248.I Thought Everyone Saw the World Like This… Until I Realized They Didn’t.

🎙️ Podcast Show Notes

Episode Title: Seeing What Others Don’t

There are moments in life when clarity doesn’t come from doing more—but from going quiet.

In this episode, Kathie shares why she stepped away from creating content, what surfaced during that pause, and how she finally understood the deeper pattern behind her work, her family, and her unique way of seeing the world.

This conversation explores the idea that what we often label as frustration, overthinking, or being “too much” is frequently misunderstood intelligence looking for the right expression.

Kathie weaves together personal stories, family lineage, leadership insight, and emotional intelligence to explain how pattern recognition shows up differently in people—and why that difference matters so much in leadership, teams, and life.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

• Why most people assume everyone sees the world the same way
• How pattern recognition can show up through math, theology, sports, systems, or people
• The difference between physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional “geometry”
• Why frustration is often genius without context
• How emotional momentum shapes teams long before metrics catch up
• And how your most natural way of seeing may be your greatest gift

This episode marks the beginning of a new chapter—one rooted in clarity, truth, and alignment.

Links & Resources:

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👉 https://www.kathieowen.com/blog/the-patterns-i-see

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👉 www.kathieowen.com

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Timestamps:
00:00 Welcome Back to Kathie's Coaching Podcast
00:45 A Personal Journey of Clarity and Transformation
01:25 Discovering the Family Gift
01:59 The Unique Perspectives of My Family
03:49 Realizing My Own Superpower
05:04 Passing the Gift to the Next Generation
05:44 Mapping Human Behavior
07:01 Embracing the Gift and Its Impact
07:23 Conclusion: Recognizing Your Own Superpower

Transcript

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Hi, friends and welcome back to Kathie's Coaching podcast. It's been a while since I've released an episode, and that pause was intentional. Over the last few months, I've stepped away from creating content so I could go inward, clear the noise, and actually listen to what was trying to come through. I've been doing deep work emotionally, spiritually, creatively, and that work led me to a kind of clarity I have never had before. I've been analyzing dreams, reconnecting with my intuition, and understanding the patterns that have shaped my life and the work that I do. And what came out of that process is today's episode. This message is different. It's more personal, more honest, and it feels like the beginning of a new chapter, not only in my coaching and consulting, but in who I am as a human being. If you've been wondering what I've been working on. This is it. This is the story behind my gift, my lineage, my vision, and why I do the work I do. So thank you for being here. Whether you've been listening from the beginning or this is your first time, I'm excited for what's ahead and I'm grateful to share this moment and this message with you. Now, let's get into the episode. Kathie Owen, Seeing What Others Don't See. Have you ever lived your whole life assuming everyone sees the world the exact same way you do? And then suddenly realize. They don't, not even close. And the thing you've been doing effortlessly, the thing you thought was normal. Is actually your superpower. That realization didn't just change how I see myself. It changed how I see my entire family. I come from a long line of people who see patterns, not just in the physical world, but in the spiritual world too. My grandfather had a PhD in theology. He didn't just read scripture, he decoded it. He saw symbolism, structure, metaphor, patterns of consciousness woven through every verse. My father inherited that mind, but he expressed it in mathematics, not arithmetic. 3D math. I can remember as a kid watching my dad sit in his lounger chair and he would hold up his hand like an invisible graph, and he would watch imaginary shapes. Rotate inside of it. He assumed everyone else could see those shapes too, and he would get frustrated when they didn't. My older brother became a civil engineer mapping underground systems and predicting the flow of entire cities. My younger brother became a traffic engineer. Someone who can sense what drivers will do before they do it, and both of them have their own versions of that frustration. Road rage, sports rage. Why can't people just think? Because in my family, anger wasn't anger. It was misunderstood intelligence. And the belief that everyone else could see what we saw. When my son, Kyle was young, I helped him with algebra, the complex equations and variables. Easy. But if he asked me something simple like, mom, what's seven plus three? I would freeze. Kyle would say, how can you do the hard math but not the easy math? And that's when I understood. My brain doesn't see numbers. It sees patterns just like the rest of my family, but in a completely different dimension. Sports were practically our family language. My brothers watched baseball like it was a strategic blueprint where the batter would hit when the outfield should shift. Why positioning mattered the logic behind every movement. And they would get so mad when players didn't move the way the pattern said they should, because again, they assumed everyone saw what they saw. But I was watching something entirely different. I was reading the emotional pattern, the pitcher's confidence. Evaporating the batter shame. After striking out the instant, a team psychology shifted. The diva athlete, who wasn't dramatic at all, he was overflowing with un channeled brilliance. My brothers saw the physical geometry. My father saw the mathematical geometry. My grandfather saw spiritual geometry, and I saw the emotional geometry of the human experience. But here's the wild part. For years I thought everyone watched sports that way. They don't. Then I watched Kyle and Kody grow into the same gift. Kyle senses emotional momentum before the commentators ever mention it. Kody sees the entire field like a chess board, and yes, they get frustrated too, just like my brothers, just like my dad, just like my grandfather, because they think, why doesn't everyone see this? But they don't. The pattern is inherited. The expression is unique. My family maps, theology, geometry, cities, pipes, traffic, sports strategy, but I map people. When I walk into a room, I instantly sense who's anxious, who's over-functioning, who's misunderstood, who's hiding, who has misdirected brilliance, who carries the emotional weight, who is one breath away from a breakthrough and where the real momentum is, not because I judge. Because people are patterns, and patterns reveal truth. And somewhere along the way I realized that the very thing my family struggled with, the frustration of seeing what others couldn't see became the thing I built my life around. I help people and teams understand their own emotional patterns, their momentum shifts, their blind spots, their hidden strengths, because the same way my father map geometry and my grandfather map scripture, I map human behavior. And what once felt like too much or overthinking or why don't they get it is now the exact gift I use to help people transform their lives. My work isn't something I chose. It's something I inherited and finally understood. So I'll end where I began. I spent most of my life thinking, everyone saw the world the way I do. My dad thought that. My brothers thought that. My sons thought that. And the frustration we all carried, it wasn't anger. It was genius trying to find its place. We thought everyone saw the pattern. They didn't. We did. And now I finally understand this is my superpower. So if there's something you do instinctively, something so natural, you barely notice it. Something that once made you feel different or misunderstood, look again, your greatest gift might be the very thing you assumed everyone else could do. Thank you.