S2 #06 20+ Years in the Fitness/Wellbeing Industry; An Interview with Fran Blechner

Francesca Blechner has over 25 years experience in the wellness industry. She supports high-achieving, purpose-driven leaders and visionaries to decode the patterns stored in their nervous systems shaping their health, energy, business and relationships.

Creator of the Nervous System Archetypes and The Body Wisdom Series, her work brings together body based coaching, nervous system alchemy, identity recalibration and business alignment.

Through Fran's approach, client's have healed and broken generational patterns, restored hormonal balance and long‑standing health issues, reconciled family dynamics, deepened romantic and professional relationships, unlocked their purpose, found the confidence to change careers from corporate to follow their soul medicine led work.

— I've known Fran for almost 20 years. Our relationship goes way back to being personal trainers in central London in the early 2000's and it's great to share this conversation with you.

In this episode we speak about:

1. what Fran does in her work as a 'Mind Body Alchemist'
2. Fran's experience of burnout and how it lead to her work with the nervous system
3. how capoeira practice can translate to everyday life
4. muscle testing, breath and discovering the overriding compensation patterns
5. a back injury in 2017 that was a BIG lesson for Fran
6. how nervous system health is foundational
7. my journey with burlesque and leaning more into my femininity
8. the shifts in awareness of/in Mothers over the last 20 years
9. getting back to basics for wellness and balance
10. at 1 hour 4 minutes Fran speaks a big truth about how breathwork and bodywork can be bastardised (I've witnessed this a lot)
11. performative wellness vs. embodied leaders

Themes: burnout, nervous system health, spirituality, burlesque, body literacy

We mention The Third Space Health Club, Transformational Breath and Liezel Graham.

To learn more about Fran see here on Instagram, LinkedIn, Youtube or here for her website.

At the end, I read a poem written by Liezel Graham.

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For more insights and to contact me you can find me on Instagram, and/or on my website: www.lucywyldecoaching.com.