
Holistic Mental Health for Women Solopreneurs
Claim This Podcastby Dr. Nicole Pertillar
Podcast Overview
<p>I started this podcast because I kept seeing women with powerful dreams, deep callings, brilliant ideas, and beautiful businesses(or business ideas) quietly burning out behind the scenes.<br /></p><p>Women who were building, leading, serving, creating, caregiving, praying, planning, and pushing through.<br /></p><p>Women who loved their work, but were tired, clouded , and stretched thin.</p><p></p><p>And you know what? I get it! I know that place.</p><p></p><p>I know what it feels like to carry a God-given vision while also realizing your capacity has limits. I know what it feels like to want to build something meaningful, but also need space to breathe, heal, pause, and become whole.<br /></p><p>That’s why I created Holistic Mental Health for Women Solopreneurs.<br /></p><p>I’m Dr. Nic, Wellness Coach, Wholeness Advocate, Founder of The PAUSE Sessions, and Creator of the Journal Brand Wholeness Within Journals. This podcast helps purpose-driven women entrepreneurs prioritize wellness, prevent burnout, regulate their nervous systems, and build sustainable businesses without breaking the builder.</p><p></p><p>This show is for women solopreneurs, creative entrepreneurs, coaches, service providers, and faith-led visionaries who are ready to stop self-abandoning in the name of success and start building from a place of wholeness.<br /></p><p>This is a place to pause, breathe, tell the truth, and create rhythms that help you protect your spirit, mind, body, creativity, and business.</p><p></p><p>Through personal stories, practical coaching, mindset shifts, guided reflection, and holistic wellness strategies, I’ll help you pause without quitting, shift without shame, and renew your capacity for the dream you’ve been called to build.<br /></p><p>Because your dream matters.<br /></p><p>But so do you.</p><p></p><p>This podcast is for you if you’ve ever asked the following questions:</p><ol><li><b>How do I avoid burnout as a woman solopreneur?</b></li><li><b>How do I grow my business when I feel overwhelmed?</b></li><li><b>How do I stop feeling guilty for resting as an entrepreneur?</b></li><li><b>How do I prioritize my mental health while running a business?</b></li><li><b>How do I manage stress as a solopreneur?</b></li><li><b>How do I regulate my nervous system when business feels overwhelming?</b></li><li><b>How do I stop self-abandoning while pursuing my dreams?</b></li><li><b>How do I create sustainable business growth without hustle culture?</b></li><li><b>How do I find clarity when I have too many ideas?</b></li><li><b>How do I stay consistent in my business when I’m emotionally exhausted?</b></li><li><b>How do I stop procrastinating on my purpose?</b></li><li><b>How do I pursue my dreams when life keeps interrupting my plans?</b></li><li><b>How do I create better self-care rhythms as a woman entrepreneur?</b></li><li><b>How do I build emotional capacity for my business and calling?</b></li><li><b>How do I overcome business overwhelm and decision fatigue?</b></li><li><b>How do I keep creating when I feel stuck, tired, or uninspired?</b></li><li><b>How do I align my business with my wellness, faith, and purpose?</b></li><li><b>How do I build the dream without breaking the builder?</b><p></p></li></ol><p>If you’ve been searching for a way to move forward without losing yourself, this space is for you.</p><p>Here, we are choosing a different rhythm.</p><p>One rooted in wellness, clarity, capacity, faith, creativity, and sustainable purpose.</p><p>You do not have to burn out to prove you are called.</p><p>You do not have to abandon yourself to build something meaningful.</p><p></p><p>Welcome to <b>Holistic Mental Health for Women Solopreneurs</b>—where we build the dream without breaking the builder.</p>
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Recent Episodes

July 27, 2026
028 International Self-Care Day: Why Self-Care Is More Than Rest
<p>Self-Care is about more than nails, hair, bubble baths, and massages. It's more than REST.</p><p></p><p></p><p>EPISODE DESCRIPTION</p><p></p><p>Did you know International Self-Care Day is observed on July 24th — 7/24 — as a reminder that self-care is not just an occasional event, but something we are invited to practice 24/7?</p><p></p><p>In this episode of Holistic Mental Health for Women Solopreneurs, Dr. Nic opens her countdown to International Self-Care Day with a powerful conversation about what self-care really means, why so many women struggle to prioritize it, and how pausing can help us reconnect with our needs, capacity, wellness, and purpose.</p><p></p><p>Self-care is more than getting your nails done, taking a bubble bath, or scheduling a nap, even though those things can absolutely matter. True self-care asks us to look more deeply at how we are designing our lives, honoring our boundaries, managing stress, accessing mental and physical healthcare, caring for our bodies, and creating rhythms that support our spirit, mind, and body.</p><p></p><p>Dr. Nic also shares why self-care is a major part of her work as a mental health coach, especially with people seeking support for anxiety management, stress management, burnout prevention, business overwhelm, and finding their next aligned step.