You know exactly what you want to say.

You’ve rehearsed it.
You’ve thought it through.
You walk into the room ready.

And then your body shuts down and the words won't come out.

In this episode, Janelle explores the uncomfortable truth about why intelligent, high-performing women freeze in conversations that matter - at work, in relationships, and inside their own families.

Why does the silence feel so sudden?
Why is it so unpredictable?
Why does it cost more than we realise?

This isn’t about confidence. Nor is it about courage. It definitely isn’t about 'just speaking up'.

So, what is it?

If you’ve ever walked away thinking, Why didn’t I just say it? - this episode is for you.

If this conversation resonates, download the complimentary Unshakeable Woman Blueprint HERE - a practical starting point to help you begin responding differently in these moments.

If you’re ready to stop fearing the freeze and start relying on your voice, Janelle’s brand new programme, The Soft Strength Salon, is where this capacity is built - slowly, relationally and in real conversations that matter. CLICK HERE to learn more.

Next week, the conversation continues as we explore power at the level of energetics and non-verbal communication. Why does your nervous system know who holds power before a word is spoken?

You meet someone and feel that familiar lift of excitement. The chemistry is there, the conversation flows, and for a while it genuinely feels different.

Then, a few months in, something starts to shift.

Nothing dramatic happens. No clear moment you can point to. But the ease fades, old relationship patterns return, and you find yourself wondering how you’ve ended up back in the same place. Again.

In this episode, I talk about that loop. The one where relationships start strong, feel full of promise, and then quietly unravel once real life settles in.

I share my own experience of repeating this relationship cycle, the line-in-the-sand moment that changed everything, and what I learned about why so many connections are formed through unresolved wounds rather than emotional wholeness.

You’ll hear what’s really happening beneath the chemistry - why people are on their best behaviour at the beginning, what changes when that phase ends, and how self-protection and old emotional patterns take over without us realising.

If you’ve ever wondered why you keep attracting the same kind of relationship, or why love feels hopeful at first and then familiar in all the wrong ways, this episode will help you understand what’s actually going on - and what needs to shift for the story to be different.

If you’d like to go deeper, here are the offers I mention:

The Unshakeable Blueprint. Complimentary. CLICK HERE

The Cosmic Heart digital course. Currently 50% off with the code NEWYEARSPECIAL (subject to end at any time). CLICK HERE

Private 1:1 Coaching. APPLY HERE

This week’s podcast was prompted by a recent conversation I had with a client.

She was talking about something many leaders experience but rarely name. Wanting to be genuinely helpful and present with her team, while also needing uninterrupted time to think, decide and do her own work well. What she’s finding challenging isn’t leadership itself - it’s the constant internal switching between those two modes, and the quiet toll that seems to take.

In this episode, Presence Has a Price: The Leadership Switch No One Trains You For, we explore that often-unseen internal work of leadership.

The cognitive and emotional demand of moving repeatedly between deep focus and relational leadership - often without warning - and what happens when leaders are never taught how to make that switch cleanly.

We look at why capable, thoughtful leaders can finish a full day knowing they worked hard, yet feeling like their own thinking never quite had the space it needed. And why this isn’t a failure of skill or discipline, but a natural consequence of how leadership actually works.

This is a conversation for leaders who want to understand the real work of presence without losing clarity, momentum or themselves in the process.

I also share a Soft Strength leadership tool designed to help train this internal switch more intentionally and sustainably.

In this episode, we explore:

• The internal labour of leadership that often goes unnamed
• Why switching between deep work and people leadership is demanding
• How presence carries a real cognitive and emotional cost
• Why time management doesn’t address this particular challenge
• How leaders can learn to manage their internal state more skilfully
• A practical way to support cleaner transitions between leadership modes

A Soft Strength leadership tool

If this conversation resonates, you may find the short visualisation and meditation I’ve created helpful.

It’s designed to support leaders in resetting after conversations, regaining clarity after interruption, and moving between depth and presence without carrying one into the other.

You can find it for free on the Insight Timer app, or CLICK HERE.

And, learn more about Janelle's work HERE.

This episode is a grounded, compassionate conversation about body confidence, self-acceptance, and building a healthier relationship with your body - without waiting for it to change.

