Episode 74

From Burnout to Palazzo: How to Take Back Your Time and Start Living Now

What if you are not actually short on time… you are just investing it in the wrong places?

In this episode, I sit down with international time management specialist, best-selling author, and life designer Kate Christie for a conversation that is about so much more than productivity.

We talk about ownership. About intention. About what happens when life cracks you open and forces you to reassess everything. And about why “later” is a dangerous word.

Kate shares how she walked away from corporate law, rebuilt her life after profound personal loss, and now helps high-performing women reclaim more than 30 hours of guilt-free time every month. Yes. Thirty.

We dive into:

• Why you cannot “manage” time, only invest it

• The difference between a Bucket List and a Life List

• How grief reshaped Kate’s priorities forever

• The three types of goals every woman needs: Go Big, Go Small, and Go Now

• A 90-second framework you can use today to kickstart any dream

• And how buying and renovating a palazzo in Sicily became the ultimate case study in reinvention

Kate’s story is bold, honest, and deeply empowering. Her message is clear. It might be your turn.

If you have been putting something off, this episode will lovingly challenge you.

About Kate Christie

Kate Christie is an international time management expert, best-selling author, speaker, and founder of Time Stylers. She works with high-performing individuals and teams to help them reclaim their time and redesign their lives.

Her most recent book, The Life List, encourages women to stop waiting for someday and start intentionally living now.

She is currently renovating a palazzo in Alcamo, Sicily while building an “eternal summer” life between Australia and Italy.

Connect with Kate

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/katechristieloves/

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/kate.christie.92/

Website

https://www.katechristie.com.au/

The Life List

https://www.katechristie.com.au/books/the-life-list-new/

Palazzo Blueprint

This free resource covers the first five steps of Kate’s powerful goal framework that we discussed in this episode. If you are ready to move from dreaming to doing, start here:

https://palazzo.katechristie.com.au/

If this episode spoke to you, take 90 seconds today and write down one intention and one go-big goal.

And if that goal happens to be Italy… you know I am here to help.

www.smartmoveitaly.com

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About your hosts

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Samantha Wilson

For those who know me and those whom I have had the honor to help move to Italy, you know that I am obsessed with taking complex things and boiling them down into small, actionable, easy-to-do steps.

I am a bit of a freak about it and can’t remember when I wasn’t the “problem solver – solution seeker” in the confused crowd.

My dad used to say I was just stubborn or unwilling to accept “you can’t do that” for an answer. Still, I always believed that if you can look at a problem from every angle, break it down, and have the support and knowledge to move through and over the barriers, anything is possible.

Now, in my new life in Italy, I use my obsession with planning and finding solutions to help people from all over the world successfully move to Italy, whether to live part-time or full-time, with less stress and mistakes.

I am considered one of the top relocation experts in Italy and am the founder and Chief Dream Maker at Smart Move Italy (www.smartmoveitaly.com) where my team of experts and I work tirelessly to help smooth the pathway to a new life in Italy- and I hope that we can help you too.
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