I'm here for you and I want us to be here for each other

 

 

I'm here for you and I want us to be here for each other

We are facing unprecedented times.

We are in a state of upheaval.

We are being faced with decisions and dilemmas that are causing us to question so much we previously took for granted. 

And it feels hard and scary. 

Let's do it together - Come and join me in my Facebook group where I will be offering support and Live Q&A sessions over the coming weeks and months.

Living and Leading Authentically Facebook Group

Tell me specifically what you want to be supported with and I'll help you in anyway I can.

See you in there, Mel x

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I'm Coming Out The Closet...

Uncategorized Mar 17, 2020

To ask a very important question... Do Spirituality and LOVE Belong in Business?

 

Since leaving my 'successful' but unfulfilling corporate career I've slowly but very surely come out of my spiritual closet. 

 

It has taken me 5 full years to explicitly say this and write about it publicly - mainly because I now have enough strength in my own conviction of belief and a massively increased capacity to bounce back from the impact of what other people think about me! 

 

So does spirituality belong in business?... I say YES, ABSOLUTELY - IT'S ESSENTIAL. 

 

And here's why. 

 

To me a large aspect of my spirituality is my capacity to love - myself and others, with minimum shame, judgement, negativity or expectation. 

 

And this capacity to love myself and others more freely has also helped me positively influence my ability to quiet the critical voice in my head that can rage and ruminate and play negative stories on...

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5 Questions To Help You Use Failure to Your Advantage

As I sat waiting in the coffee shop, I was overflowing with anxiety and emotion. Tears brimmed from my eyes and I was shaking like a leaf... Yet underneath the surface I had accepted what I needed to do. Now I had to follow through on that and say the words out loud.

 

It was about to become one of my life's greatest defining moments. 

 

I knew that by saying the words out loud I was giving them form, making them real and that through uttering them I would open Pandora’s box… And deep down I had a knowing that my career and professional life as I knew it would be forever changed - but I had no idea what that would look like. 

 

So I waited for my boss to arrive and steadied myself to bring my failure full circle and admit defeat.

 

It was a HUGE admission.

 

I had spent all my energy holding things together for soooooo long to AVOID failure and now I was about to agree with all my critics - that indeed I wasn’t up to the...

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Are YOU conforming without even realising?

Charlie (the glue guy) is reading a book right now about homeschooling. It’s called The Call of the Wild and Free. I bought him it for Xmas as it sounded like the type of thing he’d like (I was right, he does!) 

 

Anyway, we got to chatting about a point made within the book about the rationale or need for kids to receive homework, something neither of us had thought to question until now. *Warning - personal and possibly controversial viewpoints coming up!*

 

The point made within the book was why would you need to give children more work to do at home in their own time when they spend 7 hours a day, 5 days a week at school learning? 

 

Hmmm - indeed when you stop to consider the rationale it doesn’t make sense… 

 

It immediately started a lively conversation in our kitchen - 

 

  • Was the teaching system so inefficient that they couldn’t fit all of the education into the allocated time?

 

  • Why...
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You deserve nothing less than the technicolour brilliance of life...

So why are you setting for less?...

 

A mentor once told me your fears are the gatekeepers to your greatest gifts. 

 

It resonated somewhere very deep within me - the way a truth you already know always does.  Stirring an awakening in my restless soul.

 

Bit by bit over the last 5 years I have worked each and everyday to release the grip my fears used to have on me and watched in wonder as my life has completely transformed.

 

I’ve cried countless rivers of tears.

 

Let go of the people that I loved the most.

 

Become a mother to my incredible son.

 

Created a business that provides me with freedom AND enables me to do important and necessary work in the world.

 

And chosen ALWAYS to lean into my pain and discomfort in a bid to learn from it, understand it and through this process trust that it will pass.

 

I can confirm with confidence that it ALWAYS does. And leaves precious jewels of wisdom and guidance in its wake.

...

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Why it's OK to feel scared and what to do about it

I'm off to Paris on Thursday to meet a client and spend the day strategising for her new business 

 

And I'm feeling a bit nervous. 

