Sky High Coaching Conversations
Sky High Coaching Conversations is an unedited space for high-performing humans who are ready to expand, create and lead in a way that feels aligned, powerful and deeply true.
Each episode brings honest insight from Coach, Mentor, Thought Partner, Trusted Advisor, Author and Founder, Janelle Ryan - blending real stories, holistic transformation and the kind of clarity that only comes from lived experience.
There’s no polish or production here, just real conversations that spark growth. And, some laughs too.
If you’re evolving, this podcast will meet you where you are.
Episodes
29 episodes
How to Build Resilience When You’re Creating Something New
What does it really take to keep going when you are creating something bigger for your life, work, family, leadership, relationships or next chapter?In this episode of Sky High Coaching Conversations, Janelle Ryan explores resil...
How to Deal with Negative People Without Losing Yourself
We all know the person.The colleague who complains before the meeting has even started. The family member who can’t let a happy moment stay happy. The friend whose drama somehow becomes everyone else’s afternoon.Negative people ca...
How to Make More Money Without Negotiating Against Yourself
Have you ever walked into a money conversation knowing what you wanted to ask for, then heard yourself ask for less?Maybe it was a salary conversation. Maybe it was a fee. Maybe it was a proposal, a scope change, a promotion conversation...
Promoted From Within: How to Lead Former Peers Without Losing Yourself
Promoted from within? That moment can feel exciting, validating… and unexpectedly awkward.One day you’re sitting beside people as a peer. The next, they’re looking to you for decisions, standards, feedback and direction.In ...
Why Other People’s Success Strategies Don’t Work for You
Why do some success strategies work beautifully for other people, but feel wrong, heavy or impossible when you try to follow them?In this episode of Sky High Coaching Conversations, Janelle explores why the answer isn’t a...
Impostor Syndrome at Work: Why You Feel Like a Fraud and How to Overcome It
Have you ever felt like you’re about to be found out at work, or in business?Impostor Syndrome is often treated as proof that we don’t belong, but what if it’s sometimes a sign of something else?In this episode of Sky High Coa...
How to Stop Taking Work Personally, Without Caring Less
What do you do when you care deeply about your work, but it keeps coming home in your head?This episode is for the employee navigating workplace pressure, change, restructuring, unclear communication or high expectations, and for ...
Executive Interview Tips for Senior Leaders and Directors
Some of the most capable professionals I meet keep finishing second when they go for executive and director roles.Not because they’re not qualified. Not because they don’t interview well. And not because they didn’t 'prepare enough'....
Are You Burning Out as a Leader? Five Causes and One Fix for Each.
What if the exhaustion you are feeling has nothing to do with how hard you are working - and everything to do with five very specific, very fixable things?Leadership burnout is one of the most common, and least talked about, exper...
How to Be More Visible and Confident In Every Area of Your Life
What if the next level of your life asks you to be more visible than you’ve ever been before? In this episode of Sky High Coaching Conversations, Janelle Ryan explores what it really takes to move through the fear of visibi...
Is Going Alone Really Faster? Community, Action and Bringing a Vision to Life
There’s an African proverb that says, "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together".In this episode, I challenge the first half of that idea.Because the more I watch human beings create, struggle ...
Why You Don't Know What You Want in Your Life, Business or Career
From the outside, a woman’s life can look successful, steady, even impressive. She’s capable. Intelligent. Reliable. She gets things done. And yet underneath it, something feels off.In this episode, I’m talking about a pattern I see ofte...
Validation at Work: Why We Crave It and What It Costs Us
Why do we seek validation at work, and what happens when our sense of worth starts living in other people’s hands? In this episode, I unpack the very human desire for recognition in the workplace and explore why so many capable wome...
Does Your Team Feel Psychologically Safe at Work?
Does your team feel psychologically safe at work or do people stay quiet, hold back, and tell you what feels safest to say?In this episode, we explore one of the most important ingredients in healthy leadership and high-functionin...
Feeling Flat? What to Do When You’ve Lost Your Mojo.
You’re functioning. Showing up. Meeting deadlines. Keeping plans.But underneath it all, something feels off.In this episode, I’m talking about the flat, restless feeling that can creep in even when life looks fine from the outside...
How to Stop People-Pleasing and Hold a Boundary Without Over-Explaining
Life gave me the perfect opportunity last weekend to put into practice the exact techniques we’ve been talking about in this series.An unexpected moment. A spike of emotion. That familiar pull to go quiet, smooth it over, retreat....
Staying Cool When It Gets Hot
Ever go blank in a difficult conversation? Or over-explain, go quiet, or come in too strong - and then replay it later thinking, 'That didn’t even sound like me'?Have you ever handled a challenging moment and th...
The Invisible Power Dynamic That’s Shaping Your Conversations
There is a power dynamic operating in every conversation you have.Most women can feel it. Very few can name it. Almost no one was taught how to work with it.Why do you go blank in a negotiation you were fully prepared for?
Why You Freeze When It Matters. And What It’s Costing You.
You know exactly what you want to say.You’ve rehearsed it.You’ve thought it through.You walk into the room ready.And then your body shuts down and the words won't come out. In this episode, Janelle explores the...
Rewrite Your Love Story: Why Do Relationships Start Strong Then Fall Apart?
You meet someone and feel that familiar lift of excitement. The chemistry is there, the conversation flows, and for a while it genuinely feels different.Then, a few months in, something starts to shift.Nothing dramatic happens. No...
Presence Has a Price: The Leadership Switch No One Trains You For
This week’s podcast was prompted by a recent conversation I had with a client.She was talking about something many leaders experience but rarely name. Wanting to be genuinely helpful and present with her team, while also needing uninterr...
Exploring Body Confidence: How to Feel at Home in Your Body
This episode is a grounded, compassionate conversation about body confidence, self-acceptance, and building a healthier relationship with your body - without waiting for it to change.In a culture that constantly tells us confidence, happ...
The Myth of the Clean Slate
A new year doesn’t make us new people, and that’s not a problem.In this episode, we explore why January is more symbolic than magical, and how this moment can still be a powerful pause if we choose it to be. I share a grounded reflection...
Leadership on Loan: 12 proven tips to excel in your acting role
Acting in a role can feel like leading with one hand tied behind your back.In this episode, Janelle unpacks the real challenges of stepping into an interim role, from navigating authority and team dynamics to managing expectations, press...