Hi, I’m Susie Mackie
In everything I do, I believe in the empowerment of women.
I am dedicated to encouraging and enabling women to become more confident in who they ARE as well as what they DO. This has a powerful, often life-changing effect, which benefits not only women themselves, but those who are close to them both at home and at work.
Why? Because living without self-worth isn’t really living at all, it is simply existing.
Our feelings about ourselves affect almost every aspect of our experience of life, from how we function as a person, as a partner, parent, or at work, to how we respond to life’s challenges. Our responses reflect our thoughts and feelings about who and what we are, therefore clearly our level of self-worth will impact our life. Let’s make sure this impact is a positive one.
Simply existing is not enough – but we can change this!
Creating a new me
To change my life, I had to change me. The journey through a multitude of challenges including domestic abuse, serious illness, near death and bankruptcy – to lasting and relentless resilience, positivity, confidence, joy and inner peace, has made me an award-winning advocate for women and resilience role model in overcoming adversity and rising to challenge. Survival from adversity is a choice we make – a choice we can all make.
Believe me, in the bad times, I cried oceans and howled like a wolf in pain many a time, yet I found the strength to survive. Using everything I learned from my traumatic experiences and the wisdom I absorbed from some of the world’s most powerful mentors, I became a new woman.
My action for you
I am here to believe in you until you are fully able to believe in yourself. In fact, my life’s purpose is to help you step into your power and never feel powerless again.
As a Licensed Partner with AQR International and with my one-to-one mentoring and unique, powerful programme: ‘Mastering Mental Toughness’, I enable you to dive deep and become truly confident in who you are as a woman, regardless of your situation, background, culture, career, age, size, shape. It is all about ‘the woman within’ and your innate sense of ‘self’.
It is never too late – or too early – for this.
Kind Words
“I am inspired and motivated by your mentoring. Having to fight daily my issues with imposter syndrome and generally on a day-to-day basis not feeling ‘good enough’, I remember what was shared and what I learned and it seriously helps me more that any HRT or counselling could.”
Message Me
Start from within
Low self-worth and fragile boundaries can have disastrous consequences; I know this only too well. As a little girl my teachers described me as a confident, generous, and warm-hearted child who loved to be a leader or a helper. Then I went to high school and this was all knocked out of me. I was taught to obey and to respect my elders simply because they were my elders – regardless of the way they treated me. The ongoing effect of this was long term and painful, but I’ve used my own adversity to channel my energy into learning to thrive, and it is my mission to enable others to do the same.
Why
My mental toughness work reflects my heartfelt passion that we all deserve to feel good about ourselves. If we don’t take ourselves seriously, others won’t either. When we treat ourselves with kindness and compassion, we send a message to others that we are worthy of being treated with respect. When we know our value – really know it – by building our resilience, boundaries and authentic confidence in our core selves as women, we begin to attract abundance and joy into our lives.
A Few Random Facts About Me
I love people and discovering what makes them tick.
I adore my beautiful daughters, they are just the BEST – kind to people yet don’t take any crap. I’m so proud of them!
In love with ‘the image’, both creating it and looking at it. (Bit of a sucker for a pretty picture; naff is SO not me.)
Bouncy. Positively Tiggerish really. Both in that I love FUN and that I now have emotional ‘bounce-forward-ability’; a good skill to develop in life.
Love to laugh. I discovered a new laugh once I believed in my worth.
Surroundings affect my soul.
Love looking up when walking under a tree. Try it – it’s a whole new world!
Wonderment is part of me – am known to say WOW! most days. Maybe that’s one of the things that keep me young.
Music moves me. Up or down. I mostly stick with up (Play Whitney Houston’s ‘Step by Step’ – super uplifting; no way can you not dance!)
Been there, am SO DONE with anxiety and stress. Now fulfilling my own potential and choosing to enjoy my life – and it feels FABULOUS!
I believe that learning is for life, that it is NEVER too late. I’m SO grateful for all the lessons that life has taught me, even if they hurt like hell at the time. Gratitude is a life-changer; if you don’t have a gratitude journal by your bed, treat yourself to one.
My primary love language according to Dr. Gary Chapman is ‘touch’. Last is ‘receiving gifts’. Although I do actually also love gifts, so a hug and a gift is just about perfect 🙂 .
Incredibly grateful that chocolate is good for you. The very dark stuff mostly, so I’m also grateful that that’s the kind I like.
Work hard – but love what I do, so all is good.
Some of My Achievements
Mental Toughness Licensed Assessor, Partner with AQR International.
Author of two anthologies: ‘Women of Spirit’.
BA (Hons) First Class Degree in Photography.
Ladies First Professional Development ‘Advocate for Women’ Award 2018.
Woman & Home Magazine Amazing Women Awards 2019: Finalist in the ‘Improving our environment’ category in recognition of work encouraging women to make their world a better place.
Awarded ‘Resilience Warrior 2022’ by Single Mum’s Business Network.
Corporate Social Responsibility Women’s Business Club Award Runner Up 2023.
