Starting over rarely feels like joy. Usually it feels like failure... Failure to stick with something, failure to pivot, failure to rise to the challenge. This week, Katie walks through her own three-day arc from defeat to regret to excitement over a decision to start over, and traces it back to something that happened this summer: 12 days spent searching for her missing dog, Priscilla, in the middle of a family Disney trip.

And through all of it, nothing fell apart, the kids were taken care of, clients were taken care of, life looked normal from the outside. But it cracked open something Katie had been avoiding: Sustainable Systems was built for the wrong person.

In this episode, Katie shares:

• The full story of Priscilla going missing for 12 days and how she found her

• Why "the program is awesome, the audience was wrong" was the real problem all along

• The repositioning of Sustainable Systems away from "high-achieving women reclaiming 10 hours a week" and toward the audience it was always meant for

• What it actually feels like when starting over comes from clarity instead of pressure

Little is changing about the podcast. Big changes are coming to Sustainable Systems and to Katie's content this episode is where it starts.

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