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“Let’s choose for ripple love. Let peace be ou

“Let’s choose for ripple love. Let peace be our energy.” 💜🎥🦋✨🗝

#Repost @kathrynthegrape 💜 ・・・ Every deta

#Repost @kathrynthegrape 💜 ・・・
Every details in this series has meaning and purpose. Everything is interconnected and it all roots back to little girl me. It took me a long time to rediscover my colorful light and have courage to shine without dimming myself to fit in. As I acquired tools of self-love, I wanted others to have them too. I envisioned a road map for manifesting and sharing those tools in simplified lessons and concepts through stories and songs. ✨✨✨✨✨✨
When I was growing up, I never wanted to be a princess or a star of someone else’s creation. I just wanted to be understood. I wanted to feel seen and heard. Many of us have felt that way, and perhaps still feel that way. Our children are the same. They desire to be seen, heard, and understood. I get that. That’s why I do what I do. 💜🌈🗝

I went live with @guitargirlmag today and shared a

I went live with @guitargirlmag today and shared a few original songs and stories about my journey — including tidbits of courage and perseverance that may be relevant to you as you journey on your life path. It was timely as I just received my Spring issue of the magazine that I’m featured in twice. You can read my articles and watch the video stream on my website blog and press page. 💜🎸🦋

I was live on @guitargirlmag’s Facebook page sha

I was live on @guitargirlmag’s Facebook page sharing a few songs and stories. You can watch the video replay on Facebook or my website’s blog — linked above. 💜🎸

#wereallinthistogether 💜My KC version of this s

#wereallinthistogether 💜My KC version of this song is called "Ripple Love" and I perform it at every show. This song came through when I was on a walk. The lyrics and melody rushed in with ease, clarity, and urgency. I hurried home and wrote the full song in less than 20 minutes. It was a Divine gift, as they all are. 🙏🏼 #RippleLove knocked #WarriorWoman out of the title track slot for what would become my third full-length album. The core message felt so important that I rewrote some of the lyrics to become a @kathrynthegrape song as well (this!) and is the title track of that award-winning album.
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My dear friend Barry Rosenbaum helped me compose some of the music for the core song. Since he passed prior to both songs releasing, I ensured his children @john_rosenbaum1 and @katierosenbaum got established with @ascap so they would be credited as songwriters in their dad's place.
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It just so happen that I shot this KTG video with @jonohamm a while ago and he completed editing this week. In beautiful Divine timing, I'm sure Barry's angel wings are fluttering close to help us all absorb this message at such a time as this.
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I’m a writer. A storyteller. A wordsmith. Words matter to me tremendously. Words are how Spirit manifests through me to share. 🗝 To mindfully assist our children with feeling ease in this time, sharing encouraging messages of hope, love and unity are helpful. Perhaps this video will provide some love and light for them...and for you. I’ve shared the full video on my Facebook pages and it’s on YouTube for easy viewing for children. 💜🗝✨🙏🏼😇

This was me four years ago in my dressing room bef

This was me four years ago in my dressing room before opening for Nashville Unplugged in Las Vegas. This was a huge opportunity for me. And I was crazy, crazy sick! I could barely keep my head up. It felt like a 20lb weight on my neck. My mind was mushy and I had a fever. But I wouldn’t cancel. I had to do it. I smiled through my haze and no one knew how much I was struggling. I remember sweating through my black tank top before stepping out on stage. It wasn’t my best performance by far, but I did my best with all things considered. ✨✨✨
My friend Barry drove me to and from Vegas. I slept the entire time both directions. He always took such good care of me. It was the weekend of the AMC Awards and everyone in the country music scene was in town. But I didn’t want to attend any events. I wanted to get home. My mind and my heart were there. Dad was terminal and I didn’t want to be away. Having had a vision months before of being with him when he passed, being hours away stressed me out. ✨✨✨
Looking back to this captured moment, all of the emotions of that time well up in me. This was when everything around me was started to be like a tornado — a swirling storm that lasted for a really long time. In the coming month, so many hugely painful things happened in a condensed amount of time with dad’s death and Barry’s death being the worst for me. Two men who were my rocks, gone within months. Two men who understood me, gone in the same season. ✨✨✨
With much turmoil happening with other people in my immediate family, I tabled my grief. I showed up. Stood up. I was strong. Most often I was in the storm’s eye able to see with clarity next right steps, but at times I too was swirling in the chaos. It was a murky time. The energy was dense. I sought refuge. I made spontaneous life decisions hopeful for sanctuary. I needed more “help” with Landon. My wings were heavy. Wounded. It took a lot of time to flutter my way out of the swampy vibration of compounded grief. Yet, the freedom of my flight felt different. I was different. I am different in wonderful ways. What a Divine gift that only time could help me fully see...in this photo of me looking back at me. ⏳

