F*CK I'M JUST GETTING STARTED! WITH SHANNAH KENNEDY
Guest: Shannah Kennedy
Season 1, conversation 2 · Published 7 March 2025
Designing your next chapter before it designs you.
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About Shannah Kennedy: High performance life coach, 8x bestselling author.
Life planning: what this conversation covers
- Identity reaches beyond work, and values can act as a compass for everyday choices.
- Getting clear about what matters comes before the plan.
- Make the plan visible, then take one manageable step.
- Planning a season at a time keeps it achievable: one thing to learn, one habit, one joyful experience.
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Conversation guide
Tell me about you. And you can’t start with your job. Shannah and I talk about who we are beyond work and what we actually want from here. I love the idea of looking at the next 12 weeks. Something to learn, a habit to try, an experience to enjoy. What would be on your plan if it was really yours?
- Give life admin its own season.
- Picture everyone’s ages ten years from now.
- Use a favourite picture to explore what you want.
A plan that reflects who you are beyond work.
If I couldn’t start with my job, how would I describe myself?
Try this week: Write a 12-week list with one thing to learn, one habit to try and one experience to enjoy.
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These ideas come from our conversation. The activities are a few suggestions to try, when you’re ready. This is a starting point, not Shannah’s complete coaching programme.
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Shannah Kennedy · 8:31
you can't. So, you know, the first question is, is, who are you without your job? And so that usually stops everybody in their tracks. And it stopped me in my tracks too, because when I got sick with chronic fatigue before 30, I was the high flying sports executive, flying around in helicopters, buying and selling athletes. Now it is the ultimate dream job, and I married the job. I loved the job, seven days a week, and when I got sick, I got myself a coach. So no one had coaches back then except athletes. And I was like, Well, I'm around all of these high performing hymns. I want one too. So I got myself a coach, and that was a life coach, and I'd never heard of them before. And the first question was, Who are you without this job? And I had no idea, and went into a Great Depression. And I was like, but I am this job, you know, this, this company revolves around me and like it doesn't. So, you know, it was a big reality check. And she said to me, we need to build you the person who turns up to work and goes home. But it doesn't matter what ride you get on. You're going to you need to be the solid person first. And I think for women, where wives were mothers, where daughters looking after parents were juggling degrees and work all at the same time. And Bucha, I'm nearly 50, you're in perimenopause. There is so much. Juggling going on that we really do need to reclaim who you are without it all. Yeah, and
Topics: REINVENTION, IDENTITY
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