Summary
In this ep, Kate takes you through the REALEST 2025 year-end debrief, with the identity shifts, big-girl boss moves, and a full Wheel of Life review to help you raise your standards for 2026. This is basically your free coaching-session-meets-soul-reset 🌶️ Expect tangible takeaways, juicy journaling prompts, and raw reflections on money, mindset, relationships, health + more. WHIP OUT YA NOTEBOOK HONEY, WE'RE GETTING CREATIVE.
Top Takeaways & Quotes
💭 “Do you see yourself as a girl or a woman?”
💸 You don’t need a 100k year to make massive boss moves, but you do need structure and standards.
📊 Tracking finances: your €’s should work FOR you, not disappear into impulse buys.
🎤 “Respectfully… how dare you hide your gifts from the world?”
📚 Courses you buy but don’t finish are draining your resources OOOOOH BABY.
🧠 Personal growth isn’t about consuming more, it’s about implementing.
🌈 Want to feel more vibrant + magnetic? You probs need more skipping down the street.
🔋 Health isn’t just fitness. It’s the fuel for your joy, energy + business FIYAH
Mentioned Resources
Work Smart Academy (Kate’s Productivity Membership)
The Wheel of Life
MASTERPLAN Workshop (included in Work Smart Academy)
🧠 Your Next Steps
Pick ONE of the following (and actually do it 😘)
Map out your own Wheel of Life + journal on where you’ve dropped standards
Choose ONE area (health, money, business, love etc.) and raise the bar
Book a “recreation date” for yourself - FUN is not a reward, it’s a requirement
Go rewatch or implement a course/training you've paid for but ignored
Record a 5-minute voice note to your higher self + then listen back weekly
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Summary
In this episode, Kate delivers a fiery AF pep talk on the pressure you’re putting on yourself, and why so much of it is completely made up. She breaks down good vs. bad urgency, how to create systems that protect your peace, and the sneaky mindset patterns around always feeling behind. This one’s a must-listen 😮💨🔥
Top Takeaways & Quotes
⚡️ “If you’re always feeling behind, it’s not your to-do list. It’s your expectations.”
💭 Most “urgent” tasks are just a result of poor communication and lack of boundaries.
😵💫 “You’re busting your ass to outwork the belief that you’re not good enough.”
⏱️ The 10min timer challenge to flip from slug mode to speed demon in your day.
📉 Stress = trying to control outcomes that are actually out of your hands
🙌🏻 You can’t overwork your way out of urgency. You have to heal what’s underneath it.
Mentioned Resources
🧠 Your Next Steps
Create an email autoresponder that sets clear reply expectations
Identify 1 “fake urgency” situation you’ve created — and rewrite the rule
Try a 10-minute timer challenge next time your day feels like a slog
Set your client communication turnaround standards (and tell them!)
Journal on: “Am I trying to outwork the belief that I’m not good enough?” 👀
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Summary
In this conversation, Kate shares a raw, real-time reflection on navigating business while facing deep personal grief. There's She opens up about the emotions, the reality of showing up for clients, and the productivity shifts she's making in real time, while navigating the grief of Sandy's health decline (Kate's 15 year old cavalier king charles 🐶💞).
If you’ve ever had to lead while your heart was breaking, this episode is a powerful permission slip to do both.
Cue: "I can do it with a broken heart" by Taylor Swift 😮💨
Top Takeaways & Quotes
🧠 “If you gotta cry, just f*cking cry. We're all human.”📆 Calendarize bonus time so you’re not expecting yourself to operate at 100% when you’re actually at 40%.🎯 Compartmentalizing isn’t weakness, it’s a strategy.🧠 “Put on your big girl boots, and do the thing - even if it’s not your best day.”👂 People will give you more grace than you think. Lean on that when you need to.⚡️ Let your grief energy transfer into something powerful if you can.🙌🏻 You don’t need to cancel everything… but you do need boundaries, space, and honesty.💭 “Nobody’s asking this to be your best month ever. But that doesn’t mean it can’t still be powerful AF”
🧠 Your Next Steps
Schedule 2–3 blocks of “bonus time” into your week for rest, overflow, or big feelings 😅
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🎧 Summary
In this conversation, Kate breaks down the 4 monthly themed days that will literally give you your damn life back. This episode is the energetic reset you didn’t know you needed. Learn how to create space for each, and why each one will help you reclaim your energy, your spark, and your sanity 🔥👅💭
🔥 Top Takeaways & Quotes
📆 “If it’s not on your calendar, it doesn’t exist.”💡 Monthly theme days > trying to time-block every single week🧠 “You’re using your high-ambition hours on low-impact tasks, and it’s draining you.”💸 One System Creation Day could save you 10+ hours a week — YES PLEASE.⚡ “The more I automate, the more I can actually live my damn life.”
