Self.Styled.Life with Janelle Wehsack

Welcome to the SELF.STYLED.LIFE Podcast with Janelle Wehsack. You can back everyone else - your team, your friends, the colleague who comes to you in a panic at 4pm you talk her off the ledge. You're everyone's biggest cheerleader, so why on earth can't you back yourself?  In this episode we're going to pull apart the actual reasons that backing yourself is so hard. There are f...

Welcome to the SELF.STYLED.LIFE Podcast with Janelle Wehsack. The message in this episode is pretty clear: People-pleasing and power can't co-exist. If you want to step into your power. If you want a seat at the table. If you want the bigger role, the authority you've earned, the promotion. But you also really need everyone to like you, to not be disappointed in you. That is the thing th...

Welcome to the SELF.STYLED.LIFE Podcast with Janelle Wehsack. Where do you see yourself in 5 years? I'm almost positive you've been asked this or some version of it before, but I am here to officially retire that question. In a world where AI is reshaping entire industries, restructures are happening at pace, and the role that you're aiming for today might look completely different...

Welcome to the SELF.STYLED.LIFE Podcast with Janelle Wehsack. My clients are absolutely on fire right now. New roles, promotions, big corporate opportunities landing seemingly out of nowhere. Here's what I need you to understand about every single one of these women. They're not women who got lucky or who were simply waiting for the stars to align, and then the universe finally showed up...

Welcome to the SELF.STYLED.LIFE Podcast with Janelle Wehsack. A leader once described me as a "fixer". Someone they could throw a difficult problem at and trust it would get solved. He was right. I was that person. I'd spent years with my head down, working hard, being reliable and capable. Looking back, it was the moment the belief I had been operating on started to show its limits...

Welcome to the SELF.STYLED.LIFE Podcast with Janelle Wehsack. Today we are talking about the very specific, very real, very physical feeling of dread that kicks in when you hear the word "restructure", or when you read yet another headline about AI replacing jobs, or when you get passed over for a promotion, role or project. And the career uncertainty and the dread that can come with it...

Welcome to the SELF.STYLED.LIFE Podcast with Janelle Wehsack. Despite the more common saying "new levels, new devils" I've always found a different version to be true. "New levels, old devils." When I recorded this episode I had just finished a big tick off my Live List. Despite this having been a goal of mine for some time, despite feeling confident walking in, not being...

Welcome to the SELF.STYLED.LIFE Podcast with Janelle Wehsack. Career advice is supposed to help, right? That's the whole point.  But after years of coaching corporate professionals I've noticed that some of the most popular, most repeated, and most "common sense" career advice out there is actually terrible.  And the worst part? There's a good chance that you're follo...

Welcome to the SELF.STYLED.LIFE Podcast with Janelle Wehsack. Does your promotion make you feel like a fraud? You know that promotion that you worked really hard, and before you got it you knew you deserved it, but now, you kind of wish you could take it all back? You didn't work that hard, sacrifice that much, and prove yourself over and over again just to finally get the promotion and then...

Welcome to the SELF.STYLED.LIFE Podcast with Janelle Wehsack. I sent an email a week or so ago about time being stolen in polite three minute chunks. And the replies were the kind of ones where you can almost hear people exhaling through the screen. So if that email was the headline, then this episode of the SELF.STYLED.LIFE podcast is the full story. If you've been feeling stretched thin or...

Welcome to the SELF.STYLED.LIFE Podcast with Janelle Wehsack. The title of this episode really says it all folks. I am celebrating 35 years of working in corporate and I have learnt A LOT along the way. In this episode of the SELF.STYLED.LIFE podcast, I'm sharing 35 lessons I've learnt about what really matters for your career, how to settle into new roles, have difficult conversations,...

Welcome to the SELF.STYLED.LIFE Podcast with Janelle Wehsack. Motivation is gorgeous... And a little flaky. It's not something I would recommend you build your life on, especially if you're a high achieving woman with a full life. So if motivation isn't the thing to build your goals and next steps around this year, what is? This is where momentum comes in. Momentum is what happens w...

