6 Things I'm Grateful for in My Business (That Has Nothing to Do with Revenue)
This Thanksgiving, I'm not counting dollars. I'm counting the moments my body finally got through to me.
It’s gratitude season, so here’s what I’m actually grateful for this year in my business.
Not the metrics. Not the wins. Not the growth.
The moments my body finally broke through my stubbornness.
1. 🔥I’m Grateful for the Inflammation That Wouldn’t Quit
For years, I had inflammation in my sternum and thoracic spine. Some days it was manageable. Other days, I couldn’t think straight.
I kept treating it like a problem to fix. More stretching. Better ergonomics. Ignoring it harder.
This year, I stopped treating my body like something to manage and started listening to it like a trusted advisor.
Instead of replaying his question over and over in my head: how do I make this inflammation stop? I started asking myself, what does this pain need me to know?
Then, I started tracking when it flared:
After calls with certain types of clients 📞
After saying yes when my gut said no 🚫
After pushing through when my body said stop ⚠️
The inflammation wasn’t sabotaging me. It was protecting me.
Once I started listening, I made different decisions. Different clients. Different projects. Different business model.
My sternum pain didn’t disappear overnight. But it calmed down. And my business got clearer.
Lesson: Your symptoms aren’t problems. They’re data.
2. 🧠 I’m Grateful for the Brain Fog That Made Linear Planning Impossible
ADHD + autoimmune = brain fog that makes you forget what you were saying mid-sentence.
For years, I tried to force myself into traditional business planning. Spreadsheets. Gantt charts. 12-month projections.
I’d spend hours building a plan, then couldn’t remember it two days later.
This year, I gave up trying to plan like a neurotypical person.
I started drawing my business instead.
Visual roadmaps. Color-coded lanes. One-page ecosystems.
Not because it’s cute. Because my brain literally could not hold linear information like neurotypical brains do.
Lesson: 👉🏻What you think is broken might be your biggest breakthrough.
3. ⚠️ I’m Grateful for the Client Call That Made Me Realize I Was Overriding
Earlier this year, I had a potential client reach out. Great project. Good pay. Perfect fit on paper.
I said yes immediately.
Then I noticed: My chest was tight. My energy dropped. I felt heavy.
But I’d already said yes. So I ignored it.
The project was a disaster. Misaligned expectations. Energy drain.
Afterward, I realized: My body said no in the first 30 seconds. I just didn’t listen.
Now when I get that tight-chest signal, I pause. I don’t override. I don’t rationalize.
I trust the data.
Lesson: Your nervous system is a better decision-maker than your brain.
4.🧘♀️I’m Grateful I Finally Built the Healing Space
This year, I turned my hot yoga room into a nervous system regulation space.
Not a luxury. Infrastructure.
Between client calls, I go there. I regulate. I let my nervous system reset.
Before I built it, I’d stack calls back-to-back and wonder why I felt like crapola the next day.
Now I know: a dysregulated nervous system can’t do strategy work.
The space isn’t about self-care. It’s about protecting my capacity to show up well.
Lesson: Rest isn’t a reward. It’s the foundation.
5. 🤝 I’m Grateful for the Weekend That Showed Me I’m Part of Something Bigger
Last weekend, I went to Tampa for two back-to-back carnivore conventions: Healing for Humanity and Hack Your Health.
A year ago, I would have said no. Too many people. Too much stimulation. Too risky for my nervous system.
Six months ago, I would have said yes and powered through—then spent a week recovering from the inflammation flare.
This time, I did something I’ve never done before:
I went. And I designed it around my body’s capacity.
And here’s what happened:
I met Bella, The Steak and Butter Gal— One of the carnivore influencers that helped give me courage to try this 130+ days ago.
I met Kelly Hogan from Zero Carb Life—15+ years carnivore, living proof this works long-term.
I met Kerry and Jen from Homestead How Show + their amazing tribe—who are on a mission to heal humanity with a proper human diet.
At that dinner, I sat with people who are on a mission. Kerry and his tribe have filmed a documentary about how eating a proper human diet can save your health. Not a trend. Not a fad. A movement to bring awareness to the world. A sneak preview of their documentary.
I listened to many stories of people whose autoimmune conditions went into remission. People who got their lives back. People whose doctors said “impossible” and their bodies said “watch me.”
For the first time in my career, I came home from a conference MORE energized, not depleted.
Not because the event was perfect. Because I finally knew how to protect my capacity while still showing up for something that matters.
Lesson: 👉🏻 You don’t have to choose between showing up and protecting yourself. You can do both.
6. 🥩 I’m Grateful This Experiment Connected Me to a Movement
130+ days ago, I started eating only meat, eggs, and butter.
I kind of felt like I was doing it alone—a quiet experiment in my kitchen, tracking symptoms in a notebook but also I was devouring content from Youtube at the same time.
But last weekend in Tampa, sitting at that Healing for Humanity dinner party with incredible humans, meeting hundreds of others on the same path—I realized: I’m not alone. I’m part of something that’s changing lives.
A community of people who stopped accepting “this is just how your body is” as an answer.
People who chose healing truth over conventional wisdom.
People who believe their body is their temple—not a problem to manage, but a source of intelligence to honor.
People on a mission to prove that the way we’ve been told to eat isn’t the only way. And for many of us, it’s not even the right way.
Kerry’s documentary isn’t just about food. It’s about reclaiming trust in your body’s wisdom. It’s about having faith over fear—choosing to listen to what your body is telling you, even when it goes against everything you’ve been taught.
Sitting in that room listening to many success stories where inflammation calmed, brain fog lifted, and autoimmune conditions went into remission was incredibly inspiring.
That’s when I understood: This isn’t just my healing journey. It’s our collective awakening.
And that shift? That’s going to also change everything about how I run my business.
Because I’m no longer building for “entrepreneurs who need better systems.”
I’m building for people whose bodies have been trying to tell them something—and they’re finally ready to listen.
💚 What I’m Building in 2026
Next week, I’m sharing the full 130-day carnivore story and what it did to my business metrics.
But here’s what I know now, after Tampa, after meeting Bella and Kelly and Kerry and many others, after sitting in rooms full of people on this same path:
I’m not just building a business. I’m joining a movement.
A movement for people who choose healing truth over quick fixes.
People who believe their body is their temple, not their enemy.
People who are ready for faith over fear, every single time.
People who want to serve others who need them most—because they’ve been there, they’ve healed, and they know the way.
If that’s you—if you’re tired of overriding, pushing through, ignoring the signals—
If you’ve been wondering: “What if there’s another way?”
You’re exactly who I’m here for. And you’re not alone.
More next week. 💚
If this article resonated, if you’re finally ready to treat your body’s signals as business intelligence, not problems to fix—Take the Business Health Reset™ Quiz.
(Takes 10 minutes. No fluff. Just: what is your body trying to tell you about your business?)
Or if you know someone who needs to hear this—an entrepreneur ignoring their body’s signals, pushing through inflammation, overriding the data—forward this to them. Sometimes we need permission from someone else to finally listen. =)
With gratitude 🙏 + healthy strategies, Kate