Meet Whitney Kenter | Glowe Connective Founder & CEO

We had the good fortune of connecting with Whitney Kenter and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Whitney, we’d love to hear about how you approach risk and risk-taking
I have always thought of myself as risk averse, yet when I was asked this question several months ago I spent some time reflecting on my life and to my surprise my actions indicate otherwise. Now, I say that I am an intentional risk taker.

I made a list of some of the major life risks I’ve taken and I could summarize the impact of each risk as significant growth. They all weren’t ‘successful’ in a traditional sense, but massive learnings that have led to future risk taking and I would say created the opportunity for quantum leaps.

Throughout my life, I have probably taken the most risk from a career perspective. But I think that’s also where I’ve experienced the most personal growth as a result. It’s also been a reflection of my journey to gloweing. I started out in a large, conservative accounting firm, and within two weeks realized I didn’t want to be in the group I was in, so I almost immediately moved cities and groups. After just one year with my new team, I felt the pull to take advantage of yet another opportunity to move to our headquarters outside of NYC. I was seeking adventure. I’d never traveled, and this would give me that chance. It was the first time I fully realized how much I love change and new adventures.

The other biggest risk in my career is the obvious: moving from a salary-based environment to one that’s fully reliant on me to build something and sell it. I’m on my second of these leaps and I have never been happier. The cumulative decisions, experiences, mentors, and relationships have all led to this moment and the confidence to start Glowe.

I talk about the trajectory of my life being my journey to gloweing, a voyage from black and white to full, neon color. In the early days of my career, I would say I largely lived in black and white. I stayed in the lines. I was in a marriage that was very structured, rigid, and cold. My life was a reflection of that environment at that time. Slowly, I began to experience little “pops of color” and push out of the black and white environment into gray. That was a transition period of a little over a decade that allowed me to experiment, to heal, to grow at a soul level in ways I never imagined. That was when I found my glowe. That’s when I started living in technicolor. And that’s what gave me the quiet confidence to build Glowe.

I know I am gloweing, and I see the massive opportunity for others to lean into fearlessness, vulnerability, intuition, authenticity, and more, to experience the same type of growth, success, and fulfillment that I have. Not only that, I see that we can help companies build new systems and processes that support everyone in these experiences that lead to unbelievable creativity and productivity.

What should our readers know about your business?
Glowe Connective is here to help conscious leaders and their businesses glowe. No, that is not a typo. We spell glowe with an “e” very intentionally because we believe that understanding human energy is what will drive the massive shift in our economy today. This means unlocking each person’s potential by aligning their super powers with their unique operating system and their true motivations.

When we apply this to business, it translates into unprecedented growth, as well as unprecedented care and respect for human energy that we so desperately need. We have operated largely in systems that are incentivized to dampen the glowe and force people conform to a role, a path, and an environment that suits the company’s bottom line, not the individual.

We are here to turn that on its head. Let’s help each person find their glowe and then utilize their energy to help your organization reach its full potential.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
Favorite Brunch (I prefer Saturday): OneFold Favorite outdoor activity in the summer: Yoga on the Rocks (@ Red Rocks)
Favorite dinner spot: The Greenwich and Perdida (I can’t choose!)
Favorite take out/chill night: White Pie
Healing Spot: 5 Star Salt Caves in Wash Park – get the ionic foot bath and a session in the Salt Caves
My favorite Park for a run – any time of the year – is Wash Park

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
I am going to create a broad category for my shoutout – to all My Teachers. I don’t mean the ones in school. I mean the ones that I seemingly stumbled upon randomly (but not at all) that helped me move through the gray, to find myself and my glowe.

They include: Rebekka Mars, Lisa Rapp, Billy Potocnik, Stephanie Martinez-Harris, Rebecca Sturmer and many one-off teachers as I’ve traveled all over the country. Each of these individuals provided me with knowledge, insights, and gifts that I needed during that prolonged “gray period”. I don’t believe in random, because as I put the pieces of my life together thus far, they all entered my life in perfect timing and provided exactly what I needed at that exact moment.

Website: www.gloweconnective.com

Instagram: @gloweconnective

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/glowe-connective

Image Credits
Jennifer Silverberg