Too Human with Nurse Nell

hi babes 💛 this one’s recorded from the driver’s seat of my car, packed to the brim (mostly with my 17-foot pregnancy pillow, let’s be real lolz), as i drive four hours away from our home to temporarily relocate near a birthing hospital. i’m 33 weeks pregnant, and this is the last time i’ll see our house before i come back with our baby. wilddddd.

giving birth has always been my biggest fear - so big i didn’t even let myself consider having kids for decades.

so in this episode i’m taking you behind the scenes of what it’s like to walk toward the thing that scares you most, as a highly sensitive woman (in life) and also - running a business.

we get into:
✨ how i’m relating to my business through matrescence (i amazingly hit my first 100k year and a 34k month while pregnant and nauseated af)
✨ the two cup water manifestation method i’ve been using to bring my best timeline into the present
✨ questioning my stressful thoughts (what my self-coaching looks like these days)
✨ my actual marketing plan after 5+ years in business
✨ how i’m structuring maternity leave as a solo entrepreneur, and why flexibility (and b-minus work) is key

none of this is perfect. i’m scared and humbled and curious and trusting the fuck out of myself anyway. come along for the ride 🚗

💫 sell like an hsp is live now - $27, six days in telegram + modules you keep forever. link below.
https://danelle-gallo.mykajabi.com/sell-like-an-hsp

Rate my pod if u love it!!!

okkkk let's get into it. JOIN SELL LIKE AN HSP here: https://danelle-gallo.mykajabi.com/sell-like-an-hsp

Business is a psychedelic wormhole for highly sensitive women :) it’s accelerated shadow work. Most of the sales blueprints out there just aren’t built for your kind of nervous system, so of course selling feels like a freakinggggg hurdle.

In this episode I get into what it means to be a highly sensitive woman in a heart-centered business, where the whole “selling is gross” thing really comes from, and why the answer isn’t getting softer and quieter. It’s stepping into your POWER

In this episode I talk about:

• What high sensitivity actually is and the 4 traits Dr. Elaine Aron identified in her research
• Why highly sensitive people do worse than almost anyone in harsh environments and better than almost anyone in supportive ones, and what that means for your biz
• How high sensitivity shows up in your business: rewriting a post 283948 times, the visibility hangover after a launch, and shutting down on sales calls because you can feel your potential clients' hesitation
• Where “selling is gross” comes from: capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, and the wild story of Freud’s nephew rebranding cigarettes for women as “torches of freedom” (hehhhh)
• Why sales language is basically conquest language (target, capture, close the deal)
• Sales trauma and how we swing the pendulum way too far into shy, vague, apologetic and mousy
• Force vs. power
• Why sensitivity is not fragility, and how your attunement is actually your sales superpower
• The slimy salesperson inside of you + why we need to integrate and luv that bish
• Why never triggering anyone is not the goal

Sell Like a Highly Sensitive Person runs October 23-28 and it’s only $27.

You get deep dive modules you keep for life, somatic practices I’ve used for years to become a really good saleswoman in a heart-centered business, and a live Telegram group for community and coaching.

My goal is always to give you $3,000+ worth of value in a $27 course, and I do not hold back. JOIN HERE: https://danelle-gallo.mykajabi.com/sell-like-an-hsp

Join Sell Like an HSP for $27 <3

https://danelle-gallo.mykajabi.com/sell-like-an-hsp

rate and review my pod if you love it!!! this one's a little different. i'm SEVEN months pregnant, and breathing hard on morning walkie (lol) and updating you on how I'm relating to my biz this deep into pregnancy AND A NEW OFFER I'M LAUNCHING

208: NO, I'M NOT TOO PREGGO TO LAUNCH ANOTHER THING (let's talk about it - PLUS my new course Sell like an HSP!!!)

we get into:

• why business is 4% structure and 96% processing your emotions (especially if you're a highly sensitive woman running a heart-centered biz)
• why business is actually really simple, and why it still feels hard (and what to do about that)
• what diet culture taught me about finding a why strong enough to outlast the vanity metrics (interesting comparison, but it's legit)
• how my nervous system tried to convince me i was too tired, too pregnant, too everything to launch right now - and why i'm launching anyway (from choice, not from "should"ing myself)
• why safety is overrated in business, and why capacity is the thing actually worth investing in building inside of yourself
• why highly sensitive women are the strongest, most powerful women out there (you just gotta get out of your own way a lil bit heh)

and then...i talk about my brand new course!!! ✨

Sell Like an HSP is for the sensitive, attuned, deeply feeling women who would rather shoot themselves in the foot than come off as pushy - so they barely sell at all

we're deconditioning the belief that selling makes you slimy and cringy, and reconditioning you into knowing that offering your potent, magical work is one of the most valuable things you can do as a human on this earth <3

