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Well, one week has gone by and my beautiful Grandfather passed. The night before he left this world I got to sit with him, kiss his forehead and tell him, "I love you." A precious moment I'll forever cherish.Amidst the McFlurry of emotions this past week, there have been some incredible experiences that have brought joy and juice to my heart. That really is life isn't it - one moment it can rip open your heart and the next it can fill it with love. That's how the last 7-days have felt; the human experience in full flight! Such is life.UPCOMING LIVE EVENTSSunday Meds - Get your tickets here! Sunday November 13th! JOIN TAKE YOUR MEDSTake Your Meds Membership - https://katjohn.com.au/medsBOOK A 15-minute PHONE CHATIf you are feeling the nudge to work with me and join one of my coaching programs, speak at your workplace or high-school, or collaborate, make a time to chat with me.Support the show

I'm watching my ego as it tries to "make things better" as I currently experience the emotion of sadness and feeling of anxiety. The sadness is linked to my Pop being palliative and the anxiety is linked to family tension and dynamics. Both situations are linked to uncertainty. How long do we have Pop for? How long will the family dynamics be tense? To try and ease the discomfort in not knowing, my ego is looking to feel better, faster. This means skipping over how I currently feel which will eventually lead to being overcome with feelings it's trying to run away from and appease. Today's podcast shares how I am being WITH sadness and anxiety, rather than rushing to feel better or being swamped by the feelings. A fine dance, that's for sure.UPCOMING LIVE EVENTSSunday Meds - Get your tickets here! Sunday November 13th! JOIN TAKE YOUR MEDSTake Your Meds Membership - https://katjohn.com.au/medsBOOK A 15-minute PHONE CHATIf you are feeling the nudge to work with me and join one of my coaching programs, speak at your workplace or high-school, or collaborate, make a time to chat with me.Support the show

I had a great realisation about a week ago when I saw my Kinesiologist, Elena Pilch. The way I have chosen to live my life, the space, the time, the choice of how I work, who I work with, etc is enough. The way I used to work was more hectic, leading to burnout, and my ego believed that when we hit burnout, THEN we've done enough!So the past pattern was, "work until you're flatlined, because ONLY when you're on your knees with zero juice and life-force can you say you've worked your ass off and proved your worth!" Hands up how many of you do that?Today's podcast shares more on this. Enjoy. UPCOMING LIVE EVENTSSunday Meds - Get your tickets here! Sunday November 13th! JOIN TAKE YOUR MEDSTake Your Meds Membership - https://katjohn.com.au/medsBOOK A 15-minute PHONE CHATIf you are feeling the nudge to work with me and join one of my coaching programs, speak at your workplace or high-school, or collaborate, make a time to chat with me.Send us an email or DM meinfo@katjohn.com.au / @kat.johnSupport the show

Before every ZEROFKS dance party, the dream I have the night before is that the sound system fails. Each event it’s never bombed out, but at the last event, it did.Mid dancing our assess off, the power went out — no lights, no music, 250 sweaty legends in a room. Ahhh, the dream (nightmare) came true.Within a matter of a minute Nicole — @theartisanssolutions was up on stage. A woman I’d never met until last night, standing in front of everyone creating a magical moment where the whole room started singing acapella to whatever song she started singing. Her dear friend @jessicaroberts_official nudged her to get up and buy us time until we got the system working again. What a friend!The deep fear I had turned into one of the best ZEROFKS memories where the definition of community came to life! Still blown away from this moment. Nicole and Jess, you’re my hero’s. Check it out here. UPCOMING LIVE EVENTSSunday Meds - Get your tickets here! Sunday November 13th! JOIN TAKE YOUR MEDSTake Your Meds Membership - https://katjohn.com.au/medsSend us an email or DM meinfo@katjohn.com.au / @kat.johnSupport the show

A recent realisation has come about after having new photos taken a few weeks ago. I felt it was time to re-shoot photos that capture not only the happy, smiley and "out there" side of me, but also my feminine, softer side. When I saw some of the images on the day, my initial response was, "I won't be putting those up!" Of course I'm curious as to why that's my first response, and it came down to shaming and inhibiting my beauty. That I'm not allowed to see myself that way or accept my own beauty because it's wrong and stuck-up. It's been a cool realisation and one that I can now be in the practice of accepting more and more as I allow my feminine side to further emerge.More on this in today's episode.UPCOMING LIVE EVENTSZEROFKS Dance Party, RNB Classics - Get your tickets here! Tuesday October 11th!Sunday Meds - Get your tickets here! Sunday November 13th! JOIN TAKE YOUR MEDSTake Your Meds Membership - https://katjohn.com.au/medsSend us an email or DM meinfo@katjohn.com.au / @kat.johnSupport the show

