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Courage Is Calling with Mel Wiggins

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Courage Is Calling with Mel Wiggins
This podcast is the go-to space for brilliant women who need a courage pep talk from time to time. Building courage in our lives and our work is hard. And so I want to be able to show up here in this podcast space and make that vulnerable, courage building journey, a little less lonely for us all. I want you to know that you can come here and find a little bit of insight, a little bit of solidarity, or a little bit of support, and just take it with you into the world and do your thing. Consider this your personal pep talk station.
Episode 31: Embracing the Feminine Energy In Business

Today I want to talk about what it means to embrace the feminine energy in business building. I think it’s important before I start to let you know that we are talking about energy here and not gender so I want to clarify that the feminine and masculine principles I’m talking about are not defined by gender or sexual orientation. They are universal energies, principles, or capacities found in all people, systems, and cultures.

We all possess feminine and masculine energy within us and the balance of these energies is used in many different aspects of our lives. We rely on both of these areas to show up in different ways and for different means and in business especially it is important to consider when we need each of these energies. I'm going to share six key areas that I believe need a stronger dose of feminine energy when it comes to building a business - tune in!

I also want to let you know that I am opening the invitation for women in business to join me for my 8 month Accelerator Programme that begins in March. This is an invitation to journey with me over the next 8 months to be supported as a business owner; expand your self-belief, make courageous decisions, learn from female experts in business and have the wisdom and warmth of other female business owners by your side. This is the most beautiful mix of strategy and soul-work - an opportunity for you to discover more about yourself, to lean into your feminine and masculine energy and let that inform how you run your business so it can be both purposeful and profitable. The link to find out about the accelerator and have a chat with me about it is here!

Thank you as always for listening - if you have anything to share on this or want to chat more - you can always reach out to me on email hello@melwiggins.com or shimmy on into my dms on IG @ melwiggins.

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Thu, 16 Feb 2023 07:30:53 GMT
Episode 30 - 5 New Mantras For Business in 2023

Welcome back to Courage Is Calling! Over the last few weeks I’ve been ruminating - allowing thoughts and ideas to come when they’re ready and I usually find when I have a bit more space or margin, I can sense certain things taking shape naturally. I notice that I keep coming back to certain themes within myself, in my processes and thoughts and I notice those things appearing or being talked about more frequently in my calls with groups and clients so I thought I’d share some of them with you today.

I’m calling them Mantras - 5 ideas or ways of being that I really want to hold onto as I run my business and do my work this year. Some of these have been brewing for a while and are finally landing in my head and my heart and I want to offer them to you so you can think on them as well.

So those are my five mantras:

  • Trust is paramount (in yourself and your clients)
  • Growth is not measured by numbers, but by depth of trust and impact in your work
  • Create a body of work rather than churning out content
  • Everything is an invitation, never an expectation
  • I don’t have to do this alone
  • I wonder if any of these feel important for you to explore or take up for yourself and your work this year? I’d love to know if they are - so do feel free to DM me on instagram @melwiggins or to reach out on email hello@melwiggins.com and let me know.

    **And if you are interested in working together this year to help move your business and work into a place of alignment with your values, and of profit and purpose, my invitation to you is to have a look at my Brand Builder Programme. We have a beautiful community of female business owners in there that are working through the really powerful resources and tools that I’ve put together that will bring so much more ease and clarity to your work and over the life of the fourth month programme you’ve got me with you every step of the way. The link to find out more is below 👇 and I’d be more than happy to chat with you about whether this could be the right next step for you in developing your business and you as the business owner. You are always invited.**

    Brand Builder Programme Info: https://www.melwiggins.com/the-brand-builder-group-programme

    Book a Free Chat with me: https://melwiggins.as.me/?appointmentType=36668849

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    Tue, 31 Jan 2023 07:19:56 GMT
    Episode 29: A New Leap of Marketing Faith

    I’ve been in a bit of a personal shift behind the scenes of my business, so this episode feels vulnerable and deeply personal to me because I want to take you there. I want to share with you how my business has shifted over the last few years and what I’m holding onto as things move forward.

    I really wanted to share honestly because even though it’s vulnerable, I know there's connection to come from it and there are a lot more of us out there feeling the shift and wanting to take the leap to do things differently and bet on themselves in a deeper way. Please as always feel free to reach out for a chat, knowing that I’m cheering you on. You can reach me on IG @melwiggins or email me on hello@melwiggins.com

    This is likely to be the last episode of Courage Is Calling before 2023, so in that case I want to wish you all the good things for the holiday season and I’ll be back in the new year with more. Thank you for listening to this episode and coming back to listen to Courage Is Calling throughout the last year.

