Unshakeable Talks

The Unshakeable Talks with Katy Schweiger lifts the lid on what entrepreneurs are really going through - the mistakes, the pressure, the myths we’ve been sold, and the messy reality of balancing business and life. This isn’t another podcast teaching strategy or pretending success is seamless. It’s about raw, honest conversations with female entrepreneurs who are doing it all - the wins, the wobble moments, and the truths most people never say out loud. Because running a business as a woman isn’t harder, but it is different - and it’s time we talked about it.

Unshakeable Talks is a business podcast hosted by Katy Schweiger, with 48 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.

Katy Schweiger hosts Unshakeable Talks, a business show with 48 episodes published.

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  Episode #47

  The Real Reason You're Always Tired: Fatigue, Burnout & Women's Health with Vanessa Obagi

  Aug 5, 202645 minS1

  In this episode of the Unshakeable Talks, Katy sits down with Vanessa Obagi, a nutritional therapist and fatigue specialist, for a conversation about fatigue, burnout, women’s health and the symptoms so many women are told to dismiss. Together, they talk about why ‘normal’ blood tests do not always mean everything is fine, why so many women are running on empty without real answers, and how looking at the body more deeply can completely change the way we understand energy, resilience and long-term health. Key Takeaways: ‘Normal’ does not always mean optimal. A standard test result can miss the deeper patterns behind exhaustion, brain fog, poor resilience and feeling unlike yourself. Fatigue is not something to brush off. If you are waking up tired, crashing in the afternoon and dragging yourself through the day, your body may be asking for support, not more willpower. More supplements is not always better. Taking what everyone else is taking can be expensive and ineffective if it is not actually matched to what your body needs. Foundations matter more than trends. Energy, mood and resilience are built through understanding the body properly, not just jumping on the latest wellness product or quick fix. Specificity changes everything. Whether it is your health or your business, getting clear on the real issue helps you stop guessing and start making decisions that actually move the needle. If you enjoyed this episode, you can connect with Vanessa on Instagram @vanessaobagi . If today's conversation has you wondering about your own mineral picture, take Vanessa's free 5 minute Mineral Assessment here , or download her free guide, The Unexplained Fatigue Guide, here . Thank you so much for listening to this episode of Unshakeable Talks! If this episode helped you, make sure you hit subscribe so you never miss an episode, and leave a review to share your thoughts - I love hearing from you. Follow me on Instagram @i.am.katy.schweiger and @unshakeabletalks for updates, behind-the-scenes moments, and to connect with our unshakeable community. Join my inner circle weekly newsletter here to get actionable takeaways, key lessons from each episode, and exclusive additional resources.

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  Episode #46

  People Pleasing Is Manipulation: Shadow Work, Boundaries and Building an Unshakeable Business with Shadow Coach Leyanne Hodgson

  Jul 29, 202645 minS1

  In this episode of The Unshakeable Talks, Katy sits down with Leyanne, shadow coach and founder of Shadow to Sovereign, to talk about why people-pleasing is really a form of manipulation, and how shadow work turned her from someone who kept attracting narcissists into someone who now calls her clients out on their own bullsh*t daily. They get into boundaries in the early days of business, nervous system regulation, and why grounding yourself, even if that just means standing barefoot on your own doorstep, matters more than people think. Key Takeaways: People-pleasing is a form of manipulation. Leyanne says she used to figure out what someone liked and ‘put that mask on,’ buying people gifts and doing things for them, not from generosity but so they'd never reject her. She's blunt about it: "that's a form of manipulation." Only you can reject yourself. Once Leyanne stopped fearing rejection and started finding love from within, she stopped needing everyone to like her. Her line for it: "it's okay, you don't like everybody, so don't expect everybody to like you." There's a "good" version of manipulation too. Leyanne distinguishes between manipulating people out of fear, and what she calls ethical manipulation: genuinely wanting good things for someone, like messaging Katy about the podcast because she wanted the exposure to work both ways, not just for herself. In the early days, your boundaries are your moneymakers. Leyanne describes opening her massage room at 8pm for a last-minute client message, saying "if you wouldn't have opened at 8pm the door, that client would have slipped out and never come back." Firm boundaries come later, once the business can afford them. Grounding doesn't require hugging a tree, unless you want to. Leyanne's Shadow to Sovereign membership runs on daily shadow work prompts, sound baths, tapping and human design, because she believes the deeper work only lands once you can ground yourself every day, even if that's just bare feet on your own paving slabs. If you enjoyed this episode, you can connect with Leyanne on Instagram @iamthewellbeingwitch and also access her Shadow to Sovereign membership for free here . Thank you so much for listening to this episode of Unshakeable Talks! If this episode helped you, make sure you hit subscribe so you never miss an episode, and leave a review to share your thoughts - I love hearing from you. Follow me on Instagram @i.am.katy.schweiger and @unshakeabletalks for updates, behind-the-scenes moments, and to connect with our unshakeable community. Join my inner circle weekly newsletter here to get actionable takeaways, key lessons from each episode, and exclusive additional resources.

