The Create Your Day Podcast

Send us Fan Mail If your business only runs when you're exhausted, it isn't built to last. This is the Freedom Audit: a 3-step framework for building a business that gives you your life back, not just your income. In this episode: - Why the entrepreneurship "freedom" promise quietly turns into a 24/7 job - The exact moment a business starts running you instead of the other way...

Send us Fan Mail Your to-do list is open, your calendar is full, and somehow you still cannot move. If you have ever stared at your screen while panic hums under the surface, we want to name what’s really happening: freeze mode. This is not laziness or a willpower problem. It’s a nervous system response that shuts down motivation, energy, and decision-making, which is why the usual productivity ti...

Send us Fan Mail Download The Stop Firefighting Solution There's a season most women in business know well — where you're working constantly, doing everything right, and still ending every week behind. You look capable from the outside. Inside, you're barely holding it together. This episode is about that season. And about the one conversation that named what was actually happening...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Jenn Cody gets honest about what it actually means to be let down. In your personal life, in your business partnerships, and in the version nobody in the coaching world likes to admit: when you give your best guidance and your client goes a completely different direction anyway. She shares the nervous system patterns that disappointment quietly creates, and the em...

Send us Fan Mail The fastest way to stay stuck is to keep searching for a better “how.” If you’ve bought the course, tried the framework, and still feel like you’re in the same place, the problem usually isn’t strategy. It’s identity.  I’m talking about “who before how”: the idea that your results can’t outgrow the person you believe you are. We dig into how identity drives every decision you make...

Send us Fan Mail I share the story I rarely tell about losing $81,000 after making a major business move without the clarity I needed. We unpack how survival mode decisions can cost you money and confidence, and how to protect your value with clearer terms, patterns, and needs.  • losing $81,000 through a handshake partnership and no contract  • making emotional decisions in survival mode instead...

Send us Fan Mail I spent years in a marriage where I believed I was the problem. Not organized enough. Not remembering the right things. Not meeting some invisible standard no matter how hard I tried. I went to bed apologizing and woke up promising to do better. And it was never enough. It took me a long time to realize: I was never going to be "enough" inside that system. Because the sy...

Send us Fan Mail What if your "flexible" communication style is actually keeping you in a constant state of stress? I used to pride myself on being accessible. No unnecessary meetings. Just Slack me. Stay agile. But what I thought was efficiency was actually chaos—and it was wrecking my nervous system without me realizing it. In this episode, I'm sharing the week that finally broke...

Send us Fan Mail What if the opportunities you're chasing are the very thing holding you back? When you start gaining momentum in business, opportunities multiply. New clients, partnerships, collaborations, speaking gigs—it all comes your way. And it feels like you should say yes. More is better, right? Not exactly. In this episode, Jenn gets honest about the season when she said yes to every...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when your body starts keeping score? Every fire you put out, every hard decision you make, every time you show up when you're already depleted—it all accumulates. Your nervous system is tracking everything, even when you're not. And at some point, it starts sending signals you can't ignore. In this episode, Jenn shares the story of the Tuesday morning s...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when revenue goes up but wealth doesn't? Most entrepreneurs operate with what Jenn calls "leftover thinking"—paying expenses first and hoping there's something left over for profit. Spoiler: there never is. Expenses expand to consume whatever's available, and you end up working harder than ever with nothing to show for it. In this episode, Jen...

Send us Fan Mail Breathe first. Then let’s talk about why control keeps slipping through your fingers even as your calendar gets tighter and your tools get fancier. We’ve been there—up early, last to log off, answering every question because “no one else gets how it works.” The outside looks successful. Inside feels like a slow burn. We trace the real source of overwhelm to a missing definition, n...

Send us Fan Mail Do you keep abandoning projects, systems, or goals the moment they get uncomfortable—even when they align with your vision? You're not alone. Most entrepreneurs quit what they're passionate about because they've been taught a dangerous lie: if it's right, it should feel easy. In this episode, I reveal why alignment doesn't mean comfortable, how to distingu...

