Do you feel like your life or work lacks meaning?

In this episode, I explore a little-known type of burnout called 'boreout'. Boreout is a syndrome of experiences that can leave us feeling that the work we do has little meaning.  

What You'll Learn:

• the difference between burnout and boreout
• what boreout feels like
• the two main types of boreout
• 5 ways to bring meaning back into our life
• why it is important to address boreout.

I talk about why continuing to develop is critical to our sense of meaning.

I wish you and your family all the best.

With love,

Melisa

References for today's episode:

A. K. Schaffner (2025).  "Boreout Burnout: When to explore and when to exploit, Psychology Today.

Coach with Melisa:

Email - [email protected]

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Music attribution: 

"Wallpaper" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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In this episode, Rory Kilmartin, a global thought leader and expert in human relationships, demystifies why relationships can feel so confusing — even with people we love most.

Rory has spent over 30 years exploring one of the biggest questions we carry: why we relate to each other the way we do. What started as a childhood curiosity has become a lifelong body of work — bringing clarity to patterns that most of us feel… but can’t quite explain.

Rory has worked with people all over the world, and his work helps you see what’s actually going on underneath the surface of your relationships — in a way that’s straightforward, simple, clear, and to the point.  

What You'll Learn:

• What archetypes are
• The 4 different archetypes and common identifying traits
• Why some people struggle to make relationships work
• How to understand your partner better and strengthen our marriage
• How to communicate with the people we love
• How this wisdom can help you raise your beautiful children
• Sibling rivalry
• How to see yourself better through an archetypal lens
• Why we burn out in certain jobs
• Why things all come to a head in midlife, and
• How this wisdom can help us build better communities and societies.

We talk about marriage, partnership, work/career, and raising amazing, well-developed kids. 

The archetypal task of life is maturation - evolution - and this episode is your guide to understanding yourself and the people you love in the various stages of life.  

So as you listen, you might find pieces of your own story coming into focus.

Connect with Rory

Archetypal Relationships - https://archetypalrelationships.com/

Take the Quiz - https://archetypalrelationships.com/quiz

I wish you and your family all the best.

With love,

Melisa

Coach with Melisa:

Email - [email protected]

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Music attribution: 

"Wallpaper" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
 Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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In this episode, I talk to Holly about the spiritual journey. Holly is the creator and producer of the docuseries "Steps to the Soul - A Camino de Santiago Journey." 

In this episode, Holly shares the lessons she learned from walking the Camino de Santiago and silent meditative practice.  Through these lessons, she provides us with some tools for living a spiritual life and spiritual practice. 

What You'll Learn:

• What triggers the spiritual journey
• How to come back to yourself
• Detachment
• Facing major life transitions with grace
• Cultivating self-awareness
• Acceptance and surrender
• Processing endings
• Self-abandonment
• Following your intuition
• Opening our hearts and minds to magic, and
• The spiritual journey as a way to help us move through grief and loss. 

Connect with Holly:

Alta Adventures - https://www.youtube.com/@AltaAdventures

Instagram - @alta_adventures_

With love,

Melisa

Coach with Melisa:

Email - [email protected]

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Music attribution: 

"Wallpaper" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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In this episode, I discuss the energy of this time (Easter) and how we can access the deeper meaning of symbolic endings, beginnings, renewal, and regeneration. 

What You'll Learn:

• The symbolic significance of 'Easter' in collective consciousness
• The energy of this time as a transition
• How the energy of this period can help us transform challenges into soul-alignment
• How ritual, silence, journalling, and contemplation can help us observe this energy to access personal and spiritual growth and transformation.

With love,

Melisa

Coach with Melisa:

Email - [email protected]

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Music attribution: 

"Wallpaper" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
 Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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Sam Vivers has over 25 years of experience building natural homes.  In 2000, Sam built one of Australia’s first strawbale homes and has since delivered more than 50 strawbale and earth homes, and a further 40 homes using prefabricated straw panels. He is the Director of Viva Living Homes, an environmental building company specialising in prefabricated wall, floor & roof systems for high-performance natural homes and commercial builds. 

In this episode, Sam explains what natural building is and shares what you need to know if you want to build a natural home or a natural commercial project. 

What You'll Learn:

• What natural building is
• Some mediums used in natural builds (e.g., strawbale homes, rammed earth, hempcrete, light-straw)
• How natural building supports human health
• How natural building supports environmental health
• The rise of natural building
• Prefabrication in natural building
• Where people build natural homes
• Where to start if you want to build a natural home, and
• Some common misconceptions about natural building.

