Founder & CEO - Revolutionising Business with Science-Backed Well-Being and Success Support

👋 I am a founder on a mission to revolutionise workplace mental fitness and success. Companies face productivity issues, high turnover, chronic stress and burnout while managing increasingly complex, dispersed teams. New solutions are needed to meet the modern workforce where they are. After 20 years of building startups, I'm on a mission to help companies boost performance and engagement and mitigate risk while empowering employees to live healthy, empowered lives. 

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"I feel like the best boss for having chosen Wondersource. We discuss the topics outside of our sessions. It couldn't have gone better." - Team leader from Wealth Management

🎯 What I Do
I'm the founder of Wondersource (www.wondersource.com). We transform how companies approach mental fitness and performance. Bringing online science-backed programs and world-class experts to help your teams thrive through live programs and our mental fitness platform (coming soon!). Our programs go deep and offer a holistic approach that companies and employees love.

🎓 Official Stuff
- Certified Subconscious Freedom Coach
- Master's from LSE
- Executive Coaching Certificate from Harvard
- 20+ scaling startups, sales leadership, marketing and angel investing
- Led sales for 2 VC-backed AI startups 

💥 Why Wondersource Matters
- Wellbeing and success support is a MUST HAVE. Single point solution apps do little to move the needle. Companies investing in meaningful wellbeing programs will WIN (Oxford's research backs this up with numbers on ROI, profits, and valuations)

✨ What Sets Us Apart
We cut through wellness fluff to deliver programs that take a proactive approach to manage stress and health, overcome burnout, cultivate successful mindsets and navigate uncertainty with confidence and ease. Our approach is holistic (because your brain doesn't work in isolation from your body) and practical (because theory without action is just noise). 

🎯 Wins
- Helped multiple teams including RBC and Mandy's lower stress while boosting mental health and success
- Proven results: 80% experience improvement in job satisfaction, 86% better mental health, 86% saw an increase in confidence and self-esteem as leaders

Want to transform your team's wellbeing and performance or get 1-1 coaching? Let's chat!

Visit wondersource.com or email: michelle@wondersource.co

Reach out 👋

We don’t just react to our environment, we recreate what’s familiar to our nervous system.

Even when it hurts us.
If you constantly feel stressed, anxious, overwhelmed, or “not enough,” the problem often isn’t the situation… it’s the subconscious pattern your body learned long before adulthood.

And here’s an important truth:
Employees and leaders aren’t burning out only because of workload.
They’re burning out because they’re reliving the emotional states their nervous system knows best.
Stress becomes familiar.
Pressure becomes familiar.
Over-giving, over explaining, overworking, overthinking — familiar.
Never feeling “done,” “safe,” or “enough” — familiar.

And what’s familiar feels like “home” to the nervous system, even when it’s destroying our wellbeing.

When I burned out as VP of Sales at an AI company it wasn’t the job alone.
It was my subconscious programming:
- Perfectionism.
- Hyper-responsibility.
- Subconscious fears and programming.
Old patterns that had nothing to do with my title and everything to do with my past. I was flooding my system with cortisol, unable to sleep or connect with my intuition, inner power and joy.

That’s why I say this with love:
Your stress patterns are not your personality.
You're not just an "overwhelmed" person and unable to cope. Feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or shut down doesn’t mean “that’s just who you are.”
They’re the patterns you’ve been practicing.
And patterns can be rewired.

Yes, workplaces absolutely need better systems, cultures, and policies.
 
But the hidden driver of burnout is often internal: the subconscious programming, the nervous system, the emotional habits we carry into every room, role, and relationship.

This is why modern workplaces need deeper tools, not surface-level solutions.
- Nervous system support.
- Stress physiology.
- Subconscious reprogramming.
- Emotional health.
- Rooted confidence.
- Effective communication.
- Soft power skills.

At Wondersource, this is exactly what we help companies build: leaders and teams who thrive and businesses who mitigate risk and future proof their business.
Because when people stop recreating the familiar and start creating from alignment and rooted confidence, everything improves:
Confidence rises.
Communication improves.
Burnout drops.
Performance strengthens.
Profits rise. 
Culture becomes healthier.