🧠 Mentioned Resources
✅ Your Next Steps
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Summary
In this conversation, Kate gets real about what it actually means to be “behind", and why your timeline isn’t broken. She walks you through her full career journey from starting her psychology degree at 18 years old to fitness coach to burnout to productivity pop star 🎤 Plus, the deeper reason you might be overworking right now... and the surprising reframe that’ll shift it all 🔥
Top Takeaways & Quotes
🧠 “When you feel behind, you start working from panic, not power.”
🔥 The moment I realized she had to be self-employed and how that cracked open my mind to limitlessness
💭 “You can’t just come up with a dream biz. You become the person first.”
📆 From in-person fitness coaching to digital productivity systems (aka the pivot that made time freedom REAL)
💥 “I needed the burnout. That’s what led me to productivity.”
👅 “Financial freedom. Geographical freedom. Time freedom. That’s the fckin trifecta.”
✅ The trap of thinking every free hour should go toward “catching up” on work
⚡ “You’re not behind, you’re in the exact spot you need to be.”
💸 How my ultra-masculine first coach pushed me way too hard (and what I did instead)
Mentioned Resources
🧠 Your Next Steps
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Summary
In this conversation, Kate dives deep into her most unexpected core value: longevity. NOT green juices and gym selfies lol... we’re literally talking adding decades to your life to give your business, your creativity, your wealth, and your purpose the BEST CHANCE to explode 👅💸🔥
Top Takeaways & Quotes
💸 “My dream is to be financially capable of retiring at 45, but energetically capable of working until I'm 90 or older.”
💭 “Longevity is leverage. More healthy years means more time to build, create, and enjoy the ride.”📆 Most people only give their dreams 3-5 years. What if you gave yours 60?🔥 “I don’t want to retire and exhaust the bejaysus out of myself, I wanna be roller skating at 90.”🧠 The longer you’re healthy, the more your investments, skills, and influence compound.🚀 “Your competition isn’t the 10 million people who start, it’s the tiny % who don’t stop.”📊 90% of podcasts don’t make it past 3 episodes. You’re already in the top 1% if you just keep going.
Mentioned Resources
🧠 Your Next Steps
Pick one of these to implement this week:
Start your own “Longevity Stack” (fasting? walking? strength training?)
Zoom out and build a 10-year business vision, not just 1.
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Summary
In this conversation, Kate breaks down how you can build a team of custom GPT “AI minions” that run your coaching business behind the scenes for free. She walks through 4 specific team members you can create to reduce your workload. These AI tools are about to become your new productivity secret weapon 💻💸👅
Top Takeaways & Quotes
🧠 “These GPTs are designed to literally give you your time back”🔥 Filling out collab applications can be a 5min task (not a whole afternoon) when your AI assistant handles it.🛠️ New rule: every longform content piece = 10+ new pieces (via your repurposing GPT)⚡ “The GPT that took my podcast process from 2hrs to 25 minutes is not an exaggeration.”
Mentioned Resources
AI Minions Challenge (starts November 17th!)
27. How to GROW Without the Grind with Collaboration Expert Sara Alepin
🧠 Your Next Steps
✅ Choose which GPT you'd like to set up first (collab app, content repurposing, reminders'n'replays)
✅ Join the AI Minions Challenge & get everything built with Kate!
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Summary
In this episode, Kate drops a fiery truth bomb for every coach considering hiring right now: hold up, babessss. Before you drop $$$ on a VA or team members, you need to hear how AI bots can do 80% of the job for a fraction of the cost, and with way less drama 👅⚡️
Top Takeaways & Quotes
🧠 “Hiring is expensive; not just in money, but in energy, emotions, and mistakes.”
⚡️ The hidden cost of hiring? Managing people, onboarding stress, and unpredictable delays.
💸 “AI minions” (aka custom GPTs) can deliver 60-80% of the support you’d get from a VA... for $20/month.
😍 “I used to spend 2.5 hours on podcast production… now it takes me 25 minutes, thanks to one GPT.”
