About
  Kate Bailey

Life, Leadership + Business Mentor. Confidence + Embodiment Coach. Neurodiversity Advocate. Play Big Queen Podcast Host.

I help professionals, leaders, business owners, and entrepreneurs with ADHD, invisible disabilities, mental health challenges, or chronic illness shed self-doubt, reclaim their brilliance, and build a life they love, along with wildly profitable businesses, on their own terms.

You do not need to identify as neurodivergent, chronically ill, or someone navigating mental health challenges to benefit from this method of coaching.

Neurodiverse-affirming coaching methodologies are strength-based and designed to honor difference, respect each person’s unique process and timing, reduce pressure, and support sustainable growth which are all approaches that are often deeply beneficial for anyone seeking clarity, confidence, and aligned leadership in their work or personal life.

Vision Statement

I envision a world where women with invisible disabilities, chronic illness, and mental health challenges are fully supported, valued, included, and thriving... living in the embodied activation of their unique brilliance. In this world, we are secure in our self-worth, happier, healthier, wealthier, and boldly shaping a better future through creative and compassionate leadership.

Mission Statement

I am on a mission to empower 10,000 women to fully step into their Play Big Self by offering healing, transformative, neurodiverse-affirming coaching. Through innovative programs, courses, and masterclasses, I provide the tools, support, sustainability, and community that help each woman embrace her unique path to confidence, success, and meaningful impact.

I believe that when 10,000 women with invisible disabilities and their allies are empowered with inclusive communication and the confidence to express their unique brilliance, the world will shift in profound ways. These women will break through societal limitations, modeling resilience, creativity, and the strength of diversity. Their voices and perspectives, shaped by their unique journeys of challenge and perseverance, will redefine leadership, inspire systemic change, and create spaces where diverse ways of thinking are not only accepted but celebrated.

I see a future where industries and communities are more accessible and inclusive, where workplaces adapt to honor varied ways of working, communicating, and achieving. I imagine healthcare and education systems that center accessibility and compassion, and policies that better support those with invisible challenges... benefiting society as a whole.

By empowering these women, I aim to spark inspiration that reduces stigma, encourages authentic leadership, and lights the way for countless more women to rise. Together, we are creating a culture of true diversity, where every person feels valued, included, and emboldened to contribute their brilliance.

My Story

I know what it’s like to feel underestimated, stuck, or forced into smallness by systems that weren’t built for us.

When I was younger, I tested as gifted, but my invisible learning disabilities went undiagnosed until my late 30s. I spent years having my challenges minimized and invalidated. I changed professions and careers multiple times, searching for work that wouldn’t bore me to death and to connect with my sense of true purpose.

I attended six different colleges and struggled to complete my bachelor’s degree, failing out each time without access to the accommodations I needed. This took a toll on my mental health and self-worth.

As a late-diagnosed neurodivergent female entrepreneur, I’ve navigated the highs and lows of business, self-doubt, burnout, and transformation. Today, I’m back in college, thriving in my business, and committed to helping brilliant, unconventional women step into their full power and build businesses that match their ambition, without sacrificing their well-being.

My Qualifications

The most important qualifier I bring to coaching is the results my clients achieve. At the same time, I value transparency, so I share my background not as proof, but as context for the depth of my work.

Like many neurodivergent individuals, I hold multiple talents and gifts and have walked an extraordinary, nontraditional educational and professional path. Combined with dedication, consistency, and devotion to my craft, this has given me an uncommon abundance of lived, professional, and clinical experience that deeply informs my coaching.

Formally tested as gifted in pattern recognition, interpersonal, and verbal communication, I have extensive experience in crucial and crisis conversations. I’ve honed these natural gifts through my experience instructing at the New York City Fire Department and my studies at the Co-Active Institute for Coaching, alongside continued education in leadership, embodiment, and communication.

I’ve also developed my own methods and curriculum after reading hundreds of books and completing more than 50 courses on coaching, somatics, mindset, emotional regulation, mental health, pleasure, neurodiversity, business, entrepreneurship, leadership, spirituality, and manifestation.

