107. Finding Your Happiness with 5/1 Projector Yekaterina Benson

podcast Jun 19, 2025

This one’s for the woman who’s checked all the boxes and still feels like something’s missing. Who built the “dream life” and is now quietly wondering, but what do I actually want? Who’s starting to realize that success without soul... isn’t success at all.

In this episode, I’m joined by the incredible Kat Benson, painter, coach, and projector extraordinaire, for a heartfelt conversation about identity, burnout, and learning to listen to your inner knowing (even when it asks you to walk away from what you worked so hard to build).

From Pixar to the Blue Ridge Mountains

Kat shares her story of landing a dream job at Pixar and climbing the leadership ladder, only to realize that the career she worked so hard for was slowly draining her life force. What followed was a health crash, a total reevaluation, and a brave decision to walk away and build something completely different.

Now, Kat helps women in leadership rediscover their soul’s desires, and this episode is a full permission slip to start asking those deeper questions for yourself.

Projector Wisdom & Radical Redirection

As a 5/1 Projector, Kat’s perspective is potent. She drops wisdom on:

Why not having a single “aha moment” is totally okay
How burnout is often the body’s alarm system for misalignment
What it means to reconnect with joy, softness, and self-trust
The truth about women, corporate leadership, and self-sacrifice
Why your softness is not a weakness, it’s a superpower

Two Practical Invitations to Reconnect with Desire

Kat also shares two powerful practices to help you reconnect with what you truly want:

Look back to joy: What did you love as a child? Start there.
Create space to listen: Rest, sip your tea, imagine the pressure is gone, and ask: What do I want now?

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View the full show notes for this episode here: https://www.spiritualbusinessincubator.com/blog/episode107

Resources:

Connect with Yekaterina Benson:

Coaching: @yekaterina_benson https://www.yekaterinabenson.com/

Art: @ybensonart https://www.ybensonart.com/

Radical Redirection Freebie: https://www.yekaterinabenson.com/free-journal-prompts-direction

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