IAM1436 – CEO Revolutionizes Leadership by Understanding Mental Health and Human Wellness
Podcast Interview with Melissa Mellor
Melissa Mellor is the CEO of Hey U Humana globally recognized mental health and human wellness company. They serve corporations and individuals in over 80 countries around the world and within over 15 different applications. Through Hey U Human, Melissa is revolutionizing leadership and how businesses conduct work and lead their staff.
Melissa is passionate about igniting humanity, waking humans up, and helping infrastructures and institutions understand mental health and human wellness through a completely different lens. A lens through which the company is no longer reacting to mental health issues and pandering to personnel complaints. One that proactively engages the whole human to create an unstoppable workforce. If you are a human with emotions, or you interact with other humans with emotions, you will want to tune into this podcast.
- CEO Story: Melissa was in the coaching industry which was based on manifestation and spirituality. She then noticed there was so much more out there that wanted to base on science and facts thus Hey U Human was created as a brand for every human, globally.
- Business Service: Work with company and individuals – providing training and tools.
- Secret Sauce: Deal with the root, and how to process and release it.
- CEO Hack: Rapid Relief Technique™. It takes out all the stress in life.
- CEO Nugget: Clearing all the old reasons why you believed one thing, releasing it, processing it then anchoring it to your new mindset.
- CEO Defined: A visionary. Can see the world differently. Who can lead through things organically?
Website: www.heyuhuman.com
Instagram: heyuhuman , rapidrelieftechnique , melissammellor
Facebook: HeyUHumanCommunity , mlindenbach
Linkedin: melissa-mellor
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00:24 – Intro
Do you want to learn effective ways to build relationships, generate sales, and grow your business from successful entrepreneurs, startups, and CEOs without listening to a long, long, long interview? If so, you've come to the right place. Gresham Harkness values your time and is ready to share with you precisely the information you're in search of. This is the I AM CEO podcast.
00:51 – Gresham Harkless
Hello. Hello. Hello. This is Gresh from the I AM CEO podcast. I have a very special guest on the show today. I have Melissa Mellor of heyuhuman. Melissa, it's great to have you on the show.
01:00 – Melissa Mellor
Thank you so much for having me. I'm really excited to be here.
01:02 – Gresham Harkless
Super excited to have you on as well, too. We had a phenomenal conversation in the beginning, so I'm super excited. Now we get to have you in front of the mic and hear about all the awesome things. And of course, before we do that, I want to read a little bit more about Melissa so you can hear about some of those awesome things. And Melissa is the CEO of heyuhuman, a globally recognized mental health and human wellness company.
They serve corporations and individuals in over 80 countries around the world with over 15 different applications. Through heyuhuman, Melissa is revolutionizing leadership in how businesses conduct, work, and lead their staff. Melissa is passionate about igniting humanity, waking humans up, and helping infrastructure and institutions understand mental health and human wellness through a completely different lens.
A lens where the company is no longer reacting to mental health issues and pandering to personal complaints. One that is proactively engaging the whole human to create an unstoppable workforce. If you are human with emotions or if you interact with other humans with emotions, you will want to tune into this very, very special episode. Melissa, excited again to have you on the show, my friend. Are you ready to speak to the I AM CEO community?
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02:07 – Melissa Mellor
Yes, absolutely.
02:08 – Gresham Harkless
Awesome. Well, let's make it happen then. So to kind of kick everything off, I wanted to rewind the clock a little and hear a little bit more about how you got started, what I call your CEO story.
02:15 – Melissa Mellor
Yeah, absolutely. So I started. Actually, I started with the company before Jorge, you, Human, came into existence. I was the COO of a coaching company. It was Sarah Longoria Coaching at the time, the Sarah Show. And I basically ran the whole coaching, the whole operations of the coaching industry. As a part of the coaching of our coaching service, we developed a proprietary technique that I'll talk about a little bit later. And it was mostly based on manifestation spirituality.
And what we noticed when people started using this method was that you know, people were able to manifest and basically create magic in their life. But the amazingly surprising outcome was that people's mental health, happiness, well-being, and just general way of living was just dramatically improved. And I was sitting with our founder Sarah one day and I just said, I feel like we're doing the world a massive disservice by niching into spirituality, Working with coaches to like get into the mindset of building their business.
There's just so much more out there. And we wanted to speak to people who wanted science and facts and not just the woo-woo side of things. And we wanted to speak to men and women alike. And so thus, hey you, human was born. And it really was created as a brand for every human. And it wasn't like, you know, I dreamt up this baby one day in my basement and started providing services and now I'm the CEO. It was a true company that was created and supported by a workforce and I have the absolute privilege of leading it.