    Find out about the Brand Builder Programme - open at a reduced rate until the end of 2022!

    Link to the article referenced: Non Coercive Marketing: A Primer

    I’ve got space in my diary to sit down with you and find out about your business, your life and what you really want from it all - book your free strategy session with me here.

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    Tue, 22 Nov 2022 06:52:43 GMT
    Episode 28: Why Your Work Isn't Selling

    In this episode I want to explore some of the reasons why your work might not be selling the way you want it to. And even though it might feel like this question – "why is my work not selling more?" -  has any number of possible answers to it – I want to focus down into three.

    I’ve been working with hundreds of businesses over the last six years and I know how tricky selling is, especially for women, so I have witnessed first hand (and in my own business) the common stuff that gets in the way of seeing those sales come in. And so in this episode I want to offer the top three things that I see business owners often missing that are really worth a deeper consideration…

    1)    Positioning

    2)    Offering

    3)    Visibility Vulnerability

    Listen in for practical advice on how to shift your thinking and action around these things and let me know how you get on!

    If you haven't already, don't forget to subscribe to the footnotes from the podcast!: https://www.melwiggins.com/sign-up

    AND ** I am beginning to offer FREE 20 min strategy sessions for female business owners who might want to reshuffle or build their business in ways that are more sustainable and regenerative for their energy and income. If that’s you and you’d like to have a chat (this isn’t a sales call, it’s purely a coaching call) about what that could look like in your business, the link to book a slot is here: https://melwiggins.as.me/?appointmentType=36668849 **

    Feel free to get in touch if any of this connects and you want to chat more:

    email: hello@melwiggins.com

    IG: https://www.instagram.com/melwiggins/

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    Tue, 25 Oct 2022 05:41:01 GMT
    Episode 27: What's Your Method of Hiding? Part 3: Paralysis

    Welcome back to Courage Is Calling! I’m going to get stuck straight into the final part, Part 3 of the ‘What’s Your Method of Hiding’ series by talking about Paralysis. If you’ve missed Part 1 on Perfectionism and Part 2 on Procrastination, feel free to head back and listen to those.

    But for now let’s talk about paralysis. Because it has a bit of a different edge to procrastination and perfectionism.

    Paralysis may be showing up in your life as real avoidance of decision making and action. It may be showing up in your life as feeling overwhelmed and it may show up in your life by allowing other people to make decisions for you and give you direction.

    If you're feeling stuck in inaction and overwhelm, let this episode give you what I believe is the path back to self-trust and growth.

    Don't forget to subscribe to the footnotes from the podcast!: https://www.melwiggins.com/sign-up

    Feel free to get in touch if any of this connects and you want to chat more:

    email: hello@melwiggins.com

    IG: https://www.instagram.com/melwiggins/

    AND ** I am beginning to offer FREE 20 min strategy sessions for female business owners who might want to reshuffle or build their business in ways that are more sustainable and regenerative for their energy and income. If that’s you and you’d like to have a chat (this isn’t a sales call, it’s purely a coaching call) about what that could look like in your business, the link to book a slot is here: https://melwiggins.as.me/?appointmentType=36668849 **

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    Tue, 11 Oct 2022 05:15:04 GMT
    Episode 26: What’s Your Method Of Hiding? Part 2: Procrastination

    Today I want to get stuck into part 2 of our series on 'What's Your Method of Hiding' and have a little look at procrastination.

    Do you consider yourself a procrastinator? Do you always find something else to do instead of the thing you know you supposed to be doing? Do you find yourself faffing with peripheral stuff more than tackling the real needle-moving tasks? Are you currently procrastinating by listening to this podcast? If you are – I want you to stay here. Procrastinate a bit longer, because I want to offer an alternative way of thinking about how we see procrastination and why we do it.

    It occurs to me that when it comes to berating ourselves for what we might be calling ‘procrastinating’ there are actually a few more intricate things to consider and be self-aware about:

    1)    Are you actually procrastinating? Or are you overworking?

    2)    Are you actually procrastinating? Or are you overwhelmed?

    3)    Are you actually procrastinating? Or are you feeling vulnerable about doing the work that might actually be true to you because it feels exposing and requires you to be visible?

