It's a fucking reclamation.
HI, I'm Melissa — ICF-certified coach, corporate escapee, mom, bonus mom, and professional weirdo. I help millennial women unbury the version of themselves they stopped being “allowed” to be.
I was great on paper.
There's a version of my life that looks really good on a resume.
Fifteen years leading multi-million dollar projects at GE, Shell, and Fox Sports. ICF certified coach. EQ practitioner. Mom. Stepmom. Woman who left a stable corporate career to build something that actually meant something.
That's all true.
Here's what's also true.
I had debilitating social anxiety nobody saw. I'd have full conversations and black out — I literally couldn't tell you a word that was said because the panic was so loud. To cope, I planned obsessively. Every detail, every exit route, every possible scenario.
I thought if I could control enough of the outside, the inside would calm down.
Then the armor cracked.
I took an EQ profile that showed me, with actual data, that I had been running from my own emotional experience my entire adult life. That the planning, the achieving, the constant motion was one long way of never having to stop and feel what was actually there.
What came next was the hardest and most important decade of my life. Therapy. Coaching. Somatic work. Learning to feel things I'd spent years avoiding.
I became a stepmom. I had a baby. Survived a traumatic birth. Barely made it through a year of postpartum anxiety. Changed careers more than once. Reparented myself while I was parenting them.
I didn't go back to who I was before any of it.
I started to build someone new. Same bones. New everything else.
Wired for weird.
That's the thing about this work. If you do it, your weird comes back online. So does the joy.
The version of myself that I put away because life got serious and responsible and very adult — she started to come back. Not as who I used to be. Redesigned. With the wisdom I earned and none of the bullshit that was never actually mine.
Now that's what I help women do.
This isn't a coaching business. I'm building a movement (get it. MVMNT). A village of women in their 30s and 40s who are ready to reclaim the parts of themselves that got buried under the roles, the responsibilities, the years of being everything to everyone else.
Here, it feels like home. Like belonging somewhere where everyone is in the same boat and nobody has to pretend to be fine. It's the opposite of the dark, isolating, exhausting, and empty feeling that so many millennial women are struggling with right now. And is exactly how I lived for a long time.
This community is the antidote to that specific kind of empty. For every woman who finds it.
And for me too.
I'm so glad you're here. Come get weird with us.