“She who faces her darkest days and nights can dance again and shine her light.”
~Baby & Child Loss
~Death & Dying
~Infertility & MIscarriage
~Loss of partner
~Disability
~Death of parent
~Terminal Illness
~Health Changes
~ Child with special needs
~Baby & Child Loss ~Death & Dying ~Infertility & MIscarriage ~Loss of partner ~Disability ~Death of parent ~Terminal Illness ~Health Changes ~ Child with special needs
The Call to Rise
Hey, strong warrior. You’re welcome here.
We’re the women who’ve walked through the fire of loss, grief, illness, heartbreak and reinvention — and now we’re using our voices to light the way for others.
Bold Women Speak is a movement and sisterhood of gutsy women (yeah that’s you!) who choose to rise from grief, find their voice even when it shakes, share their stories and wisdom, and transform their hardest womanly life experiences (a.k.a the grief and grit) into powerful advocacy movements – in the family, community or even on the world stage.
This is a unique combo of grief support, speaking up confidence building and for some, being behind their cause and making change.
Your invitation to rise
In sisterhood. In safety. In strength.
Because when women speak, systems shift.
When stories are shared, silence is broken.
And when one voice rises, a thousand more are set free.
A collective where we celebrate and co-elevate each other.
~Grief & Loss
~Women's Life Changes
~Speaking Out
~Lead a Cause
~Grief & Loss ~Women's Life Changes ~Speaking Out ~Lead a Cause
Your Transformational Journey
Freshly Squeezed
1 : 1 Grief Guidance
Rising from grief in a radically different way - through the BWS Transformation Journey foundations. (listen in below)
So, you’re going through the throes of grief in its not-so-glorious yuck, and you’re feeling the pull to put regret, guilt, pain, shame, sadness, and anger behind you and stretch yourself and kick yourself out of the metaphoric sticky cocoon that keeps you in that “grief” spot.
This is grief guidance. But in my lived experience, grief, as ugly as it can be sometimes, is very often the growth curve where we can actually rise, believe it or not!
I’m here to hear you. To see you. To believe you. To feel with you. And I”m also here to challenge you in taking this opportunity to rise in self-worth - in this case ask and get what you need, do the things that light you up rather than keep you in sorrow and to speak your truth - perhaps for the first time ever.
Grief - the catalyst for metamorphosis of YOU!
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“Still she rises.”
Loss and grief comes in many forms.
miscarriage or stillbirth, death of a child or family member, infertility, cancer journey or health scare, abortion, adoption loss or death of partner, dying experience…
But, believe it or not, and certainly in my experience, grief doesn’t have to mean a life-long of sorrow but can be the catalyst for massive, and quite exciting transformation.
There is life beyond loss, grief and difficult life-altering moments, and certainly a more purposeful life. Your pain wasn’t for nothing.
But it takes someone like me, who sits very comfortably with that “pain you’re feeling”, but equally I know and see your potential and will guide you in a fun way, to finding that joy again - taking you through the 5 foundations of the BWS Tranformational journey.
Grief doesn’t happen on a certain day of the week, nor in a particular timeframe. Therefore 1:1 sessions are in blocks of 3 - usuable within 3 month period. And you may want to tackle life with those new skills then pop in for your next 3 sessions to up that sass of yours.
Also because grief doesn’t happen with the calendar or between 9pm-5pm, each session also offers a voice message or text message when something arises.
For ongoing support too, please get the ongoing support (life always has its ups and downs) by being part of our Bold Women Speak Membership.
“A bold voice (that also requires you to rise in self-worth) may be the medicine that heals your pain and makes life pleasurable again.”
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1:1 grief coaching, healing, self-worth transformation
3, 6, or 9 sessions (ie in blocks of 3 so you can really get on to some “nitty-gritty” and put things into action.
Each set of 3 sessions typically happens each week or fortnightly over a 3-6 week period.
Because grief also doesn’t happen according to the calender or between 9-5pm Monday to Friday, each session includes a follow-up text or voice message opportunity you can send me when something arises.
As grief takes time, and is often random and unpredictable as you face new challenges or opportunities, choose your next block of 3 sessions when you want momentum.
