The Catapult Effect

Summary: In this solo episode, Katie introduces the concept of margin, the inner space and capacity we have available to handle whatever life throws at us and why building it might be the most important thing an entrepreneur can do.

She shares a moving story from a client who was in a car accident and, for the first time in her life, did not spiral. She simply assessed the situation, checked on others, and took action. That calm was not luck. It was margin she had built through nervous system work.

Katie also opens up about a deeply personal season in her own life, watching someone she loves dearly fade away, and how she is navigating that grief by consciously protecting her margin, stripping back her to-do list, and giving herself permission to rest and feel.

Key Takeaways

→ Margin is the space you have available to handle whatever life throws at you. The more nervous system work you do, the more margin you naturally build.

→ Suppressed emotions cost energy. Shame, fear, grief, guilt and anger all require enormous energy to hold down. Clearing them out gives you that energy back.

→ Anger is never the primary emotion. It always covers shame or fear underneath. Diffuse the pain beneath it and the anger dissolves.

→ Signs your margin is low: snapping at people, bracing when someone approaches you, difficulty sleeping, being easily triggered. These are not character flaws. They are nervous system signals.

→ External stressors reduce your margin. When life gets hard, the answer is not to push through harder. It is to take things off your plate so you have space to actually process what is happening.

→ Rest is productive. Katie gave herself a completely unstructured Sunday and got more done than she expected, felt better going to bed, and showed up with more energy the following week.

→ You are an energetic being. Einstein proved that mass and energy are the same thing. The stuck emotions you carry are literally weighing you down energetically.

→ Protecting your margin is not selfish. It is what allows you to show up fully for the people and the work that actually matter to you.

Resources

• Website
• Free Mini Cogno Mondays
• Learn more about Cognomovement
• Try Cognomovement for yourself!
• Book a call with Katie

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Disclaimer: Katie is not a medical professional and she is not qualified to diagnose any conditions. The advice and information she gives is based on her own experience and research. It does not take the place of medical advice. Always consult a medical professional first before you try anything new.

Summary: In this raw and deeply personal solo episode, Katie explores one of the most misunderstood patterns she sees in her clients and in herself: the way unresolved trauma creates behaviors that push people away, even when all we want is to pull them closer.

She shares her own story of finally seeing a toxic belief system that had been running beneath the surface for most of her life, rooted in a long-term emotionally abusive relationship she had not fully named until recently. With help from her friend and hypnotist Ryan, she came to understand that the painful belief driving her off-putting behaviors was never about the other person. It was her own deeply held conviction that there was something fundamentally wrong with her.

This episode is a reminder that you are not your patterns. And that the moment you can finally see what is running beneath the surface, everything changes.

Key Takeaways

→ There is nothing fundamentally wrong with you. There never was. The behaviors that push people away are coming from a trauma lens, not from who you truly are.

→ Whatever you think is the problem is often not the actual problem. The surface issue is usually a symptom of a deeper belief system running in the nervous system.

→ Toxic belief systems create behavior that proves themselves right. We unconsciously act in ways that generate more evidence for the very story that is hurting us.

→ Other people are not the source of the pain. They are a mirror. When someone keeps hurting you, the question is not what is wrong with them. It is what belief in you are they reflecting back.

→ The brain will not show you what you are not ready to see. Katie resisted looking at this pattern for years. When she finally saw it, she was ready. That timing is not a coincidence.

→ Fear of success can be rooted in punishment from the past. If someone important to you punished you for succeeding, your nervous system may be sabotaging your growth to avoid that pain again.

→ Once you see the pattern, it loses its power. You cannot unsee it. And that awareness is where the real change begins.

→ Authenticity does not push people away. It is the grasping, the over-helping, the approval-seeking that does. When you show up fully as yourself, connection happens naturally.

Resources

• Website
• Free Mini Cogno Mondays
• Learn more about Cognomovement
• Try Cognomovement for yourself!
• Book a call with Katie

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Disclaimer: Katie is not a medical professional and she is not qualified to diagnose any conditions. The advice and information she gives is based on her own experience and research. It does not take the place of medical advice. Always consult a medical professional first before you try anything new.

