The Tender, Weird Ways Rejection Sensitivity Shows Up
Release Date: 06/23/2025
The Difference Between Supporting and Subtly Rescuing Your Clients
The Coaching r(E)volution
In today’s episode, we’re exploring a distinction that is subtle, nuanced — and incredibly important if you want to do deep, ethical, effective 1:1 work with your clients. We’re talking about the difference between truly supporting your clients and subtly rescuing them. Because while most coaches know they’re not meant to fix or rescue their clients… many of us still slip into rescue mode more often than we realize — especially in moments of discomfort, stuckness, or uncertainty. This episode is a companion to last week’s conversation on What to Do When You Don’t Know What to...
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When You Don’t Know What to Say in a Client Session — and What to Do Next
The Coaching r(E)volution
If you’ve ever been in a client session where your mind suddenly goes blank — where you genuinely don’t know what to say next — this episode is for you. In this conversation, Joanna explores one of the most misunderstood (and quietly stressful) moments in 1:1 client work: the pause where nothing obvious is arising. Rather than seeing this moment as a failure of skill or confidence, Joanna reframes it as a powerful threshold — one that often signals depth, presence, and real transformation trying to emerge. This episode is especially for seasoned coaches, therapists, and practitioners...
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3 Personal & Professional Lessons I Learned in 2025
The Coaching r(E)volution
In this deeply personal and honest episode, Joanna shares three hard-earned personal and professional lessons from 2025—a year marked by profound grief, meaningful growth, business challenges, and unexpected beauty. From navigating the loss of her mother, to making one of the biggest business mistakes of her 25-year career, to radically shifting how she holds herself during launches, Joanna reflects on what it truly means to be human, resilient, supported, and wise. This episode is a gentle but powerful invitation to slow down, reflect, and integrate what life has been teaching you,...
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Best Of: How I Create Curriculum
The Coaching r(E)volution
This is one of my most listened to episodes, and I’m happy to share it again. In it, I pull back the curtain on my curriculum creation process. If you’re a coach, facilitator, or transformational practitioner wanting to craft programs that don’t just inform but transform your participants, this is for you. With years of experience designing dozens of courses, workshops, retreats, and ceremonies—from two-session programs to year-long journeys—I’ve honed a process that ensures your curriculum stands out in a sea of sameness. We’ll explore why curriculum creation can feel...
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The New Rules of Transformational Online Learning
The Coaching r(E)volution
This episode is the last one of the 2025 season! We’ll be back again January 5th, 2026. In today’s episode, we explore one of the most overlooked — yet absolutely essential — skills for any transformational coach or facilitator: how to create spacious, breakthrough-ready group sessions without overstuffing them with content. If you’ve ever worried that you need to “keep things moving” or “give more value,” this episode will be a huge exhale for your nervous system. We’ll talk about why the old “I talk, you listen” model is officially obsolete (thank goodness),...
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Overcoming the Good Girl Syndrome: From Good Girl to Revolutionary Leader
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In this deep and honest episode, Joanna explores one of the most pervasive and sneaky forces that shape women’s leadership — The Good Girl Syndrome. Whether you identify as a coach, facilitator, healer, or entrepreneur, chances are the Good Girl voice still shows up: It’s that inner whisper that says “Don’t upset anyone,” “Don’t be too much,” “Don’t rock the boat.” But as Joanna shares, every time we silence our truth or shrink our power, something vital within us withers. And the world doesn’t need more good girls — it needs revolutionary leaders. Through...
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Letting Go, Living in the Mystery & Knowing When Less Is More
The Coaching r(E)volution
As the days shorten and the nights grow long, we find ourselves deep in late autumn—a time of release, rest, and renewal. In this episode, Joanna explores what this season invites us to remember: that letting go, being in the mystery, and embracing “less” are not just seasonal experiences, but essential parts of being human. While our culture glorifies growth, expansion, and productivity, this conversation honors the quieter seasons of life—the times when things fall away, when we face loss, or when we’re simply called to slow down. Joanna shares wisdom drawn from nature’s cycles,...
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5 Ways to Co-Create Change with Your 1:1 Clients
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What does it really mean to co-create transformation with your clients? In this episode, Joanna explores how true change doesn’t happen to your clients — it happens with them. You’ll learn five specific ways to deepen your work, strengthen your client partnerships, and help breakthroughs become embodied, lasting transformation. Whether you’re a new coach or an experienced practitioner, these five approaches will help you bring more intentionality, collaboration, and depth into every session. You’ll also hear how Joanna applies these principles in her own 1:1 work and in the coach...
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Creating & Using Your Sacred Vision Statement
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What keeps you inspired and grounded in your work when business feels harder, or when the world feels uncertain? In this episode, Joanna shares one of the most powerful tools she’s used for over 15 years in her own business — her Sacred Vision Statement. This isn’t just a piece of writing or a lofty ideal; it’s a living compass that shapes your offerings, your marketing, your voice, and your day-to-day sense of purpose. Your sacred vision is more important now than ever, and Joanna reminds us that while business cycles rise and fall, and the world feels unpredictable, your sacred...
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The Art of Client Renewals
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Renewals are one of the easiest and most reliable ways to grow your income — no funnels, no ads, no cold calling, no endless new-client hustle. In this episode, I’m diving into how to make renewals a natural, ongoing part of your business so you can have steady income, deeper relationships, and more time doing the transformational work you love. We’ll look at what actually creates renewals (and what doesn’t), how to navigate the energetic fears that often arise, and the practical process that makes clients say yes again and again. In this episode, you’ll learn: Why renewals are the...
info_outlineToday’s episode is a little different. To celebrate our 50th episode (wow!), I’m getting very personal. I’m sharing some deeply vulnerable stories about the quirky, subtle, and sometimes cringey ways that rejection sensitivity shows up in my life — in my business, in my friendships, and even in my relationships with beloved clients.
I’ll be honest: I’m a little nervous to share all this! But I’m doing it because this conversation is important. So many of us - and our clients - hold ourselves back from creating what we want or showing up fully because of our fear of rejection. I want to normalize this experience, bring it out of the shadows, and remind you that you’re not alone and you’re not broken if this shows up for you, too.
In this episode, I talk about:
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The surprising places rejection sensitivity shows up for me — even after decades of inner work
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What Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria is, and how learning about it has helped so many of my clients (especially those with ADHD)
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How fear of rejection shaped my business in the early years: undercharging, avoiding outreach, not following up
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The sneaky ways rejection stories still show up in close friendships — and how I’ve learned to name them and work with them
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The awkward truth about sometimes feeling rejected by my own clients
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Why normalizing rejection sensitivity is so powerful for our own healing and for client work
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Practices that help: awareness, nervous system regulation, and strategic action-taking even in discomfort
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How to gently help your clients identify and work through rejection sensitivity and self-sabotage
Whether you’ve experienced this yourself or witnessed it in those you work with, I hope this episode helps you feel more resourced, more seen, and a little less alone.
And if this conversation speaks to your heart, I’d love to invite you to my upcoming workshop:
Unshaken: How to Face Rejection and Keep Going.
And hey — if any of the stories I shared today hit close to home, please reach out and tell me. I would genuinely love to hear from you and hold space for your own beautiful, weird, human experiences around rejection.
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