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Are you ready to make another $20K, $30K, or even $40K? Then it's time to start making a stronger case for yourself. Your performance review isn't just a chance to look back on what you've accomplished. It's an opportunity to demonstrate your value, prepare your boss to advocate for you, and position yourself for your next raise or promotion. In this episode, I break down how to document your accomplishments, connect your work to measurable business results, and give your boss the evidence they need to make your contributions visible during compensation discussions. Tune in to learn how to make sure your work is seen, remembered, and rewarded.

In This Episode, You Will Learn

• How to prepare for compensation calibration before decisions are made.

• The 1-3 most important outcomes to highlight in your performance review.

• The SHOW framework for communicating your impact.

• Ways to quantify your contributions through revenue, cost savings, time recovered, and risk reduction.

• How to connect your results to business priorities.

• What to include in a one-page case for a raise or promotion.

• How to align with your boss on support, expectations, and next steps.

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You want the career, the life, and the time to actually enjoy both. So what needs to change? In this episode, I introduce my November challenge, a 4-week reset designed to help you say no to the things taking up too much of your time, energy, and attention. I break down 4 areas where saying no can help you stop getting pulled in every direction and start making room for what matters most. Tune in to learn how saying no to the wrong things can help you say yes to the life you actually want.

In This Episode, You Will Learn

• The 4 areas where saying no can help you reclaim your time, peace, and power.

• How to recognize when being helpful is keeping you from what matters most.

• A new way to approach other people’s expectations without sacrificing your peace.

• Why clearing one small area of clutter can help you create more calm.

• What to do when your inner critic tells you that you’re not enough.

• How to become more intentional about the work, expectations, and distractions you take on.

• The November challenge and how to start making room for what matters most.

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Being great at your job doesn't automatically mean you'll land the executive role you deserve. If you've spent years building an impressive career but feel overwhelmed by the thought of updating your résumé, navigating interviews, or competing for your next big opportunity, this episode is for you. As a former Chief People Officer who's spent decades on the other side of executive hiring decisions, I'm sharing the exact 5-step strategy I teach inside Land the Role to help experienced leaders position themselves for higher-paying opportunities, stand out to decision-makers, and confidently land their next leadership role. Whether you're ready for a promotion, considering a move to a new company, or looking for a role with more money, influence, and freedom, you'll learn what actually matters in the executive hiring process, what you can stop wasting time on, and how to make your next career move one that upgrades your whole life.

In This Episode, You Will Learn

00:00 Why being a successful executive doesn't guarantee you'll land your next big role.

05:00 Step 1: Show your value so hiring teams understand what you're worth.

08:15 Step 2: Position your résumé and LinkedIn profile to attract the right opportunities.

11:00 Step 3: Use your professional relationships to unlock executive opportunities.

13:30 How one leader secured a promotion and $35K raise after three years of trying.

14:30 Step 4: Build a leadership brand that makes you unforgettable.

16:00 Step 5: Nail your executive interview with confidence.

17:15 Get clear on the role, compensation, and lifestyle you actually want.

18:00 How one career move gave a client $90K more and fewer working hours.

19:15 Negotiate your executive compensation without leaving money on the table.

20:30 Protect your confidence and standards throughout the hiring process.

22:30 How to use AI to accelerate your executive job search.

24:00 Inside Land the Role: The Hiring Room and ongoing coaching support.

26:30 The hidden financial, professional, and personal costs of staying in the wrong role.

28:00 Why your next career move could change your entire life.

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Ready for your next big leadership role? Stop wasting time on a hiring process that isn't getting you results. Inside Land the Role, I'll give you my proven five-step executive hiring strategy, AI tools, and ongoing coaching support to help you land the role, compensation, and lifestyle you actually want.

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You don't need a smaller career. You need a better way to run your life. If you're an ambitious woman who wants the next promotion, a bigger paycheck, and more time for your family, health, and the things you love, this episode is for you. In the final installment of my Lessons from Times Square series, I'm challenging the belief that having it all means doing it all. I'm sharing how to buy back your time, get the support you need without feeling guilty about it, and create more capacity for the career and life you actually want. Because the goal isn't to become more efficient at doing everything. It's to build a life where you can have extraordinary success AND luxurious amounts of time to enjoy it.

In This Episode, You Will Learn

• Why having it all was never supposed to mean doing it all. 
• How to build a life that supports your biggest career ambitions. 
• Why buying back your time is worth investing in. 
• How to reclaim your time without spending more money. 
• The hidden cost of doing everything yourself. 
• How to get support and create more capacity for your career and life. 
• The mistake ambitious women make when they finally get time back. 
• Why greater efficiency shouldn't mean more work. 
• 5 steps to having the career, money, freedom, and happiness you want.

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What happens when life goes sideways and you still have to lead? In Part 4 of my Lessons from Times Square series, I’m talking about capacity: not how much more you can cram into your life, but how much life you can hold without losing your performance, your peace, or yourself. I share the “glass of matcha” lesson that changed how I think about leaving room for the unexpected, why being a little more unbothered is actually a performance skill, and what capacity has to do with reaching your next level. I’m breaking down what it takes to keep your glass from overflowing when life gets messy. Tune in for a new way to think about capacity, ambition, and your next level.

