Empowered: The Book That Heals, Inspires & Educates | Ep 249
Episode Recap: “Empowered from Victim Island to Solution City” 🌍💫
In this heartfelt and powerful episode, Melissa celebrates the upcoming launch of Empowered from Victim Island to Solution City — a transformational book featuring 14 incredible authors who share their real stories of healing, resilience, and empowerment. ✨
Each story shines a light on what it means to rise above pain, reclaim your power, and rewrite your story — from overcoming childhood programming 🕊️, surviving trauma 💔, and breaking free from burnout 🔥, to stepping into independence, purpose, and authentic joy 🌈.
More than just a book, this project is a movement of empowerment with purpose. Every purchase supports Girls Matter, Melissa’s nonprofit empowering girls in Uganda and Kenya through education 🎓 — helping to break the cycle of poverty and open the door to possibility. 🌍💖
💌 Melissa’s Call to Action:
Gift this book to someone who needs a reminder that healing and hope are always possible. Every story will touch a heart — and every copy sold creates ripples of change. 🌊
🎧 Tune in now and be inspired to become part of the movement from Victim Island to Solution City. 💪
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Episode Summary
Book launch and purpose @ 00:07
The book "Empowered from Victim Island to Solution City" is launching next week in December 2025. The book is a collaborative effort with 14 authors sharing their personal stories of overcoming challenges and finding empowerment. The book's purpose is to raise funds for Melissa's nonprofit, Girls Matter, which supports girls' education in Uganda and Kenya to break the cycle of poverty.
Empowerment and inspiration @ 01:49
The book is intended to be a source of empowerment and inspiration for readers, showing that no matter the challenges one faces, it is possible to overcome them and thrive. The authors' diverse backgrounds and experiences demonstrate that there are many paths to healing and transformation.
Author stories and themes @ 03:32
The book contains powerful stories from the 14 authors, covering themes such as:
- Overcoming childhood programming and finding independence (Jan Jansen, Billie)
- Healing from burnout and finding a new purpose (Megan, Kim)
- Surviving trauma and using it to inspire others (Kelly, Heather)
- Releasing limiting beliefs and stepping into one's true potential (Mario, Jenny, Taylee)
- Using holistic approaches to healing and growth (Ronita, Marty)
Recap and call to action @ 21:19
In summary, the book "Empowered from Victim Island to Solution City" is a collaborative effort to raise funds for Girls Matter and share inspiring stories of personal growth and empowerment. Melissa encourages listeners to consider purchasing the book as a gift for loved ones who could use some inspiration, as there is a story in the book that will resonate with everyone.
About the Host:
Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Master Trainer of Hypnotherapy, Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.
Melissa has launched Amplify Impact Academy, with business partner, Billie Aadmi and together they train other coaches, practitioners and counsellors in the 4 mind-body healing modalities mentioned above, giving them powerful tools to use with clients to get results with greater ease, speed and grace. These courses teach life skills and anyone can take them, if you want to be a better leader, parent, partner, be empowered in your own life, these courses are for you!
Melissa’s passion project is her non-profit, Girls Matter (www.girlsmatter.ca), breaking the poverty cycle 1 girl, 1 family, 1 village at a time. The mission is to keep girls in school and stop teenage marriages, because school isn’t free in over 50 countries around the world and when parents have to make the difficult choices of feeding their kids or paying for school, food wins. And when the girls hit their teen years, they will often be married off so that someone else becomes responsible to feed them. Keeping girls in school instead creates a generational ripple effect, because an educated girl is more than twice as likely to ensure her own children are educated. Educating girls also grows the GDP of countries, when they get into the workforce. This is how together, we can change the world. Guests on this podcast are invited to donate to this important cause. Learn more here in this short video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R3-xqzJLZW14om1PhFClcU_oRSZ8zgip/view?usp=share_link
Melissa is also the winner of the 2024 Women in Podcasting Awards in the “inspiration & motivation” category and the 2021 & 2022 Quality Care Award by Business From The Heart and is also the recipient of the Alignable “Local Business Person of the Year “Award 2022, 2023 & 2024 for Whistler.
Melissa has been featured at a number of Health & Wellness Summits, such as the Health, Wealth & Wisdom Summit, The Power To Profit Summit, The Feel Fan-freaking-tas-tic Summit, the Aim Higher Summit and many more! She has also guested on over 90 different podcasts teaching people about the importance of prioritizing our health and how to get started.
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