Mel Kelly

About

Mel Kelly is the founder of Motivating Minds Ltd, established following her own brain tumour diagnosis.

Inspired by her journey, Mel is dedicated to showing that no matter what life throws at you, obstacles can be transformed into opportunities.

Over the past 18 months, Mel has raised thousands for The Brain Charity, Teenage Cancer Trust, and Move Against Cancer through creative efforts such as abseiling down The Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool, walking 12 miles to mark recovery, tackling the Yorkshire 3 Peaks challenge and taking on triathalons. She is now serves as a young ambassador for the Brain Tumour Charity.

Mel was featured on the BBC Lifeline Appeal with Nicky Chapman, using her platform to stress the need for kinder treatments and earlier diagnosis. Recently awarded Cheshire Woman of the Year 2024, her story provides hope and support to others facing similar challenges.

Key Topics

1. Mental Wellbeing: The importance of surrounding yourself with the right people to boost mental health.

2. Resilience: How her diagnosis taught her to keep fighting and pushing forward, regardless of the challenges.

3. Inspiration: Demonstrating that no matter what life presents, you can still achieve greatness.

4. Motivation: Empowering others to take action, learn from setbacks, and use their mindset to shape a positive future.

   
   

Review

"Here at Inspiring Women Wirral, we invite inspirational female speakers to share their journey and experiences with the group every month. Mel Kelly was our guest speaker in March 2024, and I know I’m speaking on behalf of all of the women who attended when I say she blew us away with her story. Mel took us on an emotional journey, where we laughed, we cried and we learnt a lot about teenage cancer and brain tumours.

We were mesmerised from start to finish and were in awe of the lengths Mel has gone to, to raise money and raise awareness to help others who are going through a similar journey. Her upbeat, positive attitude, inspiring us all to push our own boundaries to live life to the full was exactly what we all needed to re set and realise we are capable of anything we put our minds to.

We highly recommend Mel as a public speaker, she’s a natural embodying knowledge, enthusiasm and passion." – Inspiring Women Wirral