</p><p></p><p>This episode is an invitation to pause, examine your life holistically, and ask: Am I creating a life that cares for me or a life I constantly have to recover from?</p><p></p><p>IN THIS EPISODE, WE TALK ABOUT:</p><p></p><p>Why International Self-Care Day is celebrated on July 24th</p><p>The meaning of 7/24 as a reminder that self-care is a 24/7 way of life</p><p>Why self-care is not just an event, activity, or luxury</p><p></p><p>How self-care connects to stress management, anxiety management, and mental health</p><p></p><p>Why many women struggle to identify what they enjoy or what fills them back up</p><p></p><p>The importance of slowing down enough to reconnect with yourself</p><p>How overextending, people-pleasing, and poor boundaries can affect your well-being</p><p></p><p>Why “love your neighbor as yourself” also invites us to examine how we love ourselves</p><p>How self-care connects to faith, purpose, service, and honoring the body as a vessel</p><p></p><p>Why self-care requires more than rest — it includes access, agency, healthcare, boundaries, money, time, and holistic support</p><p></p><p>KEY TAKEAWAYS</p><p></p><p>Self-care is not just something you schedule. It is a way of thinking, living, and arranging your life.</p><p>International Self-Care Day on July 24th reminds us that self-care matters 24/7.</p><p></p><p>Self-care includes rest, but it also includes boundaries, healthcare, mental health, capacity, access, agency, and holistic wellness.</p><p>Many women do not know what they need because they have not paused long enough to listen to themselves.</p><p></p><p>Taking care of yourself is not selfish. It helps you serve, love, lead, parent, create, and build from a fuller place.</p><p></p><p>The pause is powerful because it gives you space to examine your needs, your patterns, your body, your schedule, and your life.</p><p></p><p>Self-care does not have to start with a full day off. Sometimes it starts with one intentional minute.</p><p></p><p>Women solopreneurs need self-care rhythms that align with their actual capacity, not just their ambition.</p><p></p><p>You do not need to build a life that constantly drains you and then call recovery self-care.</p><p></p><p></p>

July 13, 2026
027 A Guided Pause - Selr-Care Practice for Women Solopreneurs, Visionaries, & Dreamers
<p>What happens when a woman solopreneur finally slows down long enough to hear herself clearly?</p><p></p><p>In this special guided episode, Dr. Nic leads listeners through a live Pause Session designed to help overwhelmed, stuck, and creatively blocked women reconnect with themselves, their ideas, and the dreams they may have quietly buried beneath pressure, burnout, and overthinking.</p><p></p><p>This is not a strategy episode.</p><p>It is an experience.</p><p>Through grounding exercises, nervous system regulation, reflective journaling prompts, and intentional stillness, listeners are invited to pause, breathe, and reconnect with the ideas and desires they may have stopped giving themselves permission to pursue.</p><p></p><p>This episode explores:</p><ul><li>nervous system grounding</li><li>creative clarity</li><li>reflective journaling</li><li>emotional regulation</li><li>dream pursuit</li><li>pause practices for solopreneurs</li><li>wellness-centered entrepreneurship<p></p></li></ul><p>If you’ve been feeling stuck, creatively disconnected, emotionally overwhelmed, or uncertain about your next step, this guided Pause Session is for you.</p><p></p><p>Stay Connected with Dr. Nic through her newsletter, The Pause for Solos. Click <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://nicolepertillar.substack.com/subscribe" target="_blank">HERE</a> to subscribe. </p>

July 6, 2026
026 The Power of Showing Up Together
<p></p><p>Dr. Nic shares business lessons learned from her journey through a 30-day Hot Pilates challenge, emphasizing the power of community, committed decisions, and support in building sustainable habits and businesses.</p><p></p><p>Stay Connect with Dr. Nic: The Pause for Solos Newsletter - <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://nicolepertillar.substack.com/subscribe" target="_blank">https://nicolepertillar.substack.com/subscribe</a></p><p></p><p>Check Out the Community Dr. Nic Loves: Hot Works Little Rock on HWY 10 - <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.hotworx.net/studio/littlerock-hwy10?source=DriveSearch&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21987217577&gbraid=0AAAAA-kEjsdJW96mabLUd5VSgZA7UrgAp&gclid=Cj0KCQjw3qLSBhDaARIsAFTiVh71c_FB97IE6dVYJy1gDn55Fbiz9iV1W9UIk-_q2Bxuj29NnLBWEPwaAjlwEALw_wcB" target="_blank">https://www.hotworx.net/studio/littlerock-hwy10?source=DriveSearch&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21987217577&gbraid=0AAAAA-kEjsdJW96mabLUd5VSgZA7UrgAp&gclid=Cj0KCQjw3qLSBhDaARIsAFTiVh71c_FB97IE6dVYJy1gDn55Fbiz9iV1W9UIk-_q2Bxuj29NnLBWEPwaAjlwEALw_wcB</a></p><p></p><p>Key topics</p><p>The importance of community and accountability in achieving goals</p><p>How committed decisions drive consistency and momentum</p><p>The role of support systems in mental and physical health</p><p>Lessons learned from a 30-day Hot Pilates challenge</p><p>Strategies for building sustainable habits in business and life</p><p></p><p></p>
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- What is Holistic Mental Health for Women Solopreneurs?
