😌 Welcome to Business Feels Good
Real tools, nervous-system smart strategies, and a fresh way forward. Because your nervous system deserves a business plan, too.
🙏🏻 Welcome to Business Feels Good
A place for brilliant, burnt-out, big-hearted humans who are ready to work in a way that honors their body instead of bulldozing it.
I’m an ADHD-friendly coach who writes for the creatively wired, the highly sensitive, and the “why am I like this?” visionaries 👀.
Btw, You’re not too much. You’ve just never been supported like this before.
👉 If you’ve been surviving success but secretly wondering when it’ll finally feel good, then this is your map.
👉 If you’ve got a creative brain, a sensitive nervous system, and a habit of accidentally saying yes to everything (until you're Googling "how to feel joy again" at 2 a.m.) then you’re at home.
I share unfiltered stories, body-smart tools, and hand-drawn “maps” (aka ✨magical worksheets✨) to help you go from Maxed Out to Mapped Out + with energy to spare 😁.
Btw, I'm super honored you stumbled into my little realm of peace. I hope you’ll join this community as a subscriber. I’ll do my best to ensure you get what you signed up for!
💡Why I Started This:
I was the coach who “had it all together.”
The one who helped other coaches and professionals thrive while I was secretly unraveling behind the scenes.
Anxiety. Burnout. Gut health issues. Chronic pain from stress.
I felt like I was on a roller coaster with 2 full time jobs trying to balance my health and business life.
It became too much.
I was completely maxed out and I needed a complete revamp of how I was doing my business and my health.
❌ My body wouldn’t let me move forward until I stopped treating it like a machine.
👋 Kate’s Origin Story
About 20 years ago, I had a bold & juicy coffee-fueled dream:
👉 To be my own boss. Serve people. Actually enjoy my life.
Instead?
🚗 I was stuck in traffic, gripping my giant mug of lukewarm coffee, thinking…
WTF am I walking into today?
Will the work I do be valued or acknowledged?
Will I be dismissed?
Will I be treated with the same respect regardless of title or authority?
Will I be sexually harassed again? (fun times)
Will I be seen and heard?
Will I be good enough?
Will I feel safe to share something personal with my peers?
Will I feel they are gossiping about me?
I had the resume:
Straight A’s
Top sales performer
A decade of small biz leadership
But inside, I felt done.
So one day, I handed in my two weeks’ notice. No plan. No 100% backup.
Just a very clear “NOPE.”
And that alone, felt so ridiculously good!
In that moment, that feeling of letting go of something that was so heavy and stressful. I’d spent years debating thinking about quitting. Why the heck did it take me so long to pull the trigger?
Cue the freedom... right?
Not quite.
🌀 What Came Next: A Crapload of Lessons
Over the next few years, I bootstrapped a coaching biz from scratch.
Built workshops.
Worked side gigs.
Tried to “make it” while quietly falling apart.
😵💫 Behind the scenes:
ADHD spirals
Chronic stress + non stop pain + puffy inflammation
= Autoimmune symptoms that left me bedridden for 8 months
It shut me down like a laptop with 47 tabs open and 1% battery.
🧠 Next I Did the Most ADHD Thing Ever…
I turned my healing into homework and created an entire self-healing curriculum… on myself.
Below is a healing pic of me and Kiki restoring our health together, it was very productive :) 🐾
🧪My home became a coaching experiential lab. 📓
🖍️ I doodled worksheets to calm my brain all day and in bed.
🎤 Hosted workshops while hiding my pain.
🐈⬛ Adopted Kiki as my emotional support animal.
🧘♀️ I coached nervous system care to others while fighting to regulate my own.
It definitely wasn’t glamorous. But it was real.
And it worked.
I then stopped comparing other people’s blueprints and started building my own.
I got REAL and clear with what I felt in my heart 💜 I needed to do.
🍒 I started honoring my body first and foremost.
🍒 I quit schlepping my PT gig selling vacuums because it sucked (pun intended).
🍒 I stopped side-coaching for scraps and started charging what I’m worth.
🍒 I had surgery to remove inflamed organs that had been screaming for years.
🍒 I changed my entire approach to healing, business, and joy.
🍒 I protected my peace like it paid the bills (because it does).
🍒 And 2 months later? I had my highest income month ever.
🔥That hot and messy healing path?
It became the foundation of Healthy Business Vitality™ which is the body-first, burnout-proof method I now coach.
Because when our nervous system is maxed out, we don’t need another funnel or productivity hack.
We need a freaking map. One that actually honors our nervous system.
And by map, I mean hand-drawn (with lots of love) crafted worksheets I made myself (yes, with snacks and Spotify playing). These aren’t just fill-in-the-blank PDFs either.
They help spot where our energy’s leaking, where our joy’s hiding, and where the heck our next aligned step is.
🌸✨ This gem came from a coaching session that cracked me open in all the best ways. Thank you to the coach who helped me build my inner scaffolding. I’m forever grateful.
Healing can look like a lotus, a flashlight, and a few scribbled hearts.
My first draft of my Focus & Flow module lol. Definitely not perfect.
Yet my results were surprisingly and refreshingly very awesome.
My nervous system + mind felt more and more at peace because just that sheer visual helped me really focus in on my bigger goals.
No longer did it feel like a monster of overwhelm was hijacking my body and mind.
💣The Business Burnout Epidemic
We are sold a lie that success means:
⏰ 5 a.m. wakeups
☕ Caffeine highs and cortisol crashes
🤖 Ignoring our intuition in favor of the algorithm
🏥 Hustling our way into hospital visits
👉Let me be clear: if your body is breaking down 🫠, your business strategy is broken.
💻Your nervous system is your actual operating system.
If it’s dysregulated, overwhelmed, and in survival mode, no funnel, planner, or strategy will stick.
Period.
💡 What I Believe:
🧡 Boundaries are strategy
🧠 Nervous system care = actual ROI
🎨 Creative brilliance shouldn’t cost you your body
You don’t need to fit in. You just need a business that fits you.
🔥 What Makes This Different:
This isn’t mindset fluff or another productivity hack. I’m not interested in squeezing more out of you.
👉 I’m interested in what happens when we slow down, regulate, and build something powerful from restoration and that’s 💯 feels good to you.
Your nervous system is sacred. Your work should support it, not sabotage it.
Because business should feel good, eh?.. And you’re allowed to build it that way.
🧡 Grab your free Business Health Reset™ here
How can I contact you?
Feel free to reach out with any questions, opportunities, or collaborations through Substack, LinkedIn, or email (kate@katepeabody.com).
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With Love + Healthy Strategies, Kate