If Only
If Only
Brenda McGregor
I Learned The Hard Way That Caring For Others Starts With Caring For Yourself
50 minutes Posted Jun 9, 2026 at 11:00 am.
Welcome And Guest Background
The If Only On Self-Care
How Overgiving Gets Rewarded
Career Identity And Health Tradeoffs
A Crash That Forces Stillness
Recovery Through Food Books And Gardening
Boundaries With Social Media And Life Choices
Coaching Tools And No Self-Diminishment
Letting Go As Liberation
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Your calendar is full, you’re the one everyone counts on, and you’re still telling yourself you’ll “get to” your health later. That bargain feels normal until it doesn’t. I sit down with Melanie Saiedy, founder of Alevance LLC and a veteran leadership and organizational development consultant, to talk about the hard-earned lesson behind her “if only”: prioritizing everyone else’s needs while putting her own self-care last. We dig into how overgiving gets rewarded, especially in healthcare le...