04:09 – Gresham Harkless
Nice. I absolutely love, you know, hearing, you know, the kind of the organic nature of how, you know, it sounds like everything's been able to kind of grow that you all have been able to build. And definitely understanding that when you start to use these, I don't know if you use the word modalities, but the ways and approach that you have, allows, you to start to realize that it does and can affect people in so many different ways.
I think we talked a little bit about how when you do impact the person, it doesn't just impact them in one aspect, their business or in their family life or in their relationship with their kids or whatever it might be. It starts to really create that domino effect amongst the whole entire human. So I love that you guys decided to take that leap and that transition and that pivot.
04:50 – Melissa Mellor
Yeah, absolutely. I call that the silo effect. So many different modalities out there, Especially when it comes to mental health or any type of mindset work. They work on very isolated incidents. So if you're like, I'm having a problem having a constructive conversation with my employee, you do all the work around that one silo on how to constructively engage performance with an employee, how to address issues. We know how to criticize a performance.
We know how to have constructive conversations, but we don't know how to activate the whole human. And so that's what makes me really excited and passionate about working with leaders, is all of a sudden our work, which for most of us, if you're a CEO, it kind of consumes your life. Your work becomes a tool to heal and to be a better human, which makes you a better parent, a better friend, a better sibling, a better leader, and a better everything, just from one seemingly minute instance in your leadership journey. So it's really. It's really fascinating.
05:57 – Gresham Harkless
Yeah, Yeah, I would definitely agree with that. In my opinion, as well, it's very, you know, impactful when you have that opportunity to see that domino effect, the ripple effect of, you know, doing the work but actually going to the root cause. I wanted to drill down a little bit more. I know we touched on a little bit and heard a little bit more about how you're working with your clients, and how you're serving them. Could you take us through a little bit more about that and what that looks like?
06:17 – Melissa Mellor
Yeah, absolutely. So we work with both companies and individuals. So we work with individuals. I'm going to start with individuals really quickly. We work with individuals that just want to live a better life. A lot of them will have stress, anxiety, overwhelm, burnout, depression, and PTSD. The spectrum really ranges. We work with individuals and we provide them the training and the tools for our rapid relief technique, which is our proprietary method of getting to the root, the core root, emotion, healing it and processing it, and so many others.
Perfect. Actually, I would be confident in saying almost all modalities out there or coaching mechanisms out there teach us how to cognitively understand accept, and tolerate certain things in our lives. As a leader. When someone's coming to you and complaining or has an issue, you can practice radical responsibility and help them see what they can do in that situation to make the situation better, as opposed to pandering, essentially. Like, I think of so many employees that are, you know, I'm overworked, I'm overwhelmed.
And what do we do as companies? Okay, well, we're going to give you more paid time off. We're going to cut your workload. You don't like Susan? Okay, we're going to put Susan on another project. We are pandering. We are treating the symptoms. We're not going to the core. Whereas if you can understand and heal why somebody is anxious in the first place, which more often than not has literally nothing to do with work. Work is just the straw that breaks the camel's back. It just, all those problems just melt away. It almost sounds too good to be true, but it really can be that simple, right?
08:06. – Gresham Harkless
Absolutely. And it makes so much sense when you give that example. But so many times we're doing that where we're doing work, life, balance or running or jogging or out or whatever to kind of avoid or move away from, you know, the issues that we have at hand. But it's so important to kind of treat that core issue. So do you feel like the proprietary method, the modality that you all use, do you feel like that's part of the secret sauce, the thing that you feel like kind of sets you or the organization a part of, makes it unique?
09:36 – Melissa Mellor
Yes, it is. Our rapid relief technique is unlike anything that is out there. There are certainly things that are similar, but they don't go to the root and they don't teach people how to actually process. And so many things help us dig deep and cognitively understand. But when this, this is like a life skill. I call it a life skill. It's like the equivalent of learning the Alphabet.
When you learn the Alphabet, you have this skill that translates to reading, writing, problem-solving, learning, traveling, and creating. You know, like you have this freedom when you can understand the Alphabet and apply it to numerous different applications. That is the rapid relief technique. It is a life skill that unfortunately we do not know.
It's simple in theory, but it is something that we need to learn how to do as an adult, which for some of us, you know, we have been holding habits for 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 years. You know, like what so many of us people who are in overdrive experience, like, it is. That silo effect is gone. It's really magical. It's a gift to be able to live completely unencumbered.