6 days, october 23-28. pre-recorded modules dripping out, somatic practices i've leaned on for years as a 6-figure highly sensitive business owner, live coaching in a Telegram group, and replays for life. we're talking nervous system stuff, entitlement (the sneakiest snake in your sales), the taboo persona, and LEADING without shrinking.

it's only $27 and doors open wednesday, september 30 💌

follow along @nurse_nell on IG for all the goods + updates

AH I'm sooo excited to have Brittany Loeser on Too Human with Nurse Nell. She's one of the coolest + most interesting people and I can't wait for u to hear her story and perspectives <3

ep. 207: Be the buffalo: a convo about shroomies, concussions, death portals, and discernment with Brittany Loeser

She's an embodiment coach and ceremonialist for people who want to liberate themselves from the shackles of social expectations and patriarchal conditioning, unearth their true desires, and become dangerously unapologetic ;)

Brittany's (amazing) story:

she's legit had SIX concussions. Post-concussion syndrome so severe she couldn't drive, couldn't walk her dog around the block, couldn't get down a grocery store aisle without a full-blown panic attack

A dozen doctors, almost every day, for over a year.

And then mushrooms, two ceremonies with a medicine woman, and what she calls the "before and after" of her life. A divorce. A $200k corporate job at 26 that she walked away from.

....and then rage + emotional alchemy, which she now knows was the thing she was being pointed at the entire time.

In this episode, we get into:
why hierarchy and pedestals are patriarchy in disguise, and what it costs us to keep performing "i have it all together"

the difference between trauma dumping and sharing from a place of integration

why the leaders with the most polished image are so often the ones in the most dysfunction

death portals, discernment in spiritual communities, and BEING THE BUFFALO aka turning towards the storm and walking thru it instead of running away
Find Brittany on Instagram @brittanyannette, and get into The Bitching Hour, her free community with free live coaching - https://jointhebitchinghour.com/

Be the first to know when these special episodes drop!! (+ get goodies along the way) https://danelle-gallo.mykajabi.com/thecallingaudioseries

Book a consult for THE CALLING with me here:

https://calendly.com/nursenell/the-calling-round-3

YAYYY this is a special 4-part special audio series cracking open what actually happens inside my group container THE CALLING

For highly sensitive women who want to make weird girl money inside their unique, heart-centered businesses with joy, sustainability, so much love, and a shit ton of profit <3

Four Episodes, Four Threshholds.

Episode 1: The root system

Your inner critic doesn't get to be the CEO of your biz

The decolonization work nobody tells you your business needs.

How that "not enough" voice actually got installed in you, and how to start relating to your own identity, worth, and artistry like they're actually yours

Episode 2: Relating & ecology

The world you're building (and whose rules you're unconsciously playing by)

Culture, boundaries, and the victim triangle dynamics quietly and loudly running your client relationships.

How to build a business that runs on your rules instead of a patriarchal blueprint you never consciously opted into (and that was never built for your nervous system anyway).

Episode 3: Expansion & alchemy

Existential kink for your business

The sick, twisted, hilarious, masochistic-in-a-good-way practice of alchemizing fear, rejection, and money blocks into pleasure, so visibility stops feeling like a threat and starts feeling like a turn on 😏

Episode 4: Reclaim & remember

Stepping fully into your calling

What it looks like to take on the identity of a powerful leader, a facilitator, a woman who knows exactly how incredible her work is and carry that identity with you everywhere, online and off.

This is the part where your work stops feeling like work and starts feeling like a mission you can't help but pour out of you.

Haiiii - I'm Danelle

I'm a nervous system and somatic practitioner turned business coach for highly sensitive women. 

I've spent the last 5 years building a six-figure coaching practice my own way — the weird girl way. Being myself, learning how to love selling, devoting myself to my mission and my art, having the best clients ever, and selling out my offers.

The Calling is my group coaching container where i teach all of it — the root system, the world-building, the alchemy, the leadership — to a small group of women at a time. 

