I was born in upstate New York, grew up in Cleveland, and went to Bucknell University in central Pennsylvania. After college I moved to Manhattan where I spent the next seven years building a full life and a big career. In 2014 I made a personal move out to Colorado, and I’ve never looked back.

Having been born to parents who were a teacher and a counselor, we had love, education, and work ethic, but not a lot of money. Whether it was premier soccer, competitive figure skating, college, or New York City, for most of my life I was surrounded by people and a culture who had more than I did — more money, more things, more status, more power.

I learned to want more from an early age, driven by underlying fear and shame that I was not enough — not good enough, not thin enough, not pretty enough, not wealthy enough, not smart enough, not popular enough, and the list goes on. This bred a relentless perfectionism as a means of gaining some semblance of power and agency over my life.

I was 29 and had recently moved to Colorado with my then-fiancé. He looked at me one day after I’d said something horribly judgmental and said, “Kate, if you don’t fix this ugliness inside you, we’re not going to make it.”

All of the shame I had felt my whole life about not being good enough had been seeping out to those around me. It was a way for my insides to get rid of the hot potato of shame.

I remember the introductory call with my former Life Coach; she asked me, “why do you want to see me?” I paused and said, “I need to figure out why I don’t like myself.” And there began my healing journey.

Working with my Coach over the next six years, I learned to reframe my life — my stories, my thoughts, my emotions, and ultimately my behavior. When I started to believe everyone is doing the best they can with what they have, including myself, my world became kinder, more loving, accepting, warm, and quite frankly, free.

Through this work of creating the energy I want to feel and putting it out into the world, I became Chief Marketing Officer at 33 with more financial success than the little girl inside me could've ever imagined. I’ve sat on executive teams now for the better part of a decade, leading start-ups operationally and culturally.

Ultimately, it was through Life Coaching I realized I wasn’t broken, I was not unlovable, nor was I a bad person. I was and am, human. A human doing the best she can with what she has. It's with this foundation that I now approach Wildly, my own Executive + Life Coaching practice. Walking alongside people like you, holding space, leaning into curiosity, and trusting my clients have everything they need inside of them is what Life Coaching means to me.