From Burnout to Breakthrough: My Journey to Rewiring Over 1000 Successful Leaders

Hi, I’m Nicky. Being a top Leadership Rewiring Specialist, Executive Performance Coach, Keynote Speaker and Trainer, I’ve met people I only used to dream of meeting.

My work has led me to interviewing celebrity successes, including the kindest man I’ve ever met, Joe Wicks, and two of the Dragons from Dragons’ Den: the passionate powerhouse Sara Davies and the balanced, business mogul Sarah Willingham, as well as meeting other incredible people on screen and in business:-

Davina McCall, Ashley Cain and Ross Kemp stole my heart, alongside inspiring multi-million-pound business leaders such as David JP Philips and Jayson Grayston and many more.

It’s been an incredible journey, and I’m grateful every day for the work, the impact, and the people I get to transform doing what I do.

But it wasn’t always that way…

Back in 2010, I was 30 weeks pregnant when we were told our baby was missing part of his brain, the central part that links the two sides of the brain together.

We’d already lost our first child through medical problems, after years of trying and operations, so when they advised on a medical termination, I just couldn’t. This felt different. Mother’s intuition, I suppose. So I pushed the fear down and kept going, despite the prognosis.

Our son was born, a true miracle, defying every medical prediction.

And I told myself I was coping. Managing. Holding it all together.

Until one day I wasn’t.

I’d just had a meeting with his nursery. They’d always reassured me everything was fine, despite my concerns, and told me I was being sensitive whenever I vaguely asked if he was doing okay.

But this time they told me: he was behind. They hadn’t wanted to tell me sooner because I was in pain, waiting for yet another back operation, one of the signs of burnout I’d been ignoring. He’d be starting school without the support he needed, and I’d missed the window to get him help.

I was in pain. I was exhausted. And I felt like I had failed him.

We went to the park. I remember it so vividly: the air, the tension, the silence, apart from the internal sound of being underwater. And then I heard a loud pop in my head. Something snapped. My brain had short-fused.

“I can’t do this anymore,” I thought.

I tried everything.

Sleep. Yoga. Massage. Reflexology. Meditation. Podcasts.

Self-help books piled up on my desk. Many unread.

Even counselling didn’t work for me. I didn’t want to just understand why I was miserable and overwhelmed. I wanted to transform. And I needed results now, not years from now.

But nothing changed. And time continued almost without me.

And that’s when I knew: I could help others do the same.

Because traditional coaching and counselling? It only scratches the surface.

Let me explain it like this. If you call a botanist to sort the dead leaves on a tree, they don’t work on the leaves. They work on the roots, understanding the soil, the nutrients, and what’s seeping into the tree. The leaves are just the symptom, the signal that something needs to change.

That’s what most coaching focuses on: leadership techniques, marketing tips, productivity hacks, the leaves. But if the roots are diseased, taking in the wrong nourishment or being eaten away by something underneath, the tree will keep suffering no matter how many leaves you tidy up.

We have to dig deeper: to the beliefs, the nervous system, the unconscious patterns. That’s why I created the REWIRE Method™, a process developed through my own experience, my qualifications, and the transformation of over 1,000 grateful clients and counting.

That first £20K investment to work on myself and my son was terrifying. Did I have the money. No! But I found it. And thank god I did – it was a life changer! Now my fear that investing in my own growth was too much of a risk has been blown out of the water, again and again, by what I’ve seen, felt and heard from doing the work.

So my investment in myself has kept growing. Since 2010 I’ve invested over £120K in my own development. I didn’t have that money lying around; I made it happen, saving and prioritising growth over short-term hits like holidays and cars.

That investment helps me, my son and my clients achieve in the most positive, productive and effective way, with a return that makes it a no-brainer.

My new belief: you can’t invest enough in yourself.

If you’ve been pushing through, feeling like you should be able to handle it all, but deep down you know something has to change, then this is your sign.

Don’t leave it as long as I did. It’s a longer road back if you do.

You don’t have to do it the hard way. I can hold your hand along the way and get you the results you only dream of. FAST! You don’t have to choose between success and your sanity.

I believe anyone can reset and rise, no matter how cognitively fatigued, overwhelmed or even burnt out they feel, and so can you.

Are you ready to achieve lasting success, health and happiness, without sacrificing yourself in the process?

Let’s find out what’s really holding you back, and rewire it at the root.

This is the fuller, more personal telling of the story on my Origin Story page. If you would like to read what past clients have experienced since going through this process themselves, my testimonials carry those stories in their own words.