Episode Details

You know that feeling when everything looks right on paper but something keeps trying to get your attention?

For Shelby Renae, that “something” wasn’t subtle. It showed up as seizure episodes before she left for the Philippines. As a nervous system that never fully settled through two years in the Peace Corps. As a conservation job that matched her degree perfectly and slowly wore her down anyway.

Shelby did what a lot of us do: she kept pushing through. She was good at it. And her body kept escalating.

In this conversation, Shelby and I trace the whole scenic route: the travel bug that lit up in eighth grade, the marine science degree, the Peace Corps assignment to the Philippines (where a volcano eventually made the decision for her), and the long, winding road back to herself through holistic health, Ayurvedic medicine, and eventually the money framework that gave her and her partner the runway to leave the States entirely for six months in Mexico.

What I love about Shelby’s story is that none of it reads as a detour. Every chapter taught her something she now brings to the women she works with: heart-led practitioners and wellness entrepreneurs who are incredible at what they do and exhausted by what money stress costs them. She built a life by learning to listen. Now she’s teaching others to do the same.

This one is for you if you’ve ever felt your body trying to tell you something your plans weren’t ready to hear.

WHAT YOU'LL HEAR ON THIS EPISODE

💫The eighth-grade trip to Poland that planted the travel seed Shelby is still following today

💫How Shelby kept overriding her body’s signals to make it to the Peace Corps in the Philippines, and what two years there cost her nervous system

💫The volcano evacuation that ended her Peace Corps service and the holding pattern in Manila that forced her to figure out what came next

💫How her cycle disappearing for over four years became the clearest feedback system she’d ever had

💫The compound path from naturopathic medicine to Ayurveda to life coaching school to Profit for Keeps®, and how each step built on the last

💫Why Shelby believes money stress is often the root that holds everything else back

💫How the PFK® framework gave Shelby and her partner Dan the runway to leave their jobs, travel Mexico for six months, and build toward what’s actually next

CONNECT WITH SHELBY

@shelbyrenaewellness on Instagram

Shelby Renae on LinkedIn

Book a Clarity Call with Shelby

Register for the Masterclass Replay: Why Does Money Feel So Hard in a Heart-Led Business?

About Victoria

Victoria Steward is a Financial Empowerment Coach and Certified Profit for Keeps® Coach who helps senior women in tech and engineering build the financial clarity and career confidence to leave corporate on their own terms.

Want to get clear on what your runway? Join Victoria for her free masterclass on May 1st: Three Strategies to Move From ‘Just One More Year’ to Your Real Runway.
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