In This Episode, You Will Learn

• The saying from my grandpa, Popsie King, that became part of my 5% mindset.

• The “glass of matcha” lesson and why leaving room matters.

• What your everyday frustrations show about your capacity.

• Why not every problem needs to become an emotional event.

• The “it’s just a Tuesday” mindset for handling change and pressure.

• What executive composure has to do with your next level.

• The mental and physical capacity required to perform at your best.

• The questions to ask when you need to understand where your capacity is going.

• Why the goal isn’t to do more, but to hold more well.

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What would you do differently if you stopped treating someone else’s disappointment as proof that you made the wrong choice? In this episode, I’m breaking down the invisible emotional labor so many high-performing women carry every day: scanning the room, overthinking our decisions, overexplaining ourselves, and trying to make sure everyone is comfortable with the choices we make. From relationships and friendships to work and everyday decisions, I’m sharing what it looks like to trust yourself even when someone else doesn’t understand. Get ready to protect your energy, stop abandoning yourself for other people’s approval, and become a little more unbothered. 

In This Episode, You Will Learn

• How to reclaim the mental energy you’re spending managing everyone else’s reactions.

• What becomes possible when you stop needing people to understand your decisions.

• How to make choices from self-trust instead of fear of disappointing someone.

• The shift that helps you protect your time and energy without becoming selfish or inconsiderate.

• How to stop replaying conversations and worrying about how every interaction was perceived.

• What it looks like to choose yourself even when the people you love disagree.

• How becoming more “unbothered” can create more freedom in your career, relationships, and everyday life.

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What if being the woman everyone can count on is actually keeping you from the life you want? In episode two of my Lessons from Times Square series, we’re talking about the invisible roles ambitious women take on at home and at work, and what it costs when being capable turns into carrying everything.

I’m challenging the belief that being a great mom, partner, or leader means making everyone else’s life run smoothly at the expense of your own. Because your exhaustion is not proof of how much you love your family, and being indispensable is not the same as being valuable. This episode is your invitation to stop automatically stepping in, fixing, remembering, and carrying, so you can put yourself back inside the big life you’re working so hard to build.

In This Episode, You Will Learn

• How to create more space for your career, relationships, health, and the dreams that belong to you.

• The hidden cost of becoming the person everyone depends on to keep life moving.

• Where being highly capable may actually be creating more work and responsibility for you.

• How to be a deeply involved mother without making exhaustion the price of admission.

• What your kids learn when they see you build a full, happy life of your own.

• The difference between being valuable and making yourself indispensable.

• Where your desire to help may be keeping the people around you from becoming more capable.

• How to recognize when you’ve quietly become the safety net at home or at work.

• What changes when you stop treating every problem you notice as yours to solve.

• How doing less for the people you love can create more room for connection, leadership, and your own life.

• The question that can reveal how much of everyone else’s life is currently running through you.

• What we’re tackling next in Lessons from Times Square, including approval, “good girl” conditioning, and building a life without needing everyone else to approve it.

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What would you allow yourself to want if you knew you couldn’t fail? In the first episode of my Lessons from Times Square series, I’m challenging the belief that ambitious women have to choose between extraordinary success and a life they actually enjoy. You don’t need to want less. You need to get honest about what you actually want and stop confusing “having it all” with doing it all for everyone else.

I’m sharing why putting myself on a billboard in Times Square was about so much more than visibility, the beliefs I had to unlearn after building a successful life that felt terrible to live, and what may actually be standing between you and the next level you know you’re capable of. This is your permission to want the promotion, the money, the health, the family, the time, the fun, or the ridiculously big dream you’ve been negotiating down before you even give yourself a chance to go after it.

In This Episode, You Will Learn

• The difference between “having it all” and the exhausting version ambitious women have been taught to pursue

• What my Times Square billboard taught me about owning a dream before knowing how to make it happen

• The hidden responsibilities successful women carry that were never actually part of the life they wanted

• The belief about success I had to unlearn after reaching the C-suite and realizing something still wasn’t working

• The question that reveals where you may be negotiating your own life down

• What changes when you stop giving other people voting rights in your biggest decisions

• The reason capability alone may no longer be enough to get you to your next level

• What the people doing extraordinary things understand about what’s available to them

• The uncomfortable desires that may be pointing directly toward your next chapter

• The 25-things exercise to uncover what you actually want before worrying about how you’ll get it

• What we’re tackling next in Lessons from Times Square, including visibility, approval, capacity, and resourcing yourself for a big life

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Ready to make more, work less, and design a life you love? Go to shaylaking.com and join the waitlist to be the first to know when there are openings to work with me through 1:1 coaching or the Performance and Happiness Lab.

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You know you’re capable of more. So what’s actually keeping you from your next level? After conversations with high-performing women across Corporate America, I kept hearing the same patterns again and again. Brilliant, accomplished women are overworked, underutilized, overlooked, exhausted, or staying in careers they’ve already outgrown.