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  Episode #45

  Working Mum Guilt: Building a Business and Loving Your Work Without Apology with Marketing Strategist Kyllie Knight

  Jul 22, 202646 minS1

  In this episode of Unshakeable Talks, Katy sits down with Kyllie, a marketing strategist who built a six-figure marketing agency before she became a mum and kept it running through her son's open-heart surgery and a move from South Africa to the UK. Together they talk about working motherhood, guilt, ambition, and why so many women feel they have to pretend they don't love their careers. Kyllie also shares why she's built a new consultancy for product-based founders alongside her agency, and why understanding your own marketing matters more than ever in the age of AI. Key Takeaways: You don't need to learn marketing, but you do need to understand it. Kyllie isn't there to turn founders into marketers. She wants them to understand enough that when someone emails promising 20 leads for nothing, they know whether it actually fits, or whether that budget is better spent on ads or a proper shoot. AI can write you a marketing strategy in five minutes, but it can't tell you when it's wrong. Kyllie will take an AI-built strategy to version 15 before she ever shows it to a client, because she can read it, challenge it, and catch what a beginner would just accept. Being both a present mum and an ambitious woman is a choice, not a contradiction. Kyllie refuses to pretend she doesn't love working. She likes the version of herself chatting to the mums at the school gates in her gym kit, and the version at her desk straight after, and she doesn't perform either one. Most founders aren't missing tactics, they're missing someone tying it all together. Kyllie's example is the candle business that gets a website from John down the road, then hires the cheapest social media person, then an ads person, and none of them are talking to each other. The founder assumes it's everyone else's job, but they're still the marketing manager, and without one plan connecting it all, they lose sales without ever knowing why. The most acceptable time to quit is often the most important time to keep going. When Kyllie's son had open-heart surgery at two weeks old, everyone in her corner would have understood if she'd closed her business. She kept it running anyway, answering emails outside the operating theatre, because she thinks forward and was protecting future her and her family, not just surviving the day. If you enjoyed this episode, you can connect with Kyllie on Instagram @kyllie_knightconsulting and find out more about Kyllie's work on her website - kyllieknightconsulting.com . You can also grab Kyllie's free download, The Launch Edit, here , and as a listener you can get 15% off any of her programmes by quoting 'unshakeable'. Thank you so much for listening to this episode of Unshakeable Talks! If this episode helped you, make sure you hit subscribe so you never miss an episode, and leave a review to share your thoughts - I love hearing from you. Follow me on Instagram @i.am.katy.schweiger and @unshakeabletalks for updates, behind-the-scenes moments, and to connect with our unshakeable community. Join my inner circle weekly newsletter here to get actionable takeaways, key lessons from each episode, and exclusive additional resources.

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  Episode #44

  Good Girl Conditioning: Unlearning the Stories That Are Running Your Business, with Former Teacher and Impact Coach Rebecca Cracknell

