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Chasing Purpose
by Talk 4 Media
Chasing Purpose is a weekly show hosted by Kathleen Keane Conner. Each episode shares real conversations and practical tools for clarity, self-trust, boundaries, communication, and steady progress. Expect mindset resets, simple prompts, and steps you can use the same day. Airs Tuesdays. Chasing Purpose is broadcast live Tuesdays at 1PM ET on W4WN Radio - Women 4 Women Network (www.w4wn.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.talk4radio.com&d=DwMFaQ&c=BSDicqBQBDjDI9RkVyTcHQ&r=uWCfroI8yhBYdmfU3V980uXFax9-5HwF09v59Wv8CbM&m=HzstcCRybMFoIRSAlzUg5NYgQlsMQMSX31P6w6DcewDEhbGRijbmusHINGCO4wiJ&s=kfnPLKoMa6NLXakP7s0ZtEbYtQq
Episodes
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Dark Phase: What's Your Rock Bottom
Kathleen takes you to the dark place: rock bottom. Nobody gets to rank anyone’s bottom, and nobody skips the dark phase. She shares her own, then turns to the other side: loving someone who hits theirs. Don’t touch someone drowning. They will bring you down. Throw them a lifeline. Support Chasing...
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Excuse Number 1,000,000: “They’re Not Ready”
Kathleen takes on an excuse we all use: they’re not ready. You say it about him, your mother, your kids. Then you do nothing to get them ready. Today she calls it what it is, shows you how to prepare people, and tells you to quit hiding behind someone else’s feelings. If a hard conversation has...
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Mirror, Mirror - which Ego is the Fairest of Them All
Everyone has a good ego and a bad ego, and your choices, your habits, and your lifestyle, your environment feed them every day. Kathleen breaks down how each one lives however, only one of them can survive. You get to pick which one. So which ego is the fairest of them all? Choose wisely Chasing...
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Seasons - Fall Forward
Host Kathleen Conner marks the fall equinox with a simple truth: seasons change, and so does life, whether you're ready or not. She breaks down how easily we accept the seasons and how hard we fight every other kind of change, why falling feels like flying until you hit the ground, and what it...
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Intent vs. Impact - Do No Harm
Kathleen Conner breaks down two sentences this week: 'I didn't mean it' and the one that follows when you push back, 'you're making more out of it than it was.' Owning your intent costs nothing. Owning the impact costs something real. The size of someone's hurt is never yours to grade, no matter...
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Get Your Beer Here - Last Call
Five years ago, Kathleen got on a flight thinking it might be her last drink before losing her mother. It turned into the first day of five years sober. No rehab, no intervention, no rock bottom, just a woman choosing to be present for her dying mother and never picking a beer back up. This…
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High School Reunion - Time After Time
With their 40th high school reunion approaching, Kathleen and Wendy get real about what time actually does to you, what it doesn't, and what they'd change if they're being honest instead of nostalgic. From who they thought they'd become to what they'd tell their eighteen-year-old selves, this...
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Forgiveness Is Not Forgetting
Forgive and forget are not the same thing, and treating them as one leaves you exposed to the exact thing that hurt you the first time. Kathleen breaks down what forgiveness actually is: a release for you, not a ticket back into your life for them. Covering self-forgiveness, parents, work…
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Home Sweet Home - It's Where Your Soul Goes to Rest
Home is more than an address. It is where we feel grounded, connected, and restored. In this episode Kathleen and Wendy explore what creates a true sense of home, why coming home nourishes the soul, and belonging safety and presence shape the lives we build. Discover how to create a life your…
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Overthinking - Don't Borrow Trouble
This week Kathleen breaks down overthinking as borrowed anxiety, withdrawing tomorrow's fear and spending it today. Why women get rewarded for a habit that drains them, and how to stop paying interest on disasters that never arrive. No advice you have already heard here. This is the real cost of...
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Pack Light - Bring Only What Belongs to You
What are you carrying what was never yours to begin with? In this episode, Kathleen and Wendy explore the emotional baggage we collect through life, including expectations, guilt, other people's opinions, and outdated stories. Learn how releasing what no longer belongs to you creates space for...
