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She knew her business partner was a problem the moment she met her, and she ignored it for two years anyway.
Katie O'Malley is an executive coach and leadership educator, and the founder of (en)Courage Coaching, where she helps individuals, teams and organizations build authentic leadership and healthier workplace cultures. Her work has been featured in Fast Company and Thrive Global, and she delivered a TEDx talk in Boston in 2025.

Underneath the resume, Katie spent two years overriding thesame instinct in her marriage, her business partnership and her father's care, until her body forced her to stop.

In This Episode, We Explore:

• The First Instinct: How Katie's body flagged her future business partner as a problem before her mind had the words for it.
• Whose Voice Was She Actually Hearing: Why she believed the people calling her "too critical" over her own gut, and where that belief started.
• Thriving Business, Disappearing Self: How her business kept growing while she was disconnecting from her own life outside of it.
• The Pattern Across Three Relationships: What her father, her ex-husband and her business partner had in common, and how each one used the same line againsther.
• Write It Down, Say It Out Loud: The two-step practice Katie now uses to rebuild trust in her own read.
• The Decision She Made Without Asking Anyone: Why moving to the suburbs became proof that her instinct was already working again.

Episode Chapters:
00:00 Welcome + Meet Katie O'Malley
00:54 The Season Everything Collided: 2023
03:20 The First Instinct: Meeting the "Would-Be" Business Partner
09:00 Why She Overrode Her Own Read

13:00 Thriving Business, Disappearing Self
16:41 Naming the Pattern Across Father, Husband and Business Partner
21:48 Rebuilding Trust: The Decision, the Body and the Permission She Gave Herself
34:45 Building enCourage Coaching and the enCourage Foundation

Connect with Katie O'Malley:
Instagram: @encouragecoachchicago
Website: www.encouragecoaching.org
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kateomalley
TedX Talk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUNGPk978uE
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