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Cultivating What Matters: A Season of Intentional Growth
Summer often calls us to pause and realign our priorities, which is exactly why I'm announcing a brief hiatus from "The Path to Leadership" podcast. Despite the momentum from recent episodes on authenticity and overnight success that sparked meaningful conversations, this intentional break allows me to focus on significant personal and professional developments.
Family transitions take center stage as my son prepares to begin his journey as an airplane mechanic and my daughter intensifies her golf training through summer tournaments. Meanwhile, my own relationship with golf has evolved from casual family activity to a passionate pursuit that offers both physical benefits and profound mental challenges. Through leagues, the Driving Pursuits women's network, and various tournaments, I'm discovering powerful parallels between golf and leadership development—so much so that I've created a professional workshop exploring how our behavior on the course mirrors our approach to career obstacles.
Professionally, Catalyst Development celebrates its third anniversary as we expand our leadership programs. I'm currently midway through a year-long leaders program while launching two corporate cohorts with customized formats. Speaking engagements across Kansas and Missouri on generations, self-management, and leadership principles keep my calendar full. Throughout it all, my guiding word remains "cultivate"—intentionally nurturing relationships by being fully present, taking better care of myself (including shedding 15 pounds), and developing strategic business partnerships that create value for all involved.
When the podcast returns on August 1st, I'll bring fresh perspectives from this period of intentional growth. Until then, I encourage you to revisit earlier episodes or connect with me directly about your own leadership journey. How might a strategic pause help you move forward more effectively in your own path to leadership?
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Hi everyone and welcome back to the Path to Leadership. Hope you had a fantastic week last week. We just had Memorial Day yesterday. Thank you to all of the veterans that listened to the show. Thank you to all of the military spouses and dependents who listen to the show the sacrifice that those military personnel who sign up to protect us and to protect our rights. I am so thankful for you. So I want to start off the show with that. Hope everyone had family time and time to reflect and time to recharge their batteries a little bit.
Speaker 1:We have been doing a lot of travel lately. My son and I were talking since the first week in April. I have been traveling every week or weekend, which is fantastic because that's exactly what I want to do. Those are my goals, that's my company, that's the work that I do. But between business travel and personal travel it is a lot. So I say that because I am going to take a little summer break from the podcast. I appreciate especially the last two episodes a lot of great feedback. It feels weird to be taking a break right now because so many great conversations came from those episodes about stop faking it till you make it and then also the myth of overnight success. Those have generated several different conversations and messages and emails and it really resonated with a lot of people. So I'm glad it did and I'm glad that people enjoyed it. I am going to take a summer break because again, we continue to have a lot of travel between business and personal. I'm getting ready to move my son to college. He is going back to school to become an airplane mechanic, which he is super excited about, so that's taking a lot of our time. Spending as much time with my daughter as possible before she starts really ramping up golf for golf season next year. She's got a lot of plans this summer that I want to be a part of and want to be around. She's playing some Kansas golf amateur and some other golf tournaments here in town, really just to not to go in and to win them, but to really make sure she's going into the golf season, shaking off the rest but also making sure that she is in the right mindset for golf. With that, I'm going to play a lot of golf this summer. I've been playing a lot of golf lately have a Sunday night league with my husband and a Monday night league with my girlfriends and then driving pursuits here in Kansas City.
Speaker 1:If you're not familiar with it, women it is the most phenomenal network of women I've ever been a part of Just women supporting women to learn the game of golf. And then I'm so fortunate to be a mentor to take women out on the golf course and then also I'm doing the personal and professional development for the women. It's just a really, really cool group that I get to be a part of and so also I'm taking some lessons to get better on the golf course. I used to play just for fun, just to spend time with my daughter and husband, and now I think I'm playing the most golf in the family. I just really enjoy it and I enjoy what the game does for me from a physical standpoint, but also from a mental standpoint, mindset standpoint, and there's just satisfaction in doing things that are hard and getting better at them. The beauty of golf is you'll never master it, but you sure will challenge yourself and push yourself to get better. So that's gonna be a lot of the work Personally, professionally.
