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After navigating a tumultuous year filled with both setbacks and victories, I invite you to join me on Infinite Love with Kate as we reflect on the transformative power of gratitude and self-growth. Imagine overcoming unexpected challenges like surgery and making profound lifestyle changes such as quitting smoking and drinking. This episode is about embracing those changes with open arms, living in the moment, and recognizing the importance of rest and self-compassion. It’s a heartfelt exploration of how reconnecting with people from the past can spark joy and highlight the progress we’ve made, all over a delicious sushi meal with former colleagues.

In this episode, we journey from victimhood to empowerment through the practices of self-love and forgiveness. It’s about taking responsibility for our own past choices and releasing anger towards others, realizing that while we can't control life’s external twists and turns, our emotions and reactions are ours to master. With the holiday season approaching, this is a celebration of the power of love and gratitude to light our path forward. As we express our sincerest thanks to our listeners, the message is clear: cherish your worth and let love guide you to inspire change within yourself and the world.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, welcome back to another episode of Infinite Love
with Kate.
Today's topic is going to benothing other than gratitude.
Gratitude for everything,especially my health.
This year has been arollercoaster, but probably in
the most beautiful way.
I have no complaints, eventhough I ended up in the

(00:24):
hospital with surgery that Ididn't see coming.
But I cleared the way.
My body knew what it was doing,needed to do what it needed to
do, and I am back healthier thanever.
Well, at least I'm on thattrack, on the right track, back

(00:46):
to my ambitions, my desires,life and living, and I'm going
to get back out into working outand running.
I got the all go to go aheadand work out.
It's been a little over.
Let's see two months, probablya little like maybe two and a

(01:09):
half months since my surgery.
I cannot believe how much haschanged since, but honestly, it
feels time is so crazy becauseto me it doesn't exist.
It either is going really slowor really fast, but no matter
what, it blends together.
So I was just going oversomething in a journal.

(01:29):
I was going back way back towhen I began my healing journey,
because it's good to reflectright, and to me it felt like
yesterday.
Honestly, even with all thehighs and all the lows, as crazy
as that sounds, it literallyfeels like yesterday, but it

(01:50):
feels like so much hastranspired within those several
years.
So many blessings, personal too.
I mean I'm not even talking thephysical blessings, I'm talking
the personal, the spiritual,the soul, the mind, the body,
the heart, everything.
I have come a long way and I amgrateful for this journey.

(02:13):
I'm grateful I wasn't afraid tokeep going.
I'm grateful that I didn't letfear get in my way.
I didn't let my own anxieties,my own wounds, my own trauma get
in the way and stop me.
I'm grateful that I madeprobably the most best decisions

(02:34):
I could Quitting smoking.
I am eight months smoke-free,drinking.
I quit drinking.
I mean I didn't really do a lotof that, but it wasn't helping
when it was time to actually sitwith my own feelings.
It was avoiding Anytime I drank.
It made me feel like I wasgoing backwards in time and

(02:57):
healing and space and energy.
I didn't want that anymore.
And someone had just asked merecently I was just out and they
were like well, would you everjust have a drink or two?
And I said I mean I could, itdoesn't bother me.
However, I don't want to.
I don't think about it, not asmuch as I think about smoking.
I'm going to be very honest andtransparent.

(03:19):
It is the hardest thing to quit.
But told them, I was like if Ihad one drink, I'd want a
cigarette to go with that.
And then what's the point?
What does that serve?
You know what I'm saying.
It's like when I say it takesyou back, it takes you backwards
, and I only want to keep movingforward in life, in love and

(03:40):
happiness, in growth and healing.
I just I want to live.
I want to be present right herein the moment and be happy,
mind and body and soul andspirit.
I don't want to miss moments.
I don't want to miss out onopportunities where coulda,
shoulda, woulda.
I don't want that anymore.

(04:01):
I want to feel what I don'treally want to feel.
I want to learn all that I canlearn with everything that I'm
diving into New hobbies, newpassions, spirituality, all of
it.
I love that.
It motivates me to keep goingand thriving and pushing myself

(04:26):
to these limits I didn't evenknow existed.
I'm grateful.
I don't know what tomorrowbrings, so why not act upon it
today?
And that also includes hear meout, sorry, I have allergies.
That also includes I haveallergies.

(04:51):
That also includes restingResting when you're supposed to.
I found myself literally divingdeep into healing, forgetting
that you need a pause, you needa break, you need rest.
You can't just submergeyourself into the oceans and not
come up for air.
You have to give yourself abreak and you have to hold
nothing but compassion foryourself.

