Melanie Smith started her career as a platinum-selling, international songwriter, and an award-winning actress. She is now a Master Level Coach who, having experienced much loss in her own life, is passionate about helping people in their healing. Melanie coaches her clients in all areas of relationships, love, loss, business, health, finance, branding, and creativity as they teach her every day that anything is possible, providing living proof that through hard work and commitment, we can all grow, change, and succeed. Her compassionate new book titled Unfinished Business: 8 Steps to heal Your Trauma, Transcend Your Past, and Transform Your Life is a user-friendly guidebook for the heart that is infused with hard-won wisdom from Melanie’s own experiences with grief, loss, and trauma. 

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL HEAR ABOUT THINGS LIKE:

• How a scrawny, sickly, small-town kid became a successful performer, creator, and producer in the entertainment industry for nearly 30 years. 
• How Melanie faced and healed her wounds after losing both her mother and sister within four years, another sister later on, overcoming divorce, financial restructuring, and walking away from two major carers in her life. 
• Why grief and trauma are doorways to possibility and purpose. 
• What inspired Melanie to become a Master level Coach, and the ways she healed, studied, and prepared to live her true purpose. 
• How Melanie guides her clients to shift their identity from the victim mindset to the student mindset. 

SOME QUESTIONS IRENE ASKS MELANIE:

• How does untended Unfinished Business create what you call an “emotional hairball” in us? 
• What are some of your 8 actionable steps that help to clear out the heartbreak, trauma, and grief of the past? 
• Why is Lifestyle crucial to mastering our best life and taking full ownership of our destiny?
• Why is it important to heal on the soul level? 
• Why do you describe grief as a constellation? 
• How did the loss of your precious sister Roseann lead to a profound spiritual awakening for you?
• What does gratitude have to do with finding joy, even in times of struggle? 

Reach out to Melanie for 20% off her book Unfinished Business: 8 Steps to heal Your Trauma, Transend Your Past, and Transform Your Life and 50% off of one session or power session [email protected]