Birthing The House of Love in NZ
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Who am I?
Hello there. :) My name is Katharine Kinnie. I’m 38 years old. I am from a small town called Frome, in Somerset, in the British countryside, approximately 2 hours south west from London.
Currently, I am a conscious entrepreneur and heart-centred, soul driven changemaker, a Love Spreader, a Cosmic Numerologist, a mentor and guide, a singer/songwriter, artist, Dream Weaver and an initiator and sacred architect of the New Earth.
In my heart, I love the planet, animals, all creatures great and small, humans and nature. I am an organic vegan and am an advocate of a Veganic diet and lifestyle, as well as using more eco-friendly, sustainable forms of energy, such as solar power, renewable energy and free/zero-point energy.
I love to meditate and also sing and write songs with sacred, peaceful, uplifting, joyful and inspiring lyrics that help to raise and shift the vibration and level of consciousness of the beings on Earth.
It is my wish to co-create a more peaceful, loving, kind, caring, compassionate and harmonious world and experience here on Earth.
I know and understand that the only way to co-create this is to create it on the inside first, and then outside of us. And this is one of the reasons I have created this gofundme page. To ask for your help and support.
I have dedicated the last 3 and a half years of my life trying to find a way to obtain a visa for Australia so that I could birth The House of Love in the Byron Shire.
After giving it my all, it has become apparent to me, that it is not meant to be, at least for now.
So I am now currently in beautiful New Zealand and in the process of applying for a place on the Edmund Hillary Fellowship which is a global community of changemakers solving global challenges from New Zealand.
And I feel as though this is a perfect opportunity to support the birthing of the very first House of Love on the planet.
If I’m offered a place within the Edmund Hillary Fellowship I will also be invited to apply for a Global Impact Visa. This visa would give me the opportunity to live and work in and from New Zealand for 3 years, and apply for Permanent Residency after 2 and a half years. :)
Why am I raising money?
From a young age, I never quite understood why things were the way they were here on Earth.
And especially when I was at school, people couldn’t explain to me why there were and had been so many wars on the planet and why religion seemed to be at the root of a lot of them, along with the seeming need to ‘own’ certain land or resources on the planet.
None of this made sense to me, and at my earliest opportunity, I ran as the Green Party candidate two years in a row for our ‘mock’ General Election at school when I was around 12 years old. Michael Jackson’s ‘Heal The World’ was our Green Party song. Each year we came second. Which for me, was a victory. :)
When I look back to my time at school, it was the only role that felt really true and important to me in my heart.
Now, after having been living in this planet for 38 years, I still feel just as confused and frustrated about how things are here, as I did back then.
26 years on, and I know that I really need to take some action to change things. To co-create the kind of reality that I truly, deeply wish to enJOY with other beings who wish to experience the same reality.
A reality full of peace and love and joy and tranquility and harmony and fun and kindness and gentleness and compassion.
And the most powerful way I feel to co-create that is to co-create it from the grassroots up, as divine and sovereign beings.
I have had a vision and a dream for many years now, to co-create something called The House of Love.
Along my travels, and especially since my spiritual awakening at the end of 2012 I have been looking for a place to call home.
Somewhere I feel safe and a sense of belonging. Somewhere I feel truly and deeply welcome. Somewhere I can experience deep rest and peace. Somewhere I can nourish my body with organic, home grown fruits, vegetables and herbs. Somewhere I can connect, co-create and meet with beautiful heart-centred beings and soul family. Somewhere I can meditate, sing and dance peacefully. Somewhere I can share my knowledge, wisdom and culture and can receive the sharing of knowledge, wisdom and culture of others. Somewhere I can invite people to come and visit and stay. Somewhere I can call home.
This for me, is the House of Love. This is our House of Love. And I wish and feel to co-create this and share it with everyone who feels to be part of its co-creation.
This is a big project, a big global vision and a big commitment as I see the potential for Houses of Love all over the planet. And it is a project I feel ready to embrace.
And this is where it’s important that I ask for your help and support.
It costs $350 USD to make my application for a place on the Edmund Hillary Fellowship on or before 10th February.
Or $500 USD to make my application on or before 31st March.
Although I’d ideally like to have made my application before 18th February if possible.
Therefore if you wish to help and support me in initiating The House of Love in New Zealand, please feel free to make a contribution via this gofundme page.
And I will very gratefully and happily receive anything you wish and feel to share with me and contribute.
How will the money be used?
To pay for my application for a place on the Edmund Hillary Fellowship in New Zealand.
Which will give me the support to ideally birth the world’s first House of Love here in Golden Bay, New Zealand.
How soon do I need the funds?
Ideally, as soon as possible.
$350 USD for the Early Bird application by 10th February (£271)
Or $500 USD by 31st March, ideally by 18th February (£387)
Why this means so much to me
I have had the vision of co-creating the House of Love and many more across the planet for many years.
I always thought the first would be birthed in Australia, but it feels as though it’s going to be much easier here in New Zealand. So I’m trusting in the divine flow and orchestration.
