So you've "made it" - But is something missing? You’ve scaled the heights of your industry, achieved financial stability, and maybe even built the life you envisioned. But there’s a nagging feeling of ‘Is this it?’ As a Gen XY achiever, you’ve likely inherited a powerful drive from Baby Boomer parents, who (putting it lightly) taught resilience and independence as markers of worth. This drive has led you to professional success but may be keeping emotional fulfilment just out of reach.
Intergenerational Patterns—How They Show Up Today For Gen XY
Intergenerational trauma isn’t just learned behaviour; it’s an emotional inheritance that shapes our deepest beliefs about success and worth. Today, it often manifests as relentless perfectionism, chronic stress, or tying self-worth to achievements. High achievers work tirelessly but feel a disconnect from true contentment and authentic relationships.
Common Patterns We Address...
Constant Overworking: Feeling a need to prove their worth through productivity, leading to burnout, stress, and physical health issues.
Strained Relationships: Emotional distance and self-reliance make it hard to fully connect with loved ones, often leading to relationship stress.
Perfectionism: Setting impossibly high standards can cause chronic dissatisfaction, even after big achievements.
Self-Doubt: They may question their success or feel like they’re “never enough,” no matter how much they accomplish.
Avoiding Vulnerability: Struggles with expressing emotions lead to bottled-up feelings, impacting mental well-being and personal fulfillment.
Chronic Stress and Anxiety: Driven by fear of failure and a need for control, they often feel on edge, unable to relax or fully enjoy life.
Our programs go beyond the typical self-improvement list, using advanced techniques like neuro-linguistic programming, behavioural analysis, and deep subconscious reprogramming tools to quantum leap your life toward genuine fulfilment. By reprogramming beliefs from within, we align your success with inner peace, joy, and purpose, transforming your achievements into something more deeply satisfying.
Strategies for Meaningful, Lasting Change: Get equipped with practical, lifelong tools that strengthen communication, elevate your performance, and bring fulfillment to every corner of your life.
Immediate, Enduring Transformation: Experience powerful, fast-acting shifts that create a sustainable foundation for your personal and professional growth, supporting true and lasting satisfaction.
Reprogram Your Belief Systems: Dive deep into both your conscious and subconscious, addressing patterns that unlock your fullest potential and align your achievements with the inner contentment you deserve.
Matilda Wand
Director of Freedom is Within, Behavioural Strategist & Coach
Core Coaching Focus:
Legacy-driven transformation for Gen XY, with a focus on high-performance, executive coaching, self-leadership, intergenerational trauma release, and self-discovery.
Matilda Wand is a proud mum, wife, and owner of two successful companies. A former World Cup athlete, motorcycle ambassador, published author, and professional firefighter, Matilda brings a unique perspective to coaching.
Her firsthand experience with intergenerational trauma and high-stakes environments, combined with her certification in NLP, Matrix Therapy, Behavioural Analysis, and her accreditation with the International Coaching Federation, equipps her to guide Gen XY toward meaningful impact and fulfillment beyond societal success.
Yvette Lever
Executive & Life Coach
Key coaching interests: executive, leadership, career
Yvette is a master life coach & hypnotist. She is driven to provide the utmost professional experience for her clients and loves working with executives, directors and senior leaders to enhance better behaviours, change old habits and push through past identities those clients have held onto but no longer serve them. Yvette lives in Perth, Western Australia and works both face to face and remotely with her clients. She is caring butt will also kick your but if needed.
Adam Casey
Head ADHD Coach
Key coaching interests: ADHD, teens, young adults, work-life balance
Adam has a deep passion for the study of psychology, human behaviour and brain neuroplasticity. He uses this to promote a love of being in the moment for you. He is very engaging when you speak to him in your quest to promote a better future, especially those living with ADHD. Living in Victoria, Adam works remotely with clients to make impactful and positive changes in their lives wherever they are in the world.
Jules Sullivan
Leadership & Wellbeing Coach
Key coaching interests: career, psychological trauma management, workplace
Jules has a tertiary background in Psychology and HR , over 25 years in physical & psychological injury management, workplace wellbeing, and personal leadership coaching. Her lived experience with health and relationships give her a true apprecaition and understanding from someone who's 'been there'.
Jules enjoys using a simple framework to guide you in learning how to recognise what you need, and to implement new healthier habits in a sustainable way. The combination of education and coaching produces excellent outcomes in enabling leaders and individuals to put into practice what they learn.