Summary: In Part 2, Laura and Katie get practical about self-regulation and building real resilience. Laura shares her favourite tools for clearing energy, staying grounded and managing the relentless stress of modern life from forest bathing and movement to showers, dimmer switches and the surprising truth about caffeine and alcohol.

They also have a candid and refreshingly honest conversation about cannabis, alcohol, medication and what it really means to be present versus numbed out. A must-listen for anyone who wants to feel better without overhauling their entire life.

Key Takeaways

→ Get outside. Our homes are energetically and physically toxic compared to fresh air and nature. Even a short time on a dirt trail or grass in bare feet makes a measurable difference.

→ Move your body. We hold negative energy in our muscles and joints. A 10 to 15 minute walk can release a huge amount of it. You do not need a gym.

→ Showers cleanse more than your body. Water runs through all your energetic layers too. Ocean is best, lake is good, shower is great. After a bath, always rinse off.

→ Dim your lights as the sun goes down. Bright lights right before bed work against your nervous system. Every dimmer switch matters.

→ Background frequency music changes your energy all day. Tibetan bowls, Indian chanting, frequency music played softly in the background it affects you on levels you may not even notice.

→A lot of what gets labelled adult ADHD is stress. Not a chemical imbalance. Self-regulation tools should always be tried before medication.

→ The problem is not the substance. It is unconscious use. Whether it is alcohol, cannabis, caffeine or anything else, if you are doing it to numb out rather than supplement, there is something worth looking at.

→ Being fully present is the goal. Self-regulation is what gets you there. When you are in a proper regulated state, it does not matter what is going on around you. You are at peace within yourself.

Where to find Laura

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Resources

• Website
• Free Mini Cogno Mondays
• Learn more about Cognomovement
• Try Cognomovement for yourself!
• Book a call with Katie

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Disclaimer: Katie is not a medical professional and she is not qualified to diagnose any conditions. The advice and information she gives is based on her own experience and research. It does not take the place of medical advice. Always consult a medical professional first before you try anything new.

Summary: In Part 1, Katie sits down with Laura Hoorweg, spiritual counselor, intuitive coach and psychic medium, for a conversation that blends science, spirituality and a whole lot of practical wisdom.

Laura breaks down the three steps to activating your intuition, why signs from your guides are everywhere once you start looking, and how the reticular activating system in your brain actually helps funnel more of what matters to you. They also explore the difference between intuitive messages and fear-based mass consciousness energy, and why knowing the difference is more important than ever right now.

Key Takeaways

→ Your intuition is your North Star. Without it you are relying on everyone else in the world to guide your life.

→ Three steps to activating your intuition: listen, trust, and take action. Most people stop at the first two. Taking action is what tells your guides the message got through.

→ Signs come in every form imaginable. Billboards, license plates, birds, overheard conversations. When you are tuned in, all your answers come.

→ Your guides use what works. Once they know a certain sign grabs your attention, they use it again. It is pattern recognition working in your favour.

→ Sometimes taking no action is the action. But do not make it your default. Most of the time there is something you actually need to do.

→ Fear messages are not coming from spirit. They are coming from mass consciousness. Right now there is an overwhelming amount of fear energy in the collective and highly sensitive people need to be especially careful.

→ Morning meditation changes everything. If you wake up in a bad energetic state and do not shift it first thing, it will do nothing but get worse throughout the day.

Where to find Laura

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Resources

• Website
• Free Mini Cogno Mondays
• Learn more about Cognomovement
• Try Cognomovement for yourself!
• Book a call with Katie

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Disclaimer: Katie is not a medical professional and she is not qualified to diagnose any conditions. The advice and information she gives is based on her own experience and research. It does not take the place of medical advice. Always consult a medical professional first before you try anything new.

Summary: In this special solo episode, Katie shares a real client story with full permission and under a pseudonym. Her client Sharon doubled her business in just two months and Katie walks through exactly what they worked on to make that possible.

It was not a new sales strategy or marketing overhaul. It was two Cognomovement sessions, one month apart, where they worked through a lifelong pattern of disappointment and a deeply held belief that there was something wrong with her body, a belief Sharon had carried since age four.