👀 You don’t need to hire someone for every admin task; automate it, then decide if you even need the extra help.
📆 Reclaim hours of repetitive work like client message replies, formatting docs, and creating social content.
🙌🏻 Consistency BEFORE you hire: it helps you show up weekly (without burnout).
😏 Waiting on your team = disguised procrastination
Mentioned Resources
🧠 Your Next Steps
Do it TODAY 👇
Create your first GPT using ChatGPT Plus (start with your inbox or podcast!)
Join the AI Minions Challenge inside WorkSmart Academy
DM Kate with the first AI minion you're building 🧠👑
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🎙️ Summary
In this conversation, Kate dives deep into what she’s doing in Q4 not to launch something new, but to prep her business for the most spacious, powerful 2026 possible. She shares the exact systems she’s setting up, the mindset shifts that freed her from perfectionism, and why streamlining now is the smartest move if you’re craving deep work, time freedom, and creative flow next year. 🌶️
🔥 Top Takeaways & Quotes
🧠 “The deep work doesn’t happen when your brain is carrying a million tabs of admin.”📋 Q4 isn’t about adding more, it’s about cleaning up the MESSES of the year💻 Building SOPs and simple automations now means you buy back months next year.⚡️ “I had to ask myself… am I prepping to serve clients, or prepping to fight a worthiness would?”😮 “It’s not necessarily the big systems that free you. It’s optimizing the small, annoying things.”🙌🏻 Your calendar tells the truth: what you make space for is what actually happens.📆 “Would you rather have replied to every DM… or launched something unforgettable?”
📚 Mentioned Resources
Work Smart Academy; Kate’s productivity membership
Spice 52 Email Sequence; her automated nurture system. Access the full strategy in this masterclass.
🧠 Your Next Steps
Pick one of these to implement before the end of the week 👇🏻
Audit your top 3 most annoying admin tasks. Could one be automated?
Write an SOP for any repeat task that drains your mental energy
Block 2 hours this weekend to map out your 2026 dream projects
Start (or finish) your own nurture email sequence; even just 3 emails to get you started. There are 52 weeks of email prompts provided with this masterclass.
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Summary
In this conversation, Kate drops what really happened when she went back from 15-hour workweeks to 12-hour days during busy girl summer 2025. She shares BTS lessons from the massive push, the hidden costs of your “yeses”, and her new insights on resilience. Expect some reaaaal hard truths about capacity, creativity, and what time freedom actually requires 🌶️🔥
Top Takeaways & Quotes
💭 “Resilience isn’t a f*cking flex anymore. The flex is results that don’t sacrifice your health, sanity, or relationships.”🧠 Templates are powerful, but they don’t replace vision, strategy, or capacity.⚡️ The summit was 3x harder than I expected, and I expected it to be the hardest thing I'd ever done anyway.📆 Every YES requires many invisible NOs. One yes might cost you your gym time, relationship, or mindset hour.💡 “Systems lift heavier when they’re personalized to your business.”👅 Working weekends, losing creativity, and falling into survival mode isn’t a trade-off I’ll make again.📉 Momentum isn’t built in sprints. It's built through sustainable, capacity-conscious growth.🔥 You can't hustle your way out of hustle
Mentioned Resources
Kate’s past podcast episode: “33. THE SUMMIT TEA IS SPILLIN' | what I would NEVER do again while hosting a summit”
🧠 Your Next Steps
Identify a YES you made recently and the NOs that came with it. Was it worth it?
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Summary
In this conversation, Kate dives into the BTS of hosting her first summit; highs, lows, flop-moments, and everything in between. This episode is the ultimate "what not to do" guide for coaches dreaming of hosting a high-impact event to save you from burnout your first time around 🌶️🔥
Top Takeaways & Quotes
⚠️ "Running your first summit on a 90-day timeline? 0/10, would not recommend."
💌 why my 40+ affiliate invites resulted in just 2 affiliates
⏳ "Don’t assume you can handle a massive project on the same timeline when your capacity changes."
📥 "The inbox chaos hit hardest before summit week, not during."
👶 How I cuddled my newborn nephew for 2.5 hours on launch day (!!!)
💭 "I felt married to the dates because speakers were locked in. But tbh, dates can move."
🛠️ "If I host another summit, it’s gonna be bigger, better, and way more sustainable."
