What if your relationship with money was no longer a source of shame, stress, or confusion—but a place of clarity, healing, and empowerment?

In this episode, I sit down with Bari Tessler, financial therapist and author of The Art of Money, to explore how somatic practices, emotional intelligence, and nervous system awareness can transform the way we engage with money—especially for highly sensitive and neurodivergent entrepreneurs.

We go far beyond spreadsheets, diving into the felt experience of earning, holding, and relating to money in a way that honors your values and your unique wiring.

We explore:

Whether you’re healing old money wounds or creating a more aligned way of working, this conversation offers compassionate, grounded insights for your journey.

Bari Tessler, M.A. is a Financial Therapist and a pioneer in the Financial Therapy field. She has a Masters degree in Somatic Psychology from Naropa University, 1998. She then ran a bookkeeping business for therapists and artists. In 2001, she merged all her training and created a somatic-based Financial Therapy methodology that she has been teaching for 24 years.

She is also the founder of The Art of Money, a financial therapy program and a Mentor Program for therapists, coaches and financial professionals.

Bari is the Author of two books: The Art of Money: A Life-Changing Guide to Financial Happiness and The Art of Money Workbook.

Her work has been featured on Oprah.com, Inc.com, US News & World Report, Reuters Money, The Fiscal Times, USA Today, The Cut, Girlboss, Nerd Wallet, Real Simple, MindBodyGreen, and REDBOOK. She has also been featured on the cover of Experience Life and Mindful.

Bari loves to read, dance and enjoy dark chocolate. She lives in Boulder, CO with her husband, son, many cats + a big puppy.

Connect with Bari Tessler:

🌐 Website: https://baritessler.com

📖 Book: The Art of Money

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What if the key to thriving as a sensitive or neurodivergent entrepreneur wasn’t more mindset work — but a recalibration of your nervous system itself?

In this profound episode of The Sensitive. Podcast, I sit down with Michelle Dowker — naturopathic doctor, research lover, and breakthrough thinker in the world of subconscious healing for sensitive leaders.

Michelle shares her discovery around differential susceptibility — a trait common in HSP and ND folks that can either keep them stuck in survival or launch them into thriving, depending on the environment and internal calibration.

We explore:

This conversation is both science-backed and soul-nourishing — and a must-listen for any sensitive business owner wondering why things still feel hard… and how to make them feel lighter.

Michelle Dowker works with sensitive, deep-thinking, high-performing entrepreneurs and professionals who’ve evolved—and want their work to evolve with them. Through her signature Vantage Success Method, she guides clients from deep clarity on who they truly are and what’s next, to rewiring old survival conditioning, and stepping into purpose-led mastery that feels fulfilling, liberating, and wildly impactful. Her work blends intuitive insight, neurobiology, and soul-aligned strategy—so clients can flourish and lead from their truest self.

Michelle's Links:

Get Involved:

The Gentle Momentum Method Mini-Course

Your energy matters. Learn how to honor it while still making real, meaningful progress in your business — one gentle step at a time. Enroll now for $30.

1:1 Sustainable Growth Private Coaching: a personalized container for sensitive entrepreneurs ready to grow with clarity, calm, and nervous system support.

Learn more and apply.

Craving community and deep support? The Sustainable Growth Sanctuary is a slow, intimate mastermind for sensitive entrepreneurs who want to grow without overriding themselves. Next cohort enrolls in Sept. 2025

Feeling burnt out?  Burnout to Balance, a self-paced course, will help you recover your energy and rebuild your business in a way that honors your nervous system and your life.

Join My Newsletter: Read gently honest reflections on body-led business, sustainable growth for sensitive entrepreneurs, and the real inner work of showing up as a highly sensitive, neurodivergent leader — rooted in my own lived experience. 

Free Somatic Coaching Starter Session: Experience a free session using asynchronous voice memo coaching via Signal app.

What if your business gave you energy instead of draining it?

In this episode, I sit down with Sara Francis, a Flow State Trainer and Peak Performance Coach, who has guided over 300 intuitive entrepreneurs and creatives toward building life-first businesses grounded in energy management, deep focus, and sustainable productivity.

Sara’s approach is radically different — no nonstop online presence, no hustle, and no chasing algorithms. Instead, she offers an invitation into a slower, more relational, and deeply fulfilling way of working.

We talk about:

If you’re craving a more nourishing way to grow your work in the world — this one is for you.

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The Gentle Momentum Method Mini-Course

Your energy matters. Learn how to honor it while still making real, meaningful progress in your business — one gentle step at a time. Enroll now for $30.

