All Roads Lead with Mel Leslie

We had a bit of a break in May,  but we are BACK !!! This ep I am letting you in behind the scenes of what's been going on in that month.  The space I took , the drop ins that came through and how that came to me realising a story I'd been telling myself for 30 years ! (yes 30 years !!!!) that isn't even true,  And introduce you to Magnetic Mel and The Magnetic You world Drop me a d...

I went to a tulip field at the weekend. 550,000 bulbs. And I couldn’t stop thinking about it afterwards. Not one of those bulbs waited to feel ready. Not one of them asked for permission to bloom. They were planted, nurtured and when the time came they just grew. Towards the light. Without apology. And it got me thinking about the two ways we get in our own way. The first is not planting at all. K...

I danced from the age of three. For nearly thirty years the stage was the place I felt completely and utterly myself. No mask. No adjusting. Just me. What I didn’t know was that I’d taken the performing with me when I left. In this episode I’m talking about the other kind of performing. The kind that creeps in so quietly you don’t notice it happening. The people pleasing, the lost voice, the sayin...

Three months. Completely certain. No wobble. No doubt. Building everything, believing in all of it, knowing exactly why I was doing it. And then I launched The Back Yourself Live Experience. My first live session — not a digital product, not something that sits on a shelf. Me. Live. Asking people to show up and trust me to guide them. And everything came flooding in.  The questions. The doubts. Th...

She looks like she’s got it all together. Confident. Grounded. Fully in her lane. But what if that’s not the full picture? In this episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on something I’ve been noticing, not just in others, but in myself too. Because the women we often put on pedestals? The ones who seem the most certain, the most magnetic, the most “there”... they’re still in it. Still evolving. St...

If you’ve been waiting for the right conditions before you back yourself, this one’s for you. What if the proof you’re waiting for is never going to feel like enough? I’m Mel Leslie and in this episode I’m getting honest about a pattern I lived for years. Waiting for the conditions to be perfect. Waiting for the evidence to stack up. Waiting for something external to tell me it was safe to move. I...

Have you ever given yourself the afternoon off and spent most of it feeling guilty? Booked the hair appointment on a Tuesday and felt like you were skiving the whole time? Built something you genuinely love, and still can’t quite believe you’re allowed to enjoy it? That feeling has a name. And it’s not a character flaw. It’s not weakness. It’s a programme that never got updated. In this episode I...

I listened to the Daniel Priestley episode of Diary of a CEO yesterday. And I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since.   Not because of the AI stuff, though that's part of it. Because of something deeper that it unlocked. A concept called the Jevons Paradox. And the way it's playing out not just externally, but internally, for so many of us right now.   More tools. More fr...

You know that feeling. Maybe everything is fine. Maybe its a low day. Either way out of nowhere she shows up. Miss Comparisonitis. Making herself very much at home! Maybe it's a scroll spiral. Maybe it's a room full of people doing what you do. Maybe it's a friend mentioning something brilliant and that little flash of something before the happiness kicks in. Maybe it's a perfe...

You don’t consciously wake up and decide to follow rules. But you do live by them. Be busy. Reply quickly. Don’t disappoint. Work harder. Don’t charge too much. Don’t fall behind. They feel normal. Responsible. Productive. Even admirable. Until you realise they’re quietly shaping your decisions, your energy, your relationships, your confidence, without you ever choosing them. In this episode, I’m...

You were sure when you did it. Clear. Grounded. Certain. And then… a few days later, the wobble. In this episode, I’m naming something we don’t often talk about, The Expansion Hangover. That subtle dip in confidence after you’ve made the brave move. The launch. The boundary. The call. The visibility. The shift. Not because it was wrong. But because it stretched you. We explore: • Why confidence ca...

In this first episode of All Roads Lead, I'm sharing the thread behind why this podcast exists. Not a timeline. Not a CV. But the in between space that shaped me, the quiet shrinking before that, the catalyst that forced me to look, and the realisation that life and business aren't separate lanes. If you've ever felt like you don't quite feel like you anymore... this might reso...

All Roads Lead is a podcast about life and business, including the detours, wrong turns, and those sometimes messy middle moments we never planned for. Some episodes are just me, thinking out loud about connection, identity, work, and what happens when things are shifting but not fully clear yet. Others are conversations with guests, sharing their own all roads lead stories and how unexpected mome...