Katie then pulls back the curtain on exactly how trauma creates toxic belief systems, how those beliefs distort our view of the world, and how Cognomovement reverses that cycle to create a new resourceful nervous system pattern that directly translates into business growth. This is one of the clearest explanations of why what is happening beneath the surface matters more than any strategy.

Key Takeaways

→ You are one person with one nervous system. What is happening in your personal life is impacting your business whether you are aware of it or not.

→ 95% of what we experience daily comes from the subconscious mind. Only 5% is conscious. The patterns running your life are mostly invisible to you.

→ Sharon got further in four sessions than she had in two years of talk therapy. The difference is working directly with the nervous system rather than only the conscious mind.

→ A trauma does not have to be catastrophic. Any event where your needs were not met can be tracked by the nervous system as a trauma, including something as small as not getting a popsicle when your sister did.

→ Toxic belief systems create a distorted lens. Through that lens, life looks like proof that you are not enough, that people are out to hurt you, that love is dangerous and that success will be punished.

→ The body holds the story. Chakra Talk is a technique Katie uses to let each energy center speak and reveal what emotional patterns it is carrying.

→ The nervous system never reveals more than you can handle. The brain will not bring up something you are not ready to process.

→ Cognomovement neutralizes the emotional impact of the trauma and creates space for the healthy belief system to take root. You do not have to re-live the event to heal it.

→ When the toxic belief dissolves, the whole experience of life shifts. Miracles feel normal. Peace becomes your baseline. Rest becomes productive instead of guilty.

→ Sharon's business doubled in two months. Not because of a new strategy. Because of two sessions working on patterns that had been running since childhood.

Resources

• Website
• Free Mini Cogno Mondays
• Learn more about Cognomovement
• Try Cognomovement for yourself!
• Book a call with Katie

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Disclaimer: Katie is not a medical professional and she is not qualified to diagnose any conditions. The advice and information she gives is based on her own experience and research. It does not take the place of medical advice. Always consult a medical professional first before you try anything new.

Summary: In Part 2, Dr. Stephen Paul Edwards and Katie dive into what toxic relationship patterns actually do to your business, why entrepreneurs are especially vulnerable, and how the work you do on yourself directly determines the success you build.

Stephen explores the connection between personal patterns and professional ones, the power of boundaries, and why everything that is happening to you is actually happening for you. They close with a deeply practical conversation about intimacy, authenticity, and what it really takes to build something sustainable in both business and relationships.

Key Takeaways

→ Everything is a relationship. Your business, your team, your clients. The patterns you carry into personal relationships will show up in your business too, guaranteed.

→ Entrepreneurs are often solopreneurs without realizing it. The belief that no one can do it as well as you is a pattern, not a fact. And it will cost you everything in the end.

→ Nothing is happening to you. It is all happening for you. The moment you shift from victim to student, you start to find the lesson and break the pattern.

→ Boundaries are not optional. If you do not set them, people will take your power and you will give it away without realizing it. Saying no is an act of self-respect.

→ High expectations of yourself become high expectations of everyone around you. Your partner, your team, your VA. They are not entrepreneurs. Adjust accordingly.

→ Put your own oxygen mask on first. You cannot pour from an empty vessel. Investing in yourself is not selfish, it is the foundation everything else is built on.

→ Authenticity and empathy come from lived experience. When you do the work, you stop judging others because you understand that everyone is going through something.

→ Trust builds intimacy. Telling someone something about yourself that no one else knows creates a depth of connection that shows up in every area of your life.

Where to find Dr. Stephen

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Resources

• Website
• Free Mini Cogno Mondays
• Learn more about Cognomovement
• Try Cognomovement for yourself!
• Book a call with Katie

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Disclaimer: Katie is not a medical professional and she is not qualified to diagnose any conditions. The advice and information she gives is based on her own experience and research. It does not take the place of medical advice. Always consult a medical professional first before you try anything new.

Summary: In this episode, Katie welcomes Dr. Stephen Paul Edwards, an English businessman turned spiritual counselor with a PhD in spiritual counseling. Known for his precision, discipline, and high-achieving career, Stephen spent decades building successful ventures, tearing them down, and rebuilding again, never quite understanding that the restlessness driving him was rooted in running away from himself.

