Today, we highlight Melanie Curtis in the fifth installment of our Summer Series. Melanie is an a coach, speaker, author, entrepreneur and professional skydiver. She has jumped out of an airplane over 11,000 times and competed at the highest levels in the sport of skydiving, with numerous team world records. Melanie is a fierce champion for growth and inclusion. All of this has led Melanie to a powerful position of positive influence in her expanded career as a life coach, speaker and author.

Sylvia and Melanie discuss the life-changing power of confronting our mortality, fear, love and mindset. They touch on Melanie's decision to leave her banking job in pursuit of her passions, reinvention, courageous self-expression, healing, leaning into discomfort, staying oriented to growth, and much more.

Topics Include:

• Melanie’s first skydiving adventure
• Love and hilarity 
• Dismantling false assumptions and pursuing dreams
• Experiencing burnout
• Creating space to reground and re-emerge
• Balance, trust and lifelong passions
• Growth, kindness, and inclusion
• Using your platform for change
• And other topics...

Link to Episode 001

Connect With Melanie:Email – mel@melaniecurtis.comIG – @melaniecurtis11FB – @melanie.curtis.37Podcast – http://trustthejourney.today/Website – http://melaniecurtis.com/

Resources Mentioned:Highlight Pro Skydiving Team – http://www.highlightskydiving.com/Women's Skydiving Network – http://www.womensskydivingnetwork.org/Our Full Episode With Melanie – https://www.buzzsprout.com/1423273/6172174

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Melanie Curtis is a life coach, speaker, author, professional skydiver, passionate entrepreneur, influencer and activist. As a leader and known voice in both skydiving and personal development, Melanie has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Thrive Global, on CBS Sunday Morning, Masters of Scale, and more. With over 11,000 jumps and 25 years in the sport and industry, Melanie is the Executive Director of the Women’s Skydiving Network nonprofit and co-founder of Highlight Pro Skydiving Team, an all-female demonstration jump team whose mission is to inspire women and girls to live bold brave lives of their own design, elevate gender equality and motivate action to expand equity and inclusion in all forms.

Melanie co-creates the podcast, Trustthejourney.today and has authored three books: One Positive Thought Can Change Everything, With Our Whole Broken Hearts and her most recent and significant published work, How to Fly: Life Lessons from a Professional Skydiver. The How to Fly Audible book just dropped and is available now.