Katie Horwitch is a writer, speaker, mindset coach, activist, and the founder of WANT: Women Against Negative Talk. Founded in 2007, WANT is a platform that gives women tips, tools, motivation, and inspiration to move forward fearlessly in life by shifting their negative self-talk patterns. On its podcast, WANTcast: The Women Against Negative Talk Podcast, Katie tackles subjects like loneliness, jealousy, and self-worth, and
interviews visionary women about taking a proactive approach to the full spectrum of life’s high highs and low lows. As a speaker, Katie has facilitated workshops and given keynote addresses for organizations such as SXSW, I AM THAT GIRL, The Good Fest, Teachable, Lululemon, The Fullest, and University Of New Haven about cultivating confidence, living fearlessly, and finding, being and staying your Self in a world that prefers you’d stay small and silent. Her work has been featured in dozens of online and print publications such as The Cut, mindbodygreen, Brides, Insider, Darling, and Livestrong, and has been praised by CNN as a “woman empowering others around the world.”
Currently, Katie is living in New York City with her husband Jeremy and dog-daughter Frankie, and spends her energy on shifting the cultural self-talk paradigm, producing engaging new content for women both online and off, advising creatives and entrepreneurs on how use their unique strengths to make the biggest impact possible, and singing loudly while she runs. Her middle name is Joy. Literally.
In this episode we talk about:
- her past struggle with orthorexia in her and what that is
- feeling like she grew up pretending and that women were not allowed to be confident
- how the Dove real body commercial in 2007 woke her up in many ways
- what motivated her to start Women Against Negative Talk
- not focusing on living her best life, but on LIVING her life.
- growing up feeling she had to fit the role of “good girl” and doing what would make other’s happy and have pride in her
- transitioning from following one page to another and how we don’t have to feel guilt or like we failed but seeing it as all different chapters
- pursuing her passion of acting and the reality of balancing her energy while being an introvert
- finding peace, fulfillment, and community in group fitness and how that led her to shifting paths
- her through line and she uses it to navigate what she says yes to and how she diversifies her work
- always looking for the learning opportunity and how that has guided her path when others may have looked down on her for her choices
- her passion for speaking and how getting on that stage isn’t about her but about everyone in the room
- Which keychain she chose from my line and why!
You can find Katie at https://www.katiejoyhorwitch.com and https://womenagainstnegativetalk.com
And at @katiehorwitch and @womenagainstnegativetalk
Check out her on demand fitness classes and uses code Katie30 for 30% off at http://aaptiv.com/
LINKS to other things/people/music we mentioned!
PS. If we mentioned something and I forgot to include it here leave a comment and I will track it down for you!
My episode on WANTcast
My article on WANT
The infared sauna blanket that I mention. Use code JOY75 for $75 off!
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