Kathy Robinson is a former corporate executive turned entrepreneur. She is a certified wellness coach and the founder of Athena Wellness Enterprises, where she helps busy professionals optimize their vitality and well-being. Kathy is also the author of The Athena Principles, Simple Wellness Practices for Overworked Professionals.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“at that time my scarcest resource in those days was time juggling home responsibilities, a corporate career that required me to be on the road and I was actually training for an ultra-marathon at the time as well… As I was getting the business up and running, I struggled with why somebody would come to me for wellness coaching. Like what was unique that I had to offer?”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The Fire Starter Sessions Book by Danielle LaPorte
- The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul Book by Danielle LaPorte
- Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World’s Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself Book by Rich Roll
- Wellpreneur: The Ultimate Guide for Wellness Entrepreneurs to Nail Your Niche and Find Clients Online Book by Amanda Cook
Favourite Quote:
- “The Life You Live is the Lesson You Teach”
- “Live in perpetual creative response to whatever is present”
Recommended Online Resources:
Wellpreneur Resources – hand-picked selection of tools & resources to grow your business without burning yourself out. You’ll find recommended courses, tools and books
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“I’ve come to realise that the same principles that I follow for wellness. About setting intentions that I feel emotionally connected to, showing up consistently, applying a growth mindset, staying positive, having good habits, all of those good things, having compassion for myself. I would advise other entrepreneurs to think about how they are taking care of themselves and how to apply those same types of principles to what they do on a daily basis”…[Listen for More]
More About Kathy Robinson:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.” Eddie Cantor
Other Quotes From the Chat with Kathy Robinson:
- “I love and admire and respect people who have created businesses that reflect who they are as a person that they are their brand”
- “I am drawn to work with people because of their unique philosophy and their unique life experiences… What I’ve learned is that those entrepreneurs they had the power of commitment to a life they imagined, taking big goals one step at a time, consistently showing up and having the resilience to keep going no matter what and learning along the way. It really shows the power that doing what light you up can organically build the successful business”
- “I think I would of experimented more and earlier”
- “I think I would have also counselled myself”
- “I would have told myself you don’t need to know everything you think you do right out of the gate especially in the breadth and the depth”
- “there is a reason why somebody is called to do something. So, I don’t think anything that I’m doing now is an accident”
- “the more you do it the better you feel and then suddenly it becomes just a second nature is just whatever other environment we are operating in”
- “I love to read”
- “it really helped me think of business as a creative act and a way of life”
- “wellness is really a form of self-respect”
- “you should be flexible in the face of change”
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