About a year and a half ago, my mum came to me and said ‘Have you heard of Melissa Ambrosini? I think you will really like her.’

So as you do, I googled Melissa, and the first thing I watched was her wedding video with her incredible hubby Nick. All I remember thinking was, that is my DREAM wedding!

It was from there, I went on to her website and started reading her blogs.

Well, something shook me to my core. Everything Melissa wrote about and spoke about in her blogs was exactly what I had been struggling with my whole teenage and early adult years. The self-hate, body image, unhealthy relationship with food etc. It was then I also learnt about the ‘Mean Girl’. Not only did I learn about her, I also realised my Mean Girl was turned up full blast, 24/7. Yikes!

I then remember telling one of my girlfriends about Melissa, and saying to her, ‘you have to come with me to Utopia Women’s Wellness event, Melissa is speaking and I think you are going to love her!’ So she came with me.

Melissa was the first speaker we listened to, and we both sat there, in tears. Every word Melissa spoke hit home for me (and my friend). Melissa had moved something within both of us, and it was at that moment I decided it was time for me do something about my nasty Mean Girl! This is not how life was supposed to feel. And if Melissa could do it, so could I.

I was already about two years into building and running my own coaching business, and Melissa gave me the push I needed mentally to step it up even more, and to keep breaking through all of my limiting beliefs. And I was doing it at a rapid pace! Through Melissa’s work, she has helped me come to peace with so many things in my life, and I have felt myself grow more than I ever had before at that point in my life.

Then one of the most exciting things EVER happened. Marie Forleo had also been an inspiration of mine for a very long time when it came to building my business, and scrolling through Facebook one day, Melissa announced that anyone wanting to do the next round of B-School, could do it with her! I literally didn’t even think twice about it. I didn’t have to. I knew it was exactly where I needed and wanted to be. So I enrolled to do B-School with Melissa.

I then finally had the chance to meet Melissa in person, when she ran her live B-School Bootcamp weekend in May 2015. I can honestly say spending this weekend with Melissa changed so many things for me within my business and personal life. Melissa’s authentic and heart-centered ways of teaching and running a business made it so easy to learn from her. She helped me to understand what it actually means to run a business from the heart, and the teachings I learnt from Melissa through the bootcamp have been invaluable! Since her bootcamp, my business has grown dramatically, and still continues to grow. I have coached hundreds of women around the world, and I am now working for myself, full time. WINNING! No more bound to a soul sucking job (which is one thing I was still doing when I met Melissa), I have a few different mentors in my life, and I can honestly say there is not a day that goes by where I don’t implement at least one of the invaluable life lessons Melissa has taught me along the way.

Melissa’s meditations are something I also tell ALL of my clients to purchase. They have been so life changing for me.

A year and a half on, not only has Melissa been one of the few key instrumental people who have made an impact on my life for the better, I feel so grateful to be able to call her a friend, soul sister, and someone I know I can turn to whenever I need to.

Melissa means so much to me and I cannot thank her enough.