Jo Wagstaff

Jo Wagstaff A community of women dedicated to revolutionising how we live, lead and succeed. Care for Yourself. And Be yourself. To Thrive. To Lead Well. Live Well. Love Well.

Jo Wagstaff is an international executive coach passionate about empowering women to live, love, lead and succeed true to themselves. Over the years we have created a global Community of women that are supporting each other on this journey as we believe we’re not meant to do this alone and women are at their best supporting themselves and each other. We do this through writing and offering Online

Programs and practices to enable you to Know Yourself. A step-by-step path to transform your life through foundational wisdom, science, stories, tools & evidence based practices. We also spend time Connecting and Collaborating with our Tribe. With those organisations, groups, communities and individuals that want to empower all women to truly be ourselves. This beings with the inner work. Being more aware of our thoughts, feelings, behaviours and the internal assumptions, patterns and beliefs that drive our choices. Being more aware of our strengths and what we value and what brings meaning and purpose to our lives. Learning how to be our own best friends and how to care for ourselves emotionally, mentally, financially and physically. Creating the lives and relationships we truly desire. Beginning with our relationship with our self. The reward? A more sustainable and fulfilling life. A life lived with a deep sense of meaning, authenticity, inner confidence, calmness, connection and empowerment. And a world where women, men and children all thrive. Please join us. With great warmth

Jo Wagstaff

COMMUNITY GUIDELINES:

Through our page, Instagram, LinkedIn and our blog we’re sharing our ongoing personal journey of living deeply authentic and deeply lives. Our hope is to inspire and support you to do the same, to live a more self-compassionate, a more self-aware, a more empowered and a more authentic and meaningful life. Our community spaces are moderated in order to create a safe place for women like you to share your personal experiences, the challenges and the celebrations of living authentic and meaningful lives. This is also not a professional support group or a place to receive accredited therapy. We share support and encouragement in a kind and healthy way but this is not the environment for deeper psychological counselling. It’s up to all of us to keep this Community a safe, accepting and encouraging space for everyone, so please keep reading the Guidelines below. We respectfully ask you to speak from your own experience. When we share from the ‘I’ perspective rather than ‘we’ or ‘you’ and share our experience rather than theory, it supports each of us in our own growth and enables every woman to have their own experiences and perspectives. We also ask that you do not use this Group to promote or market yours or another person’s products or services. And please let there be no advice giving unless it is explicitly asked for. This one can be hard. You know when you’ve just shared something which is quite heartfelt and someone says ‘have you tried’… If you feel the advice giving pattern arising in you, simple notice that, and what it’s like to sit with it. To ensure this is a safe community for us all, we reserve the right to hide or delete any comments that:

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Is this True? Is this Helpful? Is this Inspiring? Is this Necessary? Is this Kind? While we will be monitoring and participating in the group, we can’t be there 24/7 so we’re here to ask for your partnership, your understanding, your kindness and your support so that together we can keep this incredible Community flourishing. Please don’t reward disrespectful, problematic comments with attention. Instead, report them via Facebook Messenger on our page and note which post and platform they’re on or email us at [email protected]

A Few Parting Notes:

Opinions, advice and all other information expressed by members in discussions or comments are those of the author. You rely on such information at your own risk. Members are urged to seek professional advice for specific, individual situations and not rely solely on advice or opinions given. If you have any questions about our guidelines, or if there’s a question we haven’t answered here, please write us at [email protected]

With great warmth
Jo

We reserve the right to change these Guidelines or to add new conditions related to the use of the Site from time to time, in which case we will post the revised Guidelines and Terms of Use in the Community.

As we head into another week this felt like such a beautiful reminder of the courage it takes to show up fully, in a wor...
08/06/2025

As we head into another week this felt like such a beautiful reminder of the courage it takes to show up fully, in a world that often challenges our ability to truly be ourselves.
May your week be filled with much courage and self-compassion.
Love Jo 🌺

05/06/2025

It rarely begins with silence in a meeting.
It begins with silence in our inner world —
the quiet doubts that form long before we ever sit at the table.
Doubts that whisper:
“Don’t be too much.”
“Try harder.”
“Keep the peace.”
And over time, we stop asking what we need.

When did you first begin to feel like you were not enough…that you had to do or be more just to be worthy of love, safety, or belonging?
❤️ You’re not too much.
💬 You’re not too late.
Comment below or journal privately: What would it look like to feel enough?

