What if the pressure to “start fresh” on January 1 isn’t motivating you because it was never designed for your body - or your prosperity - in the first place?

In this episode of Plenty, I’m dismantling the myth of the New Year and offering a radically more sustainable way to begin again - one that doesn’t grind your gears, burn out your nervous system, or sabotage your income.

January 1 is an arbitrary date created for economic standardization, not for human or ecological wellbeing. Yet so many ambitious, capable women push themselves to hit the ground running in the dead of winter - and then wonder why they’re exhausted by February. There’s nothing wrong with you. You’re responding intelligently to a system that’s out of sync with life itself.

In this conversation, I walk you through why aligning exclusively with the Gregorian calendar quietly increases burnout, cortisol, and brittle business decisions - and how working with your biological and seasonal rhythms creates clarity, momentum, and more money with less effort. We explore the difference between linear, transactional time and the kind of timeless presence where your best decisions, creativity, and magnetism actually live.

I also share a practical, body-based map for structuring your year around real rhythm - composting and clarity in winter, emergence in spring, visibility in summer, and harvest in fall - so your work is supported by nature instead of fighting it. This is the same approach my company used to eliminate 90% of our offers, double down on what actually worked, and create our biggest revenue years with fewer promotions and far less strain.

If you’ve ever felt behind at the start of a year, this episode will reset your relationship with time itself - and show you how a regulated nervous system becomes one of your most powerful financial assets.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why January 1 is not a true beginning - and why your body knows it
• How ignoring biological rhythms leads to burnout and weaker financial decisions
• The difference between Kronos time (measured, pressured) and Kairos time (expansive, meaningful)
• How seasonal planning reduces friction and increases profitability
• Why doing less can actually create more momentum, revenue, and impact

This is an invitation to stop chasing artificial beginnings and start living inside cyclical momentum - where your energy, creativity, and income compound naturally.

“A regulated nervous system makes better financial decisions. Less impulsive spending. Clearer pricing. More trust in timing.”–Kate Northrup

🎤 Let’s Dive into the Good Stuff on Plenty 🎤

00:00 Introduction to Abundance and Energy
00:38 The Pressure of New Beginnings
02:24 Reclaiming Time and Energy
03:50 Historical Perspectives on Time
05:00 The Economics of Time
13:09 The Power of Seasonal Alignment
18:22 Aligning with Nature for Prosperity
21:00 Emergence and Action
24:55 Reflection and Celebration

Links and Resources:

Do Less
Heal the Way You Work
Relaxed Money

✨ Heal the Way You Work: Build a Spacious, Profitable Business - Without Working More

Working harder doesn’t create sustainable success… but this does. Heal the Way You Work is a body-centered approach to building a business that supports your life - so growth feels grounded, spacious, and actually enjoyable. 🌿💻

Inside, you’ll learn how to:
💡 Rewire how you work so profitability increases without adding more hours.
🎯 Build systems and rhythms that honor your body, seasons, and real capacity.
✨ Apply the 80/20 principle to focus only on what truly moves the needle - while letting the rest fall away.

More effort won’t create ease - a healed relationship with work will. Ready to work less and live more?

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Related Episode:

How to Feel Safe Earning More (Without Sabotaging or Overspending It) (136)

Have you ever wondered if money isn’t just a resource…but a living consciousness you’re already in relationship with?

In this week’s episode of Plenty, I sit down with The Money Shaman, Ry Schwartz, for one of the most paradigm-shifting conversations I’ve ever had about money, healing, and the unseen forces that shape our financial lives.

Ry and I explore money not as something we “manage,” fix, or master — but as a fluid, evolving consciousness that responds to our awareness, our compassion, and our willingness to be in genuine relationship with it.

We talk about why shadow money work often feels so relieving, how different “streams” of money carry different energetic signatures, why some dollars feel light and others feel heavy, and how we can become stewards who help money heal as it moves through our lives.

