Megan Swan

For fifteen years I lived and worked in Chiapas, Mexico. I ran a health and wellness magazine called Alcachofa, hosted food-first nutrition workshops for women, and built my practice one client at a time. Somewhere in there I got sober. Eight years on, it is still the decision everything else is built on.

What I saw over and over was capable women running out of capacity, not willpower. No one had built them a way to hold this much. So that became my work. I treat nervous-system regulation as infrastructure: the layer a woman’s health and leadership actually run on, not a reward she earns once the work is done.

Then the pattern got bigger than any one woman. Female founders are running companies in bodies medicine never bothered to study. So I write about it. UNDERSTUDIED covers the research that was never funded. FUNDED features the women building what is missing anyway.

Today I’m based in Calgary. I advise founders one-to-one, and I run Babies & Empires for founders raising children and companies at the same time. I also co-founded Altavita, which runs physician-led diagnostic retreats in Chiapas. My book, Marinating in Chaos, is about how you stay regulated while you carry more than anyone around you can see.

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