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Sheila Botelho is a business strategist guiding visionary leaders to more profit, freedom, and self-trust. With decades of experience in wellness, sales, and transformational coaching, she helps founders grow businesses that generate wealth and impact—without burning out or dimming down.
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For the Woman Holding Everything Together This Week | EP 556
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This minisode is for the woman who is quietly holding everything together as the year comes to a close. The one managing logistics, emotions, expectations, and memories, while still trying to stay present and grounded. If you’ve felt both grateful and depleted this week, you’re not alone - you’re human.
In this short reflection, I share a reframe I keep returning to in my own life and in my work with high-capacity women. Holding everything together does not mean you have to hold yourself together alone. There is a difference between external busyness and internal steadiness, and learning to soften into that steadiness changes how you experience everything.
You’ll be guided through a simple grounding moment you can return to anytime you feel stretched or overextended. Deeper support continues in my January work, which you can explore in the show notes when it feels aligned.
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This week has a very specific weight to it. The kind that comes from being the one everyone relies on while trying to stay present and gracious and steady. I see this pattern constantly with capable, big-hearted women who are used to holding it all together. But here's what matters. You don't need to push harder or stay stronger to get through this moment. There's a quieter, steadier way to move through the days ahead. One that doesn't ask you to disappear in the process. And if you've been feeling stretched between responsibility and the desire to just be, this is for you. Hi, welcome to the podcast. I'm Sheila Botelho, and I believe true success is built from the inside out. This mini sode is designed to help you live into what lights you up this week. We're in that tender stretch leading into Christmas. It's full of anticipation, memory, logistics, and emotion. There's joy here, and there's also a lot of invisible labor that rarely gets named. The remembering, the anticipating, the caretaking, the emotional buffering and the pressure to make everything feel good for everyone. Plus, perhaps this isn't the happiest time of year. So if you are stretched between all of these responsibilities while wanting to slow down and needing to keep things moving, I want you to know that this is a very, very human place to be, especially for women who are used to being capable and steady and relied upon. Here's a thing I keep coming back to, both personally and in conversations with my clients. Holding everything together doesn't mean that you have to hold yourself together alone. Many women I work with are the emotional thermostat in every room they enter. You sense what's needed before it's spoken. You adjust, you regulate, you lead with care. And while that is profound strength, it can quietly turn into overfunctioning if you're not aware of it. See, there's a difference between external busyness and internal steadiness. One drains you, the other sustains you. Internal steadiness is not about having everything figured out, of course. It is, though, about being with yourself kindly while life moves around you. So let me offer you a gentle reframe to carry with you this week. You're not holding everything together. You're holding yourself with compassion as life moves around you. That subtle shift can change everything for you. It moves you out of hypervigilance and into presence and reminds your nervous system that you are allowed to soften even when things feel full. You don't have to be the strong one every moment. You don't have to anticipate every need. You're allowed to be here just as you are. Let's pause together actually for a moment and take one slow deep breath in through your nose. Let your shoulders unclench, soften your jaw, and quietly ask yourself, what do I need right now? Not what needs to be done or what someone else needs from you. What do you need? Even acknowledging the answer without fixing it is enough. So as you move through the next few days, remember this. Your softness is not a liability, it's a strength. And your boundaries are wisdom. You have presence, and it is here to be enough. If you're feeling the pull for deeper support, clarity, and a more sustainable way to lead and live, that work continues inside what I'm opening up in January. You'll see details in the show notes for when the time feels right for you. But for now, let this be enough. You're doing beautifully. And you get to feel really, really good right now in this moment. Thanks for listening, and I'll see you on another episode.