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3rd Jul 2025

157. Journal With Me: 4 Ways You're Sabotaging Summer Joy (5-Min Prompts)

Is your summer not feeling how you imagined? You might be self-sabotaging without realizing it.

Ready to break free? The Energized Summer Challenge starts Monday - but registration closes THIS Friday, July 4th, for podcast listeners. Get details + join here → www.samanthapenkoff.com/energized-summer

In this 5-minute journaling session, I'll guide you through four specific sabotage patterns that might be stealing your summer joy: Hyper-Achiever, Perfectionist, Procrastinator, and Restless. You'll get targeted journal prompts to create awareness around these patterns - because awareness is what leads to those aha moments, simplifications, and real solutions.

Whether you're traveling this holiday weekend or at home, you can either journal through these prompts or simply think through them as I guide you.

What you'll discover:

  • Which of the 4 sabotage patterns you recognize in yourself
  • Specific ways these patterns show up during summer
  • How to start breaking free from the cycles that keep you overwhelmed

Perfect for: Working moms, ambitious women, anyone feeling like summer is more stressful than restful

Energized Summer challenge

Ready to break these patterns before they steal your entire summer?

The Energized Summer Challenge starts Monday, July 7th - but registration closes THIS Friday, July 4th for podcast listeners.

We'll go deeper than awareness into actually disrupting these sabotage patterns so you can release overwhelm and create more energy for what matters most.

7 women are already inside. 5 spots left.

Get all the details and join here → www.samanthapenkoff.com/energized-summer

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Beyond Awareness: Closing the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
Closing the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
Beyond Awareness (formerly Journal Entries) is for successful women in leadership and business who know exactly what they need to do but can't make themselves do it.

You know you need to prioritize yourself, delegate more, set boundaries, stop bringing work home. You've tried therapy, coaching, retreats. You know the solution - but you either can't follow through, or when you DO, it doesn't stick.

Host Samantha Hawley helps business owners and executives earning $100k+ excavate the root beliefs underneath the execution gap. Why do you keep not doing the thing? Why doesn't it feel better when you do? Using strategic journaling and emotional excavation, we go beyond awareness into why you're actually stuck in the pattern.

This isn't about more tactics or tips. This is about understanding why awareness isn't enough and what actually needs to shift for you to change.

You'll hear about: decision fatigue, why you can't prioritize yourself, nervous system regulation, being present with your kids, root cause of overwhelm, why boundaries don't stick, self-sabotage patterns, and how your internal state impacts everything.

Perfect for: Female CFOs, VPs, directors, executives, business owners, and women in leadership who are tired of knowing what's wrong but not being able to change it.
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