What if you were actually a lotus flower… disguised as anonion? 🌸🧅
In this episode, I’m joined by the brilliant Michelle Anthony —a CLARITY® Coach who helps people transform the way they experience their work (and their weekdays).

Michelle shares what it’s like to shift from a world ofdashboards and KPIs to deep, human transformation—supporting everyone from career-changers in their 50s becoming software developers, to founders, salespeople, and now, her own clients as she backs herself and runs her own thriving coaching business.

🛠 Tools & Takeaways:

From brag books to breath resets, career reflection tovalues-based decision-making—Michelle offers practical ways to feel grounded, confident and more like you at work (and beyond).

Connect with Michelle:🌿 https://www.michelleanthony.co.uk/

And don’t forget—keep a brag book. You’re more brilliant than you think.For More Brilliance Resources Connect with Julia:✨ Subscribe to the Podcast✨Check out brilliancecoaching.co

---------------------------------------------------------------Julia's reflections✨ Both Michelle and I are trained in Clarity Coaching through Jamie Smart’s Clarity Academy—a ground-breaking, subtractive approach that’s all about coming back home to yourself. Instead of adding more techniques or tools, it’s about letting go of what’s in the way. It’s simple, but powerful—and it’s created massive shifts in my own life and in the lives of the women I coach. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it—and everything starts to feel lighter, clearer, and more aligned.

What if the thing you’ve been told you’ll never do again becomes the catalyst for your greatest breakthrough?

What if you stopped waiting for permission and started trusting yourself?

In this powerful episode, Julia sits down with transformational coach and COO Amy Hackett-Jones to explore what it really takes to move from proving your worth… to owning your brilliance.

Amy shares her jaw-dropping story of being told she’d never run again—then defying logic by running 40 miles after a life-changing moment of alignment. But this episode is about so much more than a comeback.

Together, they explore:

🌿 What it means to stop outsourcing your authority

💡 How to recognise and realign with your inner compass

✨ The Peace–Power–Purpose trilogy that changes everything

🎯 How self-awareness can help you lead in a way that feels natural

🎧 Listen If You’re:

• Feeling stuck in the grind of high performance with little reward

• Ready to stop proving and start aligning

• Curious about Human Design or the idea of inner authority

• Craving more ease, clarity and authentic success in your work and life

Whether you’ve been overlooked in leadership, stuck in high-achiever mode, or craving deeper clarity and confidence—you’ll walk away with a sense of calm power and the tools to activate your own brilliance.

This is your permission slip to lead with ease, presence and impact.

🔗 If you are ready to go deeper:

• Connect with Amy Hackett-Jones on LinkedIn

• Free visualisation: Your Next Level Career

• Contact Julia for a free Brilliance Coaching Consultation Call: brilliancecoaching.co

💬 Thoughts from Julia

Amy brings such richness to this episode—an international business career, decades of coaching, TEDx speaking, and current executive work in commercial strategy and operations. We’re both Natural Success Certified Coaches, trained in a method that helps you access your natural brilliance and create results by working with—rather than against—your unique design. It’s about finding those subtle leverage points where small shifts lead to big breakthroughs.

We share a long-standing passion for helping women reconnect with their inner brilliance—so much so that Amy had her own radio show on this very theme nearly a decade ago. Her clarity, wisdom, and calm presence make this episode a real gem.

In our conversation, Amy also touches on Human Design—a self-awareness system she uses with her clients. While it’s not a core part of my professional toolkit, I’ve found it to be a fascinating resource for personal reflection. I don’t see it as a prediction, but as an invitation for deeper consideration—particularly of the ways we’re all wired differently. It highlights things we rarely pause to notice: how we make decisions, whether we need routine or variety, or how some of us literally need to speak to hear what we think.

It’s a helpful reminder that our preferences and patterns aren’t always shared—and recognising those differences can open the door to greater self-awareness, self-trust, and compassion for others too.

If this episode resonated, please leave a review, subscribe or share it with a friend. You’ll get more insights and subtle mindset shifts that help you move forward with greater clarity, ease, and alignment. Often it’s the smallest breadcrumbs that lead to the biggest breakthroughs.

In this episode of Brilliance Coaching for Professional Women, host Julia Geber sits down with Tara Rule—international Positive Psychology Coach, speaker, and best-selling author of Stop Apologising—to explore how tuning into your natural strengths can help you flourish personally and professionally.

We dive into:✨ How to identify your unique strengths—even the ones that feel “too easy”✨ What real, research-backed positivity looks like (and why it’s not about being fake or bubbly)✨ How to stop dimming your light and start showing up fully✨ Why amplifying your strengths can help you feel energised, confident, and in flow✨ Simple mindset shifts and daily practices to boost your emotional resilience and motivation

Tara shares her story of going from a top-performing Commercial Director at Adobe to building a thriving coaching business—powered by her natural brilliance. She offers practical tools and inspiring insights to help you do the same.

🔗 Want to learn more?Explore Tara’s work at ⁠www.tararulecoaching.comDiscover more brilliance resources by Julia at www.brilliancecoaching.co

✨ Step into your brilliance by leaning into your strengths, trusting your joy, and letting go of the need to prove.

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Julia's Reflection on Strengths and Brilliance

Julia first began questioning the performance paradigm when years of over-delivery failed to lead to meaningful fulfilment or recognition. The moment she stopped trying to “earn” her worth and started focusing on what lit her up inside, everything changed.

In this episode, you’ll hear how discovering and owning your strengths—those effortless, energising things you often overlook—can unlock a whole new level of clarity, confidence, and flow. Whether you're navigating a career transition or simply feeling stuck, this conversation offers an inspiring nudge to stop shrinking and start shining.

✨ Your brilliance is already within you. Let this episode be your permission slip to live from it.