Business, Spirituality, and Motherhood | Speak, Mother
Speak, Mother is a podcast about business, spirituality, and motherhood — for soul-led mother entrepreneurs who are done choosing between their business, their children, and their magic.You believe in Human Design, astrology, intuition, and energy work, and you also want to build a profitable, purposeful business. You're not here for bro-culture business advice or hustle-at-all-costs strategies. You're here to do it your way: spiritually grounded, unapologetically ambitious, and fully present as a mother.This podcast is for you if you're asking:How do I build a business that honors my spirituality and my role as a mother?Why does conventional bu...
Why Business Advice That Works for Her Won't Work for You | Chantel Porter
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Thinking about starting a podcast?
Join me Wednesday, September 30 at 12 PM ET for my free live workshop, Build a Podcast That Actually Works for You. We’ll get clear on what you want your podcast to do, what you want to say, and how to build a show that actually fits you.
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Business Metrics That Don't Matter (And How to Find the One That Does) | Speak, Mother
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Want to build a podcast that actually works for you? Join me for a free live workshop, Build a Podcast That Actually Works For You, on Wednesday, September 30th at 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT. We'll get clear on what you want your podcast to do, what you want it to say, and how you actually want to show up — not someone else's formula. Can't make it live? Register anyway and I'll send you the replay. Save your spot here: https://portal.rcollectivepodcasts.com/podcastthatworksworkshop
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Why Women Doubt Their Own Gifts | Mandie Woodard
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Want to build a podcast that actually works for you? Join me for a free live workshop, Build a Podcast That Actually Works For You, on Wednesday, September 30th at 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT. We'll get clear on what you want your podcast to do, what you want it to say, and how you actually want to show up — not someone else's formula. Can't make it live? Register anyway and I'll send you the replay. Save your spot here: https://portal.rcollectivepodcasts.com/podcastthatworksworkshop
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What Kids Teach Us About Running a Business on Purpose | Sarah McDonald
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Want to build a podcast that actually works for you? Join me for a free live workshop, Build a Podcast That Actually Works For You, on Wednesday, September 30th at 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT. We'll get clear on what you want your podcast to do, what you want it to say, and how you actually want to show up — not someone else's formula. Can't make it live? Register anyway and I'll send you the replay. Save your spot here: https://portal.rcollectivepodcasts.com/podcastthatworksworkshop
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How to Know What You Actually Want | Speak, Mother
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How do you know what you actually want when you're surrounded by expectations, expert advice, conditioning, fear, and everyone else's definition of success? In this episode, we're talking about self-trust, discernment, intuition, decision-making, and how to hear your own voice underneath all the noise.
After ten weeks of Permission Slip episodes reminding you that you're allowed to change your mind, do less, want more, outgrow what no longer fits, and do things differently, there's another question waiting on the other side of all that permission:
Now what are...
Business, Spirituality & Motherhood | Welcome to Speak, Mother
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Speak, Mother is a podcast about business, spirituality, and motherhood — for the woman who's done choosing between her ambition, her kids, and her magic. Hosted by Shannon Warner, this is a show for the woman who trusts her gut and her spreadsheet, equally, without picking a side.
This September, Speak, Mother steps fully into its new direction. Hit follow so you don't miss it.
Speak, Mother is hosted by Shannon Warner, founder of Resonant Collective offering podcast launch, maintenance, and strategy services for truth-telling women.
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You're Allowed to Do It Differently | Speak, Mother
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The career that doesn't look like your friends'. The business model that breaks the rules. The parenting choice that raises eyebrows. The path that's entirely, unapologetically yours.
This week's permission slip is for the woman who can see a different way, and the woman who's already on it but still needs someone to remind her she's not crazy.
You don't need everyone to understand. You just need to be honest about what's true for you.
Part of the Speak, Mother Summer Series — short permission slips, every week, al...
You're Allowed to Pivot | Speak, Mother
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The sunk cost. The fear of what people will think. The fact that you can't see the whole staircase yet.
These are the lies keeping you stuck in something you've already outgrown.
This week's permission slip is for the woman whose intuition has been telling her it's time, and who just needs someone to say: you're allowed.
Part of the Speak, Mother Summer Series: short permission slips, every week, all summer long.
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You're Allowed to Outgrow People | Speak, Mother
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The friendships that used to fit. The community that made sense at a different season. The relationships that worked until you started evolving — and they didn't.
Outgrowing people doesn't make you disloyal. It makes you someone who is paying attention to who you're becoming.
This week's permission slip is for the woman standing in the in-between — not quite who she was, not yet fully who she's becoming — and finally giving herself permission to release what no longer fits.
Part of the Speak, Mother Summer Series: short permission slips...
You're Allowed to Want More | 100th Episode of Speak, Mother
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This is episode 100. And this week we're doing something we never do: stopping to acknowledge how far we've come.
