“I was in the shower recently and thought, 'Man, if I can make this happen every year for myself to be in FLOW365, it changes the game. Period.'" —Heather

If you've ever felt like you're juggling your business, your family, your health, and your dreams, and wondering why it all feels so overwhelming, this conversation is for you.

Heather is a shamanically trained intuitive healer, Reiki practitioner, sound healer, podcast host, and founder of the Hear Her Sisterhood. She's also a mom of teenagers, a wife, a gardener, a dog lover, and someone navigating all the beautiful and messy realities of midlife.

In this episode, we talk about what happened when she stopped trying to figure everything out on her own and stepped into community and accountability. Instead of adding more to her plate, she found clarity, momentum, and permission to build her business in a way that honored her sensitivity and her real life.

We explore why slowing down can actually create more growth, how showing up imperfectly builds consistency, and the unexpected magic that happens when you make a plan and allow it to evolve.

• Why highly sensitive entrepreneurs need a different approach to planning and productivity
• The loneliness that so many solo business owners experience
• How community and accountability create momentum
• The difference between doing everything perfectly and simply showing up
• Creating a business that supports your life instead of competing with it
• Why Friday planning and Monday accountability became Heather's anchors
• Learning to give yourself permission instead of beating yourself up
• How honoring your energy can lead to more clients and greater ease
• The role of intuition, intention, and planning in sustainable business growth
• What it looks like to slow down and actually move forward faster

• Website: DivinelySensitive.com
• Instagram: @DivinelySensitive
• Podcast: Hear Her Podcast

Learn more about FLOW365 and create momentum in your business, health, and life at https://PlanSimple.com/flow365.

Sign up for the free workshop on July 15: https://PlanSimple.com/workshop.

Read the latest issue of Pause Magazine.

“Now we're showing up in full Technicolor and saying, ‘This is who I am.’”

–Sheila Darcey

When you turn 50, two things happen: you don't give a hoot about what other people think … and you start to really understand and embrace your power. I’m really excited to talk with Sheila Darcey, a visionary artist and the author of Sketch by Sketch, about how she claimed herself as an artist and developed a tool that you don’t have to be an artist to use.

The SketchPoetic method is an embodied, somatic practice. Sheila says “The moment you're attached to the outcome or the audience, it becomes art.” And that’s not what this is about. It’s less about what things look like and how they feel. Sheila explains the process in issue 5 of Pause.

Check out the conversation and give SketchPoetic a try. Sheila suggests 7 days is for healing or releasing something. If you want to make a habit, try 21 days, and if you want transformative growth, try consistently for 40 days.

We talk about:

• The invitation of unfinished and “messed up” sketchbooks
• How Sheila developed SketchPoetic
• Discovering emotions under emotions and rewiring emotional neuropathways
• Doing a body scan before you start sketching
• Plateauing with a practice and how to loosen your grasp
• The energy of our marks and how our intuition shows when we are in flow and take the time to pause and look after

ABOUT SHEILA

Sheila Darcey is a visionary artist and author of Sketch by Sketch, guiding others back to themselves through the healing language of intuitive art.

LINKS

• http://www.sketchpoetic.com
• https://sheiladarcey.substack.com
• https://www.instagram.com/sketchpoetic/

DOABLE CHANGES

At the end of every episode, we share three doable changes, so you can take what you've heard and put it into action. Action is how change happens.

Often we feel like our actions have to be huge to match the bigness of our desires, but we have seen over and over and over again that the little things add up. By stacking up a series of Doable Changes, you will create that big change that you crave. Choose the one that really resonates with you this week and really make it part of your life.

Here are Three Doable Changes from this conversation:

• PLAY WITH WHAT’S THERE. My foundation opened up into my sketch book. Maybe you spilled coffee or a page got marked by a pen in your bag. Instead of tearing out the page or starting a new book, play with what’s already there.
• DO A BODY SCAN. Before you try the SketchPoetic project or journal or try another creative act, pause for a minute and do a body scan. Acknowledge how you feel throughout your body.
• LOOSEN UP. There is benefit to sustained practices, but sometimes things that serve us begin to feel stale. We don’t get the same thing out of them. What happens if you try holding your practice more loosely for a week? For example, sketch in the sand or the dust instead of a notebook. Skip your morning pages and write a single page … in crayon or list the first 5 words that come into your head. Allow they practice to shift.

“People think once you hit retirement age you're in decline, but we really have the most amazing years ahead of us.”

–Nadja Piatka

You’re not too old to reinvent yourself. Whether it’s getting stronger, launching a new business, or eating healthy, you can start anytime. I’m really excited to talk with Nadja Piatka, a health influencer in her 70s, who is living proof.

Nadja lost everything and hit rock bottom when her husband left. She started a business making muffins locally and, within a year, had products in McDonalds, Tim Hortons, Subway, and more. When she retired, she found herself seeking something else.

Her pilates teacher suggested that she share how to stay fit and healthy on social media. She went from no Instagram account to viral posts and hundreds of thousands of followers at Nadja Eat Move Glow.

We talk about:

• Building consistency with exercise and with food
• Showing up with the joy of what you do to attract people
• The importance of identifying your target market and choosing what products or services to share with your audience
• 80-20 living
• Getting leukemia and choosing how we want to live in later life as motivators
• Leaving or letting go of what’s not working for you to make room for what is really meant for you

ABOUT NADJA

As an unemployable single mother of two, plagued by creditors and no income, Nadja Piatka began baking muffins and brownies at home and testing them on her two teenage children. She was soon selling her baked goods to local coffee shops. With a one hundred dollar investment she grew her business from her kitchen to becoming an international supplier to the food industry and a Best Selling Author. She’s now a health influencer showing that reinvention has no expiry date.

LINKS

• https://www.nadjaeatmoveglow.com/
• https://www.instagram.com/nadja__eat_move_glow
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadjapiatka/
• Pause Magazine, issue 5

DOABLE CHANGES

At the end of every episode, we share three doable changes, so you can take what you've heard and put it into action. Change comes from action.

Doable changes are things that you can add into your life, one at a time to make micro shifts and really create a ripple effect that will create a big change over time. Choose one that really piques your interest and roll with it.

Here are three Doable Changes from this conversation:

• BRING THE JOY. If you are creating social or other content feeling like you have to do it, your audience can tell.Try to bring more joy, liveliness, and your genuine excitement or passion to what you create. Think more about what you love and less about how you are supposed to dot it.
• MORE PROTEIN. We need more protein as we age for day to day and long-term health. Start adding protein to breakfast and weave some into meals and snacks all day. Ideally, you get most of your protein from healthy whole foods, but you can also add protein powder to smoothies as a way of adding in more. Think about swapping high sugar snacks for high protein snacks for double benefit.
• PRACTICE 80-20 EATING. Try nourishing your body with high-protein, high-fiber, and low-sugar foods 80% of the time. The rest of the time you enjoy your favorite treats — without guilt. Commit to this shift for two weeks and see how you feel.