Everyone says you can have it all, just not at once.

Lynn didn't listen.

She wasn't looking for a new job.

She found one anyway, at a company whose culture she actually loves.

She started dating again as a single mom.

She golfs, does Pilates, takes real trips, and has actual fun with her actual friends.

Not someday. Now. All of it. At once.

Lynn Mulligan, PH+ Lab graduate, walks through how she built a life where performance and happiness stopped competing with each other, and what changed when she stopped treating fun like something she had to earn first.

What we get into:

• Why the best opportunities show up when you stop chasing them
• Dating, single motherhood, and refusing to shrink
• The executive communication skill that got her called out by a senior leader mid-interview
• What it actually looks like to build fun into the operating system
• How emotional regulation shows up in job interviews, dating, and parenting simultaneously
• What the PH+ Lab peer room feels like from the inside
• The shift that made everything else possible

If you've been told the "not at once" line one too many times, this one is for you.

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If there's a villain in your story, you're in the victim seat.

And the victim seat is the most expensive place you can live.

Shayla King breaks down the one habit that quietly costs high-performing women their power, peace, and happiness: the villain story.

You probably don't know you're running it. Most women don't. This episode shows you exactly how to spot it and get out.

What we get into:

• The single question that reveals whether you're in victim mode right now
• The three villain story types: active, passive, and emotional
• Why the language shift from "I am angry" to "I notice anger" changes everything
• How to redirect a low-frequency conversation without lecturing anyone
• The weekly practice that starts taking your power back today

Plus a personal update on intentional spending, the new pool, and the Resourcing Workshop coming soon.

Ready to do this work inside a room built for women at your level? Join the PH+ Lab at shaylaking.com/phlab.

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The mother wound isn't just a therapy concept. It's the reason high-performing women over-function, over-perform, and can't stop being the good girl in the boardroom.

Shayla King sits down with Krista Williams, host of Almost 30 (120M+ downloads), to go deep on the invisible patterns underneath ambitious women's biggest stuck points. Shayla had been avoiding the mother wound topic. Once she went there, it became one of the most important conversations she's recorded.

What we get into:

• What the mother wound is and why corporate women especially need to look at it
• How Good Girl Conditioning plays out at work: office housework, boundary leaks, over-functioning
• IFS (Internal Family Systems) and parts work as tools for senior women leaders
• The "even if" practice for breaking the performing-for-love loop
• Ancestral burdens vs. ancestral gems: what gets passed down cuts both ways
• Becoming your own inner mother and what that actually looks like

This is Part 1. Part 2 goes into why the world hates a successful woman, adult friendships, and when it's time to cut someone out.

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Work with Shayla: www.ShaylaKing.com

You're not too ambitious. You're just running the wrong playbook.

In Part 2 of the Lighter Life series, executive coach Shayla King gets specific. Five real ways life gets lighter when you step into the 5% life. Not theory. Not soft self-care messaging. The actual shifts her clients make that change everything.

What you'll take away:

• You have more choice than you think. In your schedule, your kids' activities, your obligations. Reclaiming that changes your entire experience.
• Needing people to like you is costing you your career. Stop proving. Start positioning.
• You are probably the emotional air traffic controller in every relationship in your life. You can exit that triangle.
• Self-criticism is not growth. Intellectual honesty is. Learn the difference and your confidence skyrockets.
• Your health is not a reward for finishing. It is the foundation. Protect the asset.

We're grateful and we want more. This is your 5% life. Not someday. Right now.

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You don't have to be the strong one anymore.

What if right now, not when the kids get older, not after your next promotion, you could be in the exact same circumstances and feel completely different?

That's what this episode is about.

• Dual-career households are brand new territory. No generation before us has done this at scale, which means there's no playbook. Which means we get to write a new one.
• The double standard is real. A man with a stay-at-home wife is "normal." A woman asking for 5 hours of help a week feels like she's failing. Same need, different judgment.
• A real client story: she rated her life an 8 out of 10 on paper. Underneath, she was numbing out with wine and books every night because she didn't feel good enough. Sound familiar?
• The research is clear: a mother's happiness, more than income, more than parenting style, is the biggest predictor of how her whole family does.
• Lighter is not the same as easier circumstances. It's what happens when you stop needing everyone else's approval to feel okay.

You don't have to hit a wall to deserve something different. If something feels off, it's off.

Ready to feel lighter? The Performance + Happiness Lab fall cohort waitlist is open: shaylaking.com/phlab

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Your boss isn't thinking about your raise. Not because they don't value you. Because you've never asked.

That's not a character flaw. That's Good Girl Conditioning. The quiet belief that wanting it should be enough. That asking is greedy. That the work will speak for itself.

It won't.

In this episode, former Chief People Officer and executive coach Shayla King breaks down the one conversation most high-performing women keep almost having and teaches you exactly how to have it.

Here's what you'll take from this episode:

• The two broken strategies: waiting to be noticed vs. the ultimatum. Both leave money and opportunity on the table.
• What Shayla watched in real promotion rooms as a CPO: the woman who said "I'm open to what's next" never got the role. The person who named the exact thing did.
• The "pull your chair around" move. Stop sitting across from your boss and start standing beside them. Show them the full dream. Ask them to help you build it.
• The question that changes everything: what would I need to be doing for that to be possible here?
• When the answer is no, that's not rejection. It's data. It's a map out. And it's more useful than three more years of quietly hoping.

