Katie DePaola is a founder, CEO and business coach. Katie believes the future belongs to the female entrepreneur. She has found her purpose removing the barriers to entrepreneurship and teaching women how to build the things they wish existed in the world. Surviving a decade of Lyme Disease and the death of her youngest brother taught Katie how to stay focused and committed to her vision even in the most challenging times.
Today, through writing, teaching and speaking, Katie teaches audiences around the world how to challenge and find their purpose. Katie graduated cum laude from Vanderbilt University and has served on the board of the Step Up Women’s Network, the Tranquil Space Foundation and currently for Bo’s Effort, a foundation started in memory of her brother. Inner Glow Circle is her third business.
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We’re all looking for our purpose to make sense of this life. We can find a sense purpose in many things - community, family, career, spiritual life. But our true purpose, no matter the sphere, is to create the thing we wish existed in the world.
The problem is that most of us are largely taught to complain about the things we don’t like rather than change them. Complaints are low responsibility ways to ask for what we need. To reach our next level, both individually and collectively, we need to become more active than passive.
Yes, we live in a difficult and often disheartening world, but the question is what can we do about it?
After a broken engagement, losing her brother, and a 10 year battle with chronic illness, Katie DePaola has finally found her glow. In 2015, Katie opened the doors to Inner Glow Circle, a coach training and personal branding company for women. Within months, her youngest brother died of an accidental overdose.
This monumental lose set off a domino effect of changes and challenges, but through it Katie learned to survive by doubling down on her commitment to her vision. Even on the most ill or grief stricken days, her power lies in her purpose.
Now, Katie teaches others how to make their hardest life experiences their greatest opportunities through the principles of Post Traumatic Growth (PTG). PTG is the subject of a growing field of research into the healing that may be accessed when we choose to grow from our trauma and lose.
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