The Space Beyond Scarce

Kate interviews feminist business strategist and Harvard MBA grad, Jessica Lackey. We talk about: 

✨ What it really takes to grow a small business from scratch and how the coaching industry can tell a misleading story. 

✨ What Jessica learned at Harvard compared to what she has learned in starting her own business. 

✨ The opportunity of entrepreneurship to change hustle culture and create new ways of being in the world. 

And so much more! 

Go further: 

To learn more, check out Jessica's website and her new program, "100k your way" HERE. 

Subscribe to Jessica's newsletter, Radical Strategy Sundays HERE.

Check out Kate's fall coaching conversation project, the Seeds of Self Trust HERE. 

Self-Trust can help us disrupt internalized scarcity stories and take action on building the life and world we believe in, but most of us struggle with it for good reasons. 

Today's episode offers a few "principles of trust" that will give you ideas for how you can start to live with more authentic confidence. 

Additional Resources: 

-Read Kate's article on 10 Self-Trust Practices for Authentic Confidence on Medium HERE or on her blog HERE.

-Sign up for Kate's Monday newsletter, The Portal, which will bring some accompanying journal prompts to your inbox HERE.

-Check out the Seeds of Self-Trust Coaching project and sign up for a FREE coaching call HERE.

-Check out Kate's upcoming Micro Macro Money Mindset Course HERE 

-For more updates, follow @katesandersonholly on Instagram

Kate talks to her friend and former collaborator, Judson Webb, about the economic and cultural differences he perceives as an American who has been living in Sweden for over a decade. 

They discuss: 

-Sweden's amazing social safety net. 

-The underlying themes of a collectivist vs. individualistic culture. 

-The economic challenges of being an artist in any culture. 

-How refusing to "sell out" might be wearing scarcity mindset as a badge of honor. 

And more! 

Check out Judson's artistic work via his production company, Strange Orbit Films. 

Meanwhile, don't forget to subscribe to Kate's weekly Monday newsletter HERE to get insights and prompts that accompany this episode. 

Today's podcast guest is well-known in the world of creative online business owners who are committed to ethics, integrity and innovation in what they do. Tara McMullin is a writer, podcaster, and producer. For over 13 years, she’s studied small business owners—how they live, how they work, what influences them, and what they hope for the future. She’s the host of "What Works", a podcast about navigating the 21st-century economy with your humanity intact. Tara is also co-founder of YellowHouse.Media, a boutique podcast production company. Her work has been featured in Fast Company, The Startup, The Muse, and The Huffington Post. Her first book, What Works: A Comprehensive Framework To Change The Way We Approach Goal Setting, will be released in November.

In this interview, Kate and Tara talk about: 

-How creativity disrupts scarcity thinking.

-How Tara ended up pivoting into talking about progressive economics and politics on her podcast for small business owners. 

-Tara's vision for a 21st century economy that would allow us to thrive with our humanity intact. 

-Tara's new book, which explores a way of approaching goal setting that disrupts hustle culture. 

And so much more! 

Go deeper: 

-Pre-order Tara's book HERE. 

-Follow Tara on IG HERE. 

-Check out Tara's website HERE. 

-Sign up for Kate's weekly newsletter, where you will get follow-up prompts and practices to this episode, HERE. 

This brief episode announces our new podcast schedule, as well as giving you a behind-the-scenes glimpse into Kate's process of tapping into her "scarcity meter" to decide how to proceed. 

The main points: 

-We will be switching to a bi-weekly podcast schedule. 

-Next week there is going to be a full-length episode with the amazing creative business leader, Tara McMullin! After that we will be on every two weeks. (P.S. If you want to get jazzed about the interview with Tara, check out her excellent podcast, What Works.)

-There is much to look forward to in the coming months on this podcast, and we hope this new schedule gives you the chance to integrate and get more from less. 

-If you want weekly updates from Kate, as well as invites to her free master classes and coaching projects, be sure to subscribe to her newsletter, The Portal, which will continue to come to you every Monday. 

On this episode we explore how to live on a budget from an expansive, abundant mindset. 

Whether you have a lot of funding to work with or you are bootstrapping it, you will find some valuable takeaways in how you think about your budget. 

We cover: 

-Why there is no one "right" money mindset and a few powerful questions we can ask instead to heal our unique relationship to money. 

-How understanding the deeper purpose of our expenditures is more important than the thing itself. 

-How cutting back on expenses can sometimes unlock MORE resources. 

-A few specific examples of how to get more from less when it comes to your budget. 

Resources for deeper integration: 

✨ Sign up for Kate's Monday newsletter to receive the journal prompts that go with today's episode. 

✨ Sign up for Kate's free master class on August 18th: Healing Our Money Stories: Sustainable Abundance From the Inside Out 

Kate interviews published author, podcast host and former editor-in-chief at Yoga International, Kat Heagberg Rebar. 

Listen on for more insights on: 

-Why we should never make important decisions from "despo mode" 

-The importance of asking for help from community to get out of scarcity. 

-The power of collaboration to create more resources. 

-Kat's personal journey to accomplishing big dreams, including securing multiple book deals and launching a podcast. 

-And more! 

Go deeper with today's podcast: 

✨ Check out Kat's podcast, Dark Side of the Mat 

✨ Follow Kat's yoga insights on Instagram

✨ Read Kat's book, co-authored with Dianne Bondy, Yoga Where You Are

✨ Sign up for Kate's weekly newsletter to receive journal prompts and further insights based on this week's episode! 

Kate explores the benefits and drawbacks of DIY ("Do It Yourself") mentality, and offers some frameworks for how to avoid scarcity thinking when choosing to DIY something. 

In this episode, you will learn: 

-What "money mindset" is, why it can be helpful, and how to find your power through changing your money beliefs without bypassing systemic injustice. 

-The difference between desire and greed, and why that matters in how we think about our resources. 

-The universal economic rights laid out by FDR, and why they should encourage us all to feel entitled to earn a sufficient income, AND real numbers on what you might need to aspire to in today's economy to live the quality of life FDR envisioned. 

-Mindsets that will support you going forward, and journal prompts and practices (in Monday's accompanying e-mail, which you can get by subscribing HERE.) 

Sources for this episode: 

-FDR's 2nd bill of rights

-Annual vacation leave by country and best and worst countries for paid vacation, and also HERE 

-Health insurance costs for families 

-Stats on retirement savings 

-Stats on student loan averages 

In this solo-cast, Kate examines the sometimes paradoxical tension between meeting our own financial needs on the microeconomic level, and living up to our values and vision for what is possible in macroeconomics. 

This episode is the first in a multi-part series examining how healing our money stories is an important part of getting out of scarcity mindset. Improving your relationship to money starts by understanding how you think about it. Stay tuned over the next month as we get into money mindset work from the perspective of both personal and collective liberation. 

Referenced in this episode: 

-The Bread and Puppet Theater 

-The option to get onto Kate's mailing list and receive additional prompts and support for integration.