Dr Victoria Stakelum

I’m Dr Vic, a mindset and emotion coach dedicated to helping ambitious folk break free from hidden blocks and reconnect with their true sense of self. With a background in leadership, performance, and personal growth, I blend practical tools with deep inner work to create lasting transformation. Through my content, I share insights, strategies, and reflections designed to spark clarity and confidence - so you can step into a life that feels as good on the inside as it looks on the outside.

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Success for Ambitious Women: Protect Your Energy Without Holding Back Your Growth

  Photo by Artem Kovalev on Unsplash Success for ambitious women does not have to cost your wellbeing. Learn how to protect your energy while navigating growth and change. Growth can be energising and tiring at the same time. Your nervous system needs support during change, not more pressure. Mapping energy gains and drains helps […]

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Success for Ambitious Women Starts When Selling Stops Feeling Like Selling

Success for ambitious women includes learning to sell with ease, clarity, and integrity without becoming pushy or performative. Selling often feels awkward because it becomes a performance. The most effective enrolment conversations feel more like coaching than persuasion. Open-hearted enrolment helps people make clear, informed decisions. Success for ambitious women grows when business is built

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Success tactics for StartUp Coaches: Why High Achievers Still Struggle With Consistent Income

SEO Title: Success for StartUp Coaches and Consistent Income Meta Description: Success for startup coaches starts with mindset, alignment, and sustainable business habits that support consistent income. Photo by Windows on Unsplash Success for StartUp Coaches is not usually blocked by lack of intelligence, effort, or commitment. More often, it is disrupted by subtle subconscious

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Success for ambitious women: how to ask for referrals without feeling pushy

If referrals make you feel awkward, you are not alone. For many heart-led business owners, especially those building meaningful work around service, healing, coaching, or transformation, asking for referrals can bring up all sorts of discomfort. It can feel too salesy. Too self-promotional. Too much like you are imposing on someone. But when aiming for

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The Coaching Echo Chamber: Why I’m Breaking the “Pyramid Scheme” of Business Coaching

We’ve all seen the ads. The polished “guru” promising a seven-figure lifestyle, usually by teaching you how to sell the exact same “seven-figure lifestyle” to someone else. For years, I sat in those rooms. I’ve invested tens of thousands of pounds into high-level coaching programs. But the more I looked under the hood, the more

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Subconscious Rewiring: Transform Your Mind, Life, and Relationships

Ever feel like you’re doing everything “right” but still hitting invisible walls? You’re not alone. Many high-achievers and ambitious professionals find themselves stuck in patterns, habits, or thought loops that stop them from fully thriving. The reason often lies beneath your conscious awareness. Subconscious rewiring is the process of reshaping the beliefs, emotions, and automatic

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NLP Coaching: Transform Your Mindset, Emotions & Behaviours

Unlock your potential and create lasting change with Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) As a Certified NLP Master Practitioner and NLP Master Coach, I help clients break through limiting beliefs, release stuck emotions, and rewire patterns that hold them back. NLP provides practical tools to transform your thoughts, emotions, and behaviours, helping you step into a more

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Timeline Therapy Online

Timeline Therapy with The Success Smith Do you ever feel like your past still shapes your present—keeping you stuck in old patterns, emotions, or beliefs that no longer serve you? Timeline Therapy is a powerful process that allows you to release the emotional baggage of the past and create new possibilities for your future. At

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Energy Healing for Trauma, Emotional Release & Behavior Change

Release past trauma, unblock emotions, and transform stuck patterns At the intersection of psychology and energy work lies a uniquely powerful approach to personal transformation: Energy Healing. Combining my background as an highly skilled psychologist with training in Pranic Healing and a long-standing intuitive healing and channelling capability, I help clients release deep-seated emotional, mental,

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