I am committed to co-creating and anchoring House’s of Love all over the planet, so I’m happy to birth them from the country on the planet where I am most supported to do so. At the moment, with the incredible and wonderful opportunities that the Edmund Hillary Fellowship and the Global Impact Visa are offering me here in New Zealand, it feels like this is the best place for me to be.
How thankful I will be
There are so many people already across the planet who have been so incredibly helpful and supportive of me birthing The House of Love.
However, it is always hardest for me to ask for and feel worthy of receiving financial support for the project.
So to receive your support in the way of financial contributions will mean so much to me and show me how many people really wish to see this become a reality.
And so for anyone reading this and feeling to make a contribution, thank you. I love you, I honour you and I appreciate your help and support. You are awesome and I will never forget the fact that you helped me to initiate and co-create The House of Love in New Zealand and create a home here, for myself and all of us.
And your names will be honoured somewhere incredibly special in the very first House of Love we create as initial founding financial supporters of it being weaved into reality. :)
Thank you, thank you, thank you,
Love you x x x
P.s. If you’d like to hear more about the House of Love Project and watch a Facebook Live, go here:
facebook.com/kat.kinnie/videos/10160180115705123/
And if you’d like to know more about the Edmund Hillary Fellowship go here:
ehf.org
Or the Global Impact Visa for New Zealand go here:
immigration.govt.nz/new-zealand-visas/apply-for-a-visa/about-visa/global-impact-work-visa
Why am I raising money?
The long story (grab a cup of tea and snuggle down)
The day that I turned 30, I cried all day in my sister’s living room in Reading, UK. Why? Because I didn’t feel as though I had anything to celebrate.
On paper, my life was perfect. I had it all sorted, and I had been ticking a whole tonne of things off of the list that society invites us to tick off.
I had a highly paid job in Marketing working for Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp UK. I had a beautiful two bedroom flat in South West London, which I shared with my doting boyfriend and our dog, Max. I had enough money to go out regularly in London and enjoy everything it had to offer, and take the odd mini break to Europe once every few months with my boyfriend. I had a group of beautiful friends who I loved dearly. I had a wonderful relationship with my family. Everything should have been tickety boo. . . .
However, I was miserable. I was sad. I was depressed. I had no motivation. It felt like my soul had died. And worst of all, I didn’t know why I was alive. I had no purpose. And on most days, it was an effort to get out of bed and go to work.
And so on my 30th birthday, as I was looking back over the first 30 years of my life, considering what I had contributed to planet Earth. How I had used this incredible body and mind that I had, at the mere thought of how little I had contributed, it made me cry and cry and cry.
I felt that if I got run over by a bus the next day and my entire life flashed before my eyes, I really and truly was not very happy or best pleased with how I had been contributing.
And so, I made a decision that day, that things needed to change. Drastically. Fundamentally. And quickly. That night of my 30th birthday, close to midnight, after we came back from having dinner at one of the most expensive restaurants in London, I told my boyfriend that I didn’t want to be with him anymore. He was devastated, and we sat on our bed and cried for two hours.
Two weeks later, I had left my contract job at News Corp UK early, packed up my entire life into boxes and my Dad had come to pick me up to take me back to my family home in the UK.
I was destroyed. I was so sad. I was so confused. I was so empty. I was so vacant. I was so tired. And as before, I didn’t know who I was or why I was here.
After a week or so of rest, I felt very strongly that I needed to leave the UK and have a break, so I booked a two week trip to Peru to trek the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. This was somewhere I had always wanted to go and was a very powerful and transformational experience. As a result of this trip, I definitely got the urge to travel and didn’t actually want to go back to the UK. But I did, as it was close to Christmas and I was keen to be with my family and in the comfort of my own home.
I needed to continue to rest and just see what was unfolding for me. I was being head hunted by numerous dotcom and digital companies like Google and Skype for interviews, and I didn’t want to work for any of them. I had enough money in the bank to not need to work and to take my time to work things out. I ended up taking a short term, monthly rolling contract at Sky, as they practically begged me to go and work for them and help them with a new channel launch, and even though I didn’t need the money by that point, I decided that any extra money I earnt could go in a travel kitty.
As I continued to work for them, it became more and more apparent that I was being strongly guided to travel. Not to mention the fact that all of my friends (especially those who were married and had kids) were strongly urging me to go travelling too, when I asked them what I should do next. The general consensus was ‘Kat, you’re not married, you don’t have kids, you don’t have any pets, you don’t have a mortgage, you don’t have a permanent job, you have no ties to this country, just go travelling and we can live vicariously through you, through Facebook. :)’
So that’s what I did. Begrudgingly, on 31st March 2011 I booked a Round the World flight, leaving mid May.
I was so scared.
I had already travelled a lot around the world and been to a lot of places, but they had only ever been long weekends or for a couple of weeks at a time, the longest trip being a 4 week interrail trip I did with my boyfriend when I was at Uni. However, the predominance of these were all pre-booked and planned. Plus, I had never been away from the UK for any longer than about a month either.
