One on One Coaching

For Doers Ready to Master Being
Intensive, no-nonsense support for high achievers who take care of business at the expense of taking care of themselves.

This Is Not Group Coaching. This Is Not a Program. This Is a Partnership.
A smiling woman with short gray hair wearing a black top and silver earrings, posed against a plain light background.
Katie's 1:1 coaching is designed for a very specific type of person: the high achiever who's exhausted from doing everything for everyone, who's over the overwhelm and the paralyzing bullying self-talk, and who's ready to do the actual work of designing a life that nourishes them from the bedroom to the boardroom.

This is intensive, private coaching. Limited spots. High commitment. Premium support.

If you're looking for quick hacks or surface-level advice, this isn't for you.

But if you're tired of trying to figure it out alone, frustrated by how long it takes and how hard it is, and ready for someone who has your back in ways you've had everyone else's but never your own—keep reading.

How Katie's Coaching Works

The Structure

Duration: Can range from 3-12 months 

Format: Virtual

Between Sessions: Proprietary frameworks, homework exercises, and accountability assignments to keep momentum

Access: Direct support between sessions for urgent questions or breakthrough moments

The Methodology

Katie uses her proprietary b.nourished framework to help you change the way you change: from bullying to befriending, from critical to curious, from defeated to delighted, from overwhelmed to overjoyed.

This isn't about adding more to your plate. It's about fundamentally shifting how you approach yourself, your time, your boundaries, and your non-negotiables.

You'll work on:
  • Identifying the habits, stories, and systems keeping you overcommitted and undernourished
  • Building sustainable boundaries without guilt or apology
  • Creating self-care systems that actually stick (not someday, right now)
  • Developing the inner voice that supports instead of sabotages
  • Designing a life that reflects your priorities instead of your burnout
  • Maximizing impact and input without minimizing/reducing/denourishing yourself
Katie provides:
  • Compassionate tough love (emphasis on both)
  • Proprietary frameworks and tools
  • Concrete transformative homework between sessions
  • Accountability that actually works
  • Permission to choose yourself

Who Katie Coaches

Katie works with two primary types of clients, each with distinct challenges:

High-Achieving Women: Drowning in "Too Muchness"

Typically, Katie's female clients are successful women who don't feel like they themselves are enough, despite doing more than enough for everyone around them. They're exhausted from being the good girl, the dependable one, the person who never says no to anyone, or anything else but herself.

Male Executives: Navigating Life's Crossroads

Katie's male clients are typically men who have run organizations, large teams, massive initiatives and are now at a crossroads of life, business, or both. They're having trouble navigating the next chapter and seek purpose, fulfillment, and a clear vision for what's next.

What Makes Katie's Coaching Different

She's Been There:

Katie isn't coaching from theory. She speaks from the ashes of her own burnout, her own rebuild, her own hard-won wisdom about sustainable performance.

She Tells the Truth:

Katie will tell you what you need to hear, not what you want to hear. Being a "good girl" or "good boy" isn't always the answer.

She Holds You Accountable:

Katie meets you wherever you are in life and takes you where you want to go. Hand in hand. But she won't let you hide behind excuses or sell your soul in the name of productivity.

She Uses Proven Frameworks:

This isn't woo-woo coaching. Katie uses her proprietary methodologies, tracks progress, assigns concrete work, and measures outcomes.

She Has Limited Availability:

Katie only takes on clients she knows she can truly help and she only takes a handful of clients at a time to preserve the concierge attentiveness you deserve. This keeps the quality of support high and ensures every client gets her full attention.

What Coaching Clients Achieve

Based on tracked outcomes from past clients:
  • Reduced burnout scores and increased energy
  • Sustainable boundary-setting in work and personal life
  • Elimination or significant reduction of negative self-talk
  • Clarity on priorities and what actually matters
  • Systems that support wellbeing instead of draining it
  • Improved relationships (because you're no longer depleted)
  • Professional performance that doesn't cost you everything
  • The ability to show up for yourself the way you show up for others

Most importantly: A fundamentally different relationship with yourself that lasts well beyond the engagement.

The Investment

Katie's 1:1 coaching is a premium service with limited availability. Investment varies based on engagement length, format, and specific needs.
To discuss whether coaching is right for you and receive investment details:

Is Katie's Coaching Right for You?

This coaching is right for you if you are:
  • A high achiever exhausted from doing everything for everyone
  • Drowning in "too muchness" or at a life/career crossroads
  • Over the overwhelm and ready to do something about it
  • Willing to do the work (not just talk about it)
  • Ready to invest in yourself the way you invest in everyone else
  • Making the decision to commit to sessions and homework
This coaching is NOT right for you if you are:
  • Looking for quick fixes or magical solutions
  • Only interested in having someone tell you what you want to hear
  • Not ready to examine hard truths about your habits and patterns
  • Expecting change without doing the actual work
  • Seeking spa-day self-care advice

What People Say

"Katie's words are ninjas, synaptic mercenaries bringing clarity to a chaotic mind."
TJ Bennet
"Working with Katie was life-changing. She helped me see that self-neglect was actually selfish. Now I show up as my best self, for myself and everyone around me."

