Not Managed. Fully Lived.

The coaching industry needs a reset. In this solo episode, Michele draws a line from Jurassic Park's Ian Malcolm, who warned that the park's creators were so focused on whether they could that they never stopped to ask whether they should, straight to today's online coaching space, where follower count and sales skill too often outweigh actual coaching ability. She breaks down what coaching really is (and isn't), walks through two ...

In this heartfelt episode, I sit down with my neighbor Gail Oxford: retired educator, children's author, wife, mom, grandmother, and one of the most resilient women I know. Gail spent 45 years in the classroom teaching gifted kids and kids with learning differences, long before most schools understood what those kids needed. She wrote her first book while still teaching, tucked it away in a cowboy boot box, and brought it back out ...

In this intimate episode recorded from my deck in Southern Colorado, I pull an exclusive excerpt from my upcoming book, Not Managed, Fully Lived. I open up about my personal journey through the summer of 2022—a season marked by deep grief, a mountain move, long COVID, severe insomnia, and the disorienting arrival of perimenopause. 

I also break down why high-achieving, neurodivergent women cannot simply willpower or top-d...

The questions people ask out loud aren't always the real ones. After three days of live training, here's what actually came up, in the chat, the Q&A, the DMs. 

If you're neurodivergent, nervous system agility is the only way to turn everything you've already learned into the life you want, not just manage your way through it. 

In this episode:

0:00 — Intro 

0:40 — Disclaimer

0:59 — Welcome & Over...

Something has been showing up in my DMs lately, and I could not stop thinking about it. Seven-figure founders. Women running real companies, carrying real revenue, who look, from the outside, like they have it all together. And underneath it, they are hitting an edge they cannot fully name.

In this solo episode, I walk through why. I talk about the two boxes we get handed as women, the girl boss hustle and the trad wife domesticity,...

My guest today is Christopher Barber, an ADHD and AuDHD coach and a fellow high performer who spent years rebuilding his nervous system from the inside out. We talk about what actually broke down for him after decades on medication, what it took to rebuild through lab work and lifestyle change, and how he and his wife built structure into their home so the whole family can regulate together.

We get into reactivity, the moment his ch...

Regulation is not calm. It's agility, responsiveness, and fluidity. It's the capacity to hold and move with what life throws at you, and that distinction changes everything about how you approach healing.

Titration and pendulation, the two body-based skills nobody explains: how much activation your nervous system can actually take in at once, and how to move between activation and ease instead of chasing stillness.

The real s...

Welcome to the first episode of Not Managed, Fully Lived. Before we get into the work, I wanted you to know the woman behind it.

This episode is my own origin story. Not the polished version. The real one. We go back to 2008, a new baby, a market crash, and a body that was already running on adrenaline long before anyone had a name for it. We move through a university coaching program that grew from a beta test into a full departmen...