The RISE Experience
It’s not always about becoming someone different.
Sometimes it’s about realizing you’ve been disconnected from yourself for longer than you thought.
The RISE Experience is a podcast for the woman who can handle everything — except herself. The one who shows up, gets things done, keeps things together… but quietly feels like something isn’t landing the way it should.
Shannon Denniston is a behavior change coach and the founder of RISE. What she talks about here isn’t behavior on the surface. It’s what sits underneath it — patterns, beliefs, and identity-level disconnects that make consistency feel harder than it should.
A lot of what gets called “starting over” isn’t starting over at all. It’s noticing what’s been running in the background for a long time, and learning how to move differently from there.
Not forced. Not rushed. No reinvention, no reset, just more aware, more honest with where things actually are, and returning to yourself in a way that holds.
The RISE Experience
What The Other Side Of Transition Really Feels Like
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Fear isn’t proof you’re off track. Sometimes it is the clearest sign you are finally walking toward something real. If you feel caught between who you were and who you are becoming, this is where we get honest about that messy middle.
Welcome to The RISE Experience — a podcast for women who are finding their way back to themselves. This is a space to slow down when everything feels loud, to live from steadiness instead of urgency, and to finally hear yourself think again. Here we talk about identity, faith, and the quiet inner wisdom that gets buried under all the doing. A place to pause, reflect, and rise from clarity instead of pressure.
Episode Highlights
In today’s episode, I talk honestly about what it actually feels like to be on the other side of transition when it is not clean, polished, or certain, and how that shows up for both of us. I share my own doubt and fear after stepping into something new, the grief of leaving behind a version of myself that felt familiar, and the small, quiet confirmations that remind us we are on the right path. We look at why we keep waiting to “feel ready,” how fear and right can live in the same place, and how God meets us with gentle confirmation again and again while we learn to trust the direction instead of demanding certainty.
Episode Outline
- Recap of June's Themes and Introduction to Transition
- Personal Struggles and Validation from Listeners
- The Reality of Transition and Letting Go of the Familiar
- Confirmation and Small Moments of Success
- Embracing Doubt and Trusting the Process
- Looking Forward to July's Theme
Episode Chapters
00:00 Intro and June recap
00:35 Shifts, silence, and outgrowing old containers
02:05 Naming the fear and wanting to go back
03:40 Listener message that cuts through the doubt
05:10 What the “other side” of transition really feels like
07:00 Grieving the familiar version of yourself
08:40 Fear and right living in the same place
10:20 Small confirmations instead of big signs
12:20 Letting doubt speak and responding with truth
14:15 Noticing and writing down confirmations
16:10 You are right on time, not behind
17:10 Prayer and closing encouragement
Conclusion
The other side of transition rarely looks like arrival. It looks like fear and right sitting side by side, grief for what was familiar, and a deep, quiet sense that you are finally moving in a truer direction. You are allowed to need reassurance more than once. You are allowed to still feel scared and still be exactly where you are supposed to be. If you are in the middle, not fully out of the old and not fully settled into the new, you are not behind. You are right on time.
Action Taken
- Notice and name the small confirmations that have already shown up in your life instead of dismissing them.
- Look back on recent decisions, conversations, or moments of relief and recognize them as evidence you are moving in the right direction.
- Write down confirmations, even the small ones, so you have something real to return to when doubt gets loud.
- Acknowledge your doubt instead of pushing it away, then gently point yourself back to the evidence of God’s faithfulness and the direction He is giving you.
- Pray when fear rises and release control back to God, trusting that scary and right can exist together.
CTA
Share this with a friend who is standing in the messy middle of her own transition and needs to know that fear does not disqualify her from being on the right path.
Visit the links provided to stay connected.
- Your next step… https://msha.ke/risewithshannon
- Read the blog… https://www.risewithshannon.blog/
- FB: Shannon Bell Denniston
- IG: @risewithshannon
Thank you for listening and for being honest about where you really are. Keep noticing the small confirmations, keep holding space for both the fear and the rightness, and keep trusting that God has you on a path that fits who you truly are.