1:1 Sustainable Growth Private Coaching: a personalized container for sensitive entrepreneurs ready to grow with clarity, calm, and nervous system support.

Learn more and apply.

Craving community and deep support? The Sustainable Growth Sanctuary is a slow, intimate mastermind for sensitive entrepreneurs who want to grow without overriding themselves. Next cohort enrolls in Sept. 2025

Feeling burnt out?  Burnout to Balance, a self-paced course, will help you recover your energy and rebuild your business in a way that honors your nervous system and your life.

Join My Newsletter: Read gently honest reflections on body-led business, sustainable growth for sensitive entrepreneurs, and the real inner work of showing up as a highly sensitive, neurodivergent leader — rooted in my own lived experience. 

Free Somatic Coaching Starter Session: Experience a free session using asynchronous voice memo coaching via Signal app.

In this heartfelt and vulnerable episode, I sit down with the radiant Madison Morrigan — a coach, mystic, and deeply expressive voice in the world of somatic healing and self-liberation.

Madison and I reconnect after our shared experience in her Rising Sovereign mastermind — a space where neither of us yet knew we were autistic. What follows is a rich, nuanced conversation about late-diagnosis autism, the power of shame alchemy, and what it means to reclaim joy and expression in a world that so often demands we shrink ourselves.

In this episode, we explore:

A few favorite moments include:

Madison's Links:

Website

The Fortress

Shame Alchemy Workshop

Instagram

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1:1 Sustainable Growth Private Coaching: a personalized container for sensitive entrepreneurs ready to grow with clarity, calm, and nervous system support.

Learn more and apply here

Craving community and deep support? The Sustainable Growth Sanctuary is a slow, intimate mastermind for sensitive entrepreneurs who want to grow without overriding themselves. Next cohort enrolls in Sept. 2025

Feeling burnt out?  Burnout to Balance, a self-paced course, will help you recover your energy and rebuild your business in a way that honors your nervous system and your life.

Join My Newsletter: Read gently honest reflections on body-led business, sustainable growth for sensitive entrepreneurs, and the real inner work of showing up as a highly sensitive, neurodivergent leader — rooted in my own lived experience.

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In this episode of Sensitive., I sit down with introvert confidence coach Amber Hansel for a heart-centered conversation about how confidence isn't something you're born with — it's something you build.

Amber shares her journey into coaching, her unique Harmony Method, and how introverted entrepreneurs can lead powerfully without pretending to be extroverted.

We also explore how understanding your introvert type, setting boundaries based on your true energetic needs, and moving from surface-level networking to authentic engagement can be a game-changer in your business.

What We Talk About:

Meet Amber Hansel, your introverted BFF and confidence coach helping business owners align with their authentic selves, expand visibility, and connect deeply with their audience. With a background in lead generation and a gentle, empowering approach, Amber proves you don’t have to be loud to make waves. Her mission is to help you grow your business with clarity and confidence by turning intentional, authentic connections into real results—all while staying true to who you are.

Connect with Amber:

Website

Instagram

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Your energy matters. Learn how to honor it while still making real, meaningful progress in your business — one gentle step at a time. Enroll now for $30.

1:1 Sustainable Growth Private Coaching: a personalized container for sensitive entrepreneurs ready to grow with clarity, calm, and nervous system support.

Learn more and apply.

Craving community and deep support? The Sustainable Growth Sanctuary is a slow, intimate mastermind for sensitive entrepreneurs who want to grow without overriding themselves. Next cohort enrolls in Sept. 2025

Feeling burnt out?  Burnout to Balance, a self-paced course, will help you recover your energy and rebuild your business in a way that honors your nervous system and your life.

Join My Newsletter: Read gently honest reflections on body-led business, sustainable growth for sensitive entrepreneurs, and the real inner work of showing up as a highly sensitive, neurodivergent leader — rooted in my own lived experience. 

Free Somatic Coaching Starter Session: Experience a free session using asynchronous voice memo coaching via Signal app.

In this beautiful conversation, I sit down with therapist, author, and mother Lisa Olivera to explore the deep themes of acceptance, creativity, and self-trust. I’ve been a long time admirer of Lisa and her work, which has greatly impacted my own. I hope you are as deeply nourished by listening to this conversation as I was having it.

This conversation is tender, rich, and full of permission to meet yourself exactly where you are.

Lisa Olivera is a writer, therapist, and creative who shares work centered around radical acceptance, cultivating compassion, and integrating our stories and full humanity. She holds a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Dominican University, where she received the Dr. Robert Schukraft award for Inspirational Leadership. She has worked in schools, community-based mental health, and private practice, all of which inform her lens of the world. Her work has been featured in many publications including The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Good Morning America, The Guardian, and The Huffington Post. Lisa writes the popular weekly newsletter, Human Stuff, on Substack, teaches writing workshops, and is working on her second book. Her first book, Already Enough, was published by Simon and Schuster in early 2022. She lives with her husband, daughter, and two cats in Northern California.

