Mental Wealth Consulting, LLC

09/14/2025

NOW OFFERING: Executive Circles for Urgent Times

Leadership can’t stay insulated anymore. The crises we face—political, economic, technological—demand a new kind of courage.

That’s why I’m inviting 5 to 8 executives into a confidential small group to explore real workplace challenges, share solutions, and push one another to function differently.

I’ve worked with leaders across industries—sports, media, hospitals, public health, universities, restaurants, and more. And I know this: the breakthroughs happen when leaders cross-pollinate ideas in a safe, trusted space.

This is your chance to practice setting a higher standard of leadership—courageously, collaboratively, and urgently.

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🧠 Other Core Offerings:
✅ 9-Session Storytelling-Based Cultural Transformation Program
✅ Executive Listening Labs & Leadership Alignment
✅ DEI-Rooted Psychological Safety Workshops
✅ Workplace Well-being, Burnout Prevention & Retention Strategy
✅ Custom Facilitation + Keynote Presentations

📌 Specialty:
Intersecting neuroscience, cultural insight, and narrative intelligence for meaningful transformation across diverse corporate sectors.

🔒 Bottom Line:
A trust-based culture is your strongest risk management tool and your greatest innovation driver.

08/08/2025

Here's more about the StoriesBuildBridges™ work culture program.

Begin around minute 1:24 to get to the presentation. Please share with your HR and C-Suite leadership team! Spend your budget this quarter on this unique important training/team-building program that will reduce anxiety and promote productive, integrity-based AUTHENTIC Intelligence and not just "artificial" intelligence.

Message me at StoriesMakeChange@gmail.com or melissadsexton@gmail.com so that we can schedule to talk about your work culture and how much of a return you will get upon investing in this implementation.

You need this... you just don't know it yet...

“Truth with dignity. Story with spine.”

08/08/2025

I want to re-share Episode 10 of Voices of Americans podcast. Mr. Mark Charles, from the Navajo Nation, provides engaging commentary about "We, the People," insights, history lessons, and reflections on the way forward.

Thanks to one of the 60 co-facilitators for Mental Wealth StoriesBuildBridges™ corporate work culture program, therapist and Indigenous Peoples Advocate, Samantha Jarvis, invited Mr. Mark Charles into dialogue with us.

Atty. Larry Wallace, co-host, has an upcoming engaging episode in the making for Episode 11. So, do go ahead and hit "Subscribe" as you will NOT want to miss this particularly important episode. For those who do not know (I didn't, myself) Mr. Mark Charles ran for President of the United States of America in 2020. Covid shut down what would have been an important first debate where he would have joined Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden.

Hear Mark now. What he has to say will stay with you...

Upcoming, Larry and I will have 4-6 different insightful commentary from key leadership on the topic of "Redistricting" and/or "gerrymandering" so that you can stay informed, engaged, and think for yourself about how your own voice now truly matters.

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/02KcUb9v9My4eRdklGh7TG?si=57eba8e636734368

Apple:
https://www.mentalwealth.consulting/.../episodes/2149064578

Youtube:
https://youtu.be/FkwJ1MAASPQ?si=xZn21F4g2OaUUSu9

Vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/1104658817

🎙️ Episode 10 invites us not to return to the past, but to return to the truth—to find common ground by telling the whole story. What happens to a nation…

06/21/2025

I am seeking help with introductions to HR Directors in corporate settings.

I realize it’s a terrorizing time to face denials of programs with certain words… and this definitely increases anxiety in work cultures.

That being said, I have a unique 9-session program to offer that is about team-building, overcoming fear, building trust, and realigning with values, missions, and collaborations. It’s about JOY in “playing beyond the fields of trauma,” … my dissertation work from 2008.

Empathy rewrites the brain, helplng people regulate and stay connected.

This is the unique contribution I am seeking to offer now: facilitation that helps people relate beyond fear and rage, towards repair.

Just as Artificial Intelligence amps up, what it means to be human is now about rediscovering BELONGING.

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If you have someone in your circles within a workplace culture, include me in the connection and I will follow up!

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The Mental Wealth StoriesBuildBridges® Platform is a 9-session storytelling experience that realigns culture through trust, history, and shared values.

Designed for corporate and non-profit teams, our workshops foster listening, psychological safety, and loyalty through personal, communal, and institutional stories.

We don’t just change conversations — we rebuild cultural infrastructures.

05/18/2025

When did you first notice “difference” and what feelings do you recall experiencing? Please share the story that comes to mind.

Clearly, I am no marketing guru. Everything I do is homemade. I created this content, for instance, a little over 3 years ago and it is the first time I have watched it again. My intention to post weekly got diverted because I was trying to build out a model for the 3 layers (personal, community, corporate) of storytelling practices that align with core values that shape us from where we live, work, and play. But, two times when I got to telling personal stories about playing … kids got slaughtered in schools by gun violence, so I didn’t post those videos and just stopped.

BUT, I now have picked the ball back up and am bringing together people who don’t know one another for a weekly podcast “Voices of Americans”… so, please subscribe to this channel and help me change the algorithms.

Ideally, soon and very soon, someone who reads this will bring me in for implementation of the storytelling sessions as a renewed way for training your corporate family to be more about collaborative engagement with more empathetic listening skills and better, positive growth mindsets with corporate partners and clients. What we do upstream always affects people living lives downstream… so, it’s up to us now to shape new leadership with ideals that are renewed commitments to values and missions.

Please allow me to speak with your company’s HR Director and/or with your CEO, CFO, or Directors.

The Mental Wealth Storytelling Platform ™ now has capacity to scale with up to 60 co-facilitators for small groups to learn and to listen in engaging ways, non-contentious, together.