Natural building is supported by research, industry developments, and underpinned by centuries of building knowledge.  This means that natural building is a viable option if you want to live in a home that supports your health while reducing the impact of the structure on the environment - both during the build and onwards. 

Connect with Sam:

Viva Living Homes - https://vivahomes.com.au/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/VivaStrawbaleHomes/

Instagram - @vivahomes_unearthed

Email - [email protected]

Coach with Melisa:

Email - [email protected]

Follow the show:

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Music attribution: 

"Wallpaper" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
 Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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In this episode, I talk with Glynis Bretherton about clinical hypnotherapy and how it can help us achieve our health and life goals.

Glynis is the founder and Director of Hypnotherapy Training College Australia.  She is a highly respected clinical hypnotherapist, counsellor, educator, and mentor with training colleges in Australia and internationally. 

In this episode, Glynis helps us understand hypnotherapy.

What You'll Learn:

• What hypnotherapy is,
• How hypnotherapy works,
• When hypnotherapy can be used and when it can't,
• What it feels like to be hypnotised,
• A brief history of hypnotherapy, and
• How hypnotherapy can help with spiritual development.

Connect with Glynis through Hypnotherapy Training College Australia:

Hypnotherapy Training College Australia - https://hypnotherapytrainingcollege.com.au

Hypnotherapy Training College (in Dubai) -  

www.hypnotherapytrainingcollege.ae

Email - [email protected]

Instagram - @hypnotherapytrainingcollegeaustralia

With love,

Melisa

Coach with Melisa:

Email - [email protected]

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Music attribution: 

"Wallpaper" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Jan Booth is a global leader in conscious dying.  In this episode, Jan brings her experience as an end-of-life educator, coach, and death doula, and decades of experience as a former hospice/palliative care nurse,  to an open and honest conversation about dying.

Whether you are approaching end-of-life, caring for someone at end-of-life, or want to learn how to live life more fully, this conversation is for everyone. 

In this episode, Jan helps us to have those important, but sometimes hard, conversations about death.  

What You'll Learn:

• How conversations about death can help us live more fully, 
• How conversations about dying can help our relationships with one another, 
• How death can help us with presence, joy, gratefulness, and letting go
• Death as spiritual awakening, 
• How death can bring more closeness, connection, and gratitude into our lives
• How talking about death can help us prepare for what's ahead and reduce the load of grief, 
• How our dying can also be part of our legacy, and
• How conscious dying can help us heal and create meaning in our lives.

Having early conversations about dying can make a world of difference at the end of life. Jan helps us have those conversations. If you have received a significant diagnosis, this episode can help you navigate this time in your life.

With love,

Melisa 

Connect with Jan's work:

deathdoulas.com

consciousdyingcollective.com

Email Jan - [email protected]

Coach with Melisa:

Email - [email protected]

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Music attribution: 

"Wallpaper" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
 Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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In this episode, I acknowledge the challenges of our times and provide you with practical tools to help you move through your stress response.

I talk about what nervous system activation feels like in the body.  I talk you through different ways you can calm your nervous system down, to bring yourself into a state of relaxation.

What you'll learn:

• What the stress response is,
• How to regulate your nervous system,
• How to recognise the language of your body,
• 2 breathing techniques that you can use to improve your health.

By the end of this episode, you will have some easy and accessible tools to help support you during times of stress.

The episode also includes a simple meditation you can use to calm your nervous system down. 

With love,

Melisa 

Coach with Melisa:

Email - [email protected]

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Music attribution: 

"Wallpaper" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
 Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This episode raises a conversation around conscious leadership.  Whether you are leading an organisation, a smaller business, or wanting to raise the consciousness of the society you live in, this episode will help guide you.

We talk about the leadership journey, and I help you identify if you are knocking on the door of this beautiful path.  

This conversation will help you see yourself as a changemaker in an evolving society and someone who can change the world through your leadership. Welcome to the conversation.

With love,

Melisa

Coach with Melisa:

Email - [email protected]

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Music attribution: 

"Wallpaper" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
 Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

In this episode, we're having a midlife conversation with a brain researcher about life. Associate Professor Andrea Bugarcic is a PhD molecular virologist specialising in understanding disease pathways, particularly of the brain. 

This is a powerful conversation about life, and navigating life's challenges and transitions.

Andrea shares how growing up in a country that no longer exists has shaped her.  And how important people are in our life's journey for developing ourselves and our self-awareness. 

She talks about how being different helps us to think outside the box and build resilience. And...how important discomfort is to growing ourselves and the societies we live in.

I am so grateful for this conversation, and I know it will help you think about your life in an authentic way.

With love,

Melisa

Coach with Melisa:

Email - [email protected]

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Music attribution: 

"Wallpaper" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
 Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/