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What happens when your body starts telling the truth before your mind is ready to hear it?

In this episode, I’m joined by Kristal Howard—award-winning communications and public relations expert, founder of The Howard Method, and former senior communications leader at The Kroger Co. After more than a decade shaping national narratives at a Fortune 20 company, Kristal found herself at a crossroads when burnout forced her to slow down and listen.

We talk about burnout as an initiation rather than a failure, the courage it takes to step away from corporate success, and how turning inward through rest and somatic healing reshaped Kristal’s relationship with work, leadership, and visibility. Kristal shares how honoring her body’s wisdom led her to build a business rooted in clarity, culture, and community—and what it really means to choose yourself in a world that rewards constant productivity.

This conversation is for anyone feeling the quiet nudge that something needs to change—and is ready to listen.

Connect with Kristal:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristal.howard/?hl=en

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In this solo episode, I’m talking about visibility and why it often feels harder now than it used to.

I share how age, social media, and cultural pressure shaped my relationship with being seen, why visibility isn’t a confidence or mindset problem, and how “visibility wounds” form in the body over time.

I also talk about:

• Where visibility wounds come from
• Why pushing yourself to be visible often backfires
• The role of nervous system safety and embodiment
• What actually helps you show up in a way that feels grounded and authentic

If you know you’re meant to be more visible but still hesitate, overthink, or hold back, this episode is for you.

This episode connects to The Visibility Shift, an 8-week group coaching experience for women leaders, founders, and experts who want to be seen with grounded confidence.

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What happens when our relationships are driven by wounded energetics instead of grounded, healthy power?

In this episode, I sit down with Dené Logan — therapist, group facilitator, and author of Sovereign Love — to unpack how wounded energetics show up in our relationships, our sense of self, and the ways we abandon our own needs to stay connected.

Dené shares how healthy energetics are rooted in self-trust, embodiment, and inner authority — not control, perfection, or being needed. We explore how somatic work helps us shift these patterns, why so many women were conditioned to earn love through performance, and how sovereignty in love is less about independence and more about conscious interdependence.

This conversation invites you to recognize where your energy is coming from, meet your shadows with compassion, and begin relating — to yourself and others — from a place of wholeness rather than wound.

In this episode, we explore:

• The difference between healthy vs. wounded energetics
• How self-abandonment forms, and how to interrupt it
• Why love often gets tangled with performance and people-pleasing
• The role of the body in reclaiming inner authority
• What sovereignty in love actually looks like in real life

If you’ve ever felt disconnected from your truth or stuck in relational patterns that don’t reflect who you are becoming, this episode offers a powerful reframe and a way home to yourself.

Connect with Dené:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dene.logan/?hl=en

Connect with me:

• Resources: https://www.shanettamcdonald.com/free
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamshanettamcdonald/
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