Welcome to the Imperfectly Impactful podcast where vulnerability meets strength and authenticity overcomes perfection as we go on a transformative journey of self-discovery and empowerment. I’m your host, Catherine Roten, and as a high achieving woman who has faced the relentless pursuit of perfection and the weight of people pleasing, I share my personal story and those of extraordinary women who have overcome similar challenges. So, join me in this community where we ditch what no longer s ...
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How Overcommitting Shows Up in Business & Life
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I don't know about you, but I have an old habit of saying yes way too often. This has shown up in life, in business, in my previous career, in my financials, etc. In this episode, I share how this has shown up for me recently & three different ways I working to STOP overcommitting myself. If you can relate to having an overcommitment problem, then …
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Power That is YOU: Powerhouse Women 2024 Takeaways
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Powerhouse Women 2024 has come and gone! The energy, the ambiance, the speakers, the vendors, the women in the room....... I could go on and on. But what I get to share with you in this episode, are the 4 key takeaways from the event that I believe need to be heard by more of you. 1. We have not changed, we've grown. @mzskittlez 2. We co-conspire o…
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Clarity to Cash & Mindset Techniques with Jennifer Jakobsen
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Today, we welcome to the show Jennifer Jakobsen! She is a certified life & business coach, as well as a certified Licensed Therapist. Jennifer & I jump right into the good stuff talking about why mindset is key in not just life but also your business. We even touch on a little of what I am going through & how to work through moments when someone cl…
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*PSA: If discussions of loved ones passing is too close to your heart, do not hesitate to skip over this episode today. Is it possible to feel grief & relief at the same time? Have you thought about death before in a positive light not just in sadness? Today's episode challenges you to think a little differently as I share a vulnerable experience i…
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From Confusion to Clarity & the Big Thing with Alex Street
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Get ready for this one! In this episode, we have Alex Street the creator of the StoryArc Method. He is an author, a speaker, podcast host, and coaches on how to stand out with your signature story and speak with confidence. Alex and I touch on so many different aspects from how to dive deeper into your story, how to keep going when life wants you t…
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[Maximizing Event Profits #2] Sponsorship Mastery Part 2
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Short & sweet episode today wrapping up your burning Sponsorship questions. Two Main focuses of today's episode: 1. Importance of tracking 2. Communicating to potential & current sponsors Tracking & communication is KEY when finding and securing sponsorships for your events & business. Struggling to keep up with your sponsors? Grab our Event Profit…
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[Maximizing Event Profits #1] Sponsorship Mastery Part 1
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I have heard over and over again how creating sponsorship packages, knowing when to reach out, & finding sponsors is one of the hardest & most confusing parts when hosting an event. So I am breaking this down & simplifying the process. Part 1 of Sponsorship Mastery focuses in on: 1. Difference in Financial vs. In Kind sponsor 2. Why Annual Sponsors…
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Let's Talk Community, Stress, & Becoming Aware with Nicole Burbank
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At your core, are you fulfilled & happy inside? If you're like me, this is a tough question to answer or even think about, but not as much as it used to be. In this episode, we welcome Nicole Burbank, nutritional therapy practitioner & holistic wellness coach. Nicole shares her knowledge on what she has learned about the impact stress has on us not…
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Unlocking Your Unique Gifts with Kristine Munro
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We welcome, Kristine Munro to the show today! Kristine is the Founder of the Illume Collective in Denver, CO, host of the Pivot to Passion podcast, & an Intuitive Soul Purpose Activator. In this episode, Kristine dives into her story of slowly finding her gifts & purpose & how she is on a mission to help others do this as well, much faster than her…
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[Event Strategy #6] How Do You PRICE for Your Event?
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The last and final question of the Event Foundational questions, how do you price your event? How do you determine what to charge your attendees? In this episode, I breakdown multiple different aspects it takes to determine what you are going to price your event. Including sharing a BIG announcement regarding an offer unlike anything else I have do…
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Improve Your Health & Wellness TODAY with Shelly Jefferis
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Seriously, don't wait and start making these small changes today! Listen in to learn from Shelly, who has been in the health & wellness industry for over 35 years! YES, you heard that right! Throughout this time, Shelly has adapted her lifestyle based on the season of life she is in, as well as how could she be healthiest and her best during those …
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[Event Strategy #5] What Size & Type of Event do YOU Want?
