Lead Your Day with Merilyn

It's not often that people surprise me. Today's guest did. Yes, Fabienne Fredrickson is a veteran of the business coaching space known for her TedX talk, her inspirational speaking and her hugely successful business, Boldheart is well known throughout the world. 

None of that surprised me. 

What surprised me... what delighted me... was her personal energy. She's even more inspiring off stage, when there's no audience ...

Today’s guest, Dr L. Carol Scott, is an inspiring and talented educator and thought-leader in her professional field. A revered consultant, author and TEDx speaker, she now travels the US in her camper van helping hundreds of women remove invisible barriers, ignite and maintain self-confidence, and explode into an evolution of personal and professional success. 

She has devoted 40+ years to teaching and learning about the experi...

Award winning, entrepreneur, Jennifer Love is a thought leader with a heart that matches her name. She’s CEO of the Living Wealthy Institute, where she helps leaders develop a healthy relationship with wealth, free from overwhelm and anxiety. While remaining grounded in science and hard financial analytics, Jennifer believes ANYTHING is possible.

She's a wealth philosopher and sought after advisor to world leaders, plus an inter...

Today’s guest, Adena Sampson,  is a total inspiration in so many ways. She’s been through a LOT and her story gives hope and encouragement.

Adena is the founder of Outloud Productions & The Unbreakable Spirit Movement. She is an incredible multi-talented, multi-passionate entrepreneur – a breakthrough coach, inspirational speaker, singer-songwriter and best-selling author. 

Having overcome incredible trauma in her life, Adena Sam...

On today’s show I’m chatting with Shani Nottingham - a working artist I met on Instagram. Her art and story fascinated me. And I wanted to share her story with you, to encourage you to find and live your wow.  

And wow, what a story. We cover bullying, depression, the fizzy jitters, adult ADHD, the frustrations and beauty of living in the country and even breadtags!

Shani (rhymes with rainy) is an artist of many talents, working with...

On today's show I'm talking with Melissa Kirk. She is a personal empowerment coach for entrepreneurs, guiding business owners to their next level of success by getting to the root of what is holding them back.

Melissa gets people results - with her out-of-the-box ideas, and ability to help people find and align their passion and purpose, shift their mindsets and create the lifestyle they desire.

For more details go to meril...

Today’s guest is a three time Amazon best-selling author Molly McGrath. She works with small businesses owners on creating teams that work well and grow amazing businesses together.

Since the late 90s Molly has been looking into ways of harmonising the entrepreneur / employee relationships (even though she is not the biggest fan of the word ‘employee’!). She believes that by empowering our teams to feel included and part of a bigger...

Elizabeth Kristof is an expert in using applied neurology to move people out of pain, unwanted behaviour, trauma response and stress.

She is the founder of Brain-Based Wellness, a revolutionary online platform that trains the nervous system and body to resolve old patterns, improve performance, and increase well-being.

She has an amazing story to tell.

For all her details,  and to take advantage of 1 months free membership to Elisa...

On this episode I'm chatting with the very insightful Dr. Maryhan Baker. She's a groundbreaking Psychologist and Parenting Expert with over 20 years experience.

Dr Maryhan works with children, teens and adults who have difficulties managing their emotions, worry excessively, have low self-confidence, find managing friendships difficult, or get a little overwhelmed with life's challenges.

We chat about:

Today’s guest is an author, international speaker, podcaster, a Barrister, an Attorney, a Solicitor, an Intuitive Life Coach, an EFT expert, an Energy healer, a Money Mindset expert, and, perhaps the most important job of all, a Mother.

Gull Khan left her corporate finance background to begin her life as an Intuitive Life Coach and Emotional Freedom (EFT) expert and now helps people heal their money stories and manifest greater inco...

My guest today has battled burnout and illness to build the business of her dreams teaching other high achievers how they can have it all. With a long and profitable career in real estate and sales in Fortune250 companies she was the poster-child of ‘success’. But at a price. 

Now, through her performance strategy and coaching practice, she is helping others redefine success and bring more joy and physical, mental and emotional stam...

My guest today, Gül Sönmez, worked in big multinationals like P&G, Coca-Cola, and Amazon for 15 years. Then, roughly 8 years ago, she noticed she was manifesting injuries and pain on her physical body (neck, meniscuses, back, and thyroids).

Even though she had a nice job, a nice marriage, and a nice home, her picture-perfect life was giving her no purpose or meaning, and it was wreaking havoc on her body.

Gül searched for solut...

Meet Jessica Zemple  - who has the unusual gift of helping people ‘shuck themselves’... !!! Made you look twice huh? 

Like the pearl farmers who 'shuck' the oysters to find the treasure inside, Jessica helps people discover their pearls. She helps individuals and organizations find their deeper purpose and translate that into authentic success through transformative coaching, workshops, retreats, and motivational speaking.

 W...

In this episode I’m chatting with Dawn Dahlby. Dawn is a personal-growth expert in the finance space serving empowered women, executives, and entrepreneurs. Her unique approach combines learning how to live in your worth by aligning financial goals, personal values, behaviours, beliefs, lifestyle goals, and desires. 

With 20 years' experience as a Certified Financial Planner, a Fiduciary, and the country's first Behavioural ...

In this episode I’m talking with Kathy Svetina about a critical area of leading our lives and businesses – finance. So before you glaze over and tune out, take a listen, as what Kathy has to say might just be what you (and your business) needed to hear today. 

Kathy Svetina is the founder of NewCastle Finance, a company offering Fractional CFO services to women-owned small businesses. For nearly 14 years, she did senior-level financ...

If you love an intelligent, high-conscious conversation, then you’ll adore this episode. This is actually the second time I’ve had Monica on the show. It’s a continuation of the fascinating conversation we started in Episode 205 (which I highly recommend you go listen to as well).

I originally wanted to chat with Monica about her successful work in disrupting the dating industry, but it kinda went all over the place – in a very good...

Remember in the corporate 90’s when we used to hang ‘Success’ posters up about working hard, and it was taught by HR training courses to ‘leave your personal life at home’? This chat with author and coach Emily Golden reminded me of that. She too was raised in that high performing corporate culture… but life and various traumas guided her on her true path.  

Emily Golden is businesswoman, parent, lifelong learner and in our conversa...

Wow is the only way to describe this conversation! Hilary DeCesare is an award-winning entrepreneur, CEO of the ReLaunch Co and featured speaker in Silicon Valley. And it has to be one of the most fascinating, engaging chats I’ve done on the podcast. 

Hilary is a transformational coach and has now made it her life’s mission to help mid-life women shift from being stuck on auto pilot to fulfilling the potential they have within them ...