What if some of your money problems aren’t really about money at all—but about emotions you haven’t allowed yourself to feel?

In Part 3 of the Inheritance series, Kate explores the connection between your emotional life and your financial life. She challenges the idea that money decisions should be purely logical and explains how emotional suppression can show up as financial avoidance, overspending, under-earning, over-giving, or the persistent feeling that there’s never enough—even as your income grows.

Kate shares what happened during one of the most stressful seasons of her life, when Mike was sick, their expenses had dramatically increased, and her lifelong response to pressure was to become even more capable, productive, and focused on earning. With the help of her therapist, she began experimenting with something radically different: instead of turning uncomfortable emotions into productivity, she learned to actually feel them.

She explains why emotions begin in the body, how numbing behaviors can directly affect our money, and why feeling an emotion for as little as 90 seconds can allow stuck energy to shift. She also explores titration—the practice of gradually building your capacity to feel safely—especially when emotional expression wasn’t welcomed in childhood.

Ultimately, this episode is an invitation to examine your emotional inheritance and the ways it may still be influencing your financial behavior. Because when you stop using money, productivity, or achievement to avoid what you feel, you can free up more of your energy for aliveness, prosperity, and personal power.

“Your emotions are not a problem. Your emotions are information.”  - Kate Northrup

🎤 Let’s Dive into the Good Stuff on Plenty 🎤
00:00 Your Emotional Inheritance
02:16 Money & Your Emotions
04:21 When Kate Hit a Wall
06:53 Productivity as Emotional Avoidance
09:30 What Feelings Have to Do With Money
10:54 Emotions Begin in the Body
15:08 The Cost of Suppressing Emotions
18:13 Numbing Behaviors & Money
21:11 Building Capacity to Feel
22:14 What 90 Seconds Can Do

Links and Resources
Kate’s Instagram
Inheritance Series
90 Day Roadmap

✨ What If You Knew Exactly What to Focus on With Your Money Next?

You don’t need another list of financial rules that may or may not apply to you. You need to know what your next move is.

The 90-Day Relaxed Money Road Map helps you figure that out.

You’ll answer questions about your numbers, emotions, money story, goals, and how you actually handle money — and receive a customized roadmap for what to focus on over the next 90 days.

Because changing your financial life isn’t just about spreadsheets or making more money. It’s about understanding the whole picture and knowing where your attention will make the biggest difference right now.

👉 Get your personalized 90-Day Relaxed Money Road Map at katenorthrup.com/roadmappod

Less guessing. More clarity. Your next 90 days, mapped out. ✨

What if the symptoms you’ve been trying to get rid of are actually your body trying to protect and heal you?

In this episode, Kate sits down with detox and root-cause health expert Sinclair Kennally for a deeply personal conversation about chronic illness, mold, parasites, and what it really means to become the CEO of your own health. Sinclair shares her own journey from slowly losing her ability to function to becoming bedridden, believing she was going to die, and ultimately rebuilding her health from the ground up.

Their stories are also uniquely intertwined. Kate shares how Sinclair and her husband Michael became instrumental in helping Mike recover during his severe health crisis in 2021. Together, they unpack why seemingly healthy people can suddenly become extremely sick, the relationship between the nervous system and immune system, and Sinclair’s belief that symptoms aren’t simply problems to silence—they can be part of the body’s healing response.

They also get practical about two topics that are often misunderstood: mold and parasites. Sinclair explains why exposure can affect far more than digestion or allergies, some of the symptoms she associates with parasites, and why she believes jumping straight into “killing” protocols without first supporting the body’s drainage, energy, and detox pathways can make people feel worse.

Finally, Kate and Sinclair bring the conversation back to money, exploring the surprising parallels between physical parasites and financial codependency. They examine what can happen when generosity becomes a way to earn love, why healing can change our relationships, and what becomes possible when we stop giving our life force to people, patterns, and circumstances that only take.

