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In this lighter “grab bag” episode of The Audacity Effect, Jenna and Kelly take a break from the heavy topics and dive into the kind of conversation that usually happens when the microphones aren’t on.

From dissecting the latest season of Love Is Blind to debating life’s most important questions, like which hand people use to wipe (yes, really), nothing is off limits.

They also swap stories about the best advice they’ve ever receiv...

Why are so many women still accepting the first offer, downplaying their value, and being told to “be grateful for the opportunity” instead of asking for more?

In this episode, Jenna and Kelly get into the messy reality of salary negotiation, pay transparency, workplace conditioning, and the very real social backlash women can face when they advocate for themselves. From the gender gap in asking for raises to the pressure to be lik...

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 dive...

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 P...

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.

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In this episode of The Audacity Effect, we’re joined by our favorite badass friend, Lindsey Nichol, founder of Her Best Self Co. and host of the Her Best Self podcast, for an honest, unfiltered conversation about the overlap between eating disorder culture and high-performance corporate culture.

We unpack how traits often rewarded in professional environments — perfectionism, discipline, control, productivity, and “pushing through”...

In this episode of The Audacity Effect, Kelly and Jenna unpack a question that has quietly taken over group chats, nightstands, and BookTok feeds everywhere: Why are so many people obsessed with romantasy right now?

From dragons and magical bonding to morally gray love interests and suspiciously attractive immortal beings (yes, some of them are a little animal-adjacent), fantasy romance has become a go-to escape for people across t...

In this episode of The Audacity Effect, Jenna and Kelly are doing what they do best: talking books, spiraling a little, and accidentally unpacking life.

We share books that genuinely changed the way we think, including Loving Frank (and the real-life double standards that come with women choosing themselves), The Shack (faith, grief, and rethinking what you were taught), and Untamed(the permission slip to stop performing and start ...

You’re capable. Dependable. Successful on paper. So why do you feel stuck?

In this episode of The Audacity Effect, Jenna and Kelly talk about a rarely discussed experience among high performers: being good at a lot of things but fulfilled by none of them.

This isn’t burnout. It’s not failure. It’s the competence trap—when reliability turns into obligation, and success becomes a cage.

We unpack:

• Why high achievers struggle mos...

Perimenopause isn’t a personality change, a discipline problem, or “just stress.” It’s a biological transition—and most women are wildly underprepared for what it actually does to their bodies.

In this episode of the pod, we’re breaking down the perimenopause effect: the hormonal shifts no one talks about, why symptoms like anxiety, poor sleep, weight changes, low libido, brain fog, and mood swings happen, and how often women are d...

If you feel like you’re always behind—even when nothing is actually on fire—this episode is for you.

In this conversation, Jenna and Kelly unpack the difference between ambition and urgency, and why so many high-functioning, capable people live in a constant state of “go.” Spoiler: urgency isn’t a personality trait—it’s a nervous system pattern.

We talk about how chronic urgency develops, how it disguises itself as productivity, an...

It’s the weird “what day is it?” week between Christmas and New Year’s—and we’re using it exactly how it should be used: to reflect.

In this end-of-year wrap episode, Jenna and Kelly talk through what 2025 actually felt like (spoiler: a lot of rest, nervous system regulation, and learning to trust ourselves). We share what we’re leaving behind, what we’re proud of, what we’re carrying into 2026, and the words/themes guiding the nex...

In this episode of The Audacity Effect, Kelly and Jenna dig into what it really takes to reinvent yourself—at work and at home—when people have you boxed into a role that no longer fits.

If you’ve been labeled “the quiet one,” “the helper,” “the note-taker,” “the reliable support,” or the family member who always falls back into the same old dynamics… this one’s for you. They talk about how you get pigeonholed, why it happens, and ...

Ya'll. We're keeping it real like always and admitting that the holiday season and frozen farms and pipes got our goats - yep, we didn't have an AC worthy new episode to share this week. So in honor of New Years and the accompanying resolutions, we're re-sharing our very first episode as a good reminder to check your WHY. And we PROMISE to bring you the juiciest batch of episodes next week like usual! 

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