Steady Ground Mastermind for Women Entrepreneurs: 4 Practical Steps to Stay Steady When Life Shakes

BLUF: Bottom Line Up Front: When life hits hard, fear often takes the lead and a lot of people freeze. The key is learning how to calm your nervous system so you can stay grounded, think clearly, and keep moving. These four steps will help you stay steady and connected to peace, no matter what chaos is happening around you.

And if you’re a woman small business owner directly affected by the government shutdown, I’ve created a free Steady Ground Mastermind for Women Entrepreneurs to help you stay supported, resourced, and connected while we ride this out together. Details are at the bottom.

When Life Life's Hard

Have you ever felt like life handed you one plot twist too many and you didn’t know how to keep your footing?

Life doesn’t pause for our comfort. Right now, millions are facing the reality of a federal government shutdown. Essential employees are working with delayed pay. Non-essential employees are going without any pay at all. For those affected, this can feel like life or death.

Natural disasters, road closures, illness, and economic strain shake us to our very core. They test our sense of safety by poking us in the checkbook.

On the Quantum Medicine Wheel, we talk about the jaguar in the tree. A jaguar only climbs that high when it senses danger. Our nervous system does the same thing. When life hits hard, the ancient instinctual part of the brain takes over. It scans for danger, even when danger isn’t actually here.

When we fight fear, the jaguar stays in the tree. We can choose to recognize fear for what it is and soothe it to restore access to the higher reasoning that allows us to choose peace when chaos is swirling.

Here’s how to practice that, step by step.

Step 1: Notice When the Jaguar Climbs the Tree

When your stomach drops through the floor, your mind spins, and your body floods with adrenaline, your jaguar is climbing. It’s your ancient brain reacting to what’s in front of you and deciding, “This is danger!” even when it’s not always.

Fear isn’t necessarily danger. Just because you’re feeling fear doesn’t mean you’re in imminent danger.

This is your body doing what it was designed to do: protect you. The first step is noticing. Say to yourself, “My body thinks I’m in danger.” That single acknowledgment tells your nervous system that you’re aware and begins to slow the process of freaking out so you can make another choice.

Step 2: Bring the Jaguar Down

When the jaguar is in the tree, your instinctual brain is running the show. You don’t have access to logic or higher reasoning because your body redirects blood flow, oxygen, and nutrients to your major muscle groups so you can fight or run. Until your body feels safe again, your thinking brain is operating on fumes.

To restore calm, bring the jaguar down with these simple tools:

• Look Right, Look Left. Turn your head slowly to the right as far as you can and hold until your body gives a sign it’s calming down, like a yawn or a sigh. Then turn to the left and hold until you feel another release.

• Bilateral Butterfly Taps. Cross your arms over your chest and tap twice on one shoulder, then twice on the other, rhythmically for one to two minutes. This reintegrates both hemispheres of the brain and tells the body it’s safe.

• 1 to 1.5 Breathing. Inhale to a count of three and exhale to five. A longer exhale signals safety and brings your body back to center.

Each of these techniques tells your system, “You are safe right now.” Once your body accepts that message, oxygen and blood flow return to the higher brain, and you regain logic, clarity, and choice.

Step 3: Choose Peace in the Midst of Chaos

Fear is a reaction, not the truth of a situation.

Once you identify fear for what it is, you can choose peace. You can process your emotions, feel what’s real, and still move forward.

The world will always shift. Systems fail. People lie. Nature changes the plan. What matters is how we meet it.

A soul-aligned business supports you through it all. It offers energetic steadiness and practical resilience. It can also create a financial buffer so you don’t feel as vulnerable when life gets unpredictable. Peace becomes possible because you’re supported on every level: emotionally, spiritually, and materially.

Step 4: Protect Your Peace at All Costs

Peace is hard-won. Keep it protected.

That might mean deleting Facebook or Instagram from your phone or using a third-party scheduling app so you can post for business, do what needs to be done, and get the hell out.

I don’t keep the main social apps on my phone. I use the Business Suite app so I can engage with my community while keeping strong boundaries with my energy.

Protecting your peace also means choosing kindness toward yourself and toward others.

Our country’s division exists because we’ve forgotten our shared humanity. Everyone is doing the best they can with the information they have. And yes, sometimes that information is wrong because someone lied to them. That doesn’t make them less human.

When you choose peace, you stop feeding collective fear. You model calm, compassion, and integrity. That is leadership.

What is a Mastermind (and Why It Matters Now)

We've all been to networking events where no real connections are made by a parade of 'pitchers' gets up 1 at a time and spends their 60-seconds pitching themselves or their work. We've all been to business gatherings where nothing beyond simple complaining happens. A Mastermind is not that. Napoleon Hill, one of the most brilliant businessmen ever defined a Mastermind as a "coordination of knowledge and effort in a spirit of harmony between two or more people for a definite purpose."

That harmony creates what he called a "third mind", a kind of shared intelligence greater than any one person's alone.

The Steady Ground Mastermind for Women Entrepreneurs is built an that principle. It's a small, focused group where women share resources and ideas, insights and creativity, and encouragement and accountability while learning business strategies that keep them focused and moving toward greater profitiability. Even when the ground feels shaky under your feet.

Apply for the "Steady Ground" Mastermind for Women Entrepreneurs

If you’re a woman entrepreneur or small business owner directly affected by the government shutdown, either as a federal employee or contractor or with a spouse who is, I’ve created something to help.

Join me for a free online Mastermind group that meets twice per month. You’ll get real-time solution seeking, practical business advice, and a powerful network of women who understand what you’re navigating. Peer solution-seeking is often the very thing that carries us through difficult times in business!

Each meeting will also include a short, 15-minute training where I’ll share practical, actionable strategies for creating more impact and income. These trainings are short and focused so you can apply what you learn right away.

This Mastermind will remain free until 30 days after a new federal budget is passed and everyone starts getting paid again. After that, those who want to stay will have the option to continue as paid members.

The conversations, insights, and connections inside this space can change the trajectory of your business and how you weather uncertainty.

Click here to apply now!

What helps you return to peace when fear tries to take the lead?