In this episode, I’m breaking down five of the biggest patterns I see holding ambitious women back and what to do differently. We’re talking about knowing when you’ve outgrown a role, protecting your energy from workplace nonsense, rebuilding a life that actually gives something back to you, and the “tragedy of the high performer” that can keep your hard work from translating into your next promotion. If you have that itch that you’re meant for something bigger, this episode is your reminder to stop waiting for someone else to notice what you’re capable of and start positioning yourself for what’s next.

In This Episode, You Will Learn

• How to know when it’s time to change your positioning inside your company or take your talent somewhere else

• What to do when you’re so tired that even the thought of fixing your life feels overwhelming

• The one question to ask yourself when you can’t remember the last time you had real energy

• How to start taking back your calendar when everything feels equally urgent

• The “tragedy of the high performer” that can quietly stall your career

• What senior leaders actually need to know about you before they see you at the next level

• The difference between being known as someone who gets things done and someone who can lead at the next level

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What if getting everything you want in your career didn’t require sacrificing everything you love about your life? In this episode, I sit down with my client Rowsha LaBranche-Thompson, a corporate development executive, wife, and mom of two, who found herself on the path to partnership while working 70+ hour weeks and realizing she had nothing left to give.

Rowsha shares what happened when she stopped following the career path she thought she should want and started asking what she actually wanted instead. We talk about building a career around your real priorities, making extraordinary money without accepting miserable conditions, letting go of the pressure to do everything yourself, and creating a life where your ambition, family, health, and happiness no longer have to compete. If you’ve ever wondered whether wanting more success and more life is asking for too much, this conversation is for you.

In This Episode, You Will Learn

• The career “trade-off” high-achieving women have been taught to accept

• The question successful women are afraid to ask that you should be asking (it changes everything)

• The surprising truth about making great money and having boundaries

• The sign that the career path you worked so hard for might not be the one you actually want (and what to do about it)

• The success metric that could be pushing you toward burnout instead of your best life

• What becomes possible when you stop believing you have to “do it all”

• The non-negotiables every ambitious woman should define before making her next career move

• How to create more time for your family without shrinking your professional goals

• The belief about high-paying jobs that could be keeping you trapped in a career you’ve outgrown

• What opens up when you stop living by everyone else’s definition of success

• The permission ambitious women need to want more from their careers and their lives

• Why the next level of your career might look completely different than you expected

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You are the asset. So why are you the only thing in your life nobody's maintaining?

In part two of the Promotion + Happiness Method, Shayla King closes out the three-shift system with Shift 3: Protect the Asset. This is the episode for the woman doing two full-time jobs in one 24-hour day and calling her exhaustion a personal failure. It isn't.

What you'll learn:

• Why buying back your time is good economics, not extravagance
• The real math behind the dual-career household, and why what you're carrying has never been done before at this scale
• How to buy back time through money or through community, whichever lever is actually available to you
• Why sleep, movement, and regulation are performance strategy, not self-care
• How Shayla builds 10 epic, non-negotiable adventures into her year, on purpose

Performance and happiness are not opposites. You can have the career and the life. Both.

Catch up on part one if you missed it, then hit play here.

Register for the FREE Promotion + Happiness Method Live Masterclass at ⁠shaylaking.com/2026-promotion-playbook. ⁠

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Work like you don't have kids. Parent like you don't have a job. Today, we're burning that playbook.

In this episode, Shayla King teaches the first two shifts of her Performance + Happiness Method, the framework built for senior female leaders who refuse to choose between the promotion and the life.

• Why your exhaustion is a design flaw, not a personal failure
• The one-page exercise to find what you're carrying that nobody actually assigned
• Why regulation, not hustle, is the promotion skill nobody put in your job description
• Three real scenes for staying powerful under pressure, from the meeting where someone talks over you to the 3am spiral that won't let you sleep
• How to press stop on the doom loop and choose where your brain goes next

Do the one-page exercise. Circle your three. Then come back next week for Shift Three: Protect the Asset.

Register for the FREE Promotion + Happiness Method Live Masterclass at shaylaking.com/2026-promotion-playbook.

The Performance + Happiness Lab is open for enrollment now at shaylaking.com/phlab.

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I didn't lose 35 pounds by finding the perfect diet. I lost it by deciding who I was first.

In this episode, executive coach Shayla King shares her actual health and wellness routine, the one behind her transformation from "hot mess mom" to strong, fit, and calm while leading a high-powered career.

Here's what she covers:

• Why identity work has to come before any workout or eating plan for it to stick
• How she built a consistent workout habit while relearning to walk after her coma
• Her simple, high-protein food philosophy (dessert included)
• The micro-breaks she uses to reset her energy between meetings and calls
• Why managing her inner dialogue changed her life more than anything else on this list
• What's actually in her green water, morning and afternoon

What's In My Green Water:

Every morning before the gym, Shayla mixes creatine, Perfect Aminos, and Amino Energy in green apple. The creatine and Perfect Aminos support muscle. The Amino Energy is her pre-workout, that's where the caffeine lives. In the afternoon, she repeats the creatine and Perfect Aminos, minus the caffeine. In addition to building muscle, new studies have shown that creatine is great for brain support. Shayla use it twice a day and it keeps her mentally sharp in the afternoon.

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This is not a diet episode. It's a design episode. Performance and happiness are not opposites, and neither are ambition and health.

