The world we live in is changing - rapidly. And many of us are being thrust into spinning even more plates than usual (and there were plenty to begin with!). We are being challenged to find a balance between caring for our families - some of whom are remote and struggling themselves, homeschooling our kids, running our businesses, finding more time to do simple tasks like shopping (which has now become running the gauntlet for some) and if we are lucky we might get to wash today. Grim but true! 

You might be wondering - How on earth can you increase your productivity during such challenging times?... 

What I know for sure due to my own personal experiences and that of hundreds of my clients is that...

In your most challenging times lie the richest opportunities to grow, expand and if needed find new ways of thinking, doing and being that enable you to rise and fulfil even more of your potential

Don't take my word for it, it's science! Have you ever heard of Post Traumatic ...

Imagination; A Power Tool Used to Build Authentic Vision!  

Have you ever stopped to watch a child fully immersed in imaginative play? 

There are forts, tea parties, dinosaur races and whole worlds of limitless possibilities. 

Most children have crystal clear vision. They can tell you what they want to be when they grow up, all the names of their friends real or imagined. The child naturally has a thirst for life. Wake up, play hard- do it again the next day.

What about adults? What about women with responsibilities? Do we shut ourselves off to the world of possibilities available to us by neglecting the power of our imagination and strength of our passions and desires? 

Pablo Picasso once said: “If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!”

He was tapping into HIS expression of a wild horse seen and created through HIS imagination. His horse was completely unique as it was created to fulfil his authentic vision no matt...

Is you shining your light - now more than ever. 

There has never been a better time to hatch a plan that will lead you to a more meaningful and purposeful way of living your life.  

How does that feel? Does it fill you with fear, frustration perhaps anger?

Or does it fill you with the sense of possibility and perhaps a little nervous feeling in your tummy? 

As you watch my latest video 'What the world needs now' ask yourself...

How does being authentic help me to show more compassion? 

How can I help the world more through helping myself more? 

Becoming Wildly Authentic is about dancing to the beat of your own drum. 

The drumbeats of our lives determine how we feel, how much we do or get done, how much we move, how often we laugh and feel joy. 

In some cultures, the playing of the drums symbolizes the freedom a people had lost and their struggle to regain it.

What freedom are you most struggling to regain right now? 

How would you gauge your life’s rh...

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

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 repeat that lead to me feeling shame, worry and anxiety. 

I...

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 job I had been entrusted with and I could no longer f...

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 would you expect small children to do more than 7 hours a day of focused, con...

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.

Who knew the darkest times could lead to your...

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 it’s been a loooooong time since I was left to my own devices with only myself to take c...

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 a habit too for exactly the same reasons. 

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