    Let’s look at each of these more closely in this episode.

    Feel free to get in touch if any of this connects and you want to chat more:

    email: hello@melwiggins.com

    IG: https://www.instagram.com/melwiggins/

    *And don't forget to subscribe to the footnotes from the podcast! Click here to get my bi-weekly emails: https://www.melwiggins.com/sign-up

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    Tue, 27 Sep 2022 05:38:14 GMT
    Episode 25: What’s Your Method Of Hiding? Part 1: Perfectionism

    As I was preparing and planning for what I wanted to cover on the podcast in this next season, I started thinking about some of the common things that are keeping us from building courage and being brave and through my work coaching women running businesses I’ve had a pretty good front row seat to all of the sneaky ways that I see fear showing up and keeping us from sharing our work, our ideas and our thoughts. So I thought it would be a good time to dig into some of these common methods of hiding that maybe you can identify with. Some of them are pretty obvious, but today I want to start with one that I know all too well – it’s one of my most common methods of hiding that I use to protect me from vulnerability and it’s also a really sneaky one for women (I’ll explain in a bit) and that, my friends, is perfectionism.

    I know there are women listening to this podcast who have important messages to share but whose self-doubt and fear is keeping them quiet or hidden. I know there are women listening to this podcast who think maybe think that perfectionism doesn’t relate to them or that their perfectionism is just "attention to detail".

    I know that so many of us are caught up in the myth that we need to be more something – more qualified, more prepared, more expert, more influential, more polished – than we are in order to share our ideas or work or to try and develop something that we really want to.... this episode is for you.

    Feel free to get in touch if any of this connects and you want to chat more:

    email: hello@melwiggins.com

    IG: https://www.instagram.com/melwiggins/

    *And don't forget to subscribe to the footnotes from the podcast! Click here to get my bi-weekly emails: https://www.melwiggins.com/sign-up

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    Tue, 13 Sep 2022 06:40:27 GMT
    Episode 24: The Four Stages of Business Evolution

    I want to spend this episode sharing with you a tool that I’ve been developing over the last little while. It's one that I use with my clients in my group programmes, so I thought I’d share it here in part and link to the full tool so you can download it and use it for free!

    I’m calling it the Business Evolution Tool. I wanted to create something that clearly helped female business owners identify where they were in their business evolution or development and maybe notice some of the common issues that come up in these stages and give you some relevant action to take to help move along, to deepen your work and see it develop.

    I’ve grouped them into four stages of evolution: Infancy, Growing Pains, Adolescence and Maturing.

    GET ACCESS TO THE FULL TOOL HERE: https://melwiggins.ck.page/3236b51b2d

    I also want to let you know that my 8 month group coaching programme for female business owners, the Accelerator Programme is now open for enrolment for a September 2022 start. You can check all the info on that out here, maybe even book a chat with me to see if it's the right thing for you! https://www.melwiggins.com/accelerator

    I'd love to hear what you think of the tool, so please feel free to email me and let me know at hello@melwiggins.com

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    Thu, 04 Aug 2022 11:34:33 GMT
    Episode 23: The Myth Of Being “Affordable”

    In this episode I want to talk about pricing.

    It’s safe to say that so much of the struggle to price what we do or offer comes down to our feelings. OUR BIG BIG FEELINGS! The emotion that we are attaching to money and prices and other people's perception and our worthiness etc.

    Our feelings tend to come first when we think about how to price: What does setting this price mean about me? Can I deliver on this price? Will I be good enough to live up to that price? Who am I to ask for this?

    What I want to suggest is not that we leave our feelings at the door when it comes to pricing, because we know that a) it’s not possible and b) we want to include our humanity, our empathy and care in our business in lots of ways.

    What I want to suggest is maybe that we need to tackle some of the particular mindset stuff that comes up that can sometimes be clouded by our feelings. So today I want to start with the idea of pricing to be affordable. Listen in for some advice on how not to get sucked in by the myth of affordability and how to factor yourself into your pricing.

    My Leadership Accelerator Programme for Female Business Owners starts in September 2022! Click here to book a free chat with me to see if this is the right next move for you: https://melwiggins.as.me/?appointmentType=10095367

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    Thu, 30 Jun 2022 08:13:28 GMT
    Episode 22: Managing Fear When You're Making Brave Moves

    We can expect that if we’re going to make some bold or brave moves in our lives or businesses or ideas, that we shouldn’t hold out for a sense of confidence. It’s likely not going to show up in the way you think it is. If you are waiting to feel confident about doing something brave before you do it – you might be waiting forever. Because the inner protector or inner guard is built within you to show up.

