Coaching Business Spotlight - A Big Conversation of Soul and Strategy

Kat Knecht – Why Relational Marketing Works for Coaches

In this episode of the Coaching Business Spotlight Show, Kat kicks off a two-part focus on relational marketing — the kind of marketing that feels human, authentic, and aligned with who coaches are at their core. Speaking directly to coaches who feel resistance, fear, or dread around marketing, Kat reframes marketing not as selling, but as connection. Through personal stories from the early days of her business (and moments of recent challenge), Kat illustrates how relationship-based marketing has consistently sustained and grown her coaching practice. From personal outreach and one-on-one conversations to playing the long game of trust and connection, she reminds listeners that the most effective marketing skill coaches have is already in their wheelhouse: the ability to build meaningful relationships. This episode is both reassuring and practical — a permission slip to stop pushing and start connecting. Key Takeaways: * Relationship-based marketing is the most effective marketing for coaches. * Marketing doesn’t have to feel pushy or transactional to work. * Personal touch matters — one conversation at a time builds momentum. * The long game counts. Some relationships turn into clients years later. * Connection fuels energy. Relational marketing re-energizes you and your business. Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Join the free Soul Driven Success Community for Coaches here: https://community.souldrivensuccess.com/ [https://community.souldrivensuccess.com/] Learn more about Soul Driven Success courses and programs -- email katandcurtis@souldrivensuccess.com [katandcurtis@souldrivensuccess.com] Website: https://souldrivensuccess.com/ [https://souldrivensuccess.com/] LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kat-knecht/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kat-knecht/] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SoulDrivenSuccess [https://www.facebook.com/SoulDrivenSuccess] Kat's book: Evolve Your Coaching Business [https://www.amazon.com/Evolve-Your-Coaching-Business-Ultimate/dp/1961075458/] Get the full show notes and more information here: https://souldrivensuccess.com/podcast/ [https://souldrivensuccess.com/podcast/] Please click the button to subscribe so you don't miss any episodes and leave a review if your favorite podcast app has that ability. Thank you! Coaching Business Spotlight with Kat Knecht brings inspiring stories, proven business strategies, and soulful success tips for coaches. Designed for new and emerging coaches, each episode offers practical tools to grow your coaching business, attract clients, and thrive doing the work you love. Learn more at souldrivensuccess.com [https://souldrivensuccess.com/]. © 2023 - 2026 Kat Knecht / Soul Driven Success

Kat Knecht – Visioning Your Coaching Business from the Inside Out

In this New Year episode, Kat invites listeners to shift the spotlight inward. Before goals, strategies, or growth plans, she asks one essential question: who do you want to be this year? Through deeply personal stories, Kat explores visioning as a lived, embodied practice—one that includes intuition, patience, and trust through challenges. Kat shares three powerful real-life stories that illustrate how visions unfold over time, often with obstacles, detours, and inner clearing along the way. Whether it’s money goals, relationships, or career transitions, this episode reminds coaches that visioning isn’t about forcing outcomes—it’s about aligning with the experiences, feelings, and way of being that truly matter. Key Takeaways * Visioning works best when you focus on experience and being, not just outcomes * Feeling into a vision can be more powerful than attaching timelines * Challenges don’t mean your vision is wrong—they’re often part of the unfolding * Clearing inner blocks is essential once you start taking aligned action * Personal fulfillment fuels sustainable business growth Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Join the free Soul Driven Success Community for Coaches here: https://community.souldrivensuccess.com/ [https://community.souldrivensuccess.com/] Learn more about Soul Driven Success courses and programs -- email katandcurtis@souldrivensuccess.com [katandcurtis@souldrivensuccess.com] Website: https://souldrivensuccess.com/ [https://souldrivensuccess.com/] LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kat-knecht/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kat-knecht/] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SoulDrivenSuccess [https://www.facebook.com/SoulDrivenSuccess] Kat's book: Evolve Your Coaching Business [https://www.amazon.com/Evolve-Your-Coaching-Business-Ultimate/dp/1961075458/] Get the full show notes and more information here: https://souldrivensuccess.com/podcast/ [https://souldrivensuccess.com/podcast/] Please click the button to subscribe so you don't miss any episodes and leave a review if your favorite podcast app has that ability. Thank you! Coaching Business Spotlight with Kat Knecht brings inspiring stories, proven business strategies, and soulful success tips for coaches. Designed for new and emerging coaches, each episode offers practical tools to grow your coaching business, attract clients, and thrive doing the work you love. Learn more at souldrivensuccess.com [https://souldrivensuccess.com/]. © 2023 - 2026 Kat Knecht / Soul Driven Success