(05:12):
And sometimes on this healingjourney it does feel
overwhelming.
I can't lie, I can't.
There are times where I'mthinking what am I doing?
I don't want to do this anymore.
Let's go back to the old life.
And then I realized what isthat old life?
I don't even know.

(05:33):
And I can also tell you thathealing this journey, it makes
you feel lonely because youunderstand, forcing friendships,
forcing connections, forcingeven those connections you have
with people now If they're notaligned with you or if they're

(05:54):
not pushing you to grow, oryou're not pushing them to grow.
You're just forcing and itdoesn't feel comfortable.
I guess that's probably thebest way to describe that.
But also, when you make room,new comes in.

(06:15):
And when I say new, I don'tjust mean brand new people that
you've never met, I meansometimes old comes in, but
you're both at a different placein time in your life, within
growth, within yourself.
So new is anything that hasallowed itself to change and

(06:38):
transform.
So I'm grateful.
I'm grateful for opportunitieslike that.
I'm grateful that you can get asecond chance or a third.
I'm grateful for newopportunities that you didn't
even see coming.
I'm grateful I'm doing this.
I'm grateful I took that leapto videotape myself.

(06:58):
I mean, I talk to myself enough.
Why not look at myself as I'mrecording?
I'm grateful for days like today.
I got to sit down with oldco-workers, share a meal.
Oh my God, it was an endlessmeal of sushi.
It was a little gluttonous Imust take accountability for,

(07:21):
but it was amazing, catching up,sharing laughter and stories
and reminiscing.
I'm grateful.
I'm grateful for the coworkersI have now.
I'm grateful for a job that Ilove.
I'm grateful for my passionsthat I'm even more in love with.
I'm grateful for my family.

(07:42):
I got to visit my parents todayand check out their new
remodeling and to see them sohappy and excited.
It's cute.
It's cute to see your parentsand have parents to witness and
observe all the joy coming tothem.
I'm grateful that I gotambushed by my family's three
dogs.
Kind of gives me that EastVentura vibe when I walk in the

(08:03):
room and all the animals, justyou know, go in the uproar.
I'm grateful for dad jokesbecause, let me tell you, I am
stuck on TikTok, which I amloving, this FYP of this couple
doing dad jokes.
I think I'm more gratefullistening to the woman, the wife
, tell the jokes and she canbarely get words out of her

(08:26):
mouth.
And when I say the addiction oflaughter, that is what I love.
I love when that consumes myheart and my soul.
And then I'm belly laughingwith her for no idea what?
Because you can't evenunderstand her jokes, because
she can't even get past thelaughter and the noises that

(08:47):
come out of her.
So I'm grateful I got to visitmy cousin today because I had
time and I thought, well, I saidaround my house, let's just get
out while the sun is shining.
And I did a surprise visit.
So I got to meet her beardeddragon.
That was something different,not on my bucket list, but
definitely different, cutestthing ever.

(09:08):
Now I can say I, you know, meta bearded dragon.
I'm grateful that while cleaningout my house, purging, my dad
had asked me you know, hey, tryto clean up your unfinished
basement so you could make spacefor new.
He was right.
So I cleaned up all my oldfiles and I found my notebooks,

(09:31):
my journals.
One was a bucket list that Istarted back in 2015, and it has
been added on over the yearsand I'm grateful that I'm able
to check off some of thoseamazing bucket list choices,
that I'm able to check off someof those amazing bucket list
choices.
I never thought I would do that, but I've had the opportunities

(09:53):
to do it and I'm grateful thatI even had the opportunities,
especially traveling around theworld.
I'm grateful for love.
I'm grateful for my past.
Beyond grateful for my past,I'm grateful for all the people
that have stepped into it andleft their footprints upon my
heart and my soul.

(10:13):
I'm grateful for music,especially when you connect,
especially when it speaks to youin ways you can't describe
because it's through energy.
I'm grateful for food.
I'm grateful for my home.
I'm grateful for shelter.
I'm grateful for opportunitieslike this, especially on TikTok,

(10:36):
when I'm able to reach anaudience and then they respond
back to me asking me questionsabout my journey and how they're
taking a dive into theirs withtherapy, and they want to know
what it's like or how I feltthrough it and how long did it

(10:56):
take?
And I basically just said don'trush the process, don't worry
about how long it takes, justtake everything day by day.
But I'm grateful that I evenhave a platform to share my
story and put it out there forothers who come across my page,

(11:17):
come across my videos.
They do it.
They do it for themselves,because they know they're worthy
of it.
They may not feel worthy in themoment, but they know that they
want to get to that place, justlike I am, and I'm grateful
that.
I love when the world mirrorsback to you who you are, and
they say every day, the world ismirroring a part of you.

