My job, as a coach, is to offer you a place to talk things out and figure out what’s getting in your way, so you can trust yourself again and move forward. I call it a Return to Comfort because…
…You will know it when you feel it.
Melissa Baldino (she/her)
My Approach
Change—good or bad—can make us feel lost and uncomfortable. We can do all the right things, and life will still leave us feeling exhausted, stuck, enraged, and disconnected.
But discomfort can work like a messenger. It’s trying to get your attention long enough to ask: What is this discomfort trying to tell me? It’s an opportunity to get back to your own path—not the one others expect you to take.
My role is to partner with you in uncovering—or recovering—your internal compass, helping you navigate back to your own sense of purpose. It’s not always easy to find, but your comfort is your truth.
My Comfort Zones
You can take one step today without knowing what the next step will be, and you don’t have to do it alone.
I started coaching after experiencing a few transitions myself: IVF, miscarriages, motherhood, the loss of my own mother, work-life balance with children, career changes, and menopause, to name a few.
Women often feel they have to navigate these paths alone or maintain an outward image of control. As a Wayfinder Life Coach, I work with women to ask: How can we be honest with ourselves (and others) so we can find our way back to our own sense of comfort?
Women in Transition
It’s your system to build in a way that fits you. Build down…or step back, break down, take it apart.
It’s not sexy, but the organization and systems we set up can add a lot more comfort to our lives. As a former TV and Radio Producer, I learned how to set up systems that aren’t designed to make me overfunction, but to free up my time. What can you give up?
What are you doing that someone else could do for you? And what are you holding on to that isn’t helping anyone, especially you? I want you to have space to think, dream, and create.
Straight Up Organization
What is Coaching?
I view coaching as a practical conversation, full of great tools, that can get you back on track. Like a return to comfort, coaching will guide you back to where you truly belong.
Coaching is a future-focused partnership designed to let you (the client) lead. Remember, you get to decide what’s right for you.
In the method I am trained in, created by Martha Beck, coaching is defined as “a process in which we help clients connect with the inherent knowledge of their best lives and support them in creating those lives.”
“A good life might not look at all the way we once imagined it. To find our one unique path, we often have to let go of expectations, of fears, of inherited rules, of society’s demands, of dreams manufactured for us.”
— Garance Dore
Why me?
I became a Wayfinder Life Coach after my world kept changing in my 40s. I was fired from what I thought was my dream job, rebuilt my career, experienced miscarriages and IVF, and lost my mother as I became a parent. I also navigated perimenopause and a few other challenges. All of this caused a major shift in me. Along the way, I worked with therapists, healers, and coaching master Martha Beck - and I learned a lot. As a coach, I draw on these experiences and my training to partner with others as they navigate their own unique paths.
My Resume (in Brief)
At 50, I spend much of my time looking after my 7- and 9-year-olds. Before becoming a Wayfinder Coach, I produced radio and TV for food media companies and co-founded Milk Street. I am half American, half Austrian, and currently reside in Cambridge, MA.
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Free Discovery Session
A FREE half-hour session to cover:
What you are hoping to achieve through coaching?
Who am I? Are we a good fit?
Any outstanding questions and important details.
Single Coaching Session
A one hour coaching session.
This can be scheduled after the initial Discovery Session. ($150)
Five Session Package
5 one hour sessions that can be used within 3 months after the first appointment.
These can be scheduled after the initial Discovery Session. ($650)