Don’t feel alone in your loss for a moment longer. I’ve got your back!
And if this is feeling too pricy or you thrive hanging in community, pop over to that for just $69 month and is 24/7.
Community of gutsy gals
Online, anytime, life-long if you want! (24/7)
Yeah come join us at the new Bold Women Speak community hub.
Imagine inspiration, grief support, speaking up challenges (Voice Up Challenge Fest!) shout-outs to gals going for it, networking, skill-sharing, and having fun while building our truth-telling, bold speaking up skills.
This community is fresh. Just starting out so it’s perfect because it’s not about me speaking from the pulpit (even though I do have some darn good wisdom having taken numbers of life’s knocks) but we all have wisdom to share, and have different wants, needs, experiences, skills, personalities to add to this mix of girl goodness as we navigate grief and build ourselves from the inside out.
We will weave this community together - each bringing our our “threads.”
It’s a place where you belong and we welcome your ideas, hard-earned wisdom, and sharing with other gals who have your back and believe in you.
Giving your grief a voice and you the choice to rise - in sisterhood!
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“Bring out her Rebel. Her Voice. Her Self Worth. Her Sass. She is YOU!”
Imagine how strong and unstoppable you’ll begin to feel! I call it the self-worth transformation workout through training your “speaking up” muscles.
Head to www.withme.so/boldwomenspeak where you can take part in fun, fierce, and fearless speak-up voice activation challenges and celebrate your successes and get help on things that you find tough.
I call it a workout for your boldest voice where you and other gutsy women come together to:
Rise above fear of speaking up, without needing fear to disappear.
Overcome your fear of being criticized, judged or made to feel small.
Practice speaking out in everyday life situations in safe, sassy ways.
Build your self-worth muscles for tough everyday life situations.
Be part of an unstoppable co-elevating sisterhood of bold voices. Nobody rises alone.
“Your voice matters.”
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Get on the mailing list to know when this Voice Challenge Fest starts.
Advocates
Rising
By Application.
Bespoke, 1:1 personalised advocacy creation.
Feeling it’s time to spread your wings into advocacy – leading your cause, charity or movement whether that’s breaking a cycle or pattern in your family, standing up for something in your community or leading a cause on the global stage.
This starts with a First Weaving Clarity and Foundations Session.
Then you can intuitively feel into what’s next and when.
The Seed Weave
The Growth Weave
The Legacy Weave
Co-create your advocacy project. You’re not alone! You’ve got me - super idea-generator, and with loads of speaking, writing, fundraising, blogging, eventing, celebranting, advocacy skills to happily co-create with you. Exciting!
Be the voice of change.
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“Whether you want to advocate for one person, change something in your family , or be a stand in the community, you are making a world of difference.”
But oh-heck. Speaking up at a collective level takes something. It demands we become invincible in our self-worth, keep our conviction (and our “why”) strong, and muster up the internal strength to buffer any backlash.
But girlfriend, we’ve done our PhD in this!
You might not feel you’re a writer, nor a speaker. You may never have seen yourself as an advocate, a justice-fighter or a voice to date. Perhaps you feel you don’t have anything significant to say. But you do, because you’ve lived it and breathed it!
Are you one of the few to conquer your fear and care about where humanity is heading but overwhelmed where to start?
Let’s do it together!
Whether it’s in the areas of health, wellness, mental wellbeing, social causes, parenting, education, generational cycles, loss and grief, trauma, abuse, family life…or whatever stirs you, the world needs your conviction and voice.
This is bespoke, customised “power-housing” with Janelle. Together, we make a plan of what you need to be influential and make the most impact which could include:
Creating content for blogs, podcasts, articles, promos, books…
Speech-writing and story-telling prowess that moves people
Presentation preparation and power-housing your voice
Promoting and networking that builds connection and gets people onboard
Awareness-building, resource-creating and educating that inspires change
Fundraising tips and tricks that get you more funds than you imagined
Event ideas generations and planning and promoting an event that people will remember
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First step for Advocates Rising is to be a long way down the grief path and motivated to break out of the sticky coccoon and rise into leadership.
Leadership can look different to people.
