Choosing You First – with Michelle Bishop
Guest: Michelle Bishop – Master Certified Life Coach, Podcast Host, and Amazon #1 Bestselling Author of Choose You First

Guest Links:
🌐 bishoplife.com
📸 @MichelleBishopLife
📧 [email protected]

💡 Episode Overview:

In this powerful and heartfelt episode, I sit down with the incredible Michelle Bishop, who embodies the essence of resilience, courage, and transformation. Michelle is a Master Certified Life Coach and bestselling author of Choose You First. She opens up about her personal journey from surviving childhood trauma and losing 100 pounds, to overcoming a traumatic brain injury — all while discovering the true meaning of choosing herself first.

Michelle’s story reminds us that choosing yourself is not selfish — it’s essential. From that place of inner strength and self-love, we can live more authentically, influence others more positively, and raise the next generation to thrive rather than just survive.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

• Your past doesn’t define your future. Michelle grew up in an environment of abuse and dysfunction, but instead of letting it limit her, she used it to fuel her passion to help women heal and rise.
  
• Choosing you is an act of courage. It means facing the uncomfortable truths, feeling the hard feelings, and making intentional choices to move in a new direction.
  
• Trauma doesn’t have to be the end of your story. After a traumatic brain injury, Michelle had to relearn basic life functions and rebuild her career. Her comeback story is a testimony to the power of resilience and mindset.
  
• Self-love isn’t vanity — it’s vitality. Michelle emphasizes that when we are full from within, we become the best version of ourselves and give more to others, not less.
  
• You have the power to change generational patterns. When you choose you first, you model emotional courage and agency for your children, showing them what it looks like to thrive.
  
• You are enough — in every chapter of your story. Whether you’re in the middle of the storm or walking into the sunshine, you matter. You have value.
  

💬 Memorable Quotes:
“Self-love is so important because from within that self-love I am full, and I get to be the best version of myself with someone else — a version I never even thought was possible.”

“To put yourself first is to choose. To be brave enough to look at hard things and to say, ‘I matter. I can do something different.’”

“You are enough in every chapter of your story.”