A Week In The Life Of Kate April 20, 2026

Back from the doc. Working on a fix to Coffee with Claude that is coming up tech wise. Ended up trying to fix a few other things at the same time and finally got our sponsorship media kit published, which was perfect time because we had a brand reach out about sponsoring us.

Tended to Gem for a bit, responded to a couple quick emails and now…

Gotta write an email to go out today about our next Weird Hermits Roundtable happening Thursday. Register here btw.

Got interrupted by my father-in-law calling from the hospital. He’s hopefully going home tomorrow and it is truly the miracle of all miracles. I can’t even tell you how shocking his speedy recovery has been. Even the doctors are like, umm… you know this is not normal right? Only 40% of people on ECMO even survive, let alone go home 2 weeks later. It’s insanity, in the best way. It clearly was not his time to go.

Done with that email, going to respond to others in my inbox now before my call.

Mastermind call with my fellow pod leaders in the Mixermind. This is a 3-hour call and I need to be super present for it, which is tricky today, but going to do my best.

Whew, that was a long one. I got a little sidetracked towards the end trying to get some other things done. Interestingly, I used my hot seat to talk about feeling a little bored in my business because things are working well and even though I haven’t met my 2026 goal of $1k/Day in profit yet, I’m not stressed about it in the slightest because my systems are working and I genuinely love my business. And the goal is really more for fun, not for needs.

It’s a weird thing to feel both bored and sometimes overwhelmed. I think I create these big to do lists because I have so many ideas and things always take 5x longer than I think they will and having a team helps me take things off my plate and also adds other things to my plate like managing them, reviewing and sometimes editing their work, communicating with them etc.

And emails never stop coming in, do they?

But in other ways, I’ve got the business down to such a science now, with such steady systems and consistent income that I think I’m feeling a need to flex some creative muscles right now because I’m not doing as much with new offers and new business models and so much of my work is just optimizing things that are already working well to work even better… and that’s kinda boring.

It’s also amazing, like I am so incredibly grateful to be in this position and this is everything I’ve worked toward and I should just relax and enjoy it… which I do… and also…

I keep playing around with new branding designs, palettes, etc. because it’s so fun and easy to do in Claude, for example. I actually sent my Weird Hermits this text over the weekend:

Just a silly example of where I think my boredom is maybe coming out sideways. Anyway, I’d love to talk more about this if it’s interesting to anyone, just ask me some questions. I’m struggling a bit to articulate this and maybe bored isn’t quite the right word. But it’s something boredom-adjacent.

One of my mixer minders suggested that this is a pattern of mine and that usually I close sell or start a new business every five-ish years, and I'm not doing that. I haven't done it for a few years. I've been doing Success with Soul since 2019, and even though I've changed my offers, I haven't really changed the business, and I'm not planning to because I love it and it's working. There's also something unsettling about continuing to do the same things for long periods of time that my anxious brain is struggling with a bit.

I think I'm finding ways to get creative by leaning more into AI and spending time on those tools, creating new things there, but I'm not sure if that's actually the best use of my time or creating these new branding skills and new pages and designs based on them, because it's so fun! I don't even really know what I'm saying here; I'm definitely rambling and maybe feeling brain dead. Maybe it's just something that feels sticky, and it makes me wonder with everything going on in my personal life and my father-in-law being in the ICU for a few weeks and Gemma being home sick for a week and spring break and leaving for Santa Fe in just over a month. I don't know; I wonder what's here for me, so I'll probably need to journal on that later.

Going inside to check on the kids and fam. Mattie’s been with them since I was on my call and I need to see what’s what.

Ohhhh boy. I walked in to Jackson sitting in front of a brand new pack of oreos, two sleeves totally gone and the guiltiest grin on his face. Matt ended up having to take a work call and… you can guess what happened from there. Eeek! Tonight should be… interesting. Either a lot of hyperactivity or a lot of toilet time, lol.