“The nervous system and the immune system are so deeply intertwined, it is a false construct to describe them as separate.”   - Sinclair Kennally

🎤 Let’s Dive into the Good Stuff on Plenty 🎤
00:00 Your Body Is on Your Side
04:11 Sinclair’s Health Collapse
13:44 How Sinclair Helped Mike
20:24 The Nervous System & Immunity
25:55 The Hidden Mold Problem
34:05 Becoming Your Own Health Detective
43:03 The Truth About Parasites
51:41 Where to Start With Parasites
56:35 Health, Money & Codependency
1:01:17 Reclaiming Your Life Force

Links and Resources:
Kate's Instagram
Love Magnet

Connect with Sinclair Kennally:
Website
Instagram

❤️ Ready to Stop Settling and Attract the Love You Really Want?

Whether you’re calling in your person or wanting to deepen the relationship you’re already in, lasting love starts with what’s happening within you.

In Love Magnet, a free 3-day workshop with relationship expert Christine Hassler, you’ll uncover the patterns that may be keeping you from the love you desire and learn how to shift into a more receptive, magnetic way of relating.

You’ll explore how to stop doubting and settling, move beyond the blocks that keep repeating in your relationships, and step into your “queen energy” so you can receive the kind of love and partnership you truly want.

Because attracting epic love isn’t about trying harder to find the right person. It’s about becoming available for the love you’re ready to experience.

👉 Join Love Magnet for free at katenorthrup.com/magnet

More receiving. Less settling. A whole lot more love. ❤️

What if AI didn’t replace humans—but gave us more time and capacity to actually be human?

In this episode, Kate sits down with AI expert Callan Faulkner, who has trained more than 13,000 business owners to become AI architects. Callan shares the extraordinary story behind a launch she expected to generate $4 million that ultimately crossed $19.5 million—and the financial and nervous system work she did in the months leading up to that expansion.

They unpack Callan’s money story, from growing up with an underlying feeling that there was never enough to learning how to make increasing amounts of money without necessarily knowing how to manage it. She shares how preparing for greater wealth before it arrived helped her body feel safe receiving it, and why having the systems, team, and financial plan in place mattered just as much as setting a bigger goal.

Then they dive into AI: what it could mean for the future of work, the environmental concerns surrounding it, whether it’s making us less intelligent, and how businesses can use it without losing the human element. Callan explains how she’s built more than 150 “AI employees” while never firing a human because of AI—instead using the technology to move her team away from repetitive work and into more strategic, creative roles.

Ultimately, this conversation is about far more than technology. It’s about using AI as leverage to create more time, possibility, abundance, creativity, and space for the parts of life that only humans can experience.

“I have not fired one person because of AI. I have only elevated their role.”   - Callan Faulkner

🎤 Let’s Dive into the Good Stuff on Plenty 🎤
00:00 The Opportunity of AI
02:27 Callan’s Money Story
05:02 Making Money but Avoiding It
08:16 Expanding Her Capacity
10:11 The $19.5M Launch
13:13 Preparing for More Money
18:00 Success, Friendship & Belonging
25:00 The Environmental Cost of AI
31:39 What AI Makes Possible
34:00 AI Without Firing Humans
38:03 Can AI Increase Creativity?
38:47 Six Years of Work in Two Hours
43:00 AI, Privacy & Financial Data
49:00 Does AI Make Us Dumber?
53:00 Building 150 AI Employees
55:54 The AI Employee Boot Camp
56:19 The Future Callan Is Building

Links and Resources:
Kate's Instagram
AI Employee Bootcamp

Connect with Callan Faulkner:
Website
Instagram

✨ What If You Could Build an AI Team That Actually Gives You Your Time Back?

AI isn’t just about getting more done faster. Used well, it can create more space for the work that actually needs you.

In the AI Employee Boot Camp, you’ll join AI expert Callan Faulkner for 3 live sessions, where she’ll take you behind the scenes of the 150+ AI employees she’s built and show you how they’re being used across real businesses.

Through live demos, you’ll see how AI can support everything from financial dashboards to launch management and everyday workflows, so you can start identifying what could be automated, streamlined, or taken off your plate.

The goal isn’t to become less human. It’s to spend less time doing work a machine can do — and more time using the creativity, strategy, and gifts only you can bring.

👉 Join the AI Employee Boot Camp at katenorthrup.com/automate

Less busywork. More leverage. More room to do what you’re actually here to do. ✨

What keeps you going when the dream you’ve been working toward still hasn’t happened?