We also dive into…
✨ What it means to let money find you even when you feel messy or imperfect
✨ How money takes on the energetic imprint of the intentions and emotions it passes through
✨ Simple daily practices to “witness” your money so it can relax and reorganize
✨ Why avoidance around money is rarely laziness — and what it’s usually protecting you from
✨ The connection between intimacy, generosity, and increased financial receptivity
✨ How couples can co-create a shared field that expands both pleasure and prosperity

This conversation is tender, revelatory, and wildly practical. Ry offers a new way of relating to money that brings more safety into your system, more flow into your life, and more grace into every financial exchange.

If you’re craving a relationship with money that feels warm, conscious, and regenerative — this episode is for you.

“Not all money is the same. It carries different vibratory qualities depending on the energies it’s passed through.”–The Money Shaman, Ry Schwartz

🎤 Let’s Dive into the Good Stuff on Plenty 🎤

00:00 — Entering the portal: Blue Lotus, synchronicity & the energetic opening
04:38 — What Sacred Commerce is & why it’s a bridge beyond capitalism
10:32 — Wealth as spiritual: permission to thrive, earn, and support your lineage
14:25 — Widening the scope: giving back, sourcing energy beyond the self
19:09 — The truth about “enough”: resources, circulation & debunking zero-sum thinking
22:33 — Ceremony as a business tool: accessing other realms for support
26:14 — Wealth, privilege, and survivor’s guilt: metabolizing the complexity
30:27 — Asha’s big why: land conservation & land-back as sacred commerce
37:47 — Merging the magical & the logical: operating beyond a 3D-only business
43:41 — Human design & astrology as instructional systems for your body of work
50:37 — The power of offerings: plants, essences, and ceremonial support
57:22 — Your dharma type: the archetypal soul energy you are here to embody

Links and Resources:

Money Reset

Connect with Ry Schwartz:

LinkedIn
Instagram

✨ The Money Reset: Feel Good with Money—No Matter How Much You Make

Rewire your nervous system for wealth, stop the money-in/money-out cycle, and create sustainable abundance. Includes the 5-Minute Calm Cashflow Ritual.

→ Get it free at katenorthrup.com/reset

Have you ever wondered why money feels so much more spacious when you make one aligned decision instead of a thousand tiny ones every day?

In this week’s episode of Plenty, I’m diving deep into one of the most overlooked pathways to relaxed wealth: financial boundaries. Not the rigid, budget-heavy kind that feel like punishment… but the kind that act like the riverbanks that keep your financial flow clear, directed, and easeful.

I share how boundaries — financial and energetic — create more safety in your nervous system, more trust in your decisions, and more alignment between where your money goes and what truly matters to you. We explore:

🌿 Why decision fatigue drains not only your energy but your money
🌿 How to know (in your body) when something is a financial yes or no
🌿 The connection between your human design authority and aligned money choices
🌿 Real examples of my own financial boundaries, from client agreements to household spending
🌿 Why saying “no” to the misaligned is actually saying a deeper “yes” to yourself

You’ll also hear simple ways to start practicing aligned yeses and embodied noes in tiny, everyday moments — which makes the bigger financial choices so much clearer. And I walk you through how to begin crafting the kinds of abundance agreements we use inside Relaxed Money so your money can flow where it’s meant to, without leaking into places that don’t nourish you.

If you’ve ever felt like money decisions take more energy than you want to give… or you know your spending and earning could feel more regenerative and grounded… this episode will feel like an exhale.

And if you want support rewiring your nervous system for greater ease with money, don’t miss the free Money Reset audio experience I created for you at katenorthrup.com/reset.

