Why does it feel like everyone else is getting promoted, getting married, buying houses, launching businesses — while you’re stuck in the middle?

In this episode, we unpack comparison culture, career identity, job search burnout, and the pressure to perform success online. Kelly shares what it was like to navigate a long professional rebuilding season and why stepping back from visibility wasn’t failure — it was healing. Jenna dives into ambition, identity, and the uncomfortable “in-between” where you’re growing, but there’s nothing shiny to show for it yet.

We talk about: • Feeling behind in your career or life • Social media highlight reels vs. reality • Job search fatigue and confidence loss • Protecting your peace during a rebuilding season • Why success isn’t linear (even when it looks like it is) • The invisible work happening before the breakthrough

If you’ve ever thought, What is wrong with me? Why is everyone else ahead? — this conversation is your reminder that growth doesn’t always look glamorous, and quiet seasons are often the foundation for your next level.

You’re not behind. You’re becoming.

WELCOME TO THE AUDACITY EFFECT

Welcome to The Audacity Effect — the unapologetic podcast for women & people who are done waiting for permission and ready to build audacious careers, businesses, and lives.

We talk female ambition, confidence, reinvention, modern womanhood, leadership, and building something bigger — even if you’re still in your 9-5, still figuring it out, or still convincing your inner critic to calm down. We’re Jenna & Kelly — corporate escape artists in progress, accidentally-serious life strategists, and founders rewriting the rules one bold decision at a time.

Think: Self-development minus the cringe. Ambition without apology. Humor + healing + high standards.

Here’s what you’ll hear:

• How to stop shrinking and start showing up
• Confidence, comparison, jealousy & the real dynamics of female friendship
• Surviving corporate culture without letting it suck out your soul
• Second-act careers & identity pivots
• Overcoming imposter syndrome
• Entrepreneurship while working a full-time job
• Building confidence, resilience & brand direction
• Saying yes before you're "ready"
• Real conversations about ambition, burnout, and balancing it all

There will be real tools. Real pep talks. Real chaos. And zero performative perfection. A space for high-achieving women & others to come and stop playing it small.

You don’t need more qualifications — you need more audacity.

New episodes weekly. Welcome to your bolder era.

Want more?

Let’s chat: info@theaudacityeffect.com

Visit our website www.theaudacityeffect.com

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/theaudacityeffect/

Want to advertise on our podcast? Email us at info@theaudacityeffect.com

Chloe Youtsey: Find the creator & genius behind our pod music on socials or at www.chloeyoutsey.com

Show socials: @the_audacity_effect @bodybyprosecco @jenna_kaitbenski @chloeyoutsey @little_monster_book

We’re taking our own advice this week.

Instead of pushing through, forcing content, or pretending we don’t need a breather, we’re choosing rest. And what better time to revisit one of our favorite conversations?

Join us, Kelly & Jenna as we rewind to our very first guest, Dr. Cortha Pringle, for an inspiring and honest conversation about bold career pivots, redefining success, and learning to see failure as growth.

Dr. Cortha Pringle, owner and center director of the Kumon Math and Reading Center of Virginia Beach Red Mill, shares her journey from government contracting to educational leadership, earning a doctorate in strategic leadership from Regent University, and building a mission-driven business aligned with her purpose.

In this episode, we talk about: • Making courageous career pivots • Reframing failure as feedback • Eldest-daughter pressure and people-pleasing • Saying no without guilt • Building community support • Navigating identity shifts as your children become adults • And giving yourself permission to prioritize joy and rest

If you’ve been feeling the pressure to constantly produce, constantly achieve, constantly prove, this episode is your reminder that pivots are powerful… and rest is part of the process.

You don’t have to burn out to be brave.

WELCOME TO THE AUDACITY EFFECT

Welcome to The Audacity Effect — the unapologetic podcast for women & people who are done waiting for permission and ready to build audacious careers, businesses, and lives.

We talk female ambition, confidence, reinvention, modern womanhood, leadership, and building something bigger — even if you’re still in your 9-5, still figuring it out, or still convincing your inner critic to calm down. We’re Jenna & Kelly — corporate escape artists in progress, accidentally-serious life strategists, and founders rewriting the rules one bold decision at a time.

Think: Self-development minus the cringe. Ambition without apology. Humor + healing + high standards.

