How We Get Thru Podcast: Wellness, Healing & Spiritual Tools for Growth in Real Life · Jen Hershey

S2 Ep 76: Owning Your Power and Asking for What You Need with Jacqueline Hawk

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Jackie says the same ask framework worked in business first, then in her relationship with her now husband.

Jen talks with coach Jacqueline Hawk. The conversation centers on the hesitation that can show up when you need to ask for something at work, in a relationship, or even with yourself, and Jackie treats that hesitation as something worth noticing instead of pushing past. That matters here. Jackie describes her move from corporate life and uses it as the backdrop for an ask framework built around helping women reclaim confidence and ask for what they deserve. The tone stays personal. Jen keeps reflecting back the emotional shape of the story, which gives the episode a connected, conversational feel and makes the subject feel less like a checklist and more like a way of living more honestly. The body keeps showing up. Again and again, the conversation comes back to the gap between the life that looks fine from the outside and the inner experience that says something is still off and still waiting to be heard. That gap is the point. Rather than rush toward a hard-edged tactic sheet, the episode lingers with self-awareness, confidence, self-trust, and the uncomfortable moments when you can feel yourself shrinking before you speak. It stays human. Jackie and Jen make room for real life, including tough conversations and the way old patterns can stick around even when you know something needs to change. Nothing is rushed. The show’s leisurely pace leaves space for the emotional logic of the story to settle, so the listener can feel how asking for what you need is tied to noticing what truly matters to you. That is the useful part. The episode does not pretend that self-advocacy is easy, but it does make it sound practical, learnable, and worth returning to when your own needs have gone quiet for too long. It lands softly. By the close, the message is simple: speaking up is not selfish, and clarity can be a form of change when it is rooted in what is actually happening inside you. That is the heart of it. The episode leaves you with a calm push toward honesty, steadiness, and the courage to ask for what you deserve without minimizing your own needs.

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A reflective conversation about confidence, asking for what matters, and speaking up without overcomplicating it.

The episode follows Jacqueline Hawk and Jen as they talk through what it means to ask for what is needed at work, in relationships, and in private.

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If you have been hesitating to speak up for what you need, this one gives you a gentler way in.

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