You're the one people rely on.
The one who remembers, who notices, who steps in before anyone has to ask. The one whose reliability is so consistent it stopped being a compliment years ago and became an assumption.
You've built a life (and probably a career) on being useful. And somewhere underneath all that usefulness, there's a question you've stopped letting yourself ask:
What would happen if you stopped?
Not stopped working. Not stopped caring. Stopped using usefulness as the price of admission to being liked, needed, or allowed to take up space.
What I want you to consider: being useful was never the same thing as being valued. One is a strategy you learned. The other is something you're owed regardless. Most women have spent so long doing the first that they've lost track of whether the second was ever actually in question.
In this 2-hour masterclass, Chartered Organisational Psychologist and author Michelle Minnikin will show you:
- The difference between being useful and being valuable, and why only one of them protects you from burnout
- The Good Girl Roles that disguise themselves as work ethic: the Caregiver, the Rescuer, the Over-Responsible One
- The Power Leak Map, exactly where your usefulness is quietly costing you, and the moment it starts
- What actually happens when you stop being useful on purpose, even once, and survive it
This masterclass is for the woman who's tired in a way that rest doesn't fix. The one who's started to suspect that being indispensable and being invisible might be the same thing, wearing different clothes.
This masterclass is free.
You'll leave with a framework, a language, and the start of an answer to the question in the title, one you may not have let yourself ask out loud before.
Hosted by Michelle Minnikin, Chartered Organisational Psychologist, author of Good Girl Deprogramming, and recovering Good Girl.
Thursday 30th July 2026 · 7:00–9:00pm UK · Online via Zoom · Free to attend · Recording available