Design Your Life Instead of Living by Default | Ep 280
Don't Wait For Your Wake Up Call!July 18, 2026x
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Design Your Life Instead of Living by Default | Ep 280

✨ In this uplifting episode, Therese Vita shares how burnout, self-discovery, and deep reflection led her to create a life rooted in purpose, freedom, and fulfillment.

💛 Melissa and Therese talk about mindset, self-awareness, health, burnout, values, and how our thoughts shape the results we experience in life.

🌿 This conversation is a beautiful invitation to stop living by default and start creating a life you truly love.

🔥 A must-listen for anyone ready to step out of old patterns and live and lead more boldly.

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Episode Summary

In this inspiring Podapalooza episode, Melissa sits down with Therese Vita to explore what it means to design your life with intention, courage, and clarity. Therese shares her own journey through law, sales, and private wealth advising, and how repeated burnout eventually led her to a powerful reckoning during COVID. In her 50s, she realized she was no longer willing to live in a way that drained her health, peace, and purpose.

That turning point led her into coaching, where she now helps high achievers reconnect with what they truly value, uncover the thoughts shaping their results, and create a life that feels aligned, energizing, and meaningful. Therese explains how many people stay stuck because they focus on what they do not want, lose sight of what they would love, or feel overwhelmed by the “how.” Through mindset work, self-assessment, and intentional action, she helps clients shift from survival mode into conscious creation.

Melissa and Therese also talk about the mind-body connection, the role of self-awareness, the importance of health as the foundation for everything else, and the power of asking better questions. This episode is a beautiful reminder that life does not have to happen to you. You can pause, get clear, and begin creating a future that feels deeply true to who you are.

Key Takeaways

  1. Burnout can be a powerful turning point. Therese’s own exhaustion became the catalyst for designing a more aligned life.
  2. Health is the foundation for everything else. When your body and mind are depleted, joy and fulfillment become harder to access.
  3. You can design your life on purpose. Success and happiness do not need to follow someone else’s script.
  4. Most results begin with thoughts. What you think influences how you feel, what actions you take, and what outcomes you create.
  5. Awareness changes everything. You cannot shift a pattern until you see it clearly.
  6. People often focus on what they do not want. Real transformation begins when you ask what you would truly love.
  7. You do not need the full roadmap. One meaningful step can begin a powerful ripple effect.
  8. Growth can happen quickly. With the right support, major mindset and life shifts can happen in a short time.
  9. Life is too precious to postpone. Therese powerfully reminds listeners not to put off living fully.

About the Guest:

Therese Vita is a transformational Executive, Leadership, and Life Success Coach with over 30 years of experience empowering high achievers to elevate their lives, their businesses and their impact. A former attorney, sales professional and private wealth advisor, she guides her clients to thrive through change, streamline their lives, make better decisions and create more time and balance so they can live with more ease, joy and fulfillment.


Contact:

Website: https://liveandleadboldly.com


About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Master Trainer of Hypnotherapy, Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.

Melissa has launched Amplify Impact Academy, with business partner, Billie Aadmi and together they train other coaches, practitioners and counsellors in the 4 mind-body healing modalities mentioned above, giving them powerful tools to use with clients to get results with greater ease, speed and grace. These courses teach life skills and anyone can take them, if you want to be a better leader, parent, partner, be empowered in your own life, these courses are for you!

Melissa’s passion project is her non-profit, Girls Matter (www.girlsmatter.ca), breaking the poverty cycle 1 girl, 1 family, 1 village at a time. The mission is to keep girls in school and stop teenage marriages, because school isn’t free in over 50 countries around the world and when parents have to make the difficult choices of feeding their kids or paying for school, food wins. And when the girls hit their teen years, they will often be married off so that someone else becomes responsible to feed them. Keeping girls in school instead creates a generational ripple effect, because an educated girl is more than twice as likely to ensure her own children are educated. Educating girls also grows the GDP of countries, when they get into the workforce. This is how together, we can change the world. Guests on this podcast are invited to donate to this important cause. Learn more here in this short video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R3-xqzJLZW14om1PhFClcU_oRSZ8zgip/view?usp=share_link

Melissa is also the winner of the 2024 Women in Podcasting Awards in the “inspiration & motivation” category and the 2021 & 2022 Quality Care Award by Business From The Heart and is also the recipient of the Alignable “Local Business Person of the Year “Award 2022, 2023 & 2024 for Whistler.

Melissa has been featured at a number of Health & Wellness Summits, such as the Health, Wealth & Wisdom Summit, The Power To Profit Summit, The Feel Fan-freaking-tas-tic Summit, the Aim Higher Summit and many more! She has also guested on over 90 different podcasts teaching people about the importance of prioritizing our health and how to get started.


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