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Michele Morley

Founder & Host of Yes Women's Network
Michele Morley
Background

About Michele Morley

Women's EmpowermentCoachingPersonal DevelopmentCommunity BuildingFinancial ConfidencePublic Speaking

Michele Morley is the founder and host of the Yes Women's Network podcast. She and her husband acquired Yes Women's Network in 2020, and she has spent the years since refining the vision and building a community for women who feel stuck and want a clearer next chapter. The network is organized around four pillars — faith, relationships, wellbeing, and finance — chosen because every person contends with each of them in some form, personally or professionally. Her focus is clarity, purpose, and the confidence to take a next step.

Morley brings more than 35 years of teaching, speaking, coaching, and working with women and youth to the work. That includes 30 years coaching women's volleyball, some of it coaching her own daughters. Development, in her experience, was never only about fundamentals on the court — it was about who the athletes became off it, and that philosophy carries into the network. She is relaunching Yes Women's Network with co-hosts Jodi and Belinda, pairing candid "real talk" conversations with expert guests across the four pillars, plus community events.

On The Daily Mastermind, Michele sat down with George Wright III for a conversation on building confidence and community for women who feel stuck. She talked through the four pillars, why wellbeing means peace of mind and not just fitness, and how a six-month bout with pericarditis in 2021 nearly stopped the project before it started. She also explained where the finance pillar came from: watching a friend feel trapped in a difficult marriage because she was afraid she could not support herself. Her closing advice was to look hard at who actually has your back.

Key Insights

Key takeaways from Michele

01
Wellbeing is peace of mind, not a body composition report.
Morley is deliberate about not reducing wellbeing to diet and exercise. Someone can look fit and not be well. The honest check-in is how you feel overall and whether your mind is at peace, not just what your physical output says.
02
A health setback can refine ambition instead of ending it.
Six months of pericarditis in 2021 made Morley question whether she could take on building the network at all. She kept coming back to the same conclusion: if she could get a handle on it, she still wanted to do the work.
03
Financial illiteracy keeps women in situations they want to leave.
The finance pillar came from watching a friend stay in a difficult marriage because she feared she could not support herself. Schooling rarely covers personal finance or wealth planning, so the gap becomes a confidence problem, not just a money problem.
04
Start the day with a grounding practice before the tasks start.
Morley begins with prayer, stays intentional with her husband, and looks outside herself through small acts — serving family, helping a neighbor, complimenting a stranger. The point is setting direction before challenges arrive rather than reacting to them.
05
Look closely at who actually has your back.
Her advice for anyone chasing something bigger and feeling alone is to audit the circle. The people influencing your decisions shape both what you think is possible and whether you take the next step at all.