How to Let Your Business Take Care of You with Melanie Coddington

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How can you stop being in a codependent relationship with your business and start creating a company that supports your life instead of consuming it?

In this episode, you’ll hear a powerful conversation about releasing hustle, untangling identity from success, and building a business that supports freedom, calm, and clarity. Suneera’s guest, Melanie Coddington, shares hard-earned insights on ego-free leadership, mindset work, and the systems that allowed her to step away while her company continued to thrive.

Melanie Coddington is the founder of Coddington Design, where she designs world-class homes for inspiring leaders while building a multimillion-dollar service business that runs without her day-to-day involvement.

What you’ll learn in this episode:

(01:58) How Melanie transitioned from human resources into luxury interior design and built her business from the ground up.

(06:52) The surprising traits self-made millionaires share and what they reveal about time, help, and priorities.

(08:43) What ego-free design really means.

(14:14) The life-changing question that helped Melanie stop caretaking her business and start letting it support her.

(16:07) How emotional codependency shows up in business and why it keeps founders stuck in overwork.

(18:00) Practical mindset tools to uncover subconscious blocks to growth.

(22:02) Why clear client experience, simple processes, and trust in your team are essential to stepping away as CEO.

(25:25) How redefining success around peace and freedom can change the way you lead.

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Thank you to Melanie Coddington for being on our show!

Learn more about Melanie: https://www.melaniecoddington.com/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/melaniecoddington/

Learn more about Coddington Design: https://coddingtondesign.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/melaniecoddington/

Melanie on LinkedIn:

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