111 Five Manifest Examples to Align Your Energy to Build Business Capacity

This week is a reminder that building a business doesn’t require perfection, it requires alignment. After an unexpected tech crash (and a full server rebuild), Shannon hit pause, recalibrated, and now she’s back to talk about the energy audit every business owner needs.

If your manifestation feels blocked, your to-do list is running you, or you're creating from pressure instead of purpose, this episode is your reset.

✨ Inside this episode:

• Why manifestation slows when your energy is scattered or forced
  
  
• How to tell the difference between creation energy and obligation energy
  
  
• 5 real-life manifest examples that may be draining your capacity
  
  
• How to audit and shift your energy to allow overflow
  
  
• A behind-the-scenes look at how Shannon rebuilds her momentum—with flow, not force
  
  

If your energy has been on fumes, if you’re stuck in learning loops, content chaos, or offer confusion, it’s time to get honest, get aligned, and get back to manifesting in your power.

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Grab Shannon’s 30-day Manifest Momentum ritual (used by all her clients) to track your business, elevate your money mindset, and align your energy—without overwhelm.

Your manifestations don’t need perfection. They need clarity, capacity, and flow. Let’s audit your energy and manifest like a CEO.

Chapters

• 0:42 Getting Real About Inconsistency
• 2:45 Energy Auditing and Manifestation Basics
• 4:24 Creation vs. Obligation Energy
• 8:24 Five Powerful Energy Audit Examples
• 13:05 Building Capacity Without Burning Out
• 13:57 Manifest Momentum Ritual Introduction

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:21

Welcome back to the Live Life Unapologetically podcast. I am Shannon Kay and real talk. I have been inconsistent with this podcast for a few weeks. I took a week off, I came back and then I dipped again and listen. That is not a confession. That is a reminder that I'm a whole ass human being, building a business, manifesting wealth and still making space for rest, reflection and recalibration. And speaking of recalibration, if you've clicked on any links or done anything, you might have noticed you didn't get a site. Something happened. Well, all the servers that host all my things crashed last week. So we have been tirelessly rebuilding servers.

Speaker 1: 0:58

But in that note, I decided to recalibrate. I wasn't going to push myself to make blogs, post a podcast or do any of those things. While I was working on getting the servers fixed. Everything's almost back to how it should be. Now there's a couple little things to do, but use that as encouragement that if things come up out of the blue and throw you off, you don't have to stress yourself out doing things maybe you would normally do. You can recalibrate, you can regroup, deal with it, because I am a person that I'm not going to give up my rest. I'm not going to push myself beyond. I'm going to do what is in my capacity and what I have allotted for my life when it comes to work, and that's okay. We don't have to be on a reactionary thing where we exhaust ourselves. Had I exhausted myself by trying to do it all and get this stuff fixed in the background, I would be too tired to go on. I would have been inconsistent later on down the road anyway, because that burnout builds up. So this week we are back and we are diving into something that I live and breathe, because when I don't do this, my energy tanks and my manifestation slows way down.

Speaker 1: 2:04

This week we are talking about energy auditing and I'm breaking down five powerful manifest examples to help you align your energy and build capacity in your business fast. So if you've been operating on fumes, stuck in obligation instead of creation, or feel like you're doing all of the things but nothing is moving, I want you to pull up a chair, grab your favorite drink, cozy up and let's fix that right now. I wanna get something straight from the beginning. Manifestation isn't just about thinking positive or repeating affirmations. If you wanna manifest wealth, manifest clients, manifest anything, it starts with your energy.

Speaker 1: 2:44

Manifest Law 101 is that energy attracts like energy. You're not manifesting from your to-do list. You're manifesting from your frequency, which means if your energy is scattered, forced, heavy or driven by guilt, you're going to attract more situations that mirror that exact state. That's why last week, I wasn't about to be scattered or forced or feel heavy trying to do everything. The most important thing to do was to get my servers up. I can't host a blog on a server that isn't working, or my podcast. It wouldn't have mattered anyway. So I set them aside for a whole week, which is not that much time. It's not do or die. If I had to have set them aside for this week too, I would have, but I didn't want my energy to feel scattered, forced and especially heavy.