“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes fr

“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” — Oprah 💜✨

There was a season of my life when I swirled in a

There was a season of my life when I swirled in a vibration that was all about projection and perception. I cared more about how things looked than how they felt. How I felt!!! Thank goodness, my journey forked and Spirit put up every road block possible for me to choose higher ground. And no matter how much I tried to resist at first, my Guides weren’t having that anymore and wouldn’t let up until I woke UP. Thank goodness. 🙏🏼 I shattered the illusion, took off weighted expectations, and disappointed people who benefited from my prior compliance. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
Choice by choice, I leveled myself up into higher vibrations that required less effort. Omg, projection requires a lot of effort!! I finally experienced a wellspring of nourishment that nothing worldly ever fulfilled and most certainly could never sustain. I attracted a cast of soul-agreement characters into my life story to help me learn my lessons. I finally forgave myself for decisions I had made in my past that were hurtful to others and myself.
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Ultimately, I got back to me — my natural energy which apparently has always been saucy, spunky, and strong as my mom’s lifelong friend Sherry points out here. (scroll) 🤷🏻‍♀️ At my core I’ve always been someone who defends the underdog, stands up to manipulators and deceivers, and isn’t afraid to walk alone protecting what matters most. 💜💜💜
I’m sharing this today because all of us are experiencing the opportunity to get back to the basics of who we are at the core of our being. We are all experiencing the opportunity to mindfully discern for ourselves what’s essential and what’s not. We are all standing at forks in our own journey about how we are going to choose to BE on the other side of our current reality. And I think what’s essential is for us to remember what it felt like to be a child in those moments when we felt free — joyfully untethered to expectations, unmasked by societal standards, and flowing with imaginative wonder. As you remember the feeling of who you were then, who you’ve always been at your core, would you still make the same choices as you did weeks ago before a global pandemic ushered us all into an awakening to level up?

This guy. ❤️ #mycrimsonheart

This guy. ❤️ #mycrimsonheart

This x3!!! These are the faces of happy boys enjoy

This x3!!! These are the faces of happy boys enjoying @kathrynthegrape media sent to me yesterday. My cup is full. 😘😘😘 Over the years some people — with no vibrational understanding of my heart, my vision, or what energizes me to do what I do — tried to impose their opinion on me to steer my series to little girls only. As a #boymom and a woman raised by a mom who empowered me to know that what was inside of a person was more valuable than what was on the surface, the development of positive self-concepts for both boys and girls are important to me. Trusting my Spirit-guided intuition above all else has helped me remain grounded in my fierce resolve to keep living my purpose. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
Kathryn the Grape is a messenger of love. She’s an every day little girl who wears a purple sweatshirt, likes music and sports, and experiences the things everyone experiences. I attended an inner city elementary school. My friends were from all walks of life, and from over the world. That’s why you see characters in my series with different ethnicities and abilities. That was my experience as a developing girl. Helping people have tools of love to understand and express their feelings is the core of it all. We ripple love from the inside out. And LOVE is not gender or age specific. It’s universal and timeless. We are love, all of us. 💜

When you’re scrolling to find a pic and pause at

When you’re scrolling to find a pic and pause at the good old days of last summer cruising the bay celebrating Brooke+Paul, and think, “Was this the last time we all got together???” 🤷🏻‍♀️ I do love this captured moment! @bee_loo and I never run out of things to chat about. 🚢✨ And this was clearly pre #robbase #ittakestwo 🥃💃🏻 and @brookiecookie619’s jazzercise inspired mother/son dance duet 💃🕺and before it got 🇬🇷 real. #opa 💙 Who would have known... #stayhome

Well, here’s what a joyful ending looks like! Wi

Well, here’s what a joyful ending looks like! With a negative test result and completing 21 days of quarantine — 14 that were federally mandated — this matriarch has completed her most interesting cruise ship journey ever. 🛳💗

This was me exactly a year ago hiking in Sedona in

This was me exactly a year ago hiking in Sedona in Boyton Canyon on my way to Kachina Woman. You can see her rock formation above my head — like a cluster of women standing together. The feminine power of this specific place always draws me in. She calls to me. Sedona is my place. Some trips have been for healing. Some trips have been for writing. Some trips have been for sanctuary. This trip was for gratitude. I had just ended a decade long creative journey and I need to go there to reflect upon my growth with abundant gratitude. Guided by pure love, I filled up on what I needed. 🗝 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
Then the last morning of the trip, hours before leaving, I woke up at 3am flooded with the words and visuals of what would become, “My Treasure Box with Tools of Love” — the single book that simplifies my seven-book affirmation series. The story just channeled through me with ease and clarity. I always say every song and every book I write comes through me — they’re not of me. But it’s taken the mindful discipline of reducing noise in my life to be an open conduit for receiving Divine flow and to fully trust the messages. Fast forward a year and that book just picked up a Mom’s Choice Award and many children have enjoyed its messages of affirming self-love and unifying compassion. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨Sharing about this today feels appropriate because we never know what’s ahead and what Spirit desires to manifest through us. But my goodness, what a beautiful journey of discovery we are able to embark upon when we allow our lives to be shaped by Divine wisdom flowing through us — absent of ego’s need for a clearly defined outcome. So in this season of quieting our lives and simplifying all that’s non-essential, may we mindfully choose to allow ourselves to be more open and receptive of the flow of pure goodness. What’s desiring to be manifested through you? 🙏🏼✨💜🗝🦋

Awe, it’s always so nice to see @carinafleckner_

Awe, it’s always so nice to see @carinafleckner_photography share photos from our sessions. 📷💜 I’ve brought Carina in to shoot for other artists too. Shots from sessions with her have been used for album covers, lyric videos, print and online publications, promotional pieces, website banners, and so much more! She also captured my go-to @kathrynthegrape thumbs up photo that will be on the cover of my next KTG album! Why do I work with Carina over and over? She is willing to do what it takes to get the shot! She has a positive can-do attitude. She has a grateful and generous spirit. She puts people at ease. She’s blazing her own trail and being fierce, which I love and respect wholeheartedly. I guess this just became my “I recommend Carina” post. Check out her work — go to her page and click on her website. When you need photos, consider her. 💎

