Third Grade
My Story
I grew up around business. My parents ran a small-town grocery store and meat market, and by third grade I was running the cash register while my older brothers stocked the shelves. Business wasn't something I chose — it was just the water I swam in.
I went on to build several businesses of my own, including a successful real estate company that I ran for over two decades. From the outside, everything looked fine. More than fine, actually. But alongside all of it, I'd always carried bigger questions.
Who are we, really? Why are we here? What's the deeper purpose behind all this doing?
For a long time I walked two paths — the path of business, and the path of self-discovery. Side by side. Close, but never quite touching.
Then came 2020.
I was standing in a gorgeous multi-million dollar oceanfront home. Mask on, surgical gloves, pocket full of wipes — sanitizing doorknobs and light switches like I was on a hazmat crew. Outside, waves were crashing. Seagulls calling. Inside, I was trying to hold it all together in a world that no longer made sense.
And something cracked open.
I looked out at that ocean and heard myself ask: What am I doing?
And then — quietly, clearly — came the answer:
You're not here to sanitize doorknobs. You're here to shift energy.
That moment didn't change everything overnight. But something inside me had moved — and it wouldn't move back.
I closed my business. Sold the building. Stepped into the unknown.
It wasn't easy. But it was right. Even if I did question it from time to time.
I finally let those two paths — the inner and the outer — come together.
What followed was its own journey. I sought guidance, invested in programs, encountered plenty of beautiful language wrapped around the same old push-and-scale model. I learned to tell the difference between what resonated and what just looked like it might. And slowly, through that process, Purple Door Entrepreneur took shape — not from a business plan, but from everything I'd lived.
Today I work with conscious entrepreneurs who are ready to build differently. Not just for success — but for clarity, alignment, and a business that finally reflects who they actually are.
We don't start with strategy. We start with frequency — your energy, your values, your deeper knowing. From there, the offering, the message, the people you're meant to serve — it all starts to click into place.
I believe business can be a path of awakening rather than burnout.
And I still get stuck sometimes — because the more willing I am, the more my path offers new opportunities to grow. But now I pause, listen, and align instead of pushing through.
If you're still reading this, maybe you believe that too.
— Kathryn Gorham, Founder
How I Work
I don't arrive with a checklist.
I arrive with presence, a cup of tea — and a genuine curiosity about what's actually going on for you, underneath the strategies you've tried and the noise you've accumulated.
Most of what I do happens in conversation. Not because I have all the answers, but because I've found that clarity tends to surface when two people think out loud together honestly, without agenda. You already know more than you think you do. Sometimes you just need a space where that knowing can rise.
I'm particularly drawn to the moments where things feel tangled — where you sense something needs to shift but can't quite name what. That's usually where the most important work lives.
I don't offer cookie-cutter packages or tell you what your business should look like. What I offer is attention, pattern recognition, and a grounded perspective from someone who has walked a long business path and chose to rebuild it from the inside out.
If that sounds like what you've been looking for — I'd love to hear from you.
Let's connect.
No intake form. No pressure. Just an honest conversation to start.
Email me directly: kathryn@purpledoorentrepreneur.com
— Kathryn
The somatic healing that we did was profound. So I'll try to be brief. Just before coming out with my book "Toxic Family" I had a lot of issues around the words toxic family.
I was feeling like I was throwing my family under the bus. Kathryn did some work with me on somatic body imagery and feelings around that and it was incredibly heart opening and healing.
I'm coming from a place where now I feel like I'm not pointing a finger at my family members. I'm opening opportunities for authentic truths to be revealed from all of us. Allowing for a great opportunity to have actual profound healing while we're all still here on the planet (and off) and for other families to do the same.
It was amazing.
Susan
Montana
Thank you for all of your priceless and rich entrepreneurial guidance over the last few years.
You have gone above and beyond any expectations I imagined.
The meditative and shared growth experiences with the group are ones I shall hold dear and treasure.
It has been incredible to be a part of this journey into growing spiritually and emotionally in all ways.
I shall continue unfolding my story and expanding my heart and soul through writing and growing and creating my business.
~ Angela
Angelface Mystic
Working with Kathryn at Purple Door is one of the most rewarding business mentoring experiences I've ever had. Kathryn's cache of experience as a savvy business-person blended with her grounded, yet spiritual approach, her genuine heart, willingness to listen and her personal integrity make Kathryn aces in my book. Especially in today's 'wild west' of online business, where too many coaches offer 'cookie cutter', one-size-fits-all methods which may or may not work with everyone.'
As someone who is brand new to online entrepreneuring. Week after week Kathryn's advice gave me the confidence to trust my own instincts and expertise with my programs, but when I needed it, she was more than willing to speak up and address some structures I'd set up that could turn cumbersome or unwieldy for me or my clients as part of an online business.
We all have unique gifts to offer. We all can use a coach who has our back. For me, Kathryn at Purple Door is this person.
Angel Peabody @ 'Make Yourself Laugh With the Talkative Introvert'.
