We were lucky to catch up with Kate Heartsong recently and have shared our conversation below.

Kate, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Can you open up about a risk you’ve taken – what it was like taking that risk, why you took the risk and how it turned out?

Taking a Risk by Kate Heartsong

I was working as a degreed accountant for 25 years, and at first enjoyed this work. In the last 5 years of this career, there was an unsettled feeling inside me that I preferred to serve people directly, no longer wanting to do computer work and crunching numbers my work required.

While still working full time as an accountant about fifteen years ago, I created and offered a few meditation and confidence building workshops, with a little success. However, offering these workshops and empowering people brought me such joy! It felt so natural and authentic for me to share and empower others with the training and education, passion and life journey I had (I also had a psychology degree), including being successful with transcending the difficult and traumatic childhood I had.

While teaching these workshops, there was the inner nudge and guidance telling me to quit my accounting career and become a teacher, author and coach. I said:  “What! Take a risk? And give up my predictable paycheck? Go into the unknown world of being an entrepreneur?!”.

I decided to continue working as an accountant, while feeling heavy and burdened with work I knew I was not meant to do anymore. Thankfully, about two years later, the universe “hit me in the head with the old 2 X 4” and helped me switch my career by getting laid off from my accounting job.

At first, I was very upset with the layoff, however I then realized a few days later what a blessing this is! I said: ”Now, I can go forward with taking the risk of starting my own company, Joyful Radiance, LLC. ” Currently with my business, I’m a professional motivational speaker, certified life and also financial coach and author

It has not been an easy journey to start my own business and continue with this over the years, and yet the gifts received include becoming more empowered with my capacity to help others, recognizing my resilience to adapt to being a business owner and learning new ways to be of great service for my clients and audiences. I’m always growing and expanding professionally and personally.

It was definitely worth the risk of jumping into becoming an entrepreneur. I’m living authentically doing the work I love and know I’m meant to do! Living authentically brings joy and a great sense of passion and purpose, and a great fulfillment knowing those receiving my services positively benefit.

Kate, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

What sets me apart from others is that my services solve the problem of feeling helpless or anxious by empowering you to embrace and harness your inherent ability as powerful creators, so you know you CAN make positive change for yourself. As you do, you positively impact those around you, and also humanity. How? We are all one interconnected. When we radiate love, peace and joy within ourselves, we radiate this into the world.

I inspire people to achieve clarity, calm and joyful authenticity. Through sharing my profound and transformative wisdom, and simple tools that empower you to unlock the mighty creator within, you ascend into YOUR empowered life.

How I got into my own business was when I got laid off from my former accounting career and took the risk of starting my new career as a speaker, author and coach. It was well worth it! I’m grateful to be of authentic service in a way that allows my natural gifts and talents to be shared with my clients and audiences so they reach their goals and experience the benefits of a better life.

It’s an honor for me to be of service in the following ways:

Professional speaker: My motivational message of hope and the practical tools to use, give audiences the empowerment to know they CAN make a positive difference for themselves, and as they do, they understand they make a positive impact to humanity.

Author: Through my two books, Deeply We Are One, and my latest one Humanity’s Cry for Change, readers benefit by understanding the cause of today’s increased challenges and upheaval (both individually and globally), and how to best navigate these times. Through this, they are empowered to create better relationships, work, health and finances, and experience a more fulfilled, authentic and joyful life.

Certified Life Coach: Clients benefit from my sincere and compassionate coaching and my intuition. Many comment on my calming energy they feel with our coaching sessions and appreciate the clarity they gain and the goals they achieve.

What I’m most proud of is taking the jump into the unknown and learning to trust myself, when I first started my own business and changed careers. This journey provided me with great personal and professional expansion, and as a result, I’m better able to serve my clients and audiences, and feel more fulfilled and passionate now than ever before.

Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?

My deep knowing – and therefore my mission – is that I am meant to share with as many people as possible that as you make positive change in your own life, live authentically and have joy, you also impact others, and also humanity. Each one of us has the power to overcome chaos and uncertainty.

It’s imperative that we know, individually and collectively, we must make positive change now in our own lives and humanity as a whole, if we want to survive as a species! It starts one person at a time: you!

This is the reason I’m a professional speaker, author and coach, to help as many people to understand my deep knowing that we all together, can bring in a new earth, one we feel and ARE safe, peaceful, respectful and loving. The time is now for us to start!

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

It’s most rewarding for me to be a speaker, author and coach because my audiences and clients are experiencing a better life as a result of my services to them. It’s such a joy to be of service, to see others benefit from it.

I’m deeply grateful to be a messenger to people to understand that when we start one person at a time – ourselves – that we DO make a positive impact on others and the world. In this way it’s rewarding to me to know more people are aware of what they can do to make our world a better place.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.joyfulradiance.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kate_heartsong_confidencecoach/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kateheartsongjoyfulradiance/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katesanksheartsong/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/KateHeartsong
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@KATE-HEARTSONG

Image Credits
David Faingold , photographer