This Is Now Your Company: Mike Rognlien on Ownership, Honesty, and The Meaning of Work and Life

Cat answers some interesting and frequently asked questions about veganism!

Cat is back from a month in Mexico where she discovered some pretty big life lessons, notably about the concept of Surrender. In this episode, Cat talks about surrender in Yoga but more importantly, surrender IRL, where all change, alignment, and intuition are born. Tune in now for this vulnerable, exploratory, and inspiring conversation about surrendering to Self.

In this solo episode, Cat talks about her recent re-discovery of the horrors of fast fashion and takes a pledge to shop ethically and mindfully. Tune in for some quick facts and some inspiration to kickstart your own ethical shopping journey!

Katie Wilkinson is a Self-Leadership Coach and Facilitator with almost a decade of leadership experience around the world including in Australia, Canada, South Africa, the US. She has worked on Leadership Development initiatives for major brands like Lululemon and Philz Coffee and where she helps leaders rise into their power. Katie also happens to be one of Cat's best friends (since freshman year in high school!) and the two get together for this episode of Roots to Roam to talk about personal leadership and accountability, goal setting, and alignment with personal values.

This informative episode has all the tools you need to get started on discovering alignment. Tune in now!

To learn more about Katie, you can find her on Instagram:

@katiemaewilk

Or on her website where you can grab a free goal-setting tool:

www.katiewilkinson.co

Get ready for a really special episode... this week Cat chats with John Clarke, aka her husband! John is a therapist turned digital marketing pro and entrepreneur whose main mission in life is to serve others. He talks about the tough decisions he's had to make in the journey towards entrepreneurship and the rewards he has reaped along the way. The pair also talk about living in Mexico, living a life of service, and building businesses in alignment with your values. This episode is packed with valuable advice about life, business, and personal change. Tune in now!

To learn more about John, you can find him at:

Private Practice Workshop as mentioned on the show

or

Unconditional Media for digital marketing services.

This is the third part of Cat's Zero Waste Journey story - this time reporting live from Tulum, Mexico, where Cat and her husband are living for the month. Tune in to see how zero waste is going (or not) in another country and what lessons we can all learn about our consumption and waste from places like Mexico.

Tune in now! And spread the love by subscribing and sharing with your friends <3

#zerowaste #tulum

This episode is Part 2, a continuation from last weeks episode where Cat shares the beginning of her journey towards zero waste. Last week she talked about why she is making a change, and in this episode Cat talks about how she plans on making it happen. Tune in to learn about Cat's experience visiting Package Free Shop in Brooklyn, about some of her new zero waste items for the home, and whats inside her 'zero waste to-go kit'. Cat also shares a few of her recent learning moments (zero waste successes and "fails") with anecdotes that can help anyone grow in their own process of waste reduction.

Tune in now for some zero waste inspiration! And as always, remember to subscribe to this podcast and share it with your friends! <3

In this solo episode, Cat shares the beginning of her new journey towards Zero Waste. She talks about how she discovered this movement, some of her favorite influencers (like Lauren Singer, for example), cultural mindsets about waste in different parts of the world, and the slow awakening of her eco-consciousness. Cat also shares a few of the important pillars of behavior change, including goal-setting and resource-discovery as she begins a new change in her current lifestyle.

This is the first part of a series of Zero-Waste-related episodes that will chronicle Cat's own journey of aligning her actions to her values of environmentalism. Stay tuned for this and several more! If you'd like to join in on the zero-waste journey, connect with Cat on the facebook group (www.facebook.com/groups/rootstoroam) or on Instagram (@rootstoroam) or directly via email (cat@rootstoroam.com) and let her know you're IN!

And remember to subscribe and share to help Roots to Roam grow!

Alli and Matt Owen are former engineers who recently left their six figure jobs to live in a converted Sprinter van and travel the Americas. They help people align their finances to their values over at Owen Your Future.

In this episode, Cat chats with the couple about:

• Financial freedom and alternative ways of thinking about saving for retirement.
• Feeling misaligned in their careers
• Trapped in the 9-5 grind
• Living a freedom-based lifestyle
• Aligning careers with their values
• Analyzing risk
• Letting go of social expectations and living life on their own terms
• Living out of a sprinter van and traveling around the Americas

Check this episode out for some major life inspiration!

And to learn more about Alli and Matt Owen:
Owen Your Future: 

On this episode, Cat chats with Mike Rognlien: Mike is the Chief Builder of Awesome People at his consulting firm, Multiple Hats Management, where he helps organizations through Learning & Development, management, facilitation, and unconscious bias consulting.

Mike’s expertise comes from years as a learning and development leader in the Silicon Valley, most notably and most recently at Facebook, where he helped the company create, define, and build its famously awesome culture. Mike is the author of a new book called This Is Now Your Company, where he shares his wisdom from his time at Facebook. Cat has the pleasure of calling Mike a former colleague from their years at Facebook where they both worked on the Learning & Development team together, and more importantly, she gets to call Mike a dear friend.

In this episode, Mike and Cat get real about finding meaning at work, taking ownership over your life and career. Topics include:

• Working at Facebook
• Helping build the culture for a major tech company
• Unconscious Bias
• Speaking authentically, living your authentic self at work and at home
• Having hard conversations
• What is your life worth?
• What would you do if you weren't afraid?
• How to never settle and how to live your best life
• How to expand your self awareness and personal consciousness
• What does success mean
• And of course, Oprah

Be sure to check this episode out now! Mike's candor and authenticity will inspire you to live your best life. Learn more about Mike Rognlien and his new book here:Learn more about Mike Rognlien and his new book here:

https://www.facebook.com/badmikeyt

https://www.facebook.com/thisisnowyourcompany

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1634891171/