Christy Whitman s Interview with Kat Loterzo
Having it all is not about striving for perfection, or about living our lives according to someone else s standards or expectations (we ve done that for far too long). It s not about working ourselves to a state of exhaustion, spreading ourselves too thin, or trading inner peace and contentment for outer trinkets of success. Been there. Done that too. Having it all simply means having access to all of yourself, in any moment you choose it, and in every aspect of life that is important to you. Go here to learn exactly how you too, can Have it All
4 Questions with Christy Whitman C: I would like to ask you how do you define having your all in your life? Kat: to me it s really about getting to the heart of what you are about on a soul level and I think it s so easy on the rush, rush, rush to achieve as women to get caught up in this is my ideal happiness and this is what I need if I have this body if I have the money if I have the business the relationship all of these things that are important to us but we can usually forget the inner core of who we are. So to me having it all means stopping and saying maybe I want the body money business house and travel because it s cool but what is that really about. So having it all is looking at the surface stuff you see as important or exciting or cool, but saying why is that really important to me? And what does it really mean because me I ve always been drawn to the idea of being an entrepreneur I knew from an early age that s what I would do but when I really started to look at it I thought the goal is money and recognition and having an impact all of those things were important to me but it wasn t until I stopped and sat back and said I am making the money I ve got recognition and I am helping people but why do I feel like I don t have it all when I do and when everybody says to me you are so lucky. It wasn t until I started asking myself why is that money important to you why is the life style and business important to you and why is living in that location important to you and I dug to the core that what it was really about was choice. Having it all to me means having a choice and freedom and that manifest itself for me in the way I choose to run my business how I look after my health and fitness and how I am with my partner and children and with all of it. So rather than saying okay I m going to chase this money goal this business goal or this body goal, and I say okay my goal is choice and freedom so what are the different ways I can achieve choice and freedom and maybe a doesn t look exactly the same as I thought it would ve first so my question to those watching is look at what s important to you and what you define having it all by and then asking yourself what is it actually about, what am I chasing because that s what having it all is to finding what you really are chasing and turning everything on its head and following your goals from a different point of view. It probably looks the same to most people from the outside looking in your life you got the money the fitness the family but note it comes from a completely different place and it s about alignment and I think that s what I stand for if you have to bring it down to one word in alignment and it sounds like cliché or corny but everything will fall into place. You have to go out and do work and make it happen but start in the right place.
C: What s the core belief that you hold to be true either about yourself or the universe for you to really experience your life where you are really having it all? Kat: it is choice. My belief is we have infinite choice and everything that we do in our lives and it s amazing but it s also potentially scary it s exhilarating but it s quite daunting to really consider and properly take consideration to how much choice you have because you back your life and paint why didn t I realized sooner or let myself be led down this path and why am I here now but it be to where you are now and you can look forward and say I have choice but with the choice comes incredible power and I can truly do whatever I set my mind to anything I want to do is possible for me and I can have it all but to have it all you do have to go out there and take it all and you also have to make a choice to choose and I think that s very important because a lot of us by default if we are not sure or uncertain we kind of play head in the sand I m not going to look I will pretend I don t know but we know and you can t run from yourself, you can run but you can t hide from yourself in the end. You have to make a choice there is no in between you are either in or you re out in any area of your life so the whole sitting on a fence thing, when you re sitting on the fence and making a choice to not choose which is paraphrasing Tony Robbins. It s one of my favorite sayings of all times and the other thing is when you recognize how much choice you to happen you really have to look at your goals and dreams and white were living life and say if I know I have it all and I can choose anything that might the hell my choosing this? If you are not happy in certain areas of it and even to go bigger the material goals that sometimes is entrepreneurs and women we think it s bad to want that or is it wrong to set a goal to make millions maybe I should be happy with this might be grateful for what I have. Yes you can be grateful for what you have but it doesn t mean you re a bad person to want a multimillion dollar business or a billion-dollar business or impact millions of people rather than 100s of people whatever your goal is go big or go small, but just choose because you can choose you don t have to choose small. You were never done just because you finally jumped up and made that choice doesn t mean you can stop now you have to keep going and that constant for everyone that s the joy of it to realize that.
