Separated At Birth
Welcome to the SEPARATED AT BIRTH PODCAST with your hosts Katie Martin and Karen Burke Brown. The podcast where we FIND ALIGNMENT in the most unlikely places. Proving that lightning can strike anywhere at any time. Weaving together a world of middle age empowerment as single moms, business women and creatives. Finding alignment navigating relationships after divorce, raising children, building businesses in the creative space, doing the hard work of unearthing our very best selves in the process and having a lot of mother-effing opinions about it. We are so stoked to have you here!
Separated At Birth
Episode 1 - The Genesis Story
Episode 1 - The Genesis Story
How the power of social media brought 2 strangers together who soon found out they had more in common than they ever imagined! In this episode, meet Katie and Karen who were strangers until they weren’t.
• Genesis of their friendship and the backstory of how they met
• Unpacking middle age, kids, businesses, heartbreak
• Choosing happiness as a mindset
• Marks of true friendship
• Appreciating talent of others
• Finding your inner self
• Exploring friendship and how friends can complement each other
• Noncompetitive friendship
• Emotional hold on items and letting go
• Short hair club and the interest from others
• Being barefaced in front of other women to create approachability
• Katie shares her background and being a former professional photographer
• Katie and Karen share the same birthday, same 3 kids, 2 boys and 1 girl
• Moved to FL during the Covid lockdown in a new place and navigating new life
• Katie and Karen first met in person in August of 2020
• At the first meeting, Katie experienced a huge shift in a relationship and it changed the tone of the visit
• Katie was in a tumultuous relationship that constantly questioned whether it was the right thing for her
• Negative DM’s started coming in from the ex and threw her into anxious dysregulation
• Bearing witness to a hardship in real time tethered them in that moment and Karen was equipped to handle because she had been through similar abuse
• Feeling misunderstood by someone you’re supposed be protected by
• No resentment or grief any longer
• Same shoe size, Halloween is their favorite holiday, same short haircut, same birthday
• Houston surgery, in the hotel for 3 days then recuperated at Karen’s home 4 hrs away
• Unpacking trouble in each other’s lives and getting support from others
• Asking each other “How would you like me to respond? Do you want me to listen or do you want me to provide honest feedback and/or solve problem?”
• People pleasing, changing how you show up, still a form of self-absorption
• Seeking professional help vs. only a self-help book
• Controlling the controllables, saving energy for other things
• Mean Girls movie discussion, Katie hasn’t seen the first version only the remake
• Katie and Karen didn’t have a good high school experience, but Karen still has friends from elementary and HS. Katie excelled in college as an athlete and made lifelong friends.
• How social media is invasive and destructive to kids, girls especially
• Challenge each other to unpack life, celebrate, collaborate with each other and enjoy life!
