Kate Moller is a woman with a voracious appetite for life, who channels experience into wisdom – as fuel for growth in everything that she does! I first met Kate in 2008 at an annual Team Northrup gathering and was immediately impressed. Twenty five at the time, she had the presence, polish, and authentic communication skills that I’d found wanting in the seasoned executive/fortune 50 world where I’d been working and coaching. In addition to being one of the nicest people you’ll meet (Her mother, Dr. Christiane Northrup recently introduced her by saying ‘everyone wants to be her friend’), Kate is a dancer, writer, interviewer on her program GlimpseTV, creator of the blog AuthentiKate, and CEO (Creative Expansion Optimist) of Team Northrup. I called Kate the other day to catch up on her latest adventures and learn what’s on her mind lately: business, big dreams & financial freedom.
You got started pretty early in business, at age sixteen. Why did you find business so compelling then, why now? Why do you think you’ve been so successful? I think I’ve always been obsessed with freedom and doing life my way (I’ve got a majorly independent Aries streak!) I watched my parents growing up and as physicians they worked a lot. My dad sometimes had to miss Christmas because he was on call and my mom traveled a lot for speaking engagements and conferences. I just knew from a really early age that I didn’t want to have to miss important things in my life because of work. At my mother’s suggestion I read Roberty Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad, Poor Dad when I was sixteen and it changed the course of my life. I saw how creating a business that was a system that paid me whether I was working or not could be my ticket to freedom.
I started my business with USANA at the age of sixteen because my mother basically just handed it to me as a way to learn about business and money. Now, eleven years later, it’s become something much bigger. I find business so compelling because it allows me to be creative and to be free from other peoples’ schedules, agendas, or timelines. I like that I live my life on my own terms. I love that it allows me to be creative and follow my own intuition and guidance rather than a corporate philosophy or protocol.
I think I’ve been successful for a lot of different reasons. One is that I’ve been at it for a while. I think with most things if you just keep at it long enough you’ll eventually succeed. Another reason is that I have a soul quality of not wanting to be tied down or bossed around by anyone and that serves me well in this business that requires me to be self-guided and self-motivated. I’ve also had incredible support. All of my aunts and uncles on my mom’s side are self-made entrepreneurs so I think partially it must just be genetic. Having close family members as business mentors has been invaluable and I’m so grateful to them, especially my aunt and uncle Penny and Phil who introduced us to USANA.

There’s a strong streak of accomplished women in your family. This Spring your grandmother climbed to Mount Everest base camp at age eighty-four, your aunt was on the US Ski Team, and your mom is a renowned author/physician women’s health pioneer, BIG stuff. And you’re no slouch…you’ve done some great things and are continually re-imagining the future. I’d love to know your thoughts about the importance of dreaming BIG, and how you keep yourself inspired. Great question! Dreaming BIG is so “up” for me right now. I’ve had a huge transformation over the past year during which I’ve realized that I have some things to say and some work to do on this planet that I had no idea was in me before. It was working with a coach from the Handel Group that helped me to uncover some of my hidden dreams. She pushed me to really think bigger than what I had originally had in mind for myself which pretty much included retiring at thirty to have babies and white picket fence. And I still want to do that but I also want to write a book (or several), travel the world, live on a sailboat, maybe make a documentary, and soak up every experience that’s out there to have. About a year ago last year I realized I had really only thought up to about the age of thirty and I had forgotten that the goal of life is not to get married and have kids…there’s a lot more out there than that. And though I can’t wait to do those things, I’ve got some bigger fish to fry. Thanks to my coach and the other incredible people I hang around (the powerful women in my family, my friends, my business mentors, and more) I get inspired constantly. Everyone I hang out with is always cooking up some amazing project that has incredible business, social, environmental, or spiritual implications. The world is so huge and there are so many amazing things to experience and taste and enjoy and learn about. I practically get inspired by breathing. There’s just so much out there I think it’s impossible not to feel excited by it.

Sometimes when people observe others living their big dreams, they might comment ‘Easy for her to do, she has… X, Y or Z’ as though they are trapped by their own circumstances. Let’s talk about freedom. Is it possible for people to see the potential for freedom beyond their circumstances, so that the Big Dream becomes possibility? How have you done this? I sort of alluded to this earlier, but my answer is a resounding “YES!” There are so many inspiring examples of people who’ve overcome the odds and had big dreams come true regardless of their circumstances. Helen Keller, Martin Luther King, Jr., Michael Jordan, and Albert Einstein are just a few who come to mind. The world is full of people creating miracles every day from all different backgrounds. I’ve broken free from what I was raised with which is that the formula for life success is to, “work hard in school, get good grades, get into a great college, work hard again and get good grades, and then get scooped up by a great company that will take care of you for the rest of your life.” I realized early on that what we were being taught in school about success was not only not what I wanted, but also not even possible to create anymore given the economy, globalization, and job insecurity. So I busted out of “the myth of success” early on and began to carve my own path at a young age. I’m continuing to walk somewhat uncharted territory as I sell my apartment, get rid of most of my stuff, and head out on an indefinite roadtrip to explore freedom even further. I’m so excited about what lays ahead and I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunity to live on my own terms every day. I believe that the more people we can free up financially, the more we can make the world a better place. If you’re worried about paying the rent how can you possibly show up in your full power and use your full potential in life? I don’t think you can so I’m on a mission to create financial freedom on as wide a scale as possible.

Thanks Kate! To keep up with Kate’s adventures follow her at KateNorthrup.com, and catch Glimpse TV on a computer screen near you.

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