Crazier still, the only two week holiday that I had had throughout my twenties was when my sister got married, just a few months before my 30th birthday. I had just been working solidly since I left Uni.
I spent weeks preparing for my departure, and even a few days after I left the UK and landed in Bangkok, Thailand, I had a massive panic attack and was so close to just getting straight back on the plane and going home. The only thing that stopped me was what I imagined all of my friends and family would have said to me when I arrived back in the UK. ‘Why have you come home?’ You have $20,000 in your bank account and a 9 month Round the World trip ahead of you. What are you doing?!’
So I gave myself a pep talk. Took a short trip to the islands. And decided that I was going to pull my socks up and enjoy the journey . . .
I had a really wonderful time travelling around SE Asia. I visited Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Cambodia and Malaysia. Until I ended up getting an infected spider bite in the back of my left knee in the Cameron Highlands of Malaysia and had to take a trip down to Singapore for emergency surgery on a flesh eating bacterial infection that was travelling up my leg and into my bloodstream.
After emergency surgery in Singapore and a few days rest at my friends place, I was well enough to fly on to Perth in Australia, where I stayed with friends for three weeks convalescing, while I went to hospital every other day for wound aftercare.
When I was well enough to fly again and had permission from the Head Nurse, I flew to Sydney and stayed there for another two weeks with friends while I continued to rest and heal and until I was well enough to strap my backpack on again.
I then flew on to New Zealand, which I promptly fell in love with, but the entire time I was travelling across the country, my heart and soul was yearning for Australia. It was as if my entire body had a very strong calling to return to the country as soon as possible.
Of course, my head didn’t understand this and every time that I tried to rationalise this strong feeling I was having I kept telling myself, ‘Kat you’re on a 9 month trip, you’re only 6 months in, you need to keep going, you have thousands of pounds worth of flights still to take, you have South America and North America still to visit. You need to keep going and finish the trip.’ But all my heart could say was, ‘Go back to Sydney’.
So, not long after 11.11.2011, rather than flying from Auckland to Buenos Aires on 8 Nov 2011, I instead booked and took a flight to Sydney on 14 Nov 2011.
At the time I only knew two couples in Sydney and I said to them both, ‘I don’t really know what I’m doing, or why I’m back here, but would it be possible to stay with you please? One couple said no, because they had other friends staying and the other couple said yes. So I went to live with my beautiful friends Ben and Pia in Manly, Sydney for three months. Rent and bill free. Bless their hearts, they wouldn’t take any money from me.
After I arrived, I thought, well, I’m still not 100% sure why I’m here, but I guess I should get a job and start filling the hole in my bank balance that my trip has created.
Within 3 weeks I had been offered a 6 figure salary role, working for News Corp, doing exactly the same thing I was doing back in London. It wasn’t ideal, but it was going to pay money.
Within a month of starting to work for them, they were offering me sponsorship to stay and work for them for 2 years, which I really didn’t want. In fact, I wasn’t even sure if I even wanted to stay in Australia. A huge part of me still wanted to continue travelling.
When I spoke to recruitment consultants about this, they told me to take the sponsorship with both hands, as it was so hard to be offered sponsorship and a visa to stay. I also had a lot of people around me who were struggling to obtain de facto visas through their relationships. I kept feeling into it and it still didn’t feel right to take it. I was becoming so disillusioned with the corporate world. It just didn’t feel true to lock myself into a job for two years. Especially after I had just escaped from the corporate clutches in London.
So, instead I continued to follow my heart and went on a weekend NLP course. It was so incredibly transformational and life changing, at the end of the weekend I had let go of so many limiting beliefs, I had uncovered the fact that I wanted to start my own business.
So, I signed up for a $15,000 course in NLP and Life coaching and decided that I was going to become a Life and Business coach. I got a business coach of my own and he became my number one cheerleader, helping, encouraging and supporting me to succeed.
I also made a decision, that I wished to live and work in Manly, for myself. And as a result of making that decision, I then got in touch with an immigration lawyer to see how that would be possible.
When I first went to visit George (Lombard), my fairy Godfather, I asked him if I could start a business on a working holiday visa and he said, ‘Yes, but I wouldn’t recommend it.’ Given that he had said yes, I then proceeded to ask, what would happen when my working holiday visa expired on 13 Nov 2012? He told me that I would need to obtain sponsorship from a company. He strongly urged and suggested that I just take the sponsorship from News Corp, work for them for two years, then obtain my PR and then start my own business. But I wasn’t interested. He also suggested that I might perhaps like to ask the guy who was teaching my NLP and Life Coaching if he’d like to sponsor me, but I declined that idea as well.
It was so very clear to me that I wished to be chartering my own boat and not rowing on anyone else’s anymore. It was over. It was done. I didn’t want to work for anyone else ever again. It was time for me to be an entrepreneur.
So he finally said, well, you could sponsor yourself . . . . . . As soon as those words left his mouth I knew that that was the option I would take.
