About The Goldie Effect: How to Rewrite Your Life Without Burning It Down
You never know the moment your life will split into before and after… until it does.
For Michelle Hooey, that moment was the birth of her daughter, Goldie — a day that shattered every plan and forced her to rebuild life from the inside out.
The Goldie Effect is a powerful blend of memoir and practical self-help for women navigating change, burnout, identity loss, or life that didn’t go according to plan. Through the raw story of parenting a medically complex child, Michelle shares the hard-earned lessons that helped her move from survival to strength without burning her world down.
At the heart of the book is The 15-Minute Rewrite™ — a simple daily framework designed to help you regulate your nervous system, gain clarity, and make meaningful shifts in just 1% of your day. No dramatic reinvention. No collapse required. Just small, sustainable steps that compound.
If you’re feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or quietly ready for something more, this book offers a grounded way forward.
For a limited time, the Kindle edition will be available for FREE for the first 3 days during launch week.
Transformation doesn’t require perfection. It requires presence. And sometimes the light that saves you is the one you learn to create.
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Author Bio:
After years in corporate leadership, Michelle Hooey’s life shifted with the birth of her second daughter, Goldie, who was born with complex medical needs in 2023. What followed wasn’t a reinvention. It was a reckoning with capacity, identity, grief, love, and what it means to stay present when life no longer follows the plan. Out of that season came The Goldie Effect and the 15-Minute Rewrite. A simple, embodied framework for change rooted in regulation, truth, and small, honest action.
Michelle’s work sits at the intersection of lived experience and practical transformation. She writes and speaks about navigating uncertainty, protecting energy, and building lives that can actually be lived. Especially for parents, caregivers, and people in the thick of real change.
Michelle lives in Vancouver, British Columbia with Jeff, their daughters Frankie and Goldie, and two Labradoodles, Soda and Artie.