C: So when you re in that state, in that present moment and you really feel like you do have it all, can you just describe what it is of that essence of how you feel? Kat: I use the word alignment but the word that really speaks to me and what it s really all about to me is flow it s just that state of flow. You probably read the book which is a really famous book called Flow, but it s all about this knowledge that everything is exactly as it should be and you might be writing at a brilliant miles an hour having a brilliant day doing 1 million different things you might be calm and have a day of rest and relaxation with your family it doesn t matter what you are doing well you are with what energy output or how much sleep you had one of the details matter it s just the feeling of I am completely in my zone of genius I am completely within me and I m being 100% me. It s really important all areas of life but I find it s particularly important in business for those who are conscious of getting your message out to the world because when you are in the state of alignment operating from the place of flow nobody can touch you. So firstly there is no competition because nobody else will win it then you and secondly people say I don t like the way you do that or maybe worse when you have the person but it is a matter because you are being you, you can t criticize me for being me where is not in a place of flow alignment and I m trying hard to do what I should do to achieve certain goals in other areas of my life and I m pushing myself to do it but I worry it s not quite right then I will crumble easily when something happens to shake my confidence or my belief because you don t have real confidence or belief I operate from a place of this is what I should do or have to do now where really this is operating from a place of flow.
C: What is one tip so others can feel that essence in their lives? Kat: I think it s actually the thing that I use as my tagline in anything I ever say or write or speak I always finish by saying life is now, press play. That s been my tagline since 2007 I said to somebody the other day it s the one thing in my business if I look back that s the only thing that I haven t changed which is interesting because my business has evolved in massive ways. The one thing as you have to realize that you have no more time to continue living the wrong life, zero, you don t get to put this off for another day week or month not even another minute because it s so easy to say well today is a crazy day so I will do it right away I will do it I m on board life is now press play and I will do it tomorrow. No not even tomorrow you start to find a way of life that you want to live now and it could be as simple as a decision in your mind it doesn t mean you have to spend six hours online setting up a business in one day but there is no more time left to live the wrong life because it s going to keep taken on by the matter what you do and don t tell me you re not looking back a year ago and having the same goals and dreams that you ve got right now that you have taken action on yet. I say that not from the place of wanting to kick anybody s ass, although am happy to do that but I say it with love because I said it to myself millions of times and I continue to do so and it s so easy to have these big dreams and goals that to get put off I ve just go to finish one other project or just have to get on top of this area of my life I just have to catch up I m not quite ready I m not quite sure no, none of that you just have to do it now. You only have now you only have this moment and if you want to know exactly where you will be in 60 90 120 days from now I can tell you just look at the last 30 days and create the average that s where you are going to be so if you want to be somewhere different, it starts now, in this moment, today.
Kat Loterzo Kat Loterzo is a best-selling author, speaker and entrepreneur and runs her multiple 6-figure businesses at www.katloterzo.com and www.womanincredible.com Kat built a half million dollar a year business teaching women how to take control of their bodies, get in shape, and start living life on their terms before moving on to create her business mastermind The 30k Club and her dream biz and life creation program The Dream Life Academy where she now teaches other equally driven women how to get over their stuff once and for all and finally make their dreams their reality. Kat has been featured in numerous national and international publications such as Oxygen Magazine, Dumb Little Man, Sarah Wilson, the front page of Melbourne s Herald Sun and Ymag for Entrepreneurs. When not writing, speaking or coaching Kat can often be found hanging out in online masterminds with other 7-figure female entrepreneurs, brainstorming and whipping up new ideas to take on the world and make her own and her clients dreams into a daily reality. Right at this moment, no matter how you are feeling, no matter how in debt you might be, no matter how old you are or how much you weigh, and no matter what the condition of your relationships might be, you have the power to re-create yourself and your life exactly the way you desire it to be and quite frankly, the way you deserve it to be. Regardless of how big a gap exists between what you want and what you currently have, within you is the ability to effortlessly and joyfully bridge that gap in virtually every aspect of your life. You can have it all, how you define it, how you want it. You do have the power to create it. Go here to learn exactly how you can start having it all today!