Why Does Perimenopause Make Leaders Feel Like They're Losing Themselves? | Nick Kettles Leads a Real Coaching Session with Christie Mann

Send us Fan MailIf you've ever felt like your own body stopped taking direction from you, this one's for you.This week on The UpLevel Podcast, join us for a deeply personal coaching session as Christie Mann, executive coach, leadership educator, and co-founder of UpLevel Productions, steps into the client seat as Master Certified Coach Nick Kettles, who has spent more than 25 years working with grief, transition, and ancestral healing, guides her through one of the biggest transitions of her life.Together they explore the grief of letting go of an identity built on capacity, achievement, and always having it together. This conversation is about far more than hormones. It is about what happens when the version of yourself that has carried you for decades can no longer carry you the same way. It is about learning to rest without guilt, discovering a different kind of strength, and trusting that wisdom often grows when productivity slows. Nick brings together Co-Active Coaching, grief work, constellation practices, trauma-informed coaching, and ancestral healing to help Christie make meaning of this threshold. What begins as a conversation about fear gradually becomes an exploration of possibility, elderhood, and giving ourselves permission to become someone new. Whether you are experiencing perimenopause yourself, supporting someone who is, or navigating any season of profound transition, this episode offers language, compassion, and hope for what can emerge when we stop fighting change.In This Episode:Why the exhaustion of perimenopause might be making room for something deeper than physical restThe difference between leadership and eldership, and why one requires letting go of the otherWhat it means to "own" your energy, your work, and your worth without deferring or diluting itHow ancestral trauma and ancestral vitality both live in the body, and how naming your lineage can be part of healing itWhy so many women in this season describe feeling like Bambi: new, unsteady, and strangely innocentA moment of real grief work, honoring a great-grandmother lost to suicide and the silence that followedCoaching Grief and Loss Masterclass | Oct 14th for 5 weeks Reserve your slot here: https://phoenixconsulting.eu.com/coaching-grief-and-loss/UpLevel with Grace | SubstackRead Here: When the Estrogen Has Left the BuildingAbout Nick:Nick is a Master Certified Coach, and healer of 25 years experience in the human potential movement. In a desire to escape an awkward and painful past, throughout his life, he frequently mistook his own adaptive and often reactive life strategies as evidence of a purposeful existence.Today, however, he increasingly finds delight in finally moving slow enough to discover that our purpose and indeed our spirituality can be found at the heart of our messy humanity. This realization guides all his work whether as a coach, trainer, designer or writer.Website: https://nickkettles.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickkettles/🎉 The UpLevel Podcast was listed as one of the Top 10 Best Coaching Culture Podcasts!!! https://podcasts.feedspot.com/coaching_culture_podcasts🎉 It was also ranked #4 among the top 50 Best Workplace Mental Health Podcasts! https://podcast.feedspot.com/workplace_mental_health_podcastswww.uplevelproductions.comhttps://www.instagram.com/uplevelproductions/https://www.linkedin.com/company/uplevelproductionscompanyhttps://www.facebook.com/uplevelproductionscompany