Episode 41 of Wellness Me Up — Wellness Me Up Diary Entry
with Career & Business Coach Shae Noble
Written and hosted by Amanda Reece, founder of Wellness Me Up.
Career coach. Business coach. Trauma informed. Shae Noble starts with what lifestyle you want and builds backwards from there. This one covers transferable skills, LinkedIn visibility, grief as a career blocker, and also Cheeto handprints with chopsticks. You will understand when you listen.
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Who Is Shae Noble?
Shae Noble is a career and business coach and trauma informed HR professional who approaches everything holistically. She works with individuals, business owners, and organizations — and she does not start with your resume. She starts with your life.
What lifestyle do you actually want? What does your day need to look like? What are your real priorities — not the ones you think you are supposed to have but the ones that actually matter to you? And then she builds backwards from there.
She is incredibly warm and trauma informed and it comes through in every single thing she says. The language she uses. The way she reframes. The way she listens. You will hear it immediately.
Start With the Lifestyle. Not the Job.
This was the first thing Shae said that made my brain go oh yes absolutely that.
So much career advice starts with the job. Get the education. Build the resume. Apply for the position. And somewhere along the way nobody asks — but does this actually fit the life you want to live?
Shae learned this the hard way herself. She had a dream of being an HR manager at a ski resort. Got the job offer. And then started talking to people who already worked there. When did you last snowboard? Seven years ago. They had been up there sacrificing everything for the dream job and had not even left the office on a good powder day.
That reframe hit me immediately. Because I did the same thing in reverse — I figured out what life I actually wanted and then built the career that matched that energy. Digital nomad life. Work from anywhere. No fixed home. Take it all with me. And the career I built has to fit that. If it does not fit the life it does not fit.
Shae also shared the horse example. She once thought she wanted to do leadership retreats with horses. And then she started thinking about what owning horses actually involves. The daily care. The lifestyle commitment. The reality versus the fantasy.
I jumped in with alpacas. Because obviously. I love alpacas. I would love to work with alpacas. But I do not want to take care of them. I just want to go visit the fluffy things. So the lesson is — figure out whether you want the job or the experience of the job. Because they are very different things.
You Already Have the Skills. You Just Have Not Called Them That Yet.
This is the Shae Noble reframe that I want every woman who has been out of the traditional workforce to hear.
She works with a lot of women who have been stay-at-home partners and feel like they have nothing to put on a resume. No credentials. No recent work history. No way in.
And Shae sits across from them and starts asking questions. And then her eyes get bigger and bigger as the story comes out.
One woman had been volunteering at a farmers market and ended up becoming the executive director of a nonprofit and reclassifying it as a 501(c)(3). That is legitimate leadership. That is real organizational work. That counts.
Another example — gardening. What does gardening actually require? Planning. Strategy. Execution. Problem solving. Adaptability. All of that is on a resume. All of that transfers.
A resume does not mean you were paid for the work. It means you are capable of doing the work.
And the moment that lands for someone — the moment they realize that everything they have been doing counts — is the moment everything shifts. They go from do this for me to I did this. I applied here. I figured this out. And suddenly they do not need Shae anymore.
And Shae loves that. That is the whole point.
I shared my own version of this from my years coaching women at the Women's Center of Halton. Same thing came up constantly. Women who thought they had nothing to offer. And then you start pulling the thread and realize they have been running entire households, managing complex family dynamics, navigating systems, volunteering in their communities — doing work that people get paid very well to do. They just never called it that.
Call it that. Start calling it that.
Grief Can Block a Career. Nobody Talks About This.
This was one of the most quietly powerful moments in this conversation and I do not want it to get lost.
Shae was working with a woman who had been a director, got laid off, and three years later was about to lose her home. Stuck. Could not get traction. Could not move forward no matter what she tried.
And then Shae started asking questions. And found out this woman had lost two or three family members in the years leading up to the job loss.
The grief was the blocker. Not the resume. Not the skills. Not the market. The grief.
Shae referred her to a grief educator. They worked through it. And within a month she had a six-figure job that had not even been posted yet.
One month.
