Episode 46: Embrace Your Inner Dolly Parton | Kourtney Thomas

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Today I have with me self-discovery strategist Kourtney Thomas.

Kourtney is on a mission to help women find their own inner Dolly Parton. Through guided self-discovery work and coaching, she helps women help them be a little more themselves so they can be a lot more confident! Because on the daily everyone needs the blunt but kind reminder that the only right way to do something is the way that works for you. 

With a background in fitness, business, and life coaching, Kourtney has a gift for understanding all kinds of people building instant rapport, and saying what she means without being mean. 

She helps women cut through the fluff to the conversations that matter. There aren’t confetti cannons around here but there is a whole lot of grit and growth. 

When she’s not coaching or speaking Kourtney enjoys bicep curls and hiking fueled by cake in Denver, Colorado where she lives with her husband, dog, and cat.  

Kourtney wasn’t always into health and wellness, and today she shares how she developed a passion for it and eventually turned it into her business, which led to her work focusing on self-discovery and her clients’ whole being. 

As she gained experience she saw that there was more to her work than just showing up for a workout. You can show up for the workout but that might not make you feel better, it may not help you reach your goals….. 

Kourtney started transitioning her practice into more of a whole person approach when she started her business and began going into women’s homes for in-home training. 

That ultimately allowed her to see their lives. She was getting to know them. She was meeting their children, their dogs, and cats, their partners. She was able to see the environment they lived in.

Just because Kourtney goes into her client’s homes, she doesn’t believe that is the only way to train. She says that “There’s no right or wrong way to work with clients - whether that’s in-person, online, hybrid, or whatever you prefer. Think about what your strengths are, how you really want to help people, which people you want to help, how to reach them, and how it’s going to make sense for them. Put all that together. Don't just follow the formula. Think about what it is you want to do and how you can do that. Because you can! Hands down!” 

Kourtney also has an amazing course on self-discovery which can benefit practically everyone! 

Why? 

Because you have to know who you are before you can actually be that person and that’s what her course is all about! 

Ultimately what self-discovery allows you to do is become more confident in yourself and your life.

Whether that’s in your body image, your business, relationships, boundaries, in just living your life as exactly how you are, that’s what she teaches her clients in her course.

I also loved Kourtney’s approach to thinking about your body in a neutral way. There’s no judgment of yourself, or talking negatively, and there’s also no extreme body positivity. Kourtney instead firmly believes in body neutrality. What that is is removing judgment from your body at all. It’s removing an opinion of your body. So it’s just a body, there are no good or bad things you need to say!

We also talk about how to set and keep goals in 2022, (So if you’ve made some extreme goals for this year, be sure to listen for that part!) Kourtney’s history with acting, speaking, and more!

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT KOURTNEY AT HER WEBSITE HERE

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