No one is "weak" and people don’t need to be fixed.
They just need tools that meet the reality of the subconscious mind and nervous system.

💡 What becomes possible for your company when your people have the tools to rewire the patterns holding them back?

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🌿 Hi, I'm Michelle, founder of Wondersource.
Wondersource is what the modern workforce needs. 
An all-in-one mental fitness and soft "power" skills platform. Boosted mental health, higher engagement, improved performance, reduced absenteeism, greater profits.
Message me to learn more about empowering your team and your profits to thrive 🤩 
Have a wonderful day!

Michelle Velan 🩵🧠

Founder & CEO – Transforming Businesses with Science-Backed Essential Mental Fitness and Success Solutions 🦄🚀

“Almost everyone carries trauma — not just from major events, but from the ordinary, repeated moments when the body felt unsafe, unseen, or overwhelmed.”

This is the part of mental health we don’t talk about enough.

Most people think trauma only comes from big, dramatic events.

But the smaller, everyday moments shape us just as much:

• not feeling heard or seen
• feeling shame for having needs or making mistakes
• criticism or inconsistency growing up
• pressure to be perfect
• being rewarded for over-giving
• emotional suppression
• never feeling safe to be yourself

Those early experiences turn into the patterns we carry into adulthood and into the workplace:

• people-pleasing
• overachieving
• perfectionism
• avoiding conflict
• fear of disappointing others
• weak boundaries
• shutting down under pressure
• “not enough” no matter the success

These aren’t personality traits.
They’re adaptations.

You're not just an overwhelmed, unlucky, unhappy, or nervous person. 

Chronic stress becomes trauma.
Trauma rewires your brain.
Wiring becomes behaviour.

That constant bracing for rejection or failure, the urge to prove yourself, the need to be validated, the belief that good things aren’t meant for you, that’s not who you are. That’s physiology.

Trauma reshapes the brain – a hyperactive amygdala, a stressed hippocampus, and a weakened prefrontal cortex, creating more fear, poorer memory, and less emotional regulation.

Plus it can lead to a state of low-grade systemic inflammation. Persistent inflammation is a common pathway linking psychological distress to a variety of chronic physical and mental health conditions.

And this impacts far more employees than most companies realise.

But here’s the exciting news: the brain can heal.
Neuroplasticity means these patterns can be rewired with the right tools.

When workplaces avoid this, they miss out on so much – performance, engagement, and profits. Most people don't lack potential, they’ve just never been taught how to work with their subconscious patterns and emotional wounds that are holding them back or to believe in possibility that they haven't yet experienced.

When companies invest in their people's success and they learn to manage stress effectively, rewrite limiting beliefs, and lead from self-trust instead of survival?

Workplaces get better 🚀 

Turnover lowers.
Communication improves.
Leadership strengthens.
Burnout drops.
Performance rises.
Profits grow.

And when people are healthy and grow, companies transform.

Here’s a question: What becomes possible for your company when your people feel cared for, invested in and learn how to manage stress and elevate their consciousness?

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🌿 Hi, I'm Michelle, founder of Wondersource.
Our all-in-one mental fitness and soft "power" skills platform boosts mental health, and leads to higher engagement, improved performance, reduced absenteeism, greater profits.
Message me to learn more about empowering your workforce.
Have a wonderful day!

I already celebrated Thanksgiving, but I felt inspired by all the posts and wanted to share my own thank you.

I’m grateful for our customers and the leaders who champion mental health, stress management and empowerment at work. It matters so much.

I’m grateful for all the experts, healers, and champions who’ve brought so much depth, wisdom, and care into everything we’re building at Wondersource.

And I'm grateful for the incredible mentors I've welcomed into my life.

We’re in a unique moment where stigma is shifting and people are finally realising that mental health and managing stress isn’t just about managing crisis. It’s about so much more.

