What happens when the career and life you’ve worked hard to build no longer feel completely aligned with the person you’re becoming?

That doesn’t necessarily mean you made the wrong choices.

And it doesn’t mean you need to burn everything down and start over.

Sometimes it simply means it’s time to examine the story you’ve been telling about who you are, what success should look like, and what you’re allowed to want next.

In this episode, Shannon sits down with Laura Nespoli, founder of Mesh and Movement, strategic storyteller, and author of Threads of Me and You.

After more than 15 years helping organizations, from Fortune 500 companies to local nonprofits, communicate their stories, Laura found herself beginning a personal exploration of her own.

That journey led her to follow what she calls the loose threads, unravel old meaning, and intentionally reweave a life and career that felt more aligned with her purpose.

In this conversation, you’ll discover:
✔ Why a life that looks successful from the outside can stop feeling aligned on the inside
✔ How to recognize the “loose threads” that may be trying to tell you something
✔ Why purpose can become a North Star for career and life decisions
✔ How clarity around your story can create confidence
✔ Why owning your story can make thought leadership and visibility feel less uncomfortable
✔ How storytelling can strengthen trust, belonging, and connection on teams
✔ What Laura calls the vulnerability loop
✔ Why someone else sharing their story can give us permission to share ours
✔ How storytelling can help women realize they aren’t as alone as they thought
✔ Why changing your story doesn’t require throwing away everything you’ve already built
✔ How to begin exploring who you’re becoming with curiosity instead of pressure

As Laura reminds us, you don’t have to unravel everything to begin weaving the life you’re intended to have.

🔗 Connect With Laura Nespoli: meshinmovement.com

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What if getting more done isn’t actually moving your career forward?

For high-performing women, productivity can become part of our identity.

We’re dependable.
Efficient.
Organized.
We get things done.

And those qualities matter.

But there comes a point in your career when the question can’t only be, “How much did I accomplish today?”

You also need to ask:
“Did I spend time on the things that move my career, my team, and the business forward?”

In this solo episode, Shannon explores the difference between being productive and intentionally preparing for your next level.

Inside this episode you’ll learn:
✔ Why more responsibility doesn’t automatically mean career growth
✔ How high performers become buried in execution
✔ The difference between necessary work and developmental work
✔ Why your calendar may reveal more about your priorities than your career goals
✔ How to evaluate opportunities based on the reputation you want to build
✔ Why saying no can become an important career growth skill
✔ How delegation helps create leadership capacity
✔ Why career development doesn’t have to mean adding more to your plate
✔ How to use Shannon’s Maintain, Grow, Release exercise to evaluate your workload

Your current responsibilities may be consuming all the space your future growth needs.

You don’t need to do more to become impossible to overlook.

You need to become more intentional about what you’re doing, why you’re doing it, and whether it helps leadership experience you at the level you want to reach next.

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What if some of the career decisions you think you’re consciously making are actually being made from stress?

One more project.
One more late night.
One more yes when you really wanted to say no.

For high performers, pushing through can become so normal that exhaustion starts to feel like evidence that you’re successful.

My guest today, Paula Houlihan, knows that experience personally.

After spending 15 years in the high-pressure insurance industry, including working as a senior claims specialist, chronic workplace stress eventually led to a serious health crisis. Paula says she was diagnosed one stage away from adrenal crisis and ultimately needed significant time to focus on her health.

Today, Paula is an executive coach, keynote speaker, author, and creator of the Choice Mastery Model. Her book, Hijacked, explores how stress can affect the way we think, react, prioritize, and make decisions.

In our conversation, we talk about:
✔ The burnout warning signs high performers often rationalize or overlook
✔ Why exhaustion can start feeling like part of the success formula
✔ What happens when you become emotionally detached from work you once enjoyed
✔ Why “this is only temporary” can keep you stuck in unhealthy patterns
✔ The hidden no that comes with every yes
✔ Why boundaries can trigger guilt
✔ How beliefs about what you “should” do influence your choices
✔ What Paula calls living in “Shouldtopia”
✔ How stress and the nervous system can affect your decisions
✔ Paula’s Power Pause and why creating space before reacting matters
✔ Why pushing through and working harder don’t automatically make your value visible
✔ The connection between self-advocacy, leadership, and career growth
✔ A simple exercise for recognizing where your time and energy are actually going

One of the questions I hope you’ll leave this conversation asking is: Are the choices I’m making under pressure supporting the career and life I actually want to build?

Because your career should support the life you want to build, not require you to sacrifice yourself to prove you’re capable.

🔗 Connect With Paula Houlihan https://paulahoulihan.com

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Have you ever waited to tell your manager about a problem because you thought you needed to figure out the solution first?

You’ve probably heard the advice:

Never bring your manager a problem without bringing a solution.

Shannon doesn’t completely agree.

Because leadership isn’t about pretending you have an answer when you don’t.

It’s about bringing enough perspective to help the right decision get made.

In this solo episode, Shannon shares how high-performing women can stop putting pressure on themselves to solve everything alone and start making their strategic thinking more visible.