This one is for the woman who keeps moving without celebrating. Who sees the milestone and immediately looks past it to how much further there is to go. Who undermines her own accomplishments because they don't feel hard enough to count.
They count. You count. And you're allowed to want more AND celebrate where you already are.
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You Don't Have to Explain Yourself | Speak, Mother
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You've been justifying your choices to people who were never going to understand them anyway. The pivot. The business. The woo. The vision that lives in your heart that you can't quite put into words yet.
Here's the truth: you're not over-explaining for them. You're doing it to outsource your own discomfort. And their comfort was never yours to manage.
This week's permission slip is for the woman who is done defending a life other people didn't get the memo for.
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You Don't Have to Be Consistent to Be Worthy | Speak, Mother
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You missed a workout. You went quiet on social media. You skipped a week. And now you're treating yourself like you've failed.
You haven't. Consistency is a tool, not a measure of your worth or your commitment. What actually matters is that you keep coming back.
This week's permission slip is for the woman in the gap between where she is and where she thought she'd be by now.
Part of the Speak, Mother Summer Series: short permission slips, every week, all summer long.
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Your Needs Are Not an Inconvenience | Speak, Mother
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You've gotten so good at being low maintenance that you've forgotten you're allowed to need things. Support. Rest. Help. To be heard.
This week's permission slip is for the woman who has stopped appearing on her own to-do list, and the reminder that your needs are information, not inconvenience.
Part of the Speak, Mother Summer Series: short permission slips, every week, all summer long.
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Doing Less Is Not Laziness | Speak, Mother
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You've been spinning too many plates, and you're terrified to let any of them fall.
But here's the truth: not all plates are created equal. Some are glass. They matter deeply and if they shatter they cannot be repaired. Some are Corelle. Practically indestructible. They will survive the fall.
This week's permission slip is about figuring out which is which, and giving yourself full permission to let the Corelle hit the floor.
Part of the Speak, Mother Summer Series: short permission slips, every week, all summer long.<...
Wanting Time Alone Doesn't Make You a Bad Mother | Speak, Mother
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Wanting Time Alone Doesn't Make You a Bad Mother | Speak, Mother
You love your kids. And you are also touched out, overstimulated, and desperately craving five minutes of silence. Both things are true. And only one of them is making you feel guilty.
This week's permission slip is for the mother who can't remember the last time she had time that was truly hers.
Part of the Speak, Mother Summer Series: short permission slips, every week, all summer long.
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You're Not Behind | Speak, Mother
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A quick one this week: If you've been comparing your timeline to someone else's highlight reel, this is your reminder that it's never apples to apples, and what's for you will not miss you.
Part of our Summer Series: short permission slips, every week, all summer long.
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Speak, Mother is hosted by Shannon Warner, founder of Resonant Collective offering podcast launch, maintenance, and strategy services for truth-telling women.
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I'm Turning 40 and I'm Out of F*cks | Speak, Mother
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This is the episode I've been building toward.
I'm turning 40 this week. And I have some things to say: about what my thirties gave me, what I'm shedding as I walk into this decade, and who Speak, Mother is actually for going forward.
This is a love letter to the women who have been here. And a declaration for the woman who is just finding her way in: She's the woo woo mother entrepreneur. She pulls oracle cards before strategy calls. She trusts her intuition AND her spreadsheet. She's...
You Are the Magic. Stop Acting Like You're Not. | Speak, Mother
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You've been taught to make yourself more digestible. More palatable. More acceptable. To lead with your credentials instead of your perspective. To deflect the praise for work you built and led. To wait until you're more ready, more qualified, more something.
But here's what that performance is actually costing you.
This week I'm talking about what happens when you strip away every external marker of success — the title, the income, the degrees — and sit with what's left. Because what's left? That's the magic. And it was always you.
Why the New Version of You Needs a New Container | Speak, Mother
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Have you ever evolved — genuinely grown, shifted, become someone new — but the external pieces haven't caught up yet? New you, old job. New you, a business model you've outgrown. New you, relationships that feel a little tight now.
That gap between who you're becoming and where you currently are is disorienting. And nobody talks about it honestly enough.
This week I'm sitting in that middle place with you — and asking the question my therapist asked me that I haven't been able to stop thinking about: what is this costing you?<...
Nobody Warned Me About Maycember | Speak, Mother
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May has the same chaotic energy as December and we're not talking about it enough.
The recitals. The field trips. The volunteer asks. The party you forgot to RSVP to. And somewhere underneath all of it: something of your own you're trying to protect.
This week I'm talking about how I'm actually navigating this season without losing my mind or my vision. It's a quick episode, like a voice note from a friend, because we're all busy.
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She Stopped Waiting for a Partner & Started Building Her Life | Crystal Napolitano
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Crystal is 38, single, living in Southern France, and in the middle of her IVF journey. By choice and on her own terms. And she is so clear and so at peace with this decision it will make you question every time you've waited on someone else's timeline.