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Stop looking at what other people are doing & comparing your ideas and dream event to them. Go back to your WHY, when you picture your dream event, how many people are there? Where is it being held? What is the flow of the day like? Listen in to today's episode to hear why answering this question is extremely important BEFORE we get to our last and…
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Not All, Not Nothing, But the Middle Mindset
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Have you ever stepped back to look at your decision making process to see if you have an all or nothing mindset? Join me in this episode as I share my a-ha moment! As a perfectionist, you may not know all the tendencies you have and I sure did not but am learning. And for most of you perfectionist out there, this is going to resonate 100%. Listen i…
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Recognizing Burnout, Setting Boundaries, & Finding Your Path (Not Societies) with Dr. Megan Daley
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Are you on the right path? In this episode, I am so grateful to be welcoming Dr. Megan Daley to the show. As a Doctor in PT, Megan left the life of healthcare after many years to pursue the life she wanted to live. Megan shares about losing her father, going to therapy, and how she stepped into entrepreneurship (including the mistake both her and I…
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[Event Strategy #4] Do You Want to be PROFITABLE?
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Crazy question, I know! But, not every event created is meant to be profitable and it all comes back to your WHY. Listen into this episode to hear why this question is so important to answer at the beginning of the planning process & hear about a new collaboration that will be bringing YOU (current and aspiring event hosts) more support & resources…
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Last week, I had the opportunity to speak at my first event BUT the morning of, I realized how subconsciously I had started doubting and questioning if I had been making the right decisions. Do you set expectations for yourself & when you are not reaching them, you do this too? You are NOT alone and it is more common than you think. I have been doi…
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Put Light to Your Ego, Use Your Intuition, & Live in Your Purpose with Mary Sprenger
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Get ready for this one! Today, I welcome Mary Sprenger to the show. Mary is a life coach, ex-military, new podcast host, and such a dear friend! We touch on so many aspects of what it means to find and live in your purpose, but how do you know if you should listen to this episode? My favorite quote Mary shares (and I know this will resonate with ma…
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[Event Strategy #3] WHO is Your Ideal Attendee?
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Now, you know WHY you are hosting your event, but WHO do you want to attend? Your ideal attendee could be someone already in your world but could also be someone different. Listen in to hear how to determine who your ideal attendee is and why it is so important to determine this at the beginning of your planning process! Shoutout to @kaleidoscopeaf…
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Retreat Reflection #3: Impact of Getting in the Room
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Final reflection from the Unscripted Mastermind Retreat! In this episode, I share Dr. Megan Daley's discussion on how our Intuition has no emotion and how I am reminding myself of this daily since the retreat. Megan will also be coming back on the podcast in just a few short weeks so join us back then! Then, I discuss my BIGGEST takeaway, the power…
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Support Through Our Breath with Megan Mercer
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From overcoming a major trauma at 21 years old to discovering her innate ability to work with energy, Megan Mercer is a goddess in and of herself. On this episode, Megan opens up about her past, how she is still working through her own traumas, but also supporting others through the discovery of our breath and inner selves. Join us as we dive into …
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[Event Planning #2] WHY do You Want to Host an Event?