 

There. I said it out loud. 

 

It's taken me completely by surprise. 

 

I LOVE solo travel. 

 

But I haven't done it much AT ALL for over 3 years as I have been focusing my energies on becoming a Mum and learning how to run my business at the same time.

 

Confidence is what I do well. Confidence is what I help others do well.

 

Yet here I am - feeling the all too familiar butterflies in the tummy and wondering why?

 

And through a short walk out the house to Costa for some fresh air and headspace here’s what I’ve discovered/been reminded of. 

 

In Paris without the safety blanket of my partner Charlie and my little boy Maximilian I will be more exposed.

 

Without them to focus my energy and attention on I will be left to my own devices. 

 

And...

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Looking BACK to move FORWARD (GIFT INSIDE!)

Uncategorized Jan 06, 2020

One of the habits that is now hardwired into my life and my business is taking time at the end of the year to reflect. My natural tendency is to 'do do do' and not take a lot of time to reflect but it’s a skill I’ve forced myself to learn over the years and something that I now really enjoy and benefited from massively. 

 

I love taking time out to think back on each month and recognise what happened, what I accomplished and what we experienced as a family. 

 

I am always blown away by how many gifts the year provided us with - even in the hard times, there are so often little nuggets of wisdom or lessons that have developed a deeper significance as time has progressed. 

 

This process of reflection helps me to notice and find these gifts in amongst the noise of life and is such an important ingredient for building a strong sense of confidence in who I am and what I do. It’s also something I encourage my coaching clients to develop as...

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What do YOU think the world needs now?

Uncategorized Dec 28, 2019

As a Women's Leadership Coach my mission is to empower women to overcome the fears and doubts and lies that keep them feeling small and insecure and to 'do the work' to rise into their full potential and fulfil their purpose during this lifetime. 

 

4 years ago I took the leap to set up my own business with absolutely no idea what i was doing or how I would make it work - but with a burning desire to be of service to other women who found themselves feeling burnt out and unfulfilled and a deep knowing that I would work it out - no matter what it took. 

 

And I could never have anticipated the rich rewards I would find on this journey - the joy of service, deeper meaning and fulfilment, creating a powerful positive impact in the lives of others, and so many new relationships and connections with amazing people. And the freedom to live my life dancing to the beat of my OWN drum and not a corporate beat that never felt like my rhythm. To say I have no regrets is an...

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You DON'T need to always be the strong one...

Uncategorized Dec 23, 2019

This guy is the glue that holds it all together.

He's my baby daddy, my life partner, my business partner and previous party partner! (We used to ALWAYS be the last ones standing!)

 

He's my sounding board, my shoulder to cry on, my safe port and my anchor in a stormy sea.

 

He's seen me at my absolute best. My absolute worst. And my most vulnerable.

 

He's seen me cracked wide open with a river of grief and unending pain flowing from me that terrified me more than anything else in my life because I didn't know if it would ever stop. (It did :-))

 

I used to try SO HARD to hold it all together.

 

To be the 'strong' one.

 

To fix everything for everyone else.

 

I found it very hard to accept help, to show my perceived weakness. To let people see if I didn't have all the answers.

 

I had a warm heart and cared deeply for others and was always running to everyone else's aid - little did I know I was really living from a place of the ego and not...

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Did you know....

Uncategorized Oct 22, 2019

There's only 10 more Mondays left this year! 

How's yours going?  

I've been thinking of you and rooting for you <3   

I'm off to USA this week to work with my mentor which feels like the right decision but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't feeling anxious and a wee bit emotional about leaving Maxi behind.  

It's my first time leaving him for more than a day since he was born 21 months ago and it was a big decision to make - but I know deep down its the right one for him and his future and for Charlie, Maxi and I as a family.   

Because isn't that the way it goes sometimes? You need to do the thing that feels scary and uncomfortable to reach your next big breakthrough. I need to trust my gut feeling that although there will be tears and separation in the short term, this is the right move to create a future where I have even more time being truly present with my little man.  

When I am in Orlando, Florida this weekend I won't be at the...

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