Melanie Childers, M.Ed.

Melanie Childers is a Master Certified Confidence and Leadership Coach, activist, yogi, writer, educator, and all around badass, with a M.Ed. in Learning Design and Development. She specializes in coaching progressive women activists and candidates by showing them how to build confidence, manage stress, handle criticism, and lead with integrity. She’s taught these concepts and more to VoteRunLead, Netroots Nation, RepGA, and PaveItBlue, and has appeared in Cosmo.com and Esquire.com. She's also a co-founder of TheUnderbelly.org, an online breast cancer magazine.

Sub-specialties: Confidence, Stress management, Mindfulness, Resilience, Perfectionism, Desensitizing to criticism, Managing public speaking fears, Developing self-love and self-compassion, Breast cancer, When women cheat in relationships, Jedi mind tricks