What happens when the life you’ve worked hard to build no longer feels like your own?
In this episode of Soul to Soul, Gillian is joined by consultant, strategist and coach Sue Hunter for a conversation about success, identity, self-trust and having the courage to recognise when something in your life needs to change.
After more than 25 years working across law, financial services, leadership and management, Sue found herself questioning a life that looked successful from the outside but no longer felt right on the inside.
What followed was a gradual process of unlearning, letting go and discovering a completely different way of relating to herself.
Sue shares what it was like to step away from an identity she had carried for decades, why learning to recognise how she actually felt became so important, and how coaching, meditation, Reiki and energy work helped her reconnect with a deeper sense of who she was.
Gillian and Sue also explore why transformation doesn’t always require throwing your whole life away, what it means to stop looking outside yourself for the answers, and why the future of work and leadership may depend on us becoming more human, not less.
In this episode:
- When outward success stops feeling fulfilling
- Recognising when an identity no longer fits
- Sue’s journey from law and financial services into a different way of living and working
- Learning to move out of your head and notice how you actually feel
- Why self-trust became central to Sue’s transformation
- Letting go without needing to know exactly what comes next
- Meditation, Reiki and energetic alignment
- Why transformation doesn’t always have to mean radical change
- Moving from fixing people to creating space for them
- Why AI may make human connection even more important
- Recognising the signs that life is asking something different of you
- Why personal change begins with believing yourself
Chapters:
00:00 Meet Sue Hunter
03:07 When something in your life doesn’t feel right
06:00 The practices that helped Sue reconnect with herself
08:36 The discomfort of leaving an old life behind
10:11 Letting go of an identity that no longer fits
12:19 Learning to trust yourself
13:40 Discovering a different way of working and living
15:47 Reiki, energy and letting go
17:22 Bringing change back into everyday life
19:12 Moving beyond resistance
20:48 Purpose, energy and a different definition of success
24:19 AI, leadership and becoming more human
26:50 “I’m a healer, not a fixer”
31:30 What if you’re afraid to change?
35:54 Everything starts with you
38:41 A different kind of leadership
39:22 Where to find Sue
About Sue Hunter:
Sue Hunter is a consultant, strategist and coach who helps people lead from a place of greater energetic alignment, so they can restore flow, reconnect with what matters and create lives and work in which they can genuinely flourish.
Her work brings together strategic thinking, coaching, meditation and energy practice with more than 25 years’ experience in law, financial services, leadership and management.
Sue helps people recognise where their energy is being drained, what is keeping them stuck and what brings them alive — creating space for new choices, deeper self-trust and meaningful change.
Through Succeeding Well, she is helping people imagine and create an alternative to simply becoming better at doing more.
Website: www.succeedingwell.com
Email: sue@succeedingwell.com
About Gillian McMichael:
Gillian McMichael is a Soul Healer, spiritual teacher, ICF Master Certified Coach, author and founder of Soul Healer Academy and Full Circle Global.
With nearly three decades of experience in coaching, healing and personal transformation, Gillian’s work helps people reconnect with themselves, deepen their self-awareness and create lives that reflect who they truly are.
She is also the creator of the healing modalities Myaoke™ and KA-REM-U™.
Website: www.gillianmcmichael.com