Capacity to believe good things are meant for you without bracing for disappointment.
To trust yourself even when the path is unclear.
To hold pain and joy all at once. 
To love and accept yourself. 
To feel safe taking up space.
To connect with your power and the aliveness in your body.
To witness the wounded parts of yourself with compassion instead of letting them lead.
To release old patterns and resentment that keep you stuck.
To CULTIVATE joy, ease, gratitude, confidence, and possibility — intentionally and proactively.
To honour your goals with discipline and belief, even when the work feels hard or uncertain.
To stand in your truth rather than chase external validation.
To feel grateful for all that is and safe to welcome in more.
To give yourself permission to believe in and go all in on your heartfelt dreams even if you don't know how they'll happen. 

Diet and exercise matter. But we live with our subconscious programming, our beliefs, our stuck emotions and our nervous system every minute.

You can’t “eat healthy” your way out of a body stuck in survival mode.
We’re not meant to live in fear, criticism, or judgment, it’s stressful for the body and it limits potential.

And the goal of mental fitness isn’t calm.
It’s being honest and compassionate with yourself, staying connected to yourself, your power and the truth that you’re worthy of what is on your heart.

This is why investing in employee mental health and success is one of the most valuable things a company can do. It fuels real resilience, performance, longevity, and inspired leadership.
And it drives higher profits and companies that outperform the market 🚀 

I’m thankful the conversation is evolving.
I'm thankful more people are getting support and doing the work, not because they're "weak" but because they know their health matters and they believe in their potential.
I'm thankful more people feel seen and realise there is nothing "wrong" with them.
I’m thankful the Wondersource platform is live 🤩 
I’m thankful that we’re already supporting clients in ways that are meaningful and transformative.

And the year of the snake has brought a lot of change and I’m thankful for the people in my life and the experiences that bring joy, depth, richness and grounding. 

That’s what I’m grateful for. My heart is full. 
What about you?

“We have found that how people feel at work is consistently a good leading indicator of future market and financial performance.”
– Jan-Emmanuel De Neve

The data keeps saying the same thing:

📉 Poor mental health costs £5,379 per employee in finance and insurance (Deloitte).
🔥 Burnout costs employers $4,000–$21,000 per employee every year (HR Dive).
💸 For a 1,000-person company, that’s $5M+ in annual losses.

And behind the numbers is another shift:
The stigma is dissolving.
Mental health is finally being seen as something to proactively work on and support the same way we do our physical health.

Just look at leaders at the top of their fields:
“I’m embarrassed that I stalled about being open so long. When I was growing up, it wasn’t acceptable to mention your mental health. Then I started talking about it and felt much better.”
– Rob Jupp, CEO, Brightstar Group

“For a long time, I figured I would never be successful in Formula One because I thought, the guys at the top don't have what I have—[my mental health] is always going to be my limitation. Fast forward, and I've beaten those guys by miles.”
– Toto Wolff, Billionaire & Mercedes F1 Team Principal

This is what’s changing:

• Leaders are speaking up.
• People want tools.
• Companies want performance and humanity.

Because:
Mental health support isn’t a “nice to have.”
It’s not only an investment in longevity, it's a core performance driver.

People who feel safe, confident, and supported don’t just lower stress and feel better — they lead better, communicate better, innovate better, and perform better.

Yet too many still miss:

Chronic stress and inflammation (which lead to chronic illness) doesn't happen overnight.
It builds slowly. Each time we rush our bodies, criticise or judge ourselves or ignore our emotional signals.

When the nervous system stays stuck in survival mode:

• sleep is disrupted
• digestion can feel "off"
• cortisol patterns change
• blood sugar becomes harder to regulate
• unprocessed emotions keep the stress response “on”

Most people don’t even notice, because we've normalised it so much.

Take a sleeping pill.
Take an anxiety pill.
I am absolutely for support in some cases and grateful that it's available, but in many cases, those are indicators that your body is calling for your love, attention and a new approach. 

This mental health and stress burden is a hidden cost inside every company.

