HeyJaredThe RISE Experience
The RISE Experience is a podcast for women who are rebuilding trust with themselves — in their health, leadership, faith, and everyday lives.Hosted by Shannon Denniston, this space explores what it looks like to lead from steadiness instead of urgency, to grow without hustle,…
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Whatever Works: The Rudder You Didn't Know You Had (opens the original)
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Send me a text We've all been there: the group text where everyone's picking a restaurant, and instead of saying what you actually want, you type "whatever works." In this episode, Shannon unpacks why those tiny moments of staying quiet matter more than we think — and how they might be the real place where we slowly lose ourselves. It's easy to reserve "using your voice" for the big, dramatic moments — the confrontation, the boundary, the hard conversation. But what if the group text is the r...
The Awkward Middle: Why Understanding Comes Faster Than Change (opens the original)
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Send me a text Shannon Denniston explores why we can understand a habit or pattern immediately but still repeat it within a day, focusing on the gap between insight and actual change. She compares understanding to getting a map of an old road, while our "feet" keep taking the familiar groove unless we deliberately practice a new path, often clumsily and repeatedly. She names this space the "awkward middle," where progress feels like failure because your brain knows better but your body is sti...
You Don’t Need a Crisis to Take Your Feelings Seriously. (opens the original)
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Send me a text What if that weird, can’t-quite-name-it feeling under “I’m good” is actually the thing you’re meant to pay attention to? Episode Summary I start with a simple moment in a school parking lot, giving the quick, easy answer we all use. I smiled, said, “I’m good, busy, you know, but good,” and headed to my car, but something in me stopped long enough to stare at the gear shift and think, “I am good, right?” That weird feeling under the surface would not quite go away. It kept sho...
When “You’ve Changed” Tests How Safe Your Relationship Really Is. (opens the original)
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Send me a text “You’ve changed” can sound like a compliment, a quiet ache, or a warning. I’m talking about what those words really reveal about our relationships, our growth, and who we’re becoming together. Episode Summary There are a hundred ways to hear “you’ve changed,” and most of us know exactly which one we got just from the tone. I walk through the quiet, very human side of change, the friend who’s proud of you but misses what you used to have, the husband whose healthy new habit sh...
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