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. How to get paid and promoted by making your boss your ally - The steps for corporate leaders

    3d ago

    How to get paid and promoted by making your boss your ally - The steps for corporate leaders

    Your boss is not sitting in their office thinking about your raise. Not because they don't value you. Because they're busy, they have a hundred fires, and you have never actually told them what you want. In this episode of The 5% Club Podcast, executive coach and former Chief People Officer Shayla King teaches the one conversation that separates women who get promoted from women who keep waiting to be chosen. She teaches it from the inside too. Before she coached executives, she sat in the rooms where those decisions were made. What she watched happen every time: a role would open, names would surface, and they were always the people who had said out loud exactly what they wanted. Not "I'm open to what's next." The specific thing. The equally talented woman who never declared what she wanted was never passed over. She was never even considered. The fix is not a list of your accomplishments with the energy of "you owe me." It's not an ultimatum. Pull your chair around to their side. Share the full dream, ask your boss to help you build the path, and call them into it as a partner. What would I need to be doing for that to be possible here? And if the answer is that the ceiling is the ceiling? That is not rejection. That is data. A map out. It beats three more years of quietly hoping the answer changes. The work matters. The conversation is what moves you. Actively job searching? Land the Role is Shayla's on-demand program for landing a $200K+ role in five steps. Get started at shaylaking.com/land-the-role. Ready for the room? The Performance + Happiness Lab fall cohort waitlist is open now at shaylaking.com/phlab.

    18 min
  2. Executive Moms Don't Need Better Time Management. They Need Life Design

    Jun 2

    Executive Moms Don't Need Better Time Management. They Need Life Design

    Executive moms don't need better time management. They need life design. That is the core truth of this episode of The 5% Club Podcast, and executive coach Shayla King makes the case with stories, strategy, and the kind of clarity that only comes from someone who has lived it. You survived May-Cember. The camps are booked, the carpools are covered, and the family trip is on the calendar. But in all of that planning, there is one question most high-performing women forget to ask: what does this summer look like for me? Shayla brings fresh insights from her epic year check-in with clients and delivers a blueprint for designing a summer that includes you as the main character. Not after the kids are settled. Not once work slows down. Now. Two client stories anchor the episode. One woman sat on an empty summer calendar, waiting for the schedule to clear before committing to anything - and watched the season quietly disappear. Another navigated a high-stakes panel interview, her daughter's first concert, and a full weekend volleyball tournament without canceling a single thing, because she understood that value and time are not the same. You do not need every hour. You need the right ones, used on purpose. When summer plans fall apart (and they will), Shayla offers a single reframe: what feeling were you going for? The trip to Morocco and the spa weekend are just itineraries. The joy underneath them can always be recreated. And for corporate leaders carrying 50-hour weeks into a season that deserves more, the essentialism filter cuts through everything: revenue, cost, client results, culture. Run every task through it and watch the work that was never essential disappear, leaving room for the career and the life, both at full volume. Seven months left. That is not the leftover. That is a runway. The Performance + Happiness Lab opens again in early September. Get on the waitlist at shaylaking.kit.com/waitlist. Or visit shaylaking.com to explore all the ways to work with Shayla.

    30 min
  3. Tired of Doing It All? A Working Mom's May-Cember Reset for Executive Women