I then spent the next 5 months jumping through numerous immigration hoops and ticking off things on tick lists of stuff I had to do and things I needed to prove in order for us to put in a convincing and strong enough application for my 4 year 457 visa.
We made the visa application on 13 Nov 2012, the day that my one year visa expired. And then had to wait. . . . .
George told me that it would take 1-3 months for us to get an answer from the Immigration Dept on whether my application had been successful. Until then, I just had to wait.
Because I had spent every last cent and dollar that I had on the then $3500 legal and visa fees I had barely any money to my name. So I had to put all of my possessions into storage and move back in with Ben and Pia while I waited for answer.
Exactly one month later to the day, on 13 Dec 2012 I had a phone call from George. He told me that Thought Cloud (my company) had been awarded Sponsorship Status, and therefore, I had been awarded sponsorship and a 457 four year visa to remain in Australia. I could barely believe it! I was over the moon. :)
And what transpired after that, was that the confirmation emails had come through on 12.12.12. At the time, I didn’t know the significance of that date or numerological time portal. Now I do. :)
And that was the beginning of the beginning. As over the next week or so, after having gone to another weekend course called WTF (Wisdom Truth and Freedom) with Ben and Pia, I started my awakening process.
I could write an entire book alone on what unfolded and ensued afterwards, but the long and the short of it is the fact that everything that I thought I knew about myself, other people, the world, the planet, the cosmos and beyond started to fall away.
I became fundamentally disconnected from my business. I didn’t feel to ‘earn’ or ‘make’ money anymore. I was confused. I was scared. And once again, I went through another process of not knowing why I am here, or why I exist and I encountered dark night of the soul after dark night of the soul. It was unbearable.
In fact, the only thing that made it bearable and got me through, was the fact that I was living with another boyfriend at the time, who covered rent and food and made sure that I had a roof over my head and food in my tummy. And for this, I will be eternally grateful, because if it wasn’t for him, I’m not sure what I would have done.
What has happened and what I have experienced over the last 7 years has been incredible and there really aren’t enough words here and now for me to share with you in detail about what I have been through, what I have endured and how I am even still alive typing these words onto this keyboard.
What I do know is this.
I never planned to go to Australia. In fact, I never even wanted to go to Australia. When I was planning my trip, I was distinctly uninterested in visiting Australia because of my perceived extreme lack of culture here. How wrong I could have been . . . . .
After living there for over 7 years I now know that the ancient and original culture, language, stories, music, songs, dances, art and ways of being are some of the oldest and most ancient on the planet and we all have so much to learn and remember from and through them. And this appreciation is the same for the cultures of all indigenous people across the globe.
And trickier still, I have stepped away from my very financially successful Branding business and consultancy, pretty much since I came out of a Vipassana ten day, one hundred hour, silent meditation retreat in Feb 2014.
All I have wanted to do is channel all of my energies into seeding the House of Love, growing the movement and Not for Profit Foundation I started in Australia called Spread the Love, give Cosmic Numerology readings and teach Cosmic Numerology and write, perform and sing music, in service to the collective.
And those of you that follow me on Facebook, watch all of my Facebook Live broadcasts, transmissions and downloads and who have attended our Spread the Love events, will all know that I live my life, in the moment, by following the feeling, following my heart, following my bliss and my Highest Excitement, while spreading peace, love, joy, happiness and light everywhere I go and feel to be.
Yes I could still be charging $5,555 a day for my time, or $400 an hour for consulting, but it doesn’t feel true for me anymore.
I just feel to help and support as many as people as possible on this planet to live the life of their dreams and to collectively co-create Heaven on Earth and a reality and living experience that is full of unconditional love, world peace and universal joy.
I have dedicated the last 3 and a half years of my life to trying to find a way to obtain a visa to be able to stay in Australia and birth the first House of Love in the Byron Shire.
Unfortunately, that has proven to not be.
So, I have trusted the divine flow and plan and am now in New Zealand with a strong intention to birth the first House of Love here instead.
I have visited New Zealand many times over the last 8 years and since my first visit in 2011. And I fell deeply in love with it back then.
There is feeling a peace, calm, love, gentleness, nurturing, community, support and welcoming here that is unprecedented for me. And I’m starting to feel and understand that this is actually going to be a far more supportive and nurturing country to birth the very first House of Love. :)
So, how can you help me?
I am asking you if you might like to help and support me in funding the amount of money that I require in order to be able to apply for a place on the Edmund Hillary Fellowship here in New Zealand, so I can initiate and birth The House of Love in Golden Bay.
So, if you’ve got this far, first and foremost, yey! Thank you so much for reading and staying with me. And if you connect with me and my story in anyway, please feel free to support me by making a financial contribution to the initiation of The House of Love in New Zealand.
Equally, if I, or anything I have ever shared on Facebook, at a Spread the Love event, online, in person, via Facebook, over the phone has helped or supported you in any way and you would like to show your gratitude or appreciation via the medium of money, I would indeed also be incredibly grateful for any contribution of support you wish to make.
