The RISE Experience
It’s not always about becoming someone different.
Sometimes it’s about realizing you’ve been disconnected from yourself for longer than you thought.
The RISE Experience is a podcast for the woman who can handle everything — except herself. The one who shows up, gets things done, keeps things together… but quietly feels like something isn’t landing the way it should.
Shannon Denniston is a behavior change coach and the founder of RISE. What she talks about here isn’t behavior on the surface. It’s what sits underneath it — patterns, beliefs, and identity-level disconnects that make consistency feel harder than it should.
A lot of what gets called “starting over” isn’t starting over at all. It’s noticing what’s been running in the background for a long time, and learning how to move differently from there.
Not forced. Not rushed. No reinvention, no reset, just more aware, more honest with where things actually are, and returning to yourself in a way that holds.
The RISE Experience
How To Know When God Is Leading You Out of an Old Chapter.
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You know that quiet feeling when a part of your life stops fitting, and you finally can’t ignore it anymore? Friend, if the version of you that you know is in there keeps feeling just out of reach, you’re in the right place.
Welcome to The RISE Experience — a podcast for women who are finding their way back to themselves. This is a space to slow down when everything feels loud, to lead from steadiness instead of urgency, and to finally hear yourself think again. Here we talk about identity, faith, and the quiet inner wisdom that gets buried under all the doing. A place to pause, reflect, and rise from clarity instead of pressure.
Episode Highlights
In today’s episode we walk through what it feels like to close a chapter that shaped your whole identity, the strange mix of freedom and relief that comes with stepping out of a container that was never quite the right fit, and how The RISE Experience is opening up into a clear, unapologetic space for women who are finding their way back to the version of themselves that keeps feeling just out of reach with God.
Episode Outline
- Welcoming Listeners and Setting the Stage
- Reflecting on Personal Transition
- Future Direction of the Podcast
- Exploring Transition and Pride
- Stepping into the New and Embracing Imperfection
- Closing Thoughts and Prayer
Episode Chapters
00:00 Welcome to The RISE Experience
00:15 Who this space is for
01:10 Looking back at last month
02:05 Closing a major life chapter
03:00 Freedom in leaving the wrong container
04:00 A new direction for the show
05:05 Living in transition, pride, and grief
06:20 Going deeper into identity and relationships
07:30 Showing up before it feels perfect
08:30 Nothing wasted in the wrong container
09:10 The Prodigal Son and the return home
10:05 Where your life no longer fits and closing prayer
Conclusion
There is a real tension in loving a chapter that shaped you and still knowing it no longer fits, and that is where we spend our time together here. We sit with the quiet relief of finally stepping out of the wrong container and begin to see that none of those years were wasted; they were forming something in you that can now live in the space it was always meant for. Through the moment of return in the Prodigal Son story, we remember that you are not chasing a brand new version of yourself, you are coming back to who you have always been with God, and letting that be enough.
Action Taken
- Notice where you have been living in a container that no longer fits
- Sit with the question: Where have I been playing a role or living a version of myself that quietly stopped fitting?
- Let the question land without rushing to fix or explain it
- Let the picture of “the return” from the Prodigal Son story remind you that you do not have to have it all figured out before you come home to yourself
CTA
Share this with one woman who is outgrowing the life she is in and needs words for why it feels so off, and invite her to sit with the question of where her own container has stopped fitting.
Visit the links provided to stay connected.
- Instagram: @risewithshannon
- Facebook: Shannon Denniston
- LinkedIn: Shannon Denniston
- Business: https://msha.ke/shanden
- Coaching: https://msha.ke/risewithshannon
Thank you for being here, for your honesty, and for the courage it takes to admit when something in your life is no longer the right fit. Keep trusting that every small step toward the version of you God has always had in mind is seen, welcomed, and worth it.