These are the podcasts, books, tools, and software we regularly recommend to our clients. Explore these solid resources to help you grow a thriving wellness business without losing your heart or frazzling your nervous system.

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WELLNESS BUSINESS GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT LIBRARY

Resources, Tools, & Inspiration

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Inspiring Wellness Business Podcasts

These podcasts offer unique insights for cultivating a thriving wellness business.

Inspiring Personal Growth & Development Podcasts

These are the podcasts I turn to for fresh perspectives and inspiration.

Business Books On My bookShelF

These are books that have genuinely shaped how I think about business, marketing, and visibility.

Books On My bookShelF

These books have shaped how I “human.”

Heart-Centered Business Development Resources

  • Calm Business logo

    Business and marketing courses for gentle, heart-centered solopreneurs who want to grow sustainably—especially supportive for empathic introverts, highly sensitive people, and entrepreneurs navigating fluctuating energy or ADHD.

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  • Heart of Business Learning Community logo

    A supportive heart-centered community offering compassionate accountability, practical business training, coaching, and spiritual nourishment to help you grow your business steadily and sustainably.

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  • George Kao is a trusted voice in heart-centered marketing, helping coaches, healers, and service-based entrepreneurs grow their work through generosity, authentic connection, and quietly powerful relationship-building.

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  • Leonie Dawson shares creative, values-aligned marketing that helps soulful entrepreneurs grow sustainable businesses through authentic content, email connection, and simple offers—without relying on constant social media.

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Personal Growth & Development Resources

Business Marketing Tools

  • Squarespace logo

    Squarespace is our very favorite website platform for wellness businesses.

    It’s beautiful, clean, scalable, and easy for you to update yourself, with built-in scheduling, payments, email marketing, courses, blogging tools, ecommerce, and more.

    Drop me a line, and I’ll pass on my 20% discount.

    Explore Squarespace

  • An easy-to-love, easy-to-use ‘drag-and-drop’ design platform.

    Create beautiful graphics, social posts, handouts, marketing materials, and more—no design training required. With customizable templates, photos, fonts, and clever tools, you can quickly produce polished visuals that reflect your brand and communicate professionally with your audience.

    Explore Canva

  • Flodesk logo

    Design Emails Your Clients Love to Get

    We recommend checking out Flodesk for email marketing. We’ve been using it for our newsletters, and it’s incredibly user-friendly, and their templates are stunning.

    Here’s the link to get 25% off your first year and get their link-in-bio feature completely free.

    Explore Flodesk + Get 25% Off

  • GoLive logo

    Squarespace Website Templates

    Beautiful, strategically structured templates designed for wellness professionals—helping you showcase your work, communicate your expertise, and attract aligned clients.

    Use code CLAIRE10 for 10% off.
    (And if you’d like help customizing it, we’d be delighted to support you.)

    Explore Templates + Get 10% Off

Productivity Tools

  • Gmail icon with a clock indicating 'Inbox When Ready' feature for Gmail.

    A free browser extension that reduces email overwhelm by hiding distractions and allowing you to process messages more intentionally.

    Check it out

  • Graphic with a red background displaying the white text 'Pomofocus' with a checkmark icon.

    Improve your focus and overcome procrastination with this specialized FREE online timer: work for a series of 25-minute intervals followed by 5-minute breaks.

    Try Pomofocus

  • Trello logo

    A simple visual task management system that helps you organize tasks, ideas, and projects in a clear, flexible way.

    Explore Trello

  • Black and white logo of Notion app, featuring a 3D cube with the letter 'N' inside and the word 'Notion' next to it.

    A powerful all-in-one workspace for organizing projects, notes, and workflows. Ideal for keeping your business systems clear and centralized.

    Explore Notion

Money Management Tools & Resources

  • Logo with the word 'STASH' in blue letters and the tagline 'Micro-Investing Made Easy' in black.

    STASH Micro-Investing

    Stash is a beginner-friendly investing app that makes it easy to learn about money while building long-term wealth. Start with fractional shares of thousands of stocks—even with just a few dollars—and set up automatic investing on a schedule.

    Here’s $30 to get you started investing.

    Explore STASH

  • Relax online small business banking logo on a light beige background

    Relay Banking

    Relay is a modern online banking platform designed for small business owners who want clarity and calm around their finances. Create multiple accounts for profit, taxes, owner’s pay, and expenses so your money stays clearly organized. As the official banking platform for the Profit First method, it’s purpose-built for this approach.

    Explore RELAY BANK

  • Wave logo

    Wave Accounting

    Create beautiful invoices, accept online payments, and make accounting easy—all in one place—with Wave’s FREE suite of money management tools. Over 300,000 North American small business owners trust Wave to help them look super professional to clients while staying organized for tax season.

    Explore WAVE

  • Somatic Finance with Gayle Coleman logo

    Somatic Finance

    If you're longing for a new way with money so that you can enjoy whole-body wealth as a felt experience, explore Gayle's 'embodied finance' offerings including classes, practices, coaching, writings, videos, audio, and events for creating a more beautiful and sustainable world.

    Explore SOMATIC FINANCE

Communication Tools

  • Loom logo

    A fave of mine! Loom is a simple video messaging tool that lets you quickly record your screen, camera, or both to explain ideas, share feedback, or create tutorials.  

    Explore LOOM

  • Zoom logo

    A simple, reliable platform for meeting with clients, hosting workshops, teaching classes, or recording content online.

    Explore ZOOM

  • Grammarly logo

    A helpful writing assistant that catches grammar errors and helps polish your writing so your communication stays clear and professional.

    Explore GRAMMARLY

  • A cute, cartoon pink hippopotamus with large eyes and a friendly expression, with the words "word hippo" beneath it.

    A wonderfully handy FREE word tool for writers and creatives, helping you quickly find synonyms, rhymes, and definitions when you’re searching for just the right word.

    Try WORD HIPPO

TOOLS TO Protect you & Your Business

  • Blogger Disclaimer Template

    An attorney-drafted disclaimer template that helps bloggers and online creators clearly disclose affiliate relationships and earnings claims while building transparency and trust with readers.

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  • Podcast Guest Contract Template

    A clear, attorney-written podcast guest contract template that helps hosts and guests align on expectations, content usage, and rights before recording.

    Learn more

  • The Contract Shop logo

    Contract Template for Coaches

    Clear, attorney-drafted contract templates designed for coaches to establish expectations, protect your work, and start client relationships with confidence and professionalism.

    Check out the template

  • Website Policies

    A clear, attorney-written Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy template that helps protect your website, explain how you handle visitor data, and set transparent expectations for how your content and services are used.

    Check it out

Home Office COmforts

I’m a ‘Princess and the Pea’ comfort nerd. Here are my must-haves.

Desk Organization

Here are my faves.

Tech

Here’s what I use.

Nervous System Regulation & Relaxation

Here are my faves.

The Yoga for HSPs Series offers particular benefits to those of us with highly sensitive systems, aka Sensory-Processing Sensitivity.

This anxiety-calming sequence of restorative poses quiets the brain and helps relieve stress and emotional and physical fatigue. It’s also perfect if you’re feeling anxious or overwhelmed.

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