Do you have kiddos at home??? I hope you’ll foll

Do you have kiddos at home??? I hope you’ll follow along with my @kathrynthegrape page and subscribe to my #YouTube channel at https://YouTube.com/kathrynthegrape as I help engage children with mindful music and positive messages! 💜💙💚💛🧡❤️🌈

I’ve been walking a lot since my son and I start

I’ve been walking a lot since my son and I started our quarantine. Not confined to specific time frames with school transportation and meetings/events, I’ve welcomed a change of pace. As Landon sleeps, I go for a long morning walk. This is what I saw on my walk today. I had been following behind them for a while. The boy often running ahead and his dad running behind him. Then they’d unite and hold hands. Such is life. Even when the path is muddy and uncertainty looms, there is so much space for unifying joy and love. I’m sending love to everyone during these uncertain times. We all are doing whatever we need to do for our families and for the greater good. I trust that to be so for us all. 💟☮️ @kathrynthegrape

It felt amazing to wake up to the new issue of @gu

It felt amazing to wake up to the new issue of @guitargirlmag and see these articles alongside features of so many incredible women in music. 🎸💜 I met #GuitarGirl Publisher Tara Low at the @the_wimn #SheRocksAwards. We chatted on the phone weeks later and got to know each other. Within that conversation she decided to feature me in her magazine and asked me to write motivational / empowerment articles for each issue. Naturally, I said yes with gratitude and honor. 🙏🏼 I’m featured on page 64 and share #empowerment tips on page 78. I’d love for you to read the articles on the magazine’s website and/or read them on my website’s “press” tab — linked above in my bio.

I share about this photo, quarantine, and my lione

I share about this photo, quarantine, and my lioness stance in a new blog post on my website — linked above. 🦁 “Parents, a lioness doesn’t seek counsel from the tribe. She isn’t wishy-washy. She doesn’t wait to see what others do and then make a decision for her cub(s) based on the consensus. No. She simply protects! Her primal instinct is to keep her loves safe no matter what.”

It’s been a fierce five days. I took this photo

It’s been a fierce five days. I took this photo last Thursday while waiting to pick my son up from school to tell him about Grandma and Ed (cousin) being on the Grand Princess cruise ship that brought the realities of Coronavirus into our immediate focus. And this right here — @dangelicony hand sanitizer from #namm2020 — has proven to be the most genius and timely marketing freebie ever! And, it’s the only bottle of hand sanitizer I have. #soldout ✨✨ Liquid gold. ✨✨

Who just knocked it out of the park on a lead voca

Who just knocked it out of the park on a lead vocals session? This determined young lady! Michelle’s #HaveHope album is coming along nicely. I’m so proud of these songs, this whole project, and this special friendship. 🎤🎵💜💙 @michellehopkinsrare

For daughters and dads. ❤️💜

For daughters and dads. ❤️💜

This was my view last #LeapDay. Dad had asked me t

This was my view last #LeapDay. Dad had asked me to breakfast and it alarmed me at first since he was on a chemo break at the time. His intention was just to connect and chat. We had a really beautiful talk that day. Beautiful. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
He looks healthy in this photo. It’s so strange to realize it was less than 11 weeks later when I held his hand as he crossed over. 🙏🏼 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Dad taught me many things in life but all life lessons can be summed up in him teaching me to put up my own tent. ⛺️ ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
By the time I was in junior high, I had my own tent for camping and he expected me be to responsible for all aspects of my own gear on every level. He taught me. He showed me. But he never did it for me. He fully expected me to be empowered to do it for myself. His hard line for DIY empowerment annoyed me sometimes. But, I always ended up sleeping in my own tent that I put up myself. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
Dad helped me with many “tent” lessons in life. And throughout the years whenever I was erecting a new venture, he would always say, “Keep going. You’re doing it.” ❤️⛺️💜 Keep going. You’re doing it.

This popped up from three years ago when I had the

This popped up from three years ago when I had the privilege of working with @beintrepidsd’s #ExiledVoices Refugee Art Experience. An immersive project created and energized by my high-vibrating trailblazing friends @christyyaelcox and @teeetang. I was brought in to write a song about Divine, who was in high school at the time. This project helped me trust my ability to channel and write for and/or about other people. To be someone’s storyteller is a precious gift. It’s a trust that transcends layers and isn’t for the frivolous. I spent so much time hanging out with Divine. We became friends. We talked and shared, and giggled. So. Much. Giggling. 😘🤗 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
She trusted me with her truth. Divine is a fierce, intelligent, passionate, and protective trailblazing advocate. I understood her. I carried Divine’s energy with me every day for those creative months, making sure every word was just right to represent her accurately in the song I composed about her called, “My Name is Divine.” I of course included a sing-along part in her native Swahili language because it was pure unifying joy to hear a packed theatre audience singing “Jina langu ni Divine” in unison. The song has been performed a number of times and her music video is shown at public performances and schools. What a gift all around. I’ll be forever grateful. 🙏🏼 Since that time, I’ve been entrusted to composed songs and stories about other people — some of which will be revealed in the coming months. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
In deeper reflection, long before Landon was born there was an evening when I was gathered with a group of really creative women I respected tremendously. I recall saying that I didn’t think I was creative. A friend whacked me with an energetic reality check reminding me of my ability to have an idea for a business and then manifest it into reality. She advised me to stop comparing and start trusting. It took me many years to gain confidence in knowing what makes me unique. Now I never compare and only trust. What a journey of becoming, expanding, knowing. My hope for you is that you never compare and only trust. You know — in the quiet, in the depths of your being. You know. Trust. ✨✨

