Over two decades ago, the demands of Katie McDonald’s corporate career occupied her every waking moment. She was left feeling depleted and depressed, suffering from spiraling mental and physical health crises that threatened her life.
With no choice but to transform her body-mind relationship, Katie left her corporate job behind and finally started applying her knowledge of self-care, alternative health, and plant-based nutrition.
Since then, Katie has been on a revitalizing journey of lifelong self-care.
Fully recovered from years of self-neglect, Katie now helps fellow doers embrace self-care so they can do more and be more while leading healthier, more intentional, and more nourished lives.
Katie leads with tough love to inspire, empower, and challenge audiences. She dispels the destructive myth that self-care is an obstacle to productivity, and teaches that self-care is, in fact, a tool to create a more powerful and impactful legacy.
Please welcome to the stage: Katie McDonald.
Katie McDonald is the founder of b.nourished, a concierge coaching company for high achieving women who take care of business at the expense of taking care of themselves.
Since she was 6 years old, she’s had a relentless and unnerving obsession with daily planners, ultimately publishing the b.nourished planner when we all
needed it most-in 2020.
A professional speaker, coach and author who is trusted by Harvard University, Fidelity Investments, Facebook, Women Presidents’ Organization, Stanley Black & Decker and many more, Katie has been featured in HuffPost, Dwell, Apartment Therapy.
Her Audible Originals course launches in January 2026. She survived an IRA bombing in London, the San Francisco earthquake, the rescue of a ferry sinking in the Baltic, and an emergency crash landing in Tokyo. But it was a Zen meditation retreat that finally took her down.
Over two decades ago, the demands of Katie McDonald’s corporate career occupied her every waking moment. She was left feeling depleted and depressed—suffering from spiraling mental and physical health crises that threatened her life.
Left with no choice but to transform her body-mind relationship, Katie abandoned her corporate job and finally started applying her knowledge of self-care, alternative health, and plant-based nutrition.
Since then, Katie has been on a revitalizing journey of lifelong self-care.
Fully recovered from years of self-neglect, Katie now helps fellow doers embrace self-care so they can do more and be more while leading healthier, more intentional, and more nourished lives.
Katie leads with tough love to inspire, empower, and challenge audiences. She dispels the destructive myth that self-care is an obstacle to productivity and teaches that self-care is, in fact, a tool to create a more powerful and impactful legacy.
On paper, Katie McDonald had it all. She was an international sales rockstar who outhustled the competition and crushed her goals in the U.S., Europe, and Canada.
But Katie’s relentless drive for productivity came at the expense of everything that mattered: her relationships, her time, her health, her emotional wellbeing. The demands of her corporate career occupied her every waking moment.
Then, one day, she missed one meeting. One.
Her mental health was already so precarious, that’s all it took to push her over the edge.
Katie had no choice. Facing spiraling mental and physical health crises that threatened her life, the have-it-all-together image Katie had spent years building was quickly crumbling.
She had to take action for herself—immediately.
Katie left her corporate career behind…and life started to get better. Slowly but surely, she started making meaningful investments in herself and her own mental health.
As Katie replaced destructive habits with healthier ones, she began to heal. And after years of trying and failing to become a mother, she conceived her son Sage only once she was able to parent herself. By loosening her grip on perfectionism, she made wise and grounded choices that showed respect for her mind and body. That shift changed everything.
Katie started to think intentionally about every decision she made—and for the first time in her adult life, Katie started actively implementing everything she had ever learned about self-care, but never practiced.
Today, self-care is at the very center of everything Katie McDonald does.
Fully recovered from years of self-neglect, Katie now helps fellow doers embrace self-care so they can do more and be more while leading healthier, more intentional, and more nourished lives.
A professional speaker and self-care strategist, Katie leads with tough love to inspire, empower, and challenge audiences. Katie dispels the destructive myth that self-care is an obstacle to productivity and teaches that self-care is, in fact, a tool to create a more powerful and impactful legacy.
You love to get things done. It is who you are and how you roll. But sometimes you wonder if it is all doable. Meeting after meeting, deal after deal, deadline after deadline, tasks topple your bulging inbox, and demand more and more from you. It might feel like you have to choose between taking care of business and taking care of yourself. Maybe you are starting to come undone in service to getting things done. Katie McDonald learned the hard way that it doesn’t have to be that way.
Circling the drain, Katie’s addiction to doing took her to hell and she returned scorched and emboldened to share with her tribe of doers what she has learned along the way. This engaging presentation will empower you with time tested strategies to reclaim the ME in tiME management and shift from human doing to human being.
women’s reTREAT hosted by Katie McDonald & Brenda Brock of Farmaesthetics at Shepherd’s Run
This weekend is for you. All about you. Go ahead…sigh with relief.
