MEET MELANIE

Licensed Therapist. Multi-certified Coach. Depth that moves as fast as you do.

Learn about Executive High Performer Coach, Melanie Shmois, with blonde wavy hair wearing a blue striped button-up shirt and light blue jeans, standing against a black background, smiling softly.

Melanie Shmois, LISW-S, is a licensed therapist and multi-certified coach with 20+ years of experience. The kind of depth most coaches simply don't have. Her client roster has included corporate executives, professional athletes, and film producers alongside the entrepreneurs and high-achievers she works with today: people who've already built real success and are ready to feel as strong on the inside as they perform on the outside.

In 2017, she left a thriving private practice to build something more direct: coaching that moves as fast and precisely as the people she works with need it to. As founder of Mind Your Strength Coaching, she's spent the years since helping high-achievers close the gap between performance and fulfillment, not through generic frameworks, but through a clinical foundation most coaches never had to begin with.

She's tested every technique she teaches on herself first.

Areas of Focus

Mindset & Identity
Finding Purpose
Overcoming Fear
Happiness & Fulfillment

Relationships & Boundaries
Improving Relationships
Ending People-Pleasing
Social Skills

Performance & Structure
Work/Life Balance
Time Management
Entrepreneurial Pursuits

Also drawing on 20+ years of experience:
Weight Loss & Body Image
Overeating, Overdrinking & Overspending
Habit & Addiction Recovery

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Where I Recalibrate

Cleveland is home, where Melanie lives with her husband, two daughters, and a Boston Terrier. When she's not coaching, she's usually at a local workout studio, biohacking, or wherever Cleveland's mental health and wellness community is showing up that week.

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The Human Element

  • My Starbucks order is tall, dark roast, red eye with steamed heavy cream.

  • I don't feel like I sit down.

  • If there’s a coaching video and best practice exercise, I’ve probably seen it and applied it to my clients.

  • If there's a workout, I've likely tried it.

  • I'm emotional, but mainly on the inside.

  • My go-to mindless TV shows usually involve murder mysteries, and podcasts, outside of coaching ones, are typically unsolved mysteries. Go figure.

  • I lose my socks all the time.

  • My two daughters are my pride and joy.

  • I never got seasick fishing for halibut deep in the Gulf of Alaska. My husband, on the other hand…

  • I believe that the impossible is temporary.

  • I was held up at gunpoint while working as a bank teller in college. I want to be able to say that the robber didn't get away with it.

Most people stop short of what they're actually capable of. This is where that changes.

YOUR INVITATION TO WORK TOGETHER