In this episode, Kate sits down with debut novelist Andrew Forrester, author of How the Story Goes, to talk about the ten-year journey that took him from his first finished manuscript to finally becoming a published author. Along the way, Andrew wrote multiple manuscripts, spent years trying to land an agent, had several books that never sold, raised four kids, and worked a full-time job—all while continuing to write.

Andrew shares why he never fully gave up, how writing became something he genuinely craved rather than something he had to suffer through, and why community, accountability, and giving himself permission to try something different ultimately mattered. He also gets practical about his creative process, including his thousand-word goal, writing late at night, and using the Pomodoro method to get himself started.

Kate and Andrew also explore creativity, faith, and the mystery of where ideas come from. Andrew opens up about growing up Southern Baptist, how his relationship with God has evolved, and how learning to live with questions instead of needing every answer has shaped both his life and his writing.

At its heart, this is a conversation about creative resilience, permission, and continuing to show up for the thing you can't stop thinking about—even when it takes much longer than you imagined.

“It's accountability. It's encouragement. It makes you feel like you're allowed to take yourself seriously when someone else is doing it.”     - Andrew Forrester

🎤 Let’s Dive into the Good Stuff on Plenty 🎤
00:00 Ten Years to Get Published
02:16 Ten Manuscripts Later
04:23 Why He Never Gave Up
07:05 Knowing This Was the One
10:07 Becoming a Better Writer
12:38 The Power of Writing Community
26:26 Creativity After Group Therapy
29:18 Finding Time to Write
31:32 Where Ideas Come From
38:06 His Pomodoro Writing Method
40:54 Faith, Doubt & God
47:07 Giving Himself Permission
49:06 How the Story Goes

Links and Resources:
Kate's Instagram
Blue Light Blocking Glasses
Opting Out of Urgency

Connect with Andrew Forrester:
Website
Instagram
Andrew Forrester’s book — How the Story Goes 

✨ What If Everything Didn’t Feel So Urgent?

You know that feeling when everything feels important, everything needs to happen now, and slowing down somehow feels impossible?

That’s not just a mindset problem. Urgency has a biology.

In Opting Out of Urgency, a free workshop led by nervous system healing expert Sarah Tacey, you’ll learn why your system gets stuck in urgency — and simple, body-based ways to return to greater spaciousness, clarity, and choice.

You’ll discover how to recognize the difference between pressure that drains you and pressure you consciously choose, move beyond all-or-nothing thinking, and access options you simply can’t see when your nervous system is stuck in urgency.

Because slowing down doesn’t mean you stop getting things done. It means you’re no longer letting urgency run the show.

👉 Join Opting Out of Urgency for free at katenorthrup.com/urgency

Less urgency. More choice. More space to actually live. ✨

What if your relationship with “enough” began before you were even born?

In this second episode of the Inheritance series, Kate Northrup explores the connection between the mother wound, the feminine, and money. She explains why our mother is our first economy—and how our earliest experiences of nurturing, presence, support, and flow can shape whether we feel there will ever truly be enough for us.

Kate shares her own story of growing up with a mother who modeled financial abundance while having limited time and emotional availability, and traces those patterns even further back through her maternal lineage. She explores how these early experiences can show up later as difficulty receiving support, financial codependency, jealousy, scarcity, and the belief that we have to handle everything ourselves.

She also breaks down wounded versus healthy expressions of feminine energy and how qualities like nurturing, intuition, surrender, allowing, and flow can transform our relationship with money. Rather than blaming our mothers, Kate invites us to recognize the unconscious patterns we inherited so we can begin to repattern them.

This episode is an invitation to examine what you learned about enough, care, and receiving—and discover how healing your relationship with the feminine can open you to greater support, abundance, and flow.

“This is not a blaming our mothers conversation. This is a reclaiming our financial power conversation.”  - Kate Northrup

🎤 Let’s Dive into the Good Stuff on Plenty 🎤
00:00 Our Mother Is Our First Economy
01:06 The Inheritance Series
02:49 The Mother Wound & Money
05:47 Kate’s Money Inheritance
08:06 What Begins in the Womb
10:08 Generational Scarcity
11:50 Learning to Receive Support
13:00 The Wounded Feminine
19:12 The Healthy Feminine
20:58 Your Relationship With Enough
22:21 Remothering Yourself
25:11 Opening to Financial Flow

Links and Resources:
Kate’s Instagram
Inheritance Series
Recalibration Field Guide

✨ What Did You Inherit About Money?

