Mel McSherry

What Mel talked about

Mel McSherry discussed what she calls mental and emotional profitability, arguing that entrepreneurs need to establish this before chasing financial targets or risk burnout and unsustainable success. She described moving away from a copy-paste approach to business advice — finding experts and hitting standard milestones like six-figure goals — after finding that approach kept backfiring on her.

She talked about using Human Design, a system she described as combining astrology, I Ching, Kabbalah, chakras, and quantum physics, to give founders a personalized blueprint for decision-making and energy management instead of generic business formulas. She also addressed manifestation, arguing it's commonly misunderstood as simply setting intentions, when for most people it requires initiating an idea and then waiting for information in a step-by-step way suited to their design. She distinguished between 'showing up' as a performed identity versus 'stepping in' authentically, describing the latter as the basis for sustainable relationships and business conversations.

The show

The Total Entrepreneur is a weekly conversation with founders, researchers, and health experts about what actually moves entrepreneurial performance across mind, body, spirit, and business.