I'm a coach and Change Architect with 25 years spent helping others navigate the hardest transitions of their professional and personal lives.
If you're the woman who holds everything together for everyone else and feel as though you have lost yourself in the process — you're in the right place.
Maybe it's a job change, a marriage that's ending, kids leaving home, or a family that's not a fan of boundaries. Or maybe it's quieter than that: a growing feeling that the life you're living was built around everyone else's comfort, and you don't know who you are without it.
I built The Unburdened for you.
I'm Michele, a leader and coach with 25 years spent helping others, and the woman who packed up her entire life and moved to France at 51 to finally start living on her own terms. I know what it costs to keep the peace in families that were never peaceful. And I know what it takes to stop.
I've coached women through the hardest interpersonal dynamics you can imagine, across tech, finance, healthcare, and beyond, and I bring all of that into this work. Not as theory. As someone who has navigated deeply challenging personal and career situations and made it to the other side to build the life I have always wanted.
Here's what I know for certain: building the confidence to take on the unknown and assert boundaries that put yourself first is not something we are born with. It is something we create — together.
If you're ready to stop managing everyone else's comfort at the expense of your own life, let's talk.
She's the woman who shows up. Picks up the phone. Absorbs the problem. Manages the fallout. She does this because she is capable, and because somewhere along the way she learned that her value was tied to her function.
She has been functioning, relentlessly, ever since.
Maybe it's a family that treats her boundaries like a personal attack. Maybe it's a job she outgrew five years ago. Maybe it's a marriage that's over in every way but name.
Or maybe it's quieter than that: a slow realization that she doesn't know what her life looks like without everyone else at the center of it.
This work is done virtually, which means geography is not a barrier. I work with women across the US, Europe, and beyond who are navigating transitions that feel too big to figure out alone.
She doesn't want to be managed through her feelings indefinitely. She wants a plan. She wants someone who will tell her the truth, ask the hard questions, and not let her off the hook.
She wants to move.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Business, United States
Certification
Change Management Certification, Cornell University — 2024
Experience
25+ years coaching and leading across tech, finance, and healthcare