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Ascension Academy Anik Malenfant is an inner work strategist. I decode the invisible patterns creating your visible ceilings in life and leadership. How Ready for change are you?

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I'm doing something I haven't done in a while: opening a limited number of 1:1 KickStart sessions this fall.Because as t...
10/14/2026

I'm doing something I haven't done in a while: opening a limited number of 1:1 KickStart sessions this fall.

Because as the pressure of Q4 comes in like a wrecking ball, it's worth catching your self-defeating patterns before they cost you a whole season.

One powerful session. We find the exact thing running your calendar, your energy, your decisions right now, and rebuild it into one that actually moves you forward.

The KickStart Bundle includes:
Your KickStart session
Session replay and Pattern Playbook
7 days of me as your coach while you integrate it and make it stick

Fall Promo pricing: $222 (reg $555), limited spots. Closes October 21.

Comment "Kickstart" and I'll send you the details.

Think about the last time you made a real decision and didn't second-guess it afterwards.Not a small decision. A real on...
10/13/2026

Think about the last time you made a real decision and didn't second-guess it afterwards.

Not a small decision. A real one.

How long ago was that?

For most people it's further back than they expect, and the gap comes down to discernment: which inner voice is calling the shots, and which ones are trying to keep you small.

I'm curious what comes up for you.

Tell me, what decision have you been putting off?

The beliefs that built her first six figures were the same ones breaking her down.Julia was a guest on my podcast - The ...
10/07/2026

The beliefs that built her first six figures were the same ones breaking her down.

Julia was a guest on my podcast - The Brave Shift.
She built a six-figure online nutrition practice during COVID. Clients pouring in, revenue growing, everything working.

Then 2024 hit, and everything she'd built stopped working.

Her body started speaking in symptoms: tiredness, headaches, skin flaring up.

She came from a childhood where success was always tied to how hard you're working and how much money you're making. She spent a full year redefining what success meant, and realized the definition needed to be her own, not inherited from family or industry.

A question I'd offer you today: whose definition of success are you carrying?

I'd wake up, look at my calendar, and feel dread.A few years into my practice, I had built the version of success I thou...
10/06/2026

I'd wake up, look at my calendar, and feel dread.

A few years into my practice, I had built the version of success I thought should bring fulfillment. On paper, I had done it.

Dread came because I had built exactly what I'd designed… but the person who designed it didn't exist anymore.

You can work your way to a goal while the void quietly grows within if you're not careful, like I did.

Which of your current goals was set by the version of you that you grew out of on your way there?

The Goal-Shaped Void, published by The Wellness Universe: https://blog.thewellnessuniverse.com/the-goal-shaped-void/

Five o'clock. Dark outside. My daughter sat alone at the kitchen table in the pitch dark.What I'd been working on could ...
10/05/2026

Five o'clock. Dark outside. My daughter sat alone at the kitchen table in the pitch dark.

What I'd been working on could have waited.

I spent thirteen years in capital markets using a pressure-based source of motivation. Then I left. But the grind I left, I rebuilt in my own business under a different guise. This time out of passion instead of obligation, which is exactly why I couldn't see it.

I told myself it didn't count as unhealthy pressure, because I wanted to be doing it.

The true cost was the same either way.

Discipline wasn't the problem. It's a pattern I carried forward. Thankfully, a pattern that was found and rebuilt.

Full piece, published by The Wellness Universe: https://blog.thewellnessuniverse.com/stop-racing-time/

Tonight a room is going to fill with leaders who didn't have to be there.They have responsibilities.Full calendars. Kids...
05/28/2026

Tonight a room is going to fill with leaders who didn't have to be there.

They have responsibilities.Full calendars. Kids. A long list of reasons that would have been honourable to skip.

They're coming anyway.

What got them in the room wasn't marketing. It was the moment something in them noticed they were one more "I'll do it next time" away from another year of the same pattern running the same show.

That's the trait worth naming about people who actually change.

At some point they stop making space for their own excuses.

If you're someone who's been holding a "next time" — let this be the small nudge. The next time has been you the whole time.

Last week a client told me she'd read four leadership books in six months. She had a stack of frameworks. A coach. A pee...
05/27/2026

Last week a client told me she'd read four leadership books in six months. She had a stack of frameworks. A coach. A peer group. A 90-day plan she'd built and rebuilt three times.

And she still felt it. The ceiling she couldn't quite name.

I asked her: "What's actually happening when you sit down to execute the plan?"

She paused. Then: "I get really busy doing other things."

That's not a discipline problem.
That's not a time problem.
That's the pattern.

You can't out-strategize a pattern.
You can only see it. Name it. And stop letting it run the show.

The strategy is the architecture above the foundation.
The pattern IS the foundation.

When the foundation tilts, no amount of architecture above it stays straight — not at work, not at home.

Tuesday May 28 · Moncton · $44 · Two hours.

Reserve → https://buy.stripe.com/9B64gAcgU0xH1sk2sUak00b

Or comment EDGE for the link.

"What have you applied to?""Nothing."That was the entire pattern, visible in one sentence.I was on a call with a single ...
05/27/2026

"What have you applied to?"

"Nothing."

That was the entire pattern, visible in one sentence.

I was on a call with a single mother who believed she was capped at $40,000. Two boys in football. Convinced she needed a four-year degree to break through.

The belief had decided the outcome.
She wasn't even trying — because the pattern had decided trying was pointless.

Six months of inner work later: $20,000 raise.
Eighteen months later: doubled her salary.
No degree. No new credentials.

Most accomplished leaders don't have a Natalie problem.
They have a senior version of it.
Capped at the next level. The relationship not quite landing.
The decision that's been on the desk for two months.

The work isn't about credentials. It's about what's running underneath them.

Tuesday, May 28 · Moncton · $44 · Two hours · Small room.

Reserve → https://buy.stripe.com/9B64gAcgU0xH1sk2sUak00b

Or comment EDGE and I'll send you the details.

You're the one who checks every angle before walking into a room.The one who reads body language before the agenda.The o...
05/26/2026

You're the one who checks every angle before walking into a room.

The one who reads body language before the agenda.
The one who's always slightly more prepared than required.

It worked. It got you the title, the team, the table you wanted to sit at.

And now, at that table, you can feel it — the level that doesn't yield to more prep. The conversation at the dinner table that takes more out of you than the boardroom did.

The pattern that built your career is the pattern keeping you stuck.
Same pattern. Different costume.

You can't out-strategize it. You can only see it. Name it.

Tuesday, May 28 · Moncton · 6:30 PM · $44 · Small room.

Reserve → https://buy.stripe.com/9B64gAcgU0xH1sk2sUak00b

Or comment EDGE and I'll send you the details.

This week I'm hosting a small evening in Moncton. Here's what you'll leave with.You'll leave knowing which of the four p...
05/26/2026

This week I'm hosting a small evening in Moncton. Here's what you'll leave with.

You'll leave knowing which of the four patterns has been quietly running your decisions for the past decade. Not intellectually — in your body.

You'll leave with the language for what's been running underneath. Most leaders are exhausted not because the work is hard but because they've been navigating in a fog they don't have terms for.

You'll leave having reset something. Live. In a room of other people doing the same. The shift won't feel dramatic from the inside. The Tuesday after will tell you what happened.

You'll leave with a decision that's been stalled in your life for months — the conversation, the boundary, the change — now organized differently.

What you won't leave with: a workbook to fill out later. A 30-day plan. Homework. The architecture of "I'll do the work when I get home" — that architecture is the pattern. We're working it in the room.

Comment "EDGE" — I'll send the details. Doors close Tuesday at midnight.

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