A Conversation with Kathleen Conner, Coach and Expert in Purposeful Living

About this episode

Kathleen Conner shares her journey of transformation from serving others to reclaiming her identity and living authentically.

Kathleen Conner is the woman everyone calls when they need something—ranch hand, stucco guy, chief bottle washer—you name it. Known as the unofficial “mayor” and “Angie’s List of People,” she built a life of service as a business owner, wife, mother, volunteer and humanitarian. At 53, she realized she had built a perfect life serving everyone else while becoming nothing to herself. This awakening launched her transformation from depletion to authenticity. Kathleen spent 16 years building the “perfect life” that was perfectly wrong for her. At 53, she hit rock bottom, losing herself to roles like The Good Employee, The Perfect Mother and The People Pleaser. That awakening led to her transformation: losing 47 pounds, getting sober, and reclaiming her identity. Today, Kathleen helps women stop performing their lives and start living them. With a mix of candor, humor, and empathy, she shares raw stories of being successful yet miserable, helpful yet depleted, and needed yet lost, while offering women a way to align head, heart and soul so they can finally live lives that feel as good as they look. Guided by her father’s wisdom about givers and takers, Kathleen now teaches women how…

People in this episode

Host: Maria Leonard Olsen

Guest: Kathleen Conner

Topics covered

• purposeful living
• life transitions
• self-discovery
• women empowerment
• authenticity

Keywords

• purposeful living
• self-discovery
• women empowerment
• authenticity
• life transitions
• personal growth

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