Burnout doesn't have to be the cost of ambition. In this conversation with repeat guest and facilitator Camille Leek, we explore somatic healing and cyclical living for entrepreneurs balancing work and motherhood. Learn how to restore sustainable productivity by aligning with natural cycles- birth, growth, decay, and death-so your nervous system can support big work without collapse.

Instead of chasing forever-summer energy, we map real rhythms for the working mom across a day, week, month, and year: ramp-up mornings that build capacity, focused midweek production, deliberate wind-down evenings, and honest wintering that composts what no longer serves. This is energy management for the creative entrepreneur who refuses to choose between presence and impact. But this isn't about following our exact business or life blueprint, it's about experiencing and then fine tuning your own,

Camille shares how she left a "successful" corporate path after years of chronic fatigue from 60–80 hour weeks and began designing boundaries that fit her biology: no Monday or Friday meetings, session windows that honor nervous system regulation, and planned hibernation months. We unpack the difference between agency and control, the social pressure to perform like a machine, and the quiet violence of self-colonization when worth equals output.

You'll hear concrete examples for mothers and creatives navigating matrescence—how to swap "can't do the park" for "movie cuddle," how to plan launches around menstrual cycle awareness and true energy, and why ramp-down is the missing link between action and real rest. This is holistic health meets sustainable business strategy.

If burnout has you oscillating between go and collapse, this conversation on embodiment and seasonal living offers a map to smoother waves. Expect practical routines for work-life balance, clear boundary scripts, and compassionate language that reframes PMS/PMDD, seasonal lows, and late-year contraction as natural, intelligent responses. The result is fewer, richer outputs; better sleep; more presence at home; and a grounded sense of enoughness that doesn't disappear when your calendar empties.

This is self-care that actually builds capacity-boundaries that create agency in both motherhood and entrepreneurship.

About Camille:

Camille Leak (she/her) is a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Facilitator & Somatic Trauma Healing Educator. Via her practice, Real Talk & Brave Spaces, she provides group facilitation, workshops, and one-on-one coaching about a variety of DEI topics and trauma healing, cultivating spaces where individuals and groups can fearlessly confront the most uncomfortable elements of life's realities.

4-part course: Living & Working Seasonally: Unearthing Your Unique Rhythm & Flow to Circumvent Burnout

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