About Mission Imperfect: navigating life with coaches Kirsty and Kathryn
Mission Imperfect is a podcast about finding your own path, your own way, and embracing the imperfections of the journey.
Hosts Kathryn Ball and Kirsty Brunker are both former HR professionals turned life coaches, with a spooky amount in common beyond initials and career choices…not least, a love of tea and biscuits, and a fascination with mindset and navigating the messiness of life.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to grab a cuppa and a biscuit and join us in getting lost in finding ourselves.
We are back this week with some tips on how to manage guilt – especially the tricky kind which we discussed in last week’s episode.
Experiencing feelings of guilt may be an inevitable consequence of being human and perhaps putting our needs first sometimes (nothing wrong with that!).
So whilst guilt may not vanish, we can definitely question how valid it is, and is it possible to mitigate or reduce our guilt without a greater impact on us.
If it isn’t possible, then maybe we accept the consequence as unfortunate rather than intended, and allow the guilt to pass (perhaps a little quicker than we used to!).
Find us here:
Kathryn: www.kbmindfulcoaching.com (http://www.kbmindfulcoaching.com)
Kirsty: www.kirstybrunker.com (http://www.kirstybrunker.com)
And on social media here:
Kathryn on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/kathryneball (http://www.linkedin.com/in/kathryneball)
Kirsty on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kirstybrunkerdotcom/ (https://www.instagram.com/kirstybrunkerdotcom/)
7 Oct 2026
Why do I feel guilty?
Ah, guilt! That wonderfully complicated emotion (perhaps unique to humans?).
Certainly we seem to have many opportunities to experience feelings of guilt – but what we are interested in for this week’s episode is how warranted that guilt is and have we even done something ‘wrong’ in the first place?
Of course these things are subjective, making guilt an even trickier emotion than it already is. Tune in for our thoughts on ‘tricky’ guilt, how it is a signal – usually of friction, and its close relationship with responsibility and control.
Today’s question for the next time you feel guilty about something -
‘Is your guilt pointing to something you've done wrong, or something you've simply found difficult?’
Find us here:
Kathryn: www.kbmindfulcoaching.com (http://www.kbmindfulcoaching.com)
Kirsty: www.kirstybrunker.com (http://www.kirstybrunker.com)
And on social media here:
Kathryn on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/kathryneball (http://www.linkedin.com/in/kathryneball)
Kirsty on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kirstybrunkerdotcom/ (https://www.instagram.com/kirstybrunkerdotcom/)
30 Sept 2026
Asking for help
When we were doing all the scheduling admin for our episodes on feeling that you should be able to cope, and how to admit to yourself that you’re not actually coping, we realised that we were missing a really important step: how to ask for help.
So, here’s an episode all about asking for help! These tips, tools and techniques may seem obvious when you’re in a good place, but when we’re struggling, the obvious becomes rather less obvious, doesn’t it?
Why not grab a cuppa and a biscuit or six and join us? If now’s not the right time to hear it, then maybe save the link for the next time you’re struggling and finding it hard to ask for help🫖🍪
Find us here:
Kirsty: www.kirstybrunker.com (http://www.kirstybrunker.com)
Kathryn: www.kbmindfulcoaching.com (http://www.kbmindfulcoaching.com)
And on social media here:
Kirsty on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kirstybrunkerdotcom/ (https://www.instagram.com/kirstybrunkerdotcom/)
Kathryn on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/kathryneball (http://www.linkedin.com/in/kathryneball)
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