Got Svelte?

Foxy New Group starts 7/15

Join me and a group of very fabulous and foxy women (and a few great men) who are getting svelte for summer. Balance your blood sugar, get rid of your sugar and carb cravings, lose a few pounds, and enjoy improved energy, a more even, stable mood, happier hormonal health, better sleep, clearer skin, and more. Click here to find out more and register.

The Infinite Power of Time Off: How to Make it Work for You

June 19, 2012
8:00pm – 8:30pm EST

FREE Telegathering Join Dr. Christiane Northrup, leading authority on women’s health, and co-creators of Team Northrup, Kate Northrup and Penny Northrup Kirk for an intimate, 30-minute telegathering. Many people in North America choose to take their vacation during the summer months. But have you ever experienced coming home from time off and feeling completely exhausted, as though you need a vacation to recover from your vacation? Especially for those who run their own businesses or have a lot of responsibility at work, it’s becoming nearly impossible to take an actual break. Not only does your sanity depend on taking time off from activity, so does your physical health. This call will teach you how to plan your time off ahead so that you can get the maximum physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits. You’ll also learn some strategies to use during your vacations (especially when taking them with family) to ensure that you return to your “real life” renewed and ready for action.Email us to reserve your space on this FREE call.

Wanderlust – June 21- 24, 2012, Bondville, Vermont

Join me at Wanderlust, where I’m a featured member of The Speakeasy Lecture Series.

The Speakeasy is Wanderlust Festival’s unique lecture series on subjects pertaining to the mindful life. With offerings from a wide range of presenters including prominent yoga teachers, wellness industry leaders, authors, musicians, and many others, the Speakeasy is just that — a casual experience where presenters can “speak easily”.

These are not stuffy lectures, but rather informal conversations that take place in an intimate lounge setting. Get comfy on the couch or cozy up on some cushy pillows, sip on some free tea and kombucha, and listen to some of the most fascinating people in the world of wellness talk about a wide range of topics including meditation, nutrition, technology, music, organics, spirituality, yoga, and more.

Since 2010, the Speakeasy Series has materialized into one of the most exciting parts of the Wanderlust festival. Click here to check out previous Speakeasy videos.

2012 Stratton Mountain Speakers:
Seane Corn
Elena Brower
Eli Pariser
Schuyler Grant
Kelly Morris
Gabrielle Roth
Gaura Vani
Irshad Manji
Jeff Krasno
Joel Salatin
Kate Northrup
Lama Marut
Majora Carter
Manoj Chalam
Marisa C. Weiss, M.D.
Meggan Watterson
Nick Ortner
Sean Hoess

Portland, Maine Camp Fire – Fire Starter Sessions Group

Kick-Off Fire: Wednesday, June 27th, Portland, ME

Come one, come all. We’re gonna get lit*. Together. Here in my new home town port city. This group will meet for 16, soul-powered sessions and explore, engage with, and implement Danielle LaPorte’s book, The Fire Starter Sessions.

This Camp Fire has three primary purposes:

1. to support the spectacular men and women of Portland, ME in lighting their lives afire in the best way possible

2. to create the perfect avenue for me to meet these spectacular men and women and expand my community her in my new hometown

3. to give me (and the others) accountability to read this book AND engage with the exercises in a full-out kind of way (I devoured it in a few days when I first got it and have yet to go back through and do the worksheets. I’m one of those people who doesn’t practice yoga unless I go to class, and I don’t do worksheets unless I told someone I would. If you’re like that too, come to the Camp Fire.)

Please email kathleen@katenorthrup.com to get yourself on the list. We’ll begin Wednesday, June 27th at 7pm in the upstairs space at Peloton Labs, 795 Congress St. Once we all gather round the proverbial fire we’ll discuss if we want to do every other week, once a month, etc.

*In case you’re not clear, we’re going to get metaphorically lit. I don’t smoke :)

Kate hits the Pacific Northwest!

Learn about true Freedom this Independence Day Weekend in Tacoma & Seattle!

July 3rd in Tacoma, WA

July 5th in Seattle, WA

Health and Freedom with Team Northrup
Discover the secrets of the health-wealth connection

Join me, Co-Creator of Team Northrup and USANA Health Sciences Gold Director, for a conversation about how she, and thousands of others, have created optimal health and financial freedom.