Self-Care Isn't Selfish: It's Your Duty

Unapologetically Taking Care of Yourself While Taking Care of Business
Designed for women's leadership initiatives, ERGs, and high-potential programs

Let's Be Real

You've heard the term "self-care." You probably even know a little bit about it. You know you should prioritize it more. You add it to your offensively long to-do list, reassuring yourself that you will get to it, only to have it cascade to the very bottom again.

You know you should make healthy decisions. That your mental and physical health are important.

But when it comes to self-care, most of us are asleep.

Lulled into complacency by the deluded promise that tomorrow will be different. That is, until a massive personal tragedy or crisis wakes us up and scares the hell out of us.

Katie McDonald believes it doesn't have to be that way.

 

The Wake-Up Call

If you're ready to stop sleepwalking (and you are), this speech will hit you like a sound-barrier-shattering alarm clock with a busted snooze button.

You'll learn how to liberate yourself from destructive, self-sacrificing habits by being deLIBERATE in your self-care. This speech will challenge you to take action in your own life—immediately—and give you the tools you need to do it.

What if you stopped apologizing and started advocating for yourself?

Aren't you curious what life would be like when you are truly nourished by your habits and mindset? When you walk out of this speech, you'll emerge refreshed, alive with purpose and a contagious passion to show up for yourself the way you show up for everyone else.

The Core Message

Why do we expect so much of ourselves in every area of our lives except self-care, where somehow mediocrity is tolerated?

Self-care is a duty. It's our responsibility to bring our most evolved selves to the table. In telling ourselves we don't have permission and we are too busy, we have become damsels in distress. But only we can rescue ourselves. We are the knights in shining armor we've been waiting for. Suit up.

Self-care is an act of defiance in a society conditioning us to be martyrs and saints. Saying yes to ourselves and our legitimate needs must mean saying no to someone else. And we all know good girls don't say no. If they do, they're guilty. Naughty even.

We honorably over-function for everyone else and in doing so, we underperform for ourselves. Our compulsion to serve is as primal as a bull facing a red flag. And God it feels good. Until it doesn't. The superhero cape chokes us, strangling our needs, depriving us of oxygen.

We cannot resist someone in need unless that someone is us.

So we deny our right to self-care and in doing so, make us the ones in need of rescue.

What Attendees Will Learn:

  • Why self-neglect is actually selfish (and self-care is your responsibility)
  • How to be a mentor and model, not a martyr
  • The relationship between self-care and leadership effectiveness
  • Concrete strategies to implement immediately
  • Permission to choose themselves without guilt

Perfect for:

  • Women's leadership conferences and summits
  • Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) focused on women
  • High-potential women's development programs
  • Organizations committed to women's advancement
  • Annual women's retreats and professional development days

Industries that love this keynote:

  • Healthcare (where caring for others is the culture)
  • Education (where teachers/administrators give constantly)
  • Professional services (where billable hours rule)
  • Non-profit sector (where mission drives sacrifice)
  • Any organization with women in leadership

Katie-isms featured in this keynote

"Self-care isn't selfish. It's your duty."
"How dare you deprive us of your best self?"
"Self-neglect is selfish."
"We are the knights in shining armor we've been waiting for."
"Be a mentor and model, not a martyr."
"Rest is rebellious."
"We cannot be good girls and good to ourselves. Choose you this time."

What Makes This Different from Other "Women's Empowerment" Talks

Katie doesn't do empowerment theater. She does truth-telling. This isn't a feel-good pep talk that everyone forgets by Monday. It's a paradigm shift that challenges deeply held beliefs about women's roles, responsibilities, and right to their own attention.
Katie speaks from her own experience of self-sacrifice nearly killing her. She knows what it's like to believe everyone else's needs matter more. To be drowning in "too muchness" while feeling like you're not enough.
This keynote gives women permission to rescue themselves. And the tools to actually do it.

Testimonials

"Her session provided attendees with useful tools to better manage their own well-being while supporting their organizations."
Gary Dawson
Director of Learning and Development, EANE
"Working with Katie was incredibly easy. You can tell that she's truly trying to make an impact on the lives of those that she speaks to."
Michelle Buettner,
Women in Energy Global Program Manager
Logistics
Duration
30, 45, or 60 minutes (customizable)

Format
Keynote, workshop, or fireside chat
Delivery
In-person or virtual

Language
Female-focused (can be adapted)

Reclaiming the ME in tiME™

tiME Management Keynote: Getting Sh!t Done Without Coming Undone
For the doers who love to get things done... until they don't.

The Reality Check

You love to get things done. It's who you are and how you roll. But sometimes you wonder if it's all doable.

Meeting after meeting, deal after deal, deadline after deadline. Tasks topple your bulging inbox and demand more and more from you. It might feel like you have to choose between taking care of business and taking care of yourself.

Maybe you're starting to come undone in service to getting things done.

