Welcome! Our guest today is Kari Gormley, who hosts The Running Lifestyle podcast. Kari has had obstacles to overcome, but has taken a meandering path to a beautiful, joyful, and energetic experience as an entrepreneur. We are excited to share with you this fun, inspiring, and juicy interview! Let’s chat with Kari!

What you’ll hear in this episode:

• How Kari’s passion for running, transformation, and travel led her to launch her podcast
• Kari’s world travels
• Why Kari is passionate about helping people get healthier
• Valuable experience from her sales background
• Transitioning to a more purposeful life—after 9/11
• In 2003, back to the US—and sales, again
• How Kari found her husband through a Google search (Yes, you read that right!)
• Marriage and following the dream to be a Weight Watchers facilitator
• A difficult pregnancy, family move to Delaware, and postpartum depression
• 2011-Kari became a consistent runner, trained for a marathon, and discovered PODCASTS!
• Why Kari started her own podcast
• The power of positive media---through podcasts!
• Why starting out was overwhelming with TOO many decisions
• FEAR—Will people really listen to me?
• Acknowledge your fear (Kari even gave her fear a name!)
• Be in the driver’s seat!
• Why we need to develop leaders
• Teaching theories and philosophies, and not scripts
• Why you need to hire people with strengths outside your own
• Kari’s formula for work happiness
• Mixing friends and family with business—Good or Bad?
• Kari’s struggles with adult ADD
• Why she loves the opportunities to talk with experts
• From a favorite book, (see Resources below) Kari shares 6 Key Things to “Make It” in this World
• Personal change in profound ways!
• Why commitment is more powerful than fear
• The biggest change for Kari came through meditation
• JOY—from hearing feedback about her podcast
• The greatest opportunity for entrepreneurs? Creating destiny
• Financial mistakes=TUITION!
• JOY-from wonderful experiences and from being SEEN and HEARD
• The temptation of a one-person brand
• What is one thing that you do every day that increases joyfulness as an entrepreneur? “I think it revolves around gratitude. I keep a gratitude journal and write in it every day. I also have a gratitude jar in the kitchen into which the whole family contributes notes.

Resources:

www.therunninglifestyle.com  Find Kari on Facebook and Twitter, too!

To Sell is Human by Daniel Pink

Go Wild by Dr. John Ratey