The Create Your Day Podcast

Jenn Cody
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  • Entrepreneurship
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You built something. You’re proud of it. And somehow you still end up at the end of most days feeling like you’re one missed deadline away from losing it. The Create Your Day Podcast is where we figure that out together. Hosted by Jenn Cody, operational consultant, nervous system advocate, and your unofficial business therapist, this show is for the woman who’s done white-knuckling her way through growth and ready to lead from a place of actual clarity. We go there. Strategy, identity, the messy middle, the moment you realize the business you built is running you instead of the other way around. No fluff. No toxic positivity. Just real conversation that meets you where you are and moves you forward. Jenn’s work lives at the intersection of operational systems and nervous system regulation, because sustainable growth requires both. The inner work and the strategy have always belonged in the same room. If you’re ready to stop surviving your own success, pull up a chair.

  1. Aug 4

    133. Do you own a job or do you own a company?

    Send us Fan Mail If taking more than a long weekend feels impossible, the problem is rarely your work ethic, it’s the structure underneath your business. We’re running a blunt but freeing 30-day test: if you disappeared for a month, what’s the first thing that goes wrong? What breaks first? When you answer honestly, you stop guessing and start building a business that can breathe without you. We share a hard lesson from Jen’s early years in the beauty industry: a business can look wildly successful and still be worth nothing without the owner. That leads to a critical distinction many entrepreneurs never get taught. There’s one path where you build clients and revenue and end up with a demanding job that pays only when you show up. There’s another path where you build an actual company, with standards, decision-making, and delivery that hold steady whether or not you’re in the room. Even if you never plan to sell, the “could it sell?” question is the sharpest way to test if your business has a life of its own or if it’s borrowing yours. Then we walk through four layers you can score in minutes: delivery, decisions, money, and relationships. You’ll get simple micro moves for each layer, like writing a 10-step SOP for your most repeated task, creating decision rules so your phone stops being the bottleneck, automating one recurring invoice, and visibly looping a team member into a key client relationship so trust transfers before it’s urgent. The goal isn’t to feel bad about your score; it’s to find your weakest layer and rebuild it fast. Listen, pick one micro move to do this week, and tell someone your score so you don’t do it alone. If this helps, subscribe, share it with a friend who can’t unplug, and leave a review so more small business owners can build a sellable, livable company. Thanks for listening!  Connect With Me: 📩 Join my email list and get a Free Guide to save you 10+ hours a week: https://freedom.solutionsforscale.com/ 📱 DM me on Instagram: @solutionsbyjenncody If you enjoyed this episode, share it with a friend who needs to hear this message! 🎧 Subscribe to and Review The Create Your Day Podcast on: 📌 Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Buzzsprout

  2. Jul 22

    132. Stop The Belief Leaks

    Send us Fan Mail You can time block, batch, audit your calendar, and still hit Friday with that sinking feeling that you’re behind. That mismatch isn’t a motivation problem or a planning problem. It’s a belief problem, and it quietly taxes your week in ways most high-performing business owners never name out loud. We follow the hidden question running under your work day: “Can I pull this off?” When the answer wobbles, it changes how you price, how long you sit on decisions, how much you over-edit, and whether you go after the opportunity you say you want. I break down three specific “belief leaks” that steal your hours and your revenue: the second lap (rereading and reworking for reassurance), the quiet discount (negotiating against yourself before the client even responds), and the parked decision (waiting to feel ready while the cost compounds). Then we build the fix the way I’ve had to build it in my own life: with structure. You’ll get practical tools for better decision making and real productivity that survives low-confidence days: keep receipts so doubt can’t erase your evidence, make key decisions only on clear days and execute when you’re wobbly, and use a one-review finish line so you ship work without feeding perfectionism. We also talk about imposter syndrome with a grounding stat from KPMG that puts your doubt in context and helps you stop treating it as proof. If you want more output without more hours, press play, try one tool this week, and tell us which leak you’re closing. Subscribe, share with a friend who feels behind, and leave a review so more women can build businesses that don’t run on white-knuckled effort. Thanks for listening!  Connect With Me: 📩 Join my email list and get a Free Guide to save you 10+ hours a week: https://freedom.solutionsforscale.com/ 📱 DM me on Instagram: @solutionsbyjenncody If you enjoyed this episode, share it with a friend who needs to hear this message! 🎧 Subscribe to and Review The Create Your Day Podcast on: 📌 Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Buzzsprout