Because sometimes the thing blocking you has nothing to do with the thing you think is blocking you. And a coach who is actually listening — not just running you through an automated system, not just telling you to fix your resume — will find it.
If you are looking for a career coach find someone who is going to actually listen to you. Who is not going to treat you like another number in their queue. Because the investment you are making in yourself deserves more than an automated funnel.
Stop Applying. Start Being Visible.
This was the practical Shae-ism that surprised me most.
Most people think job hunting means applying. Spending hours on job boards. Tailoring cover letters. Hitting submit and waiting. And it is demoralizing. Because most of those applications go nowhere and you are left feeling invisible and rejected.
Shae flips it entirely.
Stop trying to find jobs. Start making yourself findable.
She worked with a maintenance manager making $70,000 to $80,000 a year who had never really used LinkedIn. They got him set up on there. Within a few months he had a call from Amazon. Offer of $125,000. Within a year he was making $200,000.
Because recruiters are sitting at their computers right now looking for people exactly like you. They are not at the networking events. They are not in your community. They are online. And if you are not there — visible, active, engaging — they cannot find you.
Post on LinkedIn. Engage with people at companies you want to work for. Comment on things. Show up. Let yourself be seen by the people who are actively looking for what you offer.
It is the same principle as social media. You can post all you want but if you are not engaging you are just another post that people scroll past. Show up. Be real. Be consistent. The right people will find you.
I know this because people have messaged me after this show telling me that I liked and commented on their content and it meant something to them. Because I actually give a fuck about what people are doing. And people notice that. Recruiters notice that too.
The WTF Wheel Question: Describe Your Inner Child Using Only Snacks
THE WHEEL. DELIVERED AGAIN.
Shae did not even hesitate. Cheetos and Sour Patch Kids. Bold, sweet, sour, sassy, maybe a little bit tipsy without the alcohol. She said it and I immediately understood who she is as a person.
I also told her about a friend of mine — and she will absolutely know who she is when she hears this — who eats Cheetos with chopsticks because she does not want to get the dust on her fingers. And Shae just absolutely loved this. The dedication. The dexterity. The commitment to maximizing the Cheeto experience without compromising your fingers. Icon behavior.
And then Shae told me about her dad pressing Cheeto-dusted fingers onto her school papers. Just randomly. Just because. As a love language. As a dad thing. And I said that is the equivalent of kissing the paper with lipstick except it is a Cheeto handprint and I want that energy in my life immediately.
My inner child snack? Reece's Pieces obviously — people used to call me that growing up because my last name is Reece. And a Reese's Blizzard from Dairy Queen still regulates my nervous system like nothing else. I have released 90 pounds and I have not stopped eating Reese's Blizzards and I think that is actually part of the reason it has worked. No restriction. No shame. Just going with the flow.
A friend told me once that she thinks sugar sometimes helps regulate me. And when Shae got her ADHD diagnosis she started connecting the dots on why she craved Fun Dip and Sour Patch as a kid. The dopamine. The nostalgia. The nervous system reaching for what it knows.
Your inner child snack is actually data. Go figure.
We also got into girl dinner and the Tiffany plate and charcuterie as a grown-up Lunchable and I am now going to be sending people Cheeto-dusted letters and I have zero regrets about any of this.
What Wellness Me Up Means to Shae
Glimmers.
Nobody has brought in glimmers before this episode and I love it so much.
Glimmers are the opposite of triggers — the small moments that make your nervous system feel safe and regulated and alive. The moment you start really getting in touch with yourself and figuring out who you are and what you need. The physical waves that move through your body when you start releasing past trauma. The first sign that something is shifting.
Wellness Me Up to Shae is following those glimmers. Letting go of the past. Making way for joy. Recognizing your own limits and capacity and strengths — and then leaning into all of it.
Wellness me up baby. Let's live a full life.
Want to work with Shae?
Shae Noble is a trauma informed career and business coach helping individuals, women, and organizations build careers and lives that actually fit. She listens. She does not put you in a funnel. And she will find the transferable skills you did not know you had.
📧 shae@traumainformedhr.net
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