Journal Entries
Podcast Description:
Journal Entries is a podcast for women looking to peel back the layers, understand why they feel stuck & gain clarity in their life so that they can make positive changes. Your host, Samantha Hawley, believes that you can journal through anything as simple as why it's so hard to stop pressing the snooze button or as trivial as anxiety or why your relationship is struggling or make that career move. She will help you do this in each Journal Entry (or, episode). Tune in weekly to get tips, tricks and journal prompts as well as hear from guest speakers to help you to uncover your truths, gain clarity and make your move.
Topic Category:
Health & Fitness, Kids & Family
Topic Sub-Category:
Careers, Mental Health, Parenting, Relationships, Self-Improvement, Spirituality
Podcast Stats:
Booking Info:
Beyond Awareness (formerly Journal Entries) is for successful women in leadership and business who know exactly what they need to do but can’t make themselves do it.
You know you need to prioritize yourself, delegate more, set boundaries, stop bringing work home. You’ve tried therapy, coaching, retreats. You know the solution – but you either can’t follow through, or when you DO, it doesn’t stick.
Host Samantha Hawley helps business owners and executives earning $100k+ excavate the root beliefs underneath the execution gap. Why do you keep not doing the thing? Why doesn’t it feel better when you do? Using strategic journaling and emotional excavation, we go beyond awareness into why you’re actually stuck in the pattern.
This isn’t about more tactics or tips. This is about understanding why awareness isn’t enough and what actually needs to shift for you to change.
You’ll hear about: decision fatigue, why you can’t prioritize yourself, nervous system regulation, being present with your kids, root cause of overwhelm, why boundaries don’t stick, self-sabotage patterns, and how your internal state impacts everything.
Perfect for: Female CFOs, VPs, directors, executives, business owners, and women in leadership who are tired of knowing what’s wrong but not being able to change it.
Delegation isn’t usually a systems problem.
Most people already know what they could hand off. They’ve thought about hiring. They’ve considered asking for help. They’ve downloaded the planner, created the SOP, or promised themselves they’ll stop carrying so much.
Yet somehow, everything ends up back on their plate.
In this strategic journaling episode, we’re exploring what makes letting go so difficult, even when the workload is unsustainable. Because the thing that’s keeping you overwhelmed isn’t always a lack of support. Sometimes it’s a belief that makes doing more feel safer than letting go.
Through a series of journaling prompts, you’ll uncover what’s keeping you stuck in the cycle of over-responsibility and begin identifying the deeper reason delegation feels so hard.
Journal Prompts:
- What are you currently doing yourself, even though someone else could handle it?How does keeping it on your plate make you feel?
- Why haven’t you handed it off yet?What’s the real reason?
- What do you think you need in order to start delegating, or what are you already trying to help yourself trust and let go?
- Even though doing everything yourself leaves you exhausted, burnt out, and overwhelmed, how might it also be keeping you safe?
A question to sit with after this episode:
How has the belief underneath your need to do everything been shaping the way you work, lead, and show up in your life?
Work with me:
- The Leaders Table:https://www.samanthapenkoff.com/leaders-table
- Breakthrough Intensive: You already know you should slow down, delegate more, stop overcommitting & be emotionally present. So why can’t you? That’s what we figure out in 90 minutes + integration call 1 week later. Book your Breakthrough
- Exhale Private Coaching – For women ready to do this work until it sticks and you can’t revert back. 3 open spots:Work with me
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