I created this episode because I know how hard it can be to say no—especially when you’re the one everyone counts on.

Welcome back to The 5% Club. I’m Shayla King, a former C-Suite executive turned business and life coach, and this episode kicks off my No-vember Challenge—four weeks, four lessons, and four ways to reclaim your time, peace, and power before the year ends.

Here’s what we’re covering:
✅ Week 1: Saying no to non-promotable work that keeps you overworked and overlooked.
✅ Week 2: Saying no to holiday stress so you can choose peace over proving.
✅ Week 3: Saying no to clutter and creating calm in your environment (and your mind).
✅ Week 4: Saying no to negative self-talk with my powerful mindset tool, Thoughts on Trial.

It’s time to stop saying yes to what drains you and start saying yes to what matters.
You’ll leave this challenge lighter, calmer, and back in control of your time and energy.

💫 Join me inside The No-vember Challenge—it’s only $97 for all four weeks, lessons, and a private Facebook community where I’ll be live coaching and answering your questions.

👉 Sign up now at www.shaylaking.com

We don’t just dream about better lives in the 5% Club—we design them. One powerful no at a time.

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Most people live in a swirl of negativity—complaining about work, money, and life—without realizing it’s quietly keeping them broke, stressed, and stuck.

In this episode of The 5% Club, Executive Happiness Coach Shayla King shares how to break free from toxic thought loops and train your brain to think like the top 5% of leaders.

What you’ll learn:
✅ How negative conversations poison your mindset and results
✅ Why victim thoughts keep you underpaid and overlooked
✅ The 5% solution to protect your energy and rewire your brain
✅ Simple ways to redirect negativity without being preachy
✅ Habits that create wealth, happiness, and executive success

I also share my personal story—from C-Suite roles to surviving a coma—and why I now choose positivity for the rest of my life.

✨ Subscribe for more executive coaching, mindset training, and career growth strategies.

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🎙 Discipline vs. Desire: Why Willpower Isn’t the Answer 

Hey friends—it’s Shayla King, your favorite executive coach for leaders who want more performance, more pay, and way more happiness. 

If you’ve ever told yourself “I just need more discipline”… you’re wrong. 

You don’t need more willpower. 
You need systems, identity, and desire. 

In this episode, I’m breaking down: 

• Why willpower and motivation always fade 

• How your identity is secretly running the show (and how to upgrade it) 

• The neuroscience of follow-through—how to train your brain to want what your future self wants 

• The exact mantras and mental scripts I use to show up whether I feel like it or not 

• How to create desire on demand so action becomes automatic 

I’m sharing a personal story about shifting from “high-performing hot mess mom” to calm, intentional executive—and how you can use the same identity shift to make habits stick without white-knuckling it. 

If you’re a leader, entrepreneur, or high-achieving woman who keeps stalling on the habits, goals, or projects you actually care about, this episode is your playbook for finally following through. 

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Most people quit right before they win.

They apply for jobs, go through interviews, hit rejection—and throw out the whole “pill box.” But 5%ers? We evaluate, adapt, and keep going until we get the result.

In this episode, I’m teaching 5% Resilience: the skill that guarantees you’ll get anything you want.

You’ll learn:

• The pill box analogy and why most people quit too soon

• How to evaluate your strategies instead of walking the wrong path longer

• The two commitments I require from every client (belief + willingness to be uncomfortable)

• Why resilience is the muscle that makes you unstoppable in career, health, and relationships

• How the Performance + Happiness Lab builds strategy and perseverance so you become the person who always gets what they want

💡 Weekly evolvework: What’s your goal right now? What’s your current strategy—and when will you evaluate if it’s working?

What if the real return on coaching isn’t the promotion—it’s saving your life?

In this episode, I talk with my client Scott Bender, a seasoned finance executive who spent 20+ years leading $20–30 billion organizations. He came to coaching wanting to extend his career and sharpen his edge… but what he found changed everything.

You’ll hear:

• How Scott stopped proving himself and started leading with calm confidence

• The tools he used to quiet his inner critic “George” and strengthen executive presence

• How he rebuilt deep relationships with his adult kids—conversations he’d never had before coaching

• Why his coaching prepared him to handle a massive heart attack on the road with calm instead of panic

• The ROI he never expected: happiness, purpose, and peace in his final career chapter

Scott calls it Scott 3.0—and this episode shows why coaching isn’t about being broken, it’s about building capacity for what matters most.

✨ Enrollment for the Performance & Happiness Lab opens Sept 25 → shaylaking.com/phlab

If you’ve ever thought about working with me, start here. I’m answering your top questions about the Performance & Happiness Lab—the 13-week cohort for corporate leaders who want more money, less stress, and a life they actually love.

