Ambition with less self-abandonment.
It’s Your Time blends life coaching, career reflection, and guest conversations for women who are successful on paper but questioning the cost. The show turns burnout, overworking, self-sabotage, and changing identity into practical reframes for leading work and life with more intention.
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It’s Your Time sits in the space between career ambition and emotional sustainability. The show is concerned with what happens after a woman has proven she can perform. There are quotas, leadership expectations, calendars, brands, and professional relationships, but the deeper question is usually quieter: what belief is running the day? Michelle Arnold-Burke brings a coaching lens to high achievement, especially for women in sales and demanding professional roles. The show often begins with a familiar work problem and then follows it inward. Overworking becomes a worthiness story. A personal brand becomes a question of regulation and consistency. A stalled goal becomes an upper limit problem rather than a simple lack of capability. The tone is warm and close, with room for self-correction, personal examples, and long reflective turns. Guest episodes add texture without pulling the show away from its central purpose. Lana Manikowski brings a conversation about life after fertility treatments, life without children, identity, and redefining success beyond motherhood. Rhonda Farr’s appearance centers slowing down, agency, relationships, and the way irritation can reveal unexamined uncertainty. Kelly Loopshaw’s episode connects midlife energy, gut health, sleep, metabolism, and nervous system reset to a broader idea of becoming the CEO of health. Melissa Anders brings the career-inside-versus-outside theme into STEM, where checked boxes do not always equal a life that feels right. The show’s recurring move is to validate the pressure, then ask what could change if self-trust replaced constant proving. It is practical, but not in a checklist-only way. Atomic Habits and The Big Leap become springboards for talking about identity, delayed gratification, self-sabotage, and the discomfort of growth. The show can be emotionally direct, especially around infertility, burnout, and shame. It still tends to leave the listener with agency rather than heaviness. Its best fit is a professional woman who does not need more hustle advice, but does want language for the inner work that makes ambition feel livable.
Made for: Professional women, especially women in sales, who are rethinking success, stress, energy, and identity. It also suits listeners drawn to warm life coaching around burnout, habits, midlife health, and self-trust.
What sets it apart: The show treats performance problems as identity and nervous system patterns, not just productivity gaps. Its strength is the way career coaching, personal vulnerability, and practical reframing stay in the same conversation.
Welcome to It's Your Time, the podcast designed for busy professional women in sales who want to excel in their careers—without the stress and overwhelm. If you're ready to do more of what you love while thriving in your career, you're in the right place. Join veteran sales professional, Certified Life Coach, and career mentor Michelle A. Bourque as she shares real-life experiences and powerful cognitive tools to help you feel more empowered and live the life you truly want. Each episode is packed with practical insights to help you create the changes you need and achieve the results you desire. It's your time—let's make it happen!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Michelle Arnold-Burke connects career performance to the habits, boundaries, health concerns, and identity questions that shape how achievement feels.
It's Your Time treats professional performance as an inside job, tracing how ambition can become tangled with stress, self-worth, and the pressure to keep producing.
Michelle A. Bourque puts the overachiever's calendar on the couch.
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A reflective coaching conversation on worth, overwork, and redefining success after infertility.
After fertility treatments end without children, this episode sits with the harder work of imagining a future that no longer matches the one once planned.
A practical look at changing habits while recognizing how family loyalty can quietly slow personal growth.
Michelle Arnold-Burke looks at habit change through a less obvious source of resistance: the fear that growing beyond familiar patterns might feel like abandoning a family that is comfortable with things as they are.
A grounded coaching conversation about slowing down, uncertainty, and the agency that can come from looking inward first.
High performance is treated here as an emotional pattern, not a productivity badge. Michelle Arnold-Burke centers the episode on her conversation with Rhonda Farr, an emotions expert and founder of Rhonda Farr Coaching, about why high performers may need to slow down before they…
A coaching conversation turns energy, sleep, and midlife health into a leadership question.
It's Your Time frames leadership as something that starts inside the body, with energy, metabolism, sleep, and nervous-system regulation treated as part of how a busy professional leads.
Melissa Dawn Simpkins connects personal branding, boundaries, and daily structure to the practical work of leading well.
Leadership comes across here as something built in the small, repeatable choices that protect a leader's attention. Michelle Arnold-Burke's conversation with Melissa Dawn Simpkins, President and CEO of Velvet Suite and founder of SheSweet, moves through women's leadership,…
A reflective conversation about overwhelm, relentless effort, and making room for ease inside ambitious work.
Galit Stam treats overwhelm as a cue to stop and reconsider what achievement is costing, rather than as proof that someone needs to push harder.
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Hard conversations, patiently held, with room to laugh.
Fearne Cotton interviews guests like Boy George and Bryony Gordon about mental health and identity.
Dr. Joy Harden Bradford pairs therapy insight with Black TV recaps, maternal health, and history.
Host Michelle Arnold-Burke interviews transformational coach Galit Stam about alchemizing joy and energy.
Host Michelle Arnold-Burke interviews Melissa Dawn Simpkins, CEO of Velvet Suite and founder of the SheSweet Summit, about elevating women leaders.
A replay of a conversation with powerhouse CEO Corinne Crabtree about creating the life you want through mindset and practical strategies.
Michelle Arnold-Burr interviews Jessica Arias about restoring health, finding worth, and reconnecting to inner wisdom through functional medicine and soul-led coaching.
Motherhood is not the only measure.
Certified Life Coach Michelle Arnold-Burke discusses how building a personal brand at work is about how you show up, not just your performance, drawing from her experience as a guest speaker for women in sales.
Spring cleaning starts in the mind.
Michelle Arnold Burke describes Gay Hendricks's upper-limit problem as an internal thermostat for success, happiness, love, and abundance.
Certified life coach Michelle Arnold-Berg discusses examining the beliefs driving our actions to rewire the brain for joy, self-trust, and success.
Michelle Arnold-Burke and Rhonda Farr connect high performance with “workaholic” habits, especially when work is used to avoid feelings and prove worth.
Michelle Arnold-Berg talks with Kelly Lupsha, founder of Wellness Activated and host of Thriving in Midlife, about becoming the “CEO of your health.” Kelly says her shift from physical therapy came after her father’s cancer death and after noticing women in their 40s and 50s had more vitality when she applied the same methods to herself.
Certified Life Coach Michelle Arnold-Burke interviews Melissa Anders about redefining success and avoiding burnout in STEM careers.
Michelle Arnold-Burke interviews professional organizer Tracy Hoth about how to get organized and take back your time.
Executive coach Melynda Benlemlih discusses her TIME method for intentional mornings and nervous system regulation to boost productivity and reduce stress.