Kate Volman on Creativity, Courage and Do What You Love

Joe Ciccarone
2 min readApr 29, 2024

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Kate Volman — Author, “Do What You Love.”

“You are the artist of your life. Create something remarkable.” — Kate Volman

Built Not Born (Episode X-Ray): Insights from Kate Volman, CEO of Floyd Consulting and author of, “Do What You Love — A Guide to Living Your Creative Life Without Leaving Your Job.”

Kate Volman is the CEO of Floyd Consulting.

Kate is the author of, “Do What You Love — A Guide to Living Your Creative Life Without Leaving Your Job.”

Kate and her team are dedicated to helping individuals and organizations become the-best-version-of-themselves by providing training, coaching, and consulting services, including Floyd’s Dream Manager Program based on Matthew Kelly’s bestselling book.

Kate is a sought after speaker and has worked with brands such as GoDaddy, Entrepreneur.com, & StartUpNation.com.

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4.5 Ideas on Creativity from CEO Kate Volman:

1) Don’t Compare

  • “We can’t compare our beginning to someone’s much further along ending. We’ve got to start where we are and only grow from there.” — Kate Volman
  • “We are only competing with who we were yesterday. Who we were a week ago. We’re looking at ourselves in the sense of I’m only competing to make sure that I’m getting better every day, every time I show up.” — Kate Volman

2) The Reward is the Work

  • “The only way to be a better version of ourself everyday is to tap into your curiosity. Have that creative courage to pursue the things that you think are meaningful.
  • The reward is the work.” — Kate Volman

3) The Pomodoro Technique

  • The Pomodoro Technique is a great way to generate creative output based on 25-minute stretches of focused work broken by five-minute breaks.
  • “What I love about this idea is that inspiration doesn’t strike, but you can gain that inspiration and momentum simply by starting.” — Kate Volman

4) How to Choose Your Creative Project

  • Two Questions to Ask Yourself:
  • “What do you love to do that you stopped making time for?” — Kate Volman
  • “How was your life better when you were doing that?”- Kate Volman

4.5) If You Could Share One Lesson You’ve Learned, What Would it Be?

  • “I would just remind people that they are the artist of their life and they have the power to create something remarkable.” — Kate Volman

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