As conversations around burnout, balance, and wellness continue to evolve, My Mind Is My Business is creating space for women to pause and rethink what it truly means to be well. The upcoming experience—centered on mental, emotional, and physical health for high-capacity women—is one SwagHer Magazine is proud to partner with, aligning with our mission to amplify voices that don’t just inspire, but transform how we show up in our lives and businesses.
One of those voices is Dr. Vann.
As a wellness advocate and speaker whose work is rooted in lived experience, she brings a level of honesty that doesn’t just sound good—it lands. She doesn’t just talk about healing—she lives it, guiding women out of survival mode and into alignment through what she calls a “soft reset.”
In this My Mind Is My Business conversation, Dr. Vann opens up about the moment everything shifted for her, the patterns she sees keeping women overwhelmed, and what it really looks like to reconnect with yourself in a way that actually lasts.
SwagHer Mag: What called you into this work?
Dr. Vann: “Honestly… life did.
I grew up with an awareness of health that most people don’t get until later. My great-grandmother had a mastectomy long before I was born, but just knowing that shaped how I saw breast cancer—not just as a disease, but as something that could impact a woman’s identity, how she feels about herself, how she’s seen.
And then as I got older, I kept seeing it—cancer, Parkinson’s, heart disease, kidney failure. It kept showing up in my family. So wellness was never optional to me. It was always in the background like, ‘Pay attention.’
But if I’m being real, what pushed me into this work were two seasons in my own life where I was deeply fatigued—mentally and emotionally.
And here’s the part that gets people: nobody knew.
I was still showing up. Still serving in church. Still running a business. Still taking care of my kids. From the outside, I looked fine. But on the inside, I was not okay. I was slowly draining… and I didn’t even realize how bad it had gotten until I was in it.
Not even my husband saw it.
That’s when it hit me—women like me know how to function while falling apart.
So everything I teach now? It came out of what I needed back then. I don’t teach theory. I teach what helped me come back to myself.”
What patterns are leading women into chronic stress and survival mode?
“We’ve normalized being overwhelmed.
That’s the problem.
Women—especially high-capacity women—are praised for how much they can carry. So we keep adding… and adding… and adding. And nobody stops us, because from the outside, it looks like we’re handling it.
But internally? We’re tired. We’re stretched. We’re disconnected.
You start performing wellness instead of actually being well. You say ‘I’m good’ because everything is still functioning. You ignore the signals—your body, your emotions, your thoughts—because there’s always something that needs to get done.
And before you know it, survival mode becomes your normal.
That’s why I talk about moving from Hustle to Harmony.
Because hustle will have you producing… but empty.
Harmony will have you aligned… and sustained.
And if I’m honest, most women don’t need another strategy—they need permission to stop living like everything depends on them.”
What does a “Soft Reset” look like in real life?
“A soft reset starts with a hard truth:
This isn’t working anymore.
And a lot of times, that realization gets buried under noise—especially social media. You’re constantly seeing people doing more, achieving more, building faster… and it creates pressure to keep up.
So even when you’re tired, you push.
A soft reset is you stepping out of that cycle.
It’s not dramatic. It’s not quitting everything.
It’s you getting honest.
It looks like turning down the noise so you can hear yourself again… admitting where you’re overwhelmed… setting boundaries—even if people don’t like it… letting go of timelines that were never yours… and choosing peace, even when productivity is calling your name.
It’s small decisions… but they add up to a completely different life.
A soft reset is you saying, ‘I’m not doing this to myself anymore.’”
How can women reconnect with faith, emotional wellness, and physical health?
“You can’t skip parts of yourself and expect to be whole.
We are mind, body, and spirit. All three matter.
You can be spiritually active—serving, showing up, doing all the right things—and still be mentally exhausted and physically depleted. I was.
That’s why I’m very clear: faith should restore you, not wear you out.
If one part of you is missing, you’re not stable. You might balance for a moment—but eventually, you’ll feel it.
Reconnection looks like slowing down enough to actually receive.
Time with God that fills you, not drains you.
Space to feel your emotions.
Taking care of your body like it matters—because it does.
For me, the shift happened when I stopped just doing spiritual things… and started being restored spiritually.
There’s a difference.”
What does it look like to heal and change outcomes for families and communities?
“It looks like deciding the cycle stops with you.
A lot of us inherited patterns we never questioned—pushing through pain, staying silent about health, waiting until something is wrong before we act.
So healing, for me, is bigger than me.
It’s about creating a legacy of wellness.
That means having the conversations we were taught to avoid… going to the doctor before something becomes a crisis… taking mental and emotional health seriously… and modeling for our children what balance actually looks like.
Because they’re watching us.
And when a woman changes how she lives, she changes what her family believes is normal.
That’s how you shift outcomes—not just with information, but with example.”
Where can readers connect with you?
“Everything is in one place—simple and direct:
https://linktr.ee/iasisjmv
If you’re ready to move from just functioning to actually living well… that’s your next step.”
Dr. Vann’s message is simple—but not easy: just because you’re functioning doesn’t mean you’re well.
And in a world that rewards performance over peace, choosing to pause, reset, and realign may be the most powerful decision a woman can make.
Because wellness isn’t about doing more.
It’s about finally choosing yourself.
