This episode is a grounded, compassionate conversation about body confidence, self-acceptance, and building a healthier relationship with your body - without waiting for it to change.

In a culture that constantly tells us confidence, happiness and self-worth live on the other side of weight loss or physical transformation, this episode offers a different path.

Janelle Ryan explores how to love your body as it is today - whether you’re trying to change it, thinking about change or choosing not to. She shares her personal journey of decades spent disliking her body due to societal, generational and media pressure, and how inner work helped her move from control and punishment to strength, respect, and embodiment.

This is not a weight-loss episode. It’s about body image, body confidence and learning to feel at home in your body. Even in a world that tells you not to.

You’ll hear why loving your body and wanting change are not opposites, how inner work creates sustainable change, and 12 practical truths to help you build a kinder, more respectful relationship with your body.

Perfect listening if you’re navigating body image struggles, January body pressure, health changes, or simply want to stop feeling at war with yourself.

If this episode resonated and you’re ready to build a kinder, more confident relationship with your body, you’re invited to explore Exploring, Embracing, Embodying Body Confidence - Janelle Ryan’s self-paced, experiential digital course. This course helps you release shame, shift limiting beliefs, and feel truly at home in your body, without needing to change it first. You’ll receive lifetime access, including future updates, so you can return to the work whenever you need it. Currently 50% OFF - use code NEWYEARSPECIAL at checkout.
👉 Learn more and enrol HERE.

A new year doesn’t make us new people, and that’s not a problem.

In this episode, we explore why January is more symbolic than magical, and how this moment can still be a powerful pause if we choose it to be. I share a grounded reflection on the shift from the Year of the Snake (shedding and discernment) into the Year of the Horse (movement, momentum and direction), and why this is an ideal time to focus on intentional expansion rather than reinvention.

If you’d like to dive in with me, grab a notebook and reflect as you listen, or save this episode and return to it when you have space. You’ll be guided through two options:

• a quick, surface-level reflection for those wanting efficiency
• and a deeper series of journalling questions for those ready to dive inward and uncover real insight.

Take your time. Find the space. And let this be a conversation with yourself.

If you’d like to be the first to hear about Sky High Coaching's 2026 offerings, you’re warmly invited to join our email community by emailing janelle@skyhighcoaching.com.au.

Acting in a role can feel like leading with one hand tied behind your back.

In this episode, Janelle unpacks the real challenges of stepping into an interim role, from navigating authority and team dynamics to managing expectations, pressure and self-care. You will walk away with practical insights to help you lead with confidence, clarity and calm, even when the role is temporary and the stakes feel high.

Perfect listening if you are stepping up, holding the fort or quietly proving yourself in the in-between.

Here are the links she mentions:

Unshakeable Confidence Blueprint

Debut: Leading From the Start

The Leadership Lounge