In this episode, Stephanie sits down with Mel Yu for one of the most raw and transformative conversations yet — diving into identity, loss, healing, and what it truly takes to rebuild your life after everything falls apart.

Mel opens up about losing her partner to suicide at 23, navigating public heartbreak, surviving family loss, and growing through the kind of pain most people never speak about. Through it all, she shares the mindset, self-awareness, and authenticity that helped her rise from rock bottom and step into the woman she is today.

This episode is for anyone who has ever felt broken, stuck, misunderstood, or reshaped by struggle.

About Mel Yu

Melissa Yu built her early career in psychology, counselling, and mental health, working with the Royal Children’s Hospital and McAuley Community Services for Women. Her personal experiences with depression, suicidal thoughts, and the loss of her partner to suicide shaped her voice as a strong advocate for suicide prevention.

For close to ten years, she has pushed for lived experience to be heard across Australia. Her story has reached community groups and global conferences, always shared with honesty and calm conviction.

She has been recognised through nominations for Young Australian of the Year and Channel 7’s Young Achievers Award for Social Impact.

Outside advocacy work, Melissa runs several ventures, including MCO Events, Ego Expo, Paddle Across the Bay, and The Authentic Me podcast. Her coaching programs reflect her real world experience and her steady, grounded approach to personal growth.

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About Master of Achievement Podcast

For the ambitious who want more — not just more success, but more meaning.

Each episode breaks down the real stories, strategies, and mindset shifts behind building a life, career, and business that feel aligned and powerful.

It’s not about chasing achievement. It’s about mastering it from within.

If you’re ready to work with Stephanie to activate your brand, business, or personal growth, visit https://linktr.ee/stephanienguyenofficial or follow @masterofachievementpodcast on Instagram.

In this episode, Stephanie Nguyen breaks down one of the biggest traps in self-development — mistaking discipline for direction. She shares her own journey of realizing that high performance, structure, and “doing all the right things” mean nothing if the life itself is wrong underneath it all.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re doing everything “right” — the podcasts, the journaling, the workouts, the vision boards — but still feel stuck, disconnected, or unfulfilled, this one’s going to hit home.

It’s not about doing more. It’s about finally fixing what’s not aligned — and building habits after that, not before.

About The Master of Achievement Podcast

For the ambitious who want more — not just more success, but more meaning.

Each episode breaks down the real stories, strategies, and mindset shifts behind building a life, career, and business that feel aligned and powerful.

It’s not about chasing achievement. It’s about mastering it from within.

If you’re ready to work with Stephanie to activate your brand, business, or personal growth, visit https://linktr.ee/stephanienguyenofficial or follow @masterofachievementpodcast on Instagram.

Zimbabwe born artist, Listen to Bronte is Sydney's very own Amapiano DJ. With a sound that lives at the intersection of all things Afro electric, she's been delivering mixes, radio shows and performances in Aussie clubs and venues , providing music that no one can resist dancing to.

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If you're currently feeling stuck in your life, what you want to do, feeling unfulfilled, tackling the day on autopilot just not knowing how to feel energized with life, this episode is for YOU.

Bronte and I discuss:

• How to know if your gut feeling is actually worth trusting or not, when do you know you need to take the risk in making a new choice or change?
• How Spiral Dynamics could be playing a huge part in why you feel a sense of change is required in your current life.
• Overcoming perfectionism so you can move past paralysis analysis and JUST DO IT

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