EPISODE 070

If you’ve ever felt the tension between big ideas and limited capacity - or wondered how to build a business that supports your wellbeing rather than consumes it - this episode is for you.

In this episode, Melissa shares how understanding her internal patterns has reshaped her leadership. Through an Internal Family Systems (IFS) lens, she has been able to honour the rhythms of her life through a framework she calls the Sustainable Capacity Operating System. 

This isn’t about productivity hacks or scaling for the sake of growth. It’s about operating in ways that honour your physiology, your season of life, and the real human conditions that make meaningful work possible.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

✨ The IFS Work That Changed Everything
Why the goal isn’t to eliminate your fast-moving, high-capacity parts - but to give them a defined place inside a grounded system.

✨ Physiology, Performance, and Midlife Rhythms
 What Melissa has learned from integrating health data, hormone insights, and nervous-system awareness into capacity planning.

✨ Sustainability as a Personal Practice - Not a Business Strategy
How this perspective has reshaped her pace, boundaries, and the way she stewards her team and programs.

There’s more to come ⏩

In Episode 71, Melissa walks you through the next layer of this work — her Continuing Professional Education Plan and how she’s mapping her own learning trajectory for the years ahead.

Then, in Episode 72, she takes you behind the scenes of how that plan was actually designed: the pacing, decision points, and real-life constraints that shaped it.

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Thank you for being here - and for being part of this season of learning, grounding, and sustainable growth.

— Melissa & the OTGR Podcast Team