In this episode, we're joined by somatic leadership coach and founder of Kim Kimball Coaching, Kim Kimball. We dive into what it really looks like to build a business that works with your nervous system, especially during major life transitions like motherhood.

Kim shares how becoming a parent led her to completely restructure her business, moving away from time-intensive models and toward more sustainable, leveraged offers that support both her energy and her clients.

We also explore the power of asynchronous work, the realities of running a business with a new baby, and how our Human Design as Manifesting Generators influences the way we approach entrepreneurship (and motherhood).

This is such a grounding, permission-giving conversation for anyone craving a business that actually feels good to run.

Kim Kimball is a Somatic Leadership Coach, Doctor of Physical Therapy, and founder of Kim Kimball Coaching, where she helps highly sensitive and neurodivergent entrepreneurs build businesses that honor their wiring and feel sustainable from the inside out.

Through a blend of somatic practices, nervous system awareness, and embodied business strategy, she guides clients to partner with themselves, meet their edges, and lead with depth and integrity—so growth becomes both steady and life-giving.

A Manifesting Generator with a love for creative expression and body-led leadership, Kim brings both depth and playfulness to her work, helping ambitious visionaries create success that actually supports their lives.

• Website: KimKimballCoaching.com
• Instagram: @kimkimballcoaching
• Podcast: Sensitive

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Find Kara at guidedonline.com and narrativewebdesign.com

Today we're talking with Lisa Avila about building a business with small children, and older children. Lisa Avila is a Business Strategist, mom of 3, and helps mission-driven women scale their nonprofits through Strategy, Marketing, and Mindset. You can find her on Linkedin (LisaMAvila), Instagram @LisatheStrategist, and on her website, www.poppygrovellc.com

In this episode, Andréa Jones talks to us about having her first baby and her first business, a digital marketing agency, and how everything had to shift with her second baby—resulting in a whole new business model. We talk about the before, during and after of first and second babies (and first and second businesses!), what support she had in place on the business and personal side, how she balances childcare with her husband, and her surprising tip for truly effective marketing that we all can apply to our businesses right now.

Sign up for her Free Audio Series, AI in Marketing, to see exactly how she uses ChatGPT daily in her business without losing her voice, her values, or her marbles. https://onlinedrea.com/ai-in-marketing/

Bio: Andréa Jones is a digital marketing consultant who teaches business owners how to market in ways that are simple, smart and strategic—and aligned with their values. She hosts the Mindful Marketing Podcast (which I highly recommend) and has a fabulous newsletter I never miss because it's always fun, interesting, and informative. You can find her at OnlineDrea.com and on Instagram @themindfulmarketinglab and @onlinedrea

She's also the mother of two small children—the youngest just had their first day of daycare.

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Lauren and Kara introduce Babyproofing Your Business, a limited series of the Truer Business Podcast. Lauren is about to give birth AT ANY MOMENT—but while she's waiting for baby to arrive, she and Kara are interviewing women who had established service-based businesses, or who were building their businesses, when they had a baby. There aren't a lot of conversations around growing a business you're passionate about AND balancing that with a new baby, or toddlers, or older children. The conversation tends to be more like "Oh! Are you still planning to work?" Yes, yes we are.

In Episode 1, Lauren and Kara talk about:

• Kara's motherhood journey as a website designer and equestrian program manager

• How she and Lauren don't fall into the "mother" archetype (and kinda envy those who do!)

• The identity shifts that happen as an "older" first-time mom—and the shifts that don't happen

• Diversifying income streams, and focusing on what's really important plus what brings us joy

• Maintaining the hobbies and passions that matter, and allowing what doesn't matter to fall away

Content warning: Lauren wonders if she's a "maternally divergent jerk," and is trying to be respectful of everyone's individual motherhood experience, while acknowledging that her experience feels very different from what may be more mainstream. This podcast is best suited for those who don't feel like they neatly fit into the maternal mold.

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Find Kara at guidedonline.com and narrativewebdesign.com

In the somewhat delayed (hey, we're running businesses, people!) final episode of the season, we share how in the midst of launching this podcast season, which turned out to be all about burnout, it became obvious to us both that we're a bit burnt out! We also discuss practicing discerment and finding more alignment across our businesses. Kara shares why she's re-doing her own website... again. Lauren discusses the challenges that AI is creating for copywriters and we do a whole lot of brainstorming around how we can more forward, better, in our businesses.

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This conversation spans SEO best practices, customer research, how to use your client's words to bring in more ideal clients—and how to do all of this when your business is… unusual. We also talk about narcissism in society, capitalism and business, ethical marketing vs. mainstream marketing, and the importance of community (plus using our businesses to build community). It's a RICH episode (and we don't mean money).

About Megan:

Megan Caper is a medical intuitive, energy healer, and the co-host of the podcast: How to be a Terrible Daughter. She's been in business for more than 20 years, both in person and online. She has graduate level training in anatomy, physiology, neurology, biochemistry, genetics, psychology as well as training in medical intuition and energy healing. She helps her clients get the answers or help they need when they aren't getting it from their doctors. Fun fact: She used Kara's website design template and Lauren's copywriting workbooks to build her website, which is now on page 1 of Google for Medical Intuitive.

Links:

• How to be a Terrible Daughter podcast

• Megan's Website

• Megan's Instagram

• Podcast website
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Steph Williams' journey to doing the work she loves can be summed up as "from Burnout to Breakthrough." In this episode, we talk about how a slow living lifestyle translates to business, building an ideal calendar around your energy and rest needs, how to break through a "freeze" response when you have too much on your to do list, tracking energy and mood, and tips for handling overwhelm.

Bio:

Steph Williams worked in child protective services in Australia for 14 years, a field with incredibly high burnout rates. The high-stress work took its toll and she knew she needed a shift. So she left her job, slowed down—way down—and paired down her life to a cottage by the beach. And that is where she created her business: The Rested Woman. Now she helps overwhelmed women to rest and reevaluate how they're spending their energy so they can get clear on what matters and get out of burnout for good. You can find her online and on instagram at StephWilliams.co.

Links:

How We Feel App

Steph's Instagram

Katie Oglesby is a Wisconsin-based garden designer and garden and healthy lifestyle coach committed to helping people develop a deeper connection to their food through the transformative experience of organic gardening. She is the founder of the Kitchen Garden Design House, a Wisconsin-based business that specializes in crafting bespoke kitchen gardens that seamlessly blend elevated aesthetics with sustainable, garden-to-table living practices. Katie also runs the Garden-to-Table Community, an online membership for new gardeners all learning to support their health and family's well-being with their own gardens and garden-to-table recipes.

Key points! "Gardeners have a growth mindset"

• Making big pivots in your first year of business (the thing you thought you were going to do to what you actually do)

• From health coaching to garden design and garden coaching

• The power of word of mouth marketing in a community based business

• Working a day job to support the growth of your dream job, and then transitioning between full time to part time, to full time in your new business

• Building your portfolio from the ground up (professional photography, and get some people in those pictures!)

• Cultivating your community by not just offering a product or service, but support to help your people succeed with your products and/or services (like The Garden to Table Membership)

Links:

Get Katie's free MicroGreens Guide and her How to Grow Herbs + Greens guide at https://www.katieoglesby.com/education

Katie's website

Podcast website
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