I'm who you call when the shits about to hit the fan.
Teacher. Speaker. Author. Podcast Host.
I'm Michelle Burke. I don't fix people.
I make the pattern impossible to ignore.
In 2019 I lost everything.
My home. My car. My bank account. The identity I had spent years building and mistaken for myself.
I didn't pivot. I didn't rebrand. I didn't write a five step guide for getting back up.
I sat in the wreckage and asked the same questions you're asking right now.
What the fuck is wrong with me. How the fuck did I get here.
Nothing was wrong with me.
The same thing running you had been running me. The patterns. The programming. The conditioning so embedded in my being I had mistaken it for my personality.
As I prepared to re-emerge in 2022 I lost my dad and my grandmother within three weeks of each other.
I cried for 34 days straight. Lived on whiskey and ice cream. Still in the mess. Still showing up.
In 2023 I left. Not just the toxic environment I was living in. The country. To heal. To feel safe. To find the woman who no longer required permission to exist.
I found her.
That is what I do now.
Not coaching. Not mentoring. Not hand-holding through a framework.
Teaching. Speaking. Writing. Exposing the patterns, the programming, the conditioning running your life without your permission and making them impossible to ignore.
If you are done pretending the thing you can feel but cannot name is not there.
This is where it starts
I have so much love and gratitude for Michelle and her gifts. I know she was brought into my life to help change my story. And wow did she ever! I can't thank her enough for all that she has given me. I can actually say I love myself and where my life is headed. - Glenda M
Michelle spent years as a middle school science teacher. At the start of every year at least one student told her they hated science. By the end of the year they were in love with it.
She has always known how to make the thing people are avoiding impossible to ignore.
The subject just changed.