10:53 – Gresham Harkless
Absolutely appreciate that. And I wanted to switch gears a little bit, and I wanted to ask you for what I call a CEO hack. So this could be like an app, a book, or a habit that you have, but what's something that makes you more effective and efficient?
11:04 – Melissa Mellor
Well, it's funny that you should say switch gears, because I'm going to just go back to my hack really is the rapid relief technique, because you have your. Your books, you have your tools, you have your technologies, you have your practice, you have your routines. But for me, it really is the rapid relief technique. It just takes all of the stress of life and, like, it's. It's gone.
It's really, It's. It's really changed how I look at work, and how I look at business. All those gross emotions that come up as a part of business. It's really good. There are really good emotions that come up as a part of business, and there are so many emotions you would rather not have. And all of that's just been able to melt away, and it's just made me just such a better leader.
11:55 – Gresham Harkless
Yeah, no, I really appreciate you breaking that down and how that manifests itself in life. And that might even be like some of the CEO nuggets, which is typically a piece of advice or something you might tell yourself if you were to hop into a chime machine. Is it really that? Not even realizing that? It's almost like you always hear like, I don't want to be put into the box, but it's kind of thinking like, there isn't even a box or what is a box.
You don't even have to think about those limitations or think about what you're doing. Do you think that's part of, like, your nugget and part of, like, what you were saying as far as, like, being able to kind of not even think about, oh, I didn't have a reaction? It's not. You didn't even have a reaction. It's just like it doesn't exist because it's never a part of the underpinning of who you are in your reaction.
12:37 – Melissa Mellor
Exactly. But what's really cool is as you start doing this work, you all of a sudden start Seeing situations that you're like, wait a minute, I would have reacted totally different two months ago.
12:49 – Gresham Harkless
Huh?
12:50 – Melissa Mellor
Interesting. Like, you know, you. The things that you start clearing, you notice, really to really embody and believe in something, it's not a cognitive experience. It's not changing your mindset. It's really about clearing all of the old reasons why you believed one thing, releasing it, processing it. And then you're kind of like a blank slate. Then you can anchor into your new. Your new mindset. But a lot of times what we do, we talk about this quite a bit in our course, where it's like the equivalent of doing a renovation, and you have this, like, old, rotten house. And you're like, right, you have two options.
You can take it down to the studs, you can get rid of the rotting floorboards and the rotted studs, and you can rebuild it so that it is strong. Or you can put up some drywall, repaint, or make it look aesthetically pleasing. But that doesn't change the fact that your house is literally crumbling and eating away at itself on the inside. And that's what humans are doing right now. They're like, the power of positive thinking. Think happy thoughts. Go for a run. I'm not going to work tonight. And we're like, we're just throwing that mask up, but really inside, we're suffering.
And then you see real-life tragedies coming out, which is not going to change. Right. Like, our world is just. It's one thing after another after another after another. And whether or not you know that you're impacted by this, you are. Your body is like a pressure cooker. It's just, we're trying to keep it all in. We're trying to live the best possible life we can, right on the edge of not exploding. And all that happens is you just boil a little bit too long and the whole thing just explodes.
14:47 – Gresham Harkless
Absolutely. And as an English major, I always love metaphors and analogies and everything. So I love the foundation and putting up drywall and painting and how sometimes we do that in so many different ways, individually or especially as organizations. But I think it's definitely, obviously, a huge opportunity for leaders, especially, to be able to create the change that they hope to ultimately see in the world. And I guess that kind of segues me to my absolute favorite question, which is the definition of what it means to be a CEO. We're open to different quote, unquote, CEOs on this show. So, Melissa, what does being a CEO mean to you?
15:20 – Melissa Mellor
A visionary. They are visionary in their work, in their practice, and in how they lead themselves. A CEO is just somebody who can really see the world differently in whatever aspect. It could be accounting, it could be in mental health like myself, it could be in anything. But they're just somebody who is it can lead, who can see things, who can lead through things organically. Obviously, there are financial obligations, obviously, there are those types of work-related obligations. But at their core, it's just somebody who can lock into their secret sauce and lead and just see things differently.
16:07 – Gresham Harkless
I truly appreciate that. Obviously, I appreciate your time even more. So what I want to do now is pass you the mic, so to speak, to see if there's anything additional you can let our readers and listeners know and of course how best people can get hold of you. Find out about all the awesome things you and your team are working on.