We talk about the breakup that started it all, 13 years of undiagnosed endometriosis, what French healthcare made possible that American healthcare never could, and why she's done outsourcing the thing she wants most in the world to someone else's emotional readiness.
We...
You've Survived Every Hard Day So Far | Speak, Mother
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You'll have a good day. Feel proud, capable, like yourself. And then something will happen. A number on a screen, a bill, a reminder of the reality you're living in. And just like that, the good feeling collapses.
This week I'm not pretending I have it figured out. I'm telling you what it actually looks like from inside of it: the whiplash, the spiral, and the small unglamorous things that pull me back from the edge.
Including the thing my therapist helped me realize that I keep coming back...
What Happens When a Mom Quits Her Toxic Job With No Plan | Kimberly Scanlon
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What do you do when your job is making you miserable, your gut is screaming, and you have no backup plan?
If you're Kimberly Scanlon, you quit. You take six months off to recover your nervous system. And then you take a part time job at a hair salon and you don't look back.
This week I'm sitting down with my friend and Minnesota mom of two Kimberly Scanlon, a storyteller and micro consultant with a background in mental health. We talk about what it actually looks like to...
Why Reinventing Yourself After Motherhood Isn't Starting Over | Speak, Mother
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Drop me a note and tell me what you're reclaiming.
You may notice something different about this episode. It's dropping as Episode 86, not Episode 15. That's not a mistake.
When I relaunched Speak, Mother earlier this year I reset the episode count to one. But the more I sat with it, the more wrong it felt, because I didn't start over. I evolved. And the 70+ episodes behind this version of the show deserved to be counted.
This episode is my story: the teaching career, the operations jo...
What This Overwhelmed Mom Is Actually Reaching For | Speak, Mother
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Life has been a lot lately. Not in a vague everything-is-fine kind of way, but in a just-trying-to-get-to-the-next-day kind of way. And in the middle of it, I've been paying attention to what's actually helping. Not the aspirational stuff. The real stuff. The accessible stuff.
This week I'm sharing the small, unglamorous, deeply nourishing things getting me through a hard season and making the case that they might actually be the medicine.
Plus I want to hear from you: what are YOU reaching for right now?
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Why Women's Grief Gets a Time Limit | Speak, Mother
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Sadness isn't one of the seven deadly sins, so why does it get its own chapter in On Our Best Behavior? Because the same culture that turned human impulses into moral failures has spent centuries teaching us that grief is an inconvenience. That there's a timeline for falling apart, and you're already past it.
This week, we're exploring what it actually costs us to rush through grief — our own and everyone else's. From the losses that come with casseroles to the ones nobody names, this conversation makes space for sadness of ev...
Why Women's Anger Is So Threatening (And Why That Matters) | Speak, Mother
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What happens when women get angry? We get called shrews, bitches, hags. We're labeled unstable, dangerous, dramatic. Meanwhile, men's anger gets results, respect, and recognition.
This week, we're exploring why women have been taught that anger is unfeminine and dangerous, and what it's costing us. From the physical health consequences of suppressed rage to the way we teach girls to turn their anger underground, this conversation examines why reclaiming our relationship with anger might be the most important work we can do.
We dive into anger as...
Why Mothers Are So Hard on Themselves (And What Changes When You Stop) | Fran Medina
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Why do we expect perfection from ourselves in the one job that's guaranteed to be messy? Why do we think one mistake will traumatize our children forever? And what actually shifts when we finally give ourselves permission to be human?
Fran Medina returns with 35+ years of motherhood wisdom. She's raised two kids to adulthood, is about to become a grandmother, and has the gift of perspective on what really...
Why Women Are Afraid of Their Own Desires | Speak, Mother
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What happens when wanting things feels dangerous? When pleasure feels selfish? When you've been taught to be the object of desire, never the subject with desires of your own?
This week, we're diving into Lust, and it's not what you think. This is about the full spectrum of desire: wanting experiences, growth, pleasure, and joy. It's about how women have been conditioned to deny our own needs, disconnect from our bodies, and apologize for taking up space with our wants.
From the shame around sexuality to the guilt about...
Finding Your Voice When Life Falls Apart | Andrea Gibson
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What happens when life strips you down to nothing—and you discover that's exactly where your power was hiding?
Andrea Gibson is our most downloaded guest episode and she's back! This conversation goes deep. After navigating metastatic breast cancer with fierce grace, Andrea returns with hard-won wisdom about following your inner voice, even when it leads you somewhere you never expected.
We dive into the panic attack that changed everything, why peace became non-negotiable, the breadcrumbs that led her from dance teacher to psychic medium, and how ca...