Certifications + Studies:

✔ Studied at the Co-Active Institute for Coaching

✔ Studied pleasure with feminist icon and New York Times best selling author Regena Thomashauer at The School of Womanly Arts

✔ Certified Sacred Embodiment Specialist and teacher of Wild Soul Movement™ methodology a nourishing “work-in” with breath, mantra, and movement to reconnect with your body’s wisdom

✔  Certified Instructor in Liquid Motion® methodology to build body awareness through grounded, fluid floorwork.

✔ Trained in liberated movement, pole dance, archetype work, shadow work, erotic arts, somatic processing, breath work, visualization meditation, intimacy and connection in community, cultural and ritual dances, and decolonized movement

✔ Attended hundreds of embodiment intensives, workshops, and retreats, as well as facilitated my own programs virtually and in person

Business + Branding Expertise:

✔ Mentored hundreds of women in NYC’s Silicon Alley to take businesses from concept to market-ready products through a group in Brooklyn called Startups in Highheels

✔ Reviewed pitch decks for competitions and investment presentations for hedge funds

✔ Experience in casting and talent development at MTV Networks

✔ Former brick-and-mortar retail bridal business owner

✔ Certified in Google Analytics, Google Ads Measurement, and Google Ads Search

✔ Certificate in Luxury Creation and Branding from LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy)

✔  Freelance graphic designer and photographer for 22 years, specializing in offer suite development, copy, funnels, identity, color theory, educational design, imaging, and market positioning

✔  Knowledgeable in organic and paid social media marketing, conversational and negotiation modeling

✔  Currently pursuing a BA in Digital Audiences studying data analytics at Arizona State University with a minor in Business 

✔ Currently developing a luxury Italian shoe brand called Tarantate which is a love letter from my ancestors to women who refused to be tamed.  

My Approach + Scope

Disclaimer: I am not a therapist. Coaching can be deeply transformative, but I will refer clients to therapy if their needs extend beyond my scope. I am trauma-trained, well-versed in therapeutic modalities for neurodivergence and disabilities, and have professional experience in multiple branches of healthcare.

Healthcare Background:

✔ NREMT Certified EMT and EMS Instructor
✔ Certified behavioral health technician
✔ Teacher’s aide for multi-disabled children
✔ Clinical assistant in urgent care
✔ Group facilitator for in-patient addiction recovery services
✔ Hazardous materials EMT
✔ Former instructor for the New York City Fire Department
✔ Former professor for private health colleges in Florida

In my healthcare career, I’ve trained over 20,000 students in mental health, behavioral health, trauma, and medical emergency response, and rendered care to over 50,000 patients.

I bring the ability to discern the nuanced differences between trauma, mindset issues, medical conditions, invisible disabilities, and innate neurodivergent traits  an essential skill in giving accurate, supportive coaching feedback.

Because of this, my clients with diagnoses such as ADHD, Autism, Multiple Sclerosis, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Noonan Syndrome, Lupus, Endometriosis, Fibromyalgia, Mood Disorders, Chronic Pain, PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, Diabetes, or autoimmune diseases feel safer and more supported in our work together.

My Methodology

I’ve developed a results-based mentoring approach that integrates:

✔ Intuitive guidance
✔ Transformative processes
✔ Somatic and Embodiment practices
✔ Functional strategies
✔Strength-based coaching
✔ Compassionate support
✔ Clinical insight
✔ Neurodiverse and disability-affirming methods

I also bring the lived experience of being AuDHD and multiply neurodivergent. I live in a racially blended, fully neurodivergent family, which means I navigate  both personally and professionally the intersections of race, disability, neurodivergence, and the female experience.

This lived experience, combined with intentional study, has shaped my cultural competence. I also maintain conscious awareness of my own learning edges, holding conscious incompetence in areas where I am still deepening my understanding of different cultures.