Stephanie MacKinnon

Stephanie MacKinnon As a life coach Stephanie supports big-hearted humans to find clarity, confidently take action, and reignite joy in their day-to-day lives!

22/08/2026

No, I do not need diamonds, but I do want 6–8 weeks of paid vacation a year. Thank you 😂

Money is useful, but knowing what you actually want it for feels much more interesting to me than endlessly chasing MORE because that is what we have been taught success looks like.

I want enough money to support the life I actually want to live, care for myself and the people around me, and contribute to the kind of world I want to be part of.

For me, a rich life looks like:

🌿 Time to actually be present in my life, with the people I love and enough spaciousness that work does not consume everything else.

🌿 A care team around me, including therapy, acupuncture, health insurance, the gym and yoga.

🌿 Access to the outdoors, good gear, and the freedom to go surfing when the waves are good.

🌿 Quality food ingredients, because delicious, nourishing food matters to me. 😊

🌿 Enough capacity to participate in community, support people I care about, contribute to causes I believe in, and have some energy left after earning a living.

And the version of a rich world I want is bigger than my own life.

I want people to have homes. I want rest, healthcare, good food, time, nature, creativity and community to be ordinary parts of being human, rather than luxuries reserved for people who can afford them.

Money matters, and material security matters, but I am much more interested in asking: enough for what?

What do I want my money, work and time to make possible?

These are not the answers. They are my answers, and they will probably keep evolving.

But getting specific enough that “a rich life” stops being a vague idea and starts becoming something you can actually make decisions around feels pretty fu***ng useful.

💭 So, what does a rich life look like to you?

This is one of the questions we’ll spend time with inside ROOTED, because it is very hard to build a life around what matters to you if you have never had the space to work out what that actually looks like. 🌿

This week on GLIMMERS of Another Way of Being, I’m joined by trauma-informed thought leader, speaker and consultant Kati...
20/08/2026

This week on GLIMMERS of Another Way of Being, I’m joined by trauma-informed thought leader, speaker and consultant Katie Kurtz for a conversation about The Everyday Choices That Build Trust.

Because we can say we value trust, safety, collaboration and care.

But how do we actually help people experience those things?

Katie talks about trauma-informed practice as, at its heart, human-informed practice, and about the small, repeated choices that help us create more trusting relationships, workplaces, communities and lives.

• We talk about trauma thriving in isolation.
• The pressure to do everything alone.
• Why receiving support can feel so bloody vulnerable.
• How capitalism rewards urgency when our nervous systems often need something entirely different.

And we get really practical too: communication, transparency, slowing down, people, pets, plants, places and play… and the very excellent advice to always hang the art. 🥹

One of my favourite things Katie says in this conversation is that trauma-informed care is actually an incredibly hopeful practice.

Because the more trust we build, the more empathy we bring forward, the more hope we have.

And the more we choose another way, the more we begin to see it.

🎙️ The Everyday Choices That Build Trust with Katie Kurtz is out now wherever you listen to podcasts.

You might already have a sense of what we’ll do inside ROOTED, but I also want you to know how it will *feel*I want it t...
17/08/2026

You might already have a sense of what we’ll do inside ROOTED, but I also want you to know how it will *feel*

I want it to feel like the kind of room where you can breathe a full-body sigh of relief, knowing you are welcome exactly as you are.

A space where you can bravely say the thing you’ve been quietly thinking for months and be met with curiosity rather than judgement or a quick fix.

Where we can laugh, change our minds, be unsure, dream bigger than others think is sensible, and leave feeling more connected to ourselves and to each other.

And because feeling welcome takes more than simply saying “this is a safe space”, there are concrete ways I hold the container:

✨ Your consent is always sought, never assumed
✨ You can speak as much or as little as feels comfortable
✨ You can listen, pass on a prompt, keep your camera off, pause or step away
✨ You do not need the perfect language or the “right” answers
✨ You do not have to perform vulnerability, confidence or political fluency to belong

You are welcome always exactly as you are.

You do not need to become a different, braver, more certain or more polished version of yourself before you walk through the door.

ROOTED is designed as a brave space, with room for your whole, thoughtful, contradictory, still-figuring-it-out self.

After 15 years of facilitating groups and learning spaces, helping people feel seen and heard is one of the things I
pride myself on doing well.

If that sounds like the kind of space you’ve been craving, I would genuinely love to have you with us. 🌿

We begin 24 September. You know where to find the details, or please do DM me with questions xx

There are lots of ways I could tell you about ROOTED.But at some point, I think it’s fair to ask:✨What is actually going...
15/08/2026

There are lots of ways I could tell you about ROOTED.

But at some point, I think it’s fair to ask:
✨What is actually going to be different because I spent nine months doing this?✨

The specifics will look different in every person’s life. Maybe clearer discernment means saying no to a promotion you don’t actually want, or finally moving towards something you’ve been circling for years.

