Kerrie Campbell shared their story and experiences with us recently and you can find our conversation below.
Hi Kerrie, thank you so much for joining us today. We’re thrilled to learn more about your journey, values and what you are currently working on. Let’s start with an ice breaker: What do the first 90 minutes of your day look like?
The first 90 minutes of my date are my sacred time, and I spend them very intentionally. I usually start with a hot lemon water to gently wake up my system, list 3 things I’m grateful for, then I tune inward. Some mornings I do breathwork, other mornings I will do emotional clearing & subconscious reprogramming using the same modalities I guide my clients through (it’s important to me to be a living embodiment of what I help my clients with). During this time, I am present and tuned in to what needs to shift, what beliefs are ready to be released, what new beliefs are ready to be embraced, and what energy I’m bringing into the day. From there, I walk my dog along the river and usually listen to a podcast that inspires me or teaches me something new. This all sets the tone for my day and no matter what happens throughout, it helps me stay grounded and lead from a place of overflow and gratitude.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
My company is called Live Your Sensational Life and I help high-achieving women and heart-led, high-impact leaders recalibrate their leadership from pressure and performance to alignment and authenticity.
After spending 25 years in senior corporate leadership, I realized that my success had been built on burnout, over-functioning, and people-pleasing and I was operating more from survival. As proud as I was of everything I’d achieved throughout my career, hitting all the right milestones on paper, inside, I felt scattered, disconnected, and constantly “on.”
That experience led me on a journey of deep personal transformation. I now blend executive-level leadership strategy with powerful modalities like Human Design, subconscious reprogramming, and nervous system regulation to help other ambitious women lead in a way that actually feels good – where success doesn’t require self-sacrifice, and they can truly thrive in both their career and in their personal life.
I work with ambitious, high-capacity women, often corporate leaders or entrepreneurs, who are ready to reach their next level of leadership without sacrificing themselves to get there. They’ve already achieved traditional success, but they know there’s more. More impact, more alignment and more fulfillment. These are women who want to lead with deeper purpose, create lasting legacy, and access their full potential, not just in their careers, but in how they live, lead, and feel. They’re no longer interested in hustling their way to the top. They’re ready to create success from a place that feels grounded, powerful, and true. They now want integration, embodiment, and real change. And they’re ready to do the inner work to create it.
Through my brand and offers, including The Aligned Leadership Playbook™ (and online program walking leaders through their unique leadership alignment codes), to high-touch coaching, I help my clients return to themselves. To learn how to trust their intuition, lead from clarity – not overthinking, and to create impact without draining their energy.
What makes my work unique is that I draw from my own lived experience and experimentation. I combine powerful tools that create deep, lasting change quickly because I’ve spent years refining the right blend of strategy and energetics to help my clients shift fast and powerfully. I’ve found it’s not about choosing between mindset or execution, or intuition or action – it’s about creating alignment at every level – subconscious, energetic, and strategic so they can quantum leap their results. My clients often describe it as things finally ‘click’. They stop second-guessing, start trusting themselves, and showing up differently. They begin to create the success that feels expansive, not exhausting. Which is where the quantum leaps come from, not from doing more, but from becoming more of who they truly are.
Great, so let’s dive into your journey a bit more. Who were you before the world told you who you had to be?
As a kid, I was very imaginative, creative and deeply connected to my inner world. I was always dreaming and creating stories and entire realities in my mind. And I fully believed I could live them out and shape my life exactly how I wanted it. But as I grew older, I was taught to “be realistic” and that life wasn’t always rosy, it was tough and we had to work hard just to get by. That structure and responsibility mattered more than self-expression and vision. Slowly that part of me got quieter. I swapped out imagination for logic, creativity for productivity and I learned to succeed by performing, proving and pushing. It took me years to unwind that conditioning, to reconnect with the part of me who knew how powerful she was before the world told her to play smaller. Now that girl – the one who dreamed big and trusted her vision, leads everything I do! I now wholeheartedly believe we all have the power to create a life that feels deeply aligned, fulfilling, and capable of achieving anything we truly desire.
When did you last change your mind about something important?
I changed my mind about staying in my corporate career, which I always believed I’d retire from. I’d spent 25 years building a successful executive career—working hard, performing at a high level, and even moving my family across the world for it. It was secure, it made sense, and as the breadwinner for my family, it felt like the responsible choice.
But over time, the cost of staying began to outweigh the safety. I felt like I could never switch off and I realized I was leading from a version of myself that no longer felt authentic. Also, I felt deeply called to start to create a different kind of impact. I had been doing the inner work quietly behind the scenes for years, learning the tools that helped me regulate my nervous system, trust my intuition, and reconnect with who I really was.
The more I reclaimed myself, the more I saw how many other women and leaders were achieving success but losing themselves in the process. I couldn’t keep waking up each day operating under an outdated paradigm of leadership and success that just rewarded over-functioning, burnout, and self-sacrifice. I knew I had to be part of the shift. To help redefine what success could look and feel like. To guide other women and leaders to create impact in a way that’s aligned, and sustainable. Leaving corporate was the biggest leap I’ve ever taken—but it became the most powerful realignment of my life.
So a lot of these questions go deep, but if you are open to it, we’ve got a few more questions that we’d love to get your take on. Where are smart people getting it totally wrong today?
So many brilliant, high-performing people are getting it wrong in one key area—believing that the path to success is paved with more action, more pressure, and more control. They’re trying to outwork misalignment instead of addressing the root – the subconscious beliefs, nervous system patterns, and energetic blocks that are actually driving how they show up.
Most of the leaders I work with aren’t lacking in strategy, they’re very resourced, intelligent, and capable. But they’re constantly operating in overdrive, pushing through exhaustion, and trying to think or force their way into results.
What they haven’t been taught is how to lead from trust, intuition, and a regulated nervous system. Because when you start creating alignment at the subconscious and energetic level, everything shifts. You stop chasing clarity and start embodying it. You stop forcing outcomes and start taking the right actions from a grounded place. That’s when results become effortless – not because you’re doing more, but because you’re finally aligned with what you’re creating.
Before we go, we’d love to hear your thoughts on some longer-run, legacy type questions. Have you ever gotten what you wanted, and found it did not satisfy you?
Yes, earning the senior executive title I’d worked my entire career for. For years, I believed that getting to that level would give me the influence and impact I craved. And in many ways, it was a milestone worth celebrating. But once I got there, I realized something I wasn’t prepared for: the higher up I went, the more it became about politics, positioning, and constant pressure, not about the work that truly mattered to me.
I was regularly leading big organizational changes, managing large teams, and making things happen. But I felt constantly on, working all of the time, and not feeling as fulfilled as I had wanted. On top of that, I felt like I was sacrificing a lot of time with my kids and not getting enough time to look after myself properly.
I had chased the title to make a difference, but once I got there, I realized the real difference I wanted to make wouldn’t come from playing the game. It would come from rewriting the rules. That realization was the beginning of a much deeper journey for myself, and now for the women I support.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.liveyoursensationallife.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/CoachingbyKerrie
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerrie-campbell/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CoachingbyKerrie
Image Credits
Photos by Elena Burley of B&E Photography; and Christina Lin of ChristinaLinPhotography