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Into The Mystic
Kathleen gets fully honest about her spiritual practice: daily tarot, astrology, Human Design, chakras, spiritual guides, one hard no on ouija boards. Her case: these tools give guidance, not gospel. They inform a decision. They never make it for you. She shares how she checks in with her late...
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Intuition - Look, Listen Feel
Your gut isn't magic, it's pattern recognition moving faster than you can explain it. Kathleen breaks down a real method for reading it: Look at what you actually observe, Listen for tone and pace, and Feel the signal your body sends first. Learn why the feeling alone is never the verdict, it's…
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Standards - What You Allow Is What You Receive
In this raw, deeply personal episode, Kathleen breaks down why the standard you allow is the standard you receive. She shares the friendship that quietly slipped away, and the lesson her father never finished teaching her. Kathleen explores what happens when loyalty to others and loyalty to…
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Winning is Actually Losing
Your constant need to be right is costing you everything. Kathleen breaks down what winning looks like — people withdrawing, relationships emptying, love dying — and why every argument you win is a person you're losing. This week we're talking about the choice you're making in every moment, what...
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The Pause
There is a moment between what someone says and how you respond. That moment is everything. Kathleen breaks down the trigger-reaction cycle and how to find The Pause — the space where you actually get to choose. This week we're talking about what happens when you cannot pause, what pausing sounds...
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R E S P E C T - Find Out What It Means to Me
Kathleen breaks down what respect actually means. You cannot argue someone into respecting you. You cannot explain your way into their understanding. Respect is not something you prove — it's something you claim. This week we're talking about the case you've been building for your own worthiness,...
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Alignment - It Starts in Your Body
When you're triggered, your body knows before your mind catches up. Kathleen breaks down what alignment actually is — it's a feeling. Calm. Clear. Balanced. Not a strategy. Not something you build. Something you return to. This week we're talking about what it costs you to stay displaced from...
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Say Cheese... Two Words
Say cheese. Two words. A lifetime of conditioning. Smile. Look happy. Make it easy. Social media didn't create the performance — it just gave it a filter and an audience. Personal brand photographer Tanya Boggs has watched women through the lens for years. Now she and Kathleen Conner dig into…
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Agency. Own it.
Most women are waiting. Waiting for the right moment, the right permission, the right version of their life to show up and hand them a reason to move. In this month’s conversation, Kathleen sits down with Wendy Harrop to talk about agency — not the grand gesture kind, not the dramatic life…
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These Times Are A-Changing
The world updated every operating system except love. We still follow the same script our parents followed and their parents before them. In this episode Kathleen asks the question most women have been managing into silence — did you choose your lane or did you drift into it? Traditional patterns...
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You’re the Problem, Not the Victim
We are fluent in what everyone else is doing wrong. We have zero interest in what we might be doing wrong. In this episode, Kathleen gets direct about the patterns we run on autopilot, the feedback we explain away, and the moment we realize we are the common denominator. Not a shame spiral. A…
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Love it's a Verb
Love isn't what someone says to you — it's what they do. In this episode, Kathleen Conner breaks down love as a verb: past tense, present tense, future tense. The record, the practice, the intention. Why attention is not intention. Why someday is not a plan. And why the most important object of...
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And the Oscar Goes to... Social Optics and Performative Patterns
You are winning Oscars for shows that bombed. Kathleen Conner tells the story of a client who collected awards daily - Best Wife, Best Mother, Best Professional - for performances nobody believed. Everyone knew the show failed, but they kept clapping. When she walked off stage, her family…
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Take the Damn Compliment
Women are experts at deflecting compliments - minimizing, joking or brushing them off entirely. In this episode, Kathleen and Wendy explore why receiving recognition feels uncomfortable, where the reflex comes from, and what it costs us to keep shrinking. If you've ever struggled to simply say...
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Here Me Roar
We treat resentment like a character flaw. Like proof we're petty or ungrateful. The problem is resentment doesn't disappear when you ignore it—it compounds. In this episode, Kathleen breaks down why the anger you've been pushing down is actually your internal alarm system telling you something…
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One Size Doesn't Fit All - The Moment Your Life Stops Fitting You
Outgrowing is a sign you’re awake. Kathleen Conner and Wendy Harrop talk raising your emotional baseline—and how it reshapes what you want, what you tolerate, and who fits. They break down the subtle signs of misalignment, the difference between comfort and fit, and practical next steps to move...