Stephen opens up about his fourth divorce, a period of deep burnout, and the toxic but transformative relationship that followed. Rather than protecting his image, he wrote it all down, the chaos, the shame, the humor, and published it as a book. His honesty about those experiences has become the very thing that helps his clients recognize their own patterns before losing years to them.

This first part of the conversation explores what happens when high achievers hit a wall, why we are drawn to people who reflect our hidden selves, and what it actually means to come home to yourself after a lifetime of running away from it.

Key Takeaways

• Wherever you go, there you are. Stephen spent decades traveling city to city, country to country, unconsciously believing the next place would be where he finally found himself. The pattern only broke when he recognized he was his own home.
• We are drawn to people who display what we are hiding. Citing Robert Greene, Stephen explains that we often enter chaotic relationships because the other person is expressing the dark or free side of ourselves we have suppressed.
• Material success does not bring happiness. Stephen has been there, built it, and lost it. Without inner alignment, the accolades and things are just empty.
• Vulnerability is freedom. Writing and sharing the most embarrassing chapters of his life released Stephen from the prison of trying to be someone he was not. It opened up conversations he never expected and gave him a sense of freedom he had never felt before.
• Knowing what to do and doing what you know are two very different things. Stephen kept journals for years in a personal development career and never actually used them. Awareness without action does not create change.
• You only know if you are healed when you are tested. Stephen had not responded to his ex returning into his life. For him, that silence was significant progress, not certainty.
• Being happily single is a valid and powerful place to be. Stopping the cycle of jumping from one relationship to the next and learning to enjoy his own company has been one of Stephen's most important growths.

Where to find Dr. Stephen

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Resources

• Website
• Free Mini Cogno Mondays
• Learn more about Cognomovement
• Try Cognomovement for yourself!
• Book a call with Katie

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Disclaimer: Katie is not a medical professional and she is not qualified to diagnose any conditions. The advice and information she gives is based on her own experience and research. It does not take the place of medical advice. Always consult a medical professional first before you try anything new.

Summary: In Part 2, Josee and Katie continue their conversation by diving into the practical side of sustainable high performance. Josee explores what positive leadership really looks like both at work and at home, why toxic positivity is just as damaging as ignoring problems entirely, and how to have the difficult conversations that actually move things forward.

They also get into what happens to ambitious professionals as they climb higher, why stress tends to increase with success, and the role humility plays in building the kind of resilience that lasts. Josee shares a deeply personal story about trust and non-negotiables that every parent and leader will feel, and closes with a reminder that this is a continuous improvement life.

Key Takeaways

→ Positive leadership has four pillars: positive climate, positive communication, positive relationships and positive meaning. Practice all four at work and at home.

→ Toxic positivity is real and damaging. Acknowledging the hard stuff is not weakness, it is what makes the positive sustainable and authentic.

→ The energy it takes to suppress difficult emotions is immeasurable. We do not realize how much it is costing us until we stop doing it.

→ As you get more efficient, you get more responsibility. The answer is not to work harder. It is to use the tools that exist so you do not have to.

→ Humility is the most underrated performance tool. Being humble enough to know you are human, that you need sleep, breaks and real support, is what keeps you going long term.

→ Seven hours and thirteen minutes of sleep. Josee has canceled meetings because she did not have it. Your brain cannot perform without it.

→ Short-term stress coping mechanisms like alcohol, caffeine and avoidance give temporary relief but chip away at long-term resilience. Build the habits that actually restore you.

→ Know your red lines. Above them, there is a whole world of growth and continuous improvement. Below them, the status quo becomes unacceptable. Trust is one of those lines.

→ This is a continuous improvement life. You are not meant to arrive. You are meant to keep going.

Where to find Josee

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Resources

• Website
• Free Mini Cogno Mondays
• Learn more about Cognomovement
• Try Cognomovement for yourself!
• Book a call with Katie

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Disclaimer: Katie is not a medical professional and she is not qualified to diagnose any conditions. The advice and information she gives is based on her own experience and research. It does not take the place of medical advice. Always consult a medical professional first before you try anything new.

Summary: In Part 1, Katie sits down with Josee Tremblay, professional engineer, Principal in Decision Sciences, board director and Amazon number one bestselling author of Us and Yet, to explore what it really takes to balance a high-achieving career with a full personal life.