16:20 – Melissa Mellor
Absolutely. So if you first of all, I love, I love feedback. So if you heard this episode and you're like, oh my God, this was so good, feel free to reach out to me directly and just share that. I love it. If you are a leader, if you're a leader who's listening to this and you would love to know more about working with heyuhuman. Working with myself, working to understand this principle and how to apply it in your work, you can reach out to me directly at melissameseyouhuman.com and it's hey you. I really appreciate the opportunity to share my heart with your audience and my passion with your audience. It's such a privilege.
16:59 – Gresham Harkless
Absolutely. I appreciate that Melissa. We will definitely have the links and information that show notes as well too, like you mentioned so that everybody can click through and find out about all the awesome things that you're doing. I hope you have a phenomenal rest of the day.
17:09 – Melissa Mellor
Thank you. You too.
17:10 – Outro
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00:24 - Intro
Do you want to learn effective ways to build relationships, generate sales, and grow your business from successful entrepreneurs, startups, and CEOs without listening to a long, long, long interview? If so, you've come to the right place. Gresham Harkness values your time and is ready to share with you precisely the information you're in search of. This is the I AM CEO podcast.
00:51 - Gresham Harkless
Hello. Hello. Hello. This is Gresh from the I AM CEO podcast. I have a very special guest on the show today. I have Melissa Mellor of heyuhuman. Melissa, it's great to have you on the show.
01:00 - Melissa Mellor
Thank you so much for having me. I'm really excited to be here.
01:02 - Gresham Harkless
Super excited to have you on as well, too. We had a phenomenal conversation in the beginning, so I'm super excited. Now we get to have you in front of the mic and hear about all the awesome things. And of course, before we do that, I want to read a little bit more about Melissa so you can hear about some of those awesome things. And Melissa is the CEO of heyuhuman, a globally recognized mental health and human wellness company.
They serve corporations and individuals in over 80 countries around the world with over 15 different applications. Through heyuhuman, Melissa is revolutionizing leadership in how businesses conduct, work, and lead their staff. Melissa is passionate about igniting humanity, waking humans up, and helping infrastructure and institutions understand mental health and human wellness through a completely different lens.
A lens where the company is no longer reacting to mental health issues and pandering to personal complaints. One that is proactively engaging the whole human to create an unstoppable workforce. If you are human with emotions or if you interact with other humans with emotions, you will want to tune into this very, very special episode. Melissa, excited again to have you on the show, my friend. Are you ready to speak to the I AM CEO community?
02:07 - Melissa Mellor
Yes, absolutely.
02:08 - Gresham Harkless
Awesome. Well, let's make it happen then. So to kind of kick everything off, I wanted to rewind the clock a little and hear a little bit more about how you got started, what I call your CEO story.
02:15 - Melissa Mellor
Yeah, absolutely. So I started. Actually, I started with the company before Jorge, you, Human, came into existence. I was the COO of a coaching company. It was Sarah Longoria Coaching at the time, the Sarah Show. And I basically ran the whole coaching, the whole operations of the coaching industry. As a part of the coaching of our coaching service, we developed a proprietary technique that I'll talk about a little bit later. And it was mostly based on manifestation spirituality.
And what we noticed when people started using this method was that you know, people were able to manifest and basically create magic in their life. But the amazingly surprising outcome was that people's mental health, happiness, well-being, and just general way of living was just dramatically improved. And I was sitting with our founder Sarah one day and I just said, I feel like we're doing the world a massive disservice by niching into spirituality, Working with coaches to like get into the mindset of building their business.
There's just so much more out there. And we wanted to speak to people who wanted science and facts and not just the woo-woo side of things. And we wanted to speak to men and women alike. And so thus, hey you, human was born. And it really was created as a brand for every human. And it wasn't like, you know, I dreamt up this baby one day in my basement and started providing services and now I'm the CEO. It was a true company that was created and supported by a workforce and I have the absolute privilege of leading it.
04:09 - Gresham Harkless
Nice. I absolutely love, you know, hearing, you know, the kind of the organic nature of how, you know, it sounds like everything's been able to kind of grow that you all have been able to build. And definitely understanding that when you start to use these, I don't know if you use the word modalities, but the ways and approach that you have, allows, you to start to realize that it does and can affect people in so many different ways.
I think we talked a little bit about how when you do impact the person, it doesn't just impact them in one aspect, their business or in their family life or in their relationship with their kids or whatever it might be. It starts to really create that domino effect amongst the whole entire human. So I love that you guys decided to take that leap and that transition and that pivot.
