The Shawanna Kennedy Experience
Welcome to The Shawanna Kennedy Experience—your go-to podcast for bold conversations, real-life transformation, and next-level visibility. This powerhouse channel features two dynamic shows that blend business brilliance with personal growth:
💼 C-Suite CEO Chat
Step inside the boardroom and behind the brand with Shawanna Kennedy, as she interviews high-impact CEOs, founders, executives, and change-makers. These are raw, unfiltered conversations about business growth, leadership mindset, scaling strategies, pivots, wins, losses—and the truth behind success.
🎯 Best for: Aspiring entrepreneurs, business leaders, consultants, and anyone seeking to grow their business and visibility from the inside out.
📈 Topics: Business strategy, entrepreneurship, CEO mindset, leadership development, branding, visibility, personal brand growth.
🧘🏽♀️ You First
Prioritize yourself without apology. In this deeply personal show, Shawanna dives into powerful, faith-based conversations about mental wellness, self-care, healing, identity, and purpose. From licensed therapists and life coaches to real women overcoming real-life challenges, these episodes are your safe space to reset, grow, and rise.
🌸 Best for: Women ready to heal, evolve, and step into their divine calling.
💡 Topics: Self-care, faith, mental health, trauma healing, empowerment, personal development, spiritual growth.
✨ About Shawanna Kennedy:
Visibility Coach, Media Executive, Gospel Recording Artist, and Empowerment Speaker, Shawanna helps women and CEOs be Seen, Heard, Known, and Paid. Whether you’re building a business or rebuilding your self-worth—she brings the mic, the message, and the momentum.
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The Shawanna Kennedy Experience
The Hidden Cost of Always Being the Strong One: Self-Worth, Softness & Learning to Put Yourself First
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What happens when you've spent years being everything to everyone except yourself? Have you become so accustomed to being strong that you've forgotten how to simply be?
In this powerful episode of You First, host Shawanna Kennedy sits down with Sparkle Bailey for an honest and thought-provoking conversation about what happens when women spend years carrying responsibilities, meeting expectations, and taking care of everyone else while quietly abandoning themselves in the process.
Together, they unpack why so many women have mastered survival but struggle with receiving support, embracing softness, and allowing themselves to rest without guilt. They discuss the difference between strength and survival mode, the misconceptions surrounding femininity, and why self-worth is the foundation for healthy relationships, communication, and emotional well-being.
This conversation explores:
✨ Why successful women can still feel lonely and disconnected
✨ The hidden cost of always being the strong one
✨ Why softness requires courage, not weakness
✨ How survival mode can become an unhealthy identity
✨ The relationship between self-worth and healthy communication
✨ Why femininity and ambition can coexist beautifully
✨ The importance of emotional safety and learning to receive support
✨ How to stop abandoning yourself and begin putting yourself first
If you've ever found yourself exhausted from carrying everything, struggling to ask for help, or wondering who you are outside of your responsibilities, this episode is for you.
Because freedom isn't simply about where you can go.
Freedom is becoming the person you once believed you could never be.
Maybe this season of your life isn't asking you to become more.
Maybe it's asking you to finally become you.
As Shawanna often says:
"Make the necessary adjustment. Make you a priority, and everybody wins."
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