“Financial boundaries are the riverbanks that keep your abundance flowing where it’s meant to go.” –Kate Northrup

🎤 Let’s Dive into the Good Stuff on Plenty 🎤

00:00 Introduction to Financial Boundaries
00:38 Understanding Financial Boundaries
01:13 The Importance of Financial Boundaries
02:16 Signs You Need Financial Boundaries
03:08 Decision Fatigue and Financial Boundaries
04:19 Creating Abundance Agreements
05:24 Aligning Spending with Values
07:48 Consumer Culture and Financial Awareness
08:54 The Purpose of Money
10:00 Setting Financial Boundaries
11:49 Examples of Personal Financial Boundaries
13:06 Learning from Financial Mistakes
13:54 Practicing Financial Awareness
14:30 Operationalizing Financial Boundaries
15:01 Client Communication Boundaries
16:02 General Financial Guidelines
17:06 Reframing Financial Boundaries
17:32 Safety in Financial Boundaries
18:23 Empowered Financial Decisions
19:33 Conclusion and Next Steps

Links and Resources:

The Money Reset

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Inside, you’ll learn how to:
💡 Use your existing expertise to stand out to editors and producers.
🎯 Pitch yourself in a way that feels natural—and gets traction.
✨ Grow your audience and authority without spending a dime on ads.

Visibility doesn’t have to be complicated. It can be simple, strategic, and wildly effective.

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Related Episode:

How to Feel Safe Earning More (Without Sabotaging or Overspending It) (136)

Have you ever realized that the identity you’ve built—the one that’s kept everything running—might also be the very thing keeping you from your next becoming?

In this week’s episode of Plenty, I get to sit down with someone who has witnessed me through many of my own becomings: my longtime friend and former coach, Chela Davison. Our conversation is an intimate, funny, deeply human exploration of midlife unraveling as an initiation into deeper truth, creative recovery, and a fuller expression of self.

Chela and I trace the arc of her journey from being the hyper-capable, endlessly resilient woman who could “make anything happen,” to the moment her internal generator finally sputtered out—and how that collapse ushered her into a two-year wintering season that ultimately birthed her acclaimed one-woman show, A Little Bit Much. We talk about the illusion of the breadwinner, the stories we project onto our partnerships, and the internalized cultural narratives that quietly shape our sense of worth.

We also explore what it means to be “a little bit much” in a world that often prefers women palatable and contained—how to preserve our aliveness without overwhelming ourselves or others, and how to move from performative productivity into regenerative creativity. Chela’s story is a living example of following the energy, listening for what wants to be created, and allowing art to heal the artist first.

This episode is full of laughter, truth telling, permission, and the kind of midlife wisdom that only comes from letting something fall apart so something truer can emerge.

I can’t wait for you to listen.

In this episode you’ll discover:

✨ Over-identifying with resilience led to burnout
✨ Creative recovery came from stepping back and slowing down
✨ Challenging and redefining breadwinner narratives
✨ Embracing being “a little bit much” as strength
✨ Creative growth comes from staying with the process

“I looked around and asked myself, ‘Who am I willing to disappoint to get my life back?’ And the first person I realized I was willing to disappoint… was me.” — Chela Davidson

🎤 Let’s Dive into the Good Stuff on Plenty 🎤

00:00 – Introduction to Resilience & Identity
00:26 – Guest Background & Creative Recovery
03:00 – Turning 40, Maturity & Evolving Identity
05:12 – Childhood Messaging & Self-Perception
07:35 – Career Success, Challenges & Vulnerability
09:13 – Burnout, Loss & Identity Crisis
11:51 – Reclaiming Creative Life Force
13:07 – Resentment, Breadwinning & Gender Expectations
16:21 – Healing Through Vulnerability & Relationship Dynamics
19:17 – The Influence of Patriarchy & Processing Resentment
21:25 – Creative Recovery, New Projects & Self-Discovery
27:22 – Vulnerability in Creative Processes & Community
38:19 – Social Media, Creative Resistance & Staying With the Work
44:18 – Art, Healing & Creative Integrity
50:42 – The Journey of Art, Commerce & Creative Community
54:49 – Closing Thoughts & Resources

Links and Resources:

Free Money Breakthrough Guide

Connect with Chela Davison:

Website
Wizdotainment
A Little Bit Much
Instagram

✨ The Money Reset: Feel Good with Money—No Matter How Much You Make

Rewire your nervous system for wealth, stop the money-in/money-out cycle, and create sustainable abundance. Includes the 5-Minute Calm Cashflow Ritual.

