Think Outside the Lines

The old scripts for how to live, work, and belong are breaking down. Think Outside the Lines is a podcast for anyone ready to stop checking boxes, step off autopilot, and start living with intention. Host Shawn Feeney spent over a decade leading teams at Apple, Microsoft, and high-pressure tech startups before dedicating his work to helping others live more intentionally. The show explores what happens when we choose to build the life we want rather than accepting the one we were handed.

Think Outside the Lines is a education podcast hosted by Shawn Feeney, with 55 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Shawn Feeney hosts Think Outside the Lines, a education show with 55 episodes published.

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  What If Boundaries Aren't Rejection—Just Clarity?

  Aug 14, 20265 min

  Most of us have a complicated relationship with boundaries. We know we need them. We have read the books and heard the podcasts. And then someone asks for something we do not want to do, and we say yes anyway, because in the moment the discomfort of saying no feels worse than the resentment of saying yes. This short solo episode reframes what a boundary actually is. Not rejection, but clarity. When you set one, you are not pushing someone away, you are showing them how to be in your life in a way that works for both of you. Some people walk through that door, some do not, and both are information rather than failure. It also sits with the part nobody talks about, the guilt that shows up right after, and why that guilt is a signal, not a verdict. In this episode, I explore: Why saying yes when you mean no quietly costs you the time, energy, and presence that matter most The cultural lie that boundaries are rejection, and the truth that they are clarity Why the people you respect most tend to be the ones with the clearest limits How to read the guilt that follows a boundary as a sign of something unfamiliar, not something wrong Simple, honest lines that set a boundary without cruelty, because clarity never requires it Resources & Links: Ready to step off autopilot? Visit thinkoutsidethelines.com to access free worksheets designed to help you cut through the noise, ask the right questions, and finally hear yourself clearly Explore 1:1 coaching and other resources at thinkoutsidethelines.com Follow along on all platforms → @thinkoutsidethelines Enjoyed the episode? Please share it with someone who might need to hear it, and subscribe so you don't miss what's coming next.

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  Ginny Priem: What Would You Unsubscribe From?

  Aug 7, 202647 min

  Ginny Priem had the life that looks like success from the outside. A high-performing corporate career leading teams, a beautiful home, a partner...the whole picture. On the inside, she was exhausted, over-functioning, and quietly falling apart. Then it all came undone in a single night. A friend sat her down with a stack of evidence, and Ginny learned that the partner she had built a life with was not who he claimed to be. The life she thought she had was gone. What stays with her most, looking back, is how loudly her body had been trying to warn her. Precancerous lesions. Her hair breaking off. Shingles across her face in her thirties, an attack on her nervous system that could have cost her sight. The signals were there long before her mind was ready to listen. Ginny didn't just leave the relationship. She eventually walked away from the corporate career too, and returned to a version of herself she had been hiding for forty years. Today she is a bestselling author, a keynote speaker, and a coach, and the creator of Unsubscribe, a simple way to let go of the people, roles, and expectations that ask you to override yourself. This is a conversation about the quiet signals we ignore, the cost of over-functioning, what it means to lose yourself and find your way back, and why creating the life you want is less about blowing everything up and more about paying attention to what feels off and having the courage to adjust before you have all the answers. In this episode, we explore: Why change rarely requires blowing up your life, and how small, honest adjustments can add up to a big transformation How a life can look like success from the outside while quietly falling apart on the inside The signals the body sends when the mind isn't ready to listen, and what Ginny's shingles were really telling her Over-functioning, hustle culture, and the myth that working the hardest and longest is what success looks like The night a friend's stack of evidence changed the trajectory of her life Why we sometimes refuse to believe the truth even when it is laid out in front of us How to recognize the people and patterns that ask you to override yourself Unsubscribe, and its four moves: manage, swap, mute, and block Redefining success from money and status to time, freedom, experiences, and impact Why healing is ongoing rather than a finish line, and how old patterns creep back when you stop paying attention What it costs to stay in things that no longer fit, and how to know when you have paid too much Prioritizing yourself without guilt, and why you belong on your own list Resources & Links: Connect with Ginny, and find her books, newsletter, and speaking → linktr.ee/ginnypriem Ready to step off autopilot? Visit thinkoutsidethelines.com to access free worksheets designed to help you cut through the noise, ask the right questions, and finally hear yourself clearly Explore 1:1 coaching and other resources at thinkoutsidethelines.com Follow along on all platforms → @thinkoutsidethelines

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  What Would It Take to Trust Yourself Again?