    May 26

    Tired of Doing It All? A Working Mom's May-Cember Reset for Executive Women

    May doesn't just feel like December. For working moms, it is December. Every end-of-year event, school performance, graduation party, and last-minute request arrives at once, layered on top of a full career and a life that already requires everything you have. In this bonus replay episode of The 5% Club Podcast, executive coach Shayla King offers something more useful than a checklist. She offers a mindset reset. Because May-Cember is not a scheduling problem. It is an ownership problem. And when high-performing women remember they are in charge of their own lives - even in the thick of the chaos - everything shifts. Shayla walks through the practical systems she uses in her own household of five kids: dividing the day into thirds, building a shared family Google Calendar that transfers responsibility to the kids and time back to you, and a 15-minute Thursday Night Planning Meeting that quietly eliminates most of the week's surprises. She addresses the invisible pressure of senior year and why the most meaningful graduation party might just be a cookie cake and a vacuumed living room. The deepest truth in this episode: you don't have to do it all. Not the concession stands. Not every party. Not the Pinterest-worthy celebration no one actually asked for. You get to protect your peace, say no without guilt, and save your best yeses for the people closest to the center of your dartboard. This is the 5% life. Performing at the highest level while loving your whole life. Not someday. During the climb. Pre enrollment for the Performance + Happiness Lab closes May 27. Summer access to all 12 modules, a private 1:1 strategy session, and the first-ever 6-month payment plan. Join before Wednesday at midnight at shaylaking.com/phlab. Or visit shaylaking.com to explore all the ways to work with Shayla. Join the waitlist to stay up to date on all things Evolve: https://shaylaking.kit.com/waitlist 🎙️ ABOUT THE 5% CLUB PODCAST The 5% Club is hosted by Shayla King - former Chief People Officer, executive coach, and founder of Evolve Coaching. New episodes every Tuesday for high-performing women who want the career AND the life. Not someday. During the climb. Half the people at the top are miserable. The 5% chose differently.

    31 min
  4. The Leadership Skill No One Talks About: Emotional Regulation at the Senior Level

    May 19

    The Leadership Skill No One Talks About: Emotional Regulation at the Senior Level

    In this episode, Shayla King makes the case that the most powerful skill in your leadership arsenal has nothing to do with strategy, presence, or negotiation. It's emotional regulation. And most leaders in corporate America were never taught it. The most respected senior leaders at the top are not the ones who care the hardest. They are the ones who know what actually deserves a reaction. And what is simply the cost of doing business at this level. Project timelines slip. Employees resign without warning. You make the final round and don't get the role. A peer takes credit for your idea in a meeting you weren't in. Every single one of those things? Just a Tuesday. The underdeveloped response is to catastrophize, stew, and let it live rent free in your head for a week. The senior response is to say "plot twist" and move on. Composure is contagious. So is panic. The steadiest voice in the room is always the most powerful one. And in this episode of The 5% Club Podcast, executive coach Shayla King gives women in leadership the tools to become that voice now. Not after 20 more years of experience. Now. This is what the 5% build on purpose. ▶ Register for The Promotion Playbook (free live webinar) https://shaylaking.com/2026-promotion-playbook ▶ Join the Performance + Happiness Lab https://shaylaking.com/phlab ▶ Learn more about working with Shayla https://shaylaking.com

    19 min
  5. From Stuck to $500,000: How One Leader Transformed Her Career in 8 Months

    May 12

    From Stuck to $500,000: How One Leader Transformed Her Career in 8 Months

    What does it look like when a high-performing woman stops waiting for the right moment and starts designing the life she actually wants? For Angela, it looked like this: a Chief People Officer role at a global mining company, a $500,000 base salary, international travel, pre-IPO equity, and a moment standing in a converted bank in London at Christmastime thinking, "This is really my life." It took eight months of focused coaching work with Shayla King to get there. In this episode of The 5% Club Podcast, Shayla sits down with Angela for a full-picture conversation about what the coaching process actually produced across every area of her life. They cover career strategy and how Angela used Shayla's Know and Declare framework to stop settling for roles that almost fit. They talk money, including a 60% pay increase and what it meant for her family when she became the primary breadwinner. They go deep on relationships, including how Angela stopped reacting and started choosing, at work and at home. They discuss how Angela designed her rituals around a demanding global travel schedule so she could be fully present when she came home. And they get honest about mindset: the guilt she released around being successful, the fear of failure she walked through, and the moment she finally understood what Shayla means when she talks about cultivating joy.Angela came to coaching not in crisis but at a crossroads. That distinction matters. You do not need to be broken to benefit from this kind of work. You need to be ready. If you are a woman in corporate at the Director or VP level who knows the next level is possible but can not quite see the path, this conversation will expand what you believe is available to you. That is the goal. That has always been the goal. We are grateful and we want more. Subscribe to The 5% Club Podcast for new episodes every Tuesday! Register for Shayla's free live Promotion Playbook webinar: https://shaylaking.com/2026-promotion-playbook PH Lab is coming! Learn More: https://shaylaking.com/phlab Work with Shayla: ShaylaKing.com

    54 min
  6. The Career and the Life. Both. Here's What That Actually Looks Like.