Mentioned Resources
🧠 Your Next Steps
Pick 1–2 people you might want to pitch as a speaker/affiliate in the future. DM them a short voice note or message opening the conversation by asking a relevant Q, responding to what they're up to at the moment, sharing your genuine appreciation for what they do.
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summit strategy, online events, virtual summit mistakes, first-time summit host, speaker outreach, affiliate marketing, entrepreneur burnout, business boundaries, productivity mistakes, capacity planning, systems for launches, solo entrepreneur tips, online coaching events, summit timeline, coaching business growth
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Summary
In this episode, Kate is joined by Maylene May, a retention strategist who helps CEOs build communities that clients never want to leave. They spill the TEA on what makes a membership magnetic vs. meh, why community beats content every time, and the subtle signs your clients are about to bounce; plus, how to bring your membership back to life if it’s feeling like a ghost town 👻
Top Takeaways & Quotes
💡 “If your members aren’t speaking to each other, you don’t have a membership — you have a subscription.”
🧠 It all starts with YOU: the tone, vibe, and connection level of your membership is led by the creator.
📉 Most memberships fail because they’re built like content libraries, not communities.
💭 “A real community feels like finding your people. Subscriptions feel like a monthly obligation.”
🎯 Gamification and themed months keep engagement high without overwhelming your calendar.
👀 “If it’s quiet in your membership, talk to your people. Ask them what they need. Don’t ghost your own members.”
📆 A truly scalable membership is one where the members elevate each other, not just consume from you.
👑 Co-coaches, cheerleaders, and mini-events are gold for solo founders scaling their community sustainably.
🧠 “People don’t want more content. They want more connection.”
📚 Mentioned Resources
Lifehack Tribe (where Kate’s Pre-Planning calls are)
The Gold Pass (with strategy breakdowns from the summit)
🧠 Your Next Steps
DM 3 of your quietest members and ask them what they need
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Summary
In this conversation, Kate is joined by fellow systems girlie and student experience strategist Loni Nelson to talk all things retention, curriculum design, and behavior-based onboarding. If you’re tired of students falling off after week 2, or just wondering wtf to even include in your program anymore… this one’s your holy grail. Get ready for some juicy, psychology-backed insights on designing programs that students actually finish (and rave about) ⚡️
Top Takeaways & Quotes
📍 “Your students don’t join to hoard modules, they join to get a result.”
🧠 Positive reinforcement inside your onboarding creates quick results and makes them associate you with accomplishment.
📦 “Freedom isn’t location-based. It’s behavior-based.” DAAAYUMMMMM
🎯 Clear, simple steps = accountability without needing high-touch hand-holding.
👀 Silence from your best students doesn’t mean disinterest — it can be the clearest sign that your curriculum is landing.
🔥 “Don’t list your features and benefits again in your onboarding. They already bought in. Give them a quick win instead.”
📊 Can a student name their next step within 2 minutes of joining?
👅 Don’t let the “laptop lifestyle” ideal become a hustle-based prison.
Mentioned Resources
The Back End newsletter by Loni Nelson
Student Retention Map (free guide from Loni)
🧠 Your Potential Next Steps
Audit your onboarding flow: Is the next step obvious within 2 minutes of purchase?
Identify your top 3 favorite students and reverse-engineer their experience.
Add ONE low-lift accountability mechanism (poll, automation, welcome DM).
Pick one lesson to transcribe and reformat for easier digestion.
Try an “integration week” instead of adding more content.
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Summary
In this conversation, Kate is joined by ecosystem architect and business strategist Nalya Jimenez, who breaks down how she built a high-retention, low-effort membership using only her phone (and zero sales calls). She dives into what makes a true client-converting ecosystem, how to align your tasks with your energy, and why communities are the new funnels. Prepare for automation tips, spicy mindset shifts, and permission to do it YOUR way, babyyyy!! 🔥
Top Takeaways & Quotes
🧠 “Your freebie is the front door. Your ecosystem is the house.”
📈 Communities convert faster than PDFs; because connection sells.
🔥 When your funnel’s done right, the sales emails are a bonus.💸 “I don’t sell. I just create natural next steps.”
📲 You don’t need an expensive laptop to scale; you need strategy, structure & strong boundaries.
🧠 Masterclasses = free transformation + trust = conversion machine.