This free series is your invitation behind the curtain before the next round opens.

What women say about working with me

"Just finished the course and I feel a twinkling lightness and wonder like at the end of a beautiful animated nature-heavy trailer to a pixar movie - what a tasty and healthy meal of an experience."

- N

"Danelle has changed my life many times over. Her completely unique blend of practicality, compassion, and magic was the perfect sherpa as I navigated my first year in business. My practice is now fully booked, my world is expanding, and I'm realizing some of my biggest dreams."

- E . 1:1 Client

"You share more gold in 20 min for free than most coaches offer behind paywalls in 1+ hour long classes. so grateful to have stumbled upon your brilliance."

- Podcast Listener

"Our call was sensational. I wasn't expecting that. there were tangible financial shifts after our call. I broke through a huge block I had."

- Client . Single Session

"One session with you was like 20 years of therapy."

- E

Be the first to know when these special episodes drop!! (+ get goodies along the way) https://danelle-gallo.mykajabi.com/thecallingaudioseries

Book a consult for THE CALLING with me here: https://calendly.com/nursenell/the-calling-round-3

YAYYY this is a special 4-part special audio series cracking open what actually happens inside my group container THE CALLING

For highly sensitive women who want to make weird girl money inside their unique, heart-centered businesses with joy, sustainability, so much love, and a shit ton of profit <3

Four Episodes, Four Threshholds.

Episode 1: The root system

Your inner critic doesn't get to be the CEO of your biz

The decolonization work nobody tells you your business needs.

How that "not enough" voice actually got installed in you, and how to start relating to your own identity, worth, and artistry like they're actually yours

Episode 2: Relating & ecology

The world you're building (and whose rules you're unconsciously playing by)

Culture, boundaries, and the victim triangle dynamics quietly and loudly running your client relationships.

How to build a business that runs on your rules instead of a patriarchal blueprint you never consciously opted into (and that was never built for your nervous system anyway).

Episode 3: Expansion & alchemy

Existential kink for your business

The sick, twisted, hilarious, masochistic-in-a-good-way practice of alchemizing fear, rejection, and money blocks into pleasure, so visibility stops feeling like a threat and starts feeling like a turn on 😏

Episode 4: Reclaim & remember

Stepping fully into your calling

What it looks like to take on the identity of a powerful leader, a facilitator, a woman who knows exactly how incredible her work is and carry that identity with you everywhere, online and off.

This is the part where your work stops feeling like work and starts feeling like a mission you can't help but pour out of you.

Haiiii - I'm Danelle

I'm a nervous system and somatic practitioner turned business coach for highly sensitive women. 

I've spent the last 5 years building a six-figure coaching practice my own way — the weird girl way. Being myself, learning how to love selling, devoting myself to my mission and my art, having the best clients ever, and selling out my offers.

The Calling is my group coaching container where i teach all of it — the root system, the world-building, the alchemy, the leadership — to a small group of women at a time. 

This free series is your invitation behind the curtain before the next round opens.

What women say about working with me

"Just finished the course and I feel a twinkling lightness and wonder like at the end of a beautiful animated nature-heavy trailer to a pixar movie - what a tasty and healthy meal of an experience."

- N

"Danelle has changed my life many times over. Her completely unique blend of practicality, compassion, and magic was the perfect sherpa as I navigated my first year in business. My practice is now fully booked, my world is expanding, and I'm realizing some of my biggest dreams."

- E . 1:1 Client

"You share more gold in 20 min for free than most coaches offer behind paywalls in 1+ hour long classes. so grateful to have stumbled upon your brilliance."

- Podcast Listener

"Our call was sensational. I wasn't expecting that. there were tangible financial shifts after our call. I broke through a huge block I had."

- Client . Single Session

"One session with you was like 20 years of therapy."

- E

Be the first to know when these special episodes drop!! (+ get goodies along the way) https://danelle-gallo.mykajabi.com/thecallingaudioseries

Book a consult for THE CALLING with me here:

https://calendly.com/nursenell/the-calling-round-3

YAYYY this is a special 4-part special audio series cracking open what actually happens inside my group container THE CALLING

For highly sensitive women who want to make weird girl money inside their unique, heart-centered businesses with joy, sustainability, so much love, and a shit ton of profit <3

Four Episodes, Four Threshholds.

Episode 1: The root system

Your inner critic doesn't get to be the CEO of your biz

The decolonization work nobody tells you your business needs.

