Katherine Dudtschak: The Woman Who Built Sincerely
For the first time on The Sincerely Show, Katherine Dudtschak is the one in the chair. This welcome episode is an origin story: of a woman, a book, a platform, and a movement that began with one decision to stop performing and start living.
Katherine grew up on a mink farm in rural Canada, the daughter of two parents who survived the Second World War and carried its weight into the life they built. She was neurodivergent in a school system that did not know what to do with her. She was deeply feminine in a world that required her to be otherwise. For nearly five decades, she built a career of extraordinary scope, rising to become president and CEO of HomeEquity Bank, leading 25,000 employees through cultural transformation, and earning recognition as one of Canada’s most respected senior executives. She was also, through all of it, carrying a secret.
In this conversation, Katherine shares what she has rarely put into a single sitting: the collapses that cracked her open, the coming out to 80,000 people by video in 2019, the grief of retirement, the two-year journey into aloneness that became the beginning of herself, and the vision for Sincerely as a blanket, a cathedral, a place where human beings can come and hear each other’s stories without judgement.
This is where the show begins.
