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Meet your guide, Melody

Hi, I’m Melody — a life design strategist, former Silicon Valley designer, and founder of Self-Designed.

I teach women how to upgrade their lives by thinking like designers.

For over a decade, I worked in strategy and tech design helping companies solve messy problems, uncover patterns, and build experiences that actually worked for people. Design thinking taught me how to ask better questions, identify what was actually working, and build intentionally instead of by default.

Eventually, I realized it works beautifully for designing your life, too—and especially for women.

Women naturally think like designers: we're intuitive, reflective, collaborative, pattern-oriented, creative. But most of us were handed rigid systems for success that ask us to override those instincts instead of work with them.

So I built a different approach, and redesigned my own life.

I left a traditional career path, moved into a van alone, rebuilt from the inside out, and created a life that feels deeply aligned with who I actually am: adventurous, creative, ambitious, intuitive, and free.

The biggest shift came from understanding my core values and learning how to build with them instead of against them.

Since then, I’ve led workshops for 100+ women navigating pivots, burnout, reinvention, and “I know there’s more for me than this” seasons of life. Women have used this work to change careers, launch businesses, move across the country, reconnect with themselves, and finally create momentum around lives that actually fit them.

That’s the work we’re doing inside this workshop.

I’ll help you uncover the values already shaping your best seasons of life — and show you how to use them as a compass for what comes next.

You do not need to become a different woman to build a life you love.

You need a framework that helps you become more yourself.