464: From Corporate Employee to CEO Coach: Monique R. Shields on Teaching Women to Thrive
Side Hustle Pro
Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
This week in the guest chair, we have Monique R. Shields, executive coach, entrepreneur, and founder of Claimed, a program dedicated to helping high-achieving Black mothers unlock their next chapter. In this episode, Monique shares her inspiring journey from corporate to coaching and the lessons she’s learned along the way. She discusses the power of releasing limiting beliefs, why investing in yourself is key to growth, and how motherhood led to her decision to take ownership of her time and career.
In this episode she shares:
- The importance of creating space for Black women, especially mothers, to thrive and build without compromising themselves
- The mindset shifts needed to elevate your business and life to the next level
- How transitioning from corporate to entrepreneurship gave her the freedom she needed
Highlights include:
00:00 Intro
05:00 The importance of relationships in early career transitions
07:30 Background in publishing and banking
12:00 Transition into executive coaching & the influence of motherhood
19:00 Raising her rates and investing in herself
24:35 How to navigate seasons of burnout and pressure
29:03 Tips for women entrepreneurs transitioning into full-time business ownership
34:20 The launch of her program, Claimed, for Black mothers
40:00 The power of releasing limiting beliefs and moving beyond survival mode
1:00:00 Tips for entrepreneurs
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Links mentioned in this episode
- Monique’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moniquershields/
- Monique’s Website: https://moniquershields.com/
- Monique’s Podcast: https://moniquershields.com/podcast/
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| 0:00.0 | A lot of us actually need to start to dismantle some of the identities we've taken on unknowingly. |
| 0:08.3 | You're listening to Side Hustle Pro, the podcast that teaches you to build and grow your side hustle |
| 0:14.3 | from Passion Project to Profitable Business. |
| 0:17.4 | And I'm your host, Nikaela Matthews Okome. |
| 0:20.2 | So let's get started. |
| 0:24.9 | Hey, friends. Hey, welcome, welcome back to the show. It's Nikaela here. And today we are |
| 0:29.0 | diving into an episode with Monique R. Shields. Monique is an executive coach, founder of |
| 0:34.8 | Seven Pines leadership and podcast hosts of Ambition Without Compromise. |
| 0:39.7 | She is committed to liberating the professional imaginations of women of color CEOs, founders, and leaders. |
| 0:47.0 | As a coach, Monique leverages her own entrepreneurial and executive experience, plus nearly a decade combined of training and coactive mindset coaching, motivational |
| 0:57.2 | interviewing, interpersonal dynamics, team building, and communications to help her clients |
| 1:02.6 | find higher forms of leadership and intention in their lives and their business. |
| 1:08.0 | Monique was formerly on staff at the Stanford Graduate School of Business |
| 1:11.7 | as a facilitator for their Women in Management program, as well as at UC Berkeley's Haas School |
| 1:17.6 | of Business as a leadership coach for current MBAs and alumni executives. Prior to launching |
| 1:23.8 | Seven Pines, Monique was the director of coaching and then the director of partnerships |
| 1:28.2 | at Joyable, a mental health technology startup in San Francisco. |
| 1:33.3 | Monique understands what it means to move through fear and distraction, to clarify, communicate, |
| 1:38.6 | and act on a unique definition of success that refuses to compromise what matters most, and she brings this |
| 1:45.4 | perspective to the work she does with her clients. Specifically, Monique specializes in helping |
| 1:51.0 | high-achieving women of color business owners and leaders, especially mothers, balance ambition |
| 1:56.5 | and freedom without burning out. So I met Monique after she applied to be a VIP podcast coaching client, |
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