→ Get it free at katenorthrup.com/reset

Have you ever made more money… only to find yourself overspending, shrinking back, or feeling anxious instead of abundant? If so, you’re not alone — and there’s nothing wrong with you.

In this episode, I explore one of the most important — and most misunderstood — pieces of financial growth: your money nervous system thermostat. We often think that earning more should feel good, natural, or easy. But the truth is, if a part of your body doesn’t feel safe with more, it will unconsciously pull you back to what’s familiar, even if what’s familiar is financial stress, inconsistency, or sabotage.

I share:
✨ Why lifestyle inflation, overspending, or freezing with money isn’t a lack of discipline — it’s a nervous system response.
✨ How our childhood environment (not just money memories) sets our internal “thermostat” for how much abundance feels safe.
✨ The science behind why expansion often triggers threat responses like guilt, fear, or shame — even when something good is happening.
✨ Powerful, practical tools to build your capacity to earn more and keep more, including nervous system healing practices and co-regulation in community.

I also share personal stories — including the moment Louise Hay offered me my first book deal and why my immediate response was a shame spiral rather than celebration. This is such a potent example of how expansion can overwhelm our body if we haven’t updated our internal capacity to receive more.

You’ll walk away understanding:
🌿 Why financial strategy can’t stick without nervous system safety
🌿 How to start signaling “you are safe” during both contraction and expansion
🌿 The key questions to ask your body to uncover the stories and sensations running the show
🌿 How safe community accelerates your capacity to hold more wealth with ease and consistency

This episode will help you stop the patterns that have kept you cycling between making more and losing it — and instead begin to create a nervous system that can hold, grow, and enjoy wealth. When you practice feeling safe with more, more becomes normal.

"If you've ever made more money only to find yourself shrinking back, overspending, or sabotaging it, it’s not because there’s something wrong with you — it’s because a part of you doesn’t feel safe with more." –Kate Northrup

🎤 Let’s Dive into the Good Stuff on Plenty 🎤

00:00 Welcome + Why earning more can feel unsafe
02:10 Justin Bieber example: making more ≠ keeping more
04:05 Lifestyle creep + hedonic adaptation explained
06:00 What your “money nervous system thermostat” really is
08:15 How childhood environment shapes your financial capacity
10:20 Why expansion can trigger sabotage, fear, or shame
12:45 Overspending, overgiving, or freezing: different dysregulation patterns
14:30 Tools to signal safety during financial expansion
17:05 Kate’s Hay House book-deal story + co-regulation
19:40 Questions to ask your body to expand your money capacity
21:30 Closing + The Money Reset invitation

Links and Resources:

Neurosomatic Intelligence
Relaxed Money Live

✨ The Money Reset: Feel Good with Money—No Matter How Much You Make

Making more money doesn’t guarantee financial ease… but this will. The Money Reset is a free audio experience designed to help you rewire your nervous system for wealth—so managing money feels effortless. 🎧💸

Inside, you’ll learn how to:
💡 Break the “money in, money out” cycle and create lasting stability.
🎯 Relax into a new relationship with money—where structure meets flow.
✨ Use the 5-Minute Calm Cashflow Ritual to bring instant clarity to your finances.

More money won’t solve money stress—a resourced, supple nervous system will. Ready to shift? 👉 Get The Money Reset now! 👈

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What if your business was a temple?

In this week’s episode, Kate talks with Asha Ramakrishna—priestess, molecular biologist, and author—about Sacred Commerce: an emergent framework bridging capitalism and consciousness. Asha reveals the four ethos of sacred commerce—Feel Good, Be Wealthy, Give Back, and Liberate—and shares how merging the magical and the logical allows us to heal our relationship with money and purpose.

They explore Blue Lotus as a sacred symbol of rebirth, Lakshmi energy, human design as a business map, and how knowing your dharma type can guide your offerings and marketing in an energetically aligned way.

