Why I Started Honest Pursuits

This isn’t your motivational pep talk—it’s a postmortem for a life that looked perfect and felt like hell. In the debut episode of Honest Pursuits, Cate Brown breaks down how “success” became a slow-motion suffocation, why she stopped performing for approval, and how the BRUTAL —Boundaries, Reinvention, Unlearning, Truth, Accountability, and Liberation—became her blueprint for building a life she didn’t want to escape from.
It’s brutally funny, emotionally honest, and exactly what you need if you’ve ever looked at your life and thought: “Wait… who ordered this?”

🎧 Expect stories that sting, tools that save, and truths that slap harder than your morning espresso.

You ever wake up in a life that technically worked—and still wonder how you became the unpaid intern of your own existence?
This is the behind-the-scenes of how I stopped auditioning for approval and started dismantling the myth of the “perfect life.” Spoiler: it wasn’t cute, but it was honest.

These aren’t sponsored (yet). They’re survival tools. The emotional duct tape that kept me from throwing my laptop into traffic.

💡 Mentioned in This Episode:

• 🧠 Notion — because apparently “organize your breakdowns” is a productivity hack now.

• 💬 BetterHelp — when you need therapy without the small talk or the pants.

• 📘 Atomic Habits by James Clear — because you can’t manifest your way out of bad habits.

• 🕯️ $6 Lavender Candle (Target) — practically aromatherapy therapy.

We all have one brutal truth we’ve been avoiding. Mine became a podcast. Yours deserves a mic too.

📲 Confess your Brutal Truth.
Slide into the DMs on Instagram @honest.pursuits and drop your confession (anonymous if you want).
We might feature it on the next “Hot Seat Story Night” episode. No judgment. Just honesty with Wi-Fi.