Lisa's Website

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Your energy matters. Learn how to honor it while still making real, meaningful progress in your business — one gentle step at a time. Enroll now for $30.

1:1 Sustainable Growth Private Coaching: a personalized container for sensitive entrepreneurs ready to grow with clarity, calm, and nervous system support.

Learn more and apply.

Craving community and deep support? The Sustainable Growth Sanctuary is a slow, intimate mastermind for sensitive entrepreneurs who want to grow without overriding themselves. Next cohort enrolls in Sept. 2025

Feeling burnt out?  Burnout to Balance, a self-paced course, will help you recover your energy and rebuild your business in a way that honors your nervous system and your life.

Join My Newsletter: Read gently honest reflections on body-led business, sustainable growth for sensitive entrepreneurs, and the real inner work of showing up as a highly sensitive, neurodivergent leader — rooted in my own lived experience.

Free Somatic Coaching Starter Session: Experience a free session using asynchronous voice memo coaching via Signal app.

In this episode of Sensitive., I sit down with someone I deeply admire and have quietly followed for years: Alexandra Covucci, a leadership coach who not only teaches transformation, but embodies it.

Whether she’s taking a sabbatical from social media to re-root in inner stillness, or leaning gently into the work of intimacy and self-trust, Alex lives what she teaches. Her leadership is not performative — it’s devotional. And in this conversation, we explore what it really means to lead ourselves first.

We talk about:

This one is for the big-hearted leaders, the deep feelers, the sensitive visionaries.

🌿 Learn more about Alex and her work: 

Alexandra is a leadership and embodiment coach who helps ambitious, high-capacity individuals succeed without self-abandonment. With over a decade of experience in leadership coaching and nervous system work, she supports leaders in building unshakable self-trust, communicating with clarity, turning emotional and energetic obstacles into fuel for their fullest potential, and creating sustainable success from the inside out.

Alexandra's Links:

-Website

-Alexandra is generously offering 5 listeners a sit-down with her to work through a block they have. That can be found here.

-Free Safe to Be Seen Masterclass

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If you’re ready to know exactly which business activity to do in accordance with your energy levels and time constraints daily, my new mini-course, The Gentle Momentum Method is for you.

This self-paced course helps you make real progress in your business, even on low-capacity days.

You’ll learn my signature Energy Mapping method that has allowed me to make meaningful progress in my business while being a highly sensitive, neurodivergent, toddler mom. It’s specifically designed to be tiny, digestible, and immediately actionable.

Learn more and enroll here for only $30

1:1 Sustainable Growth Private Coaching: a personalized container for sensitive entrepreneurs ready to grow with clarity, calm, and nervous system support. Learn more and apply here.

Craving community and deep support? The Sustainable Growth Sanctuary is a slow, intimate mastermind for sensitive entrepreneurs who want to grow without overriding themselves. Next cohort enrolls in Sept. 2025 

Feeling burnt out? Burnout to Balance, a self-paced course, will help you recover your energy and rebuild your business in a way that honors your nervous system and your life. 

Join My Newsletter: Read gently honest reflections on body-led business, sustainable growth for sensitive entrepreneurs, and the real inner work of showing up as a highly sensitive, neurodivergent leader — rooted in my own lived experience.

Free Somatic Coaching Starter Session: Experience a free session using asynchronous voice memo coaching via Signal app.

In today’s episode, I’m joined by the brilliant Sara Lobkovich for a conversation about setting goals that actually support your capacity, not override it. Sara is a coach and strategist who speaks candidly about being twice exceptional, having a trauma-impacted brain, and building a business as a deeply introverted human.

Together, we explore:

What “non-toxic” goal-setting really means

How intrinsic, “selfish” goals lead to deeper alignment

Why this approach is especially supportive for neurodivergent business owners

How to shift from achievement obsession to growth and progress

The power of coherence over consistency

A step-by-step way to set shame-free goals rooted in who you are

The connection between non-toxic productivity and nervous system-informed work

This conversation is full of practical insights and gentle reframes for anyone who’s ever felt like traditional goal-setting just... doesn’t fit.

Sara is a strategist, Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) Master Coach, and Nationally Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC) who works with purpose-led organizations and people whose identity, cognitive style, or values put them at odds with mainstream business culture.

I help people and teams shift strategy from overwhelming to achievable so they can learn their way to achieving their big, bold goals.