In this episode you’ll discover:

✨ The four ethos of Sacred Commerce
✨ Why pleasure is essential to prosperity
✨ How wealth, dharma, and liberation interconnect
✨ Using astrology and human design to decode your “soul map”
✨ Blue Lotus, Lakshmi, and ceremony as allies in business
✨ Why your conscious sun holds your key to expression

“Sacred commerce is about merging the magical and the logical—heaven and earth, sun and moon—so that business becomes a bridge to liberation.” — Asha Ramakrishna

🎤 Let’s Dive into the Good Stuff on Plenty 🎤

00:00 Kate opens with the magic of Asha’s arrival and the portal of Blue Lotus
03:10 What is Sacred Commerce? A bridge between capitalism and consciousness
07:42 The four ethos: Feel Good, Be Wealthy, Give Back, Liberate
14:10 Blue Lotus, Lakshmi, and the sacredness of abundance
20:30 How to redefine wealth and permission to prosper
26:15 Giving back through widening your energy sources
33:20 Bridging spirituality and capitalism with ceremony and offering
38:40 Vedic astrology and human design as business maps
46:00 The conscious sun and incarnation cross: finding your instructions
54:00 How stories and oral tradition unlock transformation
59:00 Discovering your dharma type and archetype for sacred work
1:03:00 Where to learn more and connect with Asha

Links and Resources:

The Priestess Code: Awakening the Modern Woman by Asha Ramakrishna
Your Soul Map: Liberation, Human Design, and the BIPOC Experience by Asha Ramakrishna & AC Brown
Relaxed Money
The Money Reset – Free Audio Experience

Connect with Asha Ramakrishna:

Website
Instagram

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What if dissolving shame is the missing step between you and real financial momentum?

In this solo episode of Plenty, Kate unpacks the tight grip of debt shame and financial secrecy—and why hiding from the numbers stalls your progress far more than the numbers themselves. She reframes debt as “invoices for blessings already received” and makes the critical distinction between high-interest consumer debt and debt that makes you money (the positive “spread” when your return outpaces your interest). You’ll also hear why all-or-nothing thinking is a nervous-system red flag, and how telling someone safe is often the first step to clarity and action.

We cover: releasing shame by bringing things into the light, building capacity to “do the math,” and seeing nuanced opportunities—so you can either dissolve unhelpful debt or strategically leverage it for wealth.

Listen now to discover:
✨ Why shame halts financial progress—and how sharing it sets you free
✨ “Invoices for blessings already received” as a practical reframe for debt
✨ The difference between consumer debt and return-producing leverage (the spread)
✨ How dysregulation fuels avoidant money habits—and what to do instead
✨ A simple truth-telling step: tell someone safe and start looking at the numbers

“I call debt invoices for blessings already received.” — Kate Northrup

🎤 Let’s Dive into the Good Stuff on Plenty 🎤

00:00 Why debt shame keeps you stuck; welcoming honesty and light
00:27 Show intro: money, time, energy, and a life of plenty
01:27 Debt, secrecy, and why shame halts financial progress
02:22 Tell the truth (to someone safe); vulnerability has to be earned
03:12 Debt ≠ bad: using credit as a wealth-building tool when appropriate
04:09 Credit, solvency, and why “no credit” can limit leverage
06:03 “Invoices for blessings already received” (student loans, credit cards, mortgages)
06:40 Beware false binaries; nuance requires a regulated nervous system
07:12 The spread: borrowing at 4% to earn 100%—a positive use of debt
09:32 High-interest consumer debt vs. productive debt (don’t pay 20% APR)
11:05 Normalizing the month-to-month “float” in real businesses
13:48 From credit-card debt to 8-figure growth: dissolving shame to act
15:11 When fear blocks math: build capacity, then choose the smart move
16:22 Two actions: tell someone safe; start doing something about it
17:19 Seeing you may have been smarter than you thought (the numbers help)
18:19 Learn the lesson, integrate it, and change the pattern
19:36 Any past decision can become wealth once shame’s story is dropped

Links and Resources:

Brené Brown
Relaxed Money

✨ The Money Reset: Feel Good with Money—No Matter How Much You Make

Making more money doesn’t guarantee financial ease… but this will. The Money Reset is a free audio experience designed to help you rewire your nervous system for wealth—so managing money feels effortless.

