37: Why You're Exhausted Before The Day Even Starts

39: Why High-Achieving Women Walk Away (When Everything Looks Fine)

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2524252/fan_mail/new] → You’ve optimized your business. Now it’s time to optimize your body. Take the Free 2-Minute Quiz [https://bit.ly/4urhdVg] to discover what’s keeping you from performing at your highest level. What happens when you're successful and leading at the highest level but it's not your dream? Daffney talks with Sarah Elder, a former CEO who spent 17 years building a thriving art consulting company before making the bold decision to walk away and build a life on her own terms. Sarah gets honest about the years of upheaval, personal and professional, that finally pushed her to ask what she truly wanted outside of her title and her results. Together, her and Daffney dig into the trap high-performers fall into when their identity gets swallowed by their career, why endlessly optimizing yourself like a product is costing you more than it's giving you, and why real joy doesn't just happen. It requires intention, action, and the willingness to hand off what belongs on someone else's plate so you can finally lead the life you've earned. Connect with Sarah Elder: sarahelder.com [https://www.sarahelder.com/about] Substack: I Make The Rules [https://imaketherules.substack.com/] In This Episode: * (01:55) Sarah’s corporate journey; building someone else’s dream * (06:50) When career identity becomes your entire identity * (16:15) The pressure high-achieving women feel to constantly optimize themselves * (20:50) Reclaiming joy, freedom, and intentional living after burnout * (24:20) How creating space leads to more creativity and clarity Connect with Daffney: The Game-Changer Consult [https://calendly.com/liftprowellness-info/the-game-changer-consult?utm_campaign=button_list_RequestAConsultation&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=later-linkinbio&month=2025-11] → This 60 min deep dive offers you clarity and insight into what’s possible for your next 60 days. Leave this consult feeling full of possibility and with the energy of purpose! liftprowellness.com [https://liftprowellness.com/] Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/dontfknshrinkpodcast?igsh=eHdiYWh4N3pjaW80] | YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9l5-Vd_DXrRhi_bGrFIr1A] | Merch [https://dfs-podcast-store.printify.me/]

38: High Functioning Does Not Mean Healthy

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2524252/fan_mail/new] What happens when the vacation you desperately needed becomes the moment your body finally breaks down? Daffney shares the moment a panic attack forced her to confront a hard truth: high functioning does not mean healthy. Beneath the constant productivity, people-pleasing, and pressure of “holding it all together” was a nervous system running on fumes. In this episode, Daffney identifies the three daily “energy sucks” silently draining driven professionals and eventually showing up as anxiety, brain fog, burnout, and emotional shutdown. Through practical tools and powerful mindset shifts, she shares simple ways to reconnect with yourself, regulate your nervous system, and stop living life in survival mode before your body forces you to slow down. → Feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, or like your body is waving a red flag? Take the Free 2-Minute Quiz [https://bit.ly/4urhdVg] to uncover what may be holding back your health, energy, and performance. In This Episode: * (01:00) Panic attacks and the breaking point behind “doing it all” * (03:00) The hidden “energy sucks” draining you daily * (07:40) Reclaiming your 30% * (14:10) Endurance over sprinting: a new definition of success Connect with Daffney: The Game-Changer Consult [https://calendly.com/liftprowellness-info/the-game-changer-consult?utm_campaign=button_list_RequestAConsultation&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=later-linkinbio&month=2025-11] → This 60 min deep dive offers you clarity and insight into what’s possible for your next 60 days. Leave this consult feeling full of possibility and with the energy of purpose! liftprowellness.com [https://liftprowellness.com/] Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/dontfknshrinkpodcast?igsh=eHdiYWh4N3pjaW80] | YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9l5-Vd_DXrRhi_bGrFIr1A] | Merch [https://dfs-podcast-store.printify.me/]