Speaker 1: 3:31

I could have felt guilty for not doing the podcast or not putting out the Manifest she magazine. For those of you who are subscribed on the first, like I always do, I sent an email and I said hey, I apologize, I feel really bad. This is what's going on. You're going to get your magazine, it's just going to be delayed a little bit. Because you can't manifest from chaos, you can't manifest from burnout and you sure as hell can't manifest overflow from obligation, and that's why doing an energy audit is so important Not once.

Speaker 1: 4:03

Often, especially when you're scaling your business, expanding your income or just trying to stay aligned with building your dream, most women I work with are caught in an obligation loop. They do what they think they should do instead of what feels aligned. That could be building content, calendars based on pressure or creating offers out of panic. The point is that obligation energy is heavy. It drains, it delays and it contracts. Creation energy is expansive. It pulls ideas out of you with ease, it opens doors, it attracts. When I was fixing up the servers and actually having to rebuild the website last week, which a basic version of the website is up now at manifestshecom so I want you to go to manifestshecom and check it out. Like I said, it's the basic version. I will add to it as I go and check it out. Like I said, it's the basic version. I will add to it as I go. But what I did is I recreated on there what I had on the other websites and that I really enjoyed, but there's a whole lot of new features and things that I'm diving into and it made me feel creative. But creation energy is expansive, right, and so it pulls these ideas out with ease.

Speaker 1: 5:16

Well, friday I had it in my mind that I was going to do more of the website building and things happened and there was just interruptions and then it was two o'clock in the afternoon. Well, anybody who knows me knows that my creation energy is at 6am, like between 6am and noon. That's it for me. Something about that time frame for me is my creation zone, and it was 2 o'clock and I just felt heavy about it. So I didn't do it, because that would have been obligation energy, because it was heavy Like, oh, I have to get this site up and going so we can get back on track next week. And I decided you know what, I'm not even going to touch it, I'm going to do other things. I'm going to do other things, I'm going to clean the house, whatever, and I'll get to it Saturday morning. Who cares? Because I know when I woke up at Saturday at 6 am, I was going to be feeling it, and I sure was.

Speaker 1: 6:02

I'm so happy with what's there right now and I have so many other ideas and I will implement them as I go. I have the ideas. They came because that's creation energy, but you also don't have to do everything that comes to you all at once, right, because then it becomes obligation, like I feel very creative right now with the new site and the new features, but you don't have to do it all at once. So it's really feeling your energy and that's why we audit our energy often daily, weekly. If you want to build a business that feels good and makes money, you have to create from desire and not duty. That's the difference between forcing something and being in flow. Had I forced myself to do the site on Friday, it wouldn't be what it is today. Instead, I waited and let it be built through flow.

Speaker 1: 6:52

I think that's a hard mindset for a lot of us, because we feel like, no, I have to do it now. My business was basically frozen for a whole week. It's fine. It is fine, really, a week and a half, but it's fine because I trust the universe, I manifest it anyway and I know money comes from multiple places, not just my business. It will be okay. It will be fine, it will be okay, and that's just letting things flow and releasing that which is not in your control.

Speaker 1: 7:19

Then, when the solution arises, not burning yourself out, trying to fix it all at once, like just flow with it. Now here's the good news is that you don't need to overhaul your entire life to shift your energy. You really just need awareness. You need to pause long enough to audit your energy and ask yourself am I creating from alignment or obligation? Does this feel expansive or forced? Is this something I want to do or something I have to do? And then, instead of trying to push through, you pivot, and that's manifestation energy. That is how you co-create instead of hustle.

Speaker 1: 7:57

So let's talk about five manifest examples to audit and align your energy right now. I really wanna get into what this actually looks like when you're running a business. These five manifest examples show how everyday obligations sneak into your workflow and throw off your manifestation energy. So you can catch it, shift it and call in more aligned success. For the first example, it's doing all the things that experts say you should be doing. So maybe you downloaded 20 freebies about the same topic. You signed up for five courses, you never finished and you're halfway through trying to figure out a Pinterest strategy, even though you hate Pinterest. You're trying to manifest business growth, but your energy is in total chaos. So, to audit that energy, ask yourself are you learning out of fear or are you learning out of alignment? Are you following strategy or running in circles hoping something sticks and then to shift, unsubscribe, mute, delete and then to shift, unsubscribe, mute, delete. Choose one mentor or one method that resonates and commit to that. Your energy needs clarity, not noise.

