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Meet the “real” Rachael…

Founder of Reset and Rise | Coach | Speaker | Kidney Donor | Mother | Self-Made Woman

There are parts of my story I never used to tell. They felt too heavy, too raw. But I’ve learned that it’s in the telling — in the truth — that healing begins. And if you’re here, maybe you’re seeking your own healing too. So here’s the truth about me.

I grew up in chaos.

My childhood was shaped by daily domestic violence, the constant threat of danger, and being dragged away to Northern Ireland by my mum’s partner — a member of the IRA. I saw and felt things no child should have to. I learned early how to read a room for safety. How to stay small. How to survive. Things that I still do today for safety.

That trauma didn’t magically disappear when I became an adult. It followed me, silently shaping my choices. I married a man 18 years older than me — a kind, stable presence who felt like safety after years of instability. We had a daughter. I donated my kidney to him out of love. But after 13 years, life began to unravel.

A miscarriage. The death of my beloved grandmother. The weight of childhood trauma I’d tried to outrun finally caught up with me. I broke.

What followed was one of the darkest chapters of my life: severe depression, anxiety, a complete loss of self. I had no money. No job. No support network. And I was drowning in shame. I felt judged, humiliated, broken beyond repair. At my lowest point, I genuinely believed the world would be better off without me.

But something stopped me. A small, fierce, beautiful thing. My three-year-old daughter.

She didn’t know she was saving me. But every time she looked at me with trust in her eyes, I found the tiniest flicker of belief — maybe I could come back from this. Maybe I wasn’t beyond help.

So I asked for help. A doctor. Medication. Therapy. One step at a time, I began to rebuild. I retrained as a mental health first aider and then as a trainer. I started a small business teaching others how to recover their minds — even while mine was still learning how to breathe again.

But I was still struggling financially. Still scraping by.

That’s when a friend and later a mentor, who I met one night in a nightclub nudged me toward something I never imagined: property investment. I said yes, even though I had zero money. No capital. No investors. Just grit and absolutely fuck all to lose. And bit by bit, I built a property portfolio from scratch. That was the first time I saw what was possible when we stop asking “Who am I to do this?” and start saying “Why not me?”

From there, I founded my coaching practice — Blaze Your Own Trail — to help other women like me. Women who have been broken, overlooked, exhausted, traumatised, or told their dreams were too much. Women on the edge of giving up… or just beginning to hope again.

I created Reset and Rise because I’ve learn’t sometimes, especially in mid-life, life demands a reset. Not the surface-level kind. The deep, soul-stirring reset that asks you to look your past in the face, choose yourself, and begin again — no matter how many times you’ve fallen.

Now, I help women reclaim their spark. Rebuild their confidence. Write powerful new chapters. Whether it's rebuilding their lives or building personal brands and purpose-led businesses that feel aligned — I walk with them as they rise.

Because if I can crawl my way from rock bottom with a toddler on my hip and trauma in my bones…
So. Can. You.