With love, Jo

Today it feels scary to jump. I am about to head overseas, to put myself ‘out there’, again. It is something outside of ...
04/06/2025

Today it feels scary to jump. I am about to head overseas, to put myself ‘out there’, again. It is something outside of my comfort zone and frankly I feel like that is all I have been doing for the last few months. And just for today it feels hard. I feel raw and tender from taking risks, being vulnerable, real and honest, with myself and others and stepping more fully into my vision of who I want to be in this world and what I want my work and life to be. Ultimately, I have been taking action around being true to myself and authentic with others.
So today, I can hear all those doubts. What if it doesn’t work? What if I get ‘rejected’? What if I am kidding myself? And that old favorite, Ms Imposter Syndrome ‘who do you think you are’? And yet, while I increasingly have a lot of compassion for the part of me that feels raw and fragile and scared, I have learnt over and over and over that ‘jumping’, stepping outside of my comfort zone, staying true to myself, is where my growth comes from, is where inner freedom comes from and is where authenticity, confidence and connection come from. And thankfully, if it doesn’t work out I can also hold myself gently, learn all I am meant to learn and take another path. Life is meant to be lived hey.
Love Jo

AAnybody feel like this lately?This about sums up my week this week. It’s been a tough one. Physically (eye surgery), em...
01/06/2025

AAnybody feel like this lately?

This about sums up my week this week. It’s been a tough one. Physically (eye surgery), emotionally I have had some old trauma and grief that has been triggered with my eyes. And boy did I notice my struggle to let myself stop. To let myself rest. To let myself be where I am right now. To not judge how I was feeling “I should be better than this”, “I don’t have time for this”.

AAhhh that inner critic, she is so harsh, even though I know she is trying to protect me, wanting me to stay busy or ‘get on with it’. To avoid feeling these feelings. But slowly, gently I let myself be as I am. I gave myself permission to fall apart, to feel, to cry, to sleep, to ask for some cuddles & support, to let others be there for me.

I am still a little raw, a little fragile and vulnerable and I can also feel the relief of surrender, of not fighting it, of being kind and gentle with myself. And with that a new inner strength is arising. A deeper sense of inner peace. And gratitude for this journey we are all on to know ourselves, care for ourselves and be ourselves.

Love
Jo 🌺

30/05/2025

I used to say yes because I didn’t want to let anyone down.
Because I thought being available made me valuable.
But in the process of trying to be everything to everyone…
I abandoned myself.
I was tired, snappy, stretched —
But worse than that, I was resentful.
Resentful of others… yet what I really felt was disconnection from myself.
Setting that boundary wasn’t easy.
It felt foreign, scary, even selfish at first.
But it gave me something back I hadn’t felt in years:
Self-trust.
Energy.
Clarity.
And peace.
✨ Boundaries aren’t a rejection of others.
They’re a declaration of self-respect.
👇 What boundary are you being called to honour right now?

✨ If this resonated, share it or tag someone who needs to hear it today.
📖 For deeper guidance, my book “Lead Like You” is your next step.
🔔 Follow for more real, raw, and radically honest leadership wisdom.

How is your relationship with yourself? For most of my life I didn’t know this was important. And even once I intellectu...
28/05/2025

How is your relationship with yourself?

For most of my life I didn’t know this was important. And even once I intellectually knew it, it took me years to deeply understand the depth of the truth of this. It is everything.

How we are in relationship with ourselves, is how we are in the world. And sadly, when I first realised this, my relationship with myself was not a good one. It has taken a long time to nurture, nourish and grow this relationship. And my life has transformed because of it.

And yet, if we want something to change on the outside the focus must begin with our relationship with ourselves , on the inside. If you want something to change on the inside we practice radical self-honesty and self-acceptance. This is where true power comes from. This is where true freedom comes from. This is where true wellbeing comes from.

Our number one priority needs to be cultivating our relationship with ourselves. I would love to hear how you are going with yours?

Love Jo 🌺

I hope you had a beautiful weekend replenishing. With love Jo
25/05/2025

I hope you had a beautiful weekend replenishing. With love Jo

I have learnt (the hard way!) that I need to practice self-care on a daily basis so I can give myself and the world the ...
22/05/2025

I have learnt (the hard way!) that I need to practice self-care on a daily basis so I can give myself and the world the best of me - and I do this through a daily morning ritual

Before I leave our bedroom and tend to my son, dogs and emails, I create a little space for myself. I do a meditation. I follow this up with some journaling -. including asking myself what I need to do for myself that day. I write down 3 things I am grateful for, and 3 things I appreciate about myself. And I set an intention. It can be simple things like ‘may I stay connected today’. Or ‘may I be of service today’. ‘May I be kind to myself and others today’. ‘May I show up fully to all life brings today’. Or when I am feeling fragile, ‘May today be a gentle one’. On a daily basis, this simple ritual provides me with the opportunity to check- in with myself. With my needs. With my breathe and body. With all I have to be grateful for even if I am doing it tough at the time. It’s an opportunity to turn on my soothe system and practice kindness with myself.