For someone, it might be writing their story with my help and sharing that. For another gal, it might be starting a cause or putting on an event to fundraise or build awareness. Another sassy soul may want to start presenting content - on a website, podcast, blog or story-share on social media. You may also want my expertise on presenting your story for best impact. Or you, I hope, would love to be featured in an upcoming book I would like to write with sassy leaders like you who’ve found your voice and speaking up for your cause.
First step is to book a free Discovery Session with me and we make some tangible goals of where you want help. Exciting!
A bespoke programme just for you. Book that Discovery Call today on the link below.
“Are you bold enough to see grief as the catalyst and invitation to rise?”
“Having a voice is not for the faint-hearted, but for the bold-spirited. Speaking up is not about learning to speak on stage but is activating what’s deep inside you and demands a voice in your day-to-day life.
Your voice and message won’t always be popular. It may even be disruptive. But it will be well-needed and impactful.”
Janelle
Fearless Voices and Movements that Matter
Your story is your superpower.
Your voice is the bridge.
Your courage is the catalyst.
Bold Women Speak — and the world listens.
I see you. I hear you. I know you.
You’ve often felt different (perhaps even judged as weird), alone (even though surrounded by all the people you’ve dropped your hat for), invisible (who notices you anyway as you’re usually the humble heroine or undercover angel?) and not good enough. (despite being highly talented!)
You don’t even know how awesome you are! Or you’ve become a shrinking violet staying undercover!
On the outside, others see you as the epitome of resilience, strength, not to mention empathy, authenticity, contribution and going into bat for others. You’re a service girl after all with a kind, sensitive and caring heart.
You’ve fought some battles mostly in silence or unwitnessed. Who knew you were struggling internally underneath your “I’ve got it together” persona?
You’ve often felt unheard in your family or in the system you had to contend with. If you had the balls to speak up, you’ve felt criticized, too vocal or demanding. Many times, you decided to hush up and keep the peace.
But something’s been stirring inside your soul.
You’ve done the hard stuff. You’ve sunk into grief that goes with that hard change or big, unexpected detour or two in your life. We know that “shitty-gritty” is an important part of the grief process.
But hey it’s time to shift up a gear and turn that grief around. What’s the next stage (literally and figuratively) for your soul?
The sticky cocoon
By now, you may be well be in what I call the “sticky cocoon”. Visualise it. You’re about to turn into something even more beautiful, getting out of grief and transformation is in the air, but you have to work, or even fight your way out of the chrysalis. A sticky one!
By the way, menopause has had me facing my own sticky cocoon coming-out process, and Bold Women Speak is part of that. There are often days I wish to hide out and stay small! But I won’t stay small. And you won’t either.
You know you don’t want to stay in grief forever, but you find yourself kicking and screaming knowing that to step out in what know is your soul calling (ie resurrection of self and life becoming unrecognisable) is darn scary. You may not even know what it looks like and that takes a whole load of faith to stop staying in hiding.
I’m here to help you get out of the sticky cocoon. Side by side.
The world’s a mess and you’re the messenger!
But here’s an equally important reason why it’s time NOW to get out of your “sticky cocoon.”
More than ever at this time in history, things are falling apart or even broken, and change is not just needed. A revolution is required. And we feel it in our bones. Yes. You, me and other sassy women!
We need bold voices like you and me especially in the areas of health, women’s wellness, death, loss and grief, trauma and abuse, domestic violence, maternal health, child and baby loss, mental wellbeing, parenting, relationships, menopause and aging.
It’s not about just glueing those same-old pieces together to put that system back together as we found it. It means an overhaul!
Count yourself as a change-maker, a disrupter, a well-needed balm! I call it Bold Voice Medicine that will heal many a broken system and be a saviour to many people who are sad, grieving, hurt, lost, lonely, misrepresented or feeling helpless, silenced and unsupported.
I rise. We rise.
“Sisterhood is not sisterhood when we need to swallow our words. Imagine celebrating with heart-lead, service-orientated ladies who love hearing your deep unexpressed needs, greatest desires, biggest struggles and breakthroughs, self-praise and success-celebrating, and authentic, honest expression of who you are and what difference you’re making in the world through your voice.”
Janelle
“I raise up my voice — not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.”
– Malala Yousafzai
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