Hope is a better predictor of academic success than your IQ, and higher hope is associated with lower stress, increased productivity, quality leadership, greater resilience, improved social connection and less loneliness. How hopeful you are impacts how long you will live, is a protective factor for anxiety and depression, and is critical for speedy recoveries from disease. And the best news? Hope is both measurable and teachable.
This book takes you on a journey through Kathryn's loss of her dad to suicide, her own personal struggles with hopelessness, her mental health journey to find hope, her business success and how that success led her to create a curriculum with global experts to teach Hope. She shares each of the lessons that her nonprofit, iFred, created through Hopeful Minds, a free award-winning program now being taught around the world. The book also contains practical applications for how a Hopeful Mindset is critical and can be applied to any facet of life.
Kathryn believes Hope is a Human Right and must be free and available to all. Fifty percent the profits go to iFred (www.ifred.org), a 501(c)3, to support teaching hope globally. Hopeful Minds is provided at no charge at www.hopefulminds.org.
About Kathryn
Kathryn Goetzke is a social entrepreneur, strategic consultant and global mental health advocate with personally lived experience. As Chief Mood Officer at The Mood Factory, her goal is to 'Improve Moods' by teaching consumers how to get in the present moment through engaging the senses. Her first brand, Mood-lites, sold over 9 million products at retail and launched the first-ever national cause marketing program for mental health, raising over 1 million dollars for global advocacy. Kathryn is currently launching a Mood-scent line and 21 Day courses, taking moods mainstream through evidence-informed approaches to health and wellbeing.
Kathryn has over 25 years of business, strategy, branding, research, and new products experience. Her nonprofit, iFred, created "Hopeful Minds," an award-winning program aimed at teaching how to create, maintain, and sustain Hope. She has presented at the United Nations, World Bank and World Health Organization and serves on advisory boards for the Global Mental Health Movement, Y Mental Health, Women's Brain Project and FundaMentalSDG.
Kathryn writes for Thrive Global and PsychCentral, and has been featured on radio, television and print around the world. Kathryn has an MBA in International Marketing Management, a BA in Psychology, is a proud auntie and grateful daughter, and currently lives in Reno, NV with her dog Yoda.
