Meaghan South

Medispa & Wellness Advisor - Integrative Nutrition Coach

Twenty-five years in wellness - and the health journey that deepened it.

Meaghan South is one of Australia’s most respected voices in medispa and wellness - a founder, operator and trusted industry advisor with more than two decades of experience building and elevating some of the country’s most iconic wellness destinations. She is also an Integrative Nutrition Coach, drawing on her own health recovery to support women 40+ in reclaiming their energy, vitality and long-term health. She brings genuine depth to both worlds, the commercial and the personal, and the wisdom to know they are, ultimately, inseparable.

A Career Built on Creating Extraordinary Wellness Experiences

In 1998, Meaghan opened The Dome Retreat at the Brisbane Marriott Hotel — a luxury day spa and health retreat quickly celebrated for its exceptional treatments and high standard of care. What began with a team of six grew rapidly to 32, drawing devoted local, interstate and international guests and sweeping the industry’s most coveted awards.

After taking time to raise her family, Meaghan went on to grow Outshine Beauty Medispa Wellness within Brisbane’s prestigious James Street precinct, transforming it from a struggling owner-operated clinic into a reputable, results-driven medispa - while visioning, creating and developing KAILO Wellness Medispa within The Calile Hotel, which became one of Australia’s most celebrated luxury medispa brands.

Alongside owning and operating her own businesses, Meaghan built a parallel reputation as one of Australia’s most trusted spa and wellness advisors through her consultancy Spa Solutions, guiding the development and opening of some of the country’s most definitive wellness destinations for clients including Mirvac Group, O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat, Virgin Active and Cavcorp.

Meaghan’s most recent engagement has been as Spa and Wellness Advisor for TotalFusion Platinum in Newstead, Brisbane to turnaround the operation. The Spa facility’s architecture and design are world class, however the business foundations and guest deliverables needed significant work. Meaghan began with a comprehensive audit covering business strategy, systems, brand positioning and team culture, then worked closely with the team to rebuild from the ground up, implementing rigorous training and development, overhauling operations and product selection, creating SOPs, and redefining the brand’s market position and marketing strategy and made significant headway during her tenure. 

Meaghan holds a Bachelor of Business (Marketing), served as the founding President of the Australian Spa Association, sat on the board of the International Spa Association Asia Pacific and was President of Women Chiefs of Enterprise International – Queensland. She has been a regular speaker at industry conferences and has authored numerous articles.

I am in the best health I have been in decades. I have taken the best action I can to detox my body of the toxic cocktail that is chemotherapy and radiation. I now have a complete “reset” for fulfilling an amazing life ahead!" - Angie Flemming

When Success Isn’t Enough to Keep You Well

Like many high-achieving women, Meaghan had built her life around her work and family, running award-winning businesses, raising a son, managing teams, and putting everyone else’s needs first. She was, by every external measure, succeeding. But her body was telling a different story. During her 40’s, as she kept pushing to juggle everything, she experienced exhaustion, broken sleep and irritable gut symptoms, which was all pushed aside with “I’m too busy. I’m sure it’s fine.”

When a business partnership dissolved unexpectedly and she sold KAILO Wellness Medispa, Meaghan discovered she had entered sudden stress-related early menopause, with adrenal burnout and autoimmune conditions. For someone who had spent two decades building businesses in the health and wellness industry, it was a confronting reckoning.

Finding the Way Back, in a New Way

The turning point came through her work with Dr Agnes Warchalowski, a Nutritional Medicine Doctor who had been the visiting doctor in Meaghan’s medispas. Together, they explored the latest gut health research and discovered that many of Meaghan’s most debilitating symptoms had a common root she hadn’t expected.

Using Dr Agnes’s gut health protocol, the early version of what would become the Bio-Alai Health System, Meaghan healed her gut, combining it with formal studies in Integrative Nutrition Coaching, longevity science and a complete rethinking of how she nourished and cared for herself.

Her hormones settled. Her adrenals healed. Her energy returned. She felt like herself again by finding a new way to live during menopause. Meaghan knows women can be just as extraordinary, and continue to achieve as we age, we just need to take care of ourselves in a new way. Meaghan knew that this hard-earned wisdom was too valuable to keep to herself.

“I’ll be forever grateful to Meaghan for guiding me to lose 10 kilos, and feel and look 10 years younger. My blood pressure was a little high, I was feeling a little overweight, my sleep patterns weren't good and I just didn't have my normal energy." - Jenny Hoystead

Two Worlds. One Purpose.

Today, Meaghan works across two deeply complementary areas of expertise.

As a Medispa & Wellness Industry Advisor:

She brings more than twenty-five years of hard-won operational knowledge, brand-building instinct and commercial rigour to medispa operators and architects creating luxury residences with integrated wellness features. Her advisory encompasses everything from vision and brand positioning to treatment philosophy, clinical compliance, team culture and the guest journey details that transform first-time visitors into devoted regulars.

As an Integrative Nutrition Coach:

Working with both businesses and one-to-one, she supports women 40+ to reset their gut health, rebalance their hormones, lose stubborn weight and rebuild sustainable, lasting vitality. Using evidence-based protocols developed in close collaboration with a leading Nutritional Medicine doctor, Meaghan guides women with the warmth and accountability of a knowledgeable friend who won’t let you settle for less than your best.

In both worlds, Meaghan brings the same qualities: genuine expertise, an unwavering commitment to results, and a rare ability to make people feel truly cared for.

Work with Meaghan

Meaghan works with a select number of clients each year across her advisory and coaching practices. Whether you’re building a world-class wellness business, creating a health-optimised residence, or ready to reclaim your energy and vitality for life — she’d love to connect.

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“Routine blood results in my early 50s showed poor kidney function, increasing cholesterol, menopausal hormones and low iron. This was a sliding doors moment for me – I either took control of my health or it was going to take control of me. I’ll be forever grateful to Meaghan. I now have an abundance of energy, a focussed mind, a new way of living and helped me reach a healthy weight.” - Jennifer