  Jul 15, 202648 minS1

  In this episode of The Unshakeable Talks, Katy sits down with Rebecca Cracknell, impact and identity coach for ambitious women , to explore how the stories we were handed in childhood, in the classroom, and in traditional life structures quietly shape every decision we make in business. They get into the ‘good girl’ conditioning that keeps women ticking boxes rather than choosing, why so many women are completely disconnected from desire, and what it actually looks like to unlearn the patterns that feel fixed but aren't. Key Takeaways: The good girl in you is ticking boxes she never actually chose. Rebecca grew up in a family of teachers, walked out of university and straight into a classroom, and didn't question it. It wasn't that she didn't want those things (the career, the family, the mortgage) , it's that she'd never actively chosen them. That difference between having something and choosing it is where the unlearning starts. Women are taught it's shameful to want things, and that disconnection from desire is where you get stuck. Before you can change anything, you have to know what you actually want. Rebecca describes so many women as completely disconnected from desire, because they've been told wanting things is shallow, superficial, or too much. The first step to unlearning is asking ‘what do I actually want it to look like?’. The story keeping you stuck is giving you something. Figure out what. Rebecca asks a question most people skip when they're trying to unlearn old patterns: what does this story actually give me? More often than not, the answer is comfort and certainty - even the certainty of being someone who ‘can't speak in front of crowds’ is preferable to the discomfort of not knowing who you are without that story. Burning it all down is the easy option. The harder work is the smaller inner shifts. Rebecca caught herself fantasising about leaving her husband, abandoning her kids, moving to Barcelona - anything to make the business easier. She realised that impulse was the same one that had her deleting entire offers instead of tightening the boundaries around them. Your growth is a spiral, not a circle, and the wobble never goes away, it just shrinks. Rebecca describes personal development as a spiral: you come back to the same stories and the same challenges at different levels. The biggest thing her business has given her isn't immunity to the wobble, it's shortening the gap between the wobble and the recovery. If you enjoyed this episode, you can connect with Rebecca on Instagram @rebeccalcracknell and grab her Expansion Roadmap, Activation Audio and 30 Day Accelerator here . Thank you so much for listening to this episode of Unshakeable Talks! If this episode helped you, make sure you hit subscribe so you never miss an episode, and leave a review to share your thoughts - I love hearing from you. Follow me on Instagram @i.am.katy.schweiger and @unshakeabletalks for updates, behind-the-scenes moments, and to connect with our unshakeable community. Join my inner circle weekly newsletter here to get actionable takeaways, key lessons from each episode, and exclusive additional resources.

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  Episode #43

  Disordered Eating, Perfectionism and Women in Business, with Dr Rachel Evans

  Jul 8, 202649 minS1

  In this episode, Katy sits down with Dr Rachel Evans, PhD psychologist and founder of Nourish, a private eating disorder practice. Rachel shares her own experience of developing an eating disorder during her studies, why she walked away from the NHS model entirely, and how she built a practice that actually fits the people she works with. They get into the link between perfectionism and disordered eating, the patterns she sees in ambitious women, and why knowing all the tools doesn't mean you always want to use them. Key Takeaways: Perfectionism and fear of failure often run on the same fuel. Rachel's eating disorder and perfectionism fed each other throughout her studies - the fear of criticism, the need for good grades, the sense that achievement was the only thing she was good at. There's a difference between adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism. Adaptive perfectionists have high standards and the self-compassion to handle it when they fall short. Maladaptive perfectionists beat themselves up, or avoid doing the work entirely because it might not be perfect. The NHS model isn't built for everyone, and Rachel built her practice around that. Three-hour intakes, support between sessions, no mandatory weigh-ins. She knew from her own experience as a client that one size doesn't fit all, so she built something that doesn't pretend otherwise. High-achieving women often use food control as the only place the mask comes off. When you put everything into presenting an in-control business persona, something has to give somewhere. Rachel describes how that release can show up as binging or restricting in private, in a way that doesn't show on the outside. Having the tools doesn't mean you always want to use them. Rachel is a psychologist who admits she doesn't always use her own tools. Sometimes something is just rubbish and you need to sit in it for an hour first. That honesty is the point. Connect with Rachel on Instagram @Rachel.evans.phd and download her free ebook to start understanding your relationship with food here . Thank you so much for listening to this episode of Unshakeable Talks! If this episode helped you, make sure you hit subscribe so you never miss an episode, and leave a review to share your thoughts - I love hearing from you. Follow me on Instagram @i.am.katy.schweiger and @unshakeabletalks for updates, behind-the-scenes moments, and to connect with our unshakeable community. Join my inner circle weekly newsletter here to get actionable takeaways, key lessons from each episode, and exclusive additional resources.

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