Katie Duke

Katie Joy Duke is a professional life coach, memoirist, speaker, retreat leader, and Authentic Power Coach with Shift Up, A Strategic Change Agency. For nearly a decade, she has helped professionals, creatives, parents, and healers reconnect with who they are, clarify what matters most, and create lives that feel more authentic, purposeful, and alive.

Katie brings a unique blend of professional expertise, transformational coaching, and lived experience to her work. Before founding Duke Life Coaching in 2017, she practiced social justice and disability law for nine years, developing a deep commitment to helping people navigate change, challenge limiting patterns, and advocate for what matters. As a coach, she has trained in transformational coaching, nervous system rewiring, and Positive Intelligence. She also created and led her own six-week self-awareness and empowerment intensive, Light Me Up, helping clients explore their values, Essence, survival patterns, priorities, and life purpose.

Her own life has been shaped by profound transformation. Katie is a stage IV breast cancer survivor, bereaved mother, and author of the memoir Still Breathing: My Journey with Love, Loss, and Reinvention. She knows firsthand that some of life's biggest shifts ask us not simply to change what we're doing, but to reconsider who we're being—and what becomes possible when we choose to live from that place.

Katie believes that meaningful transformation begins with telling the truth: about who we are, what we want, what is no longer working, and what we're ready to create next. Her coaching invites people to trust their inner knowing, recognize the patterns that keep them small, reconnect with their authentic power, and take courageous action. With warmth, curiosity, humor, and a healthy dose of irreverence, Katie creates space for people to explore what is possible and make meaningful shifts that move their lives forward.

As an Authentic Power Coach with Shift Up, Katie brings her experience, heart, and transformational coaching background to Manifest Your Best. She is passionate about helping participants reconnect with themselves, strengthen self-trust, create with purpose, and discover what becomes possible when they stop waiting for permission and begin choosing and creating their next chapter.