78. Healing While Leading: The Feminine Way to Grow Through Grief with Amy Natalie

Ending a relationship, outgrowing a business, stepping out of an identity that once gave you belonging and kept you safe, all of it can bring a depth of grief no one really prepares you for. It comes in waves, when you least expect it. And yet, so many high achieving women use work to cope, to stay productive, to stay in control–because we fear to loosen our grip, fall apart, and surrender to feeling it all.

But is there a way to actually hold the duality of deep emotions and personal healing while still running a business, and can it become our deepest source of fuel?

In this episode, I sit with Amy Natalie, author of The Feminine Way and host of The Feminine Frequency podcast to explore the real cost of staying in a life that is not yours. We discuss why so many high achieving women find themselves waking up at three in the morning with their cortisol through the roof and no clear reason why, and also what becomes possible when pain is alchemised into a source of momentum, creativity, and a newly empowered identity that actually feels like you.

In this conversation, Amy shares about moving through a three-month grief portal while still showing up for her clients, revealing what it truly looks like to navigate the deepest emotional landscapes whilst still showing up for your soul's work. We also explore how feeling deeply, leading powerfully, and prioritising pleasure can not only coexist, but also become the most direct path to the impact you are here to make.

• Why using your pain as art, and allowing yourself to be seen in it, can be the most powerful thing you offer your community

• How to navigate seasons where everything falls apart and create space for love, magic, magnetism, and abundance

• The moment everything broke open in at three in the morning 

• Healing a codependent relationship with business 

• How to decouple your worth from your revenue

• The cost of staying in a life that you've outgrown 

• How to let yourself move with the waves of grief without losing yourself

• Why pleasure can become the deepest source of your productivity

• How to hold deep emotions while running a business

• What feminine leadership actually looks like in practice