Went upstairs to guilt Matt, even though I am equally responsible for leaving our hungry, feral children alone in the pantry for an hour and now I need to feed them actual dinner.

Poor Gemma bean has a 103 fever, so she has no interest in food and I’m reheating pork chops (Jackie’s fave) from last night’s dinner for the rest of us, with green beans and Chex Mix because it’s just that kind of night.

Our housekeeper is sick today so I’m thankful I made extras for last night’s dinner. Last week she started helping us with cooking (I send her the recipes and Claude creates a ClickUp task for her of what she needs to do to prep the meals for us so we just have to reheat/assemble). It was amazing having delicious, homecooked food last week, especially for lunches and dinners and we didn’t order takeout all week which is a first for us in years!).

Then we had to tag team because Jackson wanted to roller blade in the house (obvi) and someone needed to go pick up Gem’s antibiotics so cocktails were made and life was lived and we made it through.

Pretty clear, Gem is going to be home with us again tomorrow which is rough because I’ve got calls ALL DAY since it’s Tuesday. And I haven’t gotten to anything in ClickUp, once again. This is the bane of my existence. I hate knowing that people are waiting on me, that I’m holding them up, that I’m wasting time/money… and yet this is a tale as old as time. A pattern I’ve been repeating ever since I hired more people to help me in the biz.

I’m going to go be with the fam now and then come back to CU maybe after bedtime… we’ll see how I feel. On the one hand, nothing is urgent and we’re not creating oxygen. On the other hand… everything I just said above. LOL.

NOTE: Didn’t end up looking at my computer again all night. Just didn’t feel like it. I wound up stretching and doing some mobility exercises while talking to my husband for a while, then he went upstairs to work and I watched a Paley talk with the cast of Shrinking (one of my fave shows!) and played my newest game addiction now that Little Farm Story is over. Yarn Fever is like a puzzle of untangling yarns and it’s deceptively simple and totally addictive. I take the same approach of trying to listen to a book while I play, which I did after the TV episode ended until I fell asleep.

Room co-working call. I was able to get 2 emails scheduled to go out re: Watch Me Build: NotebookLM edition, so that was a great way to feed two birds with one seed.

JV Webinar for Allison Hardy’s audience. The webinar went well, though attendance was really low and the chat was darn near crickets. No sales, but several people asked questions at the end and said they were very interested.

Finished the webinar faster than expected, which is honestly a good thing because it means I got to the pitch quicker and figured out how to be more concise and effective with my messaging (I hope!). I actually want to upload the transcript to Claude and have it compare my past few webinars to see. Stay tuned.

My sister-in-law was in the living room with Gem coloring and we ended up going outside to play and chat for a couple hours. She left around 5:30 and I feel so grateful to have such an empathetic, soulful woman in my family now. My brother did real good!

I needed to respond to a few Voxer clients in the partnership program so Gem brought her barbies to the front porch to play while I chatted with them.

We decided to walk up the street to get pizza and ice cream for dinner, as Jackson’s friend took him to soccer as a favor to me and they were going out for pizza afterwards. Thankfully my anxiety seems to have calmed way down, but I am so dead tired, which always happens after a big panic attack. Just wipes you out.

So after Jackson got dropped off, we rested on the couch for a bit, then took showers and everyone, including me, went to bed at 8:30.

Of course I stayed up on my phone doing a bit of research about the connection between POTS and panic disorder and for what feels like the millionth time in the last couple months, something called MCAS keeps coming up. I’m going to talk to my docs about that to see if there’s something there for me, though I had put myself on a strict “no talking to AI about health stuff” ban for the past 2 months. I broke last night and I’m hopeful that it did more good than harm.

Thankfully the cat woke me up meowing in my face because my alarm was going off… on silent… again. If you’ve been following a while you might remember my phone did this for a hot minute last year and I could never figure it out. Apparently it’s back.

