Debbie McLeod, 68, is a mentor, medium, and award winning author, and the founder of Sacred Voice Archetypes™.  A self described inner witch, and known as The Midlife Mystic Mentor,  she helps women in midlife, who’ve spent their lives putting everyone else first to find their own voice again, say no without guilt, and trust themselves after life’s biggest changes. 

Debbie is one of a rare few practitioners who bridges the practical and the mystical, combining 25 years of formal teaching, trained mediumship, and qualifications as a stress management consultant, coach, counsellor, hypnotherapist, healer and celebrant into a single, deeply human approach to midlife transformation.

With degrees in Teaching and Emotional Education, Debbie knows what it means to lose your voice and find it again. Bullied as a child, cracked open by grief in her forties, and awakened through a life-changing mediumship retreat in Wales, she spent years putting everyone else's needs first before finally building something of her own.

Today, Debbie is on a mission to show that midlife is not the beginning of the end, it is the moment a woman finally gets to begin. She is passionate about working with women who feel lost, invisible, or as though the best of life has passed them by. Her work offers a powerful way forward, bringing clarity, connection and empowerment back into their lives. Mentoring through courses, retreats, circles and handfasting ceremonies. 

A Women Who Awards 2025 finalist, Debbie has shared the stage with renowned medium Gordon Smith during her training. She is the author of the pet loss book Best Friends Forever, has appeared on LBC Radio as a pet loss expert, hosted a weekly radio show with an audience of around 80,000 listeners, and spoke at Womanifest 2026.

Warm, grounded and refreshingly straight-talking, Debbie brings emotional intelligence, humour and authenticity to every conversation and she leaves audiences feeling seen, inspired and empowered.

Debbie is available for expert comment, case study opportunities, and radio and television interviews.

Topics she can talk about:

Modern, grounded mysticism: What a “mystic” actually is in 2026 - not robes and crystals, but a woman in all her glory.

Pet Loss and grief: Why grief for an animal can crack open the grief we’ve never allowed ourselves to feel - and why a pet is often a child’s first permission to cry.

Finding your voice after a lifetime of people-pleasing: How women over 40 lose the ability to say no, why it leads to resentment and burnout, and the practical steps to take their voice back.

Being silenced at work: Why so many women stay silent in the workplace, and how that connects to power dynamics at home and at work.

Intuition as a decision-making skill, not a “gift”: How learning to trust a quiet inner knowing - over the louder, anxious voice in your head - leads to better decisions.

The spiritual side of menopause and midlife: Why so many women experience midlife not as a crisis but as an awakening - and how to navigate the unravelling rather than fight it.

Regulating your nervous system: How your voice, nature, dance, breath and ritual calm the body - and why women in particular run on adrenaline until they crash.