How that "not enough" voice actually got installed in you, and how to start relating to your own identity, worth, and artistry like they're actually yours

Episode 2: Relating & ecology

The world you're building (and whose rules you're unconsciously playing by)

Culture, boundaries, and the victim triangle dynamics quietly and loudly running your client relationships.

How to build a business that runs on your rules instead of a patriarchal blueprint you never consciously opted into (and that was never built for your nervous system anyway).

Episode 3: Expansion & alchemy

Existential kink for your business

The sick, twisted, hilarious, masochistic-in-a-good-way practice of alchemizing fear, rejection, and money blocks into pleasure, so visibility stops feeling like a threat and starts feeling like a turn on 😏

Episode 4: Reclaim & remember

Stepping fully into your calling

What it looks like to take on the identity of a powerful leader, a facilitator, a woman who knows exactly how incredible her work is and carry that identity with you everywhere, online and off.

This is the part where your work stops feeling like work and starts feeling like a mission you can't help but pour out of you.

Haiiii - I'm Danelle

I'm a nervous system and somatic practitioner turned business coach for highly sensitive women. 

I've spent the last 5 years building a six-figure coaching practice my own way — the weird girl way. Being myself, learning how to love selling, devoting myself to my mission and my art, having the best clients ever, and selling out my offers.

The Calling is my group coaching container where i teach all of it — the root system, the world-building, the alchemy, the leadership — to a small group of women at a time. 

This free series is your invitation behind the curtain before the next round opens.

What women say about working with me

"Just finished the course and I feel a twinkling lightness and wonder like at the end of a beautiful animated nature-heavy trailer to a pixar movie - what a tasty and healthy meal of an experience."

- N

"Danelle has changed my life many times over. Her completely unique blend of practicality, compassion, and magic was the perfect sherpa as I navigated my first year in business. My practice is now fully booked, my world is expanding, and I'm realizing some of my biggest dreams."

- E . 1:1 Client

"You share more gold in 20 min for free than most coaches offer behind paywalls in 1+ hour long classes. so grateful to have stumbled upon your brilliance."

- Podcast Listener

"Our call was sensational. I wasn't expecting that. there were tangible financial shifts after our call. I broke through a huge block I had."

- Client . Single Session

"One session with you was like 20 years of therapy."

- E

Be the first to know when these special episodes drop!! (+ get goodies along the way) https://danelle-gallo.mykajabi.com/thecallingaudioseries

Book a consult for THE CALLING with me here:

https://calendly.com/nursenell/the-calling-round-3

YAYYY this is a special 4-part special audio series cracking open what actually happens inside my group container THE CALLING

For highly sensitive women who want to make weird girl money inside their unique, heart-centered businesses with joy, sustainability, so much love, and a shit ton of profit <3

Four Episodes, Four Threshholds.

Episode 1: The root system

Your inner critic doesn't get to be the CEO of your biz

The decolonization work nobody tells you your business needs.

How that "not enough" voice actually got installed in you, and how to start relating to your own identity, worth, and artistry like they're actually yours

Episode 2: Relating & ecology

The world you're building (and whose rules you're unconsciously playing by)

Culture, boundaries, and the victim triangle dynamics quietly and loudly running your client relationships.

How to build a business that runs on your rules instead of a patriarchal blueprint you never consciously opted into (and that was never built for your nervous system anyway).

Episode 3: Expansion & alchemy

Existential kink for your business

The sick, twisted, hilarious, masochistic-in-a-good-way practice of alchemizing fear, rejection, and money blocks into pleasure, so visibility stops feeling like a threat and starts feeling like a turn on 😏

Episode 4: Reclaim & remember

Stepping fully into your calling

What it looks like to take on the identity of a powerful leader, a facilitator, a woman who knows exactly how incredible her work is and carry that identity with you everywhere, online and off.

This is the part where your work stops feeling like work and starts feeling like a mission you can't help but pour out of you.

Haiiii - I'm Danelle

I'm a nervous system and somatic practitioner turned business coach for highly sensitive women. 

I've spent the last 5 years building a six-figure coaching practice my own way — the weird girl way. Being myself, learning how to love selling, devoting myself to my mission and my art, having the best clients ever, and selling out my offers.

The Calling is my group coaching container where i teach all of it — the root system, the world-building, the alchemy, the leadership — to a small group of women at a time. 

