Today's episode is with Katie Wass, the first vicenarian, or a woman in her 20s, to step up to contribute her story in Susan Dunlop's Coffee and Contemplation with Women podcast series. 

If you're new to listening to the podcasts, this series is about women from every decade of life from the age of 10 to 110, from Australia and abroad, willing to contribute their story for other women to hear.

By way of prep, each woman contemplates a wide range of questions, which we may or may not use in our chat. It helps to ease into the chat and we just go with a comfortable flow. In every podcast, the women courageously share early memories, most fulfilling or challenging experiences, and how they survived and thrived. Plus some cheeky stories, life lessons and their favourite quotes and songs and why - for the benefit of other women and therapeutic for themselves as well. 

Katie's background:  Katie Wass, is 28, from the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. She is a creative and the owner of a successful and thriving graphic design business called Rise and Roar Design. I met Katie 6 weeks ago, when she became a private coaching client of my Lead Your Business to Thrive Program. 

Until this year, Katie had worked as a designer for leading brands and businesses, but decided to take ‘a leap of faith’ and pivot her business and change the way she lived - that is, to ACTUALLY enjoy her work, who she works with and make more of an impact. 

Katie will share her thoughts about how the news of Covid-19 has affected her in such a short time and how she adapted the way she operates her business. Katie gives her perspective on this first worldwide pandemic event she's experienced and how it has made her feel. Also, what she's done to  'shake it off', both by finding ways to mix up her leisure time with activities she enjoyed as a child and in taking steps to innovate and adapt her graphic design business, to better serve her new and current clients, during these challenging times. 

Katie gives some useful insights about the profession of graphic design; plus what she wished she'd known before she began her career in graphic design.  Our chat flowed naturally along this creative theme today, with empathy for people who have just been laid off, or had their walk-in face-to-face business close, due to the Covid-19 preventative measures announced since Sunday. Katie kindly shares tips for those who are possibly really needing to get their business online fast, yet also have it look beautiful and professional at the same time!