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"The world loves a suffering woman." A line that opens one of the deepest episodes yet.

Part two with Krista Williams (author, speaker, host of Almost 30) goes deep. Real deep.

What we get into:

• Why the world doesn't always know what to do with a happy, thriving, confident woman, and the "suffer to deserve it" programming behind it
• Why success makes men more likable and women less likable at work, and how to catch yourself doing it to other women
• Moving from volume-based friendships to depth, and why outgrowing people is part of growth, not a red flag about you
• Setting a boundary with a parent, and why "family" doesn't mean you don't get a choice
• Krista's story about her dad, a Jaguar, a smashed mailbox, and the kind of love that becomes a generational gem

If you've ever felt smaller for being confident or unsure what to do with a friendship that no longer fits, hit play.

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You don't have to want it to be hard. You're just allowed to want it to be easy.

This week Shayla King gets personal. The survival identity she built as a kid. The moment on a college tour with her daughter that hit her sideways. And the concept currently rewriting her life: the separation of tasks. What's actually yours to carry, and what was never yours to begin with.

What you'll take away:

• Why over-functioning feels like personality but is usually just old wiring
• The difference between helping from steadiness and helping from guilt
• A real coaching example: 3 options for supporting aging parents without resentment
• Why "I have to" is almost never actually true
• Permission to want ease, not just earn rest after you've proven enough

Performance and happiness are not opposites. You can be excellent and rested.

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It's not the most talented person in the room who gets promoted. It's the easiest person to work with.

This week Shayla breaks down three leadership lessons from a year of contractor chaos (a pool guy, a countertop crew, and a whole lot of missed windows) to teach the executive presence skill most leaders never name.

• Communicate in the format the other person actually needs, not the one that's easiest for you
• If people can't get real access or real answers from you, they'll quietly go find someone who gives it to them
• Do what you say you're going to do, exactly when you said it, not eventually
• Why this pattern is the hidden reason smart women get stuck in middle management
• Ease of doing business with you is a trainable, promotable skill, not a personality trait

Capable. Credible. Easy.

That's the combination that gets you trusted with more.

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Everyone says you can have it all, just not at once.

Lynn didn't listen.

She wasn't looking for a new job.

She found one anyway, at a company whose culture she actually loves.

She started dating again as a single mom.

She golfs, does Pilates, takes real trips, and has actual fun with her actual friends.

Not someday. Now. All of it. At once.

Lynn Mulligan, PH+ Lab graduate, walks through how she built a life where performance and happiness stopped competing with each other, and what changed when she stopped treating fun like something she had to earn first.

What we get into:

• Why the best opportunities show up when you stop chasing them
• Dating, single motherhood, and refusing to shrink
• The executive communication skill that got her called out by a senior leader mid-interview
• What it actually looks like to build fun into the operating system
• How emotional regulation shows up in job interviews, dating, and parenting simultaneously
• What the PH+ Lab peer room feels like from the inside
• The shift that made everything else possible

If you've been told the "not at once" line one too many times, this one is for you.

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If there's a villain in your story, you're in the victim seat.

And the victim seat is the most expensive place you can live.

Shayla King breaks down the one habit that quietly costs high-performing women their power, peace, and happiness: the villain story.

You probably don't know you're running it. Most women don't. This episode shows you exactly how to spot it and get out.

What we get into:

• The single question that reveals whether you're in victim mode right now
• The three villain story types: active, passive, and emotional
• Why the language shift from "I am angry" to "I notice anger" changes everything
• How to redirect a low-frequency conversation without lecturing anyone
• The weekly practice that starts taking your power back today

Plus a personal update on intentional spending, the new pool, and the Resourcing Workshop coming soon.

Ready to do this work inside a room built for women at your level? Join the PH+ Lab at shaylaking.com/phlab.

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The mother wound isn't just a therapy concept. It's the reason high-performing women over-function, over-perform, and can't stop being the good girl in the boardroom.

Shayla King sits down with Krista Williams, host of Almost 30 (120M+ downloads), to go deep on the invisible patterns underneath ambitious women's biggest stuck points. Shayla had been avoiding the mother wound topic. Once she went there, it became one of the most important conversations she's recorded.

What we get into:

• What the mother wound is and why corporate women especially need to look at it
• How Good Girl Conditioning plays out at work: office housework, boundary leaks, over-functioning
• IFS (Internal Family Systems) and parts work as tools for senior women leaders
• The "even if" practice for breaking the performing-for-love loop
• Ancestral burdens vs. ancestral gems: what gets passed down cuts both ways
• Becoming your own inner mother and what that actually looks like

This is Part 1. Part 2 goes into why the world hates a successful woman, adult friendships, and when it's time to cut someone out.

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You're not too ambitious. You're just running the wrong playbook.

In Part 2 of the Lighter Life series, executive coach Shayla King gets specific. Five real ways life gets lighter when you step into the 5% life. Not theory. Not soft self-care messaging. The actual shifts her clients make that change everything.

