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What if you could get more of what you want in life? But not through pushing, forcing, or pressure.
You can.
When it comes to money, time, and energy, no one’s gonna turn away more.
And Kate Northrup, Bestselling Author of Money: A Love Story and Do Less and host of Plenty, is here to help you expand your capacity to receive all of the best.
As a Money Empowerment OG who’s been at it for nearly 2 decades, Kate’s the abundance-oriented best friend you may not even know you’ve always needed.
Pull up a chair every week with top thought leaders, luminaries, and adventurers to learn how to have more abundance with ease.
If you want your bucket to be in a healthy state of overflow, you have to fix the leaks first. There's no amount of water you can pour into a leaky bucket in order to fix the leaks in the bucket. When money is in the hands of conscious humans, the world becomes a better place. Welcome to Plenty, a weekly recalibration of power, money, and safety for high capacity humans. I'm Kate Northrup, best selling author and creator of Relaxed Money, and this is where neuroscience meets ancient wisdom meets real wealth strategy.
Kate Northrup:This is the sacred conversation at the intersection of money, the body, and the life you're truly here to live. If you're ready to reimagine what's possible for yourself and for the world, you're in the right place. Let's go. Welcome to the Recalibration. This is a series for high capacity, high functioning humans just like you to recalibrate your relationship with power, money, and safety.
Kate Northrup:This is an invitation to step into a new financial reality that you may never have even considered possible. But when you go through this series and you implement what I have for you, what's going to happen is you are going to have a completely new science backed evidence based reality and paradigm that you can put to work right away in your money and beyond. So let's dive in. Today, we are talking about how to make more income without more pressure. I have worked with thousands and thousands of students, and a sneaky break element of friction that's running underneath the surface for so many of my clients is this.
Kate Northrup:They hold back from going for it as much as they possibly could in their career, in their business, in their revenue, their income, because there's a part of them, semiconscious usually, that is afraid that they won't be able to handle it. They've associated more income with more pressure. And so they pump the brakes, sometimes in big ways, sometimes in small ways. They sabotage themselves, again, sometimes in big ways, sometimes in small ways. And what it does is it robs the world of their full power.
Kate Northrup:It robs the world of you being fully lit up, being fully present, being fully impactful. Because if you're pumping the brakes because you're afraid that more income is gonna mean more pressure, you're not going to go as big. You're not going to open the floodgates to receive all the riches that life has for you and also to let the work that wants to come through you come through. And I promise you, that work that wants to come through you, whether it's in the form of a book, a program, a TED Talk, a a particular body of work, a business, an impact that you wanna make in your company, whatever it may be, whatever wants to come through you, wants to come through you. Our desires are not by mistake.
Kate Northrup:I heard this wonderful quote recently. I don't remember who said the quote, but my friend James Wedmore shared it with me, and the quote was this. Your desires are your destiny. You can do what you will, but you cannot will your will. And what that means is that we can't make ourselves want to do something or not do something.
Kate Northrup:The things that we authentically, genuinely want to pursue and move towards are our divine destiny. But if we're turning down the volume, if we're dimming our lights because we're afraid consciously or unconsciously or somewhere in between that we can't handle the growth because more income, more visibility, more power is going to come with more pressure, then we actually have an infrastructure problem. There's a missing element, several missing elements in your internal scaffolding. And the good news is, once you put these pieces in place in your internal scaffolding, which I call your hidden money ecosystem, you don't have a capacity issue anymore. Now it's not really about you holding anything.
Kate Northrup:It's about you being held by your money ecosystem, both the visible parts and most importantly, the invisible parts. Now most high functioners I work with think that if they just make more money, all of their issues around money will go away. And I want you to make more money. In fact, more conscious people making more money absolutely makes the world a better place. There's incredible data on this.
Kate Northrup:I absolutely will get into that data, but you can trust me for now, and just know that the data shows that when money is in the hands of conscious humans, the world becomes a better place. And we are at a time in the world right now where we need that to happen more than ever. So there's not a problem with your ambition. There is nothing wrong with your desire. Your hunger for more, your hunger for expansion is holy.
