Katherine Autin has been pivoting since before pivoting was cool. Jewelry business at 26 with a baby on her hip? Done. Moves for her husband’s federal job, starting over in new states, new systems, new everything? Also done. Then came the big one: a Parkinson’s diagnosis that reshaped 21 years of marriage into a long, tender, relentless caregiving journey… while Katherine continued building businesses, running support groups, and giving herself permission to keep creating.

And then grief arrived with its boots on. Katherine’s husband, David, passed in July 2025, after a sudden cancer diagnosis on top of Parkinson’s. But here’s the part that will catch you by the collar: Katherine is grieving and dreaming at the same time. She’s a newly selected United Nations delegate for the Commission on the Status of Women, headed to New York in March, and she’s doing it with mascara, backbone, and a truth we all need: your life is still yours to create.

This episode is equal parts soulful and spicy. It’s about resilience without the toxic positivity, joy without apology, and the radical act of saying yes again after loss. Also: hugging matters. Period.

Katherine Autin

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