Send us Fan Mail When was the last time you asked for help, and actually let someone give it to you? Not the "can you give my kid a ride" kind. The real kind, where you had to admit you couldn't do something alone. If you're a woman entrepreneur who's built something meaningful but finds yourself drowning in tasks that don't need you, this episode is going to feel lik...

Send us Fan Mail Feeling stuck in the “What should I do?” loop is exhausting—and it quietly drains momentum from your day. We kick off the year with a clear decision-making filter built around five practical questions that cut through noise, reduce overthinking, and get you moving with intention. Instead of chasing perfect answers, we reframe choices around context, impact, and alignment so your a...

Send us Fan Mail Ready for a candid debrief from the trenches? Jenn opens up about five mistakes that cost time, money, and peace of mind - and the practical tools she’s now using to steer with more clarity and less chaos. If you’ve ever said yes to shiny opportunities, hopped from strategy to strategy after a few weeks, waited too long to hire, tried to outwork burnout, or moved the goalpost so f...

Send us Fan Mail Remember that 90-day plan from October? The one where you picked your one professional goal and one personal goal. Where you committed to blocking your calendar, building systems, protecting your energy, and showing up strategically for the final quarter of the year. How's that going? If you crushed it—amazing. If you started strong and then life happened—you're not alon...

Send us Fan Mail You set the goal. You make the plan. You feel motivated. And then... you don't follow through. Sound familiar? Most people think they have a discipline problem or a motivation problem. But what if the real issue is that you've stopped trusting yourself? In this episode, we explore why every decision you make - even the small ones - is actually a vote for the person you&a...

Send us Fan Mail The holidays can feel like a tug-of-war between magic and meltdown. We get honest about why so many of us abandon self-care this time of year, how that choice ripples through our homes and teams, and what it looks like to lead with a regulated nervous system instead of white-knuckling for perfect moments. You’ll hear a candid story of snapping, apologizing, and noticing how deplet...

Send us Fan Mail You have seventeen brilliant business ideas in your notes app right now. Every single one of them is good. Legitimately good. But your business isn't growing the way you want it to. The problem isn't that you need better ideas—it's that you have too many good ones. In this episode, I'm breaking down the entrepreneur's curse: being brilliant enough to see o...

Send us Fan Mail Ever feel the high-performance version of you walk through the front door and start running the house like a meeting? We unpack how a powerful CEO identity can drift into every corner of life and unintentionally crowd out warmth, play, and ease. Rather than flipping a mythical “work off” switch, we walk through a practical approach to integration—bringing all of who we are while c...

Send us Fan Mail You're really good at solving problems. And that's exactly why your business is still chaos. Every time you swoop in and fix something, every time you're the hero who saves the day, you're building a dependency instead of a business. In this episode, I'm breaking down why your problem-solving superpower is secretly your kryptonite—and what to do about it....

Send us Fan Mail Your revenue isn’t just a sales problem; it’s a nervous system problem. When every ping jolts you into fight or flight, strategic thinking goes dark and your business runs on emergency mode. We trace how emotional reactivity shows up in everyday decisions—saying yes to the wrong clients, chasing quick fixes, freezing on follow-through—and how those micro-moments add up to missed p...

Send us Fan Mail The first week of a 90‑day sprint feels electric—until reality shows up with sick kids, client fires, and that familiar wall where enthusiasm dies. We dig into a simple truth that changes everything: success favors systems over motivation. Instead of trying to “be stronger,” we design commitment architecture—environment, schedule, and accountability—that makes the right choice eas...

Send us Fan Mail Feeling behind as the year winds down? Let’s turn the final 90 days into your most focused stretch of 2025. We get honest about what’s really blocking progress—vague goals, busywork disguised as momentum, and avoidable fires—and replace them with a clear, simple plan you can implement today. I walk you through a revenue reality check to quantify the gap to December 31, translate i...