“I’m a warrior woman I’ve got nothing to pro

“I’m a warrior woman I’ve got nothing to prove. Power within guides every fluid move. Peace is my weapon and love is my truth. Content with myself living as I choose.” #WarriorWoman 💜👑🦋 Watch the full music video for this song on my YouTube channel linked in my website above. I had blonde hair the summer I shot that video, symbolic of my journey back to little girl me and no longer being a #SecretKeeper. 👱‍♀️🙏🏼✨

So, I legit can’t handle rides anymore. I tried,

So, I legit can’t handle rides anymore. I tried, again. But I don’t have the stomach for them. Do you??? I rocked the studio tour tram “ride” though. 😆🚌 And in case this info will come in handy some day... please know there are two @starbucks at @universalstudioscalifornia. They are strategically located for maximum caffeination, which I took full advantage of since I woke up super early with a song desiring to be finished. The guys are having a blast and that’s the goal. So, winning. ❤️💜 #boymom #sundayfunday

This photo was taken at the very first @birchaquar

This photo was taken at the very first @birchaquarium Toddler Time event a year ago. I had done a TV appearance with them to help promote the event. The staff was hoping to have 25-30 people show up. Well, we ended up having 250+ people. 😲🤗 Since we had planned for a @kathrynthegrape musical storytime program, I didn’t have amplification. (Lesson learned!) It was a fun event with so many parents, grandparents and caregivers singing along with their younger loves. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
I’ve been performing for Birch Aquarium ever since. I feel tremendous gratitude for their partnership with me as my series and shows continue to expand. The program has since moved outside with their picturesque La Jolla Shores backdrop. I now ensure having amplification at every event, no matter what. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
This May, when I release my new Kathryn the Grape album, Birch Aquarium will be one of the first shows for debuting my new collection. I can’t wait! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
What we dream about we can bring about with trust, time, and a willingness to brave transformation. 🦋💜🦋💜

A headlining show announcement coming soon! I’m

A headlining show announcement coming soon! I’m so excited to get back on stage with my band after an amazing season of creating and producing. Life is good! #livingmydream 💜👑🦋

“When tears crowd my eyes and silence calls, tha

“When tears crowd my eyes and silence calls, that’s when I need a soft place to fall.” ✨✨ Songwriting for me is often about lyrically articulating what’s hardest for me to actually say. My inner feelings reserved for the sanctuary of a melody’s cradle. I wrote this song six years ago, but the message is a timeless and simple vignette of my process of life. (Perhaps yours too??) #ASoftPlaceToFall received the 2015 West Coast CMA for Best Traditional Country Album. While my sound and songwriting has evolved a lot since then, the vulnerability of my lyrical stories continues (even deepening with my 2017 #SecretKeeper album and with the newer KC songs I’ve written the past months). When this album came out, many people who had known me for years were shocked by vulnerability. It’s not the me I revealed outwardly prior to then. It is my norm now. It’s just what is. Writing has helped me experience freedom and fulfillment by fully feeling the spectrum of living a passionate life, without attachment to specific outcomes. At times it can be scary but far less scary than the alternative, at least for me. Onward it flows...🙏🏼💜✨ @kathrynclowardandtheroyals @kathrynthegrape

For reals! It’s usually pennies on my path as si

For reals! It’s usually pennies on my path as signs of love and confirmation. Today, this was on my path — folder up, wet in the gutter as I crossed the street — right after having a rad big vision conversation. So fun! I save every penny I pick up. I’ll do the same with this. Trusting signs. Honoring goodness. ✨✨💜🦋 #signs #trust #guided

I 💜 my life! We had another huge crowd at @birc

I 💜 my life! We had another huge crowd at @birchaquarium this morning for my @kathrynthegrape show. I can’t even describe how amazing it feels to arrive at an event and hear children excitedly saying, “Kathryn the Grape is here! Kathryn the Grape is here!” My cup overflows....💜🦋🗝🧩🙏🏼

This is the bed Father Joe sleeps in every night,

This is the bed Father Joe sleeps in every night, in the humble home he resides in across the street from the homeless shelter he’s dedicated decades of his life to energizing — to help others experience dignity. ✨✨
This bed was a donation from the VA Hospital. It’s many decades old. It’s not state-of-the-art or flashy, or even level. But to Father Joe, it’s enough. It does what it’s intended to do. He is begrudgingly getting a new bed soon, as one of his care providers wants him to be in a more comfortable and suitable bed, especially since Father Joe is a double amputee below the knee. ✨✨
To me, this bed is a metaphor for his life. It’s unassuming, simple and serves its purpose. That’s the man “Joey Carroll” grew up to be because that’s who he’s always been. Unassuming. Simple. Purposeful. That’s how I perceive him. That’s my experience of him spanning four decades, from when I met him as a little girl to now as a grown woman invited to be his life’s storyteller. ✨✨
I took this photo the other day when I dropped by to surprise him with a song I wrote about him — a lyrical story of how I’ve taken the harvest of his life story and simplified it down to the seeds of love he planted. While harvest is what many desire to experience and what’s most often glorified in this day and age, every story roots back to the intention that energizes seed planting. Father Joe dug deep to provide countless neighbors with dignity. He did so with an unassuming simple purpose — yet he’s been able to have a “mega” impact. ✨✨
That’s the story I have been guided to share, and it’s personal for me because Kathryn the Grape is actually rooted in his landscape of goodness as my mom bought my signature @kathrynthegrape purple outfit at the St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store in the 1980s when she worked for him as his first employee. ✨✨
There are many people like me who can trace back to how this man impacted their lives. Soon, I will share the golden seeds I’ve extracted from the stories of his life’s harvest. ✨✨
And may we be reminded by the photo of this bed that there are many people cultivating mega impact living humble lives. There’s so much goodness being watered every day.

