Merdeka Van Wissekerke is one of the coaches that we found this month and we did a little interview with her. She impressed us with her strength of character, love to help others, and her enormous heart.
Her journey began over two years ago, inspired by a post pandemic world where uncertainty loomed, and many sought deeper meaning and purpose in their lives. With a natural talent for guiding others and a passion for helping people regain control, she turned a lifelong knack for advice into a transformative career, empowering individuals to overcome obstacles and design fulfilling lives.
Her passion to help others is unmatched. Drawing from deeply personal experiences, like stepping away from her career to care for her aging mother, she has developed a unique approach that merges scientific strategies with spiritual insight. By helping clients uncover their deepest desires, face fears, and trust their inner guidance, she creates a roadmap to success that feels both effortless and transformative.
Her coaching approach is pretty unique and uses tools like meditation, visualization, and subconscious reprogramming. She offers a pathway to not just achieve goals but to unlock the boundless potential within. Here is what she said…
Meet Life Coach Merdeka Van Wissekerke:
Name: Merdeka Van Wissekerke
Pillar: The Spirit, The Mind, The Heart
Who is this coach for: Anyone who wants to face their fears, improve their relationships, gain clarity, flourish into the best version of themselves and manifest their ideal life.
How they can help: By using various tool and techniques like writing, meditation, and visualization just to name a few.
First of all, how are you and your family doing after these Pandemic times?
My family is thriving after the chaos of the pandemic.
How did the coronavirus pandemic affect your clients? Did it affect you at all?
I was not affected by the pandemic.
My clients were affected in a positive way in that they leveraged the challenge and used this program to get them moving in the direction of what they really wanted.
What are the biggest lessons that you learned in this pandemic?
What I learned most during the pandemic was the power of the mind and our ability to either be controlled by what’s going on outside of us or turn our attention inwards and create from a place of what brings us joy and inspiration.
What you focus on expands. Period.
The Origin:
Tell us about you, your career, how you started with your coaching career?
I began my career as a life and mindset coach over 2 years ago.
I really saw a need for people to get control over their lives especially post the pandemic where everything seemed so uncertain for most.
I noticed that many were faced with losing their jobs as well as becoming aware that what they were currently doing was not fulfilling on a deeper level.
I felt people seeking out a deeper purpose and a way to create a life filled with meaning.
I’ve always enjoyed being the one people come to for advice and being able to help others feel better about themselves and improve their situation.
Coaching has been something I’ve always done and I just decided to make it my main thing while making a living helping others get what they want in life.
What was your biggest obstacle that you had to overcome in your life that made you who you are today?
The biggest obstacle I had to overcome began when my 80 year old mother fell down a flight of stairs and broke her neck.
By the grace of the Divine, she was not paralyzed however, she needed a great deal of support that our family could not afford to hire out for.
I stopped working so I could be her full time caregiver and lived off my savings and credit cards so I could be with her.
After getting her on her feet and able to walk and do some basic things on her own, my dad passed away and I moved in full time so she wouldn’t be alone.
No job and still living off savings and credit cards.
Although doing this put me in the red for many months, I would not have changed a thing about this decision.
Spending the last year and a half of my mom’s life with her was one of the most rewarding experiences of my entire life.
Being able to return the love and care that she gave me while I was growing up was an incredible gift to both of us.
The Coaching Style:
How do you innovate with coaching your clients?
When working with clients, I spend a lot of time in the beginning focussing on what they really want.
I take them through a step by step process in uncovering what their deepest desires are and find out what might be getting in the way of them receiving this.
Then, we follow a scientific and spiritual method that allows them to actually take the steps towards achieving their goals, creating a roadmap to get them from where they are to where they want to be in an easy and effortless way.
What’s unique about your coaching approach?
What’s unique about my coaching is that we work with the deeper consciousness of the individual.
I teach my clients that they don’t need anything outside of themselves (including me) to get the life that they want.
My goal is to empower them to feel confident in the decisions they make, trusting their inner guidance as their GPS and not the outside world.
What benefits do your clients get after working with you?
My clients have learned to face the fears that were stopping them from achieving their goals.
They’ve went on to start their own businesses, gain clarity on their purpose in life, improved the quality of their relationships, received the motivation to finally take action on their dreams and more.
Do you use any specific tools to be efficient with your clients?
I use different writing, meditation and visualization techniques to help my clients access their visions and plant them into their subconscious minds, making it easier to manifest.
The Impact:
If you had a super megaphone that, when you speak into, the whole world will hear your message, what would you say?
You absolutely have everything inside of you to create ANYTHING you want!
You are worthy and you are capable of doing, being and having it all.
Follow the impulses given to you by your heart.
These come in the form of your desires.
Don’t let your fears, doubts and limited thinking stand in the way of you living the life you dream of.
This is not a practice run!
You have this one chance to make your life all that it can be.
Stop procrastinating.
Take the action and start living the way you were meant to live.
What is the greatest lesson you have learned in your life?
The greatest lesson I’ve learned in life is to enjoy the present moment.
The future takes care of itself if you are living your truth.
Never take for granted that you will have another day to make the phone call, to go after your dreams, to tell someone you love them or to simply be happy.
Happiness is a choice we make every morning when we wake up.
Your final thoughts?
Final thoughts…
As someone who is devoted to the highest expression of humanity coming alive in this time, I believe this is the moment we have all been waiting for.
The changes we want to see in our external world need to happen within each and every one of us first and this starts within.
We need to change our ideas and beliefs of what is possible.
We need to upgrade the paradigms that have been running our decisions and our lives for way too long.
We all want to live in a world where everyone’s needs are met in abundance…
To feel that calm sense of peace and freedom knowing that our home life is stable, secure, full of love with money flowing and community growing.
All of creation grows from the inside out.
Like a seed, we too have the potential inside of us for greatness.
Stop settling for mediocrity and step into your power as a creative being!
The world needs you now more than ever.
Where Can You Find Merdeka Van Wissekerke?
If you liked this interview and if you would love to see how Coach Merdeka can help you grow the seed of your potential into a beautiful reality so you can live as the best version of yourself, go to https://www.risewithmerdeka.com/ and find your next step.
If you’d like to peak a glimpse of her coaching, you can follow her Instagram and Facebook accounts.
And if you’d like to connect with her more personally, you can do that through LinkedIn or by sending her a direct message on her Email [email protected]. It was an honor having this interview with her.