Mentioned Resources
The SheEO Society (Nalya's free community)
Nalya’s Ecosystem Mapping Workbook
Kate's membership, Work Smart Academy
Now That’s a Membership Summit [ now closed for registrations ]
🧠 Your Next Steps
Map out your offer suite and customer journey with Nalya's Ecosystem Essentials Workbook
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Summary
In this conversation, Kate sits down with branding and sales coach Megan Brewster to unpack the real impact of overthinking in your business. They dive deep into the difference between thoughtful strategy and sneaky self-sabotage, how to show up in your full self-expression (without spiraling into “is this good enough?”), and Megan’s game-changing accountability system that doubled her membership’s value + revenue with less than 30 mins/week. Let’s f*cking gooo 💋🔥
Top Takeaways & Quotes
🧠 “Overthinking is what makes us not take action, even when we know exactly what to do.”
💡 If your strategy doesn’t match your personality, it’ll burn you out (even if it “works”).
🎯 “I had to stop looking for someone else to give me the answer - I needed to look inward.”
📆 Megan’s voice note accountability system doubled her membership's revenue + massively increased implementation in <30 minutes a week.
😬 If you’re doing it their way and hating it... maybe it’s just not your way.
👅 Real sales confidence comes from showing up in ways you feel good about.
🔥 “The same things that made me overthink also made me deeply relatable to my audience.”
Mentioned Resources
The Overthinking Entrepreneur Podcast (hosted by Megan)
🧠 Your Next Step
Audit your current sales strategy - what types of content/sales vibes you naturally respond to? Model that.
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Summary
In this conversation, Kate is joined by business coach and membership strategist Paige Vandy to talk all things million dollar memberships. From scaling to a seven-figure membership to building a self-sustaining community, Paige drops pure 🔥 on how to keep members engaged, turn them into brand ambassadors, and step into your million dollar mode (even before you're "ready"). This one's part mindset, part masterclass, and all juicy BTS 👅
Top Takeaways & Quotes
🔥 “In a membership, you’re not building an audience. You’re building a community.”
💡 The power of the pack is real; being part of a like-minded group increases client transformation and retention.
💸 Most referral programs flop because they’re passive. Affiliate programs, when done right, create incentive, visibility, and loyalty.
👯♀️ Community building isn’t about content, it’s about member-to-member connection. Prioritize it like it’s your job (because it is).
🧠 “The first 48 hours in your membership are everything.” Get your new members bonded with someone immediately.
📆 Create monthly retention strategies. Even something as simple as a tease for next month’s workshop or giveaway can work wonders.
⚡️ Stop stuffing your membership with everything - give members a success path and guide them through it intentionally.
🧠 “Show up as your million dollar mode self.” Every decision you make now is creating the business you say you want.
🚪 Members stay when they feel seen, connected, and like they’re part of something bigger, not when there’s just more “stuff.”
Mentioned Resources
Million Dollar Memberships Club by Paige Vandy
Paige's Podcast, "Unemployed"
🧠 Your Next Step
Pick one of these to take action this week 👇🏻
✅ Map out a 48-hour onboarding experience for new members, including getting members connected with EACH OTHER
✅ Journal on your Million Dollar Mode self - what does she do today?
✅ Map out your new affiliate program, even if it’s scrappy to start
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Summary
In this conversation, Kate is joined by collaboration expert Sara Alepin of District Bliss to unpack how powerful (and wildly effective) strategic collaboration can be for online coaches craving more income, visibility, and ease. They talk exponential growth, opt-in quality, bundle burnout, introvert-friendly networking and why being everywhere is not necessarily the goal. If you’re ready to get unbusy while growing your audience + client base, this one’s for you 👯♀️💸🙌🏻
Follow Sara on Socials: https://www.instagram.com/districtblissevents/
Grab Sara's free Goals & Collaboration Strategy Worksheet: https://districtbliss.myflodesk.com/getunbusy
Top Takeaways & Quotes
🧠 “If you're doing the wrong type of collab, you won’t see exponential growth.”🔥 You don’t need to “do it all”, you need the right collaboration aligned with your goals and offer.💡 Cold traffic from bundles or freebies? Remember that warming them up is your job 😉👀 “The algorithm doesn’t have a vested interest in your success, but collaborators do.”📣 Networking works best when it’s connection > pitch. Think “make a friend,” not “make a sale.”💭 “Go into events with a clear goal. The wrong event isn't a failure, it's data for next time”⚡️You’ll grow way faster when you take part in an aligned collab rather than just cold outreach.👋🏻 “You have my permission to leave any event that drains you... as long as you replace it fast!”😍 Warm leads from someone’s audience > cold followers from a reel. Period.