What you'll take away:

• You have more choice than you think. In your schedule, your kids' activities, your obligations. Reclaiming that changes your entire experience.
• Needing people to like you is costing you your career. Stop proving. Start positioning.
• You are probably the emotional air traffic controller in every relationship in your life. You can exit that triangle.
• Self-criticism is not growth. Intellectual honesty is. Learn the difference and your confidence skyrockets.
• Your health is not a reward for finishing. It is the foundation. Protect the asset.

We're grateful and we want more. This is your 5% life. Not someday. Right now.

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You don't have to be the strong one anymore.

What if right now, not when the kids get older, not after your next promotion, you could be in the exact same circumstances and feel completely different?

That's what this episode is about.

• Dual-career households are brand new territory. No generation before us has done this at scale, which means there's no playbook. Which means we get to write a new one.
• The double standard is real. A man with a stay-at-home wife is "normal." A woman asking for 5 hours of help a week feels like she's failing. Same need, different judgment.
• A real client story: she rated her life an 8 out of 10 on paper. Underneath, she was numbing out with wine and books every night because she didn't feel good enough. Sound familiar?
• The research is clear: a mother's happiness, more than income, more than parenting style, is the biggest predictor of how her whole family does.
• Lighter is not the same as easier circumstances. It's what happens when you stop needing everyone else's approval to feel okay.

You don't have to hit a wall to deserve something different. If something feels off, it's off.

Ready to feel lighter? The Performance + Happiness Lab fall cohort waitlist is open: shaylaking.com/phlab

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Your boss isn't thinking about your raise. Not because they don't value you. Because you've never asked.

That's not a character flaw. That's Good Girl Conditioning. The quiet belief that wanting it should be enough. That asking is greedy. That the work will speak for itself.

It won't.

In this episode, former Chief People Officer and executive coach Shayla King breaks down the one conversation most high-performing women keep almost having and teaches you exactly how to have it.

Here's what you'll take from this episode:

• The two broken strategies: waiting to be noticed vs. the ultimatum. Both leave money and opportunity on the table.
• What Shayla watched in real promotion rooms as a CPO: the woman who said "I'm open to what's next" never got the role. The person who named the exact thing did.
• The "pull your chair around" move. Stop sitting across from your boss and start standing beside them. Show them the full dream. Ask them to help you build it.
• The question that changes everything: what would I need to be doing for that to be possible here?
• When the answer is no, that's not rejection. It's data. It's a map out. And it's more useful than three more years of quietly hoping.

This works at the office. It works at home in the dual-career household too. Same pattern, different room. Same fix.

Know and declare what you want. Then pull them in.

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Executive moms don't need better time management. They need life design.

You planned the camps, the carpools, the team offsites, and the family trip. And then someone asked: what do YOU want this summer? And you had no answer.

That's not a time problem. That's a positioning problem. And in this episode, executive coach Shayla King is calling it out and giving you the blueprint to fix it.

Shayla shares real stories from her epic year check-in with clients: the woman who waited all summer and ended up with an empty calendar, the client who crushed a high-stakes panel interview AND made it to her daughter's first concert in the same weekend, and what it actually looks like when plans fall apart and you still find a way to have an extraordinary season.

Here's what you'll take from this episode:

• You haven't missed the year. Five months down, seven to go. That's a runway, not a loss.
• You don't find time for an epic life. You take it. Big rocks go in the calendar first. The rest of life builds around them.
• It's not all or nothing. The 5% approach is both/and. The concert AND the career-defining presentation. Not one at the expense of the other.
• When plans break, chase the feeling. Morocco fell through. The spa moved. Nobody spiraled. Because the place was never the point.
• Essentialism is the whole game. At work: run every task through the revenue/cost/client filter and watch your 60-hour week collapse to 30. At home: same skill, different room.

This is the career and the life. Both. During the climb.

The Performance + Happiness Lab opens again in September.Get on the waitlist now so you're first to know: shaylaking.kit.com/waitlist

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May feels like December. And if you're a working mom, you already know exactly what that means.

End-of-year performances. Last-minute school projects. Graduation parties. Four practices in three days. And somehow you're still expected to show up fully at work, keep the house running, and not snap at anyone.

In this bonus replay, executive coach Shayla King gets real about May-Cember and gives you the mindset reset and practical playbook to stop white-knuckling through it.

Here's what you're walking away with:

• The ownership mindset shift: Even in the chaos, you are still in charge. You are not at the mercy of your calendar.
• Divide your day into thirds: One thing per morning, afternoon, and evening. That's it. You can handle three things.
• The family Google Calendar system: Kids add their own events, send you calendar invites for rides, and own their own stuff. You stop being the human reminder system.
• Thursday Night Planning Meetings: 15 minutes, everyone's schedule on the table, shopping list built, surprises eliminated.
• The dartboard framework: Your inner circle gets your yeses. Everyone else gets a kind, firm no.

This is not about doing less. It's about designing differently. That's what the 5% women do.

One question to carry through this episode: Where could I say no a little more often so I can show up fully for what actually matters?

Enrollment for the Performance + Happiness Lab closes May 27.Summer access.

A 1:1 with Shayla.

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🎙️ ABOUT THE 5% CLUB PODCASTThe 5% Club is hosted by Shayla King - former Chief People Officer, executive coach, and founder of Evolve Coaching. New episodes every Tuesday for high-performing women who want the career AND the life. Not someday. During the climb.

