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 – How to Beat Burnout and Have Sustainable Success in 2026 with Melinda Cohan

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Hosted by HerBusiness

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6 November 2025

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Burnout does NOT just come from doing too much… it comes from doing business in a way that isn’t aligned with who you ARE.

In this week’s HerBusiness Podcast, I sat down with Melinda Cohan, author of Sustainable Success: Thriving in Business and Performing at High Levels Without Burnout.

Melinda is revealing how so many business owners are unintentionally running on performance mode – pushing, proving, forcing – when what we truly want is to thrive with more flow, ease, and sustainability.

We dive into how you can break free from depletion and step into a new model of success that supports your wellbeing AND your results.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode: 

  • The deceptive difference between performing and thriving (and why they look so similar from the outside!)
  • The subtle ways women give away their power… and how it makes us fade into the background of our own lives.
  • How to use your natural intuition and your body’s signals as guides for decision-making in business.
  • The four levels of consciousness and how shifting from a “by me” attitude into a “through me” attitude changes so much (and why MOST women are constantly in “by me” mode!)
  • The six essential categories of self-care (beyond just the physical and emotional) that reduce stress and keep you in that flow state.
  • Practical ways to create more BEING, rather than more DOING, in your day… even if it’s just a few minutes a day.
  • And so, so much more!

 

 

 

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The free Sustainable Success Companion Guide is designed to be used alongside or after reading the Sustainable Success book. It offers expanded insights, additional stories, advanced strategies, and integration prompts. It’s to help apply deeper mindset shifts and energetic practices not covered in the book. The guide helps to build a business that fuels you—without sacrificing your well-being along the way.

I also offer a free Sustainable Success Toolkit that provides downloadable copies of the resources and exercises in the book that they can use for themselves or with their clients.

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About the host

Suzi Dafnis

Hi there. I’m Suzi Dafnis, CEO at HerBusiness. My BIG passion is helping women business owners to grow and scale their business, so that they can create their ideal lifestyle and make a difference in the world. Every day I am inspired by the more than 30,000 amazing women (and men!) in our community and I love finding the best education, mentors, and resources from around the globe, to help them get the skills, knowledge, and support they need to succeed. It’s been my privilege to lead HerBusiness (formerly The Australian Businesswomen’s Network) for the past 23 years (two+ decades – WOW!) because, whilst I’ve enjoyed success in business, I’ve also experienced the highs and the lows – sometimes you can feel on top of the world and in control and other times you can feel isolated, exhausted and stuck. What has made the biggest difference for me has always been having great people around me and having a lifelong commitment to learning. That’s why I am so passionate about the work we do here at HerBusiness – providing a Connection Network for women in business to get the mentors, contacts, referrals, knowledge, and skills they need to grow their confidence, make more money, build their businesses, expand their network and create the lives they love. My entrepreneurial journey started in the spare room of my Sydney apartment in 1994 when my business partner and I started a boutique events company that represented speakers and authors from the USA, here in Australia. Over the years I’ve grown multiple multi-million dollar businesses in the events, publishing and education niches – with teams in Australia, New Zealand, and the USA. Not everything has worked and there has been a degree of trial and error, and a lot of bumps in the road. But I have always had a strong commitment to always surrounding myself with great mentors and like-minded peers – a Connection Network that I can depend on and who can depend on me to be there for them too. I truly do what I love, every day.  

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About the guest(s)

Melinda Cohan

Melinda Cohan

Melinda Cohan is the Co-founder and CEO of The Coaches Console – software coaches use to streamline and run their business. She brings both her expertise in systems and self-care to help coaches eliminate business overwhelm. She has helped over 120,000 coaches since 2004. She and her team also bring the power of coaching and training to help coaches create a clear and realistic path to a business they love! She’s written two books, The Confident Coach and The Professional Coach and she’s also host of the podcast Just Between Coaches.

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