Hi, I'm Kat Benzing
Founder @ Lived Leverage & Creator of Capacity-First Entrepreneurship
Inflection Point Advisor for Solopreneurs đ„
The 1:1 Aligned Permission Corner
Private advisory for solopreneurs at a life or business inflection point.
One private 2-hour intensive + 30 days with me in your cornerÂ
to work through the consequential decision you can't seem to solve neatly or are stuck on overthinking.
Ready to have me in your corner?
For solopreneurs and midlife career reinventors ready to build on their own terms.
Get the Intro Guide: Capacity-First Entrepreneurship
- The Capacity-First Glossary, a 25-page PDF
Grab The Burn List đ„
Let's burn what no longer belongs in your life and business!
This isnât just a worksheet; itâs your protocol for intelligent subtraction.
A 10-page printable guided PDF that walks you through the Burn phase, where you remove whatâs costing you before stabilizing what remains and building anything new.
No replacements, no optimization. Just removal of what no longer belongs.
Youâll:
- inventory everything draining your life and business
- run each item through a simple three-question decision filter
- leave with a clear Burn List, with real timelines to take action, not vague intentions
This is where clarity turns into the action you need for change and freeing up space and capacity.
Use it your way, wherever something needs to change:
- personal life only (if you don't run your own business yet)
- or business only
- or both
One print-ready PDF (US Letter + A4 format), delivered instantly to your inbox.
Hi, I'm Kat
I'm running this thing, and I'm glad we found each other! I'm the founder of Lived Leverage and the creator of Capacity-First Entrepreneurship.
I write and talk about sustainable solopreneurship, building from your lived experience and expertise and share the life stories behind reinvention, identity and permission.
Here, we are in the business of having a life.
Because your business should support your life, not slowly steal it. And yes, you can create that for yourself, sustainably!
I donât teach life-work balance and I'm also not anti-ambition.
Instead, I help you make your life 1. operationally non-negotiable
2. and building from your life experience and expertise easier
Plus, you can work with me directly if you are a solopreneur at a life or business inflection point.Â
Success actually becomes your Lived Leverage: a protected life and a sustainable business built around it. One that works with your life, not against it, compounds calmly into enough wealth over time and leaves you with the life you built it for to actually enjoy it.
I just turned 42, but 5 years ago at 36, after burnout and insulin resistance hit hard, I left my corporate career to start my solo business, making 6-figures while working ~3 days a week ever since. And no, I haven't needed to perform an 80 hr week even once to do it. Heck, to top it off, I hadn't even used social media or a website in those past 5 years.
I'm German by passport but thanks to putting my capacity and life priorities firstâand burning quite a few things along the way myselfđ„âI now get to call my dream country, Portugal, my home.
If you're done with overextension and hustle culture theatrics in solopreneurship and want to build something sustainable from your lived experience and expertise, welcome to my corner of the internet.
Lived Leverage is my publication on Substack where I share everything I have learned. Subscribe for weekly essays, it's free.