I just sent over the last of 11 songs for my next

I just sent over the last of 11 songs for my next Kathryn the Grape album. Pressing send on “I Feel Good About Myself” felt good. It’s the title track lyrical story that glues everything together and reveals how deliberate my creative journey has been for the past decade, piece by piece to complete the big picture vision cast upon me years ago. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ I use the puzzle metaphor in one of my @kathrynthegrape books and here because that’s what this entire process has felt like for me. I’ve been piecing together a puzzle. For anyone who has ever taken the time to put together a big puzzle, you know it starts with seeing the end vision first, and then sorting through each individual piece to figure out how to connect them one by one. We need to be patient and allow ourselves time to do so because puzzles aren’t for hasty. There’s no get rich quick infomercials for puzzlers. No one can “coach” us into actually finishing. We can be encouraged, but the doing part is our choice and our choice alone. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Sometimes puzzling warrants pausing to regain perspective. Sometimes the outer frame is shaped with ease, mainly because the edges are clear. But it’s often the interior sections that are challenging and seemingly random. But to a visionary, the holder of the puzzle’s big picture, nothing is random. Piece by piece, section by section, it eventually is clear. It’s done. Pieced into one. Whole. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Looking back, some of my lessons — my pieces — were more painful to put into place than others, but I needed those pieces, each and every one of them, because they made me whole. Piece by piece I have become whole. I’m stronger and braver. I’m more compassionate, truthful, loving, introspective, aware and forgiving. More natural. And the center piece — I am more vulnerable. Revealing my heart and my truth at times is crazy scary, but it’s far less scary than having to face the complacency of never knowing what could be on the other side of revealing real, whole me. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ I am the puzzle. You are the puzzle. We are the puzzle. Piece by piece. We are whole. 🧩

Awe, the gift of time! Back in 2012 I gave a #TEDx

Awe, the gift of time! Back in 2012 I gave a #TEDx talk that included a story of how I finally stepped back into experiencing the joy of singing again, which was a lot more than the no-action paralyzing self-doubt I had been cementing myself in. Eight years later and I’ve woven my artistic expression and risk-taking business aptitude into a colorful tapestry. I’m not in anyone’s pocket and I’ve never kissed the ring. I’m proud of my purple path. 💜 I met Lorin Beller @changemakernation eight years ago when we shared the stage together, so for her to see me this way feels good. To be seen and feel understood is pure gold. ✨

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This gorgeous soul, Kathryn Cloward also known as Kathryn The Grape. There are many things that I feel make Kathryn a Change Maker... the first is her music geared to kids and adults, is uplifting and inspiring us all to be our greatest version of ourselves. Second she is a true artist/musician and it’s her ‘work’ too. She’s figured out how to make it her ‘work’. I always admire people that find what they love and make it their life's work. I love when artists figure that out for themselves. Third, Kathryn has a huge heart. She sets intention, follows through and it ripples outward. It’s simply how she lives her life. She is a true #changemaker.⁠
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Today, I was exceptionally brave. While I exist in

Today, I was exceptionally brave. While I exist in vulnerability and risk, today was a level up day. Trusting. Flowing. Knowing. A shiny penny at my car door upon completion = a Divine sign of confirmation. 🙏 I drove in silence with “wow, I did that” streaming through me. I felt giddy and I even cried a bit. I turned the volume up when an empowering song came on and had a rad Jerry McGuire style solo session. But then, I needed to refuel my car (and have this selfie moment). As I paused on my path home, allowing fuel to pour into my car, I realized that’s what I was finally allowing in my life: Being refueled with inpouring. So often what we do in our daily lives includes pouring ourselves out. Yet, many of us have been conditioned to refuel with a trickle — often once we’re near depletion. Ugh. Let’s trade the trickle for abundance. Let’s love ourselves so much that we twist off the cap and allow a steady inpouring of refueling goodness — goodness that’s available to us all the time, abundantly and endlessly. Goodness inpouring to energize our spirit, kindle our soul’s calling, and raise our vibration. And when YOU have your “wow, I did that” brave moments, feel pure self-love because yes, you did that. 🗝💜🦋

I started my first company in 2005. I decided to s

I started my first company in 2005. I decided to save a few bucks and file my own business paperwork. Naturally, I thought I set up my LLC properly. Well, I didn’t which was discovered a few tax years later by way of an ouch$$ tax bill. I called my high school friend / business attorney, Damien Snow. He squared things up for me and established my S-Corp. He then referred me to this man, Michael Shapiro CPA, who fixed my business taxes and has been my accountant ever since. What a team! Thankful. ✨ I used to do a lot of public speaking in the business sector and this lesson was one I always shared: Never, ever cut corners. They will cost you more in the long run. Furthermore, if you don’t fully know for yourself, pause and ask someone with legit experience in their arena. Hire people with integrity (and exit people without!) and develop long term relationships. ✨ Sidebar... Michael and I spent most of our meeting today chatting about a rad nonprofit he’s formed called Tree Corp that is purposed to plant a trillion trees! 🌳🌳🌳 I love his model for this plan and aim to support it by way of a @kathrynthegrape book and song because that’s one of my arenas of choice now. 💜🦋🎵📚💜

