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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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/

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This episode is your wake-up call. If launches are flopping, team costs are ballooning, and your intuition is screaming, it’s time to face the uncomfortable truth and step back into the CEO seat with strategy and clarity.

Here’s Why You Should Listen:

• Spot the Early Signs of Business Misalignment: Learn how subtle breakdowns in sales, messaging, and operations point to deeper systemic issues and how to catch them before they snowball.
• Shift from Survival to Strategic Scaling: Discover how to move from reactive, short-term decisions to long-term, sustainable business leadership.
• Reclaim Your Voice and Authority: Understand why outsourcing your messaging may be costing you conversions and how to take back control of your customer journey.
• Realign Your Business Model for Sustainable Growth: Uncover why your offers, team structure, and overhead may need a reset to match your evolved vision and values.

If something in your business feels “off,” this episode will help you name it, face it, and fix it.

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If your premium offers aren't converting like they used to, it's not your program, it's your messaging. Start here.

In this episode, we dive into why your proximity-based, high-ticket offers need identity-driven messaging, not just intellectual proof. Learn how to shift your strategy to connect with sophisticated buyers and boost conversions without overhauling your entire business model.

Why you should listen:

• Master Identity-Based Messaging: Learn why proximity-based offers, like high-ticket coaching or done-for-you services, require marketing that leads with values, presence, and personal resonance.
• Bridge the Messaging Gap: Discover how to adjust your marketing when your business model evolves, especially if your content feels flat or overly strategic.
• Understand Sophisticated Buyers: Unpack the psychology of high-end buyers and how their decision-making process is fundamentally different from low-ticket purchases.
• Avoid the Influence Trap: Stop modeling your strategy after content creators selling mass-volume offers and start aligning your messaging with your premium business model.

If your content isn’t converting the way it used to, this episode breaks down why identity, not just intellect, is key to sustainable sales.

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In this episode, I’m sharing what really happened when I downshifted my business, how I went from high-volume launches to a lean, booked-out 1:1 coaching model, all while rediscovering alignment in love and life. From the ROI of descaling to redefining success post-sabbatical, this is your reminder that slowing down doesn’t mean shrinking. It means recalibrating to align with what actually matters.

Why You Should Listen:

• The Real Results of Descaling: Learn how simplifying my business model helped me get booked out with fewer clients and more profit.
• Post-Sabbatical Success: I share how stepping away created clarity and what it looked like to return with stronger boundaries, strategy, and purpose.
• Finding Love & Alignment in Real Life: I’m opening up about the healing work that led to finding love and why emotional regulation is now part of my business strategy.
• Messaging That Matches Today’s Market: Discover why leading with intellect alone isn’t enough and how to shift your messaging for a more sophisticated buyer in 2025.

If you’ve been craving calm, clarity, and clients who renew over and over again, this episode will speak to your soul.

Other resources shared:

• San Diego LASIK Institute
• B The Method
• Womb Wellness - Kemi Doll, MD

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Can you believe we’re stepping into 2025? In this episode, I’m breaking down the 8 predictions I see shifting the digital marketing and online business landscape this year. We’re talking about fresh ways to think about growth, the priorities that really matter, and how to build a business that works for you, not the other way around. If you’re ready to navigate 2025 with clarity and intention, this is the episode you don’t want to miss.

Why You Should Listen:

• Get a sneak peek at the mindset shifts and trends that will shake up the entrepreneurial space in 2025.
• Learn how to position your business for long-term success without the hustle and burnout.
• Discover the key to standing out in a crowded digital world while staying true to yourself.
• Walk away with fresh inspiration to make this your most aligned and intentional year yet.

I can’t wait to hear what you think! Let me know if you agree or disagree with my 2025 predictions on threads or send me a DM on Instagram.

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Feeling the quiet pressure of being the provider, even in a loving relationship? This episode dives deep into the invisible weight of financial leadership, how it impacts romantic dynamics, and practical strategies for fostering true partnership and balance.

Why You Should Listen

• Understand the Invisible Load: Learn about the hidden emotional and mental burdens that often accompany financial leadership in relationships.
• Redefine Partnership Dynamics: Discover tools and strategies to balance roles and responsibilities in ways that feel equitable, not just equal.
• Create Sustainable Success: Explore how shifting priorities and evolving seasons in life can require changes in relationship roles for long-term sustainability.
• Practical Tools for Balance: Use actionable strategies like a responsibility audit to foster clarity, fairness, and shared ownership with your partner.

Tune in to discover actionable strategies for redefining roles and fostering true connection with your partner.

Resources shared:

Fair Play Book by Eve Rodsky

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