What kind of daily ritual would support you in your life? It may be similar to mine or it may be quite different. While I find doing mine in the morning sets me up for the day ahead I have clients with small children that find this harder to do in the morning. Some wait until their children are having their morning nap, some ask their husbands to look after their kids for the first 15minutes in the morning, some wake up 15 minutes before their kids now, some do just a one minute Conscious Pause and 3 things they are grateful for as they get up in the morning and then do the rest of the ritual once their kids are sorted. Some wait until evenings when everybody is in bed. Whatever will work in your life, it is about creating a daily gift of time just for you.

With love

Jo 🌺

This is the truth that changed everything for me:You don’t have to earn your worth.Not with your titles.Not with your pr...
18/05/2025

This is the truth that changed everything for me:
You don’t have to earn your worth.
Not with your titles.
Not with your productivity.
Not with your perfection.
Not with your silence.
You were born worthy.
Before you ever proved a thing.
Before the praise.
Before the masks.
Before the roles you learned to play just to feel loved.
Coming home to yourself is not about becoming someone new —
it’s about remembering who you were before the world told you who to be.
You don’t need to perform.
You don’t need to be more.
You are already enough.

👇 Who would you be if you truly believed you were born worthy?

✨ If this resonated, share it or tag someone who needs to hear it today.
📖 For deeper guidance, my book “Lead Like You” is your next step.
🔔 Follow for more real, raw, and radically honest life wisdom.

I had perfected the performance.Graceful. Capable. Calm.The one who had it together.The one others leaned on.But inside?...
11/05/2025

I had perfected the performance.
Graceful. Capable. Calm.
The one who had it together.
The one others leaned on.
But inside?
I was paddling furiously.
Trying to hold it all. Hide it all. Be it all.
That’s the thing about high-functioning anxiety —
It’s invisible.
You look successful. You sound composed.
But you’re stuck in a cycle of silent struggle and self-abandonment.
And the world rewards you for it.
Until your body says: “No more.”
Until your soul whispers: “Come home.”
You don’t need to perform to belong.
You don’t have to be polished to be powerful.
And you are worthy — even in the moments when you’re not OK.
👇 Share below — what’s one thing you wish people knew about the version of you that looks “fine”?

✨ If this resonated, share it or tag someone who needs to hear it today.
📖 For deeper guidance, my book “Lead Like You” is your next step.
🔔 Follow for more real, raw, and radically honest leadership wisdom.

We become so good at the 'performance'.Smiling when we want to cry.Saying “yes” when our whole body is screaming “no.”Pr...
03/05/2025

We become so good at the 'performance'.
Smiling when we want to cry.
Saying “yes” when our whole body is screaming “no.”
Pretending we’re fine… when we’re barely holding it together.

But here’s the hardest part I found admit:
It’s not just that we lie to others.
It’s that we abandon ourselves.

We silence our truth to feel safe.
We trade authenticity for approval.
We forget how to listen to our own knowing.
And it works — for a while.
Until it doesn’t.

The ‘work’ isn’t just about learning to speak up.
It’s about getting honest with yourself —
about what you feel, what you need, and who you no longer want to be.
That’s where freedom begins.
That’s where you begin.

What’s one truth you’re gently ready to admit to yourself?
👇 Share in the comments:

✨ If this resonated, share it or tag someone who needs to hear it today.
📖 For deeper guidance, my book “Lead Like You” is your next step.
🔔 Follow for more real, raw, and radically honest life wisdom.

This was a pivotal moment for me, standing in front of the mirror, I realised…I had built a life that looked incredible ...
26/04/2025

This was a pivotal moment for me, standing in front of the mirror, I realised…
I had built a life that looked incredible from the outside —
but I was slowly disappearing inside it.

It was a a turning point.
The kind that quietly splits your life into before and after.
Where something deep within you says: “This isn’t it.”
When your external success no longer reflects your internal truth.
When the mask starts to crack…
And you’re left wondering: Who is this all really for?

If you’ve ever looked at your reflection and felt that ache —
the disconnection, the loneliness, the something’s not right feeling…
You are not alone.

That moment isn’t your failure —
it’s your invitation home.

💬 Have you ever had your own “mirror moment”?
What did it wake you up to?

✨ If this resonated, share it or tag someone who needs to hear it today.
📖 For deeper guidance, my book “Lead Like You” is your next step.
🔔 Follow for more real, raw, and radically honest leadership wisdom.

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