Sara's Links:

-Buy her Book:https://youarestrategist.com

-Join her next live intensive: Strategy During Chaos: https://findrc.co/3RkYOHK

-Connect via LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/saralobkovich

-She is @saralobkovich on most social media platforms.

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If you’re ready to know exactly which business activity to do in accordance with your energy levels and time constraints daily, my new mini-course, The Gentle Momentum Method is for you. This self-paced course helps you make real progress in your business, even on low-capacity days.

You’ll learn my signature Energy Mapping method that has allowed me to make meaningful progress in my business while being a highly sensitive, neurodivergent, toddler mom.

It’s specifically designed to be tiny, digestible, and immediately actionable.

Learn more and enroll here for only $30

1:1 Sustainable Growth Private Coaching: a personalized container for sensitive entrepreneurs ready to grow with clarity, calm, and nervous system support.

Learn more and apply here

Feeling burnt out? Burnout to Balance, a self-paced course, will help you recover your energy and rebuild your business in a way that honors your nervous system and your life.

Join My Newsletter to receive the best of what I know about running a business that honors your sensitive nervous system.

Free Somatic Coaching Starter Session: Experience a free session using asynchronous voice memo coaching via Signal app.

In today's episode of the Sensitive. podcast, I interview Lauren Van Mullem, ethical copywriter, and we discuss:

-how she got into copywriting

-the biggest mistakes she see coaches, healers, and service based entrepreneurs make in their copywriting

-the elements that need to be present to make a newsletter something that people actually want to read

-her thoughts on whether or not to use pain points in your copy

-immediately actionable tips on how you can find your own authentic voice in your copy

-how you can find your authentic voice in your business

This was such a rich, immediately actionable, and fun conversation!

Lauren Van Mullem is an ethical copywriter for life coaches, spiritual coaches, health & wellness coaches and service-based entrepreneurs. Her specialty is supporting coaches to write their own website copy to connect with their ideal clients without being "salesy" or using manipulative tactics. She offers affordable workbooks, workshops, and feedback, and (higher priced) done-for-you copywriting, as well as a monthly Free Craft n’ Copy Hour.

LAUREN'S LINKS:

Website

Instagram

Craft n' Copy Hour

DIY Template for a One-Page Website  

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If you’re ready to know exactly which business activity to do in accordance with your energy levels and time constraints daily, my new mini-course, The Gentle Momentum Method is for you. This self-paced course helps you make real progress in your business, even on low-capacity days.

You’ll learn my signature Energy Mapping method that has allowed me to make meaningful progress in my business while being a highly sensitive, neurodivergent, toddler mom.

It’s specifically designed to be tiny, digestible, and immediately actionable.

Learn more and enroll here for only $30

Sustainable Growth Private Coaching: Grow your business in a sustainable, body-led way — without burning out, overriding your needs, or sacrificing your health. Learn more and apply.

Join My Newsletter to receive the best of what I know about running a business that honors your sensitive nervous system. Get off the roller coaster.

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Almost every single one of my clients and business owners that I talk to want to be able to have a sustainable business: to be able to run their business in a way that honors their body, their capacity, their season of life, the way their brain functions best, and the amount of time they have.

They want their business to be stable, reliable, and financially successful-without compromising their wellbeing or their leisure time.

And while most folks have a deep desire for a sustainable business, they often dismiss it as a pipe dream if they are highly sensitive or neurodivergent.

In this solo episode of the Sensitive. Podcast I discuss:

-the hidden reason building a sustainable business may feel out of reach for you as a HSP or neurodivergent business owner

-I give a personal example in my own business that helped me to shift out of this and into honoring my sensitivity, capacity, and season of life in my business

-what I think the most important work for us is as HSP or neurodivergent business owners in order to build a sustainable business

-why HSP and neurodivergent business owners may miss opportunities to do things differently and more sustainably in their business

Let’s be real—most of what’s out there about running a business was not designed for HSPs or neurodivergent entrepreneurs.

The push harder, do more, override your body approach? It doesn’t work for us. But that doesn’t mean you can’t have a successful, thriving business. It just means you need to build it in a way that actually works for your unique wiring.

Inside my 1:1 coaching, I help my clients:

✅ Set boundaries and say no without spiraling into guilt.

✅ Create financial stability without sacrificing their well-being.

✅ Move through fear of rejection so they can finally show up fully.

✅ Get out of urgency and overthinking, and into ease and clarity.

✅ Take real, aligned action without slipping into burnout or endless inner work loops.

If this is the shift you’ve been craving, I have three 1:1 coaching spots open right now. Click the link to learn more and apply, and let’s see if this is the right fit for you.