No matter, got up, got BOTH kids off to school (WIN WIN WIN!) without a hitch and Gemma even took her nasty antibiotics (if Augmentin tastes even half as bad as it smells, I feel for her!) and ear drops without a full blown meltdown.

After I dropped the kids off, I went to Target to get some cleansing oil because I ran out last night and a new moisturizer and body wash. So nice being there first thing in the morning before anyone else. I love a quiet store.

Back home and going straight up to bed. I am still so tired from yesterday and very much looking forward to my no call day so I can be full on potato and just chill, sleep and work from bed.

Spent the next half hour responding to the $1k/Day Telegram messages I missed yesterday from office hours due to my hellacious anxiety. Then answered some Voxer clients and Skool comments.

Finally hungry (I’ve barely eaten since yesterday because I’d been so nauseous) so I decide to order some bagels and take a stroll up the street to pick them up. Gorgeous spring day in Atlanta, although there’s some really horrible wild fires happening in South Georgia due to the drought we’ve been having so air quality is a potential issue. Bummer because I’d like to spend my day alternating between my bed and my front porch. We’ll see how it goes. Praying for the folks down there to stay safe and also to Mother Nature to bring us so much needed rain.

Decide to give Rachel a call to chat through some things going on behind the scenes in the biz, not quite ready to share the details here due to privacy concerns but we had a great chat and I’m always so grateful for her brain and heart to bounce ideas off of. She’s just always got my back!

LOL we can talk. I always intend to have like a 15 minute convo but that ended up being 75 minutes. Oops! As much as I hate calls, Rachel and I were talking about how an impromptu call feels so fun and life giving vs scheduled calls which can feel like obligations. Why is that? More to journal on later!

Ended up calling my brother and SIL to thank them for their help yesterday. Chatted for a bit, made a quick URL/hosting fix to a new lead magnet I released last week thanks to Claude (check it out here).

Updating this doc because I hadn’t written anything since yesterday. Yesterday was just not my day. Chronic health issues and panic disorder can be so debilitating. The support I’ve received from y’all has been so kind and generous and loving! Thank you. It truly means more to me than you’ll probably ever know. This isn’t easy and especially being vulnerable publicly, AND I’m so grateful I get to do this alongside you.

Alright… I feel like I’m just starting my day now somehow. I was pretty reactive this morning catching up on some things and now I need to slow down and think about what I actually want/need to do today. Coffee with Claude, here I come.

• Unblock team members in ClickUp
• Write Sustainable CEO Summit promo email
• Write WSL
• Write March income report
• Clean out inbox

I need a break. I’ve been writing and working in Claude for the past 2 hours and I really just want to be sleeping. My body feels so heavy today. I’m still in bed as I write this.

All right, got outside for a bit, watched a little TV, made myself a snack, and ready to get back to work! I'll be honest, I did not track my time well, and I was multitasking and jumping between a lot of things, mostly cleaning out my inbox, writing the whole soul list, and getting the HTML published. I don't know what happened to Claude today, but it was being such a dumbass, and it was driving me crazy, because I swear it was getting dumber! I've heard of this happening before, but I'd never experienced it myself, so hopefully it was a fluke and we'll be smart again tomorrow. It just kept making so many dumb mistakes.

Closing the laptop. Like I said, I didn't track my time well. The kids were gone with Matt at OT until about 7:00, and they came home and I did a few things with them, but mostly stayed on my laptop on the couch because I was so tired. Since Matt had just gotten home from his trip, he was on dad duty, making them dinner and giving them baths and showers. That's what it was like. I know the last hour of work time was mostly spent cleaning out my inbox, but it doesn't make sense to me when I look back on this what I did for the other three and a half hours.

I know I was doing some stuff in Skool. I know I was messing around with things in Claude and reading my end-of-day wind-down report and trying to fix a couple of other scheduled tasks in Claude. I have a new task that I created the other day that is supposed to find all of my marketing emails that we send to our list and turn them into Skool posts for me, but it kind of backfired yesterday. I was fixing that, and I do find that, with setting up new tasks, the first few runs require a bit of back-and-forth to get it right, but then it's usually good moving forward.

