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Be honest,  does December feel like everything is pulling on you at once?

The pressure to make the holidays magical… keep your career running… show up for family… stay cheerful… and somehow not crumble under the weight of it all?

If so, you’re not alone.

And today’s episode is your permission slip and your strategy.

Because here’s the truth:

Peace is not passive. Peace is a leadership decision. And if you don’t protect it, everything else will take it.

In this solo episode, I’m breaking down 4 boundary shifts that actually work for working moms — not vague advice, not “just say no,” but real, doable boundaries rooted in emotional needs, bandwidth, and your leadership wiring.

And yes… your leadership style affects the boundaries you struggle with most. I’m breaking down each style and the exact shift that will give you instant relief.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn:
✅ Why peace is a decision, not a December miracle 
✅ The powerful rule: “I don’t do that in December” — and how to use it without guilt 
✅ How the Slow Reply Strategy stops urgency from running your life 
✅ Why every mom needs a daily Peace Hour (even if it’s 10 minutes) 
✅ The transformative One Emotional Responsibility Per Day Rule
✅ How each leadership style gets trapped in December and the boundary they need most 
✅ The ONE boundary shift to choose today to reclaim your sanity, your schedule, and your emotional bandwidth

Remember…
You are not responsible for creating a perfect holiday. You are responsible for protecting your well-being inside the holiday you’re living.

And when your boundaries match your wiring? Peace becomes possible... not someday, but today.

If this episode gave you clarity or relief, share it with another working mom who needs breathing room this season.

You never know whose peace you’ll protect. 💛

READY FOR YOUR NEXT STEP?
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Ever feel like productivity advice was written by someone who has never juggled a career, kids, dinner, errands, and emotions… all before 9 AM? Same.

That’s why today’s conversation is a breath of fresh, realistic air.

I’m joined by Mark Struchewski (aka Mister Productivity™), host of 1,300+ podcast episodes, simplicity advocate, and champion of working moms who want to feel in control of their day again.

Mark is not talking color-coded calendars and perfectly curated routines.

He’s talking calm, clarity, boundaries, digital detoxing, and giving yourself permission to be human.

This episode is packed with mindset shifts and small-but-mighty changes that help you reclaim your time without guilt, exhaustion, or burnout.

What We Talk About:
✔ The biggest productivity misconception (and why it’s failing working moms)
✔ A simple mindset shift that instantly reduces overwhelm
✔ Digital distractions + the “notification detox” that changes EVERYTHING
✔ The truth about multitasking (and why it’s costing you energy you don’t even realize)
✔ Why working moms need daily solitude — even 10 minutes
✔ Boundaries that protect your energy (without feeling selfish)
✔ The grounding practice that instantly calms your nervous system

Simple, free, and surprisingly transformative.

Shannon’s Favorite Moment was when Mark said: “Don’t let other people dictate your availability. It’s YOUR life.”
…my entire soul stood up and clapped. 👏🔥

This episode is both grounding and empowering — you’re going to feel seen and supported the whole way through. 💛

🔗 Connect with Mark

READY FOR YOUR NEXT STEP?
🚀 Start Here: Download the FREE 90-Day Raise Strategy and create your personalized plan to confidently position yourself for the raise you've earned. You'll also receive my exclusive Raise Strategy Coaching Series where I'll walk alongside you every step of the way.
📞 Let's Build Your Strategy Together: Book a Promotion Strategy Review if you're ready to personalize your plan, strengthen your positioning, and create a strategy that works for your manager, your company, and your career goals.
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If you’re already tired before the holiday chaos officially begins, this episode is for you, mama.

You’re not exhausted because you’re weak or unorganized.

You’re exhausted because you’ve been:
➡️ Running two full-time jobs (home + work)
➡️ Holding 12 invisible roles
➡️ Managing the emotional temperature of your entire family

…without anyone ever teaching you how to protect your own energy in the process.

In this  episode, I’m walking you through:
✅ The real reason working moms hit burnout before December even starts
✅ The 5 hidden “energy leaks” that quietly drain you all season
✅ How your leadership style shapes the way you carry the holiday load
✅ Four practical “energy protectors” you can start using this week
✅ Why you don’t have to burn it all down or disappoint everyone to feel better

Your holiday exhaustion isn’t random — it’s connected to how you’re wired to lead.

Once you know your style, you’ll know exactly where to set boundaries, what to stop doing, and how to protect your energy your way — during the holidays and beyond.