In a culture that constantly tells us confidence, happiness and self-worth live on the other side of weight loss or physical transformation, this episode offers a different path.

Janelle Ryan explores how to love your body as it is today - whether you’re trying to change it, thinking about change or choosing not to. She shares her personal journey of decades spent disliking her body due to societal, generational and media pressure, and how inner work helped her move from control and punishment to strength, respect, and embodiment.

This is not a weight-loss episode. It’s about body image, body confidence and learning to feel at home in your body. Even in a world that tells you not to.

You’ll hear why loving your body and wanting change are not opposites, how inner work creates sustainable change, and 12 practical truths to help you build a kinder, more respectful relationship with your body.

Perfect listening if you’re navigating body image struggles, January body pressure, health changes, or simply want to stop feeling at war with yourself.

If this episode resonated and you’re ready to build a kinder, more confident relationship with your body, you’re invited to explore Exploring, Embracing, Embodying Body Confidence - Janelle Ryan’s self-paced, experiential digital course. This course helps you release shame, shift limiting beliefs, and feel truly at home in your body, without needing to change it first. You’ll receive lifetime access, including future updates, so you can return to the work whenever you need it. Currently 50% OFF - use code NEWYEARSPECIAL at checkout.
👉 Learn more and enrol HERE.

A new year doesn’t make us new people, and that’s not a problem.

In this episode, we explore why January is more symbolic than magical, and how this moment can still be a powerful pause if we choose it to be. I share a grounded reflection on the shift from the Year of the Snake (shedding and discernment) into the Year of the Horse (movement, momentum and direction), and why this is an ideal time to focus on intentional expansion rather than reinvention.

If you’d like to dive in with me, grab a notebook and reflect as you listen, or save this episode and return to it when you have space. You’ll be guided through two options:

• a quick, surface-level reflection for those wanting efficiency
• and a deeper series of journalling questions for those ready to dive inward and uncover real insight.

Take your time. Find the space. And let this be a conversation with yourself.

If you’d like to be the first to hear about Sky High Coaching's 2026 offerings, you’re warmly invited to join our email community by emailing janelle@skyhighcoaching.com.au.

Acting in a role can feel like leading with one hand tied behind your back.

In this episode, Janelle unpacks the real challenges of stepping into an interim role, from navigating authority and team dynamics to managing expectations, pressure and self-care. You will walk away with practical insights to help you lead with confidence, clarity and calm, even when the role is temporary and the stakes feel high.

Perfect listening if you are stepping up, holding the fort or quietly proving yourself in the in-between.

Here are the links she mentions:

Unshakeable Confidence Blueprint

Debut: Leading From the Start

The Leadership Lounge

Today we’re diving into something that high-performing humans do not love…
and that is being forced to slow down.

You know that feeling when everything in you wants to move, decide, progress, do…
but life has other plans?
Maybe it is traffic. Maybe it is timing. Maybe it is the season you are in.
Suddenly, you find yourself in a pause you did not choose - and definitely did not order.

If you’ve ever felt anxious, twitchy or downright irritated when momentum stalls, you’re in good company.

In this episode, I’m sharing a moment that brought all of that to the surface for me, and the powerful lesson tucked inside it:

That sometimes the pause is not the problem.

So settle in - or walk, or drive, or fold laundry, whatever you do while you listen - and let’s explore why stillness feels so uncomfortable… and why it might be exactly what you need right now.

And before we dive in, if you’re someone who is standing at the edge of a new chapter - or wanting to feel clearer, steadier or more grounded as you choose your next step - I’ve created two beautiful free blueprints to support you.

https://www.skyhighcoaching.com.au/yourfreegifts

One will help you reconnect with your inner confidence, and the other will guide you through discovering what your next chapter is asking of you.

Let’s begin.

This episode dives into the hidden cost of people-pleasing and why it quietly erodes your energy, confidence and leadership. If you’ve ever found yourself overexplaining, overgiving or overcompensating just to keep the peace, this conversation will land deeply. You will learn the subtle signs you’re prioritising everyone else over yourself and the practical shifts that help you reclaim your time, power and boundaries with kindness and grace.

Here is the link to the free blueprints Janelle mentions:

Success Was The WarmUp

Unshakeable Confidence

https://www.skyhighcoaching.com.au/yourfreegifts