Cheryl Miles – Midlife Performance coach & Speaker
The Performance Mechanic™
THE ENCORE PERFORMANCE PHILOSOPHY
Midlife is Not the End of Your Best Performance.
It’s the Moment Your Performance Strategy Needs an Upgrade.
It’s Time to Own Your Spotlight.
Your Encore Awaits.
Former pop star, actress, TV presenter, radio personality and fitness instructor, Cheryl Miles, understands firsthand what helps people perform under pressure – and what causes them to burn out.
With more than three decades of entertainment and broadcasting under her belt, Cheryl now helps professionals understand what performers have always known: Performance is an inside job. It begins backstage. Before the spotlight.
A Media and Midlife Performance Coach (PN-NC1), she is the creator of The Encore Performance Method™: Backstage to Spotlight and the Play with FIRE™ framework, helping audiences strengthen their Vision, Vitality, Voice and Visibility so they can perform with greater confidence and impact.
Through keynote presentations, workshops, panels, fireside chats, masterclasses, corporate retreats and podcast interviews, Cheryl hopes to empower audiences to embrace change and perform authentically at their best—both at work and in life—without sacrificing their wellbeing.
Because Midlife is Not a Crisis. It’s a Performance Review.
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Play With FIRE™
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE KEYNOTE
The Show Must Go On … But at What Cost?
The Stage is Temporary. Own Your Spotlight.
Never Outsource Your Flame.
Burn Bright NOT Burn Out.
Become the Performer Who Can Thrive on Any Stage.
Rewrite the Script.
Because the Show Must Go On … But this time You’re The Star
Now Go Play with FIRE!
When the rise of streaming platforms, podcasts and digital media began to disrupt the world of music and broadcasting, it forced Cheryl to contemplate her long term career direction. She made the difficult decision in August 2023 to walk away from her successful 16-year radio career, to start a new chapter as an entrepreneur—just four days before her 48th birthday!
But she soon found herself confronting questions many professionals face in midlife: Who are you when the title, platform or stage you’ve built your identity around, changes or disappears? What happens when new trends or emerging technologies transform the landscape you once knew so well?
And these questions many women struggle silently with: Who are you when your body starts to change and your energy dips? Who are you in perimenopause—and beyond?
It was in the middle of this perfect existential storm that her signature keynote was born, based on her Play With Fire™ framework—a practical approach to sustaining performance, preventing burnout and building professional resilience in midlife and beyond.
Audiences will laugh, cry, maybe even sing and leave motivated with actionable steps to navigate change, prevent burnout and build lasting career capital in an unpredictable world—at any age, and any stage.
And a reminder that you don’t need anyone’s permission to shine.
Own your spotlight.
And if necessary, bring your own disco ball.
THE PerFormance Mechanic™
I’m Cheryl—I teach leaders, top performers and midlife professionals how to shine bright and not burn out
After leaving her high profile radio career behind, suffering from burnout and struggling with a self-imposed identity crisis, Cheryl Miles had an epiphany. She realised that while most high performers obsess over external metrics—whether P&Ls and KPIs in the corporate world, or reputation, ratings and revenue in radio—very few stop to check what’s happening under the hood.
With a disco ball as her trusty tool box filled with tips, techniques and tried-and-tested strategies gathered from a lifetime spent on stage, on mic and on camera, Cheryl, The Performance Mechanic™ helps audiences tune up their potential backstage, so they don’t just shine in the spotlight, they own it—whether that is in the boardroom, presenting on stage or just from the glow of boosted productivity levels.
Through humour, hard-won lessons, her Play with Fire™ framework … and shiny disco balls, Cheryl challenges audiences to rethink success, resilience and what it really takes to sustain high performance through life’s inevitable transitions.
Reclaim Your ENERGy WITH THIS FREE GUIDE
Cheryl’s Afternoon Tune-Up:
How to Beat the 3pm Crash & Lead with Confidence
If you are relying on caffeine, comfort food and clinging on to sheer willpower just to survive back-to-back meetings, endless emails and everything else on your to-do list, you are running on fumes. How can you perform at your best when your energy is crashing? Inspired by the 3pm slump—and the name of Cheryl’s hit day-time radio show before becoming The Performance Mechanic™, this free guide keeps burnout at bay with evidence-backed performance strategies to help tune up your biological engine before it breaks down. Download your copy, take the Energy Audit and try the 15-minute Performance Reset. You’ll also find easy no-cook recipes and a playlist of feel-good songs to help you power through your day.
Also available as a corporate workshop and lunch-and-learn. Need a live tune-up for your team? Book a discovery call today.
We Believe In
Purposeful Reinvention, Sustainable Performance, & Thriving without Burnout
Why Choose Cheryl for your next event
Three Decades of High-Stakes, High-Pressure Live Performance
Audience outcomes
Give Your Team More Than Inspiration—Give Them a Plan
Frequently Asked Questions
Here are answers to some of the most common questions about Cheryl’s coaching programmes, training and media consultancy services from The Encore Performance Method™ — Backstage to Spotlight.