Your financial life didn’t start with your first paycheck.

Long before you made your own money, you inherited patterns around safety, support, enoughness, receiving, and provision — and some of them may still be shaping your financial life today.

The free four-part Inheritance Series on Plenty helps you uncover the unconscious stories behind how you earn, receive, spend, and relate to money.

Inside the series, you’ll explore:

🔹 The Father Wound + Money — why structure, support, and provision can feel unsafe

🔹 The Mother Wound + Money — how nurturing, receiving, flow, and “enough” shape your relationship with abundance

🔹 Your Inherited Money Patterns — the beliefs and nervous system responses you may be carrying from your family, culture, and lineage

This isn’t about blaming your parents. It’s about making the unconscious conscious so you can choose what comes next.

👉 Access all four parts free at katenorthrup.com/inheritance

You inherited a story. But you get to decide what happens next. ✨ 

What happens when the identity, work, and life you’ve built no longer fit who you’re becoming?

In this deeply personal conversation, Kate Northrup reunites with Regena Thomashauer—also known as Mama Gena—to explore the story behind her new book, On Our Knees, and the transformation that followed the end of a defining chapter in her life.

Regena shares how she went from being $250,000 in tax debt to growing her work from a living room of ten women into transformational experiences for thousands. But after sixteen years of running her Mastery program, an exhausted team, her daughter’s struggle with an eating disorder, and her own longing for a different kind of freedom led her to walk away from the stage and into the unknown.

Together, Kate and Regena explore mother-daughter healing, inherited trauma, the sacred feminine, grief, pleasure, and the erotic life force that Regena believes remains available even in our darkest moments. Regena shares how supporting her daughter ultimately helped heal fractures within her own family—and taught her how to give and receive a kind of love she hadn’t experienced growing up.

This conversation is not about bypassing pain or turning hardship into a neat before-and-after story. It’s about allowing grief, rage, devastation, pleasure, and aliveness to exist together—and discovering how the moments that bring us to our knees can also become portals into healing, connection, and greater freedom.

“No matter how life brings us to our knees, we are still the source of life itself.” - Regena Thomashauer

🎤 Let’s Dive into the Good Stuff on Plenty 🎤
00:00 The Cyclical Nature of the Feminine
02:47 Mama Gena vs. Regena
05:40 Growing a Dream
07:01 $250K in Tax Debt
10:15 Going Big or Going Home
15:20 Walking Away From Mastery
20:12 Her Daughter’s Healing Journey
25:25 Learning How to Love
30:36 The Power of the Erotic
35:25 Fighting for Her Daughter
40:17 Why Life Brings Us to Our Knees
43:28 Turning Grief Into a Portal
51:01 Permission to Feel Everything
54:46 Healing the Mother-Daughter Lineage
59:24 Finding Freedom Offstage

Links and Resources:
Kate's Instagram
Keira's Free Workshop
On Our Knees

Connect with Regena Thomashauer:
Website
Instagram

✨ Have a Story the World Needs to Hear?

Writing a book isn't just about becoming an author.

It's about giving voice to an idea, a message, or an experience that has the power to change someone's life.

Keira Brinton shares how one unexpected act of faith led her to found Joan of Arc Publishing—a company dedicated to helping purpose-driven authors bring meaningful books into the world.

Whether you've been dreaming about writing your first book or you're ready to share your expertise on a bigger stage, Keira and her team offer guidance through every step of the publishing journey.

If you've been waiting for a sign to start writing, this might be it.

👉 Learn more about Keira Brinton, Joan of Arc Publishing, and her resources at katenorthrup.com/keira.

What if the life you want isn’t waiting for you somewhere in the future—it’s already available in the choices you’re making right now?

In this solo episode, Kate Northrup shares a summer life update and reflects on what it means to build a life around what truly matters. From choosing a simple staycation over an expensive getaway to returning to her hometown in Maine, Kate explores how slowing down can reveal the difference between what genuinely makes us feel abundant and what we’ve been conditioned to chase.