Kat Knecht – Soul-Led Visioning: Aligning Your Life and Business

In this New Year kickoff episode, Kat invites listeners to shift the spotlight inward and create a vision that honors both their business and their whole self. Through three powerful stories — a family-centered dream that manifested magically, a client’s love story guided by clarity and courage, and Curtis’s career transformation — she shows how intuition, inner alignment, and action work together to bring visions to life. Kat walks listeners through the deeper layers of visioning: tuning into your feelings, exploring the personal experiences you crave, clearing internal blocks, and allowing your being — not just your doing — to guide your path. This episode is a soulful reminder that when you align with who you truly want to be, your coaching business evolves naturally. Key Takeaways * Your personal vision fuels your business vision. Who you are shapes everything you create. * Pay attention to the “click.” When a vision resonates deeply, intuition often leads the way. * Manifestation includes magic and challenges. Obstacles don’t mean you’re off track — they’re part of the evolution. * Clear your internal blocks. Even the strongest vision can be slowed by fears or outdated patterns. * Focus on your being, not just your goals. How you want to feel and show up is the foundation for everything you build. Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Upcoming Free Workshop: Monday, January 12, 2026 — Evolve Your Coaching Business with a Vision Join the free community + register here: https://community.souldrivensuccess.com/events/evolve-your-coaching-business-with-a-vision-93083571 [https://community.souldrivensuccess.com/events/evolve-your-coaching-business-with-a-vision-93083571] Join the free Soul Driven Success Community for Coaches here: https://community.souldrivensuccess.com/ [https://community.souldrivensuccess.com/] Learn more about Soul Driven Success courses and programs -- email katandcurtis@souldrivensuccess.com [katandcurtis@souldrivensuccess.com] Website: https://souldrivensuccess.com/ [https://souldrivensuccess.com/] LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kat-knecht/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kat-knecht/] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SoulDrivenSuccess [https://www.facebook.com/SoulDrivenSuccess] Kat's book: Evolve Your Coaching Business [https://www.amazon.com/Evolve-Your-Coaching-Business-Ultimate/dp/1961075458/] Get the full show notes and more information here: https://souldrivensuccess.com/podcast/ [https://souldrivensuccess.com/podcast/] Please click the button to subscribe so you don't miss any episodes and leave a review if your favorite podcast app has that ability. Thank you! Coaching Business Spotlight with Kat Knecht brings inspiring stories, proven business strategies, and soulful success tips for coaches. Designed for new and emerging coaches, each episode offers practical tools to grow your coaching business, attract clients, and thrive doing the work you love. Learn more at souldrivensuccess.com [https://souldrivensuccess.com/]. © 2023 - 2026 Kat Knecht / Soul Driven Success

Kat Knecht - The Soul Driven Success Visioning Process

In this episode, Kat walks coaches through the 10-step Soul Driven Success Visioning Process — a powerful yearly ritual she has refined over two decades. Building on last episode's “Year in Review,” this conversation dives deep into how to intentionally craft a 2026 vision rooted in alignment, positive momentum, and soul-level truth. Kat breaks down each of the 10 steps with stories, examples, and practical prompts to help coaches release the past, elevate the positive, access their future selves, and design a vision that’s grounded, meaningful, and doable. She also shares details about upcoming workshops and how to access her guided visualization and visioning course inside the Soul Driven Success Community. Key Takeaways * Start by clearing your energetic field. Reviewing the past is powerful, but Kat emphasizes the importance of a letting-go ritual so old failures and negative self-talk don’t leak into your new vision. * Seed your vision with what’s already working. Instead of inventing goals from scratch, build on strengths, wins, and positive momentum you already have. * Visualization unlocks deeper wisdom. Kat shares how future-self visualizations revealed truths she couldn’t have logically known — and how this practice pulls your vision forward. * Experiences matter more than outcomes. Instead of obsessing over numbers, define the experience you want: how your business and life will feel. * Action becomes easier with structure. Vision boards, written vision stories, and the Soul Search Process create ongoing alignment and help you stay in consistent, soul-led action all year. Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Upcoming Free Workshop: Monday, January 12, 2026 — Evolve Your Coaching Business with a Vision Join the free community + register here: https://community.souldrivensuccess.com/events/evolve-your-coaching-business-with-a-vision-93083571 [https://community.souldrivensuccess.com/events/evolve-your-coaching-business-with-a-vision-93083571] Join the free Soul Driven Success Community for Coaches here: https://community.souldrivensuccess.com/ [https://community.souldrivensuccess.com/] Learn more about Soul Driven Success courses and programs -- email katandcurtis@souldrivensuccess.com [katandcurtis@souldrivensuccess.com] Website: https://souldrivensuccess.com/ [https://souldrivensuccess.com/] LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kat-knecht/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kat-knecht/] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SoulDrivenSuccess [https://www.facebook.com/SoulDrivenSuccess] Kat's book: Evolve Your Coaching Business [https://www.amazon.com/Evolve-Your-Coaching-Business-Ultimate/dp/1961075458/] Get the full show notes and more information here: https://souldrivensuccess.com/podcast/ [https://souldrivensuccess.com/podcast/] Please click the button to subscribe so you don't miss any episodes and leave a review if your favorite podcast app has that ability. Thank you! Coaching Business Spotlight with Kat Knecht brings inspiring stories, proven business strategies, and soulful success tips for coaches. Designed for new and emerging coaches, each episode offers practical tools to grow your coaching business, attract clients, and thrive doing the work you love. Learn more at souldrivensuccess.com [https://souldrivensuccess.com/]. © 2023 - 2026 Kat Knecht / Soul Driven Success

