What if the life and business you worked so hard to build suddenly stopped feeling worth it - and you listened?

In this episode of Plenty, I sit down with Natalie Ellis, founder of Boss Babe, for a real, behind-the-scenes conversation about what happens when success outpaces alignment - and how to rebuild everything around what actually matters.

Natalie shares the moment that changed everything: sitting in a meeting while her six-month-old daughter cried in the next room, realizing her calendar, her business, and her nervous system were no longer livable. From that breaking point, she made radical decisions - stepping away, buying her business back, burning down misaligned offers, and rebuilding a company that prioritizes spaciousness, family, and well-being without sacrificing revenue.

We talk about:

• The hidden cost of building success from chaos and survival mode
• How motherhood rewired Natalie’s identity, boundaries, and relationship with work
• What it actually looks like to operationalize a nervous-system-first business
• Why “enough” is a powerful financial strategy - and how knowing your number changes everything
• Letting go of status, comparison, and the pressure to want more just because you can
• What’s genuinely working right now in online business, social media, and AI (and how Natalie is using it without burning out)

This conversation is for you if you’ve built something impressive - but your body is asking for a different pace. If you want to grow in a way that feels sustainable, spacious, and deeply grounded. If you’re ready to stop organizing your life around urgency and start organizing it around what creates real freedom.

This is not about having less ambition.
It’s about doing business from safety, clarity, and choice.

XO,
Kate

“I didn’t think I could get what I wanted from the business because all I’d ever known was chaos.” -Natalie Ellis

🎤 Let’s Dive into the Good Stuff on Plenty 🎤

00:00 – Introduction to Personal Struggles and Realizations
01:53 – Overview of the Podcast and Its Purpose
04:20 – Challenges Faced in Early Business Ventures
07:03 – The Hustle Mentality and Its Consequences
11:50 – Impact of Motherhood on Business Perspective
15:06 – Navigating Business Growth and Personal Alignment
21:23 – Nervous System Awareness and Business Chaos
25:14 – Managing Anxiety and Stress Responses
30:34 – Building from a Place of Security
37:30 – Embracing a Simpler Lifestyle
40:57 – Innovative Content Creation Techniques
45:38 – Personal Growth and Future Aspirations

Links and Resources:

Do Less

Connect with Natalie Ellis:
Instagram

Boss Babe
Boss Babe Podcast

✨ The Money Reset: Feel Good with Money—No Matter How Much You Make

Making more money doesn’t guarantee financial ease… but this will. The Money Reset is a free audio experience designed to help you rewire your nervous system for wealth—so managing money feels effortless. 🎧💸

Inside, you’ll learn how to:
💡 Break the “money in, money out” cycle and create lasting stability.
🎯 Relax into a new relationship with money—where structure meets flow.
✨ Use the 5-Minute Calm Cashflow Ritual to bring instant clarity to your finances.

More money won’t solve money stress—a resourced, supple nervous system will. Ready to shift? 👉 Get The Money Reset now! 👈

What if the pressure to “start fresh” on January 1 isn’t motivating you because it was never designed for your body - or your prosperity - in the first place?

In this episode of Plenty, I’m dismantling the myth of the New Year and offering a radically more sustainable way to begin again - one that doesn’t grind your gears, burn out your nervous system, or sabotage your income.

January 1 is an arbitrary date created for economic standardization, not for human or ecological wellbeing. Yet so many ambitious, capable women push themselves to hit the ground running in the dead of winter - and then wonder why they’re exhausted by February. There’s nothing wrong with you. You’re responding intelligently to a system that’s out of sync with life itself.

In this conversation, I walk you through why aligning exclusively with the Gregorian calendar quietly increases burnout, cortisol, and brittle business decisions - and how working with your biological and seasonal rhythms creates clarity, momentum, and more money with less effort. We explore the difference between linear, transactional time and the kind of timeless presence where your best decisions, creativity, and magnetism actually live.

I also share a practical, body-based map for structuring your year around real rhythm - composting and clarity in winter, emergence in spring, visibility in summer, and harvest in fall - so your work is supported by nature instead of fighting it. This is the same approach my company used to eliminate 90% of our offers, double down on what actually worked, and create our biggest revenue years with fewer promotions and far less strain.

If you’ve ever felt behind at the start of a year, this episode will reset your relationship with time itself - and show you how a regulated nervous system becomes one of your most powerful financial assets.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why January 1 is not a true beginning - and why your body knows it
• How ignoring biological rhythms leads to burnout and weaker financial decisions
• The difference between Kronos time (measured, pressured) and Kairos time (expansive, meaningful)
• How seasonal planning reduces friction and increases profitability
• Why doing less can actually create more momentum, revenue, and impact

This is an invitation to stop chasing artificial beginnings and start living inside cyclical momentum - where your energy, creativity, and income compound naturally.

