Katherine Dudtschak

Katherine Dudtschak: The Woman Who Built Sincerely

76 min

June 2, 2026

  • Identity, Leadership, Podcast, Transformation
Katherine Dudtschak: The Woman Who Built Sincerely
with Katherine Dudtschak
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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.

"Slam your heart into the people and the places and the things that ignite something deep within your soul. I promise the right things will stay. You will never lose what is for you."

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About the Guest

Brief bio: Founder and host of Sincerely Inc. and The Sincerely Show, author of Sincerely, Katherine, and a former award-winning CEO with 30+ years in corporate leadership.

Katherine Dudtschak is the founder of Sincerely and author of Sincerely, Katherine. A former award-winning CEO with 30+ years in corporate leadership, Katherine now witnesses transformation stories and teaches the models of integrated, essence-level leadership. Her gift is holding space while someone tells the truth about who they are becoming.
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Timestamps

00:00 — Opening: “There is a wholeness within each person waiting to arise”
02:02 — Introduction in the room: a book, a show, a movement
03:23 — Katherine introduces herself: curious, meaning-making, expressive
05:09 — What it feels like on the other side: gratitude, freedom
07:13 — The four existential crises of our time
12:47 — Where it began: born March 9, 1966, to two war survivors
17:49 — Growing up on the mink farm; neurodivergence and the corner desk
21:45 — The feminine self, buried; “you can run but you can’t hide”
30:32 — The Caribbean restructuring and the first true collapse
34:41 — The lunch in 2017 that named fifty years
38:02 — The darkest year, and the call from Leanne that stopped her
39:14 — Coming out to 80,000 people, June 17, 2019
42:36 — Retirement, grief, and the aloneness of 2022
50:19 — What Sincerely means: the blanket, the cathedral, story as sermon
57:56 — What she’s learned interviewing others
1:01:50 — Who the show is for
1:08:01 — A reading from Sincerely, Katherine: the mantra
1:10:34 — Her wish for humanity
1:13:22 — Closing reflection

Katherine's reflection on this conversation is available to members.

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