    May 5

    The Career and the Life. Both. Here's What That Actually Looks Like.

    You were not built to choose. Not between the promotion and the present moment. Not between ambition and being a good mom. Not between success and actually enjoying your life. In this episode, I'm getting into what it really means to have the career and the life at the same time... and why so many high-performing women are exhausted, overextended, and quietly wondering if something is wrong with them. Nothing is wrong with you. You've just been following a playbook that was never designed for you to win. We cover: -Good girl programming and how it keeps brilliant women productive, compliant, and disconnected from what they actually want -Why hustle is not the same as hard work, and why hours are not the same as value -Executive essentialism and how focusing on less is what actually gets you promoted -The dual-career pressure no one is talking about honestly -How to stop building your life around everyone else's expectations and start going after your own This is not a motivational episode. It's a map. If you're ready to stop white-knuckling your way through and start actually designing a life you love, this one's for you. Work with Shayla: The Promotion Playbook → shaylaking.com/2026-promotion-playbook Land the Role → shaylaking.com/land-the-role PH+ Lab → shaylaking.com/phlab Join the Waitlist → shaylaking.kit.com/waitlist Learn More → ShaylaKing.com #5PercentClub #WomenInLeadership #ExecutiveCoaching #PerformanceAndHappiness #GoodGirlProgramming #CareerAndLife #WomenInCorporate #LeadershipDevelopment #ShaylaKing #WorkingMoms #EvolveCoaching

    36 min
  7. Dual-Career and Exhausted? Yeah. Here's Why and What to Do About It.

    Apr 28

    Dual-Career and Exhausted? Yeah. Here's Why and What to Do About It.

    In this episode, I talk about the reality of being in a dual-career household and why so many high-performing women and couples are carrying more than any generation before them. I share why the exhaustion so many couples feel is not a sign that they are doing life wrong. It is a sign that they are trying to succeed inside a structure that was never designed for them. We talk about dual-income marriage, working moms, outsourcing without guilt, household labor, support systems, and how to stop living by outdated expectations that leave you depleted. If you want to create a better system for your home, your career, your energy, and your happiness, this episode is for you. Want to join the waitlist for the upcoming workshop on resourcing yourself and building a better system for your life? Be the first to know when it's coming: https://shaylaking.kit.com/ec64d55e8f #DualCareerMarriage #WorkingMomLife #WomenInCorporate #HouseholdLabor #ExecutiveCoach #BurnoutRecovery #WorkLifeBalanceForWomen #PerformanceAndHappiness #ShaylaKing

    30 min
  8. Speed: The Skill Every High-Performing Executive Has Inside a 5-Day Hiring process and the Competitive Advantage Nobody Talks About

    Apr 21

    Speed: The Skill Every High-Performing Executive Has Inside a 5-Day Hiring process and the Competitive Advantage Nobody Talks About

    In this episode, I share one of the most valuable skills in my leadership toolkit: speed. I walk you through a real-time story from inside my business to show you how fast, decisive action can create momentum, reduce overwhelm, and give you a major edge in leadership. We talk about executive speed, decision-making, hiring, follow-through, productivity, and why the gap between steps is where most leaders lose time, traction, and energy. If you’ve been overthinking, sitting on decisions, or telling yourself you just need more time or more information, this episode will help you rethink what effective leadership actually looks like. Learn More: shaylaking.com #LeadershipDevelopment #ExecutiveMindset #DecisionMaking #HighPerformanceHabits #CareerAdvancement #Productivity #PerformanceAndHappiness #ShaylaKing

    20 min
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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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