Here’s what you’ll hear:

• How to stop shrinking and start showing up
• Confidence, comparison, jealousy & the real dynamics of female friendship
• Surviving corporate culture without letting it suck out your soul
• Second-act careers & identity pivots
• Overcoming imposter syndrome
• Entrepreneurship while working a full-time job
• Building confidence, resilience & brand direction
• Saying yes before you're "ready"
• Real conversations about ambition, burnout, and balancing it all

There will be real tools. Real pep talks. Real chaos. And zero performative perfection. A space for high-achieving women & others to come and stop playing it small.

You don’t need more qualifications — you need more audacity.

New episodes weekly. Welcome to your bolder era.

Want more?

Let’s chat: info@theaudacityeffect.com

Visit our website www.theaudacityeffect.com

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/theaudacityeffect/

Want to advertise on our podcast? Email us at info@theaudacityeffect.com

Chloe Youtsey: Find the creator & genius behind our pod music on socials or at www.chloeyoutsey.com

Show socials: @the_audacity_effect @bodybyprosecco @jenna_kaitbenski @chloeyoutsey @little_monster_book

Last week’s conversation clearly wasn’t enough.

We had way too much to talk about to fit into one episode — so we’re back with Lindsey of Her Best Self Co, eating disorder recovery coach, to go deeper into the side of disordered eating that affects the people around it.

Because eating disorders don’t just impact the person struggling — they impact partners, parents, friends, and families trying to help without making things worse.

In this follow-up episode we unpack:

• Why eating disorders are underdiagnosed in men (muscle dysmorphia & “bigorexia”)

• How perfectionism and high-achiever culture fuel disordered behaviors

• What NOT to say to someone struggling (even with good intentions)

• Why trying to “fix” someone can push them deeper into the disorder

• How to support a loved one without policing food

• The role of generational diet culture and parental guilt

• Why recovery doesn’t mean losing your edge — it redirects it

• Practical first steps if you recognize these patterns in yourself

If last week helped you understand disordered eating… this week helps you understand what to do about it.

This episode is for anyone who has ever: • loved someone struggling and felt helpless • worried recovery would change who they are • confused discipline with control • lived inside high-performance expectations

Recovery isn’t giving up control. It’s getting your life back.

🎧 Listen to Part 1 first if you haven’t — then come back here.

🔗 Listen to Lindsey’s podcast “Her Best Self” anywhere you get your podcasts!

• Email: info@lindseynichol.com
• Instagram: @thelindseynichol
• Website: https://herbestself.co

📌 If this episode resonates, like, subscribe, and share it with someone who might need to hear this

🎧 New here? The Audacity Effect is bold moves, real talk, and zero permission slips—helping you build a bigger life on your terms.

WELCOME TO THE AUDACITY EFFECT

Welcome to The Audacity Effect — the unapologetic podcast for women & people who are done waiting for permission and ready to build audacious careers, businesses, and lives.

We talk female ambition, confidence, reinvention, modern womanhood, leadership, and building something bigger — even if you’re still in your 9-5, still figuring it out, or still convincing your inner critic to calm down. We’re Jenna & Kelly — corporate escape artists in progress, accidentally-serious life strategists, and founders rewriting the rules one bold decision at a time.

Think: Self-development minus the cringe. Ambition without apology. Humor + healing + high standards.

Here’s what you’ll hear:

• How to stop shrinking and start showing up
• Confidence, comparison, jealousy & the real dynamics of female friendship
• Surviving corporate culture without letting it suck out your soul
• Second-act careers & identity pivots
• Overcoming imposter syndrome
• Entrepreneurship while working a full-time job
• Building confidence, resilience & brand direction
• Saying yes before you're "ready"
• Real conversations about ambition, burnout, and balancing it all

There will be real tools. Real pep talks. Real chaos. And zero performative perfection. A space for high-achieving women & others to come and stop playing it small.

You don’t need more qualifications — you need more audacity.

New episodes weekly. Welcome to your bolder era.

Want more?

Let’s chat: info@theaudacityeffect.com

Visit our website www.theaudacityeffect.com

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/theaudacityeffect/

Want to advertise on our podcast? Email us at info@theaudacityeffect.com

Chloe Youtsey: Find the creator & genius behind our pod music on socials or at www.chloeyoutsey.com

Show socials: @the_audacity_effect @bodybyprosecco @jenna_kaitbenski @chloeyoutsey @little_monster_book