READY FOR YOUR NEXT STEP?
🚀 Start Here: Download the FREE 90-Day Raise Strategy and create your personalized plan to confidently position yourself for the raise you've earned. You'll also receive my exclusive Raise Strategy Coaching Series where I'll walk alongside you every step of the way.
📞 Let's Build Your Strategy Together: Book a Promotion Strategy Review if you're ready to personalize your plan, strengthen your positioning, and create a strategy that works for your manager, your company, and your career goals.
📲 Join the FB Community if you want to connect with other ambitious women for career conversations, support, and practical promotion strategies.
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Today’s episode is one you’re going to want to save, revisit, and probably send to at least three friends — because we’re talking about navigating a career landscape that’s shifting faster than any other time in our lifetime.

I’m joined by Sonja Price, a future-of-work strategist and executive career expert who has spent the last 15+ years helping leaders at Google, Meta, Microsoft, and other major organizations grow and stay relevant in an era defined by constant change.

And here’s the truth:
The rules of success are changing.

But with the right insight and strategy, you can rise with clarity, confidence, and staying power.

In This Episode, We Break Down:
✅ The New Rules Shaping Career Success
✅ Why the Age of the Strategist Has Arrived
✅ How to Use AI to Advance Your Career (Not Add More Work)
✅ The Mid-Career Traps Many Women Fall Into
✅ The Burnout Epidemic & What Actually Helps Women Recover
✅ Why Smart Work Beats “More Work” Every Time
✅ Confidence, Visibility & Owning Your Results

How to show your value without feeling arrogant — and why self-advocacy is not optional in this new era of work.

Not to boast, but to inform.

People don’t remember how brilliant you are unless you remind them.

Your career grows in the rooms where your results are known.

If today’s episode gave you clarity, hope, or a dose of motivation you didn’t know you needed, share it with another working mom who deserves to rise on her own terms. 💛🔥

🔗 Connect with Sonja

READY FOR YOUR NEXT STEP?
🚀 Start Here: Download the FREE 90-Day Raise Strategy and create your personalized plan to confidently position yourself for the raise you've earned. You'll also receive my exclusive Raise Strategy Coaching Series where I'll walk alongside you every step of the way.
📞 Let's Build Your Strategy Together: Book a Promotion Strategy Review if you're ready to personalize your plan, strengthen your positioning, and create a strategy that works for your manager, your company, and your career goals.
📲 Join the FB Community if you want to connect with other ambitious women for career conversations, support, and practical promotion strategies.
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Black Friday is loud.

Life is loud.

Motherhood is loud.

Your brain? Probably the loudest of them all.

That’s exactly why today’s episode is intentionally quieter — a soft place to land in a season that often pulls working moms in every direction at once.

This isn’t the Pinterest version of gratitude.

This is the real version: gritty, grounding, messy, honest, emotional, and beautifully human.

In this solo episode, Shannon walks you through what gratitude looks like for working moms who are exhausted, overwhelmed, overstimulated… yet still showing up every single day.

You’ll hear stories, nervous-system-soothing truths, leadership insights, and three incredibly powerful gratitude practices designed for FULL lives — not perfect ones.

If your heart needs an exhale, this is your episode.

In This Episode You’ll Discover:
✔ The truth about modern gratitude no one talks about
✔ Why working mom gratitude is different 
✔ The four gratitude truths every working mom lives (but rarely hears) 
✔ How your natural leadership style shapes your gratitude

Each one experiences gratitude differently — and needs different types of peace.

Three grounding gratitude practices that fit REAL life
Not time-consuming. Not complicated. Not another thing on your list. Just micro-moments that shift your nervous system and bring you home to yourself.

This episode is medicine for the woman who is tired of holding it all together.

🎧 Listen If You’re Craving:
➡️ A moment of real peace
➡️ Gentle emotional grounding
➡️ Perspective in the chaos
➡️ A release from guilt and pressure
➡️ A reminder that you’re human first
➡️ Gratitude that feels relief, not responsibility

This episode will soften you, steady you, and help you breathe again.

💖 Final Love Note
You don’t have to grind your way into worthiness. You don’t have to earn rest. You don’t have to do more to feel enough. You get to breathe. You get to slow down. You get to choose peace — even today. Especially today.