Join me and my Team Northrup Colleagues for an intimate discussion:

• Explore the relationship between the health of your body and the health of your bank account,
• Learn about a community on the cutting edge of health and wellness, championed this year by Dr. Mehmet Oz and for the past 16 years by Dr. Christiane Northrup, and
• Hear how thousands of smart people have created an additional income stream that helps them thrive from three people who’ve done it.

Don’t miss it!  Register here, and we’ll look forward to seeing you.  This event is FREE to guests, and $10 for Team Northrup associates.

More about me:

I’m a professional freedom seeker and creative entrepreneur, author of the forthcoming book Money: A Love Story (Hay House, Spring 2013), and daughter of New York Times bestselling author Dr. Christiane Northrup.

More about Team Northrup:

Team Northrup is a league of entrepreneurial men and women who are aligned with the work of holistic health pioneer and New York Times Bestselling author Dr. Christiane Northrup.  Team Northrup teaches holistic business skills to entrepreneurs and wellness advocates through conscious networking.  To learn more about Team Northrup, visit www.teamnorthrup.com.

July 3, 2012, Tacoma, WA

7:00 pm – 8:30 pm, PT

Aflac
7030 Tacoma Mall Blvd #200
Tacoma, WA 98409

Click here to register!

July 5, 2012, Seattle, WA

7:00 pm – 8:30 pm, PT*

1520 Eastlake Ave E
Seattle, WA 98102

Click here to register!

Summer Love Seattle Meet Up

Thursday, July 5th, Seattle, WA

If you live in Seattle, I want to hang! From 5:00 – 6:30pm, right before the Health and Freedom event above, I’ll be hanging in a nearby coffee shop called Voxx ( http://voxxseattle.com/) and would love to meet you. Plan to come by for an iced tea, a hug, and a chat. And of course, you’re more than welcome to saunter over to the Health and Freedom gathering mentioned above directly after.

Portland, OR, July 6-8, 2012

I’ll be joining the rest of Chris Guillebeau’s small army of unconventional people in the “other Portland” for a weekend of inspiration, community, out-of-the-boxness, and fun! Tickets for the event are sold out, but if you’re already registered, I can’t wait to meet you there! And if you didn’t get registered for this year, pop over and join the wait list for 2013.

Summer Love Vancouver Meet Up

Tuesday, August 21st, Vancouver, BC

My beautiful friend Danielle LaPorte and I are co-hosting a Summer Love Vancouver Meet Up on Tuesday, August 21st in Vancouver, BC. More details to follow, but for now, save the date! It will be a lovely, balmy summer evening time, most likely in Gastown.

Wanderlust – August 23 – 26, 2012, Whistler, BC, Canada

Join me at Wanderlust, where I’m a featured member of The Speakeasy Lecture Series.

The Speakeasy is Wanderlust Festival’s unique lecture series on subjects pertaining to the mindful life. With offerings from a wide range of presenters including prominent yoga teachers, wellness industry leaders, authors, musicians, and many others, the Speakeasy is just that — a casual experience where presenters can “speak easily”.

These are not stuffy lectures, but rather informal conversations that take place in an intimate lounge setting. Get comfy on the couch or cozy up on some cushy pillows, sip on some free tea and kombucha, and listen to some of the most fascinating people in the world of wellness talk about a wide range of topics including meditation, nutrition, technology, music, organics, spirituality, yoga, and more.

Since 2010, the Speakeasy Series has materialized into one of the most exciting parts of the Wanderlust festival. Click here to check out previous Speakeasy videos.

And a preview of coming attractions for the fall…

I Can Do It Ignite! - NYC

November 3-4, 2012: Javits Center ~ Special Events Hall 1D, New York City, NY

Join me at Hay House’s: I Can Do It Ignite! conference where I’ll be giving the Keynote, Money: A Love Story

The path to financial freedom is not what you think. Traditional financial advice misses the most important piece of the puzzle: love. Untangling your money woes has far more to do with your self worth than your net worth. I’m a financial freedom expert, having achieved financial freedom at the age of twenty-eight. II’ll teach you the crucial tools to living a life of financial abundance and joy that you won’t learn from your CPA, investment advisor, or financial planner.

I Can Do It Ignite! features 20 minute bursts of incredible wisdom from your favorite authors, speakers and visionaries.

Featuring cutting edge authors, speakers and documentary filmmakers in the mindful spirituality, health, holistic, and sustainability lifestyles movement. These trendsetting speakers will Ignite your passion with topics ranging from relationships, sexuality, finance, and personal transformation to mindfulness, youth empowerment, health and so much more!

