Business With Chronic Illness: Women Entrepreneurs Navigating Burnout & Autoimmune Conditions

Building a business as a woman entrepreneur with chronic illness comes with realities that most business advice never addresses — burnout, unpredictable energy, and the need to put health first while still wanting meaningful growth. Business With Chronic Illness is a globally ranked podcast featuring honest conversations with chronic illness entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs navigating business growth while living with chronic illness and autoimmune conditions. Through real stories and practical insight, the show explores how people build businesses that are sustainable, simple, and aligned with their health, not at the expense of it. Each episode centers on conversations rooted in real experience, covering: - Health-First Business Growth: growing at a pace that honors your body - Burnout & Capacity: navigating energy, flare-ups, and rest without guilt - Simple & Sustainable Business: stripping away unnecessary complexity - Success Stories: real people redefining what success looks like with chronic illness This podcast is for entrepreneurs and founders who are: - Living with chronic illness or autoimmune disease - Burned out from hustle culture or one-size-fits-all business advice - Building, growing, or reimagining a business that must work with real life - Looking for stories and strategies that feel honest, grounding, and possible Expect thoughtful, grounded conversations, not hype. This is a space for nuance in strategies and execution, for reflection and learning through real stories, not for pressure or performative success. About the Host Hosted by Nikita Williams, a globally ranked podcast host, award-winning business coach, and speaker who has built a six-figure business while navigating endometriosis, Hashimoto's, fibromyalgia, and chronic pain. Nikita brings lived experience, deep listening, and a health-first perspective to conversations that are often missing from the business world. The show has featured respected founders and thought leaders such as Jasmine Star, Danielle Bayard Jackson, Nitika Chopra, Courtney Elmer, Natasha Samuel, and Kinsey Soderberg, alongside entrepreneurs navigating business with chronic illness in real time. This podcast doesn't offer one-size-fits-all strategies or hustle narratives. Instead, it creates space for lived experience and multiple ways of defining success when the priority is to put your health first now, not later. - Listen & Connect: Follow Business With Chronic Illness to hear new conversations each month, and join the extended community through reflections and discussions connected to the show, at Built to Breathe on Substack.