Half the people at the top are miserable. The 5% chose differently.

The skill that separates good leaders from truly senior ones isn't strategy. It's emotional regulation. And nobody is teaching it.

In this episode of The 5% Club Podcast, executive coach Shayla King breaks down why your reaction to normal business chaos is costing you more than the chaos itself ever could. And how to stop it.

What you'll take away:

• Why the most respected leaders at the top are calibrated, not checked out, and how to build that calibration now
• The "expected list" tool that stops the despair spiral before it starts
• Real client examples: unemployment filings, ERP disasters, final round rejections, and how a regulated leader handles every single one
• Why composure is contagious and what your team is reading when you react
• The army question that instantly reframes any corporate setback

This is not about caring less. It's about being so grounded that normal business turbulence stops derailing you entirely.

The career you want, at the level you want, requires you to be a stable presence in unstable conditions. This episode shows you how to build that.

▶ Register for The Promotion Playbook (free live webinar)https://shaylaking.com/2026-promotion-playbook

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She wasn't stuck. She wasn't desperate. She just knew she wanted more and wasn't sure how to get there.

In eight months, Angela went from cautiously exploring her options to landing a Chief People Officer role at a global company, with a $500,000 base salary, international travel, IPO equity, and a life she stops to appreciate.

This episode is the real conversation. The one behind the LinkedIn success story.

What you'll take away:

• The process Shayla uses to help clients define exactly what they want (not just the title, but the culture, the travel, the team, the life) so they stop settling before they even start applying
• Why Angela turned down a seemingly perfect CPO role because it was in Seattle, and what happened less than seven days later
• How she negotiated a 60% pay increase and why knowing your worth changes the conversation completely
• The mindset shift that made her less reactive at work, less reactive at home, and more present everywhere
• What Protect the Asset actually looks like in practice for a woman with six kids who travels globally for work
• Why the higher you go in corporate, the more freedom you actually have (and why the "good mom ceiling" is a story, not a fact)

Angela didn't come to coaching in crisis. She came at a crossroads. And that's exactly when coaching works best.

If you're a high-performing woman in corporate who knows you're capable of more, this one's for you.

New episodes every Tuesday. Subscribe to The 5% Club Podcast wherever you listen.

Ready to make your move?

Register for Shayla's free live Promotion Playbook webinar at shaylaking.com/2026-promotion-playbook

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In this episode, I talk about the question so many ambitious women are quietly asking: Can I have the career and the life?

I break down why so many women are exhausted, why the old playbook for success is broken, and how good girl programming, overwork, and people pleasing keep high performers trapped in lives that look good on paper but do not actually feel good to live.

We talk about executive essentialism, work-life balance, dual-career pressure, and what it means to choose a 5% life on purpose.

If you are a woman leader, a working mom, or someone who wants more success without sacrificing your peace, this episode is for you.

Work with Shayla:

The Promotion Playbook → shaylaking.com/2026-promotion-playbook

Land the Role → shaylaking.com/land-the-role

PH+ Lab → shaylaking.com/phlab

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Learn More → ShaylaKing.com

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In this episode, I’m talking about why dual-career families are so exhausted and why so many ambitious couples feel like they are constantly behind.

I break down the real reason this season of life feels so hard, why the old playbook never updated for dual-income households, and what it looks like to build new systems that actually support your marriage, your family, your career, and your energy.

We talk about working parents, breadwinning women, resentment, the invisible load, outsourcing, support, and why protecting yourself as the asset is not selfish.

If you are building a big career and also trying to have a life, this episode will help you feel understood and give you a different way to think about what support really looks like.

Join the waitlist to be the first to know when the workshop is coming: https://shaylaking.kit.com/ec64d55e8f

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In this episode, I’m talking about a skill that has helped me get to the C-suite, grow my business, and move faster than most people in the room: speed.

I walk you through a real example from my own business and show you what speed looks like in practice, not just as a concept. We talk about executive decision-making, speed in leadership, overthinking, open loops, fear disguised as thoroughness, and why so much of what slows leaders down has nothing to do with the work itself and everything to do with the lag between steps.

If you want to feel calmer, get more done, make decisions faster, and stop losing time to indecision, this episode will give you a practical new way to think about performance.

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In this episode, I’m giving you a real behind-the-scenes look at month one inside the Performance and Happiness Lab.

I walk you through the first four topics we cover: The Model, Executive Essentialism, Executive Networking, and Physical Energy. We talk about how your thoughts shape your results, why high-performing women stay stuck in doom loops and overwork, how to build strategic relationships, and why protecting your energy is part of executive success.

This is a real look at executive coaching for women, career growth, leadership development, mindset, time management, and burnout prevention. If you’ve ever wondered what actually happens inside the PH+ Lab, this episode will show you.

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In this episode, I sit down with two of my clients to talk about the crossover between sports, mindset, and high performance.

We use golf as the backdrop, but this conversation is really about how to think, recover, and perform under pressure in any area of life. We talk about negative self-talk, catastrophizing, confidence, emotional regulation, flow state, and why your identity cannot be tied to one bad meeting, one bad shot, or one rough day.

