This week, I sat down with my friend Shannon Whaley to talk about something a lot of us carry without realizing it, the stories we were told when we were young, and how they quietly shape the way we love, work, and trust ourselves as adults.

Shannon grew up hearing a message that followed her well into her 30s: “You’re not smart.”

And even though she went on to get multiple degrees, certifications, and build a successful business, that old story kept showing up in her relationships, her choices, and especially in the moments when she ignored her intuition.

In this episode, we talk about:

• What it’s like growing up in chaos
• Why she stayed in relationships she knew weren’t right
• How addiction and escaping played into the bigger story
• Getting sober at 34 and rebuilding her entire life
• The difference between hustle and survival
• The identity shifts that helped her trust herself again

Shannon also shares the practices that grounded her, journaling, visioning, inner child work, and how she slowly built a life that actually feels like hers, not the one she was programmed to believe she was limited to.

If you've ever carried an old belief about yourself, or felt like you were living out a story someone else wrote, this conversation will hit home.

• How one sentence can shape decades of behavior
• Why so many of us override our intuition
• How trauma shows up in high-achievers
• What it looks like to start over
• The role of identity work in real healing
• How Shannon built an anti-hustle, aligned life

• Download your Anti-Hustle Business Checklist here: https://shannonwhaley.myflodesk.com/checklist
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• Website: shannonwhaley.com

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