Your Body Is Your Business
Your Body Is Your Business The Connection Between Your Health, Your Capacity and Your Business Performance As a woman entrepreneur, your energy, focus, resilience and capacity are not separate from your business — they directly influence how you lead, make decisions, serve your clients and grow. In this interactive conversation, Mikki Parker helps women entrepreneurs recognize the connection between how they care for their bodies and how they show up in their businesses. Through honest reflection and her GRACE framework, participants will identify where they may be overriding their body's signals and discover practical ways to support their energy, clarity and capacity without adding another complicated routine to their already-full lives. 3 Takeaways 1. Recognize the Business Cost of Running on Empty Identify how inconsistent energy, poor recovery, stress and putting your own needs last can affect your focus, decision-making, leadership and overall business performance. 2. Use GRACE to Respond Instead of Override Learn Mikki's simple GRACE framework — Ground, Recognize, Acknowledge, Challenge and Embrace — to turn body awareness into intentional action. 3. Create One Small Shift That Supports Sustainable Performance Leave with one practical, personalized action you can implement within 24 hours to better support your energy, capacity and ability to lead your business.
Mikki Parker
Health and Nutrition Coach/ Wellness Event Coordinator
Mikki Parker is a Health and Nutrition Coach, former Occupational Therapist, and military veteran who founded Thrive Together with Mikki to help female entrepreneurs treat their health as the business strategy it actually is. With a background rooted in behavior change, habit formation, and the relationship between physical well-being and how we show up in our work, Mikki brings a grounded, evidence-informed approach to the conversation most high-performing women keep putting off. Her work sits at the intersection of body awareness, sustainable energy, and business performance — helping women recognize what their bodies have been asking for and make the small, consistent choices that compound into real results. A sought-after speaker and coach, Mikki has been featured in "Womenopause" and on global podcasts reaching women entrepreneurs across multiple industries. She also serves as Managing Director of the eWomenNetwork Greater Hartford chapter, where she connects and supports women in business across Connecticut and Massachusetts.