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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. Resources + Links 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. Explore Land the Role: shaylaking.com/land-the-role 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. Watch on YouTube HERE! Find more resources on our website shaylaking.com Follow Shayla on LinkedIn: @shaylamking Shayla on Instagram: @shayla_king_executive_coach

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. Resources + Links 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. Watch on YouTube HERE! Find more resources on our website shaylaking.com Follow Shayla on LinkedIn: @shaylamking Shayla on Instagram: @shayla_king_executive_coach

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. Resources + Links 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. Watch on YouTube HERE! Find more resources on our website shaylaking.com Follow Shayla on LinkedIn: @shaylamking Shayla on Instagram: @shayla_king_executive_coach

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. Resources + Links 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. Watch on YouTube HERE! Find more resources on our website shaylaking.com Follow Shayla on LinkedIn: @shaylamking Shayla on Instagram: @shayla_king_executive_coach

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. Resources + Links 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. Watch on YouTube HERE! Find more resources on our website shaylaking.com Follow Shayla on LinkedIn: @shaylamking Shayla on Instagram: @shayla_king_executive_coach

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 Resources + Links 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. Watch on YouTube HERE! Find more resources on our website shaylaking.com Follow Shayla on LinkedIn: @shaylamking Shayla on Instagram: @shayla_king_executive_coach

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 Resources + Links Ready to clear your plate, take back your time, and get focused on what actually matters? Join the waitlist for The Executive Reset Watch on YouTube HERE! Find more resources on our website shaylaking.com Follow Shayla on LinkedIn: @shaylamking Shayla on Instagram: @shayla_king_executive_coach

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 Resources + Links Want the promotion, the pay, AND the freedom to enjoy your life? Join the Happiness + Performance Lab NOW! Doors close September 2nd. Watch on YouTube HERE! Find more resources on our website shaylaking.com Follow Shayla on LinkedIn: @shaylamking Shayla on Instagram: @shayla_king_executive_coach Follow LaBranch Family Foundation on LinkedIn

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 extravaganceThe real math behind the dual-career household, and why what you're carrying has never been done before at this scaleHow to buy back time through money or through community, whichever lever is actually available to youWhy sleep, movement, and regulation are performance strategy, not self-careHow Shayla builds 10 epic, non-negotiable adventures into her year, on purposePerformance 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. ⁠ The Performance + Happiness Lab is open for enrollment now at ⁠shaylaking.com/phlab.⁠ Book your decision call ⁠here⁠.

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 failureThe one-page exercise to find what you're carrying that nobody actually assignedWhy regulation, not hustle, is the promotion skill nobody put in your job descriptionThree real scenes for staying powerful under pressure, from the meeting where someone talks over you to the 3am spiral that won't let you sleepHow to press stop on the doom loop and choose where your brain goes nextDo 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. Book your decision call here.

Shayla King, executive coach and founder of Evolve Coaching, has never talked about this in depth on the podcast before: her actual health and wellness routine. How did she lose 35 pounds and keep it off for years while managing four autoimmune diseases and a demanding executive career? What does she actually eat? How does she train? And what changed first, the body or the belief? In this episode of The 5% Club Podcast, Shayla walks through the real plan behind her transformation from "hot mess mom," exhausted and running on stress and coffee, to strong, fit, and genuinely happy. She explains why identity work always comes before behavior change, how she rebuilt her workout habit from the ground up after relearning to walk following a coma, and the simple, high-protein food approach that keeps her energy steady without obsessing over food. She also shares how she resets her physical and emotional energy between meetings, and why managing her inner dialogue has done more for her performance than any workout ever has. This is not a universal plan to copy. It's a demonstration of what it looks like to treat yourself as the asset, protecting your energy, your body, and your mind with the same intention you'd bring to any high-stakes goal. Every morning before the gym, Shayla mixes three things into her water: creatine, Perfect Aminos, and Amino Energy in green apple. The creatine and the 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. Perfect Aminos (BodyHealth): https://www.bodyhealthaffiliates.com/72HLHTR/3QQG7/ Creatine Monohydrate (Naked Nutrition): https://nakednutrition.com/products/creatine-monohydrate-powder Amino Energy, Green Apple (Optimum Nutrition): https://www.optimumnutrition.com/en-us/products/essential-amino-energy-pre-workout-powder Some links are affiliate links, which means Shayla may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more about Shayla and the Performance + Happiness Lab at shaylaking.com.

"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 itWhy success makes men more likable and women less likable at work, and how to catch yourself doing it to other womenMoving from volume-based friendships to depth, and why outgrowing people is part of growth, not a red flag about youSetting a boundary with a parent, and why "family" doesn't mean you don't get a choiceKrista's story about her dad, a Jaguar, a smashed mailbox, and the kind of love that becomes a generational gemIf you've ever felt smaller for being confident or unsure what to do with a friendship that no longer fits, hit play. Join the Performance + Happiness Lab: shaylaking.com/phlabMore from Shayla: shaylaking.comMore from Krista Williams: itskrista.com | Almost 30: almost30.com

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 wiringThe difference between helping from steadiness and helping from guiltA real coaching example: 3 options for supporting aging parents without resentmentWhy "I have to" is almost never actually truePermission to want ease, not just earn rest after you've proven enoughPerformance and happiness are not opposites. You can be excellent and rested. Ready to go deeper? The Performance + Happiness Lab is enrolling now for our September cohort: shaylaking.com/phlab #TheFiveClubPodcast #WomenInLeadership #ExecutiveCoaching #Overfunctioning

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 themDating, single motherhood, and refusing to shrinkThe executive communication skill that got her called out by a senior leader mid-interviewWhat it actually looks like to build fun into the operating systemHow emotional regulation shows up in job interviews, dating, and parenting simultaneouslyWhat the PH+ Lab peer room feels like from the insideThe 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. Ready to build your own version? Join the PH+ Lab: shaylaking.com/phlab Learn how to work with Shayla at www.ShaylaKing.com

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 nowThe three villain story types: active, passive, and emotionalWhy the language shift from "I am angry" to "I notice anger" changes everythingHow to redirect a low-frequency conversation without lecturing anyoneThe weekly practice that starts taking your power back todayPlus 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. And be the first to know when the Resourcing Workshop drops: https://shaylaking.kit.com/ec64d55e8f Learn More at shaylaking.com