(11:39):
So always pay attention.
If it's chaotic around you, gowithin and ask yourself what is
so chaotic that you don't havecontrol over, or what is it you
need to have control over thatyou don't.
That's what I love about thisjourney is self-reflection,
accountability and not pointing.

(12:00):
I, for the longest time,pointed deflection, deflection,
deflection.
It's you, not me.
No, it's me.
I can't control what you aredoing.
That's yours, but I'm not goingto sit here and worry about
what you're doing.
I'm going to tell you what I'mdoing and whether you take that
as a lesson for yourself and youtake it back with you, or you

(12:20):
just say huh told you, so shetook all the accountability.
You want to walk away takingnone.
That's where you go.
Take it, walk with it, dowhatever you got to do, but I'm
still going to worry about meand work on me, because doing
the work is different than justsaying you're doing the work,
than just pretending ormirroring that you're doing the

(12:42):
work, because all that facadeand that mirage will fall apart.
Those masks will come off andpeople will see right through
you.
So don't be that person.
Make it a new year, a newresolution.
Make it a goal for yourself,not for others.
For yourself.
Do the work for you, becauseI'm over here grateful with

(13:07):
gratitude about the work I'vedone and the work I'm doing and
the work I'll continue to do,whether healing, spirituality,
learning, transforming, growingmyself into new desires.
Do you think I just knew whatto do when I decided to go live?

(13:28):
No, I have to now reteachmyself something brand new with
this new platform I'm workingwith.
Do I desire to have a team?
Sure, that'll come when I'mready, when the universe is
ready.
I'm not worried about that,though I'm not fixated on that.
I'm going to stay focused onright here, right now, me and

(13:49):
you, and this brand new world oflearning, and I'm grateful.
I am grateful.
I'm grateful that I get to goto my brothers in Iowa for
Thanksgiving.
We're changing it up, so I getto drive with my sister and have
three and a half hours ofbonding with her.
Now.
I'm grateful that my sister andhave three and a half hours of
bonding with her.
Now am I grateful that she'sgot two wild dogs in the back of
the car.
That'll probably just lick methe whole way Nope, nope, but it

(14:13):
will provide laughter.
So I'm grateful for thatalready.
I'm grateful that we have nothit the winter, winter season
yet.
It tried to come the other day,but it didn't last long, thank
God, I'm grateful.
Do you see, I'm grateful.

(14:33):
So find something you'regrateful for, and I'm not saying
that you might find a millionthings like I am.
But I can tell you this I'm ina different place where
gratitude is literally amajority of what I think about
daily.
In self reflection, I find inevery moment whether it was the
hardest moment of my life and Iwas on the ground crying.

(14:53):
I still find gratitude becausethat release helped me to then
move forward, to then moveforward.
And I can't sit here and say Iknow your story, I don't, and
I'm sorry.
I don't know your story and I'msorry that you are going
through those things.
But there's still moments youcan be grateful for.

(15:18):
You can be grateful that yourealize you're on a journey and
that it's up to you to change it.
You can be grateful for thatone moment of warmth that you
receive, that hello, thatnodding.
You can be grateful for thatone day of sobriety you cut to,
I don't know, but I know thatwith gratitude it allows space

(15:43):
for more love to come within andfor more changes to transpire.
So try it, because all my life Iplayed the victim and that did
not work.
One day I woke up and realizedthat storyline doesn't work.
It doesn't change anything.
Change anything.

(16:07):
The only way I can change is ifI choose to go within, take
accountability for the choicesI've made and or acknowledge and
forgive myself for holding onto the things that made me so
angry against the people that Inever met or knew.
But I have no control over.
I do have control over how Ifeel and what I change and what
I take with me.

(16:29):
So allow yourself, forgiveyourself, take accountability,
feel gratitude, let love in, letlove in Love.
Love is everything.
Love is everything.
Love ignites your soul, setsyou on fire, pushes you forward

(16:49):
to then continue to spread love,because you are the love that
the world needs to see.
So this is my episode.
I wish you all a wonderful,wonderful holiday of gratitude,
and here I am saying thank you,thank you to all of you for all

(17:11):
that you have done for me, forlistening, for being my
soundboard, for being a fan orfor joining the journey with me.
Thank you for choosing you.
In this chaotic world, youfound a moment in time where you
said I'm worth it, I choose me,I love me, I am you, you are me

(17:37):
.
So thank you, thank you, thankyou, and have an amazing day.
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