Learning doesn’t happen in isolation - it happens inside full lives. In a year that holds leadership responsibilities, business growth, graduate studies, travel, family life, and personal capacity, often the roadblock isn’t “What should I learn next?”, but rather, “How does continued learning fit into the life I’m actually living?”

In the final episode of the Continuing Professional Education mini-series, Melissa shares how she designed a learning pathway that fits inside an already-full year - not as a theoretical exercise, but as a lived practice.

You’ll hear how annual and quarterly planning become containers for learning, how seasonality and personal capacity shape what’s possible, and how her four learning priorities landed once they were placed alongside the realities of the year ahead.

We explore:

▶️ Integrating leadership, facilitation, financial empowerment, and systems work into a single year

▶️ Designing around real capacity, seasonality, and life rhythms

▶️ Why Continuing Professional Education is something we live, not check off our list

This episode marks the end of the six-part Continuing Professional Education mini-series. Did something spark reflection or resonate with you along the way? We’d love to hear from you.

Connect with us on Instagram @otsgonerogue or share this episode with someone who is making space for continued learning in an already full year.

There’s more to come ⏩

This also marks the beginning of a new season of OTs Gone Rogue - one grounded in identity, sustainability, and leadership learning that fits real life.

As always, thank you for tuning in and for being on this journey with us. We’re looking forward to what’s ahead!

— Melissa & the OTGR Podcast Team

Pause and consider your own learning and professional growth. What’s shaping it right now? What’s shifting? What is this season of life asking of you? If traditional professional development no longer fits, you’re not alone.

In this reflective episode, Melissa shares her learning plan for the year ahead - not as a checklist of goals, but as an expression of her identity.

Rather than presenting a polished plan, she invites you into the thinking beneath it: the values guiding her leadership, her learning priorities in this season of life, and the move away from compliance-based professional development toward meaning-making.

You’ll hear reflections on:

✨ Learning as Identity Work
Why meaningful learning (and leadership) starts with values, not goals

✨Sustainable Capacity in Midlife
How you can honour the season of your life when making learning decisions

✨ Emerging Learning Priorities

Learn the four focus areas Melissa is leaning into to deepen her leadership

✨ Designing Learning that Fits Real Life
Why learning doesn’t need to be rushed, and why alignment matters more than accumulation

What’s Coming Next ⏩

This episode sets the stage for the final chapter of this mini-series.

In Episode 72, Melissa shares the second part of her learning plan: exploring how a learning pathway actually takes shape when your work is multidimensional, your capacity is finite, and your identity continues to evolve.

Thanks for coming along on this ride, and being a part of our learning journey.

— Melissa & the OTGR Podcast Team

If you’ve ever felt the tension between big ideas and limited capacity - or wondered how to build a business that supports your wellbeing rather than consumes it - this episode is for you.

In this episode, Melissa shares how understanding her internal patterns has reshaped her leadership. Through an Internal Family Systems (IFS) lens, she has been able to honour the rhythms of her life through a framework she calls the Sustainable Capacity Operating System.

This isn’t about productivity hacks or scaling for the sake of growth. It’s about operating in ways that honour your physiology, your season of life, and the real human conditions that make meaningful work possible.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

✨ The IFS Work That Changed Everything
Why the goal isn’t to eliminate your fast-moving, high-capacity parts - but to give them a defined place inside a grounded system.

✨ Physiology, Performance, and Midlife Rhythms
What Melissa has learned from integrating health data, hormone insights, and nervous-system awareness into capacity planning.

✨ Sustainability as a Personal Practice - Not a Business Strategy
How this perspective has reshaped her pace, boundaries, and the way she stewards her team and programs.

There’s more to come ⏩

In Episode 71, Melissa walks you through the next layer of this work — her Continuing Professional Education Plan and how she’s mapping her own learning trajectory for the years ahead.

Then, in Episode 72, she takes you behind the scenes of how that plan was actually designed: the pacing, decision points, and real-life constraints that shaped it.

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Thank you for being here - and for being part of this season of learning, grounding, and sustainable growth.

— Melissa & the OTGR Podcast Team