04:50 - Melissa Mellor
Yeah, absolutely. I call that the silo effect. So many different modalities out there, Especially when it comes to mental health or any type of mindset work. They work on very isolated incidents. So if you're like, I'm having a problem having a constructive conversation with my employee, you do all the work around that one silo on how to constructively engage performance with an employee, how to address issues. We know how to criticize a performance.
We know how to have constructive conversations, but we don't know how to activate the whole human. And so that's what makes me really excited and passionate about working with leaders, is all of a sudden our work, which for most of us, if you're a CEO, it kind of consumes your life. Your work becomes a tool to heal and to be a better human, which makes you a better parent, a better friend, a better sibling, a better leader, and a better everything, just from one seemingly minute instance in your leadership journey. So it's really. It's really fascinating.
05:57 - Gresham Harkless
Yeah, Yeah, I would definitely agree with that. In my opinion, as well, it's very, you know, impactful when you have that opportunity to see that domino effect, the ripple effect of, you know, doing the work but actually going to the root cause. I wanted to drill down a little bit more. I know we touched on a little bit and heard a little bit more about how you're working with your clients, and how you're serving them. Could you take us through a little bit more about that and what that looks like?
06:17 - Melissa Mellor
Yeah, absolutely. So we work with both companies and individuals. So we work with individuals. I'm going to start with individuals really quickly. We work with individuals that just want to live a better life. A lot of them will have stress, anxiety, overwhelm, burnout, depression, and PTSD. The spectrum really ranges. We work with individuals and we provide them the training and the tools for our rapid relief technique, which is our proprietary method of getting to the root, the core root, emotion, healing it and processing it, and so many others.
Perfect. Actually, I would be confident in saying almost all modalities out there or coaching mechanisms out there teach us how to cognitively understand accept, and tolerate certain things in our lives. As a leader. When someone's coming to you and complaining or has an issue, you can practice radical responsibility and help them see what they can do in that situation to make the situation better, as opposed to pandering, essentially. Like, I think of so many employees that are, you know, I'm overworked, I'm overwhelmed.
And what do we do as companies? Okay, well, we're going to give you more paid time off. We're going to cut your workload. You don't like Susan? Okay, we're going to put Susan on another project. We are pandering. We are treating the symptoms. We're not going to the core. Whereas if you can understand and heal why somebody is anxious in the first place, which more often than not has literally nothing to do with work. Work is just the straw that breaks the camel's back. It just, all those problems just melt away. It almost sounds too good to be true, but it really can be that simple, right?
08:06. - Gresham Harkless
Absolutely. And it makes so much sense when you give that example. But so many times we're doing that where we're doing work, life, balance or running or jogging or out or whatever to kind of avoid or move away from, you know, the issues that we have at hand. But it's so important to kind of treat that core issue. So do you feel like the proprietary method, the modality that you all use, do you feel like that's part of the secret sauce, the thing that you feel like kind of sets you or the organization a part of, makes it unique?
09:36 - Melissa Mellor
Yes, it is. Our rapid relief technique is unlike anything that is out there. There are certainly things that are similar, but they don't go to the root and they don't teach people how to actually process. And so many things help us dig deep and cognitively understand. But when this, this is like a life skill. I call it a life skill. It's like the equivalent of learning the Alphabet.
When you learn the Alphabet, you have this skill that translates to reading, writing, problem-solving, learning, traveling, and creating. You know, like you have this freedom when you can understand the Alphabet and apply it to numerous different applications. That is the rapid relief technique. It is a life skill that unfortunately we do not know.
It's simple in theory, but it is something that we need to learn how to do as an adult, which for some of us, you know, we have been holding habits for 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 years. You know, like what so many of us people who are in overdrive experience, like, it is. That silo effect is gone. It's really magical. It's a gift to be able to live completely unencumbered.
10:53 - Gresham Harkless
Absolutely appreciate that. And I wanted to switch gears a little bit, and I wanted to ask you for what I call a CEO hack. So this could be like an app, a book, or a habit that you have, but what's something that makes you more effective and efficient?
11:04 - Melissa Mellor
Well, it's funny that you should say switch gears, because I'm going to just go back to my hack really is the rapid relief technique, because you have your. Your books, you have your tools, you have your technologies, you have your practice, you have your routines. But for me, it really is the rapid relief technique. It just takes all of the stress of life and, like, it's. It's gone.
It's really, It's. It's really changed how I look at work, and how I look at business. All those gross emotions that come up as a part of business. It's really good. There are really good emotions that come up as a part of business, and there are so many emotions you would rather not have. And all of that's just been able to melt away, and it's just made me just such a better leader.