Register today to reserve & occupy your seat and access that untapped energy & inspiration that exists in all of us! Is it time for you to be innovative with yourself & re-evaluate what you thought you knew?

“The universe loved me enough not to give me what I wanted so I could find out what I really wanted.” ~Agapi Stassinopoulos

The first time I remember becoming aware of Agapi Stassinopolous was when I saw a picture of her falling backwards onto a couch wearing a red dress in sheer bliss on her Facebook profile. I knew nothing about this woman, but I knew I wanted to know her.

And of course, as luck would have it, I found out that I would be speaking along with her and an abundant handful of other impressively inspirational folks at the Hay House Ignite conference coming up in March in San Jose (and again in November in New York City.)

I could go on and on about how warm, loving, genuine, hilarious, and contagiously joyful Agapi is (which you’ll see for yourself when you watch our interview below.) Since you’ll get a taste of it yourself, though, I’ll stick to a few juicy bullets on Agapi as an appetizer. Agapi is:

• The author of Unbinding the Heart: A Dose of Greek Wisdom, Generosity, and Unconditional Love, just published by Hay House this year
• A regular contributor to The Huffington Post
• Not only Greek herself, but also an expert on the Greek Gods and Goddesses and how we can use them to enhance our daily lives
• Very close with her sister, Arianna Huffington
• A trained actress (she trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London)
• Beautiful, inside and out

My dear friend, and previous Glimpse TV guest, Rochelle Schieck introduced Agapi and me and I was thrilled to have the chance to chat with her for Glimpse TV this past weekend. I walked in the door of her apartment and she immediately offered me lunch (so sweet!) and our conversation ran the gamut from love to spirituality to generosity to money to fame.

Tune in for this special Valentine’s Day episode of Glimpse TV to learn how to unbind your heart, a secret technique that Agapi uses to feel more free (she very rarely shares this with the public!), how acting in a bus changed Agapi’s life, and more. Then check out the links below to get a copy of Agapi’s book, connect with her on Facebook, and attend one of the many amazing events she has coming up to promote her book. I may see you at one or two of them!

Tweetables from this episode – simply click to share the love!

“We don’t have to wait for anyone to come and give us permission to have our gift.” ~ @agapisays w/ @katenorthrup on #GlimpseTV http://tinyurl.com/753rgw2

“Life is right now.” ~ @katenorthrup w/ @agapisays on #GlimpseTV http://katenorthrup.maryweise.com/?p=1620

“Don’t ever rush to decide on something.” ~ @agapisays w/ @katenorthrup on #GlimpseTV http://katenorthrup.maryweise.com/?p=1620

“I just give myself permission to trust.” ~ @agapisays w/ @katenorthrup on #GlimpseTV http://katenorthrup.maryweise.com/?p=1620

“Being still and calm is a great gift to ourselves and others.” ~ @agapisays w/ @katenorthrup on #GlimpseTV http://katenorthrup.maryweise.com/?p=1620

More Agapi:

Click here to buy Agapi’s new book, Unbinding the Heart

Click here to connect with Agapi on Facebook

Click here to connect with Agapi on Twitter

Click here to visit Agapi’s website and get your free guided meditation

Click here to RSVP for Agapi’s event with Deepak Chopra and Arianna Huffington in NYC on Wednesday, Feb 15th

Click here to RSVP for Agapi’s teleseminar with Hay House on February 22nd

 More thoughts or tips on opening your heart? Leave a comment and let us know what you’re thinking and feeling!

I find that when I skip the digestion step of everything that’s happened, I get cranky. I forget my blessings, I start finding myself wrong, and things kind of go bland. But when I take the time to notice all the good (and some of the challenges, as well) that I’ve just experienced, life gets back to its usual sparkly sheen.