You’ll learn in this episode:
✔ Why bringing a problem without a perfect solution doesn’t make you less capable
✔ The difference between handing off a problem and bringing perspective
✔ How waiting too long to escalate can actually make problems bigger
✔ Why leaders are increasingly rewarded for thinking, not simply knowing
✔ How to make your strategic thinking visible to your manager
✔ Why asking for input can demonstrate leadership
✔ How to know what support or decision you actually need
✔ Shannon’s four-part framework for bringing problems to leadership

Remember, your manager doesn’t need you to know everything.
They need to know they can trust how you think when you don’t.

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If you keep telling yourself, “I know what to do, so why am I not doing it?” this episode may help you understand what’s really happening.

High-achieving women often assume they need another strategy, more discipline, or greater confidence.

But sometimes the real issue is an invisible pattern that keeps pulling them back into survival mode.

In this episode, Shannon sits down with Nicole Majik, creator of the DASH Method, to talk about the beliefs, habits, and emotional patterns that influence confidence, communication, leadership, and career growth.

After more than 16 years leading teams in the pharmaceutical industry, Nicole’s work was shaped by her own experiences navigating divorce, raising four children, recovering from severe mercury poisoning, and rebuilding her life through multiple seasons of adversity.

Inside this episode:
✔ Why growth mode and survival mode cannot happen at the same time
✔ How workplace environments influence confidence and performance
✔ Why some women feel like they’re constantly starting over
✔ How childhood beliefs continue shaping adult decisions
✔ Why fear can be useful information instead of something to avoid
✔ What it means to manage up, manage down, and manage yourself
✔ How to recognize what needs to change, be released, or acknowledged
✔ Why aligned action matters more than endless preparation

Nicole also shares a practical reflection to help you identify what you feel is missing, where you may be rejecting what you want, and what aligned action could look like next.

🔗 Connect with Nicole Majik

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If you’re known as the person who can fix almost anything, you may think that reputation is automatically preparing you for leadership.

Sometimes it is.

Sometimes it keeps you known primarily for execution.

In this solo episode, Shannon explores one of the biggest shifts high-performing women need to make as they grow into leadership.

Strong contributors solve problems.

Strategic leaders make sure they’re solving the right ones.

Inside this episode, you’ll learn:
✔ Why problem-solving alone may not be enough for the next level
✔ The difference between execution and strategic thinking
✔ Why high performers often rush toward answers
✔ How to separate facts from assumptions
✔ Why curiosity is a leadership skill
✔ How to make your strategic thinking visible
✔ The subtle signals that leadership is beginning to trust your judgment
✔ Three questions to ask before offering a solution

Your Small Promotion Move

The next time someone brings you a problem, pause before solving it.

Ask:
What are we actually trying to accomplish?
What do we know versus what are we assuming?
What happens if we solve this exactly the way we’re currently proposing?

You may confirm the original problem.

Or you may uncover the real one.

And that is where strategic leadership begins.

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If you've ever felt like you're constantly starting over on the goals that matter most, you're not alone.

Many high-performing women work incredibly hard, yet still feel like they're falling behind at work, at home, or both.

In this episode, Shannon sits down with Consistency Coach Alicia Dupree to talk about one of the biggest misconceptions women have about achieving success.

It's not about finding more motivation.

It's about creating consistency.

After building a successful corporate career, Alicia found herself trying to balance leadership, motherhood, and family responsibilities while feeling like she was constantly being pulled in different directions. That experience eventually led her to create The Busy Woman's Blueprint, where she helps ambitious women build simple systems that make sustainable success possible.

Together, Shannon and Alicia discuss:
✔ Why consistency matters more than motivation
✔ How to stop feeling like you're constantly starting over
✔ The difference between perfection and consistency
✔ Why small actions create lasting career growth
✔ How to build habits that fit your real life
✔ The importance of filling your own cup first
✔ Why resetting quickly is one of the most valuable skills you can develop
✔ A simple wellness assessment that helps identify where you need support most

Career growth isn't about doing everything perfectly.

It's about building small, intentional habits that help you keep moving forward, even during life's busiest seasons.

🔗 Connect with Alicia Dupree
🔗 Grab the assessment

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What gets better when people work with you?

That question reveals more about your leadership than your title ever could.

In this solo episode, Shannon explores one of the most overlooked leadership habits:

Helping other people become more successful because you were there.

The leaders people remember most aren’t always the ones with the highest title or the most answers.

They’re the people who create clarity.

Build confidence.

Invite better ideas.

Strengthen the team.

And help others move forward.

Inside this episode:
✔ Why leadership isn’t about being the hero
✔ The difference between providing information and creating impact
✔ How influential leaders make other people stronger
✔ Why curiosity builds more trust than trying to prove what you know
✔ How to create value in meetings without dominating them
✔ Why leadership influence grows when it’s shared
✔ The question that can change how you show up in every conversation
✔ A simple promotion move to practice this week

This week, choose one meeting.

Before you walk in, ask yourself:
When this meeting ends, what do I want people to leave with because I was here?

Maybe it’s more clarity.
More confidence.
A stronger decision.
Or simply the feeling that someone truly listened.

That’s not self-promotion.
That’s leadership.

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