She shares the mantra “bloom where you’re planted” and invites us to look at the moments that have felt richest, sweetest, and most meaningful—and then examine whether our schedules and spending actually reflect those values. Kate also explores the difference between attention and connection, questioning the assumption that more followers, visibility, money, or growth will automatically create the life we want.

Drawing from a difficult season when Mike was sick, Kate reflects on how nervous system dysregulation can make possibilities invisible even when they’re right in front of us. This episode is an invitation to reconsider what you’re optimizing for, identify what you truly want, and intentionally direct your time and money toward more of what already makes life feel full.

“Am I optimizing for what really matters, or am I optimizing for something that I've been conditioned to think matters?” - Kate Northrup

🎤 Let’s Dive into the Good Stuff on Plenty 🎤
00:00 What Really Matters?
01:47 A Summer Life Update
04:08 Choosing a Staycation
05:26 Lowering the Bar
06:17 Bloom Where You’re Planted
09:58 Returning Home to Maine
20:17 Spend According to Your Values
21:15 Attention vs. Connection
23:32 Do You Really Need More?
26:00 What Do You Actually Want?
28:02 Creating More of It Now
28:50 Nervous System Capacity

Links and Resources:
Kate's Instagram
Money Reset

✨ What If You Trusted Yourself With Money Decisions?

The free Big Money Decision Matrix is the exact framework Kate uses for major financial decisions — from investments to business moves to buying property.

Because second-guessing is expensive.
And hesitation compounds fast.

Inside, you’ll explore:
🔹 How to regulate your body before making money decisions
🔹 The difference between desire and proving something
🔹 How to get clear on the real numbers
🔹 Whether your wealth systems can actually sustain the win

This is body first, bank account second.

And it’s designed to help you become the kind of person who can say:

“I don’t make bad decisions.”

Not from arrogance.
From self-trust.

👉 Download The Big Money Decision Matrix and use it on a decision you’ve been circling. ✨

What if your most challenging relationships are also your greatest opportunity for healing?

In this deeply personal conversation, Kate Northrup sits down with relationship coach and author Stefanos Sifandos to explore how our romantic relationships become mirrors for the wounds, patterns, and beliefs we've carried since childhood. Together, they discuss why trauma is inherently relational, how polarity creates intimacy, and why true healing happens not in isolation, but through safe, connected relationships.

Stefanos opens up about his marriage to Christine Hassler, the transformative experience of becoming a father, and how parenting exposed perfectionism, control, and parts of himself he didn't know still needed healing. Kate and Stefanos also explore masculine and feminine dynamics, nervous system safety, emotional responsibility, and what it really means to love without losing yourself.

Whether you're navigating a relationship, healing from one, or simply seeking a deeper understanding of yourself, this episode offers a compassionate perspective on how intimacy can become a pathway to profound personal and spiritual growth.

“Most wounds are relational, so they have to be healed in a relational context.”  - Stefanos Sifandos

🎤 Let’s Dive into the Good Stuff on Plenty 🎤
00:00 Trauma & Relational Healing
01:40 Meeting Stefanos Sifandos
09:27 A Full-Circle Friendship Story
16:28 Becoming a Father
24:12 Relationships as Mirrors
33:41 Polarity & Intimacy
43:05 Healing Through Partnership
53:18 Masculine & Feminine Dynamics

Links and Resources:
Kate's Instagram
Keira's Workshop

Connect with Stefanos Sifandos:
Website
Instagram

✨ What If the Book You’re Meant to Write Won’t Leave You Alone?

Not a book for credibility.
Not a book because it’s good for business.

The one that keeps tapping you on the shoulder, asking to be written.

Keira Brinton’s free workshop, The Author Threshold, is for leaders who know there’s a message inside them that deserves a more permanent home.

Inside, you’ll explore:
🔹 Why carrying an unwritten book creates tension
🔹 How to move from "someday" to clear next steps
🔹 Why identity comes before publishing strategy
🔹 How to build the confidence to become the author your message needs

Books outlive launches.
They outlive algorithms.
They outlive us.

If there’s a message that won’t leave you alone, maybe it’s time to let it move through you.