And it’s why we built Wondersource — to give modern teams the mental fitness, nervous system support, subconscious tools, and soft-power skills they were never taught but absolutely need. 

Stronger people = stronger performance.
Better wellbeing = higher profits.

The companies that understand this now will be the ones that thrive long term.
Wondersource is your all-in-one platform for employee mental fitness and soft skills development—designed to empower your people to thrive and your business to grow.
Message me to learn more.
Have a wonderful weekend 😎

I asked ChatGPT why it thinks companies need Wondersource. This is what it shared:

Because the way we work has changed but the way we support people hasn’t.

Every company, big or small, is dealing with the same reality:

- People are overwhelmed.
- Managers don’t have the skills they need.
- Leaders are operating with outdated tools.
- Stress is silently capping performance, confidence, retention, and innovation.

Traditional benefits (EAPs, generic workshops) aren’t moving the needle.
And everyone knows it but most companies don’t know what to do about it.

Wondersource fills the gap companies struggle with:

✔️ Mental fitness (regulation, resilience, stress physiology)
✔️ Soft power skills (communication, confidence, mindset, leadership)
✔️ Subconscious + nervous system tools (the stuff that changes behaviour)

This combination doesn’t exist in one place and it’s what the modern workforce needs.

Here’s why companies need this:
1. Performance is emotional, not just operational.
People don’t underperform because they lack technical skills.
They underperform because they’re overwhelmed, dysregulated, fearful, or shut down. When employees learn to manage stress and communicate well, output rises naturally.

2. Leaders are burning out and it’s costing millions.
Modern leadership requires emotional capacity, resilience, and grounded decision-making.
That comes from tools that work in real time.

3. Engagement isn’t a mystery. It's a state.
You can’t “motivate” a chronically stressed workforce.
You can’t “train” confidence into someone who’s operating in survival mode.
You need to lower stress first, then everything else becomes easier.

4. The soft skills gap is now one of the biggest business risks.
Communication, conflict resolution, assertiveness, confidence, these are the engines of revenue, retention, and culture.
Most companies know their managers lack them.
Wondersource trains them — deeply, consistently, affordably.

5. Traditional mental health solutions aren’t working.
EAP usage is around 3–5%.
One-off workshops fade within days.
Coaching can be expensive and inconsistent.
Companies need something:
Scalable
Evidence-based
Affordable
Actually used
Wondersource hits all of those.

6. Prevention is being taken seriously.
The smartest companies are realising: If you fix stress early, you avoid burnout, conflict, turnover, and poor decisions later.

7. It’s the most cost-effective way to improve the bottom line.
It’s:
Better decisions
Stronger culture
Higher retention
Better leadership pipelines
More innovation
Every CFO wants those outcomes.

Companies need Wondersource because work is more demanding than ever, humans are more overwhelmed than ever, and old support systems can’t meet the moment.

Wondersource does. It meets the real human needs that drive performance — not the theoretical ones. That's why the ones who adopt it early will have a measurable competitive advantage.

💡 Which reason feels impossible to ignore?

“Even though health insurance costs are the second-largest line item after payroll, CEOs don’t really understand it or know anything about it.”
 – Mark Cuban

Do you agree?

I do and the leaders who truly understood the cost of poor mental and physical health (which are related), invest in their people differently. 

Because here’s the real picture:
💰 £5,379 per employee — annual cost of poor mental health in finance & insurance (Deloitte)
 🔥 $4,000–$21,000 per employee — annual cost of burnout (HR Dive). For a 1,000-person company, that’s $5M+ in annual losses.

This isn't because of a lack of talent.
It's because people are running on depleted systems.
And it's a business performance problem.

The root cause isn’t people being “weak.”
It’s that most teams are operating under chronic stress (which changes the brain and acts like trauma 🧠 ) with no real tools to meet themselves, manage stress meaningfully, reset, or build rooted confidence and resilience.

Meanwhile, the standard solution, EAPs, was built in the 70s for a workforce that doesn’t exist anymore.
Reactive support can’t solve a modern problem.
Prevention will.

