A packed dinner table planted the seed; a roaring Disney kitchen forged the steel. Chef Katrina joins us to share how a love for bringing people together became a career built under pressure, precision, and relentless standards—and why claiming the grill on New Year’s Eve changed everything. From feeding thousands a day to mastering stations and earning respect, her story shows how self-advocacy, preparation, and calm under fire open doors that gatekeepers try to close.

The journey didn’t stop at the pass. When business books started outnumbering cookbooks, she drew a 90-day line in the sand and pivoted into the digital world, carrying Disney’s guest-first mindset into community management and client experience. Within months she rose to lead programs, curriculum, and support, proving that operational excellence and care translate across industries. Along the way, she learned an underrated truth: entrepreneurship can feel isolating unless you build your huddle with intention.

That insight powers Create Her, Katrina’s planner and platform that helps women design their businesses and lives around natural energy cycles, financial clarity, and practical marketing. We talk about moving from competition to collaboration, setting goals that include rest, and leading with relationships instead of transactions. Expect candid lessons on advocating for the hard role, rebuilding community after a leap, and using structure to make courage repeatable.

If this conversation fires you up to ask for the grill, make the pivot, or simply plan with more kindness to your body, you’re in the right place. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs a push, and leave a review to tell us the bold ask you’re making this week.

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