READY FOR YOUR NEXT STEP?
🚀 Start Here: Download the FREE 90-Day Raise Strategy and create your personalized plan to confidently position yourself for the raise you've earned. You'll also receive my exclusive Raise Strategy Coaching Series where I'll walk alongside you every step of the way.
📞 Let's Build Your Strategy Together: Book a Promotion Strategy Review if you're ready to personalize your plan, strengthen your positioning, and create a strategy that works for your manager, your company, and your career goals.
📲 Join the FB Community if you want to connect with other ambitious women for career conversations, support, and practical promotion strategies.
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If you’ve ever been promoted, praised, or handed a big opportunity… and instantly felt like you were about to be “found out,” this episode is going to speak straight to your soul.

Today I’m joined by Stacey Brookman, founder of Real Life Resilience, corporate veteran, life coach, and a woman who has spent over 35 years helping leaders rewrite the inner narratives that hold them back.

And in this conversation? She dismantles imposter syndrome in the most refreshing, practical, human way.

We talk about the real reasons smart, capable women feel like frauds — even after climbing the ladder, earning the title, or checking every box. Stacey also breaks down the four biggest signs you’re stuck in imposter syndrome (you may not even recognize them)… and how to finally shift your thoughts so you can show up with the confidence your resume already proves you deserve.

If you’ve been people-pleasing, overworking, perfectioning, or doubting yourself into exhaustion… this episode is a deep breath.

In This Episode, We Explore:
✅ Why imposter syndrome follows even the most successful women 
✅ The four hidden behaviors that quietly sabotage your confidence 
✅ Why your brain lies to you (and how to catch it in real time) 
✅ The difference between confidence and “performing confidence” 
✅ How to stop people-pleasing without feeling guilty 
✅ What leaders can do when they see imposter behavior on their team 
✅ A simple daily practice to rewire your thoughts and build steady, resilient self-belief 
✅ Why you don’t need to “fix” yourself — just understand your thoughts

If This Episode Hit Home…
Screenshot it, share it in your stories, and tag me!

And if you haven’t left a review yet, would you take 30 seconds to do that today? Your words help other women find these conversations — and breathe a little easier in their leadership.

🔗 Connect with Stacy 

READY FOR YOUR NEXT STEP?
🚀 Start Here: Download the FREE 90-Day Raise Strategy and create your personalized plan to confidently position yourself for the raise you've earned. You'll also receive my exclusive Raise Strategy Coaching Series where I'll walk alongside you every step of the way.
📞 Let's Build Your Strategy Together: Book a Promotion Strategy Review if you're ready to personalize your plan, strengthen your positioning, and create a strategy that works for your manager, your company, and your career goals.
📲 Join the FB Community if you want to connect with other ambitious women for career conversations, support, and practical promotion strategies.
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Overwhelm isn’t a time problem—it’s a clarity problem. In this episode, Shannon gets real about the quiet ways we slip into survival mode (even when we’re “doing everything right”) and the small shifts that buy back calm, presence, and peace.

What You’ll Learn
✅ Why overwhelm happens (even to high performers) and how to spot it before it swallows you
✅ The Four Fog Triggers keeping you stuck
Three calm-creating shifts you can implement this week
✅ How your leadership style finds its own path back to calm

Bottom line: You don’t need a bigger to-do list, you need better alignment. Peace isn’t a pause in the chaos; it’s how you move through it. 💛

READY FOR YOUR NEXT STEP?
🚀 Start Here: Download the FREE 90-Day Raise Strategy and create your personalized plan to confidently position yourself for the raise you've earned. You'll also receive my exclusive Raise Strategy Coaching Series where I'll walk alongside you every step of the way.
📞 Let's Build Your Strategy Together: Book a Promotion Strategy Review if you're ready to personalize your plan, strengthen your positioning, and create a strategy that works for your manager, your company, and your career goals.
📲 Join the FB Community if you want to connect with other ambitious women for career conversations, support, and practical promotion strategies.
💌 Become an Insider to recieve weekly coaching, career strategy, behind-the-scenes insights, and practical tips to help you become impossible to overlook.

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Today’s conversation is one of those rare ones that feels part masterclass, part soul-wake-up call.

I’m sitting down with the incredible Katrine Horn, musician, mentor, coach, and a woman who has rebuilt her entire life by daring to listen to that tiny spark inside that whispers, “What if more is possible?”

From Denmark to London to Paris to the south of France, Katrina’s journey is a masterclass in courage, intention, and learning how to stop shrinking so you can finally step into the life you actually want — not the one people expect from you.