37: Why You're Exhausted Before The Day Even Starts

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2524252/fan_mail/new] You wake up exhausted before your feet even hit the floor. The coffee isn’t working anymore. The pressure never shuts off. And somewhere along the way, being “high-achieving” started feeling more like survival than success. In this episode, Daffney exposes the invisible weight so many women are carrying, and explains why reclaiming even the first hour of your day can completely shift your energy, health, and leadership. This is a raw conversation about nervous system overload, the wellness industry’s empty quick fixes, and what happens when you start investing in yourself before everyone else.  → Feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, or like your body is waving a red flag? Take the Free 2-Minute Quiz [https://bit.ly/4urhdVg] to uncover what may be holding back your health, energy, and performance. In This Episode: * (01:10) The hidden cost of constantly “doing it all” * (07:50) The three areas every woman must invest in to avoid breakdown * (13:00) Reclaiming the first hour of the day * (17:45) How changing your habits transforms your leadership Connect with Daffney: The Game-Changer Consult [https://calendly.com/liftprowellness-info/the-game-changer-consult?utm_campaign=button_list_RequestAConsultation&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=later-linkinbio&month=2025-11] → This 60 min deep dive offers you clarity and insight into what’s possible for your next 60 days. Leave this consult feeling full of possibility and with the energy of purpose! liftprowellness.com [https://liftprowellness.com/] Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/dontfknshrinkpodcast?igsh=eHdiYWh4N3pjaW80] | YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9l5-Vd_DXrRhi_bGrFIr1A] | Merch [https://dfs-podcast-store.printify.me/]

36: How Golf Became Her “Movement Meditation” to Survive Grief

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2524252/fan_mail/new] What do you do when the life you planned completely falls apart? After losing her husband following years of caregiving, Kym Coco rebuilt her life one moment, one golf course, and one intentional choice at a time; trading numbness for presence and fear for forward motion. In this episode, she talks about grief, reinvention, and the surprising way movement can pull you out of survival mode and back into yourself. From van life and “movement meditation” to the mindset shifts that changed everything, this conversation is raw, grounding, and full of the kind of perspective that makes you stop and rethink how you’re living your own life. Connect with Kym Coco: swagtail.com [https://swagtail.com/] instagram.com/swagtailyoga [https://www.instagram.com/swagtailyoga] In This Episode: * (03:15) The motorcycle accident that changed Everything * (08:45) The 3 Cs: cut the crap, connect, create * (13:00) Creating purpose in the middle of caregiving * (17:50) Van life, grief, and traveling to golf courses * (22:55) How to pivot when life doesn’t go as planned Connect with Daffney: The Game-Changer Consult [https://calendly.com/liftprowellness-info/the-game-changer-consult?utm_campaign=button_list_RequestAConsultation&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=later-linkinbio&month=2025-11] → This 60 min deep dive offers you clarity and insight into what’s possible for your next 60 days. Leave this consult feeling full of possibility and with the energy of purpose! liftprowellness.com [https://liftprowellness.com/] Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/dontfknshrinkpodcast?igsh=eHdiYWh4N3pjaW80] | YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9l5-Vd_DXrRhi_bGrFIr1A] | Merch [https://dfs-podcast-store.printify.me/]

35: The One Thing Your Trainer Never Told You About Your Period

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2524252/fan_mail/new] What if the reason you feel exhausted, inconsistent, and like nothing is working isn't a lack of discipline, but that no one ever taught you how your body actually works? Adrienne Irizarry, host of The Reproductive Rebel podcast, joins this episode for a conversation that will fundamentally change the way you think about your body, your training, and your cycle. Whether you're in your prime cycling years or deep in the fog of perimenopause, this episode gives you the tools to stop working against yourself and start working with your biology. Adrienne breaks down the four phases of the menstrual cycle and explains what's happening hormonally, physically, and mentally in each one - and exposes how most women have been operating off a blueprint designed for a male body. You'll learn exactly when to push hard in the gym, when to pull back, and why ignoring those signals may be the only thing standing between you and the results you've been chasing. Connect with Adrienne Irizarry: moonessence.life [https://moonessence.life/] instagram.com/moonessenceme [https://www.instagram.com/moonessenceme/] In This Episode: * (01:20) Meet Adrienne Irizarry * (06:15) The massive gap in reproductive education * (11:00) Breaking down the 4 phases of your menstrual cycle * (19:45) Training your life around your cycle * (23:10) Why injuries happen at certain points in your cycle * (28:20) When to push vs. pull back in your workouts Connect with Daffney: The Game-Changer Consult [https://calendly.com/liftprowellness-info/the-game-changer-consult?utm_campaign=button_list_RequestAConsultation&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=later-linkinbio&month=2025-11] → This 60 min deep dive offers you clarity and insight into what’s possible for your next 60 days. Leave this consult feeling full of possibility and with the energy of purpose! liftprowellness.com [https://liftprowellness.com/] Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/dontfknshrinkpodcast?igsh=eHdiYWh4N3pjaW80] | YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9l5-Vd_DXrRhi_bGrFIr1A] | Merch [https://dfs-podcast-store.printify.me/]