Speaker 1:Oh boy, there is some really cool things on the horizon. I am halfway through my year-long leaders program, already getting several people saying when does the next cohort start, which is January. But if you want to learn more, you can go to my website, which Emma Joe Blankenship just did a beautiful revamp of my website, so it's just katiervincom. You can go in there and see all the work that I'm doing and the things that you can be a part of, which is really cool. I have two corporate leaders that are kicking off, which is me taking my Leaders Institute into companies and doing it in six months, so it's a six month cohort. One company which is a logistics warehousing things like that. We're doing it in 12 sessions instead of six and we're doing it virtually. I have another one that is focusing just on the women in their organization and we're doing that six sessions for three hours a session, and so those are just really fun because we do pre-assessment, post-assessment and really watch people. Are just really fun because we do pre-assessment, post-assessment and really watch people grow over the six months, and so that's really where, to me, the rubber meets the road. It's the, it's the. So what of the work I do? Because when you do this real intensive six months work, you can really watch people grow each month and with the pre-work and the homework and the assessments, you can really see at the end where people get this increased level of self-awareness and really start digging into what's next for them and how they can continue to grow as a leader. So I have two of those going on.
Speaker 1:And then I just have some really neat speaking engagements. I'm doing some really neat work with some state associations here in Kansas and Missouri. So, speaking to Missouri Society for Human Resource Management, I am speaking at the Kansas Courts Management Association For SHRM. I'm speaking on generations and leveraging all generations For the Kansas Courts. I am speaking about kind of just controlling what we can control and really that self-management giving ourselves grace, giving other people grace. So that's going to be a really fun one. And then I have a couple other kind of small ones here and there that I'm doing. That's more these, you know 30 to 40 people in a room and talking about one of them I'm really excited about, it's a new session that I'm doing all around golf and how we tie our behavior on the golf course or the pickleball court or, you know, the tennis court or the basketball court. You know how we behave in the games that we play versus how we behave in our career journey, and so for this one specifically. It's all around golf and the different strokes in golf, the different things we do for golf and associate that to our career journey and it's been really fun to put together.
Speaker 1:Also sponsoring a couple fun golf tournaments this summer. For Catalyst Development my really good friend Kelly Herrick, who owns Stretch Zone which I cannot wait because I got a stretch this morning kind of free commercial for her they're keeping me on the golf course and walking upright through all my activities. They're hosting a golf tournament that I am sponsoring and really raising money for Midwest Transplants, which is going to be really neat. Also playing in the Leawood Chamber golf tournament with my daughter and some other ladies. And then the Pittsburgh State University golf team, which my daughter plays on, is hosting a golf tournament that I am sponsoring as well. So I'm also just trying to squeeze in as many other golf tournaments as I can throughout the summer. So lots going on, as you can imagine, also got a lot of really great interviews that I'm going to be teeing up. So I will be back August 1st. We will get going again in August. Hope everyone has a wonderful and safe summer. I hope you spend a lot of time with family and friends and yourself doing the things for you.
Speaker 1:I continue to reflect on my word of the year, which is cultivate. I am constantly focusing on how I'm cultivating relationships, which is taking those intentional time with my friends and family to really turn everything off, turn my phone over, leave the phone in the car or at home and really just stop to spend time with those people and making sure that those relationships are meaningful for both sides. Cultivating myself, which is the golf, and continuing on taking care of myself I have lost 15 pounds just by eating better and being more responsible and taking care of myself and doing real intentional work around that. And then cultivating opportunities continuing to look for organizations and companies and associations that make sense for me to partner with them, to go in as a business partner and really help them build strong leaders in their organization at all levels. And so if any of this is interesting to you, if any of this makes sense for you personally or for your organization, I would love to chat with you. Feel free to send me an email, connect with me on LinkedIn. Also, if, during the summer, you miss some episodes, I encourage you to go back and listen. One of the fun things is to have people listening to the podcast and saying, oh, I can really see it growing as you've gone through the years, which has been so much fun.
Speaker 1:And then July 1st is Catalyst Development's third birthday, which is crazy to think about. That Catalyst will be three years old. So doing a lot of celebrating my current clients that continue to engage in such meaningful ways and the clients that helped me really start Catalyst the ones that were there at the beginning that really believed in the clients that helped me really start Catalyst, the ones that were there at the beginning that really believed in the work that I'm doing. So going to spend a lot of time celebrating all of that work as well. So hope you have an amazing summer. Hope to see you all, especially if you're in Kansas City or in the region. Hope to see you at some of my speaking engagements or at some of the networking events around town. Keep me updated on what's going on. I can't wait to be back with you in August. Have a great, great week, have a great summer and I will talk to you soon on the path to leadership. Bye everyone.