In no particular order, here are the significant things that happened in 2011:

• I got rid of most of my stuff and left my home in NYC and hit the road on The Freedom Tour. (34,000+ miles by car, 30,000+ by plane, over 60 beds, hundreds of hours spent looking out the car window)
• I fell in love.
• I started and ended a business partnership with grace and love.
• I ended another business partnership that was a little tougher to unravel with just as much grace and love.
• I learned to say no far more often and with far less angst.
• I bought my first car.
• I sold my first apartment.
• I reached a level of financial abundance and consciousness I’ve never achieved before. (This manifested as making, giving, and saving more money.)
• I explored what freedom is and is not to me.
• I spoke in 18 cities in North America to hundreds of different people.
• I spent time with people, like my aunt and uncle Penny and Phil and my Granny, who I haven’t ever spent as much quality time with.
• I got a book deal.
• I individuated from my mom financially, business-wise, and emotionally. We are both all the better for it.
• I realized how much open space there is in this country. Having lived on the tiny island of Manhattan for 6 years this awareness calmed me down in a way I found surprising and refreshing.
• I gave myself a demotion and stepped down as the CEO of Team Northrup so that I can now focus on running my own show instead of other people’s. I’m now the co-creator which feels much more expansive.
• I was invited to become a part of Hay House’s new Ignite initiative, which is focusing on attracting a new generation of authors, speakers, and audience members.
• I started and maintained a 6 days a week meditation practice.
• I started teaching yoga at Yoga Shanti.
• I received profound support from friends and family on The Freedom Tour as Mike and I traversed the country. Thank you to all of you. You know who you are.
• I made new friends.
• I got better at doing nothing.

Some things that didn’t go as well as I had thought they would:

• I thought The Freedom Tour would be better for building my Team Northrup business but given my lack of strategic planning around this and my burn out early on in the trip, it wasn’t. That’s okay. It was really amazing for a lot of other reasons.
• I wanted to document The Freedom Tour more. I had visions of daily videos, more pictures, more updates, and more transmitting my adventures to my readers. But instead, I enjoyed a lot of adventures and precious moments that went undocumented. And because I was there in the experience instead of capturing it for the future I suppose this is really a good thing.
• I wanted to do more connecting with people I didn’t know on my travels. I had visions of tweetups, donation yoga classes, and meeting people at coffee shops to talk about freedom. That kind of conversation only happened once and I wrote about it here. It was enlightening, but not exactly what I had imagined. It turns out I’m scared to talk to strangers and sometimes I have social anxiety. Another lesson in learning that sometimes it’s okay, and even necessary, to do less.
• During The Freedom Tour I didn’t take that great care of my body and I ended the year with about ten extra pounds on me. Ooops! A reminder to prioritize self-care in 2012.

Luckily, far outnumbering the things that didn’t turn out the way I thought they would were wonderful things I hadn’t even thought to think up (like falling in love and getting a book deal!) So, overall the year ended significantly on the upside.

Taking everything I learned from 2011, I spent some time focusing on how I’d like to create 2012. I still have some more refining to do (using some of the tools recommended below). But I’m sharing my 2012 creation plan with you now, even though it’s not complete, because the idea that I could create the perfect 2012 plan and control how the year goes is not only absurd, it’s also exhausting.

Here are my 2012 intentions/goals/desires/creations:

• Tighten up my brand to clarify and expand upon my message of financial consciousness as an inroad to spiritual and emotional freedom.
• Write my first book.
• Launch my 2012 Mentoring Program.
• Take a tropical vacation with Mike.
• Follow my inner compass as my default setting instead of checking outside myself to see if I’m ok.
• Launch two or more digital products.
• Rock the stage at the Hay House I Can Do It Ignite events.
• Increase my USANA business revenue by 100%.
• Spend more time alone and more time doing nothing.
• Get better at asking for what I need/want.
• Continue to say no more often and with more grace.
• Dance more.
• Intentionally align with organizations that uplift and serve women such as Women For Women International.
• Prioritize self-care.
• Create The Freedom Family. (More on this soon and NO, I’m not planning on getting pregnant this year.)

Tools for 2012 Creation

Something I’m adding to my planning of the year this year that I’ve never done before is assigning measurable goals to each intention and then tracking them through the year. This is inspired by Chris Guillebeau’s Annual Review. I’ll also be scheduling specific events, actions, and goals into my calendar and breaking them into action steps using my new Getting Things Done system a-la David Allen.

Lastly, as I’m going through my intentions/desires/goals for 2012 I’ll be creating a list of things that I’ll be delegating to the universe. For example, if my goal is to enroll twelve people in my mentoring program, I may write down that I’ll be personally responsible for attracting six of them, and I’ll ask the universe to attract the other six. This will act as a reminder to myself that I’m not responsible for everything, that synchronicity and magic abounds, and that there’s help for me (and you) available at all times if I’m simply willing to ask.