Danielle O'Bryan
Life & Mindset Coach
Key coaching interests: mindset, life coaching, self-confidence
Danielle specialises in helping clients eradicate limiting beliefs, fears and negative thought patterns that have been holding you back. She empowers you to take massive action in your life, overcome negative self talk and establish healthy habits. Danielle has a unique ability to see deep below the surface level of what is really going on for her clients and directs you with compassion in an empowering way so you can achieve the success you desire in your life. She will keep you accountable, honest and moving forward throughout your coaching program.
Nichola Davenport
Life Transition Empowerment Coach
Key coaching interests: career and life change, women's coach
Nichola empowers individuals in their 40s and 50’s to reignite their passion for life, find clear direction, and embrace their purpose. Her focus is on helping them discover joy and fulfillment at a pivotal stage of their life. With a variety of coaching accreditations, Nichola uses a the different modalities to bring about transformative & sustainable change. In her own journey, she turned her life around and is living proof that you can transform your life by taking full responsibility for your thoughts, feelings and actions. Nichola has been on this path and is proudly ten years alcohol free. If you're ready to shake up your life in a positive way then Nichola is the coach for you.
Donna Tomasi
Executive & Life Coach
Key coaching interests: workplace HR, life, career, parenthood, leadership and executive coaching
Donna is a Master NLP Coach and Hypnotherapist with a background that spans across 19 years in the realm of human resources and organisational development. While Donna's experience includes coaching leaders at all levels, Donna finds her greatest fulfillment in empowering individuals to challenge their thought patterns, shift their thinking, take action and re-focus on what truly matters. She firmly believes that we all have potential that we are unaware of, and identifies a limited mindset as the primary obstacle holding people back.
Residing in Brisbane, Queensland, Donna offers coaching services both in person and remotely.
Ashleigh Walker
ADHD & Mental Health Coach
Key coaching interests: ADHD, career, teens, disability, motherhood, men's coach
Ashleigh has a Bachelor of Applied Science (Psychology) and is highly skilled in ADHD Coaching, working alongside teens and in the men's mental health space. She also has a history of working in the disability and family services industry. Her warm but no-nonsense approach yields well with our male clients who propel themselves towards creating sustainable and long-lasting change through shifting their mindset, subconscious programming and the changing of external behaviours to improve habits and get their lives back.
Ashleigh is currently local to Newcastle, NSW, and works remotely in the evenings.
Cassandra Gales
ADHD & Mental Health Coach
Key coaching interests: ADHD, hypnotherapy, life coaching, mindset
Cassandra specialises in ADHD and mental Health. She helps support clients to make lasting changes in their lives through helping them gain self-awareness to overcome personal problems. Cassandra uses hypnotherapy and other modalities of coaching to create the best outcomes that are unique to each of her clients' needs. She resides in Melbourne, Victoria and also works remotely with her clients.
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We partner with driven Gen XY leaders who are ready to elevate beyond traditional success. Together, we refine your unique influence and impact, guiding you to lead with purpose and confidence. It’s not just about achieving more; it’s about reaching a new level of alignment and fulfillment that resonates both personally and professionally.
Generational patterns impact many aspects of life, from self-worth to relationships. Raised by Baby Boomers who valued independence and emotional restraint, many of us inherited beliefs that hinder true connection and fulfilment. Breaking these patterns is key to finding lasting peace.
Calm an Overactive Mind
Listen Now to this Hypnosis Track to Calm Your Mind
Before starting this hypnosis session, find a quiet and comfortable place where you won't be disturbed. Sit or lie down in a relaxed position, with your arms and legs uncrossed. Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths, inhaling slowly through your nose and exhaling gently through your mouth. As you exhale, release any tension in your body.
What Clients Say
"The outcome for myself over a relatively short period of time has been transformative and the possibilities within the domain of relationships for me are now completely open and there are no longer the barriers that I was putting in place previously."
Richard Seamark
Consultant Psychiatrist
"Within one week I started loving my job which I thought was insane!! Every day I was laughing going to work and finding all these amazing things about my job. Within two weeks of coaching I had achieved my entire year's target in two weeks! This is insane!"
Cassiano Garcia
Business Development Manager
"I didn’t realise the stuff that came up was going to come up and it was very surprising. It really shifted some energy for me. It felt like I’d gone from this stagnant place from where I was holding onto things; to a place of freedom!"
Chloe Kingsford
Director
"Coaching clarified a lot for me. Systematically I can now work through things and when I continue to put the strategies in place and extend upon the changes that I have made, which were quite significant, it should be relatively easy for me to go through the areas and tidy up anything that I'd still like to address."
Chelsey
Windsor
Forensic Psychologist
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