Inside, you’ll learn the complete PH+ Formula—Results, Relationships, Rituals, Mindset—with live coaching, implementation time built into your week, and a peer network that opens doors.

You’ll hear:

• Who the Lab is for (mid/senior leaders rising to exec without burning out)

• Exactly what you’ll learn (the 12 essential executive modules—no fluff)

• The weekly schedule (Tues live coaching, Fri implementation + networking)

• Pricing, reimbursement, and typical ROI (financial and happiness)

• Why this program gives you time back instead of piling more on

Enrollment window: Sept 25–Oct 5, 2025.
Learn more / save your seat: shaylaking.com/phlab
Questions? DM me on LinkedIn or email [email protected].

Layoffs. Restructures. Leadership changes.

It’s not if—it’s when. But when you’re in the 5%, you don’t panic. You don’t settle. You’ve built career insurance that makes you untouchable.

In this episode, I’ll teach you how to build:
💰 F-You Money – so you can walk away from jobs or bosses who don’t respect you.
🤝 F-You Relationships – a network so strong, doors open before jobs are even posted.
📈 F-You Skill Set – the undeniable expertise that makes you the obvious choice, every time.

You’ll learn:

• The real truth about how hiring decisions are made behind closed doors

• Why performance alone won’t get you promoted

• How to identify and close the skill gaps holding you back

• My Grow Model for building the career insurance every executive needs

This is how the 5% bulletproof their careers—so they can lead with confidence, earn more money, and love their whole damn lives.

✨ Ready to build yours? Join us inside the PH+ Lab → ShaylaKing.com/phlab

Welcome back to the 5% Club. I’m Shayla King—your favorite executive coach—and today I’m sitting down with my client, Dr. Kari Strange, a tech leader with a PhD in business management, who went from overwhelmed and stuck to creating luxurious amounts of time, energy, and joy.

When Kari started coaching, she thought she just needed a new job. What she discovered instead was a whole new way of living.

Inside this episode, we talk about:

• How Kari eliminated decision fatigue that had plagued her career for 20+ years (and built a wardrobe that makes her feel confident every single day).

• Why small mindset shifts created massive ripple effects in her work, relationships, and energy.

• The exact PH+ tools she used to stop overthinking, clear the “doom loops,” and make space for fun, creativity, and luxurious time outside of work.

• How coaching helped her partner land a new role—with salary increases, stipends, and the chance for them to relocate to their dream state.

• The truth about why overwhelm keeps leaders from promotions, and how to flip it into visibility, confidence, and growth.

Kari quadrupled her investment, but more importantly—she stopped just surviving and started living a joy-filled life.

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to work with me or if coaching can really change your life, Kari’s story will give you the inside look.

👉 Tune in and see what happens when you combine results, relationships, rituals, and mindset inside the PH+ Formula.

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Hi friends—welcome back to the 5% Club. I’m Shayla King, your favorite executive and money mindset coach.

Today we’re kicking off a brand-new series: The Stories That Shaped My Why.

And we’re starting with the one that lit the fire for everything I do today: money.

In this episode, I share:

• The childhood moment that changed my life and made financial independence non-negotiable

• Why money is never shallow or greedy—it’s security, freedom, and choice

• The truth about women and money (did you know women couldn’t even get a business loan on their own until 1988?)

• Why women are taught to “shrink” their spending instead of being taught to grow their income

• How I’m breaking generational money patterns—and helping my clients do the same

• Why ending money shame is key to building not just careers, but epic lives

This isn’t just about promotions or pay raises.
It’s about women—and all leaders—never again feeling trapped by lack of options.

Because when women have money, we change the world. We lead differently. We love differently. We live differently.

So if you’ve ever felt guilty for wanting wealth, or wondered how to build both abundance and joy into your life—this is your permission slip to want more.

Two weeks after launching my coaching business… 

I was on life support. 

I had gone in for a routine autoimmune treatment. 

What followed was a stroke. A seizure. A coma. 

And my two daughters standing over me with tubes down my throat. 

This was supposed to be my “finally free” moment. 

But my body had other plans. 

💥 In this episode of The 5% Club, I’m sharing the full story—an interview I did on the Power Women Wellness podcast with Dr. Lahana. 

We talk about: 

• The moment I knew my work ethic was going to kill me 

• How I went from burned out single mom to C-suite executive 

• The truth about ambition, health, and choosing to live big now 

• What I did differently before the coma that helped me heal 

• And how this experience made me triple down on the work I do today 

If you’ve ever pushed through exhaustion... 

If you’ve ever told yourself “just one more project”… 

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s all really for— 

🎧 This one’s for you. 

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And if this lands—DM me. 

Tell me what you’re done waiting for. 

Your favorite money mindset coach, 

Shayla 

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