Thank you very much. :)
Love you x x x
Hello there. :) My name is Katharine Kinnie. I’m 38 years old. I am from a small town called Frome, in Somerset, in the British countryside, approximately 2 hours south west from London.
Currently, I am a conscious entrepreneur and heart-centred, soul driven changemaker, a Love Spreader, a Cosmic Numerologist, a mentor and guide, a singer/songwriter, artist, Dream Weaver and an initiator and sacred architect of the New Earth.
In my heart, I love the planet, animals, all creatures great and small, humans and nature. I am an organic vegan and am an advocate of a Veganic diet and lifestyle, as well as using more eco-friendly, sustainable forms of energy, such as solar power, renewable energy and free/zero-point energy.
I love to meditate and also sing and write songs with sacred, peaceful, uplifting, joyful and inspiring lyrics that help to raise and shift the vibration and level of consciousness of the beings on Earth.
It is my wish to co-create a more peaceful, loving, kind, caring, compassionate and harmonious world and experience here on Earth.
I know and understand that the only way to co-create this is to create it on the inside first, and then outside of us. And this is one of the reasons I have created this gofundme page. To ask for your help and support.
I have dedicated the last 3 and a half years of my life trying to find a way to obtain a visa for Australia so that I could birth The House of Love in the Byron Shire.
After giving it my all, it has become apparent to me, that it is not meant to be, at least for now.
So I am now currently in beautiful New Zealand and in the process of applying for a place on the Edmund Hillary Fellowship which is a global community of changemakers solving global challenges from New Zealand.
And I feel as though this is a perfect opportunity to support the birthing of the very first House of Love on the planet.
If I’m offered a place within the Edmund Hillary Fellowship I will also be invited to apply for a Global Impact Visa. This visa would give me the opportunity to live and work in and from New Zealand for 3 years, and apply for Permanent Residency after 2 and a half years. :)
Why am I raising money?
From a young age, I never quite understood why things were the way they were here on Earth.
And especially when I was at school, people couldn’t explain to me why there were and had been so many wars on the planet and why religion seemed to be at the root of a lot of them, along with the seeming need to ‘own’ certain land or resources on the planet.
None of this made sense to me, and at my earliest opportunity, I ran as the Green Party candidate two years in a row for our ‘mock’ General Election at school when I was around 12 years old. Michael Jackson’s ‘Heal The World’ was our Green Party song. Each year we came second. Which for me, was a victory. :)
When I look back to my time at school, it was the only role that felt really true and important to me in my heart.
Now, after having been living in this planet for 38 years, I still feel just as confused and frustrated about how things are here, as I did back then.
26 years on, and I know that I really need to take some action to change things. To co-create the kind of reality that I truly, deeply wish to enJOY with other beings who wish to experience the same reality.
A reality full of peace and love and joy and tranquility and harmony and fun and kindness and gentleness and compassion.
And the most powerful way I feel to co-create that is to co-create it from the grassroots up, as divine and sovereign beings.
I have had a vision and a dream for many years now, to co-create something called The House of Love.
Along my travels, and especially since my spiritual awakening at the end of 2012 I have been looking for a place to call home.
Somewhere I feel safe and a sense of belonging. Somewhere I feel truly and deeply welcome. Somewhere I can experience deep rest and peace. Somewhere I can nourish my body with organic, home grown fruits, vegetables and herbs. Somewhere I can connect, co-create and meet with beautiful heart-centred beings and soul family. Somewhere I can meditate, sing and dance peacefully. Somewhere I can share my knowledge, wisdom and culture and can receive the sharing of knowledge, wisdom and culture of others. Somewhere I can invite people to come and visit and stay. Somewhere I can call home.
This for me, is the House of Love. This is our House of Love. And I wish and feel to co-create this and share it with everyone who feels to be part of its co-creation.
This is a big project, a big global vision and a big commitment as I see the potential for Houses of Love all over the planet. And it is a project I feel ready to embrace.
And this is where it’s important that I ask for your help and support.
It costs $350 USD to make my application for a place on the Edmund Hillary Fellowship on or before 10th February.
Or $500 USD to make my application on or before 31st March.
Although I’d ideally like to have made my application before 18th February if possible.
Therefore if you wish to help and support me in initiating The House of Love in New Zealand, please feel free to make a contribution via this gofundme page.
And I will very gratefully and happily receive anything you wish and feel to share with me and contribute.
How will the money be used?
To pay for my application for a place on the Edmund Hillary Fellowship in New Zealand.
Which will give me the support to ideally birth the world’s first House of Love here in Golden Bay, New Zealand.
How soon do I need the funds?
Ideally, as soon as possible.
$350 USD for the Early Bird application by 10th February (£271)
Or $500 USD by 31st March, ideally by 18th February (£387)
Why this means so much to me
I have had the vision of co-creating the House of Love and many more across the planet for many years.
I always thought the first would be birthed in Australia, but it feels as though it’s going to be much easier here in New Zealand. So I’m trusting in the divine flow and orchestration.
