What happens when you've built a beautiful life, a successful business, and a world that looks perfect from the outside—but your emotional foundation is struggling underneath?
In this episode of Women of the World Network®: Choreograph Success, host Elle Ballard welcomes Shirley Halnan of A New Way Today for a meaningful conversation about the emotional challenges women face in entrepreneurship, the expectations placed on women, and the importance of creating a life and business that support who they truly are.
Before helping women navigate the emotional side of business ownership, Shirley worked as an interior designer, creating beautiful spaces for women and their families. But through that work, she recognized something deeper: while women were investing in the appearance and comfort of their homes, many were struggling with the invisible emotional foundations of their own lives.
From childhood, women often inherit societal expectations, family responsibilities, and beliefs about who they should become—long before they have the opportunity to decide what they actually want.
These expectations don't simply disappear when women become entrepreneurs. They can influence how women lead, make decisions, set boundaries, manage stress, and define success.
Today, through A New Way Today, Shirley helps women explore the emotions of running a business while creating a sense of balance that evolves alongside their personal and professional growth.
IN THIS EPISODE, WE EXPLORE:
• The Emotional Side of Entrepreneurship: Why running a business involves more than strategy, marketing, and financial success.
• Societal and Family Expectations: How responsibilities and beliefs inherited early in life shape women's identities and decisions.
• The Foundation Beneath Success: Why a beautiful home, successful career, or thriving business doesn't always reflect inner fulfillment.
• Women and Emotional Well-Being: The importance of recognizing and processing the emotional weight women carry.
• Identity Beyond Responsibility: How women can begin separating who they truly are from the roles they've been expected to fulfill.
• Work-Life Balance for Women Entrepreneurs: Why balance isn't a permanent destination but something that changes as we grow.
• Personal Growth and Authentic Leadership: How understanding ourselves can support healthier decisions in business and life.
Whether you're a woman entrepreneur, business owner, working mother, or someone who has spent years putting everyone else's expectations before your own, this conversation offers a different perspective on what it means to build a successful life.
Because before you can build a business that truly supports you, you deserve to understand and strengthen the foundation of who you are.
ABOUT SHIRLEY HALNAN
Shirley Halnan of A New Way Today in Oregon guides women through the emotions of business. Her work focuses on helping women create balance that evolves with them as they grow and navigate new opportunities and challenges.
CONNECT WITH SHIRLEY HALNAN
A New Way Today
Website: anewwaytoday.com
Email: shirleyanewwaytoday@gmail.com
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