We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Melove Tindall a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Melove, appreciate you joining us today. It’s always helpful to hear about times when someone’s had to take a risk – how did they think through the decision, why did they take the risk, and what ended up happening. We’d love to hear about a risk you’ve taken.

Through my own personal healing journey with meditation, I discovered how powerful meditation could be. That inspired me to begin volunteering with at-risk youth programs, where I guided teens through meditation practices focused on confidence and self-esteem.

One day, someone asked me why I didn’t do this type of work professionally. I told them, “Because I have bills to pay.”

That same week, I came across an introduction to hypnosis class. At the time, I thought hypnosis was mostly entertainment. I imagined people clucking like chickens on stage and thought it sounded fun and interesting.

But once I got into the class, I noticed that much of what we were doing felt very similar to guided meditation. I finally asked, “When are we going to do hypnosis?” The instructor smiled and said, “This is hypnosis.”

That moment changed everything for me.

I realized I could combine my passion for helping people with a career that could also support me financially. It suddenly felt possible to do meaningful work while still paying my bills.

At the time, I was working in Corporate America with a stable paycheck every two weeks. Leaving that security to open my own private practice was a huge risk. Suddenly, I was responsible for creating my own income. If I didn’t have clients, I didn’t get paid.

Starting my business without a backup plan was scary, but I knew that if I didn’t take the leap, I would spend the rest of my life wondering “what if.”

The beginning was not easy. I had to tighten my belt, watch my spending carefully, and make sacrifices while I built my practice. There were moments of uncertainty, but I stayed committed and kept moving forward.

I started my business in 2013, and within three years, through hard work, dedication, and believing in what I was building, I was able to fully replace my corporate income.

Looking back, taking that risk changed the entire direction of my life.

Melove, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I help people create change at a deeper level by combining coaching, hypnosis, meditation, and subconscious work in a way that goes beyond traditional talk-based approaches.

I am a Board Certified Hypnotist, Certified Instructor through the National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH), Life Coach, and author of the Inner Soundness Healing Series. I am also the founder of Inner Soundness, where I have had the privilege of helping thousands of individuals move beyond survival patterns and into greater self-awareness, emotional balance, confidence, and inner peace.

My journey into this work began through my own healing process. Meditation played a major role in helping me better understand myself and regulate my emotions, but I also realized that many people struggle because they try to fight their thoughts and emotions instead of learning how to work with them. That realization led me to develop Intention-Based Meditation, an approach that helps people become more aware of their inner patterns so they can begin shifting them in a healthier and more intentional way.

Over time, this work evolved into what I now call the Inner Release Technique (IRT), a multi-sensory meditation approach designed to help individuals release emotional patterns held within the mind and body. My work focuses heavily on helping people identify subconscious patterns, regulate emotional reactions, reduce overwhelm, and create lasting internal change rather than temporary motivation.

What sets my work apart is that I do not focus only on surface-level insight or positive thinking. Many people already know why they feel stuck, anxious, overwhelmed, or emotionally reactive, but insight alone does not always create change. I work with both the conscious and subconscious mind to help people interrupt old patterns and create new emotional responses that feel more natural and sustainable.

I believe true transformation happens when people learn how to reconnect with themselves instead of fighting against themselves.

One of the things I am most proud of is building a practice that has genuinely helped so many people feel calmer, more empowered, and more in control of their lives. I also take pride in creating techniques and tools that people can continue using long after our sessions are over so they feel equipped to support themselves in everyday life.

At the core of everything I do is the belief that healing begins with awareness, change begins with intention, and that the ability to heal, grow, and transform already exists within each of us.

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

When I first started my practice in 2013, I knew it would take time to build a full-time business from the ground up. Since I had no clients in the beginning, I took on multiple side jobs to support myself and my children while I worked on growing my private practice.

I tutored psychotherapy students preparing for their jurisprudence exams, helped people build websites, and even bartended a few nights a week just to make ends meet. I was doing whatever I could to keep moving forward while still pursuing my dream.

Then, in July of 2014, everything changed.

I was putting groceries into the trunk of my car when a strong gust of wind slammed the trunk down onto my head. The next morning, while getting ready, I suddenly realized I could no longer feel the left side of my face. I had become partially paralyzed due to bleeding in my brain.

I spent three days in the ICU terrified, not just because of what had happened physically, but because I was a single mother trying to figure out how I was going to support myself and my kids.

During that time, I had a realization.

Even though I was juggling all these side jobs, I also had something else: my private practice. I realized I needed to stop treating it like a side dream and fully commit to building it into a real business.

So in August of 2014, I made a decision that changed my life.

I threw myself into networking and becoming active in the community. I filled my calendar with at least 40 hours a week of meeting people, attending networking events, introducing myself to local businesses, visiting doctors’ offices, wellness centers, yoga studios, and anywhere I thought I could connect with people and share what I did.

I was relentless.

By October of 2014, my practice was completely booked with clients. In fact, I became so busy that I barely had a day off.

I knew my hard work played a role, but deep down, I also felt that what was happening was bigger than me. The amount of growth and the number of people coming into my practice exceeded anything I could have expected at the time.

That was the moment I realized this was not just a new career. It was my calling.

I remember looking up and saying, “Okay… I understand. You don’t have to hit me over the head anymore.”

Any stories or insights that might help us understand how you’ve built such a strong reputation?

I believe what helped me build my reputation was that I genuinely focused on people and relationships first, not on selling myself or my business.

When I started networking, I took the time to really get to know people. I was not walking into networking events thinking about how many clients I could get. I was focused on creating real connections. You cannot truly connect with people if all you are doing is talking about yourself.

Whenever I met someone through a business networking event, I would often invite them to a one-on-one meeting so we could sit down for an hour and genuinely get to know each other. During those conversations, I would ask deeper questions about their business, their challenges, and what they needed help with, even if they did not fully know the answer themselves yet.

Over time, I became a resource and mentor for many people. If I knew someone who could help them, I would connect them. If I had knowledge or experience that could benefit them, I would take the time to share it. I truly enjoyed helping people grow and succeed.

As I built relationships with more small business owners and wellness practitioners, I realized I could support them in an even bigger way. At the time, I had access to large classroom spaces in my office, so I started organizing wellness events where practitioners could share information with the community about natural and holistic healing options people may not have otherwise discovered.

The events became so successful that other locations around the city started asking me to host them there as well.

I also opened up opportunities for entrepreneurs outside the wellness industry by giving them classroom space to hold workshops and public speaking events so they could promote themselves and grow their businesses.

Eventually, I created a mastermind group focused on helping small business owners learn how to grow, market, and expand their businesses to the next level.

One day, someone in a networking group asked me why I was doing so much for people for free. She asked me what my motive was.

I remember explaining to her that there was no hidden motive. I was helping because I could, and because it genuinely felt good to help people. I told her that if I was only helping people expecting something in return, then it would no longer be a gift, it would become a debt.

Looking back, I think that mindset is what built my reputation.

I spent years networking, supporting people, creating opportunities, and building genuine relationships. Eventually, people would meet me and say, “Oh, I’ve heard about you from so-and-so,” or “Someone told me I needed to connect with you.”

My reputation began spreading through word of mouth long before I fully realized what was happening. It was built through consistency, service, relationships, and genuinely caring about helping people succeed.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.innersoundness.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/innersoundness
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/innersoundness
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melove-tindall-655b8853/
• Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/innersoundness
• Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/inner-soundness-denver