Inside this episode, we’re diving into:
✨ Why you actually do know what you want — and why you’ve been telling yourself you don’t
✨ The real reason fear shows up when you're on the edge of something meaningful
✨ How to take bold action without self-sabotaging along the way
✨ The mindset shift that makes asking for what you’re worth feel natural, not nerve-wracking
✨ Why self-love isn’t fluff — it’s your most practical leadership strategy
✨ How to balance big dreams with real-life responsibilities
✨ What it looks like to build a life from desire instead of duty

Katrine also shares her beautiful philosophy on fear, worthiness, and what becomes possible when you stop trying to manage other people’s reactions and start trusting your own desires.

And… this one hits deep. 💛

If you’ve ever felt stuck, unclear, or afraid to want something bigger for your life, consider this episode your permission slip to dream again.

🔗 Connect with Katrine Horn

READY FOR YOUR NEXT STEP?
🚀 Start Here: Download the FREE 90-Day Raise Strategy and create your personalized plan to confidently position yourself for the raise you've earned. You'll also receive my exclusive Raise Strategy Coaching Series where I'll walk alongside you every step of the way.
📞 Let's Build Your Strategy Together: Book a Promotion Strategy Review if you're ready to personalize your plan, strengthen your positioning, and create a strategy that works for your manager, your company, and your career goals.
📲 Join the FB Community if you want to connect with other ambitious women for career conversations, support, and practical promotion strategies.
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We don’t wake up one morning and decide to lose ourselves.

It happens slowly — every time we mute an idea that feels “too bold,” swallow an opinion to keep the peace, or smile through exhaustion so no one knows we’re struggling.

Before we realize it, we’re leading from a version of ourselves that’s palatable… but not powerful.

In this episode, Shannon gets real about what it means to lead without losing yourself — and the subtle ways working moms drift away from authenticity in pursuit of approval, perfection, and balance.

Through personal stories, coaching insights, and gentle truth-telling, you’ll uncover why you’ve been performing instead of leading — and how to start reconnecting with your real leadership voice.

What You’ll Learn:
✅ The three hidden traps that cause high-achieving women to lose their authentic voice
✅ What authentic leadership actually looks like (and why it’s not a buzzword)
✅ 3 daily choices that bring your leadership back into alignment
✅ How to reconnect with your natural leadership style and what authenticity looks like for you

People don’t follow perfect leaders, they follow real ones.
You don’t have to do more to lead well.
You just have to be more you.

READY FOR YOUR NEXT STEP?
🚀 Start Here: Download the FREE 90-Day Raise Strategy and create your personalized plan to confidently position yourself for the raise you've earned. You'll also receive my exclusive Raise Strategy Coaching Series where I'll walk alongside you every step of the way.
📞 Let's Build Your Strategy Together: Book a Promotion Strategy Review if you're ready to personalize your plan, strengthen your positioning, and create a strategy that works for your manager, your company, and your career goals.
📲 Join the FB Community if you want to connect with other ambitious women for career conversations, support, and practical promotion strategies.
💌 Become an Insider to recieve weekly coaching, career strategy, behind-the-scenes insights, and practical tips to help you become impossible to overlook.

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Tired of feeling invisible at work even though you know your expertise runs deep?

In this empowering conversation, Shannon sits down with Rob Z. Wentz—leadership communication expert, Christian entrepreneur, founder of the Unstuck Movement, best-selling author, award-winning former radio host, and podcast strategist—to show you how to stop hiding and step into authority with integrity.

Once an introverted kid who found his voice through broadcasting, Rob shares how two decades in radio + years of digital marketing and coaching shaped his approach to clear communication, authentic influence, and repeatable breakthroughs.

What’s inside:
✅ Authority without ego: What speaking “from knowing” really means—and how to get there.
✅ The VITALS Framework for Breakthrough (Rob’s system):
✅ Mentor ↔︎ Mentee loop: Why you should always be guided and guiding (you learn both ways).
✅ Podcasting 101 for authority: How hosting (and guesting) expands credibility, relationships, and opportunities—without needing a massive audience.
✅ From curse to gift: Turn your hardest lessons into the message that makes you the go-to expert.

🔗 Connect with Rob

READY FOR YOUR NEXT STEP?
🚀 Start Here: Download the FREE 90-Day Raise Strategy and create your personalized plan to confidently position yourself for the raise you've earned. You'll also receive my exclusive Raise Strategy Coaching Series where I'll walk alongside you every step of the way.
📞 Let's Build Your Strategy Together: Book a Promotion Strategy Review if you're ready to personalize your plan, strengthen your positioning, and create a strategy that works for your manager, your company, and your career goals.
📲 Join the FB Community if you want to connect with other ambitious women for career conversations, support, and practical promotion strategies.
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