Podcast | Clarity
Episode 23| November 26, 2023

Release Stress and Find Clarity w/ Kelly Borowski

She Spent Ten Years on Autopilot. A Diagnosis and a Blow-Up Woke Her Up.

Kelly Borowski spent fifteen years in a corporate career, and she cannot really remember ten of them.

She was on autopilot. Enjoying life, watching time fly, carrying a quiet feeling that there was something more she was meant to do.

Then her dad was diagnosed with dementia, and she blew up in a meeting with twelve people watching.

That was the moment she decided to wake up.

In this episode of the Happy Healthy Hustle Podcast, results coach and meditation teacher Kelly Borowski shares how a ten-day silent retreat rewired her, why presence comes before positivity, and the two simple practices that keep her clear.

Same job. Same room. A different Kelly.

If you have been running on autopilot, this is your nudge.

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“I am here. I am breathing. How could I not be positive?”

– Kelly Borowski

Fast Skim & Timestamps

0:00 Meet Kelly: From Corporate to Coaching
2:04 Her Superpower: A Soft Power for Positivity
2:58 Ten Years on Autopilot
4:19 The Meeting Where She Blew Up
5:53 From Self-Absorbed to Present
7:55 Same Seat, Different Kelly
9:07 The Artist’s Way and Human Design
11:37 Journaling and Walks to Release the Pressure

Key Takeaways

You can be busy and successful and still be asleep at the wheel of your own life.
A hard moment can be the wake-up call. The anger was information, not the enemy.
Presence comes before positivity. In the here and now, there is room to breathe.
When you look outward instead of inward, the work and the relationships change.
Human design and The Artist’s Way can be shortcuts to knowing yourself.
Two simple practices hold it together: free-flow journaling and walks that restore you.

Three Petite Practice® Questions

1. Where in my life am I running on autopilot right now?

2. What recent flare of anger or stress is actually trying to tell me something?

3. What would change if I looked outward, at the people and the work, instead of only at myself?

Transcript Chapters

0:00 Meet Kelly: From Corporate to Coaching

[00:00:10] Dr. Christiane Schroeter: Welcome to the Happy Healthy Hustle, where we explore the intersection of health, happiness, and productivity. Today we have a special guest. [00:01:21] Dr. Christiane Schroeter: Kelly Borowski is a certified results coach and meditation teacher. She left her corporate career to help self-aware nine-to-five professionals uncover their unique gifts and purpose using human design, so they can find meaningful work that feeds their soul and stop wasting their best years in a job that no longer inspires them. [00:01:54] Kelly Borowski: Thank you so much for having me on the show. I am so excited to be here.

2:04 Her Superpower: A Soft Power for Positivity

[00:02:04] Kelly Borowski: My superpower is a soft power. It is positivity. I see beauty in the world and strength in people. Whoever I interact with, I see through the person. I have this gift of seeing their potential even if they do not see it in themselves. In human design, with the gene keys, your gifts are all there for you to realize and acknowledge. It is a remarkable tool for tapping into our strengths.

2:58 Ten Years on Autopilot

[00:02:58] Kelly Borowski: I was there for fifteen years, but it was not until the tenth year that I started to reflect on my life. That was when my dad was diagnosed with dementia, and it was a wake-up call. I realized I had been on autopilot for ten years. I could not really remember what I had done. I was enjoying life and time was flying by, but I always felt there was something more I was meant to do here.

4:19 The Meeting Where She Blew Up

[00:04:19] Kelly Borowski: I was really stressed and blowing up at work. I actually blew up in one of the conference calls, and I could feel twelve pairs of eyes on me. That is when I said, I need to do something about this anger. It opened my eyes to all the dialogue going on in my head. The hardest thing I have ever done was a ten-day silent meditation retreat, not talking to anyone, just watching the thoughts flow through with no feedback.

5:53 From Self-Absorbed to Present

[00:05:53] Kelly Borowski: When you are angry, you are certainly not positive. I was wrapped up in my head, very self-absorbed. When we are not self-absorbed, we can look outward and first look inward again, grateful for what we have. That centers us into positivity. It is about being present. In the here and now, there is no unhappiness. I am alive. I am breathing. How could I not be positive?

7:55 Same Seat, Different Kelly

[00:07:55] Kelly Borowski: I was up for a promotion, and in that meeting all I was thinking about was myself, my reputation, how a missed deadline made me look. A year after the retreat, I was placed in the same position with the same consultants, same environment, but a different Kelly. At the end of that year I got promoted, because I was looking outward, for the benefit of the project and the team, instead of what I needed. It was a huge transformation in how I looked at life.

9:07 The Artist’s Way and Human Design

[00:09:07] Kelly Borowski: I had been dealing with anger all my life. That challenge kicked off the meditation. The biggest transformation came when I picked up the book The Artist’s Way, recommended after an improv class. The synchronicities started kicking off. From November 2017 to the summer of 2019, in less than two years, all this transformation happened. I did Tony Robbins and Mindvalley programs. The Artist’s Way is the magic to self-discovery, and human design ties everything together. Your human design chart is the cheat sheet to self-discovery.

11:37 Journaling and Walks to Release the Pressure

[00:11:37] Kelly Borowski: The two key practices are journaling, free-flow writing, emptying whatever is on our minds onto paper. That is so powerful for releasing whatever we have been struggling with. The second is artist dates and walks, taking time for ourselves to rest, restore, and connect back with our creative side. It brings so much clarity and freedom to our mind and body. [00:13:34] Kelly Borowski: You can tune in to my podcast, Wake Up with Yogi Shorts. My website is kellyborowski.com, and I have a waitlist for a three-day challenge to help people find their purpose. [00:13:52] Dr. Christiane Schroeter: Thank you so much for being here, Kelly.

Meet My Guest

Kelly Borowski

Certified Results Coach & Meditation Teacher

Kelly Borowski is a certified results coach and meditation teacher who left a fifteen-year corporate career to help self-aware professionals uncover their gifts and purpose using human design. She guides people toward meaningful work that feeds their soul.

She hosts the Wake Up with Yogi Shorts podcast and offers a three-day challenge to help people find their purpose and natural strengths. Learn more at kellyborowski.com.

Meet Your Host

Dr. Christiane Schroeter

TEDx Speaker & Leadership Strategist

I’m Dr. Christiane Schroeter, TEDx speaker, leadership strategist, and host of the Top 1% ranked Happy Healthy Hustle Podcast. I help leaders think clearly, speak with conviction, and take the next step during change.

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