Anti-hustle isn’t a trend for me. It’s a response to what I’ve watched happen to coaches, including myself, over the last decade. We’re building businesses inside collective stress, economic pressure, and an industry that has normalized burnout as the cost of success. This episode isn’t about working less just because. It’s about what allows coaches to stay ethical, present, and effective long-term. Because if your business only works when you’re dysregulated, that’s not sustainability. That’s a coping strategy.

I unpack what people get wrong about anti-hustle, why hustle models quietly burn out coaches and harm clients, and why sustainability isn’t a self-care aesthetic or a mindset preference. It’s an ethical obligation. Burned-out coaches can’t hold clean containers. Urgency leaks into sessions. Boundaries blur. Integrity gets compromised when survival mode is running the show. A dysregulated coach cannot create regulated change.

This episode sets the foundation for Season 7, where we’re focusing on coach training, ethics, and professional business building. We’ll talk about how to hold containers cleanly, charge ethically, show up visibly without burning out, and build trust instead of chasing attention. If hustle has been your default, you’re not weak and you’re not doing it wrong. You were taught survival strategies. The real question is what sustainability looks like for you now, and whether you’re ready to build a business you can actually live inside of.

📈 Want my eyes on your business? Then book a Business Audit! No matter where you are in your business, I'm here to support you around your strategies and growth! Let's chat!

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🤓 Grab my Anti-Hustle Business Checklist! Find out exactly what you need for where you currently are in your business.

http://www.antihustlebiz.com

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Season 6 was not a growth season. It was a recalibration. In this finale, I’m sharing what this chapter was really about. Stabilizing my nervous system, my health, my finances, and coming back to my body. I was not trying to build something new. I was trying to get back on my feet.

Storytelling became the medicine. Not as content, but as integration. I stopped performing and started telling the truth about my life, my recovery, my relationships, and the messy in between. That honesty helped me regulate, reconnect, and remember who I am and why I do this work.

I talk about what I was quietly rebuilding behind the scenes. Choosing stability over expansion. Consistency over spikes. Sustainability over urgency. Letting go of old identities, listening to my body instead of the algorithm, and redefining success in a way my nervous system can actually hold.

This episode is for anyone in a rebuilding season. You are not behind. You are not broken. You are listening. Season 6 was me coming back to myself. Thanks for being here while I did.

📈 Want my eyes on your business? Then book a Business Audit! No matter where you are in your business, I'm here to support you around your strategies and growth! Let's chat!

https://travelingwildwoman.as.me/audit

🤓 Grab my Anti-Hustle Business Checklist! Find out exactly what you need for where you currently are in your business.

http://www.antihustlebiz.com

👀 Find Me Online

🌍 Website: https://shannonwhaley.com

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Today I’m talking with my friend and former client, Karen Shatafian, about the real behind-the-scenes journey from “I don’t even know if I want to coach” to becoming the woman who helps other women say the truth out loud.

We get into the messy middle of reinvention, the good-girl conditioning that keeps women quiet, and why “divorce coach” was a necessary chapter for Karen, but not the whole story. This is a conversation about reclamation, about the second half of your life belonging to you, and about what happens when your why gets louder than your fear.

Karen is also celebrating a big milestone by opening 30 free conversations for women who feel that inner nudge for more, whether that’s divorce, a career shift, a relationship reset, or just the feeling that your life doesn’t fit anymore.

Karen’s Links:

IG: https://www.instagram.com/karen_shatafian_coach

Website: karenshatafian.com

Book a free coaching call (“The Reclamation Call”): https://calendly.com/karenshatafian_lifecoach/the-reclamation-call

Drinks with the Girls Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/drinks-with-the-girls/id1755458197?i=1000745756354

📈 Want my eyes on your business? Then book a Business Audit! No matter where you are in your business, I'm here to support you around your strategies and growth! Let's chat!

https://travelingwildwoman.as.me/audit

🤓 Grab my Anti-Hustle Business Checklist! Find out exactly what you need for where you currently are in your business.

http://www.antihustlebiz.com

👀 Find Me Online

🌍 Website: https://shannonwhaley.com

📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shannonkwhaley

🌈 Join My Free FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/antihustlebusiness

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theshannonwhaley/