I also share some of the same mindset tools I use with my executive coaching clients, including how to do an after action review, how to stop spiraling after mistakes, and how to create the kind of thinking that leads to more consistent performance at work and in life.

If you want to strengthen your executive mindset, improve your performance under pressure, and learn how to succeed without making yourself miserable in the process, this episode is for you.

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In this episode, I’m sharing a powerful conversation from a private dinner with some of my clients the night before the 50 Women to Know in Texas Gala.

We talk about naming your inner critic, meeting your inner guide, and learning how to stop overriding what you really want just to make life easier for everyone else. I also share why my word for the year is resolute, what the 95% default looks like for women, and how to consciously choose a different way of living, leading, and succeeding.

This episode is for women who are ready to stop shrinking, stop people pleasing, trust themselves more deeply, and build a career and life that feels aligned, powerful, and fully theirs.

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#WomensMindset #InnerGuide #InnerCritic #SelfLeadership #WomenLeaders #Confidence #PeoplePleasingRecovery #PerformanceAndHappiness #ShaylaKing

In this episode, I’m sharing Sleep Like a Boss, one of the top episodes from season one, because if your sleep is off, your energy, mood, focus, hormones, and performance are going to feel it.

I walk you through 14 proven sleep rituals that help high performers improve their sleep quality, recovery, physical energy, and executive performance. We talk about sleep habits for women, bedtime routines, stress and cortisol, hormone health, burnout, autoimmune fatigue, and how to stop treating sleep like an afterthought and start treating it like the high-performance ritual it really is.

If you are a leader, a working mom, or just a woman who is tired of feeling tired, this episode will help you build a better personal playbook for sleep, energy, and recovery.

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#SleepHabits #BetterSleep #BurnoutRecovery #WomenInLeadership #HormoneHealth #ExecutivePerformance #AutoimmuneWarrior #PerformanceAndHappiness #ShaylaKing

In this episode, I’m sharing the Promotion Playbook replay and breaking down why so many brilliant women get stuck in middle management even when they are doing everything right.

I walk you through the tragedy of the high performer, how promotions actually get decided, and the four shifts that help women build more executive presence, visibility, influence, and energy without burning out. We cover career growth, strategic relationships, work-life balance, mindset, and the exact areas I teach inside the Performance and Happiness Lab.

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#CareerAdvancement #ExecutiveLeadership #WomenInCorporate #PromotionStrategy #ExecutivePresence #PerformanceAndHappiness #ShaylaKing

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In this episode, I break down the real reasons so many talented women get stuck in middle management and what it actually takes to become the obvious choice for the next level.

I walk you through my Promotion Playbook, including the four promotion blocks I see most often and the four shifts that help leaders build more executive presence, visibility, influence, and confidence without burning out.

We talk about career growth, executive leadership, promotion strategy, work-life balance, networking, mindset, and how to stop being valued only as the reliable doer.

Learn more about the Performance and Happiness Lab at:
shaylaking.com/phlab

#CareerAdvancement #ExecutiveLeadership #WomenInCorporate #ExecutiveCoach #PromotionStrategy #ExecutivePresence #PerformanceAndHappiness #ShaylaKing

In this episode, I talk about work-life balance, women in leadership, and how to build a successful career without burning yourself out in the process.

I share my journey from waitress to Chief People Officer, the beliefs I had to unlearn about hustle and success, and the practical shifts that helped me create more space, joy, health, and freedom while still performing at a high level.

We cover executive coaching, career development, burnout, time management, outsourcing, boundaries, and how women can stop living by impossible expectations and start designing a life that actually works.

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#WomenInLeadership #WorkLifeBalance #ExecutiveCoach #CareerAdvancement #BurnoutPrevention #LeadershipCoach #PerformanceAndHappiness #ShaylaKing

In this episode, I share why hard work is not the thing that gets most women to the next level.

I break down what keeps brilliant women stuck, what decision-makers are actually looking for, and how I help my clients build the strategy, visibility, and executive presence that lead to more pay, more scope, and more ease.

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#ExecutiveLeadership #WomenInCorporate #CareerAdvancement #ExecutiveCoaching #PerformanceAndHappiness #ShaylaKing

A real behind-the-scenes episode of the Performance and Happiness Lab.

Shayla King sits down with members of a recent PH+ Lab cohort to talk about what changed, what surprised them, and why the Lab is different from other leadership programs.

You’ll hear how they stopped the doom loop, dropped perfectionism, found real community, and started making “one change a week” that compounded into bigger confidence, better boundaries, and more time.

PH+ Lab is opening NOW. Learn more at www.ShaylaKing.com/phlab

Enrollment closes March 17th.

Book your decision call here: https://calendly.com/shaylamking11/ph-lab-enrollment-decision-call

#Leadership #WomenLeaders #ExecutiveCoaching #Mindset #WorkLifeBalance #PerformanceAndHappinessLab

You don’t need more time to decide. You need more self-trust.

In this episode of The 5% Club Podcast, Shayla King teaches how confident leaders make decisions fast without regret. Quick, confident decision making is a skill, and it’s required if you want to be a highly paid and happy executive.

