Michele Heffron - Life Strategist

Michele Heffron - Life Strategist

Life Strategist for Women in Transition

Voices of Women 2026

Jojy welcomes life strategist and coach Michele Heffron to discuss major transitions women face and the support needed to move through them with confidence. Heffron shares how her second divorce after years as a stay-at-home mom left her without a job, bank account, or stability, leading her to rebuild her life through nonprofit work focused on healthy vs. unhealthy love, domestic violence, and at-risk youth. After making costly divorce mistakes, she hired a coach, which inspired her to become ICF-certified in transformational coaching, divorce coaching, love coaching, and “Calling in the One.” She explains coaching as unraveling limiting beliefs, listening to one’s own voice, differentiating heart from head, and processing feelings to reduce fear, anger, shame, and blame, using her VIVID framework. They discuss transitions like career change, retirement, grief, and empty nest, examples of women starting new ventures later in life, choosing supportive advisors, her podcast and newsletter, and her upcoming Voices of Women Summit talk on reframing hard moments into growth assignments.

00:00 Podcast Welcome

00:31 Meet Michele Heffron

01:52 Her Divorce Turning Point

04:38 Finding Coaching Purpose

08:31 How Coaching Helps

10:53 Listening to the Heart

13:15 Feelings vs Emotions

17:30 Other Life Transitions

18:50 Client Success Story

23:27 Retreat Lessons on Dreams

26:52 Building Your Support Circle

28:48 Podcast and Newsletter Creativity

33:32 Voices of Women Summit

38:07 How to Find Michelle