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Running a business while living with chronic illness is not easy, and most business advice ignores the reality of burnout, living with autoimmune disorders, unpredictable energy, and navigating everyday health and wellness while starting and growing a business. That’s why this podcast is designed to help you build a business that works with your body, not against it. If you’re a woman entrepreneur, creative, or CEO navigating chronic illness, burnout, or healing from hustle culture, this show is for you.
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Why Motherhood Makes You Better at Business (Not Worse): Lessons on Burnout, Capacity & Building a Sustainable Life | Priya Rednam Waldo
The business advice you're following probably wasn't written for someone whose capacity changes with the seasons of motherhood. It wasn't written for someone navigating pregnancy, postpartum, chronic health challenges, or school pickup while trying to grow a business they love.
In this conversation, licensed perinatal therapist, keynote speaker, CEO, and mother of four Priya Rednam Waldo shares why motherhood doesn't make you less capable—it can actually make you a stronger leader and business
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July 28, 2026
Why Motherhood Makes You Better at Business (Not Worse): Lessons on Burnout, Capacity & Building a Sustainable Life | Priya Rednam Waldo
The business advice you're following probably wasn't written for someone whose capacity changes with the seasons of motherhood. It wasn't written for someone navigating pregnancy, postpartum, chronic health challenges, or school pickup while trying to grow a business they love. In this conversation, licensed perinatal therapist, keynote speaker, CEO, and mother of four Priya Rednam Waldo shares why motherhood doesn't make you less capable—it can actually make you a stronger leader and business
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July 14, 2026
How She Built a full-Time Income with 5-10 Hours a Week (No Ads, One Platform) | Tracy Beavers
You don't need to be on every platform to build a profitable business. You need one platform, a plan, and a list you actually own. Tracy Beavers is a business and sales coach who built her entire coaching business while working corporate full-time, raising teenagers who played every sport with a ball, and honoring a promise to her husband that she wouldn't touch their retirement until she had proof of concept. She had 5 to 10 hours a week. That's it. So she built a system that worked without he
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June 30, 2026
How to Adapt Your Business Model When You're Living With Chronic Illness | Laura Reeves
If you've ever rebuilt your business from nothing after a diagnosis, a flare, or a crash you didn't see coming, you already know that "just push through" stops working at some point. The harder question is what you do instead. In this episode, Laura Reeves shares how she answered that question for herself, twice. After Crohn's disease cost her nearly every client she had in 1997, she built a 30-year career as a professional dog handler, one designed around her body instead of around what her in
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June 16, 2026
How to Build a Business Around Your Capacity (Not Market Demands) | Gwendolyn Young
What does it look like to build a business that works with your chronic illness instead of against it? This conversation with Gwendolyn Young will challenge everything you think you know about business design and capacity. Gwendolyn Young is the founder of Your Virtual Admin Expert, a multi-six figure agency that provides administrative solutions for business owners. After 15 years of advising corporate executives, she made the bold decision to leave and start her own company so she could manag
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June 3, 2026
Why Decluttering Your Space Heals Your Business Decisions | Alison Kero
Your energy crashing during business conversations is not random. It is your body giving you crucial information about who and what belongs in your life. When you're managing chronic illness while building a business, learning to trust these signals can be the difference between sustainable growth and complete burnout. Alison Kero is a professional organizer who has spent over two decades helping people create calm, clarity, and balance in their lives. After being diagnosed with chronic Lyme di
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May 12, 2026
How Your Caregiving Experience IS Business Training (Stop Undervaluing It) | Julie Cole
What would it look like to build a multi-million dollar business while raising six kids, advocating full-time for a child with autism, and navigating everything that nobody put in the business plan? That's exactly what Julie Cole did, and she didn't do it by following the standard playbook. Julie is the co-founder of Mabel's Labels, a brand she started almost 23 years ago with her sister and two college friends when her eldest son was diagnosed with autism at three years old. She left a career
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