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Ready to host your first event? Or lost and confused on how to make the right decisions? It is time to get back to your WHY. This is the first fundamental question you need to answer and remind yourself throughout the entire planning process. Without knowing your why, it becomes harder to plan and strategize your dream event. You might event start …
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Retreat Reflection #2: Networking & Documenting Throughout Life
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Today, I get the honor to shoutout Kristina Bartold and the Social Rebel ladies, Cat & Shelby (connect with them below!). Kristina shared her vast knowledge of the social media world BUT also hit us with a powerful piece of advice, "Network for your network". When getting in the rooms, attending the calls/events, how can you support and make connec…
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Balancing Visibility & Self Care with Bridget Sicsko
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Join Bridget Sicsko, co-founder of Visibility on Purpose, and I on this incredible episode as we dive into the world of PR. What is PR? How can you and I as an entrepreneur utilize PR in our businesses? How do you balance increased visibility in the world with personal care? Bridget answers ALL the questions above and more in this episode. Grab a n…
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[Event Planning #1] The FIVE Questions You Must Ask Yourself to Start
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We are kicking off a NEW SERIES today all about Event Planning & Strategy. In this episode, I dive into what these 6 episodes will be covering, including a deep dive into each of the five questions you must ask yourself before starting or during your event planning process. These questions are the FOUNDATIONS you will come back to time and time aga…
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Retreat Reflection #1: Worthiness in Your Life
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One week ago, we finished the Unscripted Mastermind Retreat, hosted by my mentor and friend, Jessica Burgio. Over the next few weeks, I will be sharing takeaways and shouting out some of the speakers from this retreat. This episode is thanks to Tracy O'Malley & Bree Johnson. Tracy dove into the Enneagram especially diving deep into each of ours tou…
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Are You Being Called to Heal? with Erin Panzarella
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Those whispers.... whether in your head or around you, telling you it is time to dive deeper in to healing. Not physically, but mentally and emotionally to start healing the inner wounds and pains from our past. I know, we got really deep there. But have you ever taken a moment to stop, think, and process how your past is affecting you now? Until y…
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Getting Sales & Building Community with Jillian Murphy
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This is an episode you do not want to miss! We have the one and only SALES coach, Jillian Murphy. With 22 years of experience in sales and marketing, Jillian has brought her expertise to the entrepreneur and business owner space coaching on how to increase your sales and build community. In this episode, Jillian shares how she transitioned into the…
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Healthy vs. Unhealthy Relationships: My Spouse & I's Breakthrough
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After reading the Subtle Art of Not Giving an F***, I realized only 1.5 years ago, my husband and I were in a pretty unhealthy relationship. Hiding things from one another, not able to be fully honest or trusting, etc. This book was the profound moment I realized how much we have changed even in one year. There are THREE aspects I attribute to our …
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Unf***ing Your Marketing & Reality of Entrepreneurship with Emily Todd
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Are you ready to learn how to take your genius and market yourself to your IDEAL clients? Emily Todd spent over 15 years supporting Fortune 500 companies and startups with their marketing. She took a leap of faith into entrepreneurship, and let's just say it was NOT what she was expecting. Listen to this episode to hear about the reality Emily and …
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My birthday was last week and I thought it would be fitting to share with you my 5 WINS and 5 LESSONS from this last year. This might be one of my favorite solo episodes I have recorded so far! If you have joined me since the beginning, you know A LOT has changed for myself even in just 6 months, but even more in the last 12. To be honest, I don't …
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Higher Self Habits & Sobriety with Alessia Citro
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If you listen to this podcast, you probably have listened to a habit book or two. Each one provides you different strategies on how to build habits, BUT most don't tell you how to take action over and over and over again. This episode, I have Alessia Citro on the podcast. She is a certified life coach and serial entrepreneur who unexpectedly decide…
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Join me in this short episode as I share how I am the HAPPIEST I have ever been, but I am not happy all of the time. You might be asking "Well, how is that?"- Listen in to hear the three ways I bring myself back to happiness when stressed, overwhelmed, sad, etc. To be happy more often, it takes practicing habits over and over again that will bring …
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Saying Yes to Yourself & Your Souls Desires with Valerie Lynn
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Have you ever wondered what it means to be a self led woman? Or maybe you have never heard of this before and ready to find out who this is and why it is important? Have you been curious about meditation (like myself) but didn't know where to start or what it looked like? In today's episode, Valerie Lynn shares how she has become a self led woman, …
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*Potential trigger warning* This episode is a special one. Something on my heart recently told me to share my life the last 4-6 years leading up to where I am today. Like many others, I was on autopilot. I was doing things to numb out the stress, anxiety, and overwhelm I was feeling on a daily basis trying to be the PERFECT and BEST version of myse…
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Finding Creativity & Taking the Action REPLAY with Jessica Burgio
