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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to she is
Redefined, the podcast where we
break free from societalexpectations, redefine our
identities and step fully intothe woman we were always meant
to be.
I'm Katie Smith, your host andguide on this journey of
transformation.
Here, we're all about embracingchange, cultivating confidence
and living life on our own terms.
Each week, we'll dive intotopics that inspire, challenge
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and empower you to redefine whatit means to be you.
Into topics that inspire,challenge and empower you to
redefine what it means to be you.
So, if you're ready to rewriteyour story and live life that's
bold, authentic andunapologetically yours, let's
dive in.
Hi, remember me.
It has been a few weeks.
I honestly don't know the lasttime I dropped an episode.
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I should know but you know what?
I should know a lot of thingsright now that I'm giving myself
lots of grace that I don't, buttoday I need to catch you up.
I need to share what's been onmy heart.
A lot has happened in my world.
I've pretty much lost a monthof my life.
Really, the whole month ofApril was gone, and now I'm
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getting myself picked back up,back onto my feet.
I do want to share some things.
This is not some bigannouncement, but this is a
returning of Katie Smith me onthe she Is Redefined podcast,
but there's going to be someshifts happening and a pivot
because, honestly, a lot haschanged.
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I have changed.
I am not the same person I wasin March than I am today, right
now recording this on May 12th.
So this is not some newbusiness model, new launch kind
of thing.
No, no, no.
But I have shifted in the wayof who I am and how I move and
how I show up.
So a lot went down.
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In April my son had to go in fora routine, a very routine
tonsillectomy and adenectomy.
By the way, I had to have mineout at the age of seven, when I
was very little, obviously, Ithink it was seven or eight.
I just remember eating a lot ofice cream and I remember the
kids in my class gave me cardsand gifts and it was really,
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really sweet.
But I was like six or seven andmy son is four and his adenoids
were blocking 90% of hisairflow, so like we had to get
them out.
He couldn't even breathe, hehad sleep apnea, like it was a
serious thing, and I had beenputting it off interviewing
different doctors for as long asI could.
And then finally, we had tomove forward with the
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tonsillectomy and the adenectomyand I did all my research and
decided to move forward with itand so that actually cracked
open a nightmare.
And I'm not here to talk poorlyabout a doctor, I'm not here to
talk about the danger of surgeryat all.
It had to happen and actuallyshould it have happened.
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Yes, the nightmare we walkedthrough should not have happened
.
But that's neither here northere.
But I've been through thispersonal season and it cracked
me open in ways I didn't expectthrough this personal season and
it cracked me open in ways Ididn't expect.
And I'm not here to give youall the details.
My son is doing swimmingly.
He is a miracle.
He has completely bounced backfrom a living nightmare in and
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out of the hospital.
3 am, 911 calls rush to theemergency room.
I cannot talk about it.
I thought I would be able toshare with you what happened,
but I just simply can't and Idon't want to relive it.
Just know it was a livingnightmare and we are through it
and sleep is 100% okay.
I am working through being okay.
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Physically, I'm fine,emotionally, mentally.
I am still working through whatI saw and what I experienced
and what I had to hold myselftogether for, and like, here
come the tears, because it wasincredibly hard and scary.
But again, I don't want to giveall the details because I'll
just cry and they really don'tmatter.
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Honestly, the details do notmatter as much, as what came out
of this nightmare is whatmatters and what I want to talk
to you about.
What this season gave me wasn'tjust these hard, difficult
moments, but it gave me a lot ofclarity, and it's not the
clarity that you're thinking.
This is cellular level claritythat I got and I want to share
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it with you.
What this experience, thisnightmare, taught me is to never
second guess myself or my gutever again.
Intuition is a thing and minehappens to be really, really
strong.
I have learned, and maybe, if Ican get to an emotionally
stable place to tell you wheremy intuition came in, where I
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listened to it and where Ididn't, and where it led me, I
will 100% share that with you.
Is that today?