Oh and I reviewed the email Rachel wrote for Friday, which mentioned that we just wrapped our 24th Get it Done Week! WOW!! It feels really like a big milestone that we've done 24. It's also helpful for me to see that I can stick to things. I think I'm in this mindset right now, with the feeling of being a little bored, that I'm always changing things, but doing something 24 times is direct evidence to the contrary.

The kids go to bed. I remember that I forgot to water the plants today, so I go out and turn the sprinklers on and start listening to my book and playing my yarn game. By 10:00 I'm up in bed too.

Really excited to see that we got a PIF sale of MBA yesterday from FB ads, someone going through the funnel and buying on Day 3.

Wake up, read some newsletters on my phone in bed. Decide to finally get out of bed around 8:45 and take a shower, get ready for the day. Listen to Brenda Rigley speak at AI That Sellsabout Skool. Get approximately 1 million ideas.

Outside on the front porch for Coffee with Claude. Then catching up in Skool and Telegram, mostly with my peer mastermind. That chat has been POPPING OFF lately.

My housekeeper arrived and we chatted on the porch for a bit. I love her so much, I’m the luckiest.

Neighbor walked by and said she just saw Jackson at Field Day and he’s never looked happier. Sent me this pic. Is he not the cutest? Got another one of Gemma bean from another neighbor. Grateful for our little community!

​​

Onboarding call with Beehiiv. Super excited about this migration even though I do feel a bit overwhelmed by it. I had Claude create a checklist for me to help me figure out what needs to happen first and get clear. I think I’m ready to take the leap but need to make sure I have the time to do it so I feel like I need to pick a week on my calendar… and actually next week looks pretty good except for Tuesday is jammed with calls.

Off my call, answering a few emails and text messages (specifically, following up with Jenna Kutcher and Amy Porterfield about some opps I’m pitching them to coincide with all the social media news, and then with my friend Gemma about sponsoring AI Unlocked this year).

Now moving back out to the porch for some gorgeous Jasmine-scented work time in the great outdoors.

Alright, I need to do a little prep for the Watch Me Build happening at 1 pm. Sent my friend Monica Froese a quick message to see what her fave data sources are to upload to NotebookLM so got a few ideas from her.

Okay that’s done. I just needed to open up a bunch of tabs and think about how I might build this thing, but the rest is really happening live so not too much prep. Quick break to feed the dog and find the turmeric for Nicoleta.

Not much time to get into anything too detailed so I think I’m going to just respond to a few more outstanding emails until the call.

Watch Me Build…

Weird Hermits Roundtable

Weird Hermits mastermind meeting

OMG y’all. I just got off with my mastermind. This group can TALK! We’re brainstorming this really cool collab strategy I can’t wait to share more about as things progress. Gotta keep it pretty hush hush for now but I’m stoked by the idea.

Kids are home now and I’m going to go be with them. Gem wants to stuff her party favor bags for her birthday in a couple weeks since Amazon just delivered them. Then we ended up going for a walk and over to the farmer’s market, which is across the street from our house every Thursday, and hanging with some friends. Jackson had his piano lesson, and then we played soccer in the yard before kids started melting down, came in to eat mac and cheese and play go fish, take baths and before I knew it, it was bed time.

Kids are asleep, Mattie and I both have some work we need to do so we’re curled up on the couch together listening to Nick Mulvey with our laptops and a glass of wine. I’m mostly just playing around in Claude and doing some health research actually.

MCAS keeps coming up as something that is often in a triad with POTS and CTD/hEDS and I want to understand more about it. Ending up finding a doctor here in Atlanta who specializes in this, watched a Youtube video she did about it (FASCINATING!) and then went to bed.