<p>I started this podcast because I kept seeing women with powerful dreams, deep callings, brilliant ideas, and beautiful businesses(or business ideas) quietly burning out behind the scenes.<br /></p><p>Women who were building, leading, serving, creating, caregiving, praying, planning, and pushing through.<br /></p><p>Women who loved their work, but were tired, clouded , and stretched thin.</p><p></p><p>And you know what? I get it! I know that place.</p><p></p><p>I know what it feels like to carry a God-given vision while also realizing your capacity has limits. I know what it feels like to want to build something meaningful, but also need space to breathe, heal, pause, and become whole.<br /></p><p>That’s why I created Holistic Mental Health for Women Solopreneurs.<br /></p><p>I’m Dr. Nic, Wellness Coach, Wholeness Advocate, Founder of The PAUSE Sessions, and Creator of the Journal Brand Wholeness Within Journals. This podcast helps purpose-driven women entrepreneurs prioritize wellness, prevent burnout, regulate their nervous systems, and build sustainable businesses without breaking the builder.</p><p></p><p>This show is for women solopreneurs, creative entrepreneurs, coaches, service providers, and faith-led visionaries who are ready to stop self-abandoning in the name of success and start building from a place of wholeness.<br /></p><p>This is a place to pause, breathe, tell the truth, and create rhythms that help you protect your spirit, mind, body, creativity, and business.</p><p></p><p>Through personal stories, practical coaching, mindset shifts, guided reflection, and holistic wellness strategies, I’ll help you pause without quitting, shift without shame, and renew your capacity for the dream you’ve been called to build.<br /></p><p>Because your dream matters.<br /></p><p>But so do you.</p><p></p><p>This podcast is for you if you’ve ever asked the following questions:</p><ol><li><b>How do I avoid burnout as a woman solopreneur?</b></li><li><b>How do I grow my business when I feel overwhelmed?</b></li><li><b>How do I stop feeling guilty for resting as an entrepreneur?</b></li><li><b>How do I prioritize my mental health while running a business?</b></li><li><b>How do I manage stress as a solopreneur?</b></li><li><b>How do I regulate my nervous system when business feels overwhelming?</b></li><li><b>How do I stop self-abandoning while pursuing my dreams?</b></li><li><b>How do I create sustainable business growth without hustle culture?</b></li><li><b>How do I find clarity when I have too many ideas?</b></li><li><b>How do I stay consistent in my business when I’m emotionally exhausted?</b></li><li><b>How do I stop procrastinating on my purpose?</b></li><li><b>How do I pursue my dreams when life keeps interrupting my plans?</b></li><li><b>How do I create better self-care rhythms as a woman entrepreneur?</b></li><li><b>How do I build emotional capacity for my business and calling?</b></li><li><b>How do I overcome business overwhelm and decision fatigue?</b></li><li><b>How do I keep creating when I feel stuck, tired, or uninspired?</b></li><li><b>How do I align my business with my wellness, faith, and purpose?</b></li><li><b>How do I build the dream without breaking the builder?</b><p></p></li></ol><p>If you’ve been searching for a way to move forward without losing yourself, this space is for you.</p><p>Here, we are choosing a different rhythm.</p><p>One rooted in wellness, clarity, capacity, faith, creativity, and sustainable purpose.</p><p>You do not have to burn out to prove you are called.</p><p>You do not have to abandon yourself to build something meaningful.</p><p></p><p>Welcome to <b>Holistic Mental Health for Women Solopreneurs</b>—where we build the dream without breaking the builder.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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