In this episode Kate Northrup and I discuss…
- What it really means to do less
- What Kate’s inner critic has to say about doing less
- Kate’s Do Less rules
- What the “old rules” were
- How Kate and I became interested in the menstrual cycle
- Using the menstrual cycle as a way to practice self-love
- Limiting beliefs around things being “easy”
- How to navigate working less as an employee
- How to navigate working less as a leader of a team
- Kate’s favorite experiments from her book “Do Less”
Meet Kate Northrup:
As an entrepreneur, bestselling author, speaker, and mother, Kate Northrup has built a multimedia digital empire with her husband, Mike Watts, that reaches hundreds of thousands globally. They are committed to supporting ambitious women to light up the world without burning themselves out in the process. Kate teaches data-driven and soul-driven time and energy management practices that result in saving time, making more money, and experiencing less stress. Kate has a membership of over 1,000 entrepreneurs called Origin® Collective that’s about infusing more feminine energy into your business and reclaiming your time, and she has also helped over 5,000 students heal their relationship with money with her signature Money Love Course. Her first book, Money: A Love Story, has been published in 5 languages, and her second book, Do Less: A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Busy Moms, is now available wherever books are sold. Kate’s work has been featured by The Today Show, Yahoo! Finance, Women’s Health, Glamour, The Institute of Integrative Nutrition, Wanderlust, The Huffington Post, and more. Kate lives with her husband and business partner, Mike, and their daughters in a cozy town in Maine.
Website | Instagram | Podcast | Book: Do Less
Links:
- The Female Brain
- Woman Code
- Wild Power
- Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom
- Lisa Lister
- Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown
- Drop the Ball
Journal Prompts:
- When do you feel most like yourself?
- What could doing less look like for you?
- How can you be ruthless about protecting your time and energy?
- What is causing stress in your life and how might you get rid of those things?
- Where in your life can you do less?
- What is one thing you could take out of your life to simplify it?
Quotes:
- Do less of things that drain you – Kate
- My value is in who I am not what I do – Kate
- It felt like a return to myself and my body – Kate
- I was desperate for something to depend on and I could depend on my body and my cycle. – Kate
- Imagine if all women could feel held by their menstrual cycle instead of being at the effect of it. It would be amazing. The whole world would change. – Joanna
- I can’t think of anything more practical to love yourself than to actually pay attention to your cycle than to treat your body as it would like to be treated at different times of the month. – Kate
- We are all cyclical beings. – Kate
- Explore your own relationship to work and time. – Kate
- Tune into your energy and notice where there is friction. – Kate
- Where there’s friction we need change. – Kate
- Make small changes over time – Kate
- Changing your relationship with doing is a lifelong relationship – Kate
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