This free series is your invitation behind the curtain before the next round opens.

What women say about working with me

"Just finished the course and I feel a twinkling lightness and wonder like at the end of a beautiful animated nature-heavy trailer to a pixar movie - what a tasty and healthy meal of an experience."

- N

"Danelle has changed my life many times over. Her completely unique blend of practicality, compassion, and magic was the perfect sherpa as I navigated my first year in business. My practice is now fully booked, my world is expanding, and I'm realizing some of my biggest dreams."

- E . 1:1 Client

"You share more gold in 20 min for free than most coaches offer behind paywalls in 1+ hour long classes. so grateful to have stumbled upon your brilliance."

- Podcast Listener

"Our call was sensational. I wasn't expecting that. there were tangible financial shifts after our call. I broke through a huge block I had."

- Client . Single Session

"One session with you was like 20 years of therapy."

- E

please rate, review, and share my pod if you love it!!

in this ep, i'm cracking open something i don't think i've fully talked about before:

the quantum leaps I’ve taken in my business and exactly how i did it.

this isn't a "here's my 5 step system" episode.

it's a brain dump of the real identity shifts that took me from $20k → $60k → $100k+, and none of it was about working with more stress :)

in this ep we get into:

🌤 why you need to see yourself bigger. this took me literal years to understand on an embodied level and i explain it all

🌤 the years of free & low-cost sessions that forged me as a practitioner (and why entitlement to skip that practice can keeps people stuck)

🌤 unlearning "time = money" and grounding through serious money anxiety + childhood money wounds

🌤 the paradox of taking your work VERY seriously while also being a fuckass clown and taking none of it seriously at all lol

🌤 decolonizing what "professional" even means, and giving myself permission to be woo AF, scientific, messy, and just generally multidimensional all at once in my biz

🌤 how i built a biz model that lets people opt into my world without a huge barrier to entry

🌤 why releasing the haters and redirecting that energy into my people was one of the biggest catalysts of growth

🌤 what it actually means to "create like a child, edit like a scientist"

if you're a highly sensitive entrepreneur who's tired of hustle-culture money advice that doesn't land, this one's for you bb <3

PS if you wanna join the next round of THE CALLING, starting early September 2026, reach out to me anywhere (IG: @nurse_nell, fb Danelle Gal)

rate and review my podcast if you love it please!!!

this week's guest is Caryn Berley -- an amazingly bright enneagram teacher, somatic coach, and one of my actual clients....and we get INTO it in ep. 201. Essence, overthinking, somatics, and the power of the enneagram with the brilliant Caryn Berley

we chat about how the enneagram doesn't just tell you your "type," it hands you a map back to your ESSENCE

we talk about what it's like to be a type 9 (her type) who's spent a lifetime merging with everyone else's energy and how she's learned to work with herself

we get into how she works with clients somatically depending on their enneagram type (this is SUCH a cool and unique facet of Caryn's work)

we also get into the drama triangle, why typing yourself can take years (and why that's not you doing it wrong), and what it means to be witnessed instead of rescued <3

if you're a highly sensitive overthinker who's tired of intellectualizing your way around your own body -- this one's for you <3

here's her full bio:

Caryn Berley is a trusted Enneagram teacher, somatic coach, and recovering over-thinker who helps longtime seekers close the gap between "I know things about myself" and "I'm unmistakably, unapologetically me."

Trained as a social worker and now a multi-certified Enneagram teacher, Somatic Enneagram™ Facilitator, and trauma-informed coach, Caryn works at the intersection of the Enneagram and somatic awareness — the exact place where patterns like over-explaining, shrinking, and mentally spiraling finally loosen their grip.

Caryn hosts Enneagram Invitations: Saying Yes to Transformation and co-hosts The Enneagram Typecast and The Somatic Enneagram Podcast, with her episodes reaching over 400,000 downloads.

But she'll be the first to say the numbers aren't the point — she doesn't believe anyone can really thrive in this chaotic world without doing their own inner work, herself included. She's continually in awe of what becomes possible when we practice presence with an ever-shifting reality and learn to trust the body's wisdom.

Through her 1:1 coaching, Caryn helps clients work with their nervous system instead of against it — because willpower was never going to be the thing that got you free.

You can follow Caryn on Instagram at @carynberley, on Substack at carynberley.substack.com, and find more (including free Enneagram resources) at carynberley.com/links.