Kate Northrup:Because when conscious, awake, spiritual, big hearted humans have access to resources, everyone's lives get better. So that's number one. However, when we add more money to a system, what that I like to call your bucket, to a bucket that has holes in it, you get a leaky bucket. Right? Your bucket is your hidden money ecosystem.
Kate Northrup:And there's multiple aspects of your money ecosystem, and we'll get into those in the coming episodes in this series. But for now, what I want you to understand is that if you pour more water into a bucket with holes, the bucket cannot hold the water. You have a leaky bucket. And so pouring more water in to fix the leaks, there's no amount of water you can pour into a leaky bucket in order to fix the leaks in the bucket, and there's no amount of water you can pour in that's going to allow that bucket to not only fill up, but also move into a state of overflow. We'll talk about what a state of over of healthy overflow means as it relates to your money in a future episode.
Kate Northrup:But for now, if you want your bucket to be in a healthy state of overflow, you have to fix the leaks first. Our world has conditioned us to think we just need to make more money. But then we make more money, and it's like pouring more water into a leaky bucket. Before we dive in, this episode is part of the recalibration series, and there's a companion recalibration field guide to go with it. It's where you'll locate yourself inside what we're about to cover, audit your hidden money ecosystem, and identify the one shift you can make right now that's gonna make the biggest difference.
Kate Northrup:You can download it for free at katenorthrup.com/fieldguide and use it as you listen. The link is also in the show notes. Alright. Let's get into it. My question for you is, when you think about increasing your income, what comes up for you?
Kate Northrup:Because there are actually two ways to do it. Number one is through more effort. I'm sure you know what that's like. Right? You can work more hours.
Kate Northrup:You can add an additional job. You can add an additional offering. You can allow more proximity in your offerings. If you're in business, you can do more of a song and dance. You can do more launches.
Kate Northrup:You can do more promotions. You can essentially work more or work harder or do more things. So that's the efforting option of making more money. The other option, though, and the very overlooked option, is to use leverage. Leverage means you are putting in some effort, and then you're getting a result that is exponentially greater than the effort you put in.
Kate Northrup:Okay? So an example of that would be, I write a book one time. So I I do put in quite a bit of effort into writing a book, but I write the book one time, and then I get paid over and over and over and over for the one time that book was written because it now exists in the world outside of me, and I don't need to write the book again for somebody to buy the book and benefit from the book. So that's a very practical example of leverage. But the other element of leverage, and there's a million different kinds of leverage that you can build into your income, and we can talk about that in a future episode as well.
Kate Northrup:But for now, I just want you to know it exists, and I want you to think about where do I already have leverage in my income, and where is it missing? Where am I trading hours for dollars? Where am I becoming the cost of making more money? Where is it a linear relationship based on effort alone or based primarily on effort? You can just jot that down right now because awareness is always the first step.
Kate Northrup:And then we can start talking about how we can shift things from effort to leverage. When you think about making more money, whether it's income in your work or revenue if you're a business owner, as you imagine your income growing or your revenue growing, what grows with it? Is it an increase in complexity? Is it an increase in life lifestyle creep? So, like, as your income grows, do your expenses grow as well so that there's still not more profit?
Kate Northrup:There's still not more cushion or margin in your life? Are you looking at increased taxes? So is that keeping a lid on things for you? Because you're like, uh-oh. If I make more money, I'll have to pay more taxes.
Kate Northrup:I I'm we're not gonna get into that yet, but that is such a red flag for me that someone's operating in a scarcity paradigm if they're not making more money because they're afraid of making more taxes. We'll table that for another conversation. Is it that when you make more money now you have more to manage, more people to manage, more problems to manage? Do you imagine, oh, no. If I make more money, now I'm gonna have all these extra decisions to make.