This works at the office. It works at home in the dual-career household too. Same pattern, different room. Same fix.

Know and declare what you want. Then pull them in.

Actively job searching?Land the Role is Shayla's on-demand program for landing a $200K+ role in five steps.Get started today: shaylaking.com/land-the-role

Ready to go deeper on all of it?The Performance + Happiness Lab fall cohort waitlist is open now: shaylaking.com/phlabLearn more at shaylaking.com

Executive moms don't need better time management. They need life design.

You planned the camps, the carpools, the team offsites, and the family trip. And then someone asked: what do YOU want this summer? And you had no answer.

That's not a time problem. That's a positioning problem. And in this episode, executive coach Shayla King is calling it out and giving you the blueprint to fix it.

Shayla shares real stories from her epic year check-in with clients: the woman who waited all summer and ended up with an empty calendar, the client who crushed a high-stakes panel interview AND made it to her daughter's first concert in the same weekend, and what it actually looks like when plans fall apart and you still find a way to have an extraordinary season.

Here's what you'll take from this episode:

• You haven't missed the year. Five months down, seven to go. That's a runway, not a loss.
• You don't find time for an epic life. You take it. Big rocks go in the calendar first. The rest of life builds around them.
• It's not all or nothing. The 5% approach is both/and. The concert AND the career-defining presentation. Not one at the expense of the other.
• When plans break, chase the feeling. Morocco fell through. The spa moved. Nobody spiraled. Because the place was never the point.
• Essentialism is the whole game. At work: run every task through the revenue/cost/client filter and watch your 60-hour week collapse to 30. At home: same skill, different room.

This is the career and the life. Both. During the climb.

The Performance + Happiness Lab opens again in September.Get on the waitlist now so you're first to know: shaylaking.kit.com/waitlist

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May feels like December. And if you're a working mom, you already know exactly what that means.

End-of-year performances. Last-minute school projects. Graduation parties. Four practices in three days. And somehow you're still expected to show up fully at work, keep the house running, and not snap at anyone.

In this bonus replay, executive coach Shayla King gets real about May-Cember and gives you the mindset reset and practical playbook to stop white-knuckling through it.

Here's what you're walking away with:

• The ownership mindset shift: Even in the chaos, you are still in charge. You are not at the mercy of your calendar.
• Divide your day into thirds: One thing per morning, afternoon, and evening. That's it. You can handle three things.
• The family Google Calendar system: Kids add their own events, send you calendar invites for rides, and own their own stuff. You stop being the human reminder system.
• Thursday Night Planning Meetings: 15 minutes, everyone's schedule on the table, shopping list built, surprises eliminated.
• The dartboard framework: Your inner circle gets your yeses. Everyone else gets a kind, firm no.

This is not about doing less. It's about designing differently. That's what the 5% women do.

One question to carry through this episode: Where could I say no a little more often so I can show up fully for what actually matters?

Enrollment for the Performance + Happiness Lab closes May 27.Summer access.

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🎙️ ABOUT THE 5% CLUB PODCASTThe 5% Club is hosted by Shayla King - former Chief People Officer, executive coach, and founder of Evolve Coaching. New episodes every Tuesday for high-performing women who want the career AND the life. Not someday. During the climb.

Half the people at the top are miserable. The 5% chose differently.

The skill that separates good leaders from truly senior ones isn't strategy. It's emotional regulation. And nobody is teaching it.

In this episode of The 5% Club Podcast, executive coach Shayla King breaks down why your reaction to normal business chaos is costing you more than the chaos itself ever could. And how to stop it.

What you'll take away:

• Why the most respected leaders at the top are calibrated, not checked out, and how to build that calibration now
• The "expected list" tool that stops the despair spiral before it starts
• Real client examples: unemployment filings, ERP disasters, final round rejections, and how a regulated leader handles every single one
• Why composure is contagious and what your team is reading when you react
• The army question that instantly reframes any corporate setback

This is not about caring less. It's about being so grounded that normal business turbulence stops derailing you entirely.

The career you want, at the level you want, requires you to be a stable presence in unstable conditions. This episode shows you how to build that.

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She wasn't stuck. She wasn't desperate. She just knew she wanted more and wasn't sure how to get there.

In eight months, Angela went from cautiously exploring her options to landing a Chief People Officer role at a global company, with a $500,000 base salary, international travel, IPO equity, and a life she stops to appreciate.

This episode is the real conversation. The one behind the LinkedIn success story.

What you'll take away:

• The process Shayla uses to help clients define exactly what they want (not just the title, but the culture, the travel, the team, the life) so they stop settling before they even start applying
• Why Angela turned down a seemingly perfect CPO role because it was in Seattle, and what happened less than seven days later
• How she negotiated a 60% pay increase and why knowing your worth changes the conversation completely
• The mindset shift that made her less reactive at work, less reactive at home, and more present everywhere
• What Protect the Asset actually looks like in practice for a woman with six kids who travels globally for work
• Why the higher you go in corporate, the more freedom you actually have (and why the "good mom ceiling" is a story, not a fact)

Angela didn't come to coaching in crisis. She came at a crossroads. And that's exactly when coaching works best.

If you're a high-performing woman in corporate who knows you're capable of more, this one's for you.

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