I first met Kat Byles through her phenomenal course PR with Heart, an astonishingly life-changing approach to business which encourages us to start from and remain true to what the heart knows in all aspects of life. Especially business.
In the post below Kat shares with us some of the journey she has been on: From corporate top table to designing and living life and work on her own terms, the essential part writing plays for her and how she has decanted wisdom and magic into her first book Creative Happy Work: Follow your Heart to a Thriving Business Life and World…Enjoy!
As a global comms director working with the biggest names in sports, I burnt out. My heart led me to Antigua in the Caribbean where walking barefoot on the sand, floating in the turquoise sea, eating mangoes from the tree brought me back to life. Antigua has become my home and swimming in the crystal clear, turquoise sea is my daily source of inspiration. Right now happiness is removing truck-loads of trash from the beautiful beaches, replanting lost coconut palms, growing bananas, papaya, watermelon and hanging out with my dog Scratch.
Writing to connect to Source
In my late teens and early 20’s, I had an eating disorder. Trying to find my way through I discovered The Artists Way by Julia Cameron and began writing Morning Pages 20 minutes or 3 pages writing your stream of consciousness to purge my thoughts and feelings. This became a key part of my recovery and I never stopped. Writing is the way I connect with Source Inspiration, to create, to write ‘things’ into being.
My one and possibly only book Creative Happy Work: Follow your Heart to a Thriving Business Life and World is out 30 May 2023.
I wrote this book because I needed to find a way of being in business that heals rather than harms regenerates rather than depletes, that co-creates rather than competes. I wanted inspirational clarity for a new chapter of business created in harmony with the earth, with the universal flow.
We know that business as usual is making us sick. The constant push for more – the myth that success is bigger, faster, stronger – is exhausting. Greed, corruption, environmental destruction brushed off as ‘just business’ physically hurts.
Writing as Transformation
Writing this book, writing into being a radical way of being in business – True Business – that leads with your heart’s wisdom and creativity transformed me, my life and my business.
My hope is that it offers a framework and pathway to others who want to do business differently and brings them inspirational clarity, opens them to a whole new world of business in harmony with their true nature and Mother Nature too.
I begin the day writing. Then the connection to inspiration is already well-oiled and any other writing flows easily around my day.
Advice for other writers? Write for yourself, for the connection, for the inspiration, for the creative flow. If you are stuck, ask your heart and listen for the answer. This always opens me back up to fresh inspiration and moves me forward.
First Draft Vulnerability
Rebecca’s editing of the first draft helped me hugely with a structure for the book. I thought there was a structure until I received Rebecca’s edit! Only one or two people had seen the book at this point and of course, you want the book to be great, though realistically never having written a book before on a first or second draft that’s unlikely. I also felt quite vulnerable sharing the work so to have a person on your team that cares about you, cares about the book and wants the best outcome as much as you do is very necessary and supportive.
Want more? Here’s how and where:
Creative Happy Work: Follow your Heart to a Thriving Business, Life and World is out 30 May 2023 RRP £14.99 with an Amazon kindle pre-order offer of 99p.
You can find Kat at Katbyles.com, email kat@katbyles.com or Instagram @katbyles
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