Meet Casie Kindl

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Casie Kindl. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Casie below.

Casie, thanks so much for taking the time to share your insights and lessons with us today. We’re particularly interested in hearing about how you became such a resilient person. Where do you get your resilience from?

I love this question. So often we look at resilience as simply getting back up and moving forward after a setback. True resilience, for me, comes with the driver behind why I get back up and forge ahead.

Early in life, like many, my “resilience” was driven by others’ expectations of me. I believed I had to get back up and keep going no matter what. It’s what my work, my family, and my friends all expected of me. Yet, underneath this drive was a deep-rooted fear that if I somehow didn’t keep going, I would be a failure in the eyes of others. While I was “resilient” and accomplished, I was losing myself in this equation. My necessary self-care was taking a back seat.

Now, through the work of Age of Beauty and my own healing journey, I still am resilient, yet it comes from a deep place of self-worth and knowing who I am. Instead of being pushed by fear of inadequacy, I feel pulled to what it is that I want to do, that aligns with my values and joy, from a place of deep self-worth. This “True resilience” not only fuels me, so I do not burn out, but also comes from knowing who I am, communicating what I want, and aligning to my vision and values. It has taken lots of inner work to get here, and the Age of Beauty Movement has been an integral part in my journey.

Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?

Around 2020, after multiple personal and health-related setbacks I’d endured in my life, I recognized that the medical device career I’d been in for 20+ years was no longer aligned with who I was becoming. I had invested fifteen years and over $200,000 into my quest to become the best version of myself and had learned from countless experts new ways to view myself, my body and my life. I was in awe of the way these new perspectives shifted the way I lived and enjoyed my own life.

I have a big heart, want the best for others, and knew I wanted to give back to women in a way that I had learned to do for myself. I just wasn’t sure how. After hiring a career coach to help me sort it out, I enrolled in the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching in 2022 to gain my professional coaching certification. I finally gained the courage to launch my business in 2023 and have gained so much from holding space for women to recognize and step into their beauty ever since.

To take this a step further, and impact women on a global scale, I wrote Age of Beauty (book and workbook both available on Amazon) to take the message wider than what I can do alone. The Age of Beauty Movement is now taking on a life of its own, outside of me, and it’s been exciting to witness.

I still provide both 1:1 and group inner beauty transformations and have found that the book is a wonderful way for potential clients to understand if they resonate with who I am and what I have to offer.

What sets me apart is my deep care and concern for others wellbeing. I have a huge heart and can very much relate to the women I work with because I too have been there. I can walk alongside my clients, as I do in my book, so they can both see themselves in me and feel empowered to make deep and lasting change in their lives.

I’m most proud of my family and being a mom. Parenting has shown me my strengths and deep inadequacy at times. It’s the most challenging and rewarding work I have done.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

The three biggest qualities that have led me to where I stand today, and feel key to the journey are courage, a big heart, and commitment to personal growth.

Courage is something that can be practiced in two key ways. First, when you’re scared to do something, but know it is important for your direction or aligned to who you are, instead of waiting for the fear to grow, as it always will, act in the first 9 seconds. This will allow you to face the task courageously and more fearlessly than waiting. Second, Brene Brown teaches that courage often requires vulnerability. If we were certain of the outcome, we would just act, and it would not require courage on our part. Vulnerability comes from knowing who you are and what you really want in a given situation, then speaking or acting in accordance. Next time you are faced with uncertainty, know and communicate your truth, even if it feels like a moment of “weakness” to be vulnerable. This will allow you to be both courageous and true to who you are.

If you desire to feel deeper, more authentic connection to others, that comes from your heart. We so often feel the need to guard and protect our hearts, as though others cannot be trusted. Yet, love is in infinite resource. When you give it to others and to yourself, you receive it back. To be clear, this does not mean unboundaried giving from a place of feeling you should care for others. It’s from a place of feeling whole in who you are too. This work will help you to live a more loving, whole-hearted life.

And finally personal growth. I once heard that we either grow or die. While that seems morbid, I’m a big believer in continuously learning, reflecting on our contributions, and leaning on others who are ahead in their journeys to better ourselves. It’s what keeps us vital. So, whether it’s following a passion, or developing a new skill, lean into what intrigues you and you too will always be growing.

Thanks so much for sharing all these insights with us today. Before we go, is there a book that’s played in important role in your development?

There have been countless books that have created the foundation of who I am today, and allowed me to grow into the current version of myself, I love reading and have gained so much from the work of Brene Brown, Oprah’s Super Soul podcast, Jerry and Ester Hicks, Arthur Brooks and Michael Singer, to name a few. However, the one that rises to the top for me right now is the Age of Beauty book and Workbook, because writing them allowed me to make sense of my journey. For quite sometime, I struggled with the belief that my worth was somehow diminishing as I aged. While I knew this to not be true at a deep level, I couldn’t reconcile how I felt on the inside versus the ever-changing exterior facade.

As women, we have so much pressure to remain youthful, energetic, beautiful, kind and caring. While our energy, heart and giving can be chosen, our percieved youth and external beauty seems to fade according to societal standards. I was feeling this, and didn’t know how to reconcile the deep strength and wisdom I had within to my external image. I wanted a way to more deeply know, accept and stand in the truth of my beauty, no matter my age. Writing this book allowed me to make sense how to get there for myself. My dream is that my vulnerable sharing will allow women to see themselves in my story, then know how to get back to the truth of their deep and lasting beauty, the beauty that has always been and always will be. Beauty is power, and when we, as women, become the eyes of the beholder that defines our beauty, and learn to see it with kind loving eyes, everything can shift of us.

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