Motherhood, Spirituality, & Business: Speak, Mother

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How to know it’s time to rebrand: your business grew, your brand didn’t, and here’s what to check before you start over.

Brittany Cates is a senior product designer, entrepreneur, and host of the Still In Progress podcast, and she helps women recognize when they’ve outgrown what once worked. We talk about what happens when your business has grown up but your colors, fonts, and website are still stuck in an earlier chapter, why AI is only as good as the prompt you give it, and why you can’t read the label from inside the bottle. We also get into what UX design has to do with whether anyone clicks “buy.” Then one place to start: put your podcast cover, Instagram grid, and website side by side and ask if it feels like you. You don’t have to burn it all down.

Connect with Brittany:

Instagram: instagram.com/catescreative.studio

Website: catescreativestudio.com

Still in Progress Podcast: pod.link/1726400672

Referenced in this Episode:

Brittany's Previous Episode: Empowering Career Shifts: Insights for Women Ready to Make a Change buzzsprout.com/2224026/episodes/15380023

Denise Duffield Thomas: denisedt.com

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Speak, Mother is hosted by Shannon Warner, founder of Resonant Collective offering podcast launch, maintenance, and strategy services for truth-telling women.

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Entrepreneur burnout often starts with the corporate rules you carried out the door: output equals worth, and overworking proves dedication.

You left for freedom and flexibility, and somehow you’re the employee, the manager, the marketer, the admin, and the CEO. In this solo episode, I get into what changes when there are kids in the picture, why the hustle advice you keep hearing was never built for you or your season, and why a world built for generators wears the rest of us out. Then one assignment for this week: take inventory, pick one corporate habit, and drop it. I’ll tell you which one I dropped, and it involved coffee.

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Brand strategy for soul-led entrepreneurs starts with an uncomfortable question: did you build a brand, or a second job you invented for yourself?

Most of us built a business that stops the minute we do. We post, we pitch, we show up daily, and wonder why it still feels like a 9 to 5 with worse benefits.

Quin Soheir works with holistic and spiritual women entrepreneurs, and in this conversation she does something you rarely hear on a podcast. She pulls my Human Design and astrology live, in real time, to show how I actually build trust, and why so much of the advice I've been handed never felt like mine. We get into why you've been told to start with an avatar named Jessica when you should be starting with yourself, what loyalty does that constant client hunting never will, and why a business with no flow is just an empty structure.

Quin is the founder of Soul Brand Studios, blending branding, consumer psychology, hypnosis, and Human Design. If you've ever wanted to hear what it's like to work with her before you hire her, press play.

Connect with Quin: 

On Facebook: facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572996278700

Join The Client Attraction Challenge inside her Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1BwiADcusY/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Her free workshop and your own personalized report (normally $22): https://quinsoheir.com/buy/bundle-offer/?checkout_id=15104e82-cd8d-4cb2-ab7e-3363a013317f

Enrollment is now open for Designed to Resonate, my six-week guided podcast cohort to design your show and get launch-ready. Doors close October 9.
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Speak, Mother is hosted by Shannon Warner, founder of Resonant Collective offering podcast launch, maintenance, and strategy services for truth-telling women.

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 Thinking about starting a podcast?

Join me Wednesday, September 30 at 12 PM ET for my free live workshop, Build a Podcast That Actually Works for You. We’ll get clear on what you want your podcast to do, what you want to say, and how to build a show that actually fits you.
[Save your seat →] https://portal.rcollectivepodcasts.com/workshop-page-4744-1254

Ready to actually build it? Enrollment is now open for Designed to Resonate, my six-week guided podcast cohort to design your show and get launch-ready.
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Chantel Porter is back, the Feminist Human Design Biz Bestie who first joined us to talk motherhood a few years ago. This time we're pointing that lens at business.

We get into why even wildly successful, seven-figure business advice can be completely wrong for your design, the difference between "clean" money and "dirty" money, and why the thing you're conditioned to use to make decisions, your mind, might be the least trustworthy tool you've got.

Connect with Chantel:

Chantel's previous episode: Why Motherhood Feels So Different for Every Woman (Human Design Explained) | Chantel Porter buzzsprout.com/2224026/episodes/15068013

Free Human Design Chart: www.herhumandesign.ca/free-chart

Website: www.herhumandesign.ca 

Speak, Mother is hosted by Shannon Warner, founder of Resonant Collective offering podcast launch, maintenance, and strategy services for truth-telling women.

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Want to build a podcast that actually works for you? Join me for a free live workshop, Build a Podcast That Actually Works For You, on Wednesday, September 30th at 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT. We'll get clear on what you want your podcast to do, what you want it to say, and how you actually want to show up — not someone else's formula. Can't make it live? Register anyway and I'll send you the replay. Save your spot here: https://portal.rcollectivepodcasts.com/podcastthatworksworkshop

This episode is about business metrics and learning how to find the number that actually matters when we're growing a soul-led business, because it's rarely the one we're watching.

I got real about the download numbers behind a hard pivot, the internal spiral that followed, and the practice I use to reframe what "success" actually means. Plus: how we can learn to track what actually matters instead of what's easy to see, the philosophy of being dedicated to outcomes over process, and how releasing control can change the outcome of our lives, not just our businesses.

If you've ever let a number define your worth as an entrepreneur, this conversation about business mindset and metrics is for you.

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Speak, Mother is hosted by Shannon Warner, founder of Resonant Collective offering podcast launch, maintenance, and strategy services for truth-telling women.