And let’s be real, none of us become experts at managing stress or supporting our mental health just by reading a book or listening to a podcast.
The body keeps score. Chronic stress and mental health need a proactive, consistent approach.

When employees have skills that actually match today’s pressure – emotional regulation, communication, confidence, supportive subconscious programming, nervous system health – every success lever improves:
✔️ Leadership quality
 ✔️ Decision-making
 ✔️ Engagement
 ✔️ Retention
 ✔️ Performance
 ✔️ Profitability

This is why we built Wondersource.
Not as a quick fix or check box activity.

But as a practical, transformative, modern way for companies to future proof their business and their people to manage stress, stay well, lead well, and perform sustainably in a world that’s only getting more demanding.

Your workforce holds so much potential it's not even to be believed.
People want to learn, grow and show up at their best.
They just need support that meets the reality of today’s workplace.

Leaders — imagine what becomes possible when your people aren’t operating from stress, doubt, and depletion but from clarity, confidence, and resilience.
What would that unlock in your organisation?

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🌿 Hi, I'm Michelle, founder of Wondersource.
Wondersource is your all-in-one platform for employee mental fitness and soft "power" skills development—designed to empower your people to thrive and your business and profits to grow.
According to Oxford research (based on 15 million + data points!), higher wellbeing = higher profits, greater valuations, companies who outperform the market.
This is exactly what companies, big and small, need to support their teams. Message me to book a discovery call.
Have a wonderful day!

We spend more time with ourselves than anyone else.

The longevity market is booming but almost no one is talking about a key foundation of long-term health: getting out of survival mode and creating a kinder, more supportive inner world.

That’s what lowers stress, boosts confidence, and supports real physical health and success.

Here are 6 things you can start doing today to make your mind a stronger, loving, more powerful place to operate from:

1. Choose yourself.
Decide right now to believe in yourself no matter what. That you and your needs  matter. That you will love and accept all of yourself every day. That your vision and work matters. If a part of you thinks it's “selfish” or “not possible” that’s just an old story. Everyone benefits when you choose yourself. 

2. Be there for yourself.
There’s a younger part of you that wants unconditional love, acceptance, validation, encouragement, reassurance. Be the one who gives that to yourself. Be present with what you feel. Show up for yourself the way no one knew how to. Forgive yourself. Show yourself compassion. 

3. Feel what’s in your body.
Take 3 minutes at the start or end of the day. Notice the tension, the emotions, the signals. Your body is always communicating, most of just don't know how to listen. Ask what the tension is trying to tell you?

4. Choose love over fear.
Fear floods your system with cortisol and shuts down your potential. If there’s a goal in your heart, it’s there for a reason. Every moment is a choice: contract or expand. Most people choose fear without noticing. We've normalised it so much that we think it's "practical" but doing so closes you off to joy, opportunities, love, abundance. Choose differently. Forgive, release grudges, open your heart to possibilities again and again. 

5. Question your beliefs.
Your subconscious drives around 95% of your beliefs and behaviour and a lot of it was formed before age 7. That means you’re often acting on beliefs you never chose. They're not the truth of who you are and you’re not a victim of them.
 When triggered, ask:
 • What am I making this mean about myself or the world?
 • Is it the ultimate truth? It's not! 
 • What else could be true?
 • What do I choose to believe going forward?

6. Choose your language intentionally.
Stop speaking about yourself like you’re small. Stop repeating the story of struggle. Be honest about your emotions, yes but don’t narrate yourself into limitation. Language creates reality.

Which one will you start today? 😍 

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🌿  Hi, I'm Michelle, founder of Wondersource.
Wondersource is an all-in-one platform for employee mental fitness and soft power skills development—designed to empower your people to thrive and your business and profits to grow.
Oxford research, based on 15 million + data points, shows higher wellbeing = higher profits, greater valuations.
It's the solution every company needs for the modern workforce.
Message me to learn more.
Have a wonderful day!

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