Unpacking Trauma, Survival Mode, and How It’s Quietly Driving Your Business. If you’ve ever felt like your business success is secretly fueled by anxiety, perfectionism, or needing to “prove” yourself, I think you're going to love this episode as much as I did.

I sat down with trauma therapist, Morgan Pommells to unpack the real reason high-achieving women entrepreneurs feel burnt out, resentful, or emotionally distant in their own business. This isn’t just mindset, it’s survival mode, and it’s showing up in how you lead.

Why You Should Listen

• Understand the Hidden Impact of Emotionally Immature Parenting: Learn how childhood dynamics may have quietly shaped your survival identity and how it shows up in how you lead, delegate, and over-function.
• Identify Your Trauma Response Patterns in Business: Discover how fight, flight, freeze, and fawn responses manifest as burnout, people-pleasing, perfectionism, or total shutdown during launches and client delivery.
• Stop Hiring Your Parents: Unpack how transference and projection show up when hiring and why you might be subconsciously recreating the very dynamics you’re trying to escape.
• Regulate Your Nervous System for Sustainable Leadership: Get tools to stop reacting from urgency and start leading from safety, presence, and emotional regulation.

Discover why your drive to overdeliver, perfect, or control everything in your business isn’t ambition, it’s survival mode.

Connect with Monique Shields:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/morganpommells/
• Website: https://morganpommells.com/

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Why aligned, high-ticket clients don’t always say yes immediately and what it really means. In this episode, we unpack the hidden decision-making process of discerning buyers and how to align your messaging with their deeper needs.

Why You Should Listen:

1. Understand the Buyer’s Inner Dialogue: Learn the six private questions high-touch, high-ticket clients are silently evaluating before making an investment.
2. Create Trust-Driven Messaging: Discover how to shift your content from urgency and performance to resonance and discernment.
3. Support Clients Beyond Crisis Mode: Explore why stable, non-crisis clients often need support the most and how to speak directly to them.
4. Build Messaging That Holds Space: Get tactical with content that reflects your buyer’s full humanity not just their ambition.

If you’ve ever been ghosted by a seemingly perfect client, this episode reveals what’s really going on behind the hesitation.

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Your audience has evolved. Their buying behavior has too. Market Like A CEO™ helps you refine your messaging to reflect your depth, build trust, and convert more aligned clients. Enrollment closes Tuesday, May 7th, 2025. Learn more: https://marketlikeaceo.com

✨ Be the first to know about private 1:1 coaching spot availability - join the waitlist: https://jereshiahawk.com/waitlist

Craving raw, real, and relatable insights from a multi-7 figure business advisor and coach who's been in your shoes and is still walking the path? In my email newsletter, I share practical lessons on building a sustainable, profitable business — without sacrificing what matters most. Ready to join the journey... Subscribe here: https://jereshiahawk.com/insider

Stay connected with me in real-time over on Instagram! I share daily insights, behind-the-scenes moments, and a peek into my slow morning rituals: www.instagram.com/jereshiahawk

In this deeply honest episode, I sit down with executive coach and leadership expert Monique Shields to unpack how motherhood, grief, and slowing down can radically transform your ambition. We talk about redefining success, embracing your evolving self-concept, and why resourcing yourself is a radical act of self-trust.

Why You Should Listen:

1. Redefine Ambition for Sustainable Success: Learn how major life events like motherhood and grief can reveal a deeper, truer source of ambition and why this matters for scaling your business with authenticity.
2. How to Resource Yourself for Growth: Discover why resourcing yourself emotionally, relationally, and operationally is essential for sustainable leadership and streamlined business growth.
3. Break Free from Achievement Addiction: Understand how high-achieving women can shift from external validation to internal fulfillment while boosting client lifetime value and simplifying operations.
4. Create Safe Spaces for Evolution: Hear how slowing down and adjusting your pace isn’t just a luxury, it’s a strategy for building a more aligned, resilient life and business.

If you're questioning everything and craving a business that fits the new you, this episode is your permission slip, listen in.

Connect with Monique Shields:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moniquershields/
• Podcast: Ambition Without Compromise - https://www.instagram.com/ambitionwithoutcompromise/
• Website: https://moniquershields.com/

Enroll in Market Like A CEO™: https://marketlikeaceo.com

Your audience has evolved. Their buying behavior has too. Market Like A CEO™ helps you refine your messaging to reflect your depth, build trust, and convert more aligned clients. Enrollment closes Tuesday, May 7th, 2025. Learn more: https://marketlikeaceo.com

✨ Be the first to know about private 1:1 coaching spot availability - join the waitlist: https://jereshiahawk.com/waitlist

Craving raw, real, and relatable insights from a multi-7 figure business advisor and coach who's been in your shoes and is still walking the path? In my email newsletter, I share practical lessons on building a sustainable, profitable business — without sacrificing what matters most. Ready to join the journey... Subscribe here: https://jereshiahawk.com/insider

Stay connected with me in real-time over on Instagram! I share daily insights, behind-the-scenes moments, and a peek into my slow morning rituals: www.instagram.com/jereshiahawk