✨ In this heartfelt episode, Jan Janzen shares her incredible journey of leaving a high-control religion, rebuilding her life from scratch, and turning her experiences into wisdom for others.

💡 Melissa and Jan talk about decisions, courage, business systems, gratitude, fun, purpose, and why life is too short for maybe.

🌿 This conversation is a beautiful reminder that every choice shapes our future, and it is never too late to begin again.

🔥 A powerful episode for anyone ready to stop waiting, trust themselves, and take aligned action.

❤️ Jan is a return guest on this show, if you liked this episode, check out episode #210 when we talked about Getting Off The Merry Go Round

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Episode Summary

In this powerful conversation, Melissa sits down with author and decision expert Jan Jansen to explore the life-changing impact of making clear decisions. Jan shares the deeply personal story behind her book Devil with a Briefcase, including how her experience leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses after 38 years shaped her understanding of courage, structure, resilience, and reinvention.

Jan opens up about what it was like to leave a high-control religion, lose her entire support system, and rebuild her life from the ground up. From learning everyday life skills most people take for granted to navigating heartbreak, homelessness, grief, and starting over later in life, her journey is a profound example of what becomes possible when someone chooses courage over fear.

The episode also dives into the importance of decision-making in business and life, the role of systems and structure, and why Jan believes “Life is too short for maybe.” Melissa and Jan also reflect on health, gratitude, fun, purpose, philanthropy, and creating a life with intention instead of waiting for the “perfect” moment.

This is an inspiring episode about choosing action, trusting your path, and building a meaningful life one decision at a time.

Key Takeaways

Indecision is still a decision. Staying stuck is its own choice, and awareness creates the power to choose differently.
Courage often begins with starting over. Jan’s story shows that even after massive loss, reinvention is possible at any age.
Systems matter. Success in business, health, and life often comes from structure, consistency, and preparation.
Fun is essential. Joy, laughter, and connection are not extras. They are part of a healthy, meaningful life.
Gratitude rewires your perspective. Focusing on what is working shifts your energy, your mindset, and how you move through the world.
Purpose keeps us alive and engaged. Having a mission gives life direction, meaning, and momentum.
Money can become a force for good. Jan powerfully shares how greater income creates greater capacity for philanthropy and impact.
Do not wait for someday. Life is unpredictable, and the time to decide, act, and live fully is now.

About the Guest:

Jan Janzen is an author and decision expert who writes about the choices that shape business and life. Her upcoming book, Devil with a Briefcase: Stop Winging It. Start Winning, is built around 101 decisions entrepreneurs must make to move from chaos to structure and results. After decades in business, Jan’s work focuses on clarity, conviction, and building something that works without second-guessing.

Contact:

Website: Janjanzen.com

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Master Trainer of Hypnotherapy, Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.

Melissa has launched Amplify Impact Academy, with business partner, Billie Aadmi and together they train other coaches, practitioners and counsellors in the 4 mind-body healing modalities mentioned above, giving them powerful tools to use with clients to get results with greater ease, speed and grace. These courses teach life skills and anyone can take them, if you want to be a better leader, parent, partner, be empowered in your own life, these courses are for you!

Melissa’s passion project is her non-profit, Girls Matter (www.girlsmatter.ca), breaking the poverty cycle 1 girl, 1 family, 1 village at a time. The mission is to keep girls in school and stop teenage marriages, because school isn’t free in over 50 countries around the world and when parents have to make the difficult choices of feeding their kids or paying for school, food wins. And when the girls hit their teen years, they will often be married off so that someone else becomes responsible to feed them. Keeping girls in school instead creates a generational ripple effect, because an educated girl is more than twice as likely to ensure her own children are educated. Educating girls also grows the GDP of countries, when they get into the workforce. This is how together, we can change the world. Guests on this podcast are invited to donate to this important cause. Learn more here in this short video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R3-xqzJLZW14om1PhFClcU_oRSZ8zgip/view?usp=share_link

Melissa is also the winner of the 2024 Women in Podcasting Awards in the “inspiration & motivation” category and the 2021 & 2022 Quality Care Award by Business From The Heart and is also the recipient of the Alignable “Local Business Person of the Year “Award 2022, 2023 & 2024 for Whistler.

Melissa has been featured at a number of Health & Wellness Summits, such as the Health, Wealth & Wisdom Summit, The Power To Profit Summit, The Feel Fan-freaking-tas-tic Summit, the Aim Higher Summit and many more! She has also guested on over 90 different podcasts teaching people about the importance of prioritizing our health and how to get started.

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