Welcome to Default 2 Designed™
Design Your Aligned Life.
A movement, a methodology, and a community for those who are ready to take intentional ownership of their finances, their mindset, their health — and their life.
"You were never behind. You were simply waiting for someone to show you the door."
— Kavitha Baratakke, Default 2 Designed™
Kavitha Baratakke
Private Money Broker
Realtor & Investor
Financial Wellness Advocate
"I rise by lifting others."
As a single mother who achieved financial freedom in under a decade — without a roadmap, without a mentor, without anyone who looked like her showing her the way — Kavitha Baratakke knows what it costs to figure this out alone.
She's a private money broker, realtor, and investor who built her own proprietary frameworks for designing a life on purpose. Through Default 2 Designed™, she reaches back to help others find the same door she found — faster, and together.
Her work spans financial education, emotional wellness, speaking, community building, and real estate — unified by one conviction: an aligned life is a designed life.
Speaking
Keynotes, workshops, and corporate engagements that move audiences to action on money, mindset, and wellness.
Book Kavitha →Programs
The flagship 8-week Default 2 Designed™ cohort — financial education, emotional healing, and physical wellness in one.
View Programs →Books
Frameworks and stories that help you move from reactive living to intentional design — at your own pace.
Browse Books →Community
A growing network of humans committed to designing aligned lives — together, in accountability and celebration.
Join Us →An 8-week online cohort where financial education, emotional healing, and physical wellness come together — limited to 15 women per cohort so every voice matters.
8-Week Online Cohort
Stop surviving. Start building. This isn't a budgeting class — it's a full-person transformation that treats your money, your emotional patterns, and your physical health as one interconnected system.
Kavitha brings lived experience, proprietary frameworks, and real practitioner credibility to every stage — leaving audiences with tools they can use the same day.
Financial Freedom by Design
The roadmap from financial stress to financial sovereignty — using real tools, not theory.
Default to Designed™ — The Framework
How to stop living reactively and start building a life that reflects your actual values.
Money, Mind & Body — The Whole Person Approach
Why financial wellness is impossible without addressing emotional and physical health simultaneously.
Real Estate & Wealth Building for Real People
Demystifying homeownership, private money, and investment pathways for underserved communities.
"An aligned life isn't found — it's designed. One decision, one habit, one belief at a time."
— Kavitha Baratakke
Three original frameworks developed through Kavitha's personal journey and refined through years of practice — now available for you.
Framework One
A deep discovery process that identifies the 3–5 core values that must be present in your life for you to feel fully alive, purposeful, and aligned. When your decisions honor your Core Drivers, everything else clicks into place.
Life Core Drivers™ by Default 2 Designed™
Framework Two
A powerful assessment of where your time, money, and emotional energy are actually going — versus where you want them to go. The gap between those two pictures is the work. The Audit makes it visible and actionable.
Life Energy Audit™ by Default 2 Designed™
The Movement
The overarching philosophy: most people live by default — reacting to circumstances, inherited patterns, and other people's expectations. Designing means taking intentional ownership of every area of life. This is how you cross the gap.
Default to Designed™ — Design Your Aligned Life.
The Default 2 Designed™ community is a growing network of humans committed to designing aligned lives — in accountability, celebration, and mutual support.
Cohort Community
Stay connected with your program cohort between sessions and beyond graduation.
Live Events
Virtual and in-person gatherings, workshops, and community calls throughout the year.
Resource Library
Tools, templates, and frameworks to support your designed life journey every day.
Kavitha's books bring the Default 2 Designed™ frameworks to life — practical, personal, and built for real people with real lives.
Default to Designed
Coming Soon
The flagship book behind the movement. A practical guide to moving from reactive living to intentional design — covering money, mindset, relationships, health, and purpose.
Get Notified at Launch →Life Core Drivers™ Workbook
Coming Soon
A guided self-discovery workbook walking you through the full Life Core Drivers™ framework — helping you identify what truly drives you and build decisions around those foundations.
Get Notified at Launch →Join the next cohort — only 15 seats available. Online. Transformational.