Kat Knecht – Your Year in Review Ritual for a Soul-Aligned New Year

In this episode, Kat kicks off a brand-new visioning series designed to help coaches enter the new year feeling grounded, inspired, and aligned. She shares the origin story of her own “Year in Review” ritual and explains why this reflective practice is essential for creating a meaningful, soul-driven vision. Kat walks listeners through her three-part framework—Highlights, Lowlights, and Insights—and shows how this powerful process clears space, heals old energy, and lays the foundation for a more intentional and inspired year ahead. She also reveals practical ways to conduct your own review using calendars, photos, journals, conversations, and rituals. Kat invites the community to join two free Visioning Workshops in December and January and shares how the upcoming 21-Day Challenge helps bring new visions to life. Key Takeaways * Visioning begins with reflection—to create an inspiring year ahead, you must first acknowledge and integrate the year behind you. * Highlights, Lowlights, and Insights is a simple, profound framework for understanding what shaped your year. * Lowlights hold gold—compassionate review of challenges and failures reveals growth, wisdom, and new direction. * Using calendars, photos, journals, and conversations helps spark memories and deepen insight during the review process. * A letting-go ritual clears emotional residue and prepares you to build a fresh, aligned vision for the coming year. Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Upcoming Free Workshops: * Monday, December 15, 2025 — Your Soul Driven Business Vision: Year in Review - Join the free community + register here: https://community.souldrivensuccess.com/events/your-soul-driven-business-vision-year-in-review-93083552 [https://community.souldrivensuccess.com/events/your-soul-driven-business-vision-year-in-review-93083552] * Monday, January 12, 2026 — Evolve Your Coaching Business with a Vision - Join the free community + register here: https://community.souldrivensuccess.com/events/evolve-your-coaching-business-with-a-vision-93083571 [https://community.souldrivensuccess.com/events/evolve-your-coaching-business-with-a-vision-93083571] Join the free Soul Driven Success Community for Coaches here: https://community.souldrivensuccess.com/ [https://community.souldrivensuccess.com/] Learn more about Soul Driven Success courses and programs -- email katandcurtis@souldrivensuccess.com [katandcurtis@souldrivensuccess.com] Website: https://souldrivensuccess.com/ [https://souldrivensuccess.com/] LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kat-knecht/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kat-knecht/] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SoulDrivenSuccess [https://www.facebook.com/SoulDrivenSuccess] Kat's book: Evolve Your Coaching Business [https://www.amazon.com/Evolve-Your-Coaching-Business-Ultimate/dp/1961075458/] Get the full show notes and more information here: https://souldrivensuccess.com/podcast/ [https://souldrivensuccess.com/podcast/] Please click the button to subscribe so you don't miss any episodes and leave a review if your favorite podcast app has that ability. Thank you! Coaching Business Spotlight with Kat Knecht brings inspiring stories, proven business strategies, and soulful success tips for coaches. Designed for new and emerging coaches, each episode offers practical tools to grow your coaching business, attract clients, and thrive doing the work you love. Learn more at souldrivensuccess.com [https://souldrivensuccess.com/]. © 2023 - 2026 Kat Knecht / Soul Driven Success