The global deconstruction of power as we know it is in full force at this very moment in our life.
The power structures are being exposed and breaking down.
But this isn’t a time to complain and protest.
It’s a moment in HIStory or you could say HERstory that is calling for the Rise of Wise Woman Leadership™.
It’s asking you to step into your wisdom, authority, thought leadership, and gifts.
Humanity needs what you have to offer. Literally, right now it is showing us that patriarchal power and control must be shattered—and a new world rebuilt by Wise Woman Leadership™.
Wise Woman Leadership™ is inclusive of masculine and feminine (figurative and energetic), yin and yang, light and shadow.
It is wholeness.
Wise Woman Leadership™
• does not repress, it elevates.
• is not selective, it includes.
• is not competitive, it collaborates.
• does not believe wealth is limited and must be controlled and manipulated, prosperity is the birthright of all who choose to embrace it.
It is not for the 25-year-old woman who has completed her yoga or reiki certificate.
It is for the women over 40 who bear the battle scars of a lived life on their skin, soul, and psyche.
You’ve lived it and survived it. Maybe you’re yet to integrate it fully into learning and wisdom, but you’re on your way. (If you are still on the journey, I’m here to help you integrate it into wisdom and your unique gift for the world.)
It’s not for the IG influencer obsessed with the perfect image of themselves and their life.
It’s for the raw. Real woman.
Who knows she has a message and mission to share with the world.
It’s time to break through your fears of speaking up. Fears of being seen. Fears of sharing your embodied truth.
Not from a place of reactivity, judgement, fear, or “us against them.”
But from integrated, deep, calm truth and knowing.
Break free from the stories and identities of not being enough. Not being of value in the world. And not deserving of wealth and power. (Yes, I said power.)
Mini practice for “power fears”
Close your eyes and notice what feel in your body when you think of the word "Power".
What thoughts come to your mind? What sensations and emotions do you experience in your body? What have you been told about power?
Then sit with a new paradigm: Power makes people more of who they already are. Therefore, if you as a Wise Women owned your power who would you be in the world? What good would you bring to the world?
Move beyond the need to be right, perfect, apologise, small, or quiet.
Embracing ALL of who you are. Flaws and all.
Doing the shadow work so you can bring more light.
Allowing failure not only as a normal part of life and business—but a necessary path to growth, learning, and redirecting.
Embracing all your feelings: joy and gratitude, sadness and grief, anger and rage.
It’s all welcome. It’s all necessary.
Now is the time to shed and integrate so you can rise into your Wise Woman Leadership™.
This is what Wise Women Rising™ is about: me sharing my stories, growth, and experiences of stepping into my own Wise Woman Leadership as a new identity, so I can share my message and mission with the world. As your guide, storyteller, and Wise Woman Leadership™ coach and mentor.
I’m not your guru.
I’m far from perfect. Ask anyone who has lived with me.
I’ll make mistakes. I’ll ruffle feathers and maybe upset more than a few of you.
But what I promise I will do is continue to shine a light on my shadows and 
do the work. I will walk the path, and maybe some of you who feel the gentle (or perhaps not so gentle) pull of the inner calling to step into your Wise Woman Leadership™ will join me on that path.
do the work. I will walk the path, and maybe some of you who feel the gentle (or perhaps not so gentle) pull of the inner calling to step into your Wise Woman Leadership™ will join me on that path.I’ll be sharing my insights, experience, and tips through a weekly newsletter/blog called Wise Women Rising™.
Wise Woman Leadership™ is my mission. I truly believe that women have the ability to heal and transform humanity and the planet.
A legacy of healing, self love, purpose, and financial freedom for thousands of women and their families, communities, clients, and customers.
My entire life’s professional and personal work and experiences coming together for this one mission.
Wise Women Leadership™ is about being and taking aligned action.
Aligning YOUR Blueprint (soul), Beliefs, Body and Business.
I’ve been talking about aligned action for over a decade, and many women weaponize this idea against themselves. Here is what it is and what it is not.
Yes, it’s doing the inner work to regulate your nervous system, process unintegrated emotions and rewire the unconscious limiting beliefs.
It is NOT waiting until all your fear and worry has gone before you take action. It is not magically thinking “well if it was meant to be it would happen”.
It is not waiting for the entire plan and every step to be outlined in detail before you start or take the next action.
It is not following what everyone else is doing.
Aligned action comes from doing the inner work and then taking the simple clear action that usually intuitively arrives after it.
And then repeating that process over and over and over and over again. For 20 years or more if necessary. Not 2 days. Not 3 months.
This is your souls work calling you forward. Just as mine has been calling me forward since 2002.
It didn’t start where I am now. It started very differently. It started with me saying “YES” over and over and over again to what showed up.
Especially when it was difficult. Especially when I felt fear.
Going back to school to become a naturopath when I’d dropped out of school with only a year 9 pass.
Moving to rural area on my own.
Leaving a secure job to start my own business.
Doing my first naturopathic consultation.
Throwing myself into learning breathwork, mind-body medicine and emotional processing work “to help my clients”. Only to eventually say YES to the real calling of healing and integrating my own trauma.
Signing up to my first business coaching/mentoring program not knowing how I was going to pay for it but feeling in every cell of my body it was the right thing to do.
Stepping away from my first clinic.
Doing my first public talk. As someone who as a child was extremely shy and fearful this was no small feat.
Launching my first group program.
Continuing to say yes to stepping into my purpose even when I’m scared and unclear.
This is me claiming Wise Women Leadership NOW as my purpose, passion & pivot.
But as I look back at all the YES’S I’ve already made on the way to this very moment, I can see that I’ve been claiming this from the beginning.
The difference is now I am Wise Women Leadership™. I’ve lived the midlife initiation by fire that is the spiritual journey of menopause. To land here at the depth of my souls' truth.
Wise Women are the way. You know who you are.
Maybe you already have a business, but it’s stalled, you burned out from overworking, or it somehow doesn’t feel aligned anymore.
Or you’ve dreamed of change. Change for your work, career and making a difference in the world.
Either way this is your place.
To overcome your fears of failure.
Fears of speaking up and sharing your message.
Fears of being seen.
Fear of power (yours and theirs).
Fear about money.
Fear of being judged or not like.
If you want the world to change you have to change.
Become the person that says no to what is and YES to the calling for more.
YES, to doing the uncomfortable things.
YES, to the growth.
YES, to taking the action.
And YES, to doing it in a way that nourishes you.
YES, to setting Sacred Boundaries™.
NO to doing it all. You are not meant or made to do it all. That is Patriarchal bullshit that’s manipulated us into people pleasing, overworking, burnout and towing the line. Pushed you away from your intuition and deep knowing of truth. From your calling. Wise Women Leadership™ is doing it differently.
This is my personal declaration and my invitation to you to join me and step into your Wise Women Leadership™
Nicole Coutts
Wise Women Leadership™ Coach & Mentor