You’ll learn the “Hat, Haircut, Tattoo” test, how to end analysis paralysis, why you should decide to like your decision, and the truth about being “stuck” (hint: you’re avoiding a decision).

Want the full playbook? PH+ Lab is opening soon. Join the waitlist at shaylaking.com.

#DecisionMaking #Leadership #ExecutiveCoach #ExecutivePresence #WorkLifeBalance #5PercentClub

You’re not lacking ambition.

You’re lacking proof that success doesn’t have to taste like misery.

In this episode of The 5% Club Podcast, Shayla King introduces the concept of Conditional Goals, the strategy that helps leaders go after big outcomes without sacrificing their life.

A conditional goal is a goal with guardrails. You pick the outcome, and you pick the standards you refuse to break to get there.

If you’ve ever thought “I want more, but not like THAT,” this episode will change how you think about promotions, leadership, and success.

PH+ Lab is opening soon: join the waitlist at shaylaking.com.

DM Shayla the goal you want and the condition you refuse to break to get it.

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High-performing executives don’t just work harder. They think differently.

In this episode of The 5% Club Podcast, Shayla King teaches economic thinking in a way that’s simple, practical, and immediately usable, even if you “aren’t a numbers person.”

You’ll learn the executive mental models that drive better decisions, bigger impact, and less wasted time. We’re talking profit, margin, sunk cost, opportunity cost, value vs preference, marginal analysis, EBITDA, and more, plus how to use these concepts to stand out in meetings and get trusted with higher-level decisions.

Consult Week is open (limited spots): book your free consult at shaylaking.com and bring your biggest challenge at work or at home.

Share this episode with a leader who needs to stop being busy and start being effective.

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If you’ve never booked a consult with a coach, you’re probably picturing…
a sales pitch.

That’s not what this is.

It’s a working session.

You bring the mess.
I help you find the real problem.
We build your next step.

And even my clients say this part surprised them:
zero pressure.

Because consult week is open, and I only have a couple spots.

So if you’ve been circling this for months…
this is your sign.

Book your consult at shaylaking.com.

your coach, cheerleader, and accountability partner, Shayla

Comfy vs called.

If you’ve been hearing the whisper “there’s more for me than this,” this episode will help you make a clean decision with a simple scorecard: Growth, Respect, Energy, Future.

Free tool + Consult Week at shaylaking.com.

#Leadership #Mindset #DecisionMaking #CareerGrowth #5PercentClub

A 5% transformation story with Dr. Ana Urukalo.

We talk about leaving corporate medicine, rebuilding confidence, opening a solo practice, and stepping into CEO-level decision-making, with real leadership lessons from the PH+ framework.

#Leadership #Entrepreneurship #Mindset #5PercentClub #PHLab

If your goals are solid but your follow-through disappears the second you’re tired, stressed, or cold… this episode is for you.

We’re talking neuroscience, the motivational triad, and how to outsmart your “toddler brain” with one powerful tool: pre-deciding your responses to your excuses.

This will save your year.

#Mindset #Habits #Neuroscience #ExecutiveCoaching #Discipline #5PercentClub #PHLab

If promotions and paychecks aren’t enough anymore and you want a life that actually feels good to live, this episode is for you.

I’m sharing how I design my year on purpose, why executives need to plan joy the same way they plan work, and how Epic 2026 helps you create a year you’re proud of. One intentional day can change everything.

Join us January 18th at shaylaking.com.

#LeadershipMindset #EpicLife #ExecutiveCoaching #IntentionalLiving #Epic2026 #5PercentClub #DesignYourYear

Welcome to season two.

This episode breaks down the 5 % movement and the mindset shift that allows leaders to rise without losing themselves. I share my journey from burnout to balance, from hustle to intention, and how identity and standards drive real success.

If you’re ready for this to be your year of reinvention, this is where it starts.

#LeadershipMindset #ExecutiveCoaching #WomenWhoLead #5PercentClub #CareerGrowth #HighPerformanceHabits #IntentionalLiving

I went into a routine appointment and woke up in a coma on life support. That moment changed everything for me, and today I’m sharing the clarity it gave me about how I want to live and lead.

You’ll learn why most people live small, why fear of emotion stops us from dreaming bigger, and the simple shift that will free you to build a life that feels incredible to live.

If you want 2026 to feel aligned and intentional, join me for Epic 2026 at shaylaking.com.

#LeadershipMindset #ExecutiveCoaching #WomenWhoLead #MindsetMatters #LifeDesign #Epic2026 #5PercentClub

If the holidays usually feel rushed, stressful, and over planned, this episode will feel like a deep breath. I am talking about how to slow down, choose one to three real “memory makers,” and give yourself luxurious amounts of time with the people who matter most. We will cover why presence is a performance strategy, how to say no without guilt, and what it looks like to design a year that feels as good as it looks on paper.

If your 2025 looked successful but did not feel aligned, join me for Epic 2026, my one day virtual retreat, at shaylaking.com.

Before you set a single goal for 2026, you need to know what actually mattered this year.

In this episode, I walk you through the reflection steps that most leaders skip and how to identify your 20 percent high-ROI work so you can set goals that actually move your career and life forward.

Join my free reflection workshop here: www.shaylaking.com