who is your bougie hippie bff?!

Oh hey. I’m so glad you’re here. If you’ve found your way to my small corner of the internet, maybe you’re looking for the best clean and non-toxic products (and discount codes!) that I personally have used for the last 8 years. Maybe it’s because you are looking for inspiration for ways to improve your life, whether that’s through increasing your step count to eventually hit 10k steps a day without even thinking about it, or through developing a solid morning routine that speaks to you and starts everyday with ease, or through slowly changing your lifestyle and habits to be more aligned with who you strive to be, or through swapping products for clean or holistic brands that won’t disrupt your hormones or add to your toxic burden, or through surrounding yourself with people who are living authentically. Maybe it’s because you’ve dealt with chronic health issues and haven’t quite figured out how to get back to “normal” and what feeling good feels like. Maybe you’re looking to make a real estate purchase in South Florida but can’t stand the typical real estate agent that is subpar at best. Or maybe you’re not sure, but something about “bougie hippie” resonated with you and you just had to learn more. Regardless of the reason, I’m SO happy you’re here. Truly. 

I’m Katie. For as long as I can remember back to when I was a teenager I have been told I’m a hippie. It never truly resonated with me, because as much as you can regularly find me barefoot, grounding, soaking up as much sun as possible (without sunscreen or sunglasses), using (mostly) non-toxic products on my body and in my home, filtering my water and my air, eating as local as possible, and smelling like my signature blend of essential oils that include lavender, vanilla, and of course my favorite, patchouli, I also LOVE all the stuff and all the things - expensive cars, a huge closet of clothes (with the classic staples, that I also update with trendy fashion seasonally), the best of the best home decor, elite gym memberships, traveling multiple times a year (ideally first class), (and will one day have my own private chef and live-in private masseuse – life goals there), and have always worked incredibly hard to be able to have all of those things, including starting (and also selling) multiple businesses. To me, being a hippie meant I couldn’t like those other things. But that wasn’t me. For me, both of those things were true. This AND that, not this OR that. There was, and is, a huge difference. Why can’t we have both? Truth is, we can. I don’t know when it was that I was first referred to as a bougie hippie, but that, THAT resonated. I felt it in my soul. And I don’t think I’m the only one. So while I may be THE Bougie Hippie, and absolutely will be Your Bougie Hippie BFF, I am absolutely not the only Bougie Hippie. 

I don’t love labels. At ALL. I believe in this AND that. I am a multi-faceted individual. I curse. A lot. I do my best to eat local and stick with things like grass-fed meat, and raw dairy, and eggs from chickens that I know their names, and will absolutely grab fast food in a pinch to save my sanity, and will eat Oreos or Reese’s, and down a margarita or a well made old fashioned once in a while. I believe in all the therapy, and also believe in eating our feelings once in a while (see the previously mentioned fast food, Oreos, Reecs’s). I am a strong-ass, head-strong, independent woman who also desires to be taken care of and has learned to allow friends and loved ones to do so. I am a multi-business owner and successful local residential real estate agent who absolutely loves working, and would also love to marry a rich husband and retire as a stay-at-home-mom who homeschools her kids (I’m very single if you know anyone who can help with this 😝). I spend as much time as humanly possible barefoot outside, grounding and soaking up the sun, and also have no problem spending an entire day on the couch binging an entire season (or three) of a show if that’s what the energy calls for. I have my most perfect morning routine and absolutely love the mental health benefits and “self-care” it brings, and I’m also not perfect and sometimes let this slip, and when it slips my ability to be happy with ease slips and even I need to remind myself how important things like 3 minutes of tapping and breathwork are to the other 1437 minutes of my day. I have the hardest time choosing favorites of just about anything, and tend to stick to “top 3” lists. I don’t believe in should and shouldn’t or right and wrong when it comes to choices that will determine our life path (not things like murder, murder is absolutely wrong and we shouldn’t do that, in case that was in question). I believe in God and go to church and read the Bible, and I also believe in crystals and saging my house regularly, and the energy of the universe. Perhaps I’m an anomaly. Or perhaps it’s the *this and that* mentality around life that has allowed me to be who I be. 

