Resilience - Kayla MacArthur

August 7, 2025

More Money Won’t Heal Scarcity or Uncertainty—But This Will

Summers are always a slower season in my business. Maybe yours too. This summer, I had one client pause to focus on travel and another complete a second round of deep work together. Five years ago, this would have sent me into a spiral. 🌀 I would’ve felt anxious about the “lost” income.🌀 I would’ve made it mean that I was failing as a business owner.🌀 I would’ve thrown myself into over-working, over-giving, and over-proving in order to fill the gap. This would’ve looked like packing my calendar with networking events, giving away a ton of free coaching sessions, and throwing together a random offer I thought people needed. Behind...

July 18, 2025

Being a Business Owner is Lonely…

Business

Here’s a truth I don’t think we talk about enough: Leadership is lonely.Being a business owner is lonely. You can try to talk to your partner about the emotional weight you feel from being a service-provider in a world that is so heavy right now, but they just don’t get it. You can try to talk to your friends about what’s going on in your business, but they don’t get it either. You can try to talk to your team, but you’re here to lead them first, not be their friend. Who are you relying on to feel supported and resourced?Who is holding you, while you hold everyone else? Who...

June 20, 2025

Meet the Most Potent Version of You ⚡️

Business

It’s important for you to know this: Being more you in your business doesn’t mean that taking action will always feel easy or effortless. Sometimes, it will feel hard. Sometimes, it will require courage. The truth is—the actions that feel most authentic and alive will often come with resistance. They are the actions sitting just outside your comfort zone. They are the actions that will stretch and expand you. They will ask you to let more of you out. This past week alone, I found myself stepping beyond my comfort zone more than once. Kicking off the SUSTAINABILITY SESSIONS was one. [Thank you so much to everyone who came—you made it pure magic ✨] The other? Starting...

July 5, 2024

A New Chapter Begins 📖

Travel, Human Design

I’ve been IN IT lately. Have you? On June 1st, Ryan, Creature, and I packed up our Sayulita apartment and drove clear across the country to start a new chapter in San Miguel de Allende, a UNESCO World Heritage site known for its art, rich history, and charming colonial beauty. We chose to spend the summer in San Miguel because the cool, dry weather is a stark contrast to Sayulita’s intense heat and humidity. Little did I consider how tough this new chapter was going to be. Sayulita is my soul home. It’s one of the few places in the world that feels like an expression of who I know myself to...

November 3, 2023

My Business Fails in 2023 & What’s Working in 2024

Business, Human Design

For many business owners, it’s been a tough year. If you’ve experienced business fails from the shifting economy or the changing landscape within your industry, you are not alone. After receiving clear intuitive guidance that it was time to pivot the foundations of my business model in 2023, I created four different paid offers throughout the year. Of these four offers, two failed completely. Of the other two, one was a smashing success, resulting in five lives changed, one participant becoming a private coaching client, and me having a blast while stepping into the role of teacher. Despite these business fails, what has kept me grounded and attracting opportunities in...

February 12, 2023

1 Minute Mindset Reset to Stress Less & Trust More in Your Business

Business

When you’re presented with a challenge as a business owner, the hardest part is not knowing what’s going to happen or how it’s all going to work out. You can’t see the future.Or if the dots are going to connect. When this happens, your mind goes into overdrive. —am I going to be okay?—is that sale going to come through?—will I have to go back to my dreadful, soul-sucking job? With all of this mind chatter, how is it possible to stress less and trust more in your business? Here’s the thing: Over the past nine years that I’ve been a business owner, I’ve found that the dots always connect....

December 12, 2022

Building Resilience: What Do Nature and Business Have in Common?

Business

This time last year, life looked very different. I was working with seven clients and had one, about to be two more on my waiting list. I was racing against a deadline to finish editing Gravel Roads. And I was preparing to host my very first Christmas party for nine of our friends in Sayulita. Life felt full. And quite busy. This December, all of those clients have happily graduated, I am working with two beautiful souls who came into my world this fall, the book [a life long dream] is published, and Ryan and I are looking forward to a quiet Christmas with a family we’ve become close with...

May 21, 2021

What a Bad Surfer Taught Me About Hitting Home Runs

Travel, Business

I learned something new this week: Ryan is pretty bad at surfing. Most days around 5pm, we close our computers and head down to the beach. While Ryan typically surfs in the gray dawn of morning, on Tuesday, he decided to bring his board. Knowing how fond he is of the sport, I was excited to witness him catch a wave. I mean, he’s surfed in Portugal, Australia, and Peru; he had a business training professional athletes; and he was a YES to Sayulita for surfing! He must be good, right?! After picking out an empty spot on the sand, I unfolded my chair, sat down, and scanned the horizon for...

December 22, 2017

Read This When You’re Feeling Stuck

Uncategorized

The world is falling down around you.Negative thoughts cloud your mind like thick fog in early morning.Your chest is heavy with feeling. Lead weight. It’s hard to breathe. It’s another one of those days/weeks/months where you can’t seem to catch a break. You work hard to create what you want and just when things start to happen, an unseen force yanks you back to where you don’t want to be. Now you’re feeling stuck—as if you’re treading water in the middle of a lake and the fog is making it impossible to see the shore. You spend so much time here, treading water and searching for the shore, that you...

December 15, 2017

The #1 Mindset Hack for Making Your Dreams a REALITY

Business, Manifestation, Travel

Identifying what you want in life and business is easy.Making your dreams a REALITY is an entirely different story. How do you reconcile the two? There was a particular day four years ago—October 1st, 2013 to be exact—when the U.S. government was forced to shut down, and all of the national parks were closed until further notice. While this typically wouldn’t be an issue, that day, it was. It just happened to be the day my best friend and I were leaving to go on our eight week road trip across the U.S. Our intention was to visit all of the national parks 🙈 From the moment we decided to...