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Throwing it back to my FIRST ever podcast interview with one of my absolutely favorite people and wonderful business coach/mentor, Jessica Burgio! Jessica is an absolute HYPE girl, previous beauty entrepreneur for over 20 years, and now coaches women entrepreneurs on business strategy, life skills and more. In this replay, Jess and I discuss the im…
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I have heard so many different ways to think about the season of life I am currently in. Relating to actual weather seasons; winter or spring. But recently, someone sent me a post about the season of Waiting. Waiting is difficult. I don't know about you but I can get impatient not knowing how long I will actually be waiting or stress about what is …
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Reassessing Your Goals & Taking Action NOW
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This episode is for you if you have been putting off or not clarifying your goals and dreams for this year. Or maybe you have your goals but we are 4 months in and they feel impossible. It is not too late to reassess your goals if they are still aligned and maybe even get more specific. But probably most importantly, you need to determine the actio…
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Does fear, overwhelm, procrastination, and the unknown hold you back from doing the thing? Personally or professionally, many of us experience resistance in different forms. And usually, we let this resistance, the negative thoughts or limiting beliefs, hold us back from going after our dreams. In this episode, I challenge you to look resistance in…
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How to Choose the Life You Lead with Desiree Petrich
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Life will not wait for you, and our guest on this episode has 100% learned and applied this to her life. Desiree Petrich is a woman of ACTION. With many successes and failures, she has chosen to take control of the parts of her life she can, changed her mindset, and leads by example. I could introduce Desiree under many different labels but in this…
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Join me in this episode where I get to share the CLARITY I finally have had for my life and business. From revamping my travel business, announcing a new and FUN side job, and diving deeper into my event business, Impactful Event Co. If you are an event host or thinking of starting an event, listen in on how you can go from feeling stuck or not kno…
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What is Breathwork & Why Do We Do It? with Sam Kabert
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What IS breathwork and WHY is it important for us to start implementing in our daily lives? It may not be what you think it is. This episode, I get to sit down with Sam Kabert to dive into his journey to finding breathwork and go even deeper into what breathwork is, why we ALL should be adding this into our lives, and how even the slight awareness …
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Living YOUR Life Aligned to YOUR Happiness
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My mom shared an amazing video that inspired this episode today. Watch the video HERE and share your thoughts with me on Instagram or via email below! I don't know about anyone else, but life has been lifing lately (I know not a word!). For the first time, I have started making decisions for ME, what I want to doing, what makes me happy, excited, f…
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*PARDON THE SOUND QUALITY ON THIS EPISODE* This episode was inspired during my trip to visit my sister in Europe. It was the first time in a long time, I disconnected for longer than 3 days. The question that came up for me throughout the week, "What have I been missing around me because of my phone, social media, worried/stressed thoughts?" When y…
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Bringing you a solo episode today opening up about my experience in Oregon for my VIP experience where the importance of incorporating stillness into my life was made very apparent. As a high achieving woman, and I bet you can relate, the idea of being still for even 10 minutes brings up a lot of fear. What about my to-do list today? What if I get …
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In this episode, we welcome Lisa Thee, thought leader in AI, ethical technology, and career transformation. In our ever changing world, Lisa wrote her book, Go! Reboot Your Career in 90 Days as a memoir to her journey as a woman in a male dominant industry, transition into the disabled community, and her reboot framework. Lisa gets really vulnerabl…
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For too long, I hid in the crowd, back of the room, trying to act invisible, never asking my questions or providing insight to the meeting or conversation. Why would I? Who am I to think I have something to contribute? My self-worth was low, and I had no idea. This podcast, along with many other things, has helped me find my voice, building my self…
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Intentionality in Your life Part 2 (Finances)
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Join us for Part 2 of how to be more intentional with your finances. I share a personal mindset block I have had around finances. This is a more recent discovery that has started to help me look differently at our personal finances and how I handle them. In this episode, I offer three opportunities to implement healthier financial habits into your …
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It is time for me to open up and share what all has been going on behind the scenes the last few months. I have shared a lot of my journey with you all but also been hiding some of what I have been really going through. This episode was not easy for me to record, and to be honest, I still held back some, but most importantly I share the power of AW…
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If no one else will admit it, life has been hard the past four to six weeks. I have been very aware how my time and energy has been slipping. The beginning of the year, I challenged myself to assess where my energy was going and create better habits and awareness. Yes, I did this but some of those better habits have been put to the side. On today's…
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Reframing Your Mindset on Motherhood & Time with Nikki Cheak
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We welcome Nikki Cheak, a health and wellness coach, to our show on this episode! Nikki's path to coaching is beautiful as she was an overwhelmed and tired mom for a long time. Then one day, she had an a-ha moment where she realized with small, sustainable changes, her life could change for the better. Nikki dives into her story and how she has imp…
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