If you’re wanting to some guidance in your 2011 review and 2012 creation, I recommend the following resources:

• Creating Your Magical Year by Molly Mahar (Molly interviewed me about how I wrap up the year and plan out the next one and I gave her some juicy, honest answers including sharing the family New Year’s Eve ritual we started when I was six. Click the green and yellow button on the right to get access to it.)
• Marie Forleo’s Free Planning Tool To Set & Reach Your Business Goals
• Chris Guillebeau’s How to Conduct Your Own Annual Review

What were some of your best moments of 2011?

What did you learn last year?

What are you thrilled to announce that you’ll be creating in 2012?

What do you think about doing a year in review and planning out your year in general?

Leave a comment!

Seriously, though, I think my mom is my biggest fan and I’m pretty sure I’m hers.

Our relationship isn’t perfect, but as far as mothers and daughters go I think we’ve got it pretty good. She’s paved the way for my sister and me, not to mention millions of other women, to be more free. Not only do I have my mom to thank for giving me life,  I also have her to thank for putting me on the path to financial freedom early on when she first handed me Robert Kiyosaki’s book Rich Dad, Poor Dad(If you haven’t done so already, buy this book and read it. Life. Changer.) So if it weren’t for her in more ways than one, The Freedom Tour wouldn’t ever have existed.

Here’s my favorite thing to do with my mom: LAUGH! Laugh so hard that we can’t breathe. Laugh so hard that we pee our pants. Laugh so hard that our faces hurt. Laugh so hard that we fall down.

Watch the video below if you want to laugh your face off with us. If you don’t giggle like crazy at the story we tell together I think you should double check to see if you have a pulse. Tune in to this very special episode of Glimpse TV to find out:

• how to take an incredible picture with a real smile every time,
• what my mom means when she says she was “born funny”,
• how to break the mother-daughter chain of pain,
• how family members keep one another stuck and how to get yourself unstuck,
• the scientific reason why we are so desperate to please our mothers,
• and, of course, hysterical laughter!

For more of my mom, aka Dr. Christiane Northrup:

www.drnorthrup.com

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Her books: Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom; Mother-Daughter Wisdom, and The Wisdom of Menopause (newly updated and revised!)

Spread the love and tweet about this episode of Glimpse TV:

I think as we get older we get funnier.~@coachoncall to @drchrisnorthrup via @katenorthrup #glimpsetv http://bit.ly/sbsGB2

If it’s worth taking seriously, it’s worth making fun of. @drchrisnorthrup to @katenorthrup #glimpsetv http://bit.ly/sbsGB2

@DrChrisNorthrup’s fail-proof tip for looking good in every picture you take: #glimpsetv w/ @katenorthrup http://bit.ly/sbsGB2

Scientific reason we want 2 please our mothers + what 2 do about it: #glimpsetv w/ @DrChrisNorthrup and @katenorthrup http://bit.ly/sbsGB2

Something happened to me this year and I got unscared. ~@DrChrisNorthrup to @katenorthrup #glimpsetv http://bit.ly/sbsGB2

Fear is excitement w/o the breath. ~Robert Heller via @katenorthrup to @DrChrisNorthrup #glimpsetv http://bit.ly/sbsGB2

What in your life are you taking seriously that you might try making fun of after hearing from my mom? When do you feel most free? Other thoughts and comments welcome. Leave them below!

Cheryl basically put life coaching on the map and is a world-renowned speaker, author, and coach. My favorite of her books is The Art of Extreme Self-Care (pay special attention to the chapters “You’re So Sensitive” and “Let Me Disappoint You”.) Louise Hay is one of the pioneers of the personal growth industry, making waves with her first book You Can Heal Your Life, and going on to found a publishing company, Hay House, which is the top inspirational and self-help publishing house in the world. You can imagine what incredible wisdom ended up in You Can Create an Exceptional Life with this dynamic duo co-authoring it.

Go get your copy of the book and then tune in for my chat with Cheryl where you’ll learn about the triathlon of self-care, what’s difficult for Cheryl that she’s learned to accept about herself, how to give yourself the freedom to not have it together, the best source of wisdom that most people don’t take the time for, the surprising place where Cheryl got her best speaking training early in her career, and more. Plus, stay tuned until the end for a special duet between Cheryl and me that you won’t want to miss!

For more Cheryl visit www.cherylrichardson.com and connect with her on Facebook and Twitter.