Kate Northrup:Will it increase your anxiety that it'll all go away? Does it feel like more pressure, and does it feel like it will increase your emotional volatility? If your answer to any of those was yes, you have a system and structure problem. You don't have an income problem. You have a system and structure problem.
Kate Northrup:The good news is right here in this recalibration series, I'm gonna help you fix it. So the question is not, can you make more money? Of course, you can make more money. I want you to make more money. You get to make more money.
Kate Northrup:And guess what? When you do make more money, the world becomes a better place as long as you are making it from a state of sufficiency, which we're gonna talk about another time as well. I've I've dropped so many little open loops, reasons to come back, so I'm so excited to make all of those episodes for you. But the question is not, can I make more money? Of course, you can.
Kate Northrup:You're incredibly high functioning. You have very likely made great money in the past, so you have evidence that you can do it again. Right? Maybe you have a history of undercharging or under earning. Maybe there are some patterns there where you've been keeping the brakes on it, but you and I both know you have what it takes to make great money.
Kate Northrup:So that's not the problem. The problem is or the question that we need to be asking is, does your system know how to metabolize it? Do you have the hidden money ecosystem in place to systemize and support this expansion? The number one problem I see with high functioners is they go for making more money as their default instinct because you're really good at performing. Maybe you got straight a's.
Kate Northrup:Maybe you were top of your class. Maybe you were the first child. Maybe you're the strong friend. Maybe you're the one who everyone depends on. Maybe you are the one who always can make it happen and actually figures out how to skip steps and just, you know, get the job done, you know, without without exhausting yourself.
Kate Northrup:Like like, maybe you are that person, so you know you have what it takes. But the problem is when we pour more water into a leaky bucket before we plug the leaks, you can never get into a state of healthy overflow. Now I want you to be in a state of healthy overflow because it allows for you to have profound agency in your life where you get to make choices based on your authentic desires as opposed to based on whether or not the money is present, and that includes your choices around investing and your choices around impact with your money. Right? So let's get you to a healthy state of overflow, and that has to start with building your hidden money ecosystem so that you can achieve a state of healthy overflow.
Kate Northrup:But we cannot start by pouring more water into a leaky bucket. So please hear me. Do not continue to make the mistake of thinking you just need to make more money as a starting point. But the cool thing is when you build your hidden money ecosystem, more money coming in becomes a natural byproduct of the structures and the systems, some of them invisible, some of them internal, some of them external, and we'll walk through all of that. When you do that, healthy overflow becomes a byproduct, and having more money comes in becomes a natural byproduct.
Kate Northrup:And you move from making more money from effort to making more money from leverage, And you move from trying to figure out how you can hold more to instead being able to rely on the systems and the structures and the infrastructure and the support and the scaffolding, so many good s words, that you get to rely on the structure in your work, in your life, in your finances to hold you. So you move from trying to hold more and expanding your capacity to hold more to being held. If that sounds good, you are in the right place, my friend. And I can't wait to have you in our next episode of the recalibration series here on Plenty. So I will see you then.
Kate Northrup:If this episode sparks something for you, don't leave it as just an insight. The Recalibration Field Guide is where you turn what you heard into movement. Inside, you'll map your current money ecosystem state, audit what's supporting you and what's leaking, and identify the next upgrade that will actually change how money moves in your life. The listeners who download it and use it are the very same ones who will come back and tell me that everything shifted. You can download it for free at Kate Northrup dot com forward slash field guide, and the link is also in the show notes.
Kate Northrup:I'll see you in the next episode. What if managing money felt effortless? You've worked so hard to earn money, so why does it feel stressful? Well, I wanna introduce you to something brand new that I've created called the money reset because abundance starts in your body, not in your bank account. This free audio experience will help you rewire your nervous system for wealth, stop the money in money out cycle and create a foundation for true wealth, and relax into a new relationship with money.
Kate Northrup:Plus, it comes with the five minute calm cash flow ritual. So you can have financial clarity and magnetism anytime you want. All you need to do to get the free money reset is go to katenorthrup.com/reset.