Fleur Marks

Name: Fleur Marks
Address: 2/30 Fletcher Street, Byron Bay, NSW, 2481, AU
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Wellbeing Expert. Cancer Warrior. Helping you live fully despite life's sh*t show

30/10/2026

Superwoman never wore sequins. She was too busy holding everything together 🖤

Growing up, I was told I could have it all, do it all and be it all. What I heard was: be Superwoman. Make it look perfect. Never ask for help.

This year my breast cancer came back, right as my book was launching.

So I did the uncomfortable thing. I asked for help. Fifty people put their hands up to be my Sequin Squad.

And I wore the sequins to treatment.

Sequins over Superwoman isn't about wanting less from your life. It's choosing what matters, asking for help before you need rescuing, and finding joy on the way through.

Send this to someone in your Sequin Squad ✨

The whole story is in The Overachiever's Reset. Link in bio.

22/10/2026

Could you leave your phone for two hours?

At the beginning of my leadership programmes, I give everyone permission to just be. To be present for the time we have in the room, because it goes quickly. And the inner mindset work I get them to do won’t happen with a busy brain.

What I notice is that in every break, leaders feel the need to turn their phones back on. A 10-minute break becomes time to respond. I totally get it. It’s the world we’re in.

Yet to learn, you need to create space. That’s where clarity and perspective come from.

Last week, I really reinforced this. Everyone put their laptops and phones, as best they could, into their bags or onto a table at the back of the room. Real, intentional permission giving. The relief on their faces was obvious. So was the guilt that flooded in straight after.

By the afternoon, they’d felt what that spaciousness gives you. Space to think about how they’re showing up as leaders.

The work didn’t stop. The world didn’t end. They just got to think, and be intentional about how they create the real impact they want. Gold.

So here’s your challenge. Two hours today with no phone. Not on silent. Not face down on the desk. In another room or in your bag. Scary stuff, I know. Notice what you think about when when you are not attached to your phone.

If you’re building a leadership programme for 2027 and want your leaders to create real impact amongst the chaos, let’s talk.

17/10/2026

It’s World Menopause Day, and I’m sharing something I don’t talk about much.

Nine years ago, a hysterectomy to keep cancer away and treat severe endometriosis sent me into menopause almost overnight. Pool-level sweats. Brain fog. And the 3am anxiety, which I only learnt a few years ago was a symptom at all.

With my cancer history and a clotting condition, HRT wasn’t an option. So I white-knuckled it.

This year the cancer came back, oestrogen positive. How is that even possible? The estrogen blockers brought every symptom back, plus severe joint pain.

In the leadership rooms I work in, I see so many brilliant women doing this alone. Afraid to voice their experience - A hot flush mid-presentation. Brain fog in a negotiation. Up at 3am, then a full day on adrenaline, telling everyone they’re fine.

Cope privately, perform publicly. The overachiever’s instinct.

What I’ve learnt: you don’t have to be superwoman about this as well. Tell someone. Your doctor, your partner, your boss, your best friend.

What’s the one thing you wish someone had told you? Share it below. It might be exactly what the next woman needs to read 🖤

Send this to a sequin sister who’s in it right now.

13/10/2026

Landed in Melbourne for 3 days running workshops with leaders, doing the thing I love to do ✈️

Old me packed for every possible version of the week. Just in case. Honestly, that's how I ran my whole life. More prep, more yeses, more 'I'll just quickly…'

More never made me better at anything. It just made me tired.

So this week I'm holding it light. Fewer outfits (still sequins, obviously). Fewer meetings. More space, so I have the energy to show up well in the room and create the impact I truly want.

What impact do you want to make this week? Tell me 👇

If 'more' is your default setting too, I wrote The Overachiever's Reset for you. Link's in my bio.

11/10/2026

Given it is breast cancer awareness month, and this year I got it back - other b**b 8 years later. So I thought I would share what breast cancer taught me this year 🎀 (swipe)

1. Live fully, now.

This is it. Wear the red lipstick, the fancy dress, use the good candles. You don't know what is around the corner as I found out (again) so why not enjoy all the nice things in life. You so deserve them.

2. Ask for help before you need rescuing (thank you, Sequin Squad 🪩)

Knowing I was launching a book and navigating cancer treatment, I reached out and asked for help. 50 people put their hand up and said let me help with the book launch. I felt less alone and was simply heartened by their generosity as they cheered me on during the most challenges moments.

3. "I'm fine" is the most expensive sentence there is.

Lots of people have asked me "How am I?" post treatment. Some didn't want to really know the answer, I could tell even as they were asking. So I said "Fine" but then realised this was not me honouring my reality or educating others on what navigating cancer whilst working really means.

So instead, I answered with "I'm finding my feet again post treatment so taking it a day at at time". I also held my vulnerability in room with leaders sharing my journey in a way that showed clarity and reality in one response without bringing them down. Doing breathwork with them as we all needed to exhale together

4. Sequins over superwoman really works

Despite it all, I have had the best year. I choose to shine bright through the toughest moments, to not be superwoman trying to do it all, and intentionally let go of what really didn't matter to have space to enjoy each day.