  3. Jul 7

    131. Building a Life or Building a Prison? Take the Freedom Audit

    Send us Fan Mail If your business only runs when you're exhausted, it isn't built to last. This is the Freedom Audit: a 3-step framework for building a business that gives you your life back, not just your income. In this episode: - Why the entrepreneurship "freedom" promise quietly turns into a 24/7 job - The exact moment a business starts running you instead of the other way around - The Freedom Audit: track your energy, sort your daily tasks into eliminate, automate, or delegate, and build a schedule around your real energy instead of someone else's routine - Why copying another founder's 5 a.m. routine can backfire, and how to build a schedule around your own energy instead - What actually happened when I stopped working completely for a stretch, and why the business didn't fall apart - How to define success on your own terms instead of whoever's loudest in your feed Loved this one? Take a screenshot, leave a rating and review, and send it to me. I read every one, and I'll send you something back as a thank you. Thanks for listening!  Connect With Me: 📩 Join my email list and get a Free Guide to save you 10+ hours a week: https://freedom.solutionsforscale.com/ 📱 DM me on Instagram: @solutionsbyjenncody If you enjoyed this episode, share it with a friend who needs to hear this message! 🎧 Subscribe to and Review The Create Your Day Podcast on: 📌 Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Buzzsprout

  4. May 18

    130. Your Nervous System Can Block Your Best Work

    Send us Fan Mail Your to-do list is open, your calendar is full, and somehow you still cannot move. If you have ever stared at your screen while panic hums under the surface, we want to name what’s really happening: freeze mode. This is not laziness or a willpower problem. It’s a nervous system response that shuts down motivation, energy, and decision-making, which is why the usual productivity tips can feel useless or even cruel. We break down the fight, flight, freeze pattern and why freeze shows up so often for high-capacity business owners who can usually push through stress. Then we share five practical ways to unstick a frozen system: body before brain (signal safety first), shrink the task until it feels almost silly, build momentum through tiny visible wins, borrow structure from a coach, template, container, or AI, and do the easiest low-stakes work first so you rebuild competence through evidence. We also talk about the preventative shift that changes everything: decide in advance so decision fatigue doesn’t drain you before your real work even begins. If freeze is a frequent visitor, we treat it as information, not failure. Persistent shutdown often means your business and life are demanding more than your current systems and support can hold, and the real fix is infrastructure that reduces daily decisions. If you want support building that structure, we invite you to join our free community, The LeadHERship Collective, at https://leadhership.solutionsforscale.com/ Subscribe, share this with a friend who feels stuck, and leave a review so more people can find a better way through. Thanks for listening!  Connect With Me: 📩 Join my email list: https://www.solutionsforscale.com/subscribe 📱 DM me on Instagram: @solutonsbyjenncody If you enjoyed this episode, share it with a friend who needs to hear this message! 🎧 Subscribe to and Review The Create Your Day Podcast on: 📌 Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Buzzsprout

  5. May 6

    129. The Conversation that Changed Everything

    Send us Fan Mail Download The Stop Firefighting Solution There's a season most women in business know well — where you're working constantly, doing everything right, and still ending every week behind. You look capable from the outside. Inside, you're barely holding it together. This episode is about that season. And about the one conversation that named what was actually happening — not burnout, not bad strategy, but a structure problem nobody had said clearly yet. Jenn shares what shifted, why one person's belief does something a strategy alone can't, and how to turn a moment of clarity into real movement using the CLEAR Process. If you've ever needed someone to hold the picture of who you're becoming until you could hold it yourself — this one's for you. In this episode: Why the chaos in your business isn't a discipline problem — and what it actually isThe difference between "the business isn't working" and "the business doesn't work without me yet" (and why that distinction changes everything)What happens when someone holds the picture of who you're becoming — and why it works differently than motivation or adviceThe CLEAR Process: Cast the Vision, Locate your current state, Evaluate, Align, Roadmap — how to catch clarity before it fades and turn it into actual movementWhy you don't need more confidence before you move — you need evidenceHow to be the mirror for another woman in business Thanks for listening!  Connect With Me: 📩 Join my email list and get a Free Guide to save you 10+ hours a week: https://freedom.solutionsforscale.com/ 📱 DM me on Instagram: @solutionsbyjenncody If you enjoyed this episode, share it with a friend who needs to hear this message! 🎧 Subscribe to and Review The Create Your Day Podcast on: 📌 Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Buzzsprout