    So we need to adopt some tools and skills to teach our brain that it is ready to evolve past the freeze, flight, flight and fawn responses that serve us well when it comes to certain types of threat or harm so that we can respond well to the fear that shows up when we move towards more aligned and exciting desires for ourselves.

    The good news is that adopting some of these tools actually isn’t all that hard so I'm giving you a few key prompts that will help you keep going when you have brave moves to make!

    My Leadership Accelerator Programme for Female Business Owners starts in September 2022! Put your info into this document and I'll send you a detailed info pack! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rLxmc_n19JbdlHCmFsFC7LuYmLQUy1krAPNrBvje9V4/edit

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    Thu, 16 Jun 2022 08:00:14 GMT
    Episode 21: To Be A Woman Of Influence

    The title of what I want to talk about today is ‘To Be A Woman Of Influence?’ - understanding what influence means at this time in our culture and see how we can understand it and harness it for good in our work, our businesses and lives.

    I want to caveat this episode by letting you know that this is not a talk about the benefits or dangers of influencer marketing – this is so much bigger than that. There is no shame to be scattered here today. But influence as a concept has got me really curious because I feel like right now at this time in culture, it’s a word that’s skewed and it’s significant that we understand what it means and how we can harness it to do some good in the world. Some good that our world desperately needs.

    I’m hoping that what I share here will give us all some insight into what it means to cultivate influence in a way that actually makes a difference - that shifts us away from the idea of influence being about consuming and see it more through the lens of contribution or contributing.

    If you are interested in creating more influence in your business, I am beginning to take application for my Leadership Accelerator Programme for Female Business Owners. The link to apply is here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rLxmc_n19JbdlHCmFsFC7LuYmLQUy1krAPNrBvje9V4/edit

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    Thu, 02 Jun 2022 08:01:41 GMT
    Episode 20: Ethical Marketing In A Scarcity Culture

    Today I want to get stuck in right away and talk a little bit about what it means to market your business, your products, under services in a way that doesn't give the 'ick'. The reason that I want to talk about this is because marketing your business especially if you're a woman is really tricky. I also want to make this episode a little bit more directed to the personal development industry. So anyone who is in the coaching, teaching, supporting, wellness and fitness space. I want to talk about this area in particular because it feels like it needs the most regulation in terms of how it is marketed. It is a largely unregulated field and so it’s always helpful to maybe shine a light on some things that might not be best practice and offer solutions to lift up the standards of the industry.

    I really believe that when we are honest and true to ourselves our marketing can come from a place of integrity truth value and impact so today I want to gently uncover some of the ways that I see marketing happening in the personal development space that seems to me to be based in scarcity rather than being values-led.

    I'm also beginning to take applications for my 8 month Leadership Accelerator Programme beginning in September 2022. If you would like to find out more - the link is here to fill in your details and I'll send you over an information document! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rLxmc_n19JbdlHCmFsFC7LuYmLQUy1krAPNrBvje9V4/edit

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    Thu, 19 May 2022 08:14:15 GMT
    Episode 19: Creating A No-Burnout Business Model

    In this episode today I want to give you a run down of my current business model, the one I am training my clients in and using as the basis of my brand builder programme. The next round of the Brand Builder Programme starts on Tuesday the 3rd of May and runs until August.

    It is a four month business coaching programme for female business owners with individual coaching, training videos, resources, an amazing group of other women to support and be supported by. It truly is magical. If you want to grab one of the last spaces, the link is here to do that:https://www.melwiggins.com/the-brand-builder-group-programme

    This episode is the inside scoop on what you need to consider to have a regenerative, purposeful and profitable business, and I really hope it helps any of you that are out there who want to build your business in a way that honours your whole self. Grab a notebook, you are going to want to take notes!

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    Wed, 27 Apr 2022 07:35:22 GMT
    Episode 18: She Loves Herself

    I’ve been in enough rooms and conversations to know that ‘she loves herself’ usually isn’t the kind of comment you want to welcome. Because what we’ve heard it said about is usually someone who isn’t playing small. Usually we say it about someone who shows confidence in themselves, or who shows up for themselves, or who navigates or moves in the world with some sort of self assurance and that rattles us.