These four lessons work cancer or no cancer. If you're in cancer treatment right now, I'm sending you so much love. Please remember to check your b**bs 🖤

This is the first of three Sundays on what this year taught me. Next Sunday: the thing nobody told me about menopause at work.

06/10/2026

Nobody warns you what it feels like when strangers start telling you that you have described their life. 🖤

It's been the most heart-filling part of publishing this book. It's the reason I wrote it.

The messages seem to land on the days I need them most. And almost all of them say the same thing:
- They read the intro and couldn't put it down.
- They didn't know anyone else operated like this.
- They feel seen, without ever saying out loud what they're really feeling.

One woman wrote that it was like I'd been living in her head.

I've read every single message more than once. They still stop me in my tracks. Every weekend at my desk, I was hoping this book would genuinely help someone.

The hospital bed. The blue suit. That particular brand of high-performing over-functioning that looks like excellence from the outside and feels like drowning on the inside.

There's a better way to achieve. I learnt it the hard way so you don't have to.

If you've read it and it found you, thank you. Truly. You're who this book was for.

And if you're the one holding it all together, wondering how much longer you can keep pushing through... you're not alone, darling heart.

If you've read it, I'd love to hear what stayed with you. Tell me in the comments x

04/10/2026

High performance is not the answer. It never was. 🖤

It is just the only thing most of us were ever rewarded for.

High performance is doing more, faster, to a higher standard, for longer than anyone reasonably should. It works. It is also the reason the most capable woman in the room is the one quietly running on empty.

High impact is different. It is doing less, well. Being clear on what actually matters and letting the rest go unfinished on purpose. It is the difference between a full diary and a week that moved something.

One of them gets you promoted. The other one lets you still be standing when you get there.

I spent twenty years doing the first. I write about the second because my body made the decision for me before I was brave enough to.

Which one did you run this week? Honestly. 🖤

03/10/2026

I ended a two-day leadership programme by handing a room of senior leaders an eye mask and asking them to do nothing 🖤

To surrender and receive. To be, and to give thanks. To let their bodies integrate everything they had learned.

I have never been more nervous about a decision in a room.

Normally we close two days the same way. What is your key learning, what will you do in the next 90 days. Good questions. Everyone writes something down, and it wavers by Thursday as they fall back into the busy.

So I experimented the other way round. Instead of asking them to take something away, I gave them something.

Be. Receive. Give thanks. That was the whole intention.

Eye masks on. No talking. Lying or sitting together. And Tara-Lee Byrne playing the cello, live in the room. A full body immersion.

Partway through I lifted my mask and looked around, breathing in the moment. Goosebumps. Actual tingles.

And then the emotion arrived all at once, because there it was. This is the thing I am meant to be doing. Honouring my own ambition while helping others find theirs.

It has taken me years to arrive here, and I have arrived despite all of it.

Here is what I keep thinking about since.

High achievers are exceptional at doing. We are almost useless at receiving. Ask us to deliver and we will move mountains. Ask us to lie still and let something land, and we will fidget, or plan, or quietly work out what we should be doing instead.

Your mind has been running the whole show. Your body has been carrying it without ever once being consulted.

Letting the two of them be in the same place at the same time, with nothing required of either, is the thing almost none of us ever allow 🖤

That is what I want to give people now, beyond the boardroom.

So I am running a retreat in February, in Byron, my home town.

A select group. A tight circle of people ready to do the deeper inner work and set themselves up for their best year yet.

It will not be advertised widely. The waitlist goes first.

Comment WAITLIST and I will pop you on the list.

29/09/2026

Since the book came out I have lost count of the people who have told me they are going to write one 🖤

I nod along when they say this. Yet I know not many of them will. And it is not because they cannot write. Its that they underestimate what it really takes.

For about a year, every weekend, I wrote for twelve hours a day. Saturday and Sunday, at the desk, while everyone else was living. One single focus in my spare time. A voice calling to me to get my story and share my insights to help others.

But here is what I did not understand until afterwards. It did not get finished because I worked harder. I have always worked hard. That was never what was missing.

It got finished because I finally did ONE thing and let everything else go. No real social life. Saying no to things more than yes.

No new clients. Speaking gigs I wanted, turned down. A house that was a state. Every single thing I would normally have been quietly excellent at, just left undone.

And nobody died. Nothing bad happened.

That is the whole difference between high performance and high impact. One spreads you thin across everything. The other picks the one focus that matters and worries less about trying to be everything to everyone.

The hard bit was never the writing. It was the subtraction.

And if you really want to write a book, please do as everyone has a story within them that needs to be shared. But do it with your eyes wide open to the sacrifice required to get it done well.

What would you actually finish this year if you let nine other things on your to-do list go? 🖤

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