"I did not realise how much this year demanded of me" Does that sound like how you're feeling right now? It's often not until we allow ourselves the space to rest, that we realise how much we have been carrying, and that we have come quite along way in 12 months. What your year demanded from you will look different from everyone else. They may have been big changes that you nee...

Are you able to allow yourself to want what you want without overthinking it? Perhaps you covered all the steps to get clear on what you want only to find that you're telling yourself stories of how your desires aren't strategic enough, realistic enough, convenient enough, or approved by the people around them. All this overthinking and self-doubt leads to confusion, yet, from all the wo...

I know that working out what you want and trusting yourself to go after it is one of the biggest things that keeps the women in this community up at night. I also know that you absolutely can figure it out. You might just need to give yourself permission to pause for long enough to listen to yourself. Practically speaking, you may also need a tool to help focus your thoughts to gain clarity in the...

Confidence isn't a personality trait. And it's not something you magically wake up with one morning. Confidence is about self-trust. The belief that you can navigate whatever comes your way, even if it's uncertain or new. If you've ever thought "I should have more confidence by now" then this episode of the SELF.STYLED.LIFE podcast is for you. In this episode we'...

You know that I am all about celebrating! And this week we am celebrating 100 episodes of the SELF.STYLED.LIFE podcast 🎉 It’s a little hard to believe that we made it to 100 episodes. When I first started this show, I had no idea where it would take us. I knew I wanted to create something supportive, but I had no idea if anyone would listen or if I'd be able to sustain the rhythm.  And now,...

Welcome to the SELF.STYLED.LIFE Podcast with Janelle Wehsack. Today I want to talk about the secret to thriving in workplace chaos, because workplaces tend to cycle through periods of chaos more than we'd like. The chaos could come from restructuring, a change of leadership, new team members, conflicting priorities...or perhaps there's just simply a lack of structure.  The women I coach...

Welcome to the SELF.STYLED.LIFE Podcast with Janelle Wehsack. Years ago, I was offered a leadership opportunity that felt bigger than anything I'd done up to that point, and it was way bigger. I was plucked from obscurity, and felt anything but ready. Every single part of me wanted more proof, more experience, more certainty that I'd actually be able to do the job. But the opportunity wa...

Welcome to the SELF.STYLED.LIFE Podcast with Janelle Wehsack. One of the things that comes up in my coaching quite often, is that the dreams that we gave up on years ago are often still important to us. And if that's the case, then why did we give up on them in the first place? Mostly, this boils down to self imposed deadlines, that have come and gone. Tune into this week's episode, Drea...

Welcome to the SELF.STYLED.LIFE Podcast with Janelle Wehsack. Wellbeing isn't a reward for getting through your to-do list. It's also not a luxury. Your wellbeing is the foundation. Without YOU being in good shape, the whole plan falls apart. It doesn't really matter what the plan is. Whether it's climbing the corporate ladder, finishing a big project at work with your team or...

Welcome to the SELF.STYLED.LIFE Podcast with Janelle Wehsack. What's something that tends to visit us in waves? It doesn't show up just once in our life and then never again, but it also doesn't stick around forever. When it's with us though, even the simplest tasks can feel impossible, we can be stretched to our breaking point, everything feels urgent, and the smallest inconve...

Welcome to the SELF.STYLED.LIFE Podcast with Janelle Wehsack. Perfectionism offers us the illusion of safety. If I get this right, no one can criticise me. If I tick every box, they'll never know I'm not good enough. If I'm perfect, they'll love me. This was me for a long time. Perfectionism was my safety blanket. It has been my most limiting protective behaviour. I've wor...

Welcome to the SELF.STYLED.LIFE Podcast with Janelle Wehsack. I want to introduce, possibly a new definition of confidence to you. That is: Confidence is a quiet, inner knowledge that you are capable. I've come to learn that confidence isn't about being the loudest person in the room, perfection, or having all the answers. It's about knowing deep down that you'll figure it out....

Welcome to the SELF.STYLED.LIFE Podcast with Janelle Wehsack. What if the real goal, the true purpose of a transformation journey was to create more joy, peace, ease and wellbeing in your life rather than you becoming more productive, more successful, or more polished? That's the question I wanted to explore this week. Why? Because as women, we often approach transformation with the mindset t...