Women Entrepreneurs: From Over-Serving to Self-Leadership (Heal Your Inner System, End Burnout)

Unlearn The Crap & Level Up Your Soul is Calling

Are you serving everyone but yourself? In this episode, Dr. Naleeni Partrap—an intuitive business coach and pharmacist—joins Kathy to unpack how inner system leadership (inspired by IFS principles) helps women entrepreneurs end burnout, set clean boundaries, and grow with ease.

We break down the “good girl” myths that fuel over-giving, why tactics fail without nervous-system alignment, and how to reassign the parts running your hustle (the Pleaser, the Perfectionist, the Firefighter). Expect practical prompts to upgrade your pricing, capacity, and energy—so your business stops taking from you and starts sustaining you.

Connect with Dr. Naleeni Partap at Instagram at The Being Institute or LinkedIN

Explore more from Kathy at kathybaldwin.me and grab her books: Unlearn the Crap & Level UP: Your Soul is Calling and How I Unlearned MY Crap and the last of the trilogy The Unlearned Life (Amazon + bookstores).

Listen, share, and leave a review—your voice grows this movement. Show notes include Dr. Neela’s links and resources.

🎙️ Key Highlights

• Guest’s “Crap to Unlearn:” The world taught her to serve; her soul asked her to receive. People-pleasing, over-giving, and ignoring her own boundaries were glamorized—until she learned to lead her inner system (think: parts, beliefs, nervous system) and run a business from wholeness, not urgency.

• Kathy’s Tie-In: Kathy connects this to unlearning conditioned responses that keep women hustling for validation—then rebuilding success on aligned habits, self-trust, and clean systems.

• Context: We touch on Internal Family Systems (IFS) ideas and why inner self-leadership is the missing operational backbone for sustainable entrepreneurship.

• Relatable Signs & Patterns: Chronic burnout, resentment after “doing everything right,” fuzzy boundaries, under-pricing, perfectionism, stop-start marketing, and “I’ll rest when…” loops.

• Myths We Bust: “Service means self-sacrifice,” “Hustle is the only path,” “Emotions don’t belong in business,” and “Strong women don’t need help.”

• Action Step: Start an Inner System Audit: identify your over-functioning parts (the Saver, the Hustler, the Pleaser), give them new roles, and make one boundary or pricing upgrade this week.

• Guest CTA: Learn more about Dr. Neela’s inner-system coaching for women entrepreneurs (link in show notes).

💡 Memorable Quotes

• Dr. Neela: “We have to know that the Self lives within us—our parts aren’t bad; they just need leadership.”

• Dr. Neela: “You can’t hand someone a tactic and ignore how their parts will react to it.”

• Dr. Neela: “A sign of strength is facing what you couldn’t access before and giving it a role that serves you.”

• Kathy: “It’s not you that’s broken—it’s the conditioning you’re unlearning so your genius can lead.”

• Kathy: “When you build from alignment, your business becomes sustainable—and your life gets bigger.”