Two very different businesses, I know, but that’s my point. By applying my method, these businesses were able to focus, increase their passion for what they do, draw in business more easily, get clients paying what they’re worth and feel fully aligned. They also got their businesses to a stage where they could take time out for themselves for the first time in a long time.

Now, I know you might be thinking “That’s all very well Michele. You make it sound so simple but you’ve probably got a degree and done a tonne of formal training. You probably got a good solid start and have had great support along the way.” Oh boy, you COULD NOT be more wrong. I come from a more disconnected background than you could possibly imagine.

I spent my early years, up to age 12, alone with my violent paranoid schizophrenic mother. I was surrounded by chaos almost all of the time.

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I had no extended family, no siblings, no Dad around and my mother had few friends. I was severely introverted, timid and sensitive. I developed a stammer and I became a natural target for bullies.

Because, at the time, I had little or no control over my situation or my mother and her condition, I became seriously lost. I have no idea where my path lay or where it would take me. I didn't even know there WAS a path.

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BUT, even at that young age, I knew I was meant for something else. Something better. I knew deep down that I was here for a reason and so what I needed were coping strategies and an escape plan. I had to survive until I had the chance to control my own life, to find my own path. 

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I spent every available moment I had reading, watching, gathering inspiration. Studying other people's lives in order to work out what I was meant to do with my own. And then, age 12, I finally had all the knowledge and tools I needed to finally escape and begin the journey towards living the way I was meant to.