Josee challenges the myth of work-life balance right from the start, reframing it as one life with many moving parts that all need intentional architecture. She shares her powerful three-step delegation framework, why building support at home matters just as much as building it at work, and how curiosity can become one of your most powerful tools for navigating discomfort in both professional and personal settings.

Katie and Josee also explore the nervous system's role in how we respond to stress, success and the fear of being seen, drawing on both their lived experiences and their work with high-achieving clients.

Key Takeaways

→ Work-life balance is a myth. It is all just life. You show up at eight in the morning and it is still your life. The goal is to build a whole life architecture that supports you.

→ Josee's three-step delegation framework: Does this task need to be done? Does it have to be done by me? Does it have to be done by me now? If the answer to any of those is no, park it, delegate it, or schedule it.

→ Delegation applies at home too. Whether it is your neighbor grabbing a package or your teenager cooking dinner, building a network of people who lean in for each other creates long-term resilience.

→ Park it and schedule it. If a task does not need to be done right now, put it on your calendar for the right day and stop carrying it in your head.

→ Support at home is just as important as support at work. Positive leadership applies in both environments and directly affects how well you show up in each one.

→ When discomfort shows up, treat it with curiosity. Asking why you feel threatened or uncomfortable in a situation grounds you and helps you access the answers underneath the reaction.

→ The nervous system records everything. Even seemingly small events can leave a lasting imprint. When we understand the root of our resistance, we can start to shift it.

→ We are trained from childhood to do things alone. Most of us do not unlearn that until middle age. The sooner you ask for help, the faster everything moves.

Where to find Josee

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Josee Tremblay's LinkedIn

Resources

• Website
• Free Mini Cogno Mondays
• Learn more about Cognomovement
• Try Cognomovement for yourself!
• Book a call with Katie

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Disclaimer: Katie is not a medical professional and she is not qualified to diagnose any conditions. The advice and information she gives is based on her own experience and research. It does not take the place of medical advice. Always consult a medical professional first before you try anything new.

Summary: In Part 2, Katie continues her conversation with Carol Enneking, diving deeper into the realities of entrepreneurship, resilience, and redefining success in a way that actually supports your life.

Carol opens up about the pivotal life moments that shaped her journey, moving between corporate and entrepreneurship, navigating unexpected personal challenges, and ultimately finding her way back to building a business on her own terms. Together, they unpack the hidden pressure entrepreneurs carry, the scarcity mindset that keeps people stuck doing everything themselves, and the importance of creating space before burnout forces you to.

They explore practical ways to set boundaries, evaluate what’s truly working, and step out of the “do it all now” mindset. Carol brings her framework, think, give up, let go, to life with real examples, while emphasizing the importance of values, legacy, and intentional living.

This episode is a powerful reminder that success isn’t about doing more, it’s about doing what matters most, sustainably.

Key Takeaways

→ Your journey doesn’t have to be linear. Growth often comes through unexpected life shifts, not perfectly planned paths.

→ Fear and scarcity can keep you stuck doing everything yourself. Investing in support is often what allows your business to grow.

→ Being “busy” is not the same as being effective. Without reflection, you may be spending time on the wrong things.

→ Create space before you need it. Margin in your schedule allows you to handle life’s unexpected moments without everything falling apart.

→ Think, give up, let go.

→ Just because something isn’t working today doesn’t mean it won’t. Give strategies enough time before pivoting.

→ Boundaries are essential. If your business relies on you 24/7, it’s a sign you need systems or support, not more effort.

→ Rest is productive. Stepping away creates space for better ideas, creativity, and clearer decision-making.

→ Define your own version of success. If you don’t, you’ll end up chasing someone else’s and paying the price for it.

→ Legacy matters. How you make people feel and how you show up will outlast any achievement.

Where to find Carol

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Book: The Rebalancing Act available on Amazon and other major retailers

Resources

• Website
• Free Mini Cogno Mondays
• Learn more about Cognomovement
• Try Cognomovement for yourself!
• Book a call with Katie

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Disclaimer: Katie is not a medical professional and she is not qualified to diagnose any conditions. The advice and information she gives is based on her own experience and research. It does not take the place of medical advice. Always consult a medical professional first before you try anything new.