The only constant in life is change

Change. It’s a constant. As the Greek philosopher Heraclitus says, it’s the one thing we can be sure upon in life.

If you were at One Woman Conference last weekend you’d have heard the announcement about the HUGE changes that we are making here at One of many. 

We celebrate our 10 year anniversary this year and I have been reflecting on how far we have come. 

We have had over 100,000 women through our community.  We’ve deeply worked with around 7-10,000. 

Our programs have developed over the years, but I’ve been reminded that to enable us to achieve our vision of reaching one million grassroots women to change their corner of the world, we need to do something differently. We aren’t getting there as fast as I’d like!

I want to make some more space to invest in the ongoing development of our coaches and trainers, and as a result, we have decided that this will be the last year we will be running our Lead the Change program. Yep, it’s a big one right?! The gasps of grief as I shared this on the weekend were huge!

I love this program and everything that it is designed to achieve. In fact, it’s one of the four core loves of my life behind my husband and kids. When Susie, Annie and I came together to create Lead the Change, I think what we created was a bit magical. It is so extraordinarily deep and profound. It is my favourite, but sometimes when a new chapter arrives we have to give up our favourites to fulfill on our calling. 

And there is a grief in making the decision that I have. There is a sadness around it too. Still, I have my guidance, and I know it is the right thing to do. 

It’s through working more deeply with our Certified coaches and taking our tools out into the world that we can have more impact. We need more coaches in more countries, inside more organisations, running their own businesses or coaching as a manager inside these organisations. I want to give a lot more of my time to supporting the certified coaches and certified trainers.

A lot of people have asked why. Everyone loves this programme. It’s profound. The truth is it’s a knowing. It’s been a message from source to say ‘go more this way’. I don’t have all the answers and I don’t know which way I’m going. I’m stepping out in faith. 

For me this is an experiment of sorceress leadership, trusting that I don’t have to have all the answers for the next chapter or the next iteration of what’s next for One of many. Just because something is right at a soul level doesn’t mean that I’m immune to grief and it doesn’t mean that the community is not immune to grief too. Lead the Change has impacted the lives of so many women, so very deeply. And all of us will be sorry to say farewell to this beautiful programme, but that’s change. That’s what it’s like. Even when we are consciously choosing change, it doesn’t mean that there isn’t a grief and a mourning. 

Sometimes I think in life people think that when they choose a change, they won’t feel grief. That when they choose to leave a relationship that they won’t grieve it or when they choose to change jobs that they won’t grieve it. They are often shocked at the fact that there is a grief and an outpouring of sadness when it was their choice. 

Grief doesn’t only happen when we lose something that we love without choice. A relationship ends that we didn’t choose. Or we’re made redundant from a job that we didn’t choose. Or a business fails that we didn’t choose. We expect that grief. But the grief that comes from a conscious choice is sometimes unexpected. But it shouldn’t be because chapter changes are invariably met with the same farewell to a part of us that we are to an older version of ourselves. 

As we navigate our way through this chapter I know that there will be grief, but I am also excited for the spaciousness that it opens up for what comes next. 

For those of you that have been on the journey with us for the last 10 years, I want to thank you for your trust in my stewardship of this calling. I hope that you can trust me in just the same way as I got us here, that what comes next will be as guided and wonderful and perhaps even better than anything than any of us can imagine.

So this is the last cohort of Lead the Change that we will be taking through. The programme will be ending in July 2025. Enrolments are now open for the last remaining places. 

If you’d like to be a part of the final cohort, then book a call with one of the team to get all your questions answered. To book and call and read more about Lead the Change click here.