Executive Coaching for Corporate Leaders: The 5% Club

Shayla King
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I’m Shayla King, a former C-suite executive turned Performance + Happiness Coach. This is the podcast for leaders who want it all: the promotions, the paychecks, and luxurious amounts of time for what matters most. Each week, I’ll teach you the mindset, skillset, and systems from my proven Performance + Happiness Formula to help you rise to the top without burnout or overwhelm. Work less, make more, and design a life you love—that’s exactly what we do in the 5% Club. Let’s Go, or Let's evolve together!

  1. 6d ago

    Learn to Say No in Every Area of Your Life: How Executives Get the Career AND the Life

    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. Resources + Links Join the No-vember Challenge: shaylaking.com/no-vember-challenge 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

  2. Oct 20

    How to Land Your Next Executive Role: The 5-Step System

    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

  3. Oct 13

    Lessons from Times Square, Part 5: Buy Back Your Life

    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

  4. Oct 6

    Lessons from Times Square, Part 4: How Executive Women Build Capacity for the Next Promotion

    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

  5. Sep 29

    Lessons from Times Square 3: How Successful Women Set Boundaries Without Guilt (NO More People Pleasing)

    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

  6. Sep 22

    Lessons from Times Square 2: Stop Being the Supporting Character in Your Own Life

    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

  7. Sep 15

    Lessons from Times Square 1: You Can Have It All

    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

  8. Sep 8

    Chief HR Officer Shares 5 Career Trends Keeping Corporate Women Leaders Overworked, Overlooked & Stuck

    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

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I’m Shayla King, a former C-suite executive turned Performance + Happiness Coach. This is the podcast for leaders who want it all: the promotions, the paychecks, and luxurious amounts of time for what matters most. Each week, I’ll teach you the mindset, skillset, and systems from my proven Performance + Happiness Formula to help you rise to the top without burnout or overwhelm. Work less, make more, and design a life you love—that’s exactly what we do in the 5% Club. Let’s Go, or Let's evolve together!

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