  Jul 31, 20266 min

  When was the last time you made a real decision, a life decision, without running it past someone first? If you are like most people, you cannot quite remember. Somewhere along the way, checking with everyone else became second nature, and trusting yourself quietly slipped away. This short solo episode is about how self-trust erodes. Not through one dramatic failure, but slowly, decision by decision, every time you ask someone else before you ask yourself. Their advice was probably good. That was never the problem. The problem is that their clarity is not your clarity, and the more you borrow someone else's compass, the harder it gets to hear your own. The good news: self-trust can be rebuilt the same way it is rebuilt with anyone, through small kept promises. In this episode, I explore: How self-trust erodes quietly, one outsourced decision at a time, until your life runs mostly on other people's input The hidden message you send yourself every time you check with everyone else before checking with you Where the habit comes from: early conditioning and years inside systems that trained you to seek approval before acting The shift from managing yourself, second-guessing every instinct, to leading yourself with curiosity and trust How to rebuild through small kept promises, and why the clarity you have been searching for was never out there to begin with Resources & Links: Ready to step off autopilot? Visit thinkoutsidethelines.com to access free worksheets designed to help you cut through the noise, ask the right questions, and finally hear yourself clearly Explore 1:1 coaching and other resources at thinkoutsidethelines.com Follow along on all platforms → @thinkoutsidethelines Enjoyed the episode? Please share it with someone who might need to hear it, and subscribe so you don't miss what's coming next.

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  Angela Harvey: What Happens When the Helper Is Dying Inside?

  Jul 24, 202656 min

  Angela Harvey spent more than twenty years as a social worker, a therapist, and a counselor. She resuscitated spirits, revived friendships, and showed up for thousands of people who told her she saved their lives. What almost no one could see was that, the whole time, she was dying inside. She was dispensing medicine from her mouth that she never once inhaled herself. Then everything came apart at once. A relationship ended and left her single for the first time in her adult life. She lost her sister. She stepped away from her family and her closest friends after she reached out for help and no one reached back. She moved to Texas, the pandemic arrived, and she found herself sheltering alone, forty-five pounds lighter, holding a phone with no one on the other end. That is where Angela finally met the things she had spent a career helping other people face. Codependency she describes as an addiction. People-pleasing so complete that loving others had become the only way she knew how to feel loved. And a hard, freeing truth: no one was coming to save her, and the healing would have to begin with taking responsibility for herself. Today Angela is a writer, a speaker, and the voice behind Angie Harvey Speaks. She talks about learning to say no at fifty-nine, celebrating herself with zero expectations, and a line that could be its own mission: shared stories save souls. This is a conversation about people-pleasing and codependency, loneliness inside a crowded life, the valley and the lessons hidden in it, and what it actually takes to heal in public and on purpose. In this episode, we explore: What it costs to be the strong one everyone leans on, while quietly falling apart where no one can see Why inside injuries go unnoticed in a way a broken arm never would Codependency described as an addiction, and how extreme people-pleasing becomes the only way some of us know how to feel loved The idea that only a strong friend can truly hold a strong friend who is struggling The season that broke everything open: a breakup, a loss, an estrangement, a move, and a pandemic all at once Why Angela walks toward the valley instead of away from it, asking "what do you feel and what do you fear" to find the lesson Reframing the quiet knowing as a pause, the signal that something needs to change Why transformation does not begin until you take responsibility for your own healing Healthy expectations, and why the ones we never say out loud are the ones that hurt us Loneliness as disconnection rather than simply being alone Redefining love, why "selfless" may not be the compliment we think it is, and saving unconditional love for yourself Shared stories save souls: healing in public and on purpose, and passing what you learn to the next person Resources & Links: Connect with Angela and learn more about her work as Angie Harvey Speaks → http://angieharveyspeaks.com Ready to step off autopilot? Visit thinkoutsidethelines.com to access free worksheets designed to help you cut through the noise, ask the right questions, and finally hear yourself clearly Explore 1:1 coaching and other resources at thinkoutsidethelines.com Follow along on all platforms → @thinkoutsidethelines Enjoyed the episode? Please share it with someone who might need to hear it, and subscribe so you don't miss what's coming next.

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  What If It All Works Out?

  Jul 17, 20265 min

  Think about the last time you stood on the edge of something new. A decision you were weighing. A leap you were considering. A conversation you kept rehearsing. Notice what your mind was doing in that moment. Odds are it was running worst-case scenarios in exquisite detail, and calling that being realistic. This short solo episode sits with a quiet flip. We rehearse failure constantly and hand fear the microphone, while possibility stays on mute. What would change if, just once, you gave the best-case scenario the same airtime as the worst? Not as toxic positivity, but as simple fairness. Fear asks what if you fail. Possibility asks what if you fly. They are both just questions, and most of us have been answering the wrong one. In this episode, I explore: Why rehearsing the worst case feels responsible, when it is often just fear dressed up as logic The uncomfortable reason we avoid imagining things working out, that it puts the choice back on us How the worst-case scenario quietly becomes permission to stay exactly where you are What shifted for me when I finally gave "what if it works" the same weight as the fear of leaving corporate A simple practice for the next time you are on the edge of something: pause and ask what if it all works out Resources & Links: Ready to step off autopilot? Visit thinkoutsidethelines.com to access free worksheets designed to help you cut through the noise, ask the right questions, and finally hear yourself clearly Explore 1:1 coaching and other resources at thinkoutsidethelines.com Follow along on all platforms → @thinkoutsidethelines Enjoyed the episode? Please share it with someone who might need to hear it, and subscribe so you don't miss what's coming next.

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