For many high-achieving women, independence has become a badge of honour. You’re the one everyone relies on. The one who always finds a way. The one who carries the emotional load without asking for help.

But what if that isn’t strength?

In this honest conversation, Jen and Joy Schulz explore why so many women struggle to receive support, how hyper-independence quietly disconnects us from ourselves, and why being held doesn’t diminish your leadership—it deepens it.

Together they discuss:

* What it really means to be “held” (and what it doesn’t mean)

* Why strong women often find it hardest to receive support

* The hidden difference between being supported and becoming dependent

* How allowing yourself to be held can strengthen your self-trust

* The distinction between sovereign support and trauma dumping

* Why the role of a Priestess is never to create followers, but to help women lead themselves

This episode is an invitation to rethink what strength looks like and to consider whether the very thing you’ve been resisting might be the thing that sets you free.

Find Jen here: Jen Thomas | Intuitive Leadership | Revitalise Coaching | United Kingdom

Find Joy here: Self Leadership | Radical Joyfulness

Summer Solstice & The Truth You Can No Longer Ignore

In this Summer Solstice episode of The Sovereign Leader Podcast, Jen Thomas and Joy Schultz explore the powerful turning point that arrives at the midpoint of the year.

This is not a conversation about resetting goals or becoming “better” by the end of the year.

It’s a deeper exploration of:

- Truths this year has already revealed

- Patterns we unconsciously collapse back into

- Tension between awareness and embodied change

- The courage it takes to lead yourself into the unknown instead of negotiating with the old versions.

Together they reflect on:

- Nervous system safety and self-trust

- The liminal space between old identity and new identity

- Why awareness alone does not create real change

- The pull toward comfort, predictability and control

- The invitation of the Fire Horse year now

- The small but powerful shifts that change the direction of an entire life.

This episode is a grounded and honest conversation about sovereignty, self-leadership and what it truly means to move forward without abandoning yourself in the process.

And at the end of the episode, Jen shares a powerful journal reflection to support you in identifying the truths you can no longer ignore and what you now choose to lead forward with.

We explore the fear of receiving, over-giving, undercharging, comparison, jealousy, rejection, power, past-life patterns, financial trauma and why money can feel so unsafe even when we deeply desire more of it.

This isn’t a “money mindset” conversation.

It’s a raw, honest look at what happens when your worth, safety and ability to receive become tangled up with your bank account.

We talk about money as energy, money as relationship, and the shift from chasing and carrying pressure, to building the capacity to receive, hold and trust.

Because the real work isn’t just wanting more money.

It’s feeling safe enough to receive it.

In this episode, we explore:

* why money can feel unsafe for spiritual women

* over-giving, undercharging and tying worth to income

* comparison and secret jealousy of peers

* the difference between chasing money and receiving it

* money as energy, relationship and flow

* building the capacity to hold more without collapsing under pressure

Journal prompt:

If it felt completely safe for me to receive more money, power and support, what would I finally allow myself to stop carrying?

You can find Jen at revitalisecoaching.co.ukAnd Joy at radicaljoyfulness.com

Thank you for being here, and for walking this path of sovereignty with us.

Welcome back to The Sovereign Leader Podcast, podcast for high-achieving spiritual women who are done performing and ready to lead from their own centre with anchored and embodied authority. Together, through raw, but grounded conversation, we intend to share what it truly means to lead yourself from sovereignty - especially when you've spent years managing everyone else's energy in order to feel safe and most likely in order to keep the peace.

In this episode, Joy and I dive into what it means to be labelled “too much” - too emotional, too sensitive, too expressive, too visible, too powerful.

Because the truth is, you weren't born believing that about yourself.

You learned it.

We explore how old paradigm leadership taught so many of us to perform, mask, shrink, self-monitor and keep the peace in order to be accepted.

This conversation is a reclamation.

A remembering that you are not too much. You may simply have been in rooms, relationships and environments that couldn't hold the fullness of who you are.

In this episode, we explore:

- why “too much” is learned

- the cost of masking and self-policing

- the difference between responding and reacting

- why other people’s triggers are not your responsibility

- what it means to stand in your truth without making yourself smaller.

If this episode stirred something in you (and we have a feeling it might have), we’d love to hear from you.

Come and share what’s come up for you - what you’re seeing differently, what you're now able to accept of yourself, and where you’re choosing yourself.

You can find Jen at revitalisecoaching.co.ukAnd Joy at radicaljoyfulness.com

Thank you for being here, and for walking this path of sovereignty with us.

Episode 1: Personal stories, sovereignty and the importance of choosing you

This is a conversation about coming home to yourself. About choosing yourself. About recognising that true leadership does not begin with leading others, it begins with being the leader of your own life.

In this opening episode, Joy and I share our own personal stories and the paths that brought us here.

Joy shares her journey from growing up in a fundamentalist Christian cult to finding freedom, spiritual reconnection and the path of the Priestess.

I share my own story of leaving a 20-year corporate career after burnout, reconnecting with my spiritual path and what it has meant to stop responding to life and start truly leading it. Including the slightly batshit bonkers chapter where I become a travelling cat sitter after being told, very clearly by my soul team, that it was time for me to lead.

Together, we explore what sovereignty really means in real life - not just in ritual, meditation or beautiful spiritual concepts, but in the everyday moments where you choose yourself and trust yourself.

If this episode stirred something in you, we’d lovely to hear from you. Come and share in the comments, or come and find us online.

You can find Joy at radicaljoyfulness.comAnd you can find me, Jen, at revitalisecoaching.co.uk