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Quote/Piece of Advice: Give yourself permission to want a different kind of life and want something more.
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Kat Polsinelli

Speaker | DV Advocate | Community Builder

What if the life you're living was never fully chosen by you?

For most people, the answer to that question lands somewhere uncomfortable. Because the truth is — most of us are out here living by someone else's script. The beliefs we were handed as kids. The roles we were assigned — unconsciously. The version of ourselves we built just to survive.

Kat Polsinelli knows that territory well. As a DV survivor, a single mother, and someone who had to burn the old script down before she could write her own — she built The Dragon Reclaimed Community for the people who are done performing who they were told to be and ready to step into who they actually choose to be.

She is a TEDx speaker, 2x International Bestselling Co-Author, and host of Real Chat with Kat — a top 5% globally ranked podcast airing on 6 radio stations across 6 states. But what people remember most isn't the credentials. It's that she's already been where they're standing. And she knows the way through.

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Coti's favorite quote: \"Ignorance on fire will out perform knowledge on ice.\"

God don't make no junk, he made You for a reason.

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