But I’m much more interested in what *your* version might be.

I can’t tell you exactly what that will look like, and that’s part of the point.

🌿 What I can tell you, after 15 years of facilitating spaces for reflection, learning and change, and working with more than 100 coaching clients, is that I feel deeply confident about the capacities we’re building inside ROOTED.

✨ This isn’t about handing you another set of rules for how you should live.

It’s about helping you get clearer about what matters to you, understand the systems that have shaped you, trust yourself enough to act before you have complete certainty, and build a life that more closely reflects what you actually believe.

💭 As you read through these slides, I’d love you to notice what you find yourself wanting more of in your own life.

And if ROOTED feels like the place you’d like to explore that, I would genuinely love to support you there. 🌿

We begin on 24 September. You know where to find the details, or DM me if you’d like to chat about if Rooted is the right fit for you!

What if community isn’t something we find, but something we practice?We say we want community, but real community can be...
13/08/2026

What if community isn’t something we find, but something we practice?

We say we want community, but real community can be inconvenient.

It asks us to need one another, to receive as well as give, to have uncomfortable conversations, to repair when things go wrong and to show up when it might be easier not to.

This week on GLIMMERS of Another Way of Being, I’m joined by anti-capitalist business coach, activist and organiser Emily Eley to talk about The Loving Labour of Community and what it actually takes to build lives rooted in care and interdependence in a culture that keeps pushing us towards over-consumption and individualism.

“If we mean it when we say we want community… are we willing to put in the work?”

🎙️ Out now wherever you listen to podcasts.

Also: put down your phone, buy used s**t and wash your friends’ dishes!! (Listen to the episode and let us know if you agree with these simple words of wisdom!) 🧽

11/08/2026

Beyond knowing what you want, there’s building your capacity to trust yourself enough to live by it.

Building your capacity to hold the both/and.

🌱 To sit with contradiction without needing to immediately fix it, resolve it or make yourself wrong.

🌱 To notice the shoulds you’ve inherited and ask whether they were ever yours in the first place.

🌱 To meet yourself with f*ckloads of compassion when the answer isn’t clear.

🌱To keep finding your humanity in a world that pushes and squeezes you to be a machine.

🌱 And, little by little, to build a life that actually reflects what matters to you, rather than the version of success you were handed.

This is the work we’ll be doing together inside ROOTED. 🌿

Not becoming a better-performing version of yourself.

Becoming more able to hear yourself, trust yourself and live in deeper alignment with the future you believe in.

🌿ROOTED begins this September. 🌿

If this is the kind of capacity you want to grow, I’d love to have you with us ❤️‍🔥

What becomes possible when we stop accepting inherited systems as inevitable?When we begin asking who they were built fo...
06/08/2026

What becomes possible when we stop accepting inherited systems as inevitable?

When we begin asking who they were built for, who they exclude and what we might create instead?

In this week’s episode of GLIMMERS of Another Way of Being, I’m joined by racial equity coach and consultant Annie Gichuru for a deeply thoughtful conversation about the systems shaping our lives, and the power we hold to build beyond them.

Together, we explore Annie’s experience of moving from Kenya to Australia and becoming newly conscious of her Blackness, what it means to call people into racial equity work with compassion without removing accountability, and why consuming more information is not the same as taking meaningful action.

We also talk about the critical thinking required to question what we have inherited, how seemingly inclusive choices can continue to reproduce exclusion, and the importance of asking:

Why do we do it this way?

This is a conversation about seeing the systems around us clearly enough to stop unconsciously repeating them, and recognising the influence each of us holds, whether at a boardroom table, a dinner table or anywhere in between.

As Annie reminds us:

“Your voice has so much power in it. How are you going to use it?”

🎙️ The Systems We Inherit & How We Build Beyond Them is available now.

05/08/2026

Let hold the dream together ✨

We all deserve so much better than this, finding small but potent ways to walk toward better together is a huge part of the work I do.

Join us for ROOTED if you feel called to do the same.

Pop me a dm to learn more or book a chat xx

Some of the questions folks are asking about ROOTED 🌿This is a nine-month leadership programme for people who care deepl...
04/08/2026

Some of the questions folks are asking about ROOTED 🌿

This is a nine-month leadership programme for people who care deeply about the world they’re helping to shape, and who want their own lives to reflect that vision too.

It is intentionally spacious, relational and grounded in real life. There is room to move slowly, room to go deeper when you have the capacity, and no expectation that everyone will engage in exactly the same way.

What matters most is that you leave feeling more rooted in yourself, clearer about what matters, more confident in your own voice and better supported to make choices that feel genuinely aligned.

Three of the twelve places have now been claimed, and applications are open for September.

You can read more through the link in my bio, or send me a DM if you’d like to book a relaxed chat and explore whether ROOTED might be the right fit for you.

Any and all questions are very welcome xx

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