm talking about, where you're like okay, if this doesn't work out, then I'm going to do this backdoor into that and then we'll be fine, or I'll just put on a facade and it'll appear like everything's fine and it's fine. All of those things are just burning out your nervous system, like your adrenals gone. But when you think about okay, this is what I really want, this is what I've worked really hard to try and get and I haven't got it yet, you know, maybe I can just relax and enjoy right now, because I know God's got me. I mean, shoot, he moves mountains for people.
Speaker 1:Can I just chill out and just do my part of trusting and regulating my nervous system and calming down and see what happens. Like what would that be like? Kind of would be like peace. It kind of would be like I should be freaking out right now, but instead I'm chilling out and not working, when I really want to be working to make money, and then like wait, but why don't I just like go throw my feet up on the wall and hang out and watch the clouds go by, and when you do that, by the way, that's like one of my favorite things to do, but, by the way, when you start doing this, your brain's going to tell you all these mean things like what are you doing? You're being lazy, this isn't how this works, you're getting further away from your goal, and that's just the part that you have to then choose to believe otherwise by saying the words. Actually, I think God's got me. I'm going to try this whole relaxing thing and see what happens. I'm going to try this whole trusting thing and see what happens, because it has changed my life. It has changed my life.
Speaker 1:Anytime I start getting anxiety, anytime my brain starts spiraling into what I have experienced and witnessed firsthand, I immediately stop myself and I say God's got me, god's got this. I'm not going into the old way. I'd rather actually try trusting something bigger when I haven't even given him the full trust up until this point, and it's changed everything for me. So this was I don't know how long was this Short, sweet, I couldn't tell you, but I sure hope you got something out of it and I trust that you do, and if you love the shirt I'm wearing right now, or if you want to see it, hop onto my Instagram. She is redefined and you can check it out. It's one of my oversized tees super fun and on the back it says I choose faith. Down the spine. Love it. But yeah, thank you for being here.
Speaker 1:Send this to someone you think who needs it, and it can be people like who are healthy, doing great, who are struggling with something and need that hope or need a reminder that, like you, can just have a relationship with God outside of religion. Like, I'm all about going to Christian worship. We try to go as often as we can as a family, but I ultimately I want people to have a strong relationship with God and build and cultivate a relationship so that you don't have to work so hard. That's ultimately what it's about where you don't have to worry and stress so much. Like stop. Like, I want you to trust and feel that something out there, greater than you, who created the world, has your back, knows your name, loves you immensely and just is waiting for you to fully trust that they've got your back.
Speaker 1:That's it. I love you, thank you for being here and I'll catch you next time. Bye. 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. You.