Mentioned Resources
Collaborations That Monetize Summit (coming Nov, keep an eye on Sara's socials for that!)
Now That’s a Membership Summit - Register NOW!
🧠 Your Next Step:
Grab Sara’s Goals Worksheet and define your top collaboration goal ✅
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Summary
In this conversation, Kate brings on membership expert Mike Morrison, founder of Membership Academy, to talk about the real, raw blueprint behind building a membership that’s not just profitable, but still thriving 10 YEARS later 👏🏻 Mike shares how to transition from 1:1 work to a scalable membership model, when to start outsourcing, and the big mindset + strategic shifts that make longevity (and time freedom) possible. THIS IS "UNBUSY" GOLD! Expect unfiltered truths, BTS stories, and pure gold for every coach craving more income AND more ease 💸📆
Top Takeaways & Quotes
🔥 "Your membership is now your client; you just wouldn't miss those deadlines."
💡 Building a membership starts with solving a specific problem for your people. Forget the shiny objects.
📆 Mike’s 6-date transitioning strategy is PURE GOLD for phasing out 1:1 work without tanking your income.
🧠 “If you can’t find people to talk to, you’re gonna struggle to sell to them.”
⚡️ Memberships thrive when you design for long-term retention, not just a cash injection.
👅 A unique take on repurposing; your client work, your process, your past projects, all into scalable assets.
🙌🏻 “You need to be the rockstar, not the roadie. Stop doing the stuff anyone else can do.”
💭 Coaches often hold on to admin + editing work as comfort zones. But that’s not what grows your business.
🔥 “Your effective hourly rate is the number to watch. That’s how you make time-smart decisions.”
💸 A thriving membership isn’t about doing more, it’s about doing the right things in the right order.
Mentioned Resources
🧠 Your Next Step
Identify ONE task you’re doing that someone else could do and hire a VA to take it over. 😉
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Summary
In this conversation, Kate is joined by client experience & systems strategist Rebecca Carmencita to unpack why your client experience is your brand experience, and how to make yours so good it turns buyers into long-gamers. Expect spicy truth bombs, small-but-mighty upgrades you can make today, and a fresh look at how to build systems that save you time while making your clients fall in love with working with you 👅💸
Top Takeaways & Quotes
💡 “Your brand voice shouldn’t stop at Instagram; it needs to flow into every client touchpoint.”
📈 The 70% buyer’s remorse stat: most regret hits within 24 hours of purchase, so your onboarding is everything.
🧠 Consistency in tone, style, and delivery builds trust, connection, and repeat buyers.
⚡️ Automation isn’t “impersonal”, forgetting to follow up is what’s impersonal.
📆 Set expectations early: payment terms, response times, client responsibilities.
💭 Creative brains need systems to protect their energy and boost their money-making activities.
✅ “If you don’t tell clients what to give feedback on, they’ll fill in the gaps for you.”
📌 Check in early and often; don’t wait 6 months to find out a member is lost or disengaged.
😍 Implementation matters: give clients the how, not just the what.
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Mentioned Resources
Dubsado (CRM tool Rebecca uses for client management)
Now That’s A Membership Summit (Rebecca speaking on client experience) - registration opening 19th Aug!
🧠 Your Next Steps
Automate at least one recurring client touchpoint this week.
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🔥 Summary
In this conversation, Kate brings Kimba Cooper-Martin on to spill the tea on how gamification can completely change the game when it comes to motivation, momentum, and engagement, for both you AND your clients. Kimba breaks down why traditional systems don’t stick, how to design habits that feel like play, and the sneaky psychology that turns your to-do list into a heck-yes follow-through machine. Plus: how to use these tools in your community, courses, or memberships to boost completion + sales 📈👅
💭 Top Takeaways & Quotes
🎯 Gamification makes it easier to want to show up, not just push yourself to.💡 Gamification isn't necessarily about badges + points (though it could be). It's about building systems that work WITH your brain, not against it.📈 Sales go up when your offers feel like a challenge people want to complete.😍 Even something as small as a daily “win” channel in your membership can boost dopamine + engagement.✅ Is gamification a form of manipulation? And... is that even a bad thing? 👀🎮 “When you understand your player type, everything starts to click.”
📚 Mentioned Resources
🧠 Your Next Steps
Identify your personal player type — what actually motivates you?
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