👉 Join The Author Threshold at katenorthrup.com/keira. ✨

What if your relationship with money has less to do with discipline and more to do with the ways you learned to feel safe?

In this solo episode, Kate Northrup explores the surprising connection between father wounds, the nervous system, and financial behaviors. She explains why patterns like overspending, avoiding structure, or feeling overwhelmed by budgeting aren't personality flaws—they're often protective strategies rooted in childhood experiences.

Kate unpacks how our earliest relationships shape our capacity to receive support, provision, and stability, and why healing our relationship with money requires more than financial advice. Through personal stories, neuroscience, and practical guidance, she offers a new way to think about structure—not as something restrictive, but as something that can help your body feel safe.

If you've ever struggled with consistency around money or wondered why healthy financial habits feel so difficult to maintain, this episode offers a compassionate, body-based framework for creating lasting change.

"We often think we have an organization problem or a structure problem, but actually what we have is a father wound."   - Kate Northrup

🎤 Let’s Dive into the Good Stuff on Plenty 🎤

00:00 Your Money Isn't the Problem
02:00 The Four Money Ecosystem States
03:12 Why Father Wounds Matter
04:39 The Wounded Masculine Explained
06:38 When Support Feels Unsafe
07:53 Survival Strategies & Money
08:50 Patriarchy and Financial Safety
11:56 When Success Doesn't Feel Safe
14:28 Reparenting Through Structure
19:28 The Money Reset

Links and Resources
Kate’s Instagram
Money Reset

✨ Ready to Reset Your Relationship with Money?

If your nervous system feels stretched thin by money, time, or expectations—it may be time for a reset.

Join me for The Money Reset — a guided experience to bring your money back into alignment with your body, your values, and your true capacity.

This isn’t about more striving or spreadsheets.

It’s about safety.

It’s about sovereignty.

It’s about remembering your agency—financially, emotionally, and energetically.

👉 Learn more about The Money Reset here.

What happens when you stop chasing success and start following what you believe you're being called to do?

In this conversation, Kate Northrup sits down with author and publisher Keira Brinton to explore the unconventional path that transformed her life—from panic attacks and financial uncertainty to building a thriving publishing company by trusting divine guidance. Keira shares how learning to release fear, follow intuitive nudges, and take bold action opened doors she never could have planned on her own.

Together, they discuss the relationship between spirituality and money, why collaboration creates more abundance than competition, and how trusting your calling often requires taking risks before you feel ready. Keira also shares the story behind Joan of Arc Publishing, the vision for Writers Island, and why helping people share their stories has become her life's work.

Whether you're an entrepreneur, an aspiring author, or someone seeking greater trust in your own path, this episode is an inspiring reminder that abundance often begins with the courage to take the next step.

"When women know how to make money, we will change the world." - Keira Brinton

🎤 Let’s Dive into the Good Stuff on Plenty 🎤

00:00 Panic Attacks & a New Beginning
02:42 Supporting Women Through Collaboration
09:54 God Told Me to Write a Book
15:25 Following Divine Instructions
19:11 Making $200K in One Month
24:20 Faith, Money & Receiving
30:10 The Vision for Writers Island
40:07 Healing Through the Body
45:58 Building Joan of Arc Publishing
50:06 A Different Way to Publish Books

Links and Resources:

Kate's Instagram
Keira's Workshop

Connect with Keira Brinton:

Website
Instagram
Facebook

✨ What If the Book You’re Meant to Write Won’t Leave You Alone?

Not a book for credibility.

Not a book because it’s good for business.

The one that keeps tapping you on the shoulder, asking to be written.

Keira Brinton’s free workshop, The Author Threshold, is for leaders who know there’s a message inside them that deserves a more permanent home.

Inside, you’ll explore:

🔹 Why carrying an unwritten book creates tension

🔹 How to move from "someday" to clear next steps

🔹 Why identity comes before publishing strategy

🔹 How to build the confidence to become the author your message needs

Books outlive launches.

They outlive algorithms.

They outlive us.

If there’s a message that won’t leave you alone, maybe it’s time to let it move through you.

👉 Join The Author Threshold at katenorthrup.com/keira. ✨