Authentic

Authentic

G’day, I’m Kat John, authenticity coach, author, keynote speaker and everyday human. This podcast is where we tell the truth. No highlight reels, no love and light spritzing, no pretending. Just real conversations about what it actually takes to live aligned with who you are beneath the roles, patterns, and conditioning. I teach this work because I live this work. Together, we explore the ongoing dance between your ego self and your true self in relationships, money, work, family, and the everyday moments that shape a well-lived life. Expect grounded guidance, raw reflections, and conversations that don’t shy away from the messy middle. This is a space to get honest, take responsibility, and come home to yourself, one real step at a time. New episodes drop weekly on Mondays. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. And if it lands, a rating or review genuinely helps this work reach the people who need it.

Episodes

August 3, 2026 10 mins

What are you pretending not to know? It is a confronting question because, most of the time, we do know.

We know when something no longer feels right. We know when we are outgrowing a relationship, a role, a version of ourselves or the way we have been living. We know when we need to speak, leave, begin, rest, change direction or finally tell ourselves the truth.

But knowing asks something of us.

It asks us to act. It asks us to risk ...

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July 19, 2026 25 mins

In this episode, I spoke about a daily prayer that has become an anchor for me.

“Guide me to where I’m destined to be. To the people I’m meant to meet. To the ground that calls my name. To the chances that are mine to take. To the life that’s mine to live.”

It is simple, but it is not passive.

This prayer is not about sitting back and waiting for life to happen. It is about learning to trust the timing of...

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If you want to laugh, this one is pure light. Steve and I talk about what we used to do at the start of our relationship to prevent the other from hearing our farts. I know, I know, it's crass, but every relationship goes through this phase and we thought we'd have a giggle and talk about the things we did. Very relatable.

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July 5, 2026 26 mins

In this episode, I talk about something I've been reflecting on lately: the difference between a pure intention and all the fear we layer on top of it.

I've noticed that the deepest truths in my life rarely arrive with fanfare. They don't shout. They don't come with a ten-step plan or every answer neatly wrapped up. They usually arrive quietly, as a simple knowing. It might be the feeling that it's time to leave a job, start a busin...

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June 28, 2026 26 mins

In this episode, I talk about something I’ve been sitting with in my own life and business lately: can you let go of the exact how?

Because when we have a desire, an idea, a next step, or a sense that something is shifting, the mind wants to know exactly how it’s going to happen. How will it work? How will the money come? How will people find it? How will it all unfold? And if we can’t see the full path, we often s...

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June 21, 2026 36 mins

In this episode, I'm sharing a reflection on Wu Wei, a Taoist principle often translated as "effortless action" or "action without force," and why this ancient wisdom has landed so deeply for me in this current season of life.

For years, my business moved with a rhythm I had come to trust. Coaching spots filled, programs attracted people with ease, and opportunities seemed to flow naturally. But this year has looked very different. ...

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Steve and I share the process we both come back to whenever we find ourselves stuck. Whether it's our health, our relationship, our business, money, or life in general, we've found that getting unstuck isn't usually about finding the perfect answer. It's about being willing to face the truth.

The first thing we do is face reality. Not the reality we wish we were living, but the one we're actually in. We look honestly at what's hurti...

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In this episode, I talk about the pressure we put on new ideas.

The pressure for them to work, to succeed, to make money, to prove themselves.

And how quickly something that begins as a spark, an idea, an intuitive nudge, can become weighed down by expectations.

Lately, I've been noticing this in myself, particularly as I'm navigating changes in my business and exploring what feels like the next chapter. Before I've even taken a full ...

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Steve and I talk about a phrase we come back to often:

This too shall pass.

Not as a way to dismiss what we're feeling or to bypass the hard stuff. But as a reminder that life is always moving, changing, shifting, and unfolding.

We speak about how so much of our suffering comes from fighting reality. Arguing with what's happening. Wishing it were different. Complaining about it, resisting it, trying to control it. And how exhausting t...

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The goal is not to be 100% authentic all the time.

That’s unattainable. If you think that’s the goal, you’ll spend your life feeling like you’re failing every time you people-please, shut down, react, perform, avoid conflict, seek approval, or slip back into old patterns.

That’s not failure. That’s being human.

I share about how authenticity isn’t a final destination where you suddenly become ...

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May 17, 2026 31 mins

In this episode, Steve and I talk about something I think a lot of couples quietly go through: when the load of life becomes so heavy that it starts impacting the relationship.

Not because love is gone or because anyone’s doing something terribly wrong.
But because one person is overloaded, stretched thin, carrying too much and the relationship starts feeling the weight of it too.

I share honestly about missing Steve recentl...

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May 10, 2026 28 mins

In this episode, I speak about the pressure I used to put on myself to heal quicker, grow quicker, feel better quicker, and become “better” faster. I genuinely believed that if I was doing the work on myself, then surely I should be further along by now.

That mindset created so much suffering. I was constantly living with this quiet pressure in the background of my life, telling myself to hurry up, get there already, fig...

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May 3, 2026 29 mins

I recorded this in a moment where nothing big was happening.

Clouds moving. Rain on the window. Wind through the trees. The dogs snoring. And me, just sitting there, actually in it.

We say we want peace, we say we want to feel better but we’re often anywhere but here. In our heads, in the next thing, in our phones, in the past, in the future.

And then we wonder why we feel disconnected, or lonely, or unfulfilled, or empty, or fe...

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April 26, 2026 22 mins

We find myself in the simple things. In movement, nature, laughter, in doing what we love.

We lose ourselves in the noise of the mind, the pressure to be more, do more, become more and  feel disconnected from ourselves.

But the truth is we’re not lost and it doesn’t take much to come back.

This episode is a  reminder that you don’t need to go searching for yourself.

You’re already here. Sometimes you j...

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This one took a while to land. 

The part that tried hard not to upset anyone, to do it right, to keep the peace, to earn my place was running rampant!

And how exhausting that became.

Somewhere along the way, I realised trying to be liked was costing me something far too precious ... myself.

This is a conversation about self-abandonment in prettier clothes. About confusing being liked with being loving. About the shift from managin...

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We asked a question ...“If we had 24 hours left on earth, what would we do?”

A real, honest question to look at what actually matters when time is no longer on our side. Because questions like this have a way of showing you your life as it is, not the one you say you want, but the one you’re actually living.

What would you drop?
What would you lean into?
Who would you call?
How would you spend your time?

And...

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April 5, 2026 25 mins

You keep telling yourself you’re not ready. Not clear enough, not confident enough, not quite there yet.

But if you’re honest, you already know.

You know the conversation you’ve been avoiding. You know the decision you keep circling. You know what’s not working anymore.

This episode is about that space. The in-between where you sit and think, and think and think some more whilst thinking you need more time, whe...

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I asked Steve a question - "were you scared to get married again, to be in a relationship again after your divorce?”

When something significant ends, especially a marriage, it changes you. It shapes how you see love, commitment, risk, yourself and others.

In this episode, Steve shares what it was actually like stepping back into a relationship after divorce. The hesitation. The awareness. The things he didn’t want to repe...

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March 22, 2026 27 mins

Permission sounds simple, but most of us are waiting for it.

Waiting for someone to say it’s okay to slow down, okay to change your mind, okay to outgrow something that once made sense.

But life rarely hands us that permission, and so, we keep going. We keep doing the roles we’ve always played. We keep carrying responsibilities, expectations, identities that once fit even when something inside us is saying that we’v...

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