Why Women Have Complicated Relationships with Food | Hannah Koschak
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What if the way we talk about each other's bodies is actually making things worse? What if diet culture's grip on women is stronger than we realized? And what if the solution isn't another set of food rules, but joy?
This week, I'm joined by registered dietitian Hannah Koschak for a deep dive into the gluttony chapter of On Our Best Behavior. We explore why women struggle with food and body image, how weight stigma shows up in everyday compliments, and what it really takes to build a healthy relationship with...
Why Women Feel Guilty About Money | Speak, Mother
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Do you ever undersell yourself because asking for more feels "greedy"?
Do you ever apologize when quoting your rates?
Do you ever think you should just be grateful for what you have instead of advocating for what you're worth?
You're not alone. And it's not about the money. It's about the stories we've been told about what we deserve.
This week, we're exploring why women have such a complicated relationship with money, wealth, and asking for what we're worth. We dive into the difference between w...
Why Women Play Small | Speak, Mother
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What happens when a woman is proud of herself? When she celebrates her wins without apologizing?
If you've been conditioned to believe that pride is dangerous, that being "too much" will cost you friends, safety, or likability, this episode is for you.
This week, we're diving into why women have been taught to shrink, stay humble, and never claim their gifts. We explore what we're teaching our daughters when we downplay our own abilities and why it feels safer to be underestimated than celebrated.
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Why Women Struggle to Trust Each Other: The Sisterhood Wound | Katherine Phifer
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What if the difficulty you've experienced in female friendships isn't actually about you, but about something we've all inherited?
In this episode, I'm joined by Katherine Phifer, a mentor in feminine energetics and leadership. We dive deep into the sisterhood wound—a generational pattern that affects how women show up in relationships with each other and explore what it takes to build authentic, life-giving friendships as mothers.
We explore:
What the sisterhood wound is and where it comes fromThe difference between friends, community, and yo...Why Other Women Trigger You | Speak, Mother
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Envy is one of those things we’re not supposed to talk about, especially as mothers. But what if it’s not something to fix or suppress, but rather to examine?
In this episode, Shannon explores envy as a signal rather than a flaw. The moments where other women irritate us, trigger us, or make us uncomfortable often point to desires we’ve learned to ignore, downplay, or explain away.
We talk about comparison, judgment, generational conditioning, and the quiet ways women are taught to stay small, and what become...
Why Moms Feel Guilty About Rest | Speak, Mother
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Before we talk about rest, we have to name why it feels so loaded in the first place.
In this episode, Shannon explores the concept of sloth, not as laziness, but as something that became morally charged over time and why so many mothers feel caught between exhaustion and guilt. She reflects on overfunctioning as protection, the pressure to earn rest, and the often unspoken belief that worth is tied to output.
This is an invitation to notice the rules we absorbed without realizing it and how they live...
Why Women Are Obsessed with Being Good | Speak, Mother
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Before we talk about fixing motherhood, we have to name the system we inherited.
In this conversation, Shannon explores patriarchy as inheritance rather than ideology, why “being good” became the organizing principle for so many women’s lives, and how motherhood makes these patterns impossible to ignore.
This is not a book report or a call to self-improvement. It’s an invitation to notice what we’ve been handed, what it’s cost us, and what might be ready to change.
You don’t need to have read On Our Bes...
From a Mom Moment to Speak, Mother
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We’re back. And it’s not just a return. It’s a reclamation.
In this first episode of Speak, Mother, I share what led to the rebrand, the evolution behind the mic, and why this show is becoming a sacred space for honest conversations about motherhood, identity, and the systems we’re all pushing against.
I also introduce a book we’ll be exploring together in the coming weeks: On Our Best Behavior by Elise Loehnen. It's a powerful lens for understanding modern motherhood and the cultural pressures we’ve inher...
Speak, Mother: A New Era Begins
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You’ve kept quiet long enough. This is your invitation to get loud.
Welcome to Speak, Mother—the podcast for women unlearning silence and reclaiming their voice.
I’m your host, Shannon Warner—podcast producer, creative director, and founder of Resonant Collective. Whether you're a mother, a creative, a leader, or a woman who’s simply done shrinking, this space was built for you.
This trailer is your frequency check.
A glimpse of what’s coming.
And a call forward into...
Why Your Body Still Hurts Years After Giving Birth (And How Pelvic Floor Therapy Helps) | Lynn Schulte
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What if your postpartum body could heal in ways you didn’t think were possible—even years after giving birth? In this episode, Shannon dives into an eye-opening conversation with Lynn Schulte, a pelvic health physical therapist with over 30 years of experience specializing in postpartum care. Lynn explains how unresolved trauma from childbirth and misaligned pelvic bones can lead to lingering pain and discomfort—but she also shares how pelvic floor therapy can provide profound relief and transformation. Whether you’re weeks, months, or even years postpartum, this discussion uncovers the connection between birth, t...