  6. Apr 21

    128. When People Let You Down (And What You Do With It After)

    Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Jenn Cody gets honest about what it actually means to be let down. In your personal life, in your business partnerships, and in the version nobody in the coaching world likes to admit: when you give your best guidance and your client goes a completely different direction anyway. She shares the nervous system patterns that disappointment quietly creates, and the emotional regulation work that has to happen before any tactical advice will actually land. You'll walk away with a clearer framework for expectations vs. agreements, a "protect forward" mindset, and a practice for separating your worth from other people's choices. Thanks for listening!  Connect With Me: 📩 Join my email list and get a Free Guide to save you 10+ hours a week: https://freedom.solutionsforscale.com/ 📱 DM me on Instagram: @solutionsbyjenncody If you enjoyed this episode, share it with a friend who needs to hear this message! 🎧 Subscribe to and Review The Create Your Day Podcast on: 📌 Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Buzzsprout

  7. Apr 9

    127. What if the Hard Part is Who You Are?

    Send us Fan Mail The fastest way to stay stuck is to keep searching for a better “how.” If you’ve bought the course, tried the framework, and still feel like you’re in the same place, the problem usually isn’t strategy. It’s identity.  I’m talking about “who before how”: the idea that your results can’t outgrow the person you believe you are. We dig into how identity drives every decision you make in business and life, from pricing and boundaries to sales conversations and opportunities you’re tempted to turn down. We also unpack the neuroscience of self-belief, why your brain keeps collecting proof for the story you’re already telling, and how that creates self-sabotage like undercharging, over-delivering, and playing small when things start going well.  We go straight at imposter syndrome too, not as a capability issue, but as a mismatch between external success and internal identity. Then we get practical: choosing the identity first, finding the belief underneath the behaviour, stacking small evidence-building actions, and using systems like SOPs and dashboards as real “CEO proof.” We also talk about being intentional with what you consume and who you spend time with so your environment supports your identity shift.  If you’re building a business, stepping into entrepreneurship, or ready to raise your prices and protect your time, hit play and try the weekly question that changes everything: what would you do differently if you were already operating from that identity? Subscribe, share this with a friend who’s stuck in “how,” and leave a review with the identity you’re choosing next. Thanks for listening!  Connect With Me: 📩 Join my email list and get a Free Guide to save you 10+ hours a week: https://freedom.solutionsforscale.com/ 📱 DM me on Instagram: @solutionsbyjenncody If you enjoyed this episode, share it with a friend who needs to hear this message! 🎧 Subscribe to and Review The Create Your Day Podcast on: 📌 Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Buzzsprout

  8. Apr 1

    126. The $81,000 Mistake

    Send us Fan Mail I share the story I rarely tell about losing $81,000 after making a major business move without the clarity I needed. We unpack how survival mode decisions can cost you money and confidence, and how to protect your value with clearer terms, patterns, and needs.  • losing $81,000 through a handshake partnership and no contract  • making emotional decisions in survival mode instead of strategic decisions  • bringing a salon business into a new location as an “investment”  • watching monthly profit disappear through inflated costs and messy numbers  • the bigger cost of identity loss and shrinking as a business owner  • why the real issue is lack of clarity not lack of capability  • four protective clarities: value, terms, patterns, needs  • how speed and convenience can masquerade as safety and stability  • building frameworks and systems after a painful financial lesson  • slowing down to get clear before saying yes in chaos  Go out there, create your day in the best way possible.  Thanks for listening!  Connect With Me: 📩 Join my email list and get a Free Guide to save you 10+ hours a week: https://freedom.solutionsforscale.com/ 📱 DM me on Instagram: @solutionsbyjenncody If you enjoyed this episode, share it with a friend who needs to hear this message! 🎧 Subscribe to and Review The Create Your Day Podcast on: 📌 Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Buzzsprout

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You built something. You’re proud of it. And somehow you still end up at the end of most days feeling like you’re one missed deadline away from losing it. The Create Your Day Podcast is where we figure that out together. Hosted by Jenn Cody, operational consultant, nervous system advocate, and your unofficial business therapist, this show is for the woman who’s done white-knuckling her way through growth and ready to lead from a place of actual clarity. We go there. Strategy, identity, the messy middle, the moment you realize the business you built is running you instead of the other way around. No fluff. No toxic positivity. Just real conversation that meets you where you are and moves you forward. Jenn’s work lives at the intersection of operational systems and nervous system regulation, because sustainable growth requires both. The inner work and the strategy have always belonged in the same room. If you’re ready to stop surviving your own success, pull up a chair.

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  • Creator
    Jenn Cody
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    132
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