Katie McDonald learned the hard way that it doesn't have to be that way. Circling the drain, Katie's addiction to doing took her to hell. She returned scorched and emboldened to share with her tribe of doers what she learned along the way.

What This Keynote Delivers

This engaging keynote empowers audiences with time-tested strategies to reclaim the ME in tiME management and shift from human doing to human being.

Attendees learn:

  • Why ME management (not time management) is the answer
  • How to parent ourselves with the same care we give others
  • Concrete practices for sustainable productivity
  • The difference between being busy and being effective
  • How to heed the tick of your heart, not just the tick of the clock

Because taking care of you IS taking care of business.

The Core Message

Time management is a fallacy. Time is fixed. We are not.

tiME management sits at the intersection of self-care and self-discipline. It's about managing ourselves, not our calendars. About making space for the ME in tiME before we come completely undone.

This keynote isn't about bubble baths and bonbons. It's about the fundamental practices that actually work when you're someone who gets sh!t done.
Ideal Audiences:
  • High achievers drowning in their to-do lists
  • Teams experiencing burnout from relentless productivity culture
  • Organizations where "busy" has become a badge of honor
  • Leaders who want their teams to perform sustainably
  • Anyone who's forgotten there's a person behind the productivity
What Makes This Keynote Different

Katie doesn't speak from theory. She speaks from the ashes of her own burnout and rebuild. She knows what it's like to circle the drain. To be so addicted to doing that you lose yourself completely.

This Keynote is:

  • Grounded in lived experience, not just research
  • Practical and immediately implementable
  • Compassionate but brutally honest
  • Designed to wake people up before they hit rock bottom

Katie-isms featured in this keynote

"Self-care is parenting ourselves."
"Taking care of you is taking care of business."
"tiME management is at the intersection of self-care and self-discipline."
"Heed the tick of your heart, not the tick of the clock."
"We cannot be good girls and good to ourselves. Choose you this time."
Logistics
Duration
30, 45, or 60 minutes (customizable)

Format
Keynote or interactive workshop
Delivery
In-person or virtual

Language
Gender-neutral or customized

Testimonials

"Katie is an energetic presenter who is not afraid to tell it like it is. Her unapologetic and passionate nature will have you thinking twice about your bad habits and inspire you to start being a better you."
Kassandra McGlone
District Manager, Insperity
"Katie's words are ninjas, synaptic mercenaries bringing clarity to a chaotic mind."
TJ Bennet
Desuckify Work Podcast

de-LIBERATE:
From Reactivity to Intentional Productivity

The Flagship Keynote for Overwhelmed High Achievers
Approach: Getting the right work done, at the right time, for the right reasons.

The Problem Your Audience Is Facing

They're drowning. Meeting after meeting, deal after deal, deadline after deadline. Tasks topple their bulging inbox demanding more and more. They wonder if it's all even doable.

They might feel like they have to choose between taking care of business and taking care of themselves. Maybe they're starting to come undone in service to getting things done.

Frenzy has become familiar. An old friend. The electric current of their life that they tell themselves is enthusiasm, motivation, drive. The pacing, the racing. But it's ineffective time management masquerading as productivity.

They're plowing ahead as if to cross some imaginary finish line that only moves further away with any progress.

What This Keynote Delivers

Through de-LIBERATE, Katie helps audiences trade chaos for intention. This keynote dismantles reactivity and teaches a practical system for aligning calendars, commitments, and self-respect.

Attendees learn:

  • How to be de-LIBERATE instead of reactive in their daily decisions
  • Why time management is a fallacy (time is fixed; we are not)
  • The intersection of self-care and self-discipline for sustainable productivity
  • Concrete strategies to get things done without coming undone
  • How to lower expectations of themselves while raising their standards

When you're de-LIBERATE, you get the right work done, at the right time, for the right reasons.

Ideal Audiences:
  • Corporate teams experiencing overwhelm and burnout
  • High performers struggling with work-life integration
  • Leaders who want sustainable productivity strategies for their teams
  • Organizations prioritizing employee wellbeing as competitive advantage
  • Anyone who's tired of feeling like they're constantly behind
What Attendees Will Walk Away With:
  • A reframed understanding of productivity that doesn't require self-sacrifice
  • Practical tools for intentional decision-making
  • Permission to prioritize what truly matters
  • Strategies to implement immediately (not "someday")
  • Renewed energy and clarity about their path forward

Katie-isms featured in this keynote

"Lower your expectations of yourself and raise your standards."
"Time management is a fallacy. Time is fixed. We are not."
"tiME management is at the intersection of self-care and self-discipline."
"Choose badass over half-ass, every time."
Logistics
Duration
30, 45, or 60 minutes (customizable)

Format
Keynote or workshop
(half-day/full-day versions available)
Delivery
In-person or virtual

Language
Gender-neutral or customized to your audience

What People Are Saying

Her talk was more than a keynote; it was a reset. It prepared everyone to look inward before turning outward. That's the effect Katie has: she grounds people so they can rise higher.

Tania A. Doub, Mindful Quadrant