    So the words that we use to diminish her are: she loves herself. But what else should she do? Hate herself? Ignore herself? Numb herself out?

    In this episode I'm calling for a reframe on this term, including a bit of a lesson from my six year old daughter (look out for a follow up reel from her and I on IG!).

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    Tue, 22 Mar 2022 07:00:00 GMT
    Episode 17: Choose Your Hard

    This episode is for anyone who is feeling the resistance to moving ahead with their new idea or new thing. Any situation we where you're putting your most truest ideas out there into the big world for other people to see, to judge, to have opinions on is going to be hard. But to not do the thing also brings some tough stuff too. We have to choose which hard thing we are going to pursue, there is no getting around it. If you're in that spot right now and the fear is creeping in and you're ready to quit, listen in.

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    Thu, 03 Mar 2022 11:03:06 GMT
    Episode 16: When Comparison Is Keeping You Stuck

    Welcome back to Season 2 of Courage Is Calling! In this pep-talk we are looking at comparison. This is the number one mindset issue that seems to be coming up for my clients and the women I connect with. This episode is all about looking beyond or underneath our comparison tendencies to what is leading us there. Comparison is usually symptomatic of some deeper stuff going on for us and I'm laying out three key things that it could be AND the important ways we can move through it.

    I'm also mention in this episode about the Brand Builder Retreat Day I'm hosting on 2nd of March 2022 at my home - all the details are here if you want a space to come and join me! https://www.melwiggins.com/brand-builder-retreat-day

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    Thu, 17 Feb 2022 16:06:14 GMT
    Episode 15: Getting Brave With Boundaries Part 2

    So with the last episode in mind, I want to give you 5 experiences or behaviour signs that might indicate that you need to update your boundaries and give you 5 ways that we can update and implement them.

    This is an amazing opportunity for you to take stock, to recognise where boundaries are lacking in your life and how you can, without shame, but from a place of empowerment, claim them back.

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    Tue, 07 Dec 2021 08:00:00 GMT
    Episode 14: Getting Brave With Boundaries Part 1

    About four years ago, I was barely keeping my head above water. I was running a home. I was running a charity, I was running this business – Assembly, I had a two year old and a 6 year old and a marriage and other responsibilities to manage and I was right in the deep end. I needed to make some changes. Not only did I need to get some help medically, I knew I needed to work out a better, easier way of doing things that didn’t involve me sacrificing my mental and physical health.

    So. I want to share some of that learning and how implementing and updating boundaries have been so key to moving towards health for me.

    I think the key thing here is getting to the baseline of why we are so frazzled and torn and I have a few ideas about why this is so and why women in particular are grappling with this desire for balance and boundaries so much more than men and why it is distracting us from the amazing work that we should be doing in the world. This is Part 1 of 2 and I'll be laying out why I believe boundaries are critical and freeing and what might be in the way of us setting them.

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    Tue, 23 Nov 2021 09:00:00 GMT
    Episode 13: A New Approach To Feedback & Validation

    For anyone who is out there trying to do something, put something out there, create something new, offer out their skills or expertise, feedback can be super alluring and super terrifying. It’s almost like we have this push-pull relationship with feedback and validation that means we want it, but it also has the potential to crush us.

    In today's episode I want to talk about what feedback we actually need to get, how we interpret that wisely and how we can build resilience and wisdom about what feedback means. I'm going to talk through 5 key things we need to consider to take on a new approach to feedback and validation. Get your notepad out, it's a good one!

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    Tue, 09 Nov 2021 06:00:00 GMT
    Episode 12: The Measure of Success

    In this episode I want to talk about success and feelings.

    Ultimately, the idea of success is so subjective. How one person measures success is not going to be the same as the next person.

    Most of us are so disconnected to our own desires and needs that we end up defaulting to ascribe to the measures of success that seem easy and palpable:

    -       Hitting a certain number of followers
    -       How many people buy from you or sign up to your thing
    -       How much money you bring in
    -       How busy or in demand you are

    By all means, these can contribute to the idea of being successful and in some ways – it feels really good to know that people are desiring our products, or connecting with our work or interested in what we have to say or share. But this can’t be it. This can’t be all we have been given as a measurement tool, can it? What if we are absolutely missing a critical metric here: How we are feeling about what we are doing. That's what we're going to explore today - so get your journal or notepad out and let's set some new measurements for success.