11:55 - Gresham Harkless
Yeah, no, I really appreciate you breaking that down and how that manifests itself in life. And that might even be like some of the CEO nuggets, which is typically a piece of advice or something you might tell yourself if you were to hop into a chime machine. Is it really that? Not even realizing that? It's almost like you always hear like, I don't want to be put into the box, but it's kind of thinking like, there isn't even a box or what is a box.
You don't even have to think about those limitations or think about what you're doing. Do you think that's part of, like, your nugget and part of, like, what you were saying as far as, like, being able to kind of not even think about, oh, I didn't have a reaction? It's not. You didn't even have a reaction. It's just like it doesn't exist because it's never a part of the underpinning of who you are in your reaction.
12:37 - Melissa Mellor
Exactly. But what's really cool is as you start doing this work, you all of a sudden start Seeing situations that you're like, wait a minute, I would have reacted totally different two months ago.
12:49 - Gresham Harkless
Huh?
12:50 - Melissa Mellor
Interesting. Like, you know, you. The things that you start clearing, you notice, really to really embody and believe in something, it's not a cognitive experience. It's not changing your mindset. It's really about clearing all of the old reasons why you believed one thing, releasing it, processing it. And then you're kind of like a blank slate. Then you can anchor into your new. Your new mindset. But a lot of times what we do, we talk about this quite a bit in our course, where it's like the equivalent of doing a renovation, and you have this, like, old, rotten house. And you're like, right, you have two options.
You can take it down to the studs, you can get rid of the rotting floorboards and the rotted studs, and you can rebuild it so that it is strong. Or you can put up some drywall, repaint, or make it look aesthetically pleasing. But that doesn't change the fact that your house is literally crumbling and eating away at itself on the inside. And that's what humans are doing right now. They're like, the power of positive thinking. Think happy thoughts. Go for a run. I'm not going to work tonight. And we're like, we're just throwing that mask up, but really inside, we're suffering.
And then you see real-life tragedies coming out, which is not going to change. Right. Like, our world is just. It's one thing after another after another after another. And whether or not you know that you're impacted by this, you are. Your body is like a pressure cooker. It's just, we're trying to keep it all in. We're trying to live the best possible life we can, right on the edge of not exploding. And all that happens is you just boil a little bit too long and the whole thing just explodes.
14:47 - Gresham Harkless
Absolutely. And as an English major, I always love metaphors and analogies and everything. So I love the foundation and putting up drywall and painting and how sometimes we do that in so many different ways, individually or especially as organizations. But I think it's definitely, obviously, a huge opportunity for leaders, especially, to be able to create the change that they hope to ultimately see in the world. And I guess that kind of segues me to my absolute favorite question, which is the definition of what it means to be a CEO. We're open to different quote, unquote, CEOs on this show. So, Melissa, what does being a CEO mean to you?
15:20 - Melissa Mellor
A visionary. They are visionary in their work, in their practice, and in how they lead themselves. A CEO is just somebody who can really see the world differently in whatever aspect. It could be accounting, it could be in mental health like myself, it could be in anything. But they're just somebody who is it can lead, who can see things, who can lead through things organically. Obviously, there are financial obligations, obviously, there are those types of work-related obligations. But at their core, it's just somebody who can lock into their secret sauce and lead and just see things differently.
16:07 - Gresham Harkless
I truly appreciate that. Obviously, I appreciate your time even more. So what I want to do now is pass you the mic, so to speak, to see if there's anything additional you can let our readers and listeners know and of course how best people can get hold of you. Find out about all the awesome things you and your team are working on.
16:20 - Melissa Mellor
Absolutely. So if you first of all, I love, I love feedback. So if you heard this episode and you're like, oh my God, this was so good, feel free to reach out to me directly and just share that. I love it. If you are a leader, if you're a leader who's listening to this and you would love to know more about working with heyuhuman. Working with myself, working to understand this principle and how to apply it in your work, you can reach out to me directly at melissameseyouhuman.com and it's hey you. I really appreciate the opportunity to share my heart with your audience and my passion with your audience. It's such a privilege.
16:59 - Gresham Harkless
Absolutely. I appreciate that Melissa. We will definitely have the links and information that show notes as well too, like you mentioned so that everybody can click through and find out about all the awesome things that you're doing. I hope you have a phenomenal rest of the day.
17:09 - Melissa Mellor
Thank you. You too.
17:10 - Outro
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