This is my cousin, Mike. He’s always been my big

This is my cousin, Mike. He’s always been my biggest fan. When I was a little girl, I used to make cassette tapes for him. I’d record myself talking to him, sharing stories I made up, and singing my songs to him. I would send him cassettes for his birthday or Christmas, or whenever I’d have a new imaginative release. Mike would listen to my tapes on repeat, much to my Aunt’s delight. 🤣 Hours and hours of Kathryn cassettes were sent to him over the years that little girl me created in my room — my sacred space. Not much has changed in those respects. Mike is still my biggest fan. (He knows every lyric of every song I’ve ever published.) I still create stories and songs in my sacred space. I still send him packages of my newest releases. 📦 Recently, I sent him a package of some of my new books and music including the book I dedicated to him titled, “I Am Happy Being Me.” My aunt told me a few years ago that she asked Mike, when he was singing along to my song with the same title, “Are you happy being you, Mike?” He looked at her with a huge smile and said with drawn out excitement, “Yeeeeessss!” And, so it is. 🤗💜❤️🎵🙏🦋

How fun!!! @andreaandifranklin sent me this link.

How fun!!! @andreaandifranklin sent me this link. We are on the @recordingacademy #GRAMMYs video during Angelique Kidjo’s #Afirika performance. This was my favorite part of the awards ceremony. I love sing alongs. If you have time, watch her performance. It’s super powerful and real, and pure love unified. 🤗💜🎵🦋 @kathrynthegrape

I I grew up enjoying Tanya Tucker’s music. My ol

I I grew up enjoying Tanya Tucker’s music. My oldest brother introduced me to country music when I was 10 or 11 years old. I loved the storytelling aspect of country lyrics and it was easy to sing along as he drove me to soccer or softball practice.
#TanyaTucker was one of the women who was impressionable to me — a fierce woman who was doing her thing in a time when women charting country music were a beautiful spectrum of ages and appearances. So, as I sat in the audience at the first awards show watching one of my sheroes accept her first #GRAMMY, after being in the music business for over 50 years, I felt it.
It was magical.
I teared up as she spoke. I loved seeing the whole songwriting team in joyful unison, Brandi and the twins. Pure magic and love!
Our young people are being seduced into thinking that fame is the name of the game. But fulfillment of purpose sustains. I felt that energy in this room. The magic of music with people living their purpose. The magic of those that keep trying, keep striving, and keep creating even in the midst of life’s greatest challenges and valleys. That is what I hoped I’d feel — the energy of inspiration, nourishment, encouragement.
I didn’t fan girl out or take tons of photos. I didn’t want to be on my phone too much. I just wanted to absorb it — experience it. Feel it. And I did. I’m so grateful.
The greater amount of awards are given out at this first awards show, that’s not televised. While I did enjoy seeing the production of the second show — the big show that everyone sees on TV — it was this first event that felt really special to me. I loved when we all sang in unison while standing together. Who doesn’t love a sing along??!! I think there are so many people who feel like their dreams and desires are out of reach. But they aren’t. Our dreams and desires only become out of reach when we stop reaching, stop trying, stop working, and stop believing. I’d rather risk being a fool for the chance to feel the magic of connection, fulfillment, inspiration. Because when I feel it, I know it and I trust the flow. I trust it’s meant to be.
May we all trust in the power of unlimited possibilities. 🌸 💜

How fun! I’m excited for my first #GRAMMYs exper

How fun! I’m excited for my first #GRAMMYs experience.

This “work week” was pure magic. Highlights...

This “work week” was pure magic. Highlights... I finished two new songs, got invited to be a keynote speaker for an event and a guest speaker at my alma mater SDSU, sang and danced with preschoolers, had a few healing conversations, and got joyfully weepy reading a wonderful article about my @kathrynthegrape series. 💜 This photo has me percolating... My jump in this moment is barely an inch off the ground but it’s a jump none the less. A jump is a jump! Remember that when you’re engaged in your “jump” as you may be just a bit off the ground but you’re jumping and that’s what matters! Keep taking action. Keep trying. Keep believing. Keep growing. Keep jumping. Allow your spirit the freedom of flight by mindfully choosing only circumstances that elevate and sustain your energy within high vibrating feel-good feelings. ✈️🦋🙏💜

It’s been a magical start to 2020 and this weeke

It’s been a magical start to 2020 and this weekend is going to be incredible attending the #GRAMMYs for my first time. 🎵 Among so many expansive things happening, this is my heart — being up close and personal with children helping them feel good about themselves. I 💜 sharing with children! This is Vivian. She’s a character in my @kathrynthegrape series. She’s outgoing, energetic, and brave. Vivian was born deaf. With the help of modern technology and fiercely loving empowered parents, she was able to experience the full vibrancy of my visit at her school with the help of her #cochlearimplant and an assisted listening device that I wore around my neck. Together with her classmates, Vivian sang songs, read books, and danced with me. What a magical morning. 🤟🏼💜 You can see Vivian and her family featured in my “I Am Happy Being Me” book and music video at https://kathrynthegrape.com 🌈📚🎵🦋💜 @janell_r_graves

