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This article originally appeared on the 2020 Women’s Small Business Summit website. We asked Katie McDonald, self-care strategist and CEO of bnourished®, for the top advice she gives women in business and female entrepreneurs. Below are some fantastic insights on how to better serve yourself and your business, in Katie’s own words. 1. Get over […]

Article written by Susan Shalhoub, Contributing Writer for Providence Business News Katie McDonald’s executive clients span numerous industries, states and countries, but they have something in common: they are addicts. “They’re struggling with their addiction to busyness,” said McDonald, a North Kingstown-based holistic health coach, self-care strategist and public speaker. “They say ‘no’ to themselves […]

“Self-Care Is Not Selfish”: Meet bnourished CEO Katie McDonald By Bram Berkowitz — Katie McDonald built a very successful career as an advertising executive. She worked for Time, selling ads across 45 national publications including Businessweek, Forbes, Sports Illustrated and InStyle Magazine. She led a division of Time in Seattle and also established the company’s […]

Katie, for our readers who are new to your work, can you tell us about bnourished and what made you start your company? In 2010, I founded to honor a vow. When I healed myself from the disease of busyness and the accompanying conditions—asthma, allergies, irritable bowel, ulcerative colitis, depression, anxiety, insomnia, shingles—I promised to […]

Ahhh… vacation. We’ve earned it. The long hours, daunting projects, and tedious tasks at work and home left behind. Pleasure awaits. No responsibility. The cocktails, dinners, local delicacies are a given. It is what we do on vacation. Part of the experience. Vacation is permission to be “naughty” after being so good the rest of […]

“Overwhelmed”. It’s a word I hear almost daily in my coaching practice. Heck, it’s a word I uttered daily to describe my internal chaos. Overwhelm is “too muchness”. Too many thoughts. Too many shoulds. Too many expectations. Like deer in headlights, we have so much to process that we freeze. Immobilized, we cry “overwhelm” in […]

I want to meditate. Actually, most times I do not want to meditate. I want the benefits of meditation which are vast and well-documented. The days I actually want to meditate just to meditate are days that yawn before me. Meditating feels then like a luxury; decadent, and indulgent. Those days are rare because many […]

Many of us wake up with tasks swirling in our heads before our feet hit the floor. Rush replaces reason and we lose ourselves in doing. Actually more likely overdoing, especially in the service to others, their priorities, and their tasks that they either avoided or delegated because they knew we would compensate for their […]

Information is no longer reserved for the privileged few. We are drowning in details, facts, figures, data, and opportunities Anything we want to know can be googled in a matter of seconds. Lectures, invitations, seminars, courses…the possibilities are endless. Overwhelm is inevitable. Like staring at the grocery aisle bulging with 200 different cereals, we become […]