The Women Who Are Becoming Unfuckwithable.
No polish. No permission-asking.
Simply the women who've been through my programmes in their own words.
Real testimonials from the programmes helping women end people-pleasing and lead with grounded self-trust.
Fiona Kearns
Rise Above Cohort 1
Sophie Meaney
Rise Above Cohort 1
Yvette Allen
Rise Above Cohort 1
Lorna
Rise Above Cohort 1
"It's helping me challenge my good girl voice and behaviours so I can think and do bigger, better than I ever thought I could before."
Rachel
Rise Above Cohort 1
"Being in the community of women, and having regular sessions is creating a different story in my head, and a different 'normal'."
Alex
Rise Above Cohort 1
"This work is transformational. A community of women helping each other, listening to one another is powerful."
Sendra
Rise Above
Cohort 1
"Connecting me to powerful women who don't have enough fucks to give anymore about all the rules we're meant to be following."
Participant
Rise Above Cohort 1
"This has changed my life, inside and outside work. I've learnt more about myself in this short time than I have in my whole life."
Alice Wilson
Corporate Cohort
"I'm no longer afraid to speak up, make mistakes, or ask for help when I need it."
Participant
Corporate Cohort
"You will learn how to free yourself from the systems and dynamics that benefit from your silence and free labour."
Sarah Milburn-Brown
Corporate Cohort
"Being less concerned with being liked - I now delegate tasks and ask for support with a clear view of the purpose, without apologies."
Participant
Corporate Cohort
"Connecting with other women on the course has reassured me that I'm not alone in these feelings."
Participant
Corporate Cohort
"Becoming more attentive to myself: my needs, emotions, limits, and wellbeing."
Igmar Sepulveda
Corporate Cohort
"We are strong, kind, capable, powerful, beautiful women - just as we are."
Pamela Avornyo
Corporate Cohort
"Being able to share examples of challenges without seeing it as a weakness, and sit with discomfort instead of trying to alleviate it immediately."
Participant
Corporate Cohort
"I feel confident, empowered and unstoppable."
Alma T
Corporate Cohort
"Prepare to be amazed by how much good girl conditioning has impacted and directed your decisions and beliefs."
Laura Rowell
Corporate Cohort
"I am who I am, and I can do what I can do and that's enough for me."
Participant
Corporate Cohort
"I trust my judgement more and am very conscious of helping to champion other women, something that just wasn't on my radar before."
Participant
Corporate Cohort
"It was nice to learn that there are many women who feel as I do, so that was very validating." Three words: empowering, uplifting, validating.
Tamara
Rise Above Cohort 1
"I realised it was less about removing elements of my personality and more about bringing forward the authentic parts."
Kate
Rise Above Cohort 1
"An enlightenment on how powerful a positive force connection with like-minded women can be."
Tina
Rise Above
Cohort 1
"Rise Above isn't 'just a programme' - it's an enlightening experience that offers women a more authentic way of bringing their whole, messy and unapologetic selves into the world."
Lynne Stobbart
Rise Above Cohort 1
"An unlearning of all the shit we've put up with that doesn't benefit us at all."
Claire
Rise Above Cohort 1
"I allow my power in so much more freely now. I am more direct, less afraid, more focused on what actually matters."
Dr Hanne Warren
Rise Above Cohort 1
"I no longer see myself as broken but as an equal and integral part of an amazing group."
Lorna Watkinson
Rise Above
Cohort 1
"The tools and deeply healing sisterhood you need to break free from always being the 'good girl' and start showing up as the person you truly want to be, more often."
Elizabeth Sturdy
Rise Above
Cohort 1
"Being liberated by a compassionate community you can totally trust."
Sophie Meaney
Rise Above Cohort 1
"The most impactful program I've had the privilege of being a part of in nearly 5 years."
Nancy
Rise Above Cohort 1
"It won't be what you thought!"
Participant
Rise Above
Cohort 1
"It will be the best investment you have ever made in yourself."
Yvette Allen
Rise Above Cohort 1
"It's a great way to challenge the conditioning that holds you back."
Participant
Rise Above Cohort 1
"A way to rise up and start to find yourself."
Participant
Rise Above Cohort 1
"It's transformative - you should join, Michelle and the community are fantastic."
Sendra
Rise Above
Cohort 1
"A life-changing programme of personal development everyone deserves."
Rachel
Rise Above
Cohort 1
"I feel more than ever that empowered women are capable of so much more than their male counterparts."
Cat Barnard
Rise Above Cohort 1
"When training works, it really works."
Alex
Rise Above Cohort 1
Thank you, Michelle, for helping me to see this clearly and the coven of women who demonstrated it daily..."
Alex
Rise Above
Cohort 1
"Michelle and her team are on a mission to help the nice, polite, helpful, caretaking good girls of the world figure out who THEY want to be."
Elizabeth Sturdy
Rise Above Cohort 1
"She isn't afraid of naming the gendered roles we play and the ways these keep women down... I love her work and the women around her!"
Hanne Warren
Rise Above Cohort 1
"This wasn't just any women's group - it was the most open, honest, supportive, non-judgemental and caring group I've ever participated in."