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She Stands Alone
In this powerful episode, Kathleen challenges what people mean when they call a woman 'dangerous.' She shares Emily's story of disappearing through years of small compromises, then finding her way back by refusing to abandon herself. Kathleen explores why self-trust unsettles people, how solitude...
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Heads or Tails? You Don't Have to Wait for the Right Decision. Make the Decision Right for You.
In this episode of Chasing Purpose, Kathleen Conner breaks down decision paralysis and what really happens after you choose. From a college roommate who refused to decide to the “Sliding Doors” trap of imagining alternate timelines, Kathleen explores fear-based doubt, overthinking, and the…
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Not 100% and Still Showing Up Anyway
In this candid episode, Kathleen reflects on how January felt long and heavy while February passed quickly. February marked the anniversary of her mother’s passing, and she shares openly about still missing her daily physical presence. She explores the importance of feeling emotions instead of...
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Satisfaction: It's Time to Stop Faking It
Women are taught to be satisfied. Grateful. Content with what they have. And when they're not? They learn to fake it. Kathleen Conner sits down with Wendy Harrop to talk about what happens when you stop pretending you're satisfied with a life too small, relationships not working, and a version of...
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Stay Out of My Hula Hoop
In this episode of Chasing Purpose, Kathleen Conner reframes boundaries using a simple but powerful metaphor: the hula hoop. Boundaries aren’t walls meant to shut people out—they’re clear lines that protect connection. Kathleen explores why boundaries feel hard to set, why guilt shows up when you...
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Opinions… Everyone Has One (And Most of Them Stink)
In this episode of Chasing Purpose, Kathleen Conner explores why most opinions about your life are based on incomplete information. She breaks down the difference between your truth, the situation’s truth, and the truth—and how confusing them leads to self-doubt, over-explaining, and living by...
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You Don't Need Permission (You Never Did)
In Episode 4 of Chasing Purpose, Kathleen challenges the habit of waiting for permission to want more, choose differently, and prioritize yourself. She explores how early conditioning, invisible obligations, guilt and fear of disappointing others keep people deferring their own lives and what it...
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Getting Unstuck: Interrupting the Middle
Kathleen Conner breaks down commonality vs connection and the hidden meaning of FINE: Feeling I Never Express the moment when everything is "FINE" becomes a way to justify staying when enough isn't enough. This episode explores the loop and how to interrupt the cycle of routine with clear…
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Runway or Plank: Same Direction, Different Experience
In Episode 2 of Chasing Purpose, Kathleen Keane Conner explores how fear and urgency can hijack progress even when you are moving forward. Using the “runway or plank” metaphor, she breaks down how mindset shapes experience and offers grounded prompts to shift from pressure-driven momentum to...
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Purpose of Alignment: Head, Heart, Gut Emotional Baseline
Episode 1 of Chasing Purpose is a reset for anyone rebuilding momentum, Kathleen Conner shares practical tools for emotional baseline, clarity, self-trust, boundaries, communication, and steady progress through life transitions. You'll hear simple prompts and mindset shifts to help you feel...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Chasing Purpose is a weekly show hosted by Kathleen Keane Conner. Each episode shares real conversations and practical tools for clarity, self-trust, boundaries, communication, and steady progress. Expect mindset resets, simple prompts, and steps you can use the same day. Airs Tuesdays.
Chasing Purpose is broadcast live Tuesdays at 1PM ET on W4WN Radio - Women 4 Women Network (www.w4wn.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.talk4radio.com&d=DwMFaQ&c=BSDicqBQBDjDI9RkVyTcHQ&r=uWCfroI8yhBYdmfU3V980uXFax9-5HwF09v59Wv8CbM&m=HzstcCRybMFoIRSAlzUg5NYgQlsMQMSX31P6w6DcewDEhbGRijbmusHINGCO4wiJ&s=kfnPLKoMa6NLXakP7s0ZtEbYtQq
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Talk 4 Media
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Chasing Purpose is a weekly show hosted by Kathleen Keane Conner. Each episode shares real conversations and practical tools for clarity, self-trust, boundaries, communication, and steady progress. Expect mindset resets, simple prompts, and steps you can use the same day. Airs Tuesdays. Chasing...
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