Influential Woman · Coaching/Consulting
Katie Greene
Life Coach, --
Salt Lake, UT 84096
Her Story
About Katie
I'm just a natural cheerleader - I love to watch people succeed and I'm definitely people-oriented. It lights me up to watch other people grow, and I love to teach people things because I learn more deeply when I do that. Getting to watch people understand and having that interaction brings a deeper understanding to what I'm passionate about. I started in fitness after being told I could never run, but after having my oldest daughter, I wanted to be a mom with energy, living a strong life. I got into sports performance and nutrition, teaching other moms how to take care of their bodies even while pregnant and postpartum. Then I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis at 31, along with 5 or 6 different autoimmune diseases, and I thought - if I can fuel my body to perform, why can't I fuel it to heal? I got into epigenetics and nutrigenomics, learning how food is medicine, and I managed pretty much all my conditions through lifestyle and diet. I have 5 children total, and my second daughter is deaf, so I worked with families who had children newly diagnosed as deaf or hard of hearing, helping them navigate diagnosis, doctor's appointments, advocacy, and language development. After going through my own divorce, I realized I had carried all my childhood wounds into my marriage. As I found Jesus and the Bible, I understood that the real core wound I'd been trying to solve was my identity. Now I work with divorced Christian women rebuilding their lives, and my mission is to build biblical communities by building biblical homes, one woman at a time. I teach women how to rebuild their identity with God and stop trying to fill this God-sized hole with things in the world that just can't ever suffice. That connection with Him is what we're really craving, and when you have that filled, you have so much more to give your kids and bring to a relationship in a healthy way.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Katie
01What do you attribute your success to?
I'm gonna say my role as a mom. That is - we do everything for our kids, but watching my children grow and develop encourages me to grow and develop, and to do more for other women and their children. Watching them push through, and watching them look to me, and watching them help to refine me as they correct me - they refine me, and they call me out, and they let me know how human I am. It really keeps me grounded in the humanity aspect of it, and the individual aspect of it. At the end of the day, I just want each woman who I encounter to feel like I'm just sitting across the coffee table with her, talking intimately with her, and my children really encourage me to keep that grounding.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
One of the best advice I ever got was: You're your greatest asset. At the end of the day, if you've only got so much money to invest somewhere, invest it in you, because you're gonna be the greatest return and implement whatever you learn, especially when you have a coach to guide you.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
You know more than you think you do. Just because you don't have credentials on a paper doesn't mean you aren't qualified. We undervalue our natural skills and abilities and talents. Give yourself time to really discover and investigate what really lights you up, and just be patient with the process, but also know it's all your own timeline. You can do it as fast or slow as you want to, and you're as qualified as you decide you are. Make the decision to have confidence in what you know and what your zone of genius truly is, what really lights you up and gets you really excited every day. And just share that. Be willing just to share it freely, because that's your most valuable asset, it really is.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
I think it's something that not enough people are really talking about. We're talking about community impact here, and that's what I think is most important - not just what I can do here, but what can we do to really make communities bigger and stronger, and families and homes stronger and more stable? I think that's something everybody values.
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