After almost two years of slowing down the pace of my life and rearranging the way I 'do' so that I'm not always 'doing' for the sake of doing, I had a really lovely moment. It was a simple moment of putting away a placemat. It was the way I put it away that made me go, "ahhh, this moment right here is the culmination of the last two years." The ease and slowness of picking up the placemat and putting it away without grabbing it in a huff or hurry, and shoving it in the cupboard so I could 'do' the next thing, made me realise how nice it is to have created a slower paced life. More on this in today's episode. UPCOMING LIVE EVENTSZEROFKS Dance Party, RNB Classics - Get your tickets here! Tuesday October 11th!Sunday Meds - Get your tickets here! Sunday November 13th! JOIN TAKE YOUR MEDSTake Your Meds Membership - https://katjohn.com.au/medsBE KIND TO ANIMALS WEEKHead here to make your pledge.Send us an email or DM meinfo@katjohn.com.au / @kat.johnSupport the show

We all hold ourselves back from following our Truth due to a myriad of stories we tell ourselves. These stories are powerful, potent and are loaded with evidence as to why you can't speak your truth, or express yourself more freely, or say "I love you", to your partner, or leave a toxic environment. This is normal, we all do it, but you don't want to let the stories become your truth. Today's episode has you has the question, "what's the story I'm telling myself?", and invites you to become curious why the story is there. Then there's a follow up question to ask, which you'll find in the episode. Enjoy! UPCOMING LIVE EVENTSZEROFKS Dance Party, RNB Classics - Get your tickets here! Tuesday October 11th!Sunday Meds - Get your tickets here! Sunday November 13th! JOIN TAKE YOUR MEDSTake Your Meds Membership - https://katjohn.com.au/medsSend us an email or DM meinfo@katjohn.com.au / @kat.johnSupport the show

I believed that hitting rock bottom was the only way to change, or at least to enforce myself to change. That feeling so low, or burnt out, or afraid of my thoughts would catapult me into action. Often, it did, hence thinking that rock bottom was how I could grow.This past week I spoke to year 10 students from St Michael's Grammar School. We spoke about the dark voices in our head that lead to self destructive behaviours towards ourselves, our family and friends, and to hitting rock bottom. We also spoke about the light voice, the quieter voice that nudges us to reach out for help, or to do "X" before hitting the lowest of lows. It was a great chat.The question I left  them with was this. If you listened to your light voice a little more, "what would it say to you to help you not hit rock bottom over, and over again?" Some took the question away to ponder. Others shared immediately. But there was a strong sense that they knew what they needed to do and that it's about listening to that a little more. UPCOMING LIVE EVENTSZEROFKS Dance Party, RNB Classics - Get your tickets here! Tuesday October 11th!JOIN TAKE YOUR MEDSTake Your Meds Membership - https://katjohn.com.au/medsSend us an email or DMinfo@katjohn.com.au@kat.johnSupport the show

Not a day goes by where the ego won’t attempt to steal your focus and plant it on petty shit.It’ll rant and rave about how you’re not ready, worthy, enough or perfect and make you do shit to be all those things before you can focus on what you truly want.But denying that the ego exists, desperately trying to make it go away so that you'll live happily ever after without it is a quest that'll disappoint you until the end of your days. Toxic positivity, spiritual bypassing or shoving your ego into a box hoping it'll never return isn't going to bring you inner peace. No one is exempt from the ego, no matter how much work we do on ourselves. The work needs to become about the sheer desire to grow and develop, rather than to eradicate a part of ourselves. UPCOMING LIVE EVENTSZEROFKS Dance Party, RNB Classics - Get your tickets here! Tuesday October 11th!JOIN TAKE YOUR MEDSTake Your Meds Membership - https://katjohn.com.au/medsSend us an email or DMinfo@katjohn.com.au@kat.johnSupport the show

Clinging onto negative thoughts as if they are the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you baby Jesus, will have you act out patterns that have no intention of serving your deepest good.If you’ve been following along you’ll know that my thoughts have tried to eat me alive so that I don’t eat! Those thoughts tried to direct me toward a stubborn pattern of self punishment and restricting food like the old days. But instead of giving into them, I let them be there, watched them, observed the feelings that arose in my bod and chose to focus on being as kind as possible.Two opposing forces all at once. One say RESTRICT and the other saying KINDNESS. I mean, talk about being pulled in different directions. But when you follow the one that you know will deep down serve you and not give into the old pattern, that’s big win.UPCOMING LIVE EVENTSZEROFKS Dance Party, RNB Classics - Get your tickets here! Tuesday October 11th!JOIN TAKE YOUR MEDSTake Your Meds Membership - https://katjohn.com.au/medsSend us an email or DMinfo@katjohn.com.au@kat.johnSupport the show