I am committed to co-creating and anchoring House’s of Love all over the planet, so I’m happy to birth them from the country on the planet where I am most supported to do so. At the moment, with the incredible and wonderful opportunities that the Edmund Hillary Fellowship and the Global Impact Visa are offering me here in New Zealand, it feels like this is the best place for me to be.
How thankful I will be
There are so many people already across the planet who have been so incredibly helpful and supportive of me birthing The House of Love.
However, it is always hardest for me to ask for and feel worthy of receiving financial support for the project.
So to receive your support in the way of financial contributions will mean so much to me and show me how many people really wish to see this become a reality.
And so for anyone reading this and feeling to make a contribution, thank you. I love you, I honour you and I appreciate your help and support. You are awesome and I will never forget the fact that you helped me to initiate and co-create The House of Love in New Zealand and create a home here, for myself and all of us.
And your names will be honoured somewhere incredibly special in the very first House of Love we create as initial founding financial supporters of it being weaved into reality. :)
Thank you, thank you, thank you,
Love you x x x
P.s. If you’d like to hear more about the House of Love Project and watch a Facebook Live, go here:
facebook.com/kat.kinnie/videos/10160180115705123/
And if you’d like to know more about the Edmund Hillary Fellowship go here:
ehf.org
Or the Global Impact Visa for New Zealand go here:
immigration.govt.nz/new-zealand-visas/apply-for-a-visa/about-visa/global-impact-work-visa
Why am I raising money?
The long story (grab a cup of tea and snuggle down)
The day that I turned 30, I cried all day in my sister’s living room in Reading, UK. Why? Because I didn’t feel as though I had anything to celebrate.
On paper, my life was perfect. I had it all sorted, and I had been ticking a whole tonne of things off of the list that society invites us to tick off.
I had a highly paid job in Marketing working for Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp UK. I had a beautiful two bedroom flat in South West London, which I shared with my doting boyfriend and our dog, Max. I had enough money to go out regularly in London and enjoy everything it had to offer, and take the odd mini break to Europe once every few months with my boyfriend. I had a group of beautiful friends who I loved dearly. I had a wonderful relationship with my family. Everything should have been tickety boo. . . .
However, I was miserable. I was sad. I was depressed. I had no motivation. It felt like my soul had died. And worst of all, I didn’t know why I was alive. I had no purpose. And on most days, it was an effort to get out of bed and go to work.
And so on my 30th birthday, as I was looking back over the first 30 years of my life, considering what I had contributed to planet Earth. How I had used this incredible body and mind that I had, at the mere thought of how little I had contributed, it made me cry and cry and cry.
I felt that if I got run over by a bus the next day and my entire life flashed before my eyes, I really and truly was not very happy or best pleased with how I had been contributing.
And so, I made a decision that day, that things needed to change. Drastically. Fundamentally. And quickly. That night of my 30th birthday, close to midnight, after we came back from having dinner at one of the most expensive restaurants in London, I told my boyfriend that I didn’t want to be with him anymore. He was devastated, and we sat on our bed and cried for two hours.
Two weeks later, I had left my contract job at News Corp UK early, packed up my entire life into boxes and my Dad had come to pick me up to take me back to my family home in the UK.
I was destroyed. I was so sad. I was so confused. I was so empty. I was so vacant. I was so tired. And as before, I didn’t know who I was or why I was here.
After a week or so of rest, I felt very strongly that I needed to leave the UK and have a break, so I booked a two week trip to Peru to trek the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. This was somewhere I had always wanted to go and was a very powerful and transformational experience. As a result of this trip, I definitely got the urge to travel and didn’t actually want to go back to the UK. But I did, as it was close to Christmas and I was keen to be with my family and in the comfort of my own home.
I needed to continue to rest and just see what was unfolding for me. I was being head hunted by numerous dotcom and digital companies like Google and Skype for interviews, and I didn’t want to work for any of them. I had enough money in the bank to not need to work and to take my time to work things out. I ended up taking a short term, monthly rolling contract at Sky, as they practically begged me to go and work for them and help them with a new channel launch, and even though I didn’t need the money by that point, I decided that any extra money I earnt could go in a travel kitty.
As I continued to work for them, it became more and more apparent that I was being strongly guided to travel. Not to mention the fact that all of my friends (especially those who were married and had kids) were strongly urging me to go travelling too, when I asked them what I should do next. The general consensus was ‘Kat, you’re not married, you don’t have kids, you don’t have any pets, you don’t have a mortgage, you don’t have a permanent job, you have no ties to this country, just go travelling and we can live vicariously through you, through Facebook. :)’
So that’s what I did. Begrudgingly, on 31st March 2011 I booked a Round the World flight, leaving mid May.
I was so scared.
I had already travelled a lot around the world and been to a lot of places, but they had only ever been long weekends or for a couple of weeks at a time, the longest trip being a 4 week interrail trip I did with my boyfriend when I was at Uni. However, the predominance of these were all pre-booked and planned. Plus, I had never been away from the UK for any longer than about a month either.
