Episode

Unapologetically Selfish: Kate Christie on Designing a Life on Your Own Terms

Kate Christie is an executive coach, time management specialist, and five-time bestselling author, best known for her international bestseller The Life List, which won Australia's Best General Business Book in 2023. She was a corporate lawyer who walked away from her career after being publicly humiliated at her kids' school for missing “cupcake day,” realizing in that moment she was the only executive on her team without a stay-at-home spouse managing her home life.

In this episode, you'll learn how Kate turned that moment into a time management business that now serves brands like L'Oréal, Westpac, and the Australian government, why she wrote The Life List after her ex-husband died of pancreatic cancer at 54, and how she went from 2,000 to 100,000 Instagram followers documenting the renovation of an abandoned palazzo in Sicily.

In this episode, you'll learn:

How a humiliating “cupcake day” at her kids' kindergarten became the moment she quit her career as a corporate lawyer
How she built a time management business now trusted by L'Oréal, Westpac, and the Australian government
Why she wrote The Life List after her ex-husband died of pancreatic cancer at 54, and the difference between a bucket list and a life list
How she went from 2,000 to 100,000 Instagram followers documenting the renovation of an abandoned palazzo in Sicily
What she means when she calls this chapter of her life unapologetically selfish

Guests Appearing in this Episode

Kate Christie is a time management specialist, executive coach, speaker, and five-time bestselling author. A former corporate lawyer, she built her business helping executives and teams reclaim their time, and has worked with brands including L'Oréal, Westpac, the Australian government, and the European Union. Her books include Me First and SMART Time Investment for Business, and her most recent, The Life List, became an international bestseller and won Australia's Best General Business Book in 2023. She is based in Melbourne, Australia, and is currently renovating an abandoned palazzo in northern Sicily, which she documents for more than 100,000 followers on Instagram.

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