Inside, you’ll learn how to:
💡 Break the “money in, money out” cycle and create lasting stability
🎯 Relax into a new relationship with money—where structure meets flow
✨ Use the 5-Minute Calm Cashflow Ritual to bring instant clarity to your finances

More money won’t solve money stress—a resourced, supple nervous system will. Ready to shift? 👉 Get The Money Reset now! 👈

What if healing the masculine is the key to deeper love, better health, and a more peaceful world?

In this powerful episode of Plenty, I sit down with Dr. Brad Jacobs, an integrative precision medicine doctor and thought leader who bridges Western science, Eastern wisdom, and emotional intelligence. Together, we explore what it really looks like to heal father wounds, move beyond toxic masculinity, and find balance between strength and softness—both within men and in our relationships with them.

We talk about Brad’s personal journey from reactivity and anger to grounded emotional presence—a transformation that reshaped how he parents, partners, and practices medicine. You’ll hear how he learned to hold boundaries without shutting down, create safety without control, and embody a new model of masculine leadership rooted in awareness, humility, and heart.

We also dive into how our emotional patterns influence our health, the importance of processing anger and stress through the body (not just the mind), and what happens when we offer ourselves—and our partners—compassion instead of judgment. Brad shares how practices like Hakomi therapy, mindfulness, and even simple breath awareness can help us release inherited emotional “sludge” and build resilience from the inside out.

Whether you’re navigating your own relationship dynamics, raising emotionally intelligent kids, or simply curious about how to create more presence and connection in your life, this conversation offers both science and soul.

Together, we explore what it means to integrate—to honor the full spectrum of who we are—so that healing the masculine becomes part of healing all of us. 💛

Listen now to discover:
✨ What “healing the masculine” really means and how it impacts your relationships
✨ The link between emotional regulation, nervous system health, and longevity
✨ Simple practices to help you pause reactivity and return to grounded presence
✨ How to support the men you love in reconnecting to their emotional selves

“I realized I don’t have to match someone else’s emotional storm. I can hold the line with love and let them move through it —that’s real strength.” –Dr. Brad Jacobs

🎤 Let’s Dive into the Good Stuff on Plenty 🎤

00:30 Introduction to Emotional Responses
02:16 Introduction to Precision Medicine
04:49 Martial Arts and Health Perspectives
08:34 Managing Emotions and Agency
11:15 Personal Stories of Anger and Control
13:44 Transitioning from Reactivity to Stability
17:40 Inviting Honest Feedback
22:29 Understanding Emotional Regulation
26:53 The Role of Past Experiences in Healing
28:19 Hokomi Psychotherapy Explained
30:48 Transformation Through Peak Experiences
44:10 Supporting Partners in Personal Growth

Links and Resources:

Blue Wave Medicine
Institute for the Future
The Hakomi Institute
Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love, Gottman

Connect with Dr. Brad Jacobs:

Website
Instagram
Facebook

✨ The Money Reset: Feel Good with Money—No Matter How Much You Make

Making more money doesn’t guarantee financial ease… but this will. The Money Reset is a free audio experience designed to help you rewire your nervous system for wealth—so managing money feels effortless. 🎧💸

Inside, you’ll learn how to:
💡 Break the ‘money in, money out’ cycle and create lasting stability.
🎯 Relax into a new relationship with money—where structure meets flow.
✨ Use the 5-Minute Calm Cashflow Ritual to bring instant clarity to your finances.

More money won’t solve money stress—a resourced, supple nervous system will. Ready to shift? 👉 Get The Money Reset Now! 👈