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    Tue, 26 Oct 2021 08:00:00 GMT
    Episode 11: Women, Let's Talk About Earning Money

    This week on Courage Is Calling I want to talk about the importance of women making money.

    I want you to know that me feeling comfortable talking about making money in my business is something that has been about 4 years in the making. I took on a coach to help me with this stuff, I started opening the conversation in my community about money and I’ve learned a huge amount about the massive importance of being money literate and assured in my business so I want to share some of that with you in case you’re in that position too – where making money or talking about your work or selling or pricing feels hard. You’re not the only one, trust me.

    In this episode I'll be talking through why we find it difficult, why it matters that women feel safe to earn well and get comfortable pricing well for their work. I hope you'll find something in this pep-talk to empower you to ask for what you want and trust yourself to go get it.

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    Tue, 28 Sep 2021 08:00:00 GMT
    Episode 10: The Trouble With Hustle Culture

    Today's episode is entitled The Trouble With Hustle Culture.

    Hustle culture is the idea or the message that our productivity is the most valuable thing about us. Or that if you work harder and faster and more that somehow your value increases.

    The reality is that lessons on the dangers of hustle culture are often learned by burnout. The messages of 'rise and grind' or 'if you want it hard enough' also lack so much nuance, context and real life grounding around peoples differing responsibilities, accessibility, of mental health needs, of time constraints, of financial obstacles, of physical abilities. And when we hold this culture up as the one that is the pinnacle and fob all of that contextual stuff off as ‘excuses’ then the damage is absolutely real.

    So today I want to talk through four ways that I see hustle culture seeping into how we are expected to work today, why it’s a troubling message and what the alternative is.

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    Tue, 14 Sep 2021 08:50:57 GMT
    Episode 9: What Do We Do With The Fear of Failure?

    This week I want to talk about what we do with the fear of failure.

    It’s so so important that we address this as an elephant in the room for anyone who is contemplating doing something new or putting themselves out there in any way with their ideas or work. At some stage or another in our lives, our businesses or in our attempts at creating, we’ve all felt the sting of failure or disappointment.

    -       Something hasn’t quite taken off.

    -       The thing you poured your soul into was met with crickets

    -       The product you really believed in didn’t sell as well as you hoped.

    -       The idea you have had for a lifetime suddenly seems to be happening for other people all around you.

    -       We’ve all lost steam. We’ve all lost our nerve. We’ve all shut down and stopped.

    This is the stuff of being human and we need to talk about it and normalise it just as much as we do the strategies and the reflective tasks we undertake when things are going well. Especially for women, failure feels personal. It feels overwhelming and daunting. It shuts us down, closes us up and stops us from moving forward because failure feels SO vulnerable and exposing. Often it feels like visceral rejection when things haven’t gone the way we hoped.

    But - if we continue to try to hide from the things that aren’t going well, and bypass the hard feelings about the ways in which we feel things haven’t worked out we are going to miss out on a huge component of growth, of resilience building and of the courage honing muscles that it takes to life fully as a whole hearted person. To fail and just hide is to skip the most significant work that we can do as humans. To fail and learn is how we grow and evolve and develop empathy for ourselves and others.

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    Tue, 10 Aug 2021 08:00:00 GMT
    Episode 8: Top 3 Lessons In Building a Business

    Building a business is tricky and even though I absolutely LOVE my job, I would hate for anyone to look in at Assembly and think that it magically and easily appeared. In that spirit, I thought that this week I would share three things that I’ve learned about building a business that I feel don’t get talked about enough in entrepreneurship.

    It's true that the most amount of effort that I’ve had to put in in building my business is the effort of managing my own fears, insecurities and doubts. It’s really difficult to be brave and comfortable at the same time. But I know that taking action, practicing using my voice and getting some support in my business has made all the difference.

    The Assembly Membership Community is now open for new members to join any time. You can find all the details here: https://www.melwiggins.com/assembly-membership


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    Tue, 27 Jul 2021 08:00:00 GMT
    Episode 7: Where to Start With Your Big Ideas

    Today I thought it might be fun to get practical and talk through where to start when you have an idea or are coming up with a new project or offering in your work or creative life.

    It can feel so exciting when an idea or a new thing lands in your mind right? Tingly, interesting, fun, scary, thrilling. All of those feelings have come up for me when I’ve contemplated something a bit new.

    And if you’re also like me, the next breath can offer a whole bunch of overwhelm. Where do I start? Which part of the process of bringing this to life or experimenting is the best course to start down?