I'm sorry, my friend, it's not,but give me some grace, and I
would love to share it with youwhen I'd be able to eloquently
say it without breaking down.
So it taught me to stop secondguessing myself and trust my
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intuition.
I started trusting my gutwithout needing approval or
validation.
Like you know when, like youwant to speak up and say
something, but you're stoppingyourself because you think that
the person has more authorityover you.
Yeah, that's kind of what I'mtalking about.
You have a right to speak up onyour gut instinct, your
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intuition, because that's youand that's something higher.
That's God source.
Whatever you believe in, Ibelieve in God.
That's God speaking through youto say something.
It's not for us to shrinkourselves and play small.
No, no, no.
So I've never felt more rootedin my voice than ever before.
The trauma stripped away anynoise.
I used to get caught up in myhead and all that is left now is
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truth like speaking my truth,my unapologetic, authentic self,
and in my truth and finding mytruth, I found peace.
Like I'm literally gettingchills and I found me.
It like makes me want to getemotional because you're talking
to someone who's done so muchpersonal development work I've
coached so many women in whatI've done where it's like I
still didn't know me and I'mstill going to.
That's why this podcast iscalled she's Redefined.
We are always going to beredefining things.
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This is a walking embodiment ofredefinition redefining life,
redefining myself.
So I am done shrinking.
I am absolutely 1000% doneperforming, because even though
things have been really good inmy world and I've had to perform
less and less to build mybusiness or sustain the growth
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and even scale it, there wasstill a level of performing
involved and I'm done with that.
I am completely done.
If it's not peace and pleasureand zero effort, I am out.
That's even regarding thoughts.
I'm out.
If it ain't peace and pleasureand it's not performing, the
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absolute opposite of performing,which is calm and peace and no
action, I'm all about that.
I'm not into the performing.
I'll be honest performing andI'll be honest.
I now give even less.
You know what if I say somethingthat doesn't sound palatable
anymore for someone, I do notcare.
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Do not care, that might rub youthe wrong way.
It might be like oh, geez, wow,she's like really struggling,
like I'm just being raw, realand honest with you, because I
know it's been a minute and Iknow several people have been
like hey, are you okay?
Is your podcast still going?
So here we are, but this is theonly way I know for me to move
forward to be real.
And so here, that's where I'mat.
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This is what this taught me,and can you learn the same
lessons from me without goingthrough trauma?
Yes, and that's what I'm tryingto do is use my voice to help
you see, and what can come fromit.
It's like I remember always,like hearing about people where
it's like when they hit rockbottom, they popped up and
became a millionaire and allthese other things.
I feel like I'm kind of walkingthrough that it was not rock
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bottom in a financial sense oflife.
It was a rock bottom in thesense of, like, health and
vitality, like, oh my gosh, lifeis precious.
So now I'm getting the message,god, I'm getting what you've
been trying to show me in termsof stop performing as much.
I'm getting what you've beentrying to tell me is use your
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voice more.
I thought I was.
Well, let me tell you, talkingmore is not using your voice
more.
Using your voice more is yourauthentic truth and not giving a
you know what if it offendssomeone.
So that's being bolder, beingquieter.
If you want to be quieter, andyou've been forcing yourself to
be bolder, Like whatever youralignment is, is your thing, and
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that's where your gut comes inlike I was saying so in the
middle of this mother.
You know what nightmare I can'teven explain to you I'm
starting to get chills alreadywhat came through?
Because in the middle of thisnightmare, when everything felt
like it was too much and I wasbreaking, I can be the first one
to admit that I was breaking.
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You should have seen the text Iwas sending to my best friend
and my mom.
Three words dropped in soclearly out of nowhere and it's
like I had never heard thembefore.
And those three words are God'sgot me, god's got us.
And I don't even know how elseto describe it, other than it
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landed in my body like truth.
I already knew.
It landed in my body like truth.
I already knew, but I had neverlet myself live that way.
And those words held me in thedarkest moments of like.
Now we're moving you guys tothe ICU.
