Not Managed. Fully Lived.

Some of the hardest working women I know crush a 5 a.m. workout and feel wiped out by one or two in the afternoon. Adrenaline is a high-interest loan, and the crash is the bill coming due.

This week I'm talking about exercise, and why your workout might be borrowing against tomorrow. I take you back to the kid who had to move, playing every sport I could and taking tennis lessons in the New Orleans summer heat. I walk through what the research says about intensity and cortisol, and what ultrarunners and military service members can...

It's 9 a.m. Your coffee is ready, your laptop is open, and you know exactly what your first step is. By 11, the document is still blank, and you've spent 40 minutes looking at a hotel in Portugal you found on Instagram. The ADHD world has called this procrastination for years. Your body is registering something else: a threat.

In this solo episode, I break procrastination apart piece by piece. You'll hear why the four boxes all over social media (fight, flight, freeze, fawn) leave out the most important parts of the map. I walk you through the survival...

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 side-by-side coaching demos with the same client, and gives you six questions to ask before you hire a coach. If you've ever felt like you "tried everything and...

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 after retirement. Today she walks into classrooms across Pagosa Springs with puppets, songs, and a guide dog named Patches. This conversation is about purpose, faith, reinvention, and...

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-down reframe their way through hormonal and metabolic shifts. I share how personalized genetic testing (slow COMT, MAO, MTHFR) helped me decode my body's stress chemistry, why "healthy" foods were triggering adr...

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 & Overview 

2:41 — What Is The Portal Method

13:41 — Round One: Practical Questions 

36:34 — Round Two: The Real Fear 

40:28 — Close & Call to Acti...

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, and why I never fit into either one, not in high school and not now. I get into the actual...

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 children became the mirror for old patterns he didn't know he was carrying, and the small daily disciplines that turned into...

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 story behind the three pillars Michele now teaches every client, built from what she did alone in the backcountry after her world fell apart in 2020.

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 department, and the same month I received a 40 Under 40 award, I got a thyroid diagnosis...