While I do enjoy wearing makeup, especially on tho

While I do enjoy wearing makeup, especially on those fun occasions when I get extra glammed up for photo shoots and stage shows, this is my norm. I tend to dress super casual in my daily life — black tank tops and jeans mostly — and I wear little to no makeup. I’m enjoying natural me more and more. I suppose it’s part of my arrival into feeling whole. ✨ It’s strange when I see photos of younger me and realize how out of touch I was then with my own presence — my own shine. I often felt dim inside. Insecure in some ways yet confident in others. I didn’t know how to enjoy the shine of my own light mainly because I crowded my life with social engagements and the noise of external sources. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
Healing and growth has helped me to fully enjoy my own light and recognize my natural need for quiet time. Aging is an interesting thing. I’d never want to go back to being younger me except for desiring to tell her, “You are enough and you are worthy.” So, I’m saying it now in my morning affirmation ritual. I am enough. I am worthy. And hopefully in 20 years when I see photos of myself at this stage in my journey I will know I was the most whole, worthy me I could be because I no longer let the noise of the outside world tell me otherwise having fully cleared an inner channel of self-loving wholeness and worthiness. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
That’s what I hope for everyone. Wholeness. Worthiness. So, I’m saying it to you. You are enough. You are worthy. We all are...just as we are. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
Let’s love ourselves so much with self-awareness that we couldn’t possibly pour fragmented unworthiness into our naturally bright shining children. They are worthy just as they are.

Let them underestimate you. Flying under the radar

Let them underestimate you. Flying under the radar is a super power. ✈️💜

When Suzi Quatro walks up to you and asks you to h

When Suzi Quatro walks up to you and asks you to help her print her boarding pass ... and then you take the opportunity to tell her how inspiring she was for you to see live at the @the_wimn #SheRocksAwards. There are many women who paved a path of unlimited possibilities, and #SuziQ is a trailblazer through and though. 💜✨🎸 #serendipity @sqrocks

I’m totally immersed in the magic of music this

I’m totally immersed in the magic of music this weekend feeling affirmed within the infinite possibilities of flow enjoying moments with friends and @andreaandifranklin. 💜🎵✨

I sat in on an inspiring songwriting panel with AM

I sat in on an inspiring songwriting panel with AMAZING creators including @samhollander who is a writer of @panicatthedisco’s #HighHopes, @train’s #MarryMe, and many more vibrant hit songs. What’s the energy behind a song???? That’s what matters to me, the story and the feeling. 🎵✨

With 3x Grammy Award Winning Mastering Engineer @g

With 3x Grammy Award Winning Mastering Engineer @gavin_lurssen who mastered five of my albums — four Kathryn Cloward and one @kathrynthegrape. 🎵💜🦋 @lurssen_mastering @thenammshow

What an inspiring day at @thenammshow 💜🎵

What an inspiring day at @thenammshow 💜🎵

Stop caring for one second what people who don’t

Stop caring for one second what people who don’t know your heart think of you. Seriously! Release the daggers of unworthiness others have thrown at your back to carry for them (That’s their stuff!) and fill up those gashes with self-loving salve, and keep going. Just be you. Do your thing. Take risks. Trust what you see in your mind, hear in your being, and feel with your knowing. Map it out and know that you are soooooooo worthy of experiencing the simplicity of sustainable and endlessly replenishing joy. Manifest your grandest vision one “yes” at a time. Heal yourself and your magnetic energy will elevate. When you radiate authentic self-love and vibrate higher, you naturally repel manipulative lower vibrational energy. People with impure agendas won’t be able to tolerate being around you. You might even piss them off because they won’t understand why you’re not reshaping into their desires. Oh well. Remain rooted in your truth. Align. Shine. Do. Trust. Know. Be. How can I say this with any level of “expertise” on these matters? Because I’ve lived it, and continue to do my personal work to shift and elevate. The bottom photo is me in January 2015 when I started going to any open mic I could to share my songs and learn while gaining confidence with my voice and guitar by braving the stage. It was a steep learning curve but I just kept trying, doing, believing that I could... and I did. In fact, I’m still trying, doing, believing. I’m constantly learning! The top photo is of me in the studio last weekend producing an album I wrote with others that’s being published by my company and released on my label, just like eight other albums have been so far. No one funded me or discovered me, or offered me opportunities five years ago when I started presenting myself publicly. I just tried and tried. I keep trying. I’ve learned that we can either be contained by limiting beliefs or we can be expansive with unlimited awareness. Unlimited is risky but so is containment, just different risks. I hope we all keep expanding. There’s plenty! Take a photo of yourself this month and in five years see what a difference your self-loving expansion creates. You’re worthy. 💜🎵📚🦋

I’m proud of us! We laid down all of the instrum

I’m proud of us! We laid down all of the instrumental tracks and guide vocal tracks for six songs in less than 10 hours of recording over the weekend. We actually finished 45 minutes ahead of schedule. Our months of preparation and heart-centered teamwork paid off. 🎯 Three months ago I sent everyone my acoustic versions of songs I had written over the summer with @michellehopkinsrare for her #HaveHope debut album. Then, we as a band gathered a number of times for writing sessions. That’s when the sparkle and shine really came forth! Everyone worked harmoniously together contributing their own musical magic to compose and deliver a full sound that illuminates Michelle’s natural vibrancy within songs that share her heart, her story, and her hope for us all. Michelle and her family are happy, so we’re happy. Elated actually! Thank goodness @carinafleckner_photography was with us capturing the whole thing including an amazing photo shoot with Michelle and her parents, brother, and grandparents. Making music. Making memories. Pure Magic. Pure fun. ✨🎵👑💜 @kathrynclowardandtheroyals @stoneybass @megnguyen @eandmproductions @drumplayer100

Day 1 of recording #HaveHope was incredible! The c

Day 1 of recording #HaveHope was incredible! The creative process is pure magic. Over the summer @michellehopkinsrare and I wrote an album of songs that share messages of hope, determination, love, and her reality of living with a #raredisease. The past three months I worked with my band of composing musicians to write all of the layers of music for each song and create a full sound vibe that aligns with Michelle’s vibrancy. Today, we recorded three of them with Michelle and her amazing parents in the studio with us. It was really special. 🎵💜✨ Everyone’s life is a story that can impact others in a positive way. This album is part of Michelle’s story — the story of a young lady with a heart of gold and fierce determination to persevere through tremendous challenges who wants to encourage others to know they are not alone.

