For the entrepreneurs and leaders building something powerful — without wanting to lose themselves in the process.
Where to tune in?
"The question is not just, 'What are you building?' The deeper question is: Who are you becoming while you build it?"
The Grounded CEO is a conversation-based TV show hosted by Shayna Renée — for Black entrepreneurs, executives, founders, and visionaries navigating the real tension between success, identity, relationships, wellness, faith, family, and inner alignment.
WHY THIS SHOW EXISTS
Success Should Not Cost You Your Peace
Ambition is not the problem. Misalignment is.
Entrepreneurs and leaders are building bold visions, making meaningful decisions, growing businesses, leading teams, loving families, and becoming fuller versions of themselves along the way.
The Grounded CEO exists to tell the truth about the human being inside the success.
When we honor our full humanity, we do not have to choose between ambition and peace, strategy and soul, growth and groundedness.
We can build powerful things without losing ourselves in the process.
This show makes room for the conversations leadership spaces often skip — the ones about faith, capacity, identity, rest, relationships, healing, and the inner work required to build something that can actually last.
WHO THIS SHOW IS FOR
This is for you if…
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You are building a business, brand, family, team, or legacy — and you are realizing that how you lead matters just as much as what you build.
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You are successful, but tired of performing like success never costs anything.
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You are ambitious, but you no longer want your ambition to be fueled by survival.
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You are making decisions that affect other people, and you need space to hear yourself clearly.
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You are a Black woman leader carrying more than people know.
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You are a Black man navigating the tension between strength, empathy, provision, and being fully human.
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You are an entrepreneur, executive, creative, founder, parent, partner, or visionary who knows that the next level cannot require self-abandonment.
SEASON 1
Real conversations for the real tensions entrepreneurs carry.
Season One opens with a powerful question: What does it mean to be a Grounded CEO?
Ambition vs. Stability
Can you be both ambitious and regulated — or does success require instability?
Attachment vs. Evolution
How do you let go of something that worked, but no longer fits?
Devotion vs. Division
How do you show up for your family and your business when both truly need you?
Humanity vs. Survival
What does empathy cost in spaces that do not reward it?
Control vs. Collapse
When everything changes, do you rebuild what was or become someone new?
Logic vs. Reality
What happens when the "right" strategy cannot meet your actual capacity?
Perception vs. Reality
What do you do when it looked good on the outside, but felt chaotic within?
Metrics vs. Meaning
How do you know if you are actually successful when success looks good on paper, but terrible on you?
Every episode is an invitation to pause, reflect, and ask: What would change if I led from a more grounded place?
BE A SPONSOR
The Grounded CEO is opening a timely, breakthrough conversation that so many entrepreneurs and leaders have been yearning for — one where ambition, healing, identity, faith, leadership, and wholeness are finally allowed to belong in the same room.
As a sponsor, your brand becomes part of making that conversation possible. Whether through episode sponsorship, season-long partnership, launch support, or broader network visibility, you will align with a show created to reach Black entrepreneurs, executives, visionaries, and leaders who are building success with more truth, rhythm, and wholeness.
This is more than brand placement. It is an opportunity to stand with a movement, support a necessary conversation, and be seen by a community ready for a more grounded way to build, lead, and live.
MEET YOUR HOST
Shayna Renée
Shayna Renée is the founder of Indigo Unbound and host of The Grounded CEO. Her work lives at the intersection of leadership, inner work, healing, spirituality, wellness, and business.
Through Indigo Unbound, Shayna creates spaces for Black entrepreneurs and leaders to return to themselves, tell the truth, reconnect with their bodies, and build from a place of alignment instead of pressure.
As host, Shayna brings warmth, wisdom, spiritual grounding, and the kind of presence that makes people feel safe enough to say the real thing out loud.
She does not interview for performance. She opens the room for truth.
