MEET OUR FOUNDER
“I don’t believe it’s the big things that tell our story. It’s the small, everyday occurrences that create our sense of Self. It’s in the tiny micro-moments that we’re presented with the biggest life choices, and in our interpretation of them that we decide who we are.”
-Katie Horwitch
MEET OUR FOUNDER
“I don’t believe it’s the big things that tell our story. It’s the small, everyday occurrences that create our sense of Self. It’s in the tiny micro-moments that we’re presented with the biggest life choices, and in our interpretation of them that we decide who we are.”
-Katie Horwitch
MEET KATIE HORWITCH
Katie Horwitch is a nationally recognized writer, speaker, mindset coach, and activist. She is the founder of WANT: Women Against Negative Talk, a platform that gives women tips, tools, motivation, and inspiration to move forward fearlessly in their lives by shifting their negative self-talk patterns. She’s been featured on outlets like The Cut, Brides, mindbodygreen, and Livestrong, and has been praised by CNN as a “woman empowering others around the world.”
Katie brings to the table over a decade of experience in the wellness lifestyle editorial space, and almost two decades in public speaking and performance. She has spoken across the country – from SXSW and Lululemon to corporate workshops and creative non-profits – about self-confidence, living fearlessly, and shifting the emotional DNA that’s helped shape our negative self-talk patterns. She is the host of the WANTcast: The Women Against Negative Talk Podcast, (currently in its fifth year), where she tackles subjects like loneliness, jealousy, self-worth, and interviews visionary women about taking a pragmatic, proactive approach to the full spectrum of life’s high highs and low lows.
Katie has been featured on CNN, The Cut, Darling Magazine, mindbodygreen, The Globe and Mail, Healthline, Brides Magazine, xoJane, Livestrong, Women’s Running, and more. As a speaker, she’s worked with brands including I AM THAT GIRL, Teachable, GOOD, and Whole30. As a mindset coach specializing in self-talk, Katie helps her clients work through their shame, doubt, overwhelm, and fears — both personally and professionally — so they can be proactive leaders in their own lives. She is a certified NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) Coach Practitioner by the NLP Center of New York, and uses a combination of NLP strategies as well as her own methods honed over the last decade to meet each client with deep empathy, fierce support, and a highly individualized game plan. Some of her recent clients include organizations and executives at brands like Equinox, Salesforce, Whole30, Morgan Stanley, and MeUndies.
Katie has been featured in publications such as mindbodygreen, Darling Magazine, xoJane, and more, and was a founding editor of The Chalkboard Mag. As an actress, singer, and host, she’s been seen on TLC and Entertainment Tonight, as well as in feature films and on stages both regional and Off-Broadway. She has been teaching group fitness for over a decade, and is currently a top trainer on Aaptiv, where she reaches over one million users per month with her unique brand of positive, proactive coaching. She holds a BA in Drama from University of California, Irvine, where she also studied sociocultural anthropology and creative writing.
Katie lives in New York City with her husband Jeremy and dog-daughter Frankie, and spends her energy on shifting the cultural self-talk paradigm, producing engaging new content for women both online and off, advising creatives and entrepreneurs on how use their unique strengths to make the biggest impact possible, and singing loudly while she runs.
Her debut book, WANT YOUR SELF: SHIFT YOUR SELF-TALK & UNEARTH THE STRENGTH IN WHO YOU WERE ALL ALONG, will be released by Sounds True in Fall 2023.
For more on Katie, visit katiehorwitch.com
Abbreviated bio:
Katie Horwitch is a nationally-recognized writer, speaker, mindset coach, activist, and the founder of WANT: Women Against Negative Talk. She has spoken across the country – from SXSW and Lululemon to corporate workshops and creative retreats – about self-confidence, living fearlessly, and shifting the emotional DNA that’s helped shape our negative self-talk patterns. She is the host of the top-rated self-talk podcast WANTcast: The Women Against Negative Talk Podcast, where she tackles subjects like loneliness, jealousy, and self-worth, and interviews visionary women about taking a proactive approach to life’s high highs and low lows. Her clientele includes organizations and executives at brands like Equinox, Salesforce, Whole30, Morgan Stanley, MeUndies, and more. Her debut book, WANT YOUR SELF, will be released by Sounds True in Fall 2023.
