About
Michelle Hollinger, CWO Chief Worthiness Officer
HOW IT STARTED
Michelle's personal journey is a worthiness masterclass. Although a brilliant, highly creative and deeply spiritual woman, for many years, Michelle struggled to succeed beyond a certain level. Long story short, following a pivotal conversation with a business consultant who challenged her tendency to undercharge, Michelle realized that th
Michelle's personal journey is a worthiness masterclass. Although a brilliant, highly creative and deeply spiritual woman, for many years, Michelle struggled to succeed beyond a certain level. Long story short, following a pivotal conversation with a business consultant who challenged her tendency to undercharge, Michelle realized that the obstacle blocking her success was unworthiness. That discovery sparked an insatiable desire to understand how unworthiness impacts a person's life, and the distance it creates between who they are and who they're meant to be.
Michelle chronicled her journey in "Worthy," "Sis, You're Worth It," and her latest, "Worthiness is Your Superpower." The books help readers discover what they do not know, they're innately worthy. Each book facilitates a return to their innate worthiness by revealing the subtle but powerful impact of unworthiness, the culprit behind:
- Entrepreneurs undercharging for products and services
- Adults spending decades at and then retiring from jobs they hate
- People tolerating unhealthy or toxic relationships
- Women who people-please, dim their light, shrink, settle, suppress healthy anger, say "yes, when they want to say "no," etc.
- People who live so far below their true potential that the life they live is nothing like the one they were born to create.
- People immobilized by fear, worry and self-doubt
HOW IT'S GOING
HOW IT'S GOING
Michelle has combined her insatiable interest in worthiness, with her passion for helping Black children and families thrive. A sociologist, former director of a family empowerment program and manager of several child welfare initiatives, Michelle adamantly believes that when Black children and families function from their innate worth, t
Michelle has combined her insatiable interest in worthiness, with her passion for helping Black children and families thrive. A sociologist, former director of a family empowerment program and manager of several child welfare initiatives, Michelle adamantly believes that when Black children and families function from their innate worth, they organically reach their fullest potential.
Those in marginalized communities entrenched in poverty and struggling to overcome other generational challenges
are also the segment of Black America most impacted by the nation's agenda to oppress, disparage and undermine their sense of worthiness.
Community organizations that provide services and resources to children and families unwittingly struggling beneath the weight of unworthiness encounter seemingly "resistant" clients incapable of changing. In actuality, unworthiness limits a person's ability to integrate new ideas, principles and perspectives as it functions as a nearly impenetrable barrier solidified by fatalistic beliefs.
To that end, Michelle has expanded The Institute for Worthy Living to include innovative programming that infuses worthiness enhancing content into services, messaging and resources provided by progressive community organizations. The effectiveness of the most soundly researched best practices is either weakened or bolstered by recipients' ability to integrate same into their consciousness.