“A regulated nervous system makes better financial decisions. Less impulsive spending. Clearer pricing. More trust in timing.”–Kate Northrup

🎤 Let’s Dive into the Good Stuff on Plenty 🎤

00:00 Introduction to Abundance and Energy
00:38 The Pressure of New Beginnings
02:24 Reclaiming Time and Energy
03:50 Historical Perspectives on Time
05:00 The Economics of Time
13:09 The Power of Seasonal Alignment
18:22 Aligning with Nature for Prosperity
21:00 Emergence and Action
24:55 Reflection and Celebration

Links and Resources:

Do Less
Heal the Way You Work
Relaxed Money

✨ Heal the Way You Work: Build a Spacious, Profitable Business - Without Working More

Working harder doesn’t create sustainable success… but this does. Heal the Way You Work is a body-centered approach to building a business that supports your life - so growth feels grounded, spacious, and actually enjoyable. 🌿💻

Inside, you’ll learn how to:
💡 Rewire how you work so profitability increases without adding more hours.
🎯 Build systems and rhythms that honor your body, seasons, and real capacity.
✨ Apply the 80/20 principle to focus only on what truly moves the needle - while letting the rest fall away.

More effort won’t create ease - a healed relationship with work will. Ready to work less and live more?

👉 Join Heal the Way You Work 👈

Related Episode:

How to Feel Safe Earning More (Without Sabotaging or Overspending It) (136)

Have you ever wondered if money isn’t just a resource…but a living consciousness you’re already in relationship with?

In this week’s episode of Plenty, I sit down with The Money Shaman, Ry Schwartz, for one of the most paradigm-shifting conversations I’ve ever had about money, healing, and the unseen forces that shape our financial lives.

Ry and I explore money not as something we “manage,” fix, or master — but as a fluid, evolving consciousness that responds to our awareness, our compassion, and our willingness to be in genuine relationship with it.

We talk about why shadow money work often feels so relieving, how different “streams” of money carry different energetic signatures, why some dollars feel light and others feel heavy, and how we can become stewards who help money heal as it moves through our lives.

We also dive into…
✨ What it means to let money find you even when you feel messy or imperfect
✨ How money takes on the energetic imprint of the intentions and emotions it passes through
✨ Simple daily practices to “witness” your money so it can relax and reorganize
✨ Why avoidance around money is rarely laziness — and what it’s usually protecting you from
✨ The connection between intimacy, generosity, and increased financial receptivity
✨ How couples can co-create a shared field that expands both pleasure and prosperity

This conversation is tender, revelatory, and wildly practical. Ry offers a new way of relating to money that brings more safety into your system, more flow into your life, and more grace into every financial exchange.

If you’re craving a relationship with money that feels warm, conscious, and regenerative — this episode is for you.

“Not all money is the same. It carries different vibratory qualities depending on the energies it’s passed through.”–The Money Shaman, Ry Schwartz

🎤 Let’s Dive into the Good Stuff on Plenty 🎤

00:00 — Entering the portal: Blue Lotus, synchronicity & the energetic opening
04:38 — What Sacred Commerce is & why it’s a bridge beyond capitalism
10:32 — Wealth as spiritual: permission to thrive, earn, and support your lineage
14:25 — Widening the scope: giving back, sourcing energy beyond the self
19:09 — The truth about “enough”: resources, circulation & debunking zero-sum thinking
22:33 — Ceremony as a business tool: accessing other realms for support
26:14 — Wealth, privilege, and survivor’s guilt: metabolizing the complexity
30:27 — Asha’s big why: land conservation & land-back as sacred commerce
37:47 — Merging the magical & the logical: operating beyond a 3D-only business
43:41 — Human design & astrology as instructional systems for your body of work
50:37 — The power of offerings: plants, essences, and ceremonial support
57:22 — Your dharma type: the archetypal soul energy you are here to embody

Links and Resources:

Money Reset

Connect with Ry Schwartz:

LinkedIn
Instagram

✨ The Money Reset: Feel Good with Money—No Matter How Much You Make

Rewire your nervous system for wealth, stop the money-in/money-out cycle, and create sustainable abundance. Includes the 5-Minute Calm Cashflow Ritual.

→ Get it free at katenorthrup.com/reset