This is me, below. Please give a listen so you know what I am about…

Introducing "More to the Story" which seeks to explore the stories that shape our lives. I will draw from many artists, mystics, and scholars; but, in partic...

05/17/2025

Episode 6, Voices of Americans, "Showing Up for Your Own Story," 5/14/25

This is "Voices_Episode6_FinalRaw_5_14_25" by Melissa Sexton on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

05/10/2025

Hello, America, how are you?

Here's Episode 5 for "Voices of Americans" podcast: "Defiance til Death, with Robert L. Arnold," taped May 8, 2025.

In this episode, Robert and I talk about many things, including how most people are not as far apart as we've been made to believe. If you have not heard Robert's spoken word poems, please look up "Defiance13" on TikTok and Substack. He only started posting content in November, and many people find that he names for us the emotions as we watch so much changing too rapidly to keep up.

Robert knows we cannot afford to bury our head in the sands. Too much is at stake now, especially for our children.

05/04/2025

This is an important conversation to listen to, even if it makes you feel uncomfortable in places. "Voices of Americans," Season 1/Episode 4, taped on April 30, 2025. You can find this podcast hosted on Kajabi, YouTube, Vimeo, Apple, and Spotify. Like and share. Many more episodes are coming soon. Next UP: will be a TikTok poet and political philosopher, Robert L. Arnold, .

In Episode 4, "Leadership In Urgent Times," TJ Copeland, John Jackson, and Larry Wallace make astute observations and comments, urging people to consider Truth, what's at stake as we head towards an authoritarian regime, conspiracy theories, and what leadership looks like for anyone and everyone.

Posting asap, because it's important... Hello, America, how are you?

05/02/2025

Here's Episode 3 of "Voices of Americans" podcast, taped Wednesday, April 30, 2025. "Preaching Hope and Healing In Urgent Times," Rev. T Renee Crutcher, Rev. Colleen Cook, and Rev. Steve Cothran.

04/25/2025

Here's Episode 2 of "Voices of Americans," April 23, 2025.

This 20 minute episode basically conveys my respect for the storytelling culture of the Appalachian mountains and the storytelling platform background info for WHY I am bringing this unique training into work cultures.

I have proposals for the courageous leaders in corporations ready to scale this platform out to create feedback loops for the GOOD of the organization, overall.

https://vimeo.com/1078828960?share=copy =0

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This is a 20 minute introduction into what I am up to with these Mental Wealth groups I seek to launch as trainings into workplace cultures. Where there are courageous…

04/20/2025

On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, while it was still dark. And she saw that the stone had been rolled away from the tomb.

Honestly, she thought the tomb had been robbed, the body stolen away. She could not believe her eyes and was overwhelmed with shock and grief.

We are like HER right now. Stunned. We also feel robbed.

In this in-between time of darkness and light, uncertainty and terror, anticipation of the worst, but hoping for the best... we need to RISE ourselves, attuned to something HIGHER than what we in isolation can muster.

Jesus didn't stick around too long to foster dependency. What he did was instill in them the realization that IT'S UP TO YOU NOW. "And, lo, I am with you til the end of the world."

So, in this very spirit, I am appealing to Corporate America, because we desperately need to act differently now, rather than how the principalities and powers and insufferable administrative posturing, threats, and authoritarian edicts signed with awkward magic markers... purely a power trip only, rather than an attempt to work with people in collaborative ways.

Don't believe that it needs to be this hard. Believe that, collectively, we can halt this movement to burn everything down.

Here's my offering. And, know this: It isn’t just a program. It’s a call to conscience, scaffolded by storytelling, daring Executives to lead with integrity in a destabilized world.

This is a strategic listening platform designed to rebuild trust from the inside out—by reconnecting your people to:

✔️ Where they live
✔️ Why they work
✔️ How they play

Because real alignment doesn’t come top-down.
It comes from inside-out.

If you’re serious about protecting the human dignity of your workplace…
If your mission is more than just a line on your website…

📩 DM me. Let’s scaffold something real—before we ask people to carry the torch.

Realignment doesn’t start with compliance. It starts with listening.
Schedule to talk with me for 20-30 minutes:
https://calendly.com/msexton-kuk/30min

03/08/2025

Why should you contact me to scale your company for a 9-week storytelling platform, saving you time and money overall...

Today’s EVER-SO-RAPIDLY changing business landscape creates NEW potential nightmarish challenges!

How can Corporate Leaders offset the tremendous costs to their bottom line??? Call in something like DOGE??? No.

Trust the insights of your workforce.

But, how?

Contact me to talk about your company's needs for a new strategy. We are regular people, trained to facilitate BUILDING SOMETHING YOU CAN USE.

Here’s why executives are contracting with us to scale solutions that work:

🔹 Trust Transforms Workplaces: Employees and stakeholders need to feel heard. Our platform fosters deep storytelling that rebuilds trust, strengthens engagement, and reduces costly attrition.

🔹 Values-Driven Realignment: Too often, company missions get lost in day-to-day operations. We help executives recalibrate teams toward corporate core values—enhancing productivity and ethical leadership development.

🔹 Community-Centered Branding: Consumers demand brands that align with their values. We help businesses authentically connect with community narratives, increasing brand loyalty and market reach.

🔹 Sales Growth, Cost Savings: Purpose-driven companies outperform competitors. By strengthening employee retention, enhancing brand credibility, and fostering inclusive innovation, we help businesses lower HR and marketing costs—while increasing revenue.

💡 Executive Leaders, it’s time to invest in a strategy that drives long-term success. Let’s talk about scaling solutions that inspire and deliver results.


Reach out to me directly:
678-640-2726
StoriesMakeChange@gmail.com