I am a mom of two amazing boys, Sawyer (8) and Charlie (5), a dog mom to an almost 2-year-old Golden Retriever named Lou. I am a holistic health coach. A business coach. A Realtor. An entrepreneur. An aspiring author. A soon-to-be retreat host. An avid gym goer who loves lifting heavy and taking group classes with friends and can be found doing just that at LifeTime Fitness seven days a week. A hydration enthusiast who can be found with at least 4 beverages within arms reach at all times. I am a caffeine fein (within reason), and may one day work on addressing that, but until then will embrace my love for my biohacked King Coffee and afternoon cold brews or post-gym FitAids.  I am a paddleboarder, a surfer, a yogi (and not-currently-practicing-but-maybe-soon yoga instructor), a runner (sometimes), and a swimmer (also sometimes). I am a sister. A damn good friend. I am a huge supporter of those around me, whether that’s with encouraging their healthy lifestyle choices, helping grow their business, cheering them on at life, or just being the energy they need at any given time. I am intentional, deliberative, and always on purpose. I am genuine in absolutely everything I do, and I will (respectfully and always with love) tell it like it is, no fluff, no bullshit, and definitely no games. I am a sharer of things, whether my stories, my favorite skincare products, or the life hacks that truly changed my life for the better. I am an absolute lover of life, and so grateful that each and everyday gets to be what we choose. 

Everyone has layers. Those are just some of mine. There is so much to the human disposition, which is part of the beauty of getting to know someone. Truly getting to know them. Each and every discovery, each piece of information that’s revealed, every little detail allows you to peel back yet another layer. It helps the understanding of the inner workings of their mind, and perhaps why they are the way that they are today. At least, that’s how my brain works as I get to know someone. Something I’ve learned to say the past few years as I’ve become more and more comfortable sharing my story - my full story - is that I have lived a LOT of life in my 38 years. Because truly, I have; though admittedly it wasn’t until 2020 when I moved to a new city (small village, actually), surrounded myself with new people, sold a business, started a new career in real estate, got deep, deep into therapy and truly felt safe enough to connect and share my full story that, although very neutral for me (thanks to years of talk therapy, hypnotherapy, CBT, EMDR, N.O.T., somatic therapy, tapping, breathwork, nervous system regulation, plant medicine journeys, and more), I realized the stories were not always neutral for someone else to hear. In fact, it was the look on the faces of the story receiver that helped me realize that it was irresponsible for me to share my story without prefacing that these “things” were all neutral to me, and also make sure that they were in a space that they could hear such a story, because I have absolutely lived a lot of life in my 38 years. 

Things I never wished to become an expert on, but now I can proudly say I am thanks to my life experiences and ability to overcome and thrive: 

A mother addicted to prescription medications (think: an alcoholic with a different vice)

Missing out on a true childhood and having to become an adult at an early age 

Childhood rape

Emotional abuse

Physical abuse

Chronic illness, including:

Lyme disease

Toxic black mold poisoning

Breast Implant Illness

Heavy Metals

Parasites

Epstein Barr

Nearly every food intolerance under the sun

An incredibly toxic relationship (that I take responsibility for being part of due to my own unhealed trauma)

An even more toxic divorce

Toxic co-parenting (eventually turned amical, communicative co-parenting)

Nearly having to file bankruptcy

Selling an “unsellable” business for a profit

Depression

Anxiety

ADHD

Addiction

Disordered Eating

C-PTSD

And while the list goes on, those are the big ones. 

I have hit my highest highs and lowest lows going through what I have in my 38 years. Some in childhood. Some in adulthood. Some as recent as the end of 2023. You are blessed to have your own list, unique to you. Shit happens. Life goes on. It’s what we choose to do with it that determines the outcome of “life goes on”. I choose joy. I choose happiness. I choose success. I choose to have it all. Do you? 

Another beautiful realization over the years was that as much as I would never wish my negative life experiences onto someone else, I would also never wish to go back and change a single thing that happened “to” me, because as it turns out, every single thing that has ever happened in my life has happened “for” me, and each and every one of them has shaped me into the person I am today; and turns out I really love who I am, and who I am becoming.

We’ll dive in deep, and I promise I’ll share all the things. Forming true connections through the vulnerability that is required to share the deep stuff of life is my absolute favorite thing ever. I don’t do surface level, never have. And I love it even more if it means I can help inspire even just one person to do what needs to be done to do hard things and become a better version of themselves; whatever that looks like for them in the place they’re at today. 1% better everyday. That’s all it takes. It doesn’t happen overnight. It can’t. 

Stick around. There’s so much more. As humans, we need to hit rock bottom before we can thrive. Because it’s finding rock bottom that makes us truly appreciate what we have when we thrive, right? That’s what I believe, at least. And if you’re here for it, I’ll share my experiences of rock bottom with you, and how I crawled myself out, some days barely making it through, and often just 1% better everyday. 

As people, we don’t change what we do in life because of what we know, we change because of how we feel (or don’t want to feel any longer). I’m here to inspire you to change. To be a better version of yourself with absolute ease. Whatever that looks like for you. That’s my goal. That’s my purpose. I’m making that my job. Because if you have it in you to become 1% better today, and repeat that everyday, at the end of 1 year you’re 3800% better than where you started. And that’s a damn good place to be.