Is Your Achievement Ladder Holding You Back? ft. Monique Shields [WASHDAY WOOSAH]
Brown Ambition
iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
This week, Mandi Money sits down with powerhouse executive coach and host of Ambition Without Compromise, Monique R. Shields a woman whose mission is simple but profound: to liberate the professional imaginations of women of color.
From being a “lost English major” to coaching leaders across mental health, tech, and corporate spaces, Monique shares the honest, unfiltered truth about taking up space, transitioning careers, and surviving this messy middle season so many of us are navigating.
Together, Mandi and Monique dive deep into:
- The pressure high-achieving women feel to fix everything through achievement
- What it really looks like to slow down, pause, and rest — especially when the world feels on fire
- How motherhood becomes a catalyst for clarity and self-possession
- Moving through anxiety, identity shifts, and the comparison trap
- Why community and group coaching are lifelines, not luxuries
- The behind-the-scenes of building a coaching practice while keeping your peace
This conversation is the hug, the truth-telling, and the collective exhale you didn’t know you needed.
✨ About Monique R. Shields
Executive Coach • Podcast Host • Leadership Developer
- Instagram: @MoniqueRShields
- Website: moniquershields.com
- Podcast: Ambition Without Compromise
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | Hey, BA fam, let's be real for a second. |
| 0:06.9 | And y'all know I keep it a book. |
| 0:08.2 | The job market has been brutal. |
| 0:09.9 | No, not brutal. |
| 0:10.9 | Trash, especially for women of color. |
| 0:13.6 | Over 300,000 of us have disappeared from the workforce this year alone. |
| 0:18.1 | And not by choice, but because of layoffs, disappearing DEI programs, |
| 0:23.7 | and stagnant wages that keep cutting us out of opportunity. Our unemployment rate has jumped to |
| 0:29.1 | over 7% while our pay gap continues to widen. I know all of that sounds dire, but here's what I want |
| 0:35.4 | you all to know. You do not have to wait for the system to save you. |
| 0:39.4 | That's exactly why I created the Mandy Moneymakers group coaching community. It is a coaching |
| 0:45.0 | community that is built for us by us. Inside the community, we're not just talking about how to negotiate |
| 0:51.2 | or how to get the job that you want. It's about finding purpose in your |
| 0:55.6 | career. It's about finding communities and others, feeling seen, feeling heard, and also having a |
| 1:02.8 | sounding board and a mirror to reflect your own magic, your own sparkle right back to |
| 1:08.1 | yourself. In this community, you'll get group coaching led by me, |
| 1:12.2 | but you'll also get peer-to-peer accountability with proven tools and resources that can help |
| 1:17.3 | you do what we have always done, sis, rise, even when the odds are stacked against us, |
| 1:23.4 | despite all the challenges, we will rise. If you're interested in joining the Mandy Moneymakers |
| 1:29.5 | community and having that support to bolster you and help you tap back into your magic |
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