Crazier still, the only two week holiday that I had had throughout my twenties was when my sister got married, just a few months before my 30th birthday. I had just been working solidly since I left Uni.
I spent weeks preparing for my departure, and even a few days after I left the UK and landed in Bangkok, Thailand, I had a massive panic attack and was so close to just getting straight back on the plane and going home. The only thing that stopped me was what I imagined all of my friends and family would have said to me when I arrived back in the UK. ‘Why have you come home?’ You have $20,000 in your bank account and a 9 month Round the World trip ahead of you. What are you doing?!’
So I gave myself a pep talk. Took a short trip to the islands. And decided that I was going to pull my socks up and enjoy the journey . . .
I had a really wonderful time travelling around SE Asia. I visited Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Cambodia and Malaysia. Until I ended up getting an infected spider bite in the back of my left knee in the Cameron Highlands of Malaysia and had to take a trip down to Singapore for emergency surgery on a flesh eating bacterial infection that was travelling up my leg and into my bloodstream.
After emergency surgery in Singapore and a few days rest at my friends place, I was well enough to fly on to Perth in Australia, where I stayed with friends for three weeks convalescing, while I went to hospital every other day for wound aftercare.
When I was well enough to fly again and had permission from the Head Nurse, I flew to Sydney and stayed there for another two weeks with friends while I continued to rest and heal and until I was well enough to strap my backpack on again.
I then flew on to New Zealand, which I promptly fell in love with, but the entire time I was travelling across the country, my heart and soul was yearning for Australia. It was as if my entire body had a very strong calling to return to the country as soon as possible.
Of course, my head didn’t understand this and every time that I tried to rationalise this strong feeling I was having I kept telling myself, ‘Kat you’re on a 9 month trip, you’re only 6 months in, you need to keep going, you have thousands of pounds worth of flights still to take, you have South America and North America still to visit. You need to keep going and finish the trip.’ But all my heart could say was, ‘Go back to Sydney’.
So, not long after 11.11.2011, rather than flying from Auckland to Buenos Aires on 8 Nov 2011, I instead booked and took a flight to Sydney on 14 Nov 2011.
At the time I only knew two couples in Sydney and I said to them both, ‘I don’t really know what I’m doing, or why I’m back here, but would it be possible to stay with you please? One couple said no, because they had other friends staying and the other couple said yes. So I went to live with my beautiful friends Ben and Pia in Manly, Sydney for three months. Rent and bill free. Bless their hearts, they wouldn’t take any money from me.
After I arrived, I thought, well, I’m still not 100% sure why I’m here, but I guess I should get a job and start filling the hole in my bank balance that my trip has created.
Within 3 weeks I had been offered a 6 figure salary role, working for News Corp, doing exactly the same thing I was doing back in London. It wasn’t ideal, but it was going to pay money.
Within a month of starting to work for them, they were offering me sponsorship to stay and work for them for 2 years, which I really didn’t want. In fact, I wasn’t even sure if I even wanted to stay in Australia. A huge part of me still wanted to continue travelling.
When I spoke to recruitment consultants about this, they told me to take the sponsorship with both hands, as it was so hard to be offered sponsorship and a visa to stay. I also had a lot of people around me who were struggling to obtain de facto visas through their relationships. I kept feeling into it and it still didn’t feel right to take it. I was becoming so disillusioned with the corporate world. It just didn’t feel true to lock myself into a job for two years. Especially after I had just escaped from the corporate clutches in London.
So, instead I continued to follow my heart and went on a weekend NLP course. It was so incredibly transformational and life changing, at the end of the weekend I had let go of so many limiting beliefs, I had uncovered the fact that I wanted to start my own business.
So, I signed up for a $15,000 course in NLP and Life coaching and decided that I was going to become a Life and Business coach. I got a business coach of my own and he became my number one cheerleader, helping, encouraging and supporting me to succeed.
I also made a decision, that I wished to live and work in Manly, for myself. And as a result of making that decision, I then got in touch with an immigration lawyer to see how that would be possible.
When I first went to visit George (Lombard), my fairy Godfather, I asked him if I could start a business on a working holiday visa and he said, ‘Yes, but I wouldn’t recommend it.’ Given that he had said yes, I then proceeded to ask, what would happen when my working holiday visa expired on 13 Nov 2012? He told me that I would need to obtain sponsorship from a company. He strongly urged and suggested that I just take the sponsorship from News Corp, work for them for two years, then obtain my PR and then start my own business. But I wasn’t interested. He also suggested that I might perhaps like to ask the guy who was teaching my NLP and Life Coaching if he’d like to sponsor me, but I declined that idea as well.
It was so very clear to me that I wished to be chartering my own boat and not rowing on anyone else’s anymore. It was over. It was done. I didn’t want to work for anyone else ever again. It was time for me to be an entrepreneur.
So he finally said, well, you could sponsor yourself . . . . . . As soon as those words left his mouth I knew that that was the option I would take.
