Melissa Dlugolecki

After growing up in Boston, Massachusetts, and living most of her life there, Melissa Dlugolecki took a 10-day trip to Tulum, Mexico, bought a house and spends most of her time there, by the beach, working and connecting with the community of digital nomads. She loves traveling. is an author, public speaker, host of Grief and Guts—a podcast rated in the top 3 percent globally,—and a bereaved mother. After losing her daughter, Leyden, and finding herself $100,000 in debt, she began studying healing modalities, mindset supports, and the actual psychology around the experience of grief. Identifying a massive gap in tangible and effective supports around how to navigate the pain and trauma of grief, she committed her work to educate others on widening the definition of grief to go beyond just death to include daily grievances that transpire such as a job loss, relationship ending, or children moving out of the home. After applying these tools to her own life, Melissa got out of debt, bought a home minutes from the ocean, left her teaching career, built multiple seven-figure businesses, and has been writing, coaching, and speaking ever since.