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22nd Oct 2025

Visibility at 80 – with Melissa Rowe [S4, EP2]

In this episode, I’m joined by Melissa Rowe, Emotional Wellbeing & Self-Care Coach for Women in their Prime – and one of my LinkedIn visibility coaching clients.

Melissa is 80 years young and still showing up, guiding women home to themselves, and proving that visibility has no age limit. With a background as a social worker, a mother, an author, and a speaker, she brings decades of lived experience, compassion, and wisdom to her work.

We talk about her early years, the influences that shaped her path, and the pivotal lessons she’s carried through a lifetime of service and coaching. Melissa opens up about what it means to prioritise self-care, how her perspective has evolved across the decades, and why she’s so passionate about encouraging women to share their stories.

If you’ve ever thought it might be “too late” to be visible, Melissa’s story will inspire you to think again.

What we covered:

✨ Melissa’s early life and the influences that shaped her journey

✨ The thread of service that runs through her work as a social worker, author, and coach

✨ What motivates her to keep coaching, speaking, and learning at 80

✨ How her view of self-care has evolved across the decades

✨ The surprising and empowering aspects of becoming visible online

✨ The advice she’d give her younger self about visibility and self-care

✨ Why she wants to be a catalyst for other women to share their stories

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Start Being Visible
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Welcome to the Start Being Visible podcast.

My name is Mildred Talabi. I’ve spent the past decade plus mastering the art of personal branding in my career, as a former journalist and communications professional, and in my business which has taken on various forms over the years.

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Mildred Talabi

Mildred Talabi has spent the last decade mastering the art of personal branding in both her career and business as a former Journalist and PR and Communications professional.

Today she specialises in helping female leaders build powerful and authentic personal brands through being visible on LinkedIn.

She is a recognised LinkedIn Influencer, with over 50,000 followers, a 4x published author and the founder of Visible Women Tribe - a global membership community for high-achieving women in business and leadership.

Find out more at mildredtalabi.com.