Lived Leverage

A home for people who were never meant to pick just one path, niche, or feel career-stuck after 35+

Hi, I'm Kat

I'm running this thing, and I'm glad we found each other!

I just turned 42, but at 36, after burnout and insulin resistance hit hard, I left corporate to start my solo business, making 6 figures from fractional work while working ~3 days a week since then.

Thanks to putting my personal capacity and life goals first while building a compatible leverage step into my one-person business journey, I now get to call my dream country, Portugal, my home.

If you're curious how we got here, read my story. Then let's break up with capacity theft and hustle culture together.

About Lived Leverage

Lived Leverage is my writing-led ecosystem about what I call Capacity-First Entrepreneurship and the shift of modern solopreneurship towards enough wealth. Throughout different life stages and life events, I help solopreneurs and founders break up with capacity theft and hustle culture so they can build their own version of Lived Leverage: lean, calm online businesses that turn lived experience and expertise into a sustainable portfolio income over time and work with your life, not against it.

At the center of this philosophy is a simple core principle: your business should be designed around your personal capacity first.

Not endless output, hustle culture, or maximum monetary gain.

Capacity-First Entrepreneurship treats your health, time, relationships, and cognitive energy as real business constraints—and builds financial leverage around them.

Join me on Substack where I write about all of this: the systems, the personal stories, the mistakes, the recalibrations, and the uncomfortable art behind building a calm, profitable, capacity-first life and business.

For solopreneurs, founders, authority builders, and multipassionate midlife career reinventionists ready to build intentionally, on their own terms.

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