BE the Sought-After Entrepreneur Podcast

BE the Sought-After Entrepreneur Podcast

Did you know that 93% of communication is non-verbal? Yet, the marketing industry is saturated with teaching entrepreneurs brain-based content marketing strategies–logical, psychological, and analytical. However, when your energy is magnetic, it’s the most irresistible force in any crowd without you saying a word.Listen in as Kathryn Thompson, a creative rulebreaker, award-winning marketing and communications expert, and the Founder of Creatively Owned, goes against the grain and shows you ho…

Recent Episodes

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July 21, 2026

The Honest Truth About AI That No One Is Talking About

Are you being sold a version of AI that doesn't match your reality? Is the promise of hyper-productivity and instant results starting to feel more like hype than truth? Kathryn pulls back the curtain on her three-plus years of building and experimenting with AI tools, sharing the raw, unfiltered observations that the industry conveniently leaves out. From spending five hours in a brainstorming rabbit hole with Claude and ChatGPT only to walk away with nothing usable, to discovering that creat...
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July 14, 2026

A Stupid Simple Strategy for Reaching More People that Doesn’t Require Live Launching or Social Media

Are you exhausted from being a content factory for social media, spending hours crafting captions and visuals only to feel like you're speaking into a void? What if there were a far more direct, potent path to attracting aligned clients that actually plays to your natural strengths? In this episode, Kathryn builds on last week's stupid-simple selling strategy by introducing another low-effort, high-impact approach — one designed specifically for people who come alive in conversation rather than
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July 7, 2026

How to Validate Your Offer Before You Build the Whole Damn Thing

What if the reason your launch flopped had nothing to do with your offer and everything to do with the order in which you built it? What if the massive course outline, the polished masterclass, the meticulously crafted email sequence were all created before you ever confirmed anyone actually wanted what you were selling? Kathryn breaks down the costly cycle of over-building that traps so many entrepreneurs before a single sale is made, and shares exactly why launching before you build is the sma
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June 30, 2026

How Highly Sensitive People Can Thrive in Unconventional Career Paths with Alex Rizzi

What if the reason you feel restless, scattered, or like you can't stick to one thing isn't a flaw — but actually a feature? What if the conventional career path was never designed for you in the first place? In this episode, Kathryn sits down with integrative career coach Alex Rizzi to explore why so many driven, intuitive, and creative people feel suffocated by the "pick a lane" narrative — whether that's the 9-to-5 grind or the "one signature offer" entrepreneurship model. Together they un...
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June 23, 2026

Ditching the Rules, Untangling Your Patterns, and Living Life on Your Own Terms with Michaela Gaffen Stone

What if the problem you think you have isn't actually the problem at all — and the rules you've been living by were never designed for you in the first place? What if your people-pleasing, your overachieving, and your drive to prove yourself are all symptoms of something much deeper? In this episode, Kathryn sits down with Michaela Gaffen Stone — lifelong nomad, behavior analyst, master nutrition coach, witch, and professional life untangler — to explore the hidden patterns keeping high-achievi.
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June 16, 2026

My Biggest Revelation After 10 Years of Entrepreneurship

Are you caught in a cycle of constant content creation, endless promotion, and chasing abstract numbers that were supposed to lead to freedom but somehow never do? What if the model you've been sold is actually designed to keep you running, not to set you free? In this episode, Kathryn shares the biggest revelation she's landed on after 10 years of entrepreneurship – spanning brick-and-mortar, online courses, group coaching, memberships, and everything in between. She unpacks the deeply seductiv