Speaker 1: 9:07

The second example is social media running your business and your life. Maybe you're on Instagram stories, tiktok and threads before you've even had breakfast. You feel like if you don't post daily, the algorithm will forget you exist. You're showing up, but it's draining, not empowering. So to audit this energy, ask yourself are you posting for connection or out of panic that you'll lose momentum? And the shift for this is to pause and ask what platform feels fun? Where do you connect best? Show up there and let it be enough.

Speaker 1: 9:46

The third example is that you have 17 browser tabs open and no idea what you're working on. You start creating a sales page, then you end up watching a YouTube video about AI and now you're rethinking your entire funnel. You're busy, but nothing is moving. To audit that energy, ask yourself am I multitasking or distracting myself from the real work? Close the tabs, choose one priority for the day and let that be your only focus, because presence is equal to power. The fourth example is you're building offers you don't love because someone said they're going to convert better. You've heard high ticket is the way, then you heard low ticket is a path to freedom, and now you're trying to do both and you kind of hate it all. To audit this energy, ask yourself did I create this offer from a desire or from strategy overload? And then to shift, go back to the offer that excites you, the one you can't shut up about. The energy is magnetic, not the price point. And the fifth example is you're trying to implement too many growth strategies at once. You're batching reels, you're rewriting emails, planning a launch and you're halfway through redesigning your website because somebody online said that your brand might not be premium enough. To audit this energy, ask yourself am I expanding or overcompensating? And then to shift, decide what matters right now.

Speaker 1: 11:14

Business strategy success comes from mastering one thing, not doing 10 things halfway. And here I'm not talking about perfection. You know that I am always going to tell you go, do it imperfectly, the mastery comes. So for myself, I blog a lot and I do a podcast. There's lots of things I do now, but I did one thing at a time. My podcast was sloppy at first but I just kept doing it. I did put it out there and now I've mastered it.

Speaker 1: 11:45

Once I mastered my podcast and I had a really good strategy for that and a good system, so it didn't take up all my time like the fun part talking to you. That's the fun part. It's the editing on the back end. That's not the fun part. But once I had a system in place for that and it was mastered and it doesn't take me much time. Then I added in blogging and I started with one blog. And how do I master that? Now I can pump out a podcast and three blogs a week and it takes me about eight hours to do all four of those things, including Pinterest strategy with them. But I did it one at a time and I built on it and I only built and added when I felt like I had the capacity to do so.

Speaker 1: 12:24

So when I say that success comes from mastering one thing and not doing 10 halfway, that's what I mean. I don't mean you have to become perfect at something before you start. Just start with one thing and when you get to a place where it's flowing the way you want it, to, the way that feels good and you've really perfected how you do it on your end and you have the capacity, then you can add in something else and build up, and then you can add again and again and that's how it goes. You don't need to be perfect, you just need to be honest. Your energy leads your business. It leads your manifestations. So if you want more overflow, more clients and more impact, it starts with auditing how you're moving through your work. That's how you build capacity. That's how you expand without collapsing. That's how you expand without collapsing. Manifest business growth from flow, not from fear, not from pressure and not from performative hustle. That's the move.

Speaker 1: 13:18

If your energy feels off, if you feel like you're doing all of the things and still getting nowhere, like you're drowning in strategies and nothing's actually sticking, then it's truly time for you to build some momentum. But we're not going to do that by adding more to your plate. Manifest Momentum is a 30-day ritual that I use with every single one of my clients. It's a simple, powerful daily tracker with prompts for your business, for your money, and a space to really reflect and to see what is going right, because sometimes we really need to know what's going right in our businesses. This is not another to-do list, it is a vibe shift. So if you want to move energy and manifest on purpose without burning out, there's going to be a link in the show notes to create some real momentum without overwhelm.

Speaker 1: 14:02

If it feels heavy, it's probably out of alignment. If it feels forced, you're not in flow. If it feels like creation, you're already manifesting faster than you realize. Audit your energy this week. Then act from alignment, not guilt, not fear, not noise, and that's how you collapse timelines and call in more. Your capacity isn't built in the hustle. It's built in the energy behind the moves you make. Let's make your moves powerful, let's make them intentional, let's make them intentional and let's make them you. I will chat with you next week.