I then spent the next 5 months jumping through numerous immigration hoops and ticking off things on tick lists of stuff I had to do and things I needed to prove in order for us to put in a convincing and strong enough application for my 4 year 457 visa.
We made the visa application on 13 Nov 2012, the day that my one year visa expired. And then had to wait. . . . .
George told me that it would take 1-3 months for us to get an answer from the Immigration Dept on whether my application had been successful. Until then, I just had to wait.
Because I had spent every last cent and dollar that I had on the then $3500 legal and visa fees I had barely any money to my name. So I had to put all of my possessions into storage and move back in with Ben and Pia while I waited for answer.
Exactly one month later to the day, on 13 Dec 2012 I had a phone call from George. He told me that Thought Cloud (my company) had been awarded Sponsorship Status, and therefore, I had been awarded sponsorship and a 457 four year visa to remain in Australia. I could barely believe it! I was over the moon. :)
And what transpired after that, was that the confirmation emails had come through on 12.12.12. At the time, I didn’t know the significance of that date or numerological time portal. Now I do. :)
And that was the beginning of the beginning. As over the next week or so, after having gone to another weekend course called WTF (Wisdom Truth and Freedom) with Ben and Pia, I started my awakening process.
I could write an entire book alone on what unfolded and ensued afterwards, but the long and the short of it is the fact that everything that I thought I knew about myself, other people, the world, the planet, the cosmos and beyond started to fall away.
I became fundamentally disconnected from my business. I didn’t feel to ‘earn’ or ‘make’ money anymore. I was confused. I was scared. And once again, I went through another process of not knowing why I am here, or why I exist and I encountered dark night of the soul after dark night of the soul. It was unbearable.
In fact, the only thing that made it bearable and got me through, was the fact that I was living with another boyfriend at the time, who covered rent and food and made sure that I had a roof over my head and food in my tummy. And for this, I will be eternally grateful, because if it wasn’t for him, I’m not sure what I would have done.
What has happened and what I have experienced over the last 7 years has been incredible and there really aren’t enough words here and now for me to share with you in detail about what I have been through, what I have endured and how I am even still alive typing these words onto this keyboard.
What I do know is this.
I never planned to go to Australia. In fact, I never even wanted to go to Australia. When I was planning my trip, I was distinctly uninterested in visiting Australia because of my perceived extreme lack of culture here. How wrong I could have been . . . . .
After living there for over 7 years I now know that the ancient and original culture, language, stories, music, songs, dances, art and ways of being are some of the oldest and most ancient on the planet and we all have so much to learn and remember from and through them. And this appreciation is the same for the cultures of all indigenous people across the globe.
And trickier still, I have stepped away from my very financially successful Branding business and consultancy, pretty much since I came out of a Vipassana ten day, one hundred hour, silent meditation retreat in Feb 2014.
All I have wanted to do is channel all of my energies into seeding the House of Love, growing the movement and Not for Profit Foundation I started in Australia called Spread the Love, give Cosmic Numerology readings and teach Cosmic Numerology and write, perform and sing music, in service to the collective.
And those of you that follow me on Facebook, watch all of my Facebook Live broadcasts, transmissions and downloads and who have attended our Spread the Love events, will all know that I live my life, in the moment, by following the feeling, following my heart, following my bliss and my Highest Excitement, while spreading peace, love, joy, happiness and light everywhere I go and feel to be.
Yes I could still be charging $5,555 a day for my time, or $400 an hour for consulting, but it doesn’t feel true for me anymore.
I just feel to help and support as many as people as possible on this planet to live the life of their dreams and to collectively co-create Heaven on Earth and a reality and living experience that is full of unconditional love, world peace and universal joy.
I have dedicated the last 3 and a half years of my life to trying to find a way to obtain a visa to be able to stay in Australia and birth the first House of Love in the Byron Shire.
Unfortunately, that has proven to not be.
So, I have trusted the divine flow and plan and am now in New Zealand with a strong intention to birth the first House of Love here instead.
I have visited New Zealand many times over the last 8 years and since my first visit in 2011. And I fell deeply in love with it back then.
There is feeling a peace, calm, love, gentleness, nurturing, community, support and welcoming here that is unprecedented for me. And I’m starting to feel and understand that this is actually going to be a far more supportive and nurturing country to birth the very first House of Love. :)
So, how can you help me?
I am asking you if you might like to help and support me in funding the amount of money that I require in order to be able to apply for a place on the Edmund Hillary Fellowship here in New Zealand, so I can initiate and birth The House of Love in Golden Bay.
So, if you’ve got this far, first and foremost, yey! Thank you so much for reading and staying with me. And if you connect with me and my story in anyway, please feel free to support me by making a financial contribution to the initiation of The House of Love in New Zealand.
Equally, if I, or anything I have ever shared on Facebook, at a Spread the Love event, online, in person, via Facebook, over the phone has helped or supported you in any way and you would like to show your gratitude or appreciation via the medium of money, I would indeed also be incredibly grateful for any contribution of support you wish to make.
Thank you very much. :)
Love you x x x
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Katharine Kinnie
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