Banner day! My new @kathrynthegrape album released

Banner day! My new @kathrynthegrape album released this morning and now we’re at @pacificbeatrecording to record @michellehopkinsrare’s debut album #HaveHope. I’m so proud of all of us! This is dream living. 💜🎵🎤🦋 @stoneybass @megnguyen @drumplayer100 @kathrynclowardandtheroyals

Preparation is key! Today is our final rehearsal s

Preparation is key! Today is our final rehearsal session before heading into @pacificbeatrecording with #GRAMMY award winner Alan Sanderon for a weekend of recording @michellehopkinsrare’s debut album. Special thanks to the amazing team at @rockandrollsd for hosting us for three months of sessions. I’m so proud of how this album sounds so far and can’t wait to hear more magic manifest in the studio with @megnguyen @stoneybass @drumplayer100 Cedric and Michelle. 👑💜🎵 #havehope @kathrynclowardandtheroyals

It’s been a few years since I hiked up the Cowle

It’s been a few years since I hiked up the Cowles Mountain fire road as I did yesterday. I loved spending time with Leslie catching up about life. The summit view didn’t disappoint as it was clear in all directions, unblocked by clouds or smog.
I enjoy the fire road’s less crowded path with steep climbs and wide stretches of openness. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
I suppose choosing to hike the fire road could be a metaphor for the choices I’ve made on my life’s journey. I’ve opted for steep climbs on less crowded paths that have offered large stretches of discovery. The fire road connects to other hiking paths but holds a steady breadth of presence to sustain the purpose for being there by providing safe passage when needed. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
On the fire road there are no shortcuts to the top. Upon reaching the summit, it’s an arrival that’s unseen until it’s achieved. Arriving at the top of the mountain occurs on the backside out of sight from the front view. Yet upon reaching the summit, fire road hikers converge with other hikers who’ve experienced their own climb to the summit by way of their chosen path. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
Such is life. We hike. We climb. We choose our path. We arrive. We pause in the beauty of our summits.
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The fire road isn’t better than any other path. It’s just the one I happen to choose that’s provided the experiences I need for my journey. May we all recognize the beauty on the journey of our chosen path as it aligns with the experiences we need for appreciating the unblocked vantage this miraculous life offers us at whatever summit we’re desiring to reach. ✨💜✨

Are you willing to trust your Divine intuitive com

Are you willing to trust your Divine intuitive compass to guide you? Are you willing to take action forward without knowing the destination details of the path ahead other than you just *know* you are being called to start? What if everything you’ve been yearning to feel about yourself and manifest into your life is awaiting you up ahead on that wide open unknown path? Why not start taking forward momentum action steps today? ✨💜✨

What an incredible three location shoot yesterday

What an incredible three location shoot yesterday filming two @jenniferkleinmusic music video. We had a blast while being completely on task achieving an ambitious filming schedule early. 🎥 Bonus goodness for me, my son worked as our PA. To go on his 8th grade trip next year, I’m empowering him to earn his way. He got to experience the reality of what happens behind the screen and see more layers of the creative process in action. 🦋

Three years ago today, I headlined at @bellyuptave

Three years ago today, I headlined at @bellyuptavern for my first time. I’ve had my name on their marque four times since then and produced purposeful benefit shows that created opportunities for others to be on that stage for their first time. What a fun ride it’s been so far, even in the midst of life’s greatest challenges. My energy the past months has been less on full band stage show performances and more on writing, producing, and longterm expansion — my company produced and published an incredible amount of media in 2019!! 💜🎵📚🎥💜 Thankfully, events and shows for the path ahead are taking shape beautifully. My focus forward continues to be on fun. Fun! That’s one major shift I made in 2019. I stopped saying “hard work” and shifted my mindset and language to “fun work.” With that, I stopped energizing hard and started energizing fun. I didn’t even realize how often I voiced the word “hard” until I made this shift. I was raised to value hard work and my innate work ethic has served me well for my entire entrepreneurial career, and most certainly isn’t going away. Yet, I’ve decided I don’t need to lead with hard anymore. I’m leading with fun! I’m placing my value and focus on fun. What a positive difference this simple shift has made in my life on every level and the choices I make on a daily basis with where my energy flows. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨Perhaps there’s a simple language and mindset shift that you’re feeling energized to choose that could help make a positive difference in your life. Why not try and see what it feels like to shift??!! You’ve got nothing to loose and perhaps everything worthwhile to gain. 💜✨🦋🚂#focusonfun

I’ve enjoyed some fabulous quality time with sis

I’ve enjoyed some fabulous quality time with sister friends lately. I’m also embracing left-handed selfie snapping, apparently. 💜💜💜 #happy2020

NYE day highlights: Finalized my next @kathryntheg

NYE day highlights: Finalized my next @kathrynthegrape album. Hiked Sunset Cliffs. Got carded for a Cider. 💜🤗🎉#HappyNewYear #NYE2019

I wrapped up my last event of 2019 today. Oh, what

I wrapped up my last event of 2019 today. Oh, what an amazing year and a wonderful ending to a hugely transformational decade. 💛✨🦋✨💛 #goldenhour #goldenyear

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