Courage Is Calling with Mel Wiggins

Today I'm welcoming the wonderful Michelle Leeder to join me as we discuss more about Embodied Leadership and share about our upcoming work on this. We get into the weeds about how embodiment works, why it has been so hard for women to connect to this approach in a leadership context and the huge potential and benefits of this approach to change the game for women who lead. We also share with...

Hello and welcome back to Courage Is Calling! Over the summer I found myself beginning to switch gears a little bit in my work. After quite a long time of not feeling super inspired, I had some new downloads of some gentle (but also quite mighty) ideas. One that has been formulating for quite some time is a new model of resourcing and support for female leaders and the idea of exploring what it me...

In all the work I’ve done with women of all ages and backgrounds over the last decade, there have been some emerging themes of self-sabotage that I have seen with my own eyes; some particular ways that I see brilliant women like you and I tripping ourselves up repeatedly over and over again. These are what we're going to be looking at in this weeks episode. If you're looking for some coach...

I don't know how long you’ve been following along in terms of the work that I do or what I share, but if you were around pre-pandemic, you may have seen that I had a little bit of time where I was exploring the idea of influence. I went on a bit of a quest to explore what it means in culture today; to break open the word and dig out all the flesh that we have put around it and try to find out...

I’ve been involved in the personal development industry for just about a decade - 6 of those years directly coaching and building a business. I’ve been around the block in terms of the kind of gurus there are in this industry and have experienced a lot of different schools of thought when it comes to the ways you can make your business successful, grow your income and your influence etc and in thi...

In today's episode I'm going to break down the second tier in the resilience pyramid; the building block on developing internal safety: understanding regulation.  Regulation is our ability to head back to practices that notify our body that we are safe when we feel stress or experience difficult moments or feelings. I'm going to get into some important regulation techniques and also ta...

It’s no surprise to me that I’m hearing more conversations about resilience lately, and having people come to me to support their work or their teams in understanding and building resilience. In times of rapid change and so much uncertainty, we need to get to grips with what it means to be resilient more than ever. We need to learn the tools and practices that can support us to manage ourselves th...

I recently asked this question of female business owners: “What is the biggest mind-trash thinking you come up against in your business that you’d love to work through?” And the number one mindtrash thinking that came up was about other people. Answers were things like: "Other people are better than me" "What will other people think if I do x y and x?" "I don’t think what I have is of value compar...

Today I want to talk about what it means to embrace the feminine energy in business building. I think it’s important before I start to let you know that we are talking about energy here and not gender so I want to clarify that the feminine and masculine principles I’m talking about are not defined by gender or sexual orientation. They are universal energies, principles, or capacities found in all...

Welcome back to Courage Is Calling! Over the last few weeks I’ve been ruminating - allowing thoughts and ideas to come when they’re ready and I usually find when I have a bit more space or margin, I can sense certain things taking shape naturally. I notice that I keep coming back to certain themes within myself, in my processes and thoughts and I notice those things appearing or being talked about...

I’ve been in a bit of a personal shift behind the scenes of my business, so this episode feels vulnerable and deeply personal to me because I want to take you there. I want to share with you how my business has shifted over the last few years and what I’m holding onto as things move forward. I really wanted to share honestly because even though it’s vulnerable, I know there's connection to come fr...

In this episode I want to explore some of the reasons why your work might not be selling the way you want it to. And even though it might feel like this question – "why is my work not selling more?" -  has any number of possible answers to it – I want to focus down into three. I’ve been working with hundreds of businesses over the last six years and I know how tricky selling is, especially fo...

Welcome back to Courage Is Calling! I’m going to get stuck straight into the final part, Part 3 of the ‘What’s Your Method of Hiding’ series by talking about Paralysis. If you’ve missed Part 1 on Perfectionism and Part 2 on Procrastination, feel free to head back and listen to those. But for now let’s talk about paralysis. Because it has a bit of a different edge to procrastination and perfectioni...

Today I want to get stuck into part 2 of our series on 'What's Your Method of Hiding' and have a little look at procrastination. Do you consider yourself a procrastinator? Do you always find something else to do instead of the thing you know you supposed to be doing? Do you find yourself faffing with peripheral stuff more than tackling the real needle-moving tasks? Are you currently procrastinatin...

As I was preparing and planning for what I wanted to cover on the podcast in this next season, I started thinking about some of the common things that are keeping us from building courage and being brave and through my work coaching women running businesses I’ve had a pretty good front row seat to all of the sneaky ways that I see fear showing up and keeping us from sharing our work, our ideas and...

I want to spend this episode sharing with you a tool that I’ve been developing over the last little while. It's one that I use with my clients in my group programmes, so I thought I’d share it here in part and link to the full tool so you can download it and use it for free! I’m calling it the Business Evolution Tool. I wanted to create something that clearly helped female business owners identify...

In this episode I want to talk about pricing. It’s safe to say that so much of the struggle to price what we do or offer comes down to our feelings. OUR BIG BIG FEELINGS! The emotion that we are attaching to money and prices and other people's perception and our worthiness etc. Our feelings tend to come first when we think about how to price: What does setting this price mean about me? Can I deliv...

We can expect that if we’re going to make some bold or brave moves in our lives or businesses or ideas, that we shouldn’t hold out for a sense of confidence. It’s likely not going to show up in the way you think it is. If you are waiting to feel confident about doing something brave before you do it – you might be waiting forever. Because the inner protector or inner guard is built within you to s...

The title of what I want to talk about today is ‘To Be A Woman Of Influence?’ - understanding what influence means at this time in our culture and see how we can understand it and harness it for good in our work, our businesses and lives. I want to caveat this episode by letting you know that this is not a talk about the benefits or dangers of influencer marketing – this is so much bigger than tha...

Today I want to get stuck in right away and talk a little bit about what it means to market your business, your products, under services in a way that doesn't give the 'ick'. The reason that I want to talk about this is because marketing your business especially if you're a woman is really tricky. I also want to make this episode a little bit more directed to the personal development industry. So...

In this episode today I want to give you a run down of my current business model, the one I am training my clients in and using as the basis of my brand builder programme. The next round of the Brand Builder Programme starts on Tuesday the 3rd of May and runs until August. It is a four month business coaching programme for female business owners with individual coaching, training videos, resources...

I’ve been in enough rooms and conversations to know that ‘she loves herself’ usually isn’t the kind of comment you want to welcome. Because what we’ve heard it said about is usually someone who isn’t playing small. Usually we say it about someone who shows confidence in themselves, or who shows up for themselves, or who navigates or moves in the world with some sort of self assurance and that ratt...

This episode is for anyone who is feeling the resistance to moving ahead with their new idea or new thing. Any situation we where you're putting your most truest ideas out there into the big world for other people to see, to judge, to have opinions on is going to be hard. But to not do the thing also brings some tough stuff too. We have to choose which hard thing we are going to pursue, there is n...

Welcome back to Season 2 of Courage Is Calling! In this pep-talk we are looking at comparison. This is the number one mindset issue that seems to be coming up for my clients and the women I connect with. This episode is all about looking beyond or underneath our comparison tendencies to what is leading us there. Comparison is usually symptomatic of some deeper stuff going on for us and I'm laying...

So with the last episode in mind, I want to give you 5 experiences or behaviour signs that might indicate that you need to update your boundaries and give you 5 ways that we can update and implement them. This is an amazing opportunity for you to take stock, to recognise where boundaries are lacking in your life and how you can, without shame, but from a place of empowerment, claim them back.