    So what I want to do is offer two simple strands for starting. Two strands that will set you in the right direction when it comes to slowly breathing life into your next idea or thing.

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    Tue, 13 Jul 2021 08:00:00 GMT
    Episode 6: Why Trying to be Liked is Killing Your Courage

    In my work, coaching women, it is a common theme that one of the hardest parts of being brave and showing up as your truest self with your work and ideas is the risk of not being liked.

    It feels so viscerally terrifying to contemplate that someone might not like us.

    In this episode, I'm talking through why likability has been such a big deal for women, how it shows up in life and work and how fixating on likability is killing our courage.

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    Tue, 29 Jun 2021 08:00:00 GMT
    Episode 5: 5 Ways to Cultivate Your Intuition

    I believe that intuition is a superpower that we all possess – a gift within us that is our most sacred, trustworthy, brilliant internal guidance system. Like a compass that we can use to understand ourselves more deeply. And yet most of us dismiss it, or forget about it or override it because we live in such a fast-paced, quick fix society where we want other people to tell us the answers to all of our problems and how we should live.

    In this episode I'm giving you five ways that you can cut through the the noise and cultivate your own wise sense of intuition.

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    Tue, 15 Jun 2021 08:00:00 GMT
    Episode 4: Your Ambition Is Not Embarrassing

    I wonder what comes up for you when you think about an ambitious woman? Is there an image or a set of feelings that you might attach to that word: Ambition?

    I KNOW so many women find it really hard to admit that they are ambitious. The fear of coming across as ambitious feels really scary for us because our culture hasn’t allowed women to celebrate their desire for more.

    As if wanting more for this one life that we’ve got is greedy, needy or will make us unlikeable in some way.

    This episodes dives into why it's hard for us as women to own our ambition and why it's important that we begin to turn the tide on the negative, damaging tropes around women's ambitions that keep us small, embarrassed and resentful.

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    Tue, 01 Jun 2021 08:00:00 GMT
    Episode 3: More than self care: What feeds your core?

    The concept of 'self-care' is having a bit of a moment lately, right? That sounds good, but what if it isn't enough? What if what is pitched to us as self-care actually feels like another thing to add to an already full to-do list.

    It sounds like we need a revamp of what it really means to care for ourselves and in this episode I'm going to walk you through the two core components that I believe leads us to a richer, more sustainable way of self-care.

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    Tue, 18 May 2021 03:00:00 GMT
    Episode 2: You Cannot Fight With Your Fear.

    I'm not sure what it is that brought you to this podcast today, but I imagine that for whatever reason, you need some bravery for something. Maybe you've been thinking about a challenge or you've got an idea that you are toying with or thing that you really want to say or do and all of the feelings are showing up for you.  Maybe you've maybe you've dipped your toe in the water of something new and fear has got you totally frozen or unable to move past the point of that toe-dip. And you're actually really ready to run back to safer shores.  If that's you and you feel like there are so many swirling racing thoughts running around your head about what could go wrong, about your own capabilities or how you might fail or make a fool out of yourself? This episode is for you.

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    Tue, 04 May 2021 04:00:00 GMT
    Episode 1: A Simple Framework For Courage

    In today's episode, the first ever episode of Courage Is Calling, I thought it would be good to introduce you to what I call The Courage Concept. This is a culmination of my work, research and experience over the last number of years and is the framework that I have developed to help women understand the components of building courage. Because it's really simple and really hard. 


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    Tue, 04 May 2021 03:00:00 GMT
    Courage Is Calling - An Intro

    Hello, and welcome to the Courage Is Calling podcast. My name is Mel Wiggins and this podcast is the go-to space for brilliant women who need a courage pep talk from time to time. Hands up if that's you! 

    Building courage in our lives and our work is hard. It's hard. And it's hard because courage is built by taking action and trying things out and taking action and trying things out means often taking some risks or venturing into something without any real assurance of the outcome. And doing that is vulnerable. It's really hard. And so I want to be able to show up here in this podcast space and make that vulnerable, courage building journey, a little less lonely for us all. 

    I want you to know that you can come here and find a little bit of insight, a little bit of solidarity, or a little bit of support, and just take it with you into the world and do your thing.

    Consider this your personal pep talk station. 

    I hope you'll join me every other week as we build some bravery together because my friends, you have some brilliant stuff to do in the world. And, courage is calling.

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    Thu, 15 Apr 2021 11:20:46 GMT
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