Those words held me.
They didn't just soothe me.
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They reminded me of truth, theygave me ease and that's the
energy you're going to feel fromme from now on.
That is the message you'regoing to feel from me from now
on.
There is no accidents in life,not just in this episode.
I want to share this with you.
Almost every time I sharesomething because these words
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have grown into something biggerand I clearly am being called
to talk about this Now.
I don't want you to getanything mixed up.
This has absolutely nothing todo with religion nothing, and
you know I've talked about thisbefore.
God and religion can be twoseparate things, because I'm not
your perfect churchgoer.
I don't even know a line ofscripture Literally.
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I thought faith over fear was ahashtag, had no idea that was a
scripture.
Real talk, real talk.
And so I want you to know thispodcast, my brand, who I am, is
becoming even more of me, sothere might be some shifts.
And if you don't like it, Ilove you.
Thanks for sticking around foras long as you did.
If you want to go, I get it.
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If you're curious to see whatthis new voice and stuff is
around, god's got me, god's gotus and the entire movement that
is building behind and it hasbeen building on my social media
, welcome, I love you, thank you, but from here on out, there
are some changes happening withthe podcast.
I am not doing four podcasts amonth anymore, I am doing two a
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month.
Why?
Because it feels way lessperformative for me to do two a
month than it does four a month,and in the past I used to
operate this podcast from a fearstance of I got to do one every
week because if I don't I'mgoing to lose subscribers, I'm
going to lose listeners and I'msorry.
I just don't believe thatanymore because that would be
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performing, that would not beeffortless, that would not feel
a sigh of relief or relaxed orpeaceful.
So I am dropping down to twoepisodes a month.
And again, this has nothing todo with me being less committed
or not.
This is me stepping more intomy truth of not performing
anymore.
Committed or not, this is mestepping more into my truth of
not performing anymore.
So these won't be mindsetepisodes anymore.
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They probably won't havechecklists, they probably won't
have these big lessons.
What you can be expecting fromme moving forward are what I
like to call transmissions ordownloads, or truth bombs or
just conversations andexplaining how I'm moving
through them and what I found tobe true.
And I might mention someclients of mine, but I hardly
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think I will because I don'twant this to be another mindset
thing.
Business coaching, although I'myour girl for so many of those
things, but because I haveshifted since everything that
had happened, I'm going in thedirection that I am being called
to do that, and that is moredownload type conversations,
truth bombs, everything that Ijust said, basically the kind of
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conversations that remind youthat you don't have to do it all
, to be it all or to have it all.
That is no longer around.
So what's next?
In the next episode, I want toactually decode those three
words God's got me and I reallywant to walk through what those
three words really mean and howyou can use them, what those
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three words have given me andwhy.
It's the lens that I seeeverything through now in terms
of how I live, how I lead, how Icreate and even how I make
money, because there are crazythings that have happened where
I'm like how is this evenpossible?
I have not even been workingfor a month and a half.
And then the money conversation, and I don't really even talk
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about money very much anymore,although I still kind of did up
until this point.
But anyways, it's just wildwhen you live your life in a
very different way than you haveand sometimes God has to crack
you open in a traumatic way foryou to finally get the message.
Okay, so if you've been shiftingor you've been feeling
different, or you're just overeverything, or you're in a
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moment where nothing seems tomake sense and you're so done
pretending, you're so donepretending, stay close, stay
tuned.
I am not here to teach or be ateacher or anything like that.
I am here to remind you of yourtruth.
I'm here to remind you how tostep into your self-leadership
and your self-trust, becauseGod's got me and if you're here,
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I know he's got you too, and soif you want to explore that
conversation a little bit more,I would love to Welcome.
Welcome In the next episode.
We're going to have a fullblown transmission conversation.
It's going to be epic and untilthen, thank you for being here,
thank you for your prayers,thank you for your messages,
thank you for your grace, and Iwill catch you here on the next
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episode.
Love you, goodbye.
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