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Want to build a podcast that actually works for you? Join me for a free live workshop, Build a Podcast That Actually Works For You, on Wednesday, September 30th at 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT. We'll get clear on what you want your podcast to do, what you want it to say, and how you actually want to show up — not someone else's formula. Can't make it live? Register anyway and I'll send you the replay. Save your spot here: https://portal.rcollectivepodcasts.com/podcastthatworksworkshop

Mandie Woodard is an intuitive life coach and Reiki Master, and she knew things before she had proof she was allowed to know them. For years she doubted it anyway, questioned it, hid it, second-guessed whether she was really intuitive or just anxious and making things up.

This episode gets into her work, what a Reiki session actually looks like, how she reads energy and clears what's stuck. It also gets into what it cost her to stop hiding it: the fear of being shunned, the relationships she actually lost, a husband who once compared it to psychosis. She didn't stop doubting herself until the proof piled up too high to ignore. This one's about what it takes to finally believe the thing you've known all along.

Connect with Mandie:

LionHeartCoachingCo.com

TikTok tiktok.com/@mandiewoodard

Wounded Healers Club on Skool: skool.com/the-wounded-healers-club-9960

Referenced in this Episode:

Thomas Campbell: www.my-big-toe.com

Telepathy Tapes Podcast: thetelepathytapes.com

The Celestine Prophecy: link.amazon/B0bI6KqTL

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Speak, Mother is hosted by Shannon Warner, founder of Resonant Collective offering podcast launch, maintenance, and strategy services for truth-telling women.

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Want to build a podcast that actually works for you? Join me for a free live workshop, Build a Podcast That Actually Works For You, on Wednesday, September 30th at 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT. We'll get clear on what you want your podcast to do, what you want it to say, and how you actually want to show up — not someone else's formula. Can't make it live? Register anyway and I'll send you the replay. Save your spot here: https://portal.rcollectivepodcasts.com/podcastthatworksworkshop

Sarah McDonald has run a cake business, a beeswax wrap company, and now works as an energetics coach, each one a layer of the same business she calls hers. We get into her onion theory of reinvention, what her now-teenage kids taught her about it from the time they were babies, and the filter she uses to tell what's actually hers versus what she was just taught to want.

Connect with Sarah:

Instagram @soulalignedwithsarah: instagram.com/soulalignedwithsarah

Work with Sarah: https://stan.store/soulalignedwithsarah

Listen to her podcast, Transform Together: https://open.spotify.com/show/033cGlAPOm2DH9bc3ykWZX?si=fc7050ad5acc4b62

Referenced in this Episode:

Insight Timer App: insighttimer.com

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Speak, Mother is hosted by Shannon Warner, founder of Resonant Collective offering podcast launch, maintenance, and strategy services for truth-telling women.

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How do you know what you actually want when you're surrounded by expectations, expert advice, conditioning, fear, and everyone else's definition of success? In this episode, we're talking about self-trust, discernment, intuition, decision-making, and how to hear your own voice underneath all the noise.

After ten weeks of Permission Slip episodes reminding you that you're allowed to change your mind, do less, want more, outgrow what no longer fits, and do things differently, there's another question waiting on the other side of all that permission:

Now what are you going to choose?

From motherhood and entrepreneurship to spirituality and identity, women are constantly handed rules about what success, ambition, goodness, motherhood, leadership, and even intuition are supposed to look like. But following the rules doesn't guarantee the result.

So how do you decide what actually works for you?

Magic Session

If you’re thinking, “Okay, but I genuinely can’t hear my own answer underneath all the noise,” that’s exactly the kind of thing we can sit with together in a Magic Session.

90 minutes. You and Shannon. Space to get underneath what’s actually going on, hear what you’ve been trying to hear, and figure out what you want to do with it.

Book a Magic Session with Shannon → tidycal.com/resonantcollective/the-magic-session

Come sit with us.
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Remember who you are. Trust what you hear. Find the courage to express it.
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Mentioned in this episode:

On Our Best Behavior by Elise Loehnen

Speak, Mother is hosted by Shannon Warner, founder of Resonant Collective offering podcast launch, maintenance, and strategy services for truth-telling women.

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Speak, Mother is a podcast about business, spirituality, and motherhood — for the woman who's done choosing between her ambition, her kids, and her magic. Hosted by Shannon Warner, this is a show for the woman who trusts her gut and her spreadsheet, equally, without picking a side.

This September, Speak, Mother steps fully into its new direction. Hit follow so you don't miss it.

Speak, Mother is hosted by Shannon Warner, founder of Resonant Collective offering podcast launch, maintenance, and strategy services for truth-telling women.

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The career that doesn't look like your friends'. The business model that breaks the rules. The parenting choice that raises eyebrows. The path that's entirely, unapologetically yours.

This week's permission slip is for the woman who can see a different way, and the woman who's already on it but still needs someone to remind her she's not crazy.

You don't need everyone to understand. You just need to be honest about what's true for you.

Part of the Speak, Mother Summer Series — short permission slips, every week, all summer long.

Book a Magic Session with Shannon → tidycal.com/resonantcollective/the-magic-session

Come sit with us.
Resonant Collective is a free community for women to connect, share wisdom, and explore what's calling them forward.
Remember who you are. Trust what you hear. Find the courage to express it.
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Speak, Mother is hosted by Shannon Warner, founder of Resonant Collective offering podcast launch, maintenance, and strategy services for truth-telling women.

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