We’re looking forward to introducing you to Melissa Burkhart. Check out our conversation below.
Good morning Melissa, we’re so happy to have you here with us and we’d love to explore your story and how you think about life and legacy and so much more. So let’s start with a question we often ask: What do you think is misunderstood about your business?
Unfortunately the spiritual and personal development worlds have swung the pendulum too far into the “woo-woo” space, making people skeptical of energetic teachings. And I get it, because I’ve been burned in the past too – a lot of the teachings seem too magical without being rooted in science, and don’t get the results they promise. Sadly, that’s a lot of the misinformation that floats throughout the online “manifestation” space. With everything I teach, I ground it in science and energetics, alongside universal laws and a precisely-trained intuition.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
Hi! My name is Melissa and I’m an intuitive mentor and mindset expert.
I help ambitious women remove their biggest energetic blocks through subconscious reprogramming, universal laws, and neuroscience-backed tools. My work blends spirituality and science to help clients access 100% of their soul potential, so that they can create the wealth, relationships, success, and confidence they desire.
After running a successful fitness business for years, I realized that true transformation goes far beyond the physical body. I’d been doing this work on myself for awhile, and decided to completely shift my business to help women on a deeper level, because everything we desire begins on the inside.
Great, so let’s dive into your journey a bit more. What did you believe about yourself as a child that you no longer believe?
I always thought that I had to be perfect in literally everything I did. I prided myself on being a great student and excelling at anything I tried. A lot of people probably assume that this perfectionism was placed on me by my parents, but it was always an intrinsic motivator for me that I thought held me back for a long time. I’ve rewired my brain to see how it was actually a perfect trait for me to achieve what I’m here to do, and I work with it now — knowing that I don’t actually have to be perfect to be seen, validated, loved, or successful.
What did suffering teach you that success never could?
That the saying “everything happens for a reason” is extremely true, but not in a cliche “just-believe-it-to-be-true” sort of way. Every “struggle” that we experience is actually a massive teacher, helping us pick up lessons and ingredients to create the life we desire quicker. For example, I was in my final semester of law school and had a major panic attack around my career decision that I was too scared to vocalize – that I would not be taking the bar exam or entering the legal profession, but rather choosing entrepreneurship and fitness coaching at the time. That one decision led to me moving across the country, meeting countless incredible lifelong friends who see the most authentic version of me and help me grow, meeting my husband, and scaling a business to multiple 6 figures. Had I not experienced that panic attack at that specific time, I wouldn’t have created the life I have now, and I also wouldn’t understand how and when to listen to my intuition before the signs get too loud and uncomfortable.
I think our readers would appreciate hearing more about your values and what you think matters in life and career, etc. So our next question is along those lines. What are the biggest lies your industry tells itself?
The personal development and spiritual worlds will tell you that if someone oversteps your boundaries, triggers you, or annoys you… to just cut them off. This is the worst thing we could do, because these people are our biggest teachers. Everyone and everything around us is simply reflecting our own energy programming back to us.
So if your partner isn’t prioritizing you, you’re not prioritizing yourself somewhere in your life. If your boss keeps choosing other people for the promotions, you’re not seeing where you’re the best of the best in your career. If you’re having trouble with attracting and holding onto more money, it’s not because you have a poor money mindset… it’s because you’re not valuing yourself highly enough, and money correlates to value, so it’s going to highly reflect that back to you.
On top of that, there’s this misconception that “if it’s meant to be, it will be” or that getting what’s meant for you will be easy. This is the opposite of the truth. When you’re following your Higher Self path, it’s going to be filled with challenges, obstacles, and struggles… because on a soul level, we desire to master every single thing there is to know about creating what we desire and what’s meant for us. I see too many people give up on their soul dreams just because the journey is hard, so they think it’s just not “meant” for them.
Overall, the industry will blame everyone and everything else, when really you can control your entire reality through taking responsibility and reprogramming your energy through neuroscience.
Before we go, we’d love to hear your thoughts on some longer-run, legacy type questions. What do you understand deeply that most people don’t?
That you can have all the best “manifestation” methods, mindset tools, and therapy modalities… but unless and until you understand precisely how the subconscious works alongside energetics and universal laws, you’re never truly going to get what you want. And on top of that, you might randomly manifest the house, the car, the partner, the travel… but it’s not going to fill your void. Everything starts on the inside, and the last place you wanna end up is crying all alone in your Lamborghini because none of the things you manifested solved your “problems.”
Learn how to improve your self-love and self-image levels, how to connect to your Higher Self and Source, how to scientifically train your intuition, and you’ll have everything you ever need. (That’s how you end up attracting the people, places, and things you desire anyway.)
Contact Info:
- Instagram: @melissaburkhart_
