FOR SENIOR WOMEN WHO ARE DONE BEING TOLD THEY CAN’T.
THE DEFIANCE
What you want, in defiance of everything you were told you’re not allowed to have.
Someone asked you what you want next. You said it was the promotion you know you don’t want.
An audio guided workshop to get what you actually want out of your head and onto paper in one evening, so you can see how to make it happen...
Without already needing a five-year plan, a leap of faith, or burning down the life you’ve built.
“I’d been finding ways to put off what I wanted for two years. Within six months of starting the work, I’d turned my dream into a reality and it all felt completely manageable. I stopped waiting to give myself permission and made it happen.”
Director, Property & Planning
THE APPRAISAL FORM ASKED WHERE YOU SEE YOURSELF IN THREE YEARS…
You wrote something about a promotion. It was fine. It was the kind of answer that gets nodded at, and you knew while you were typing it that it wasn’t true, and you sent it anyway because what else were you going to say?
There’s a recruiter message in your LinkedIn inbox from three months ago that you haven’t replied to and you haven’t deleted either.
There’s a job you applied for and didn’t hear back, which is an ego-bruise, but you also know you didn’t really want it in the first place.
And when a friend asked you over dinner what you want to do next, you heard yourself say “I don’t know, I’ll just see what happens”, and then you changed the subject, because “I’ll see what happens” isn’t an answer and you know it.
You’ve been doing this for a while now.
You can describe what you don’t want in forensic detail. That’s not a woman with no idea what she wants. You already know. It’s been there for years, and you’ve shut it down so many times you’ve stopped hearing yourself do it.
Every time it surfaces you have a line ready. The mortgage. The kids. The market. Not this year. I’m too old to start again. I’ve got too much responsibility. Who do I think I am.
And they’re good lines. They sound like maturity, like strategy. They sound like what a sensible, responsible person would say, which is why you’ve never once asked whether any of them is bullsh*t.
You didn’t come up with them, either. You learned them. Off a parent, a boss, a teacher, a headline in 2009, a woman at work who said it about herself and you filed it away as fact.
You have to keep shutting it down because it won’t stay down.
CLIENTS INCLUDE
The Workbook
Journalling prompts, questions and self-reflection to take you from "I don't know, not this" to what you actually want, written down…
→ Before You Start — the one rule that gets you focusing on the real answer instead of the acceptable one.
→ The List — what you actually want, out of your head and on paper at full size, with multiple ways in so a blank page doesn’t stop you.
→ The Shoulds — every reason you've been using against it, traced back to who taught it to you, so you can tell a fact from a line you inherited.
→ The Money — separates the financial limits you have to respect from the ones that have been standing in for a harder reason, so you know what the real number is.
→ What You've Got — everything in one place, so you finish with something you can act on rather than a feeling that's gone by Friday.
WHAT YOU’LL GET
Guided Audios
→ Four audios with me talking you through all of it in real time, so it gets done that night instead of sitting in your downloads. A workbook on its own asks you to be your own teacher at nine o'clock on a Tuesday, which is why most of them end up in a folder, three questions in. This one gets done because I'm talking while you write — explaining what each sheet is actually asking, giving you the context before you answer. I ask, you write, we carry on.
You’ll be getting honest with yourself, and for once you're not doing it on your own.
BONUS: The Awakening Masterclass
→ A live delivered masterclass on why the question has got so hard to answer and what changes when you stop waiting to feel certain. Watch it first and you'll start the workshop already with more clarity on what you want. the full 60-minute session, so you start already clear on what you want without the noise around it, and having stopped treating "I'm not sure yet" as a reason to give it another year.
WHAT YOU’LL GET
The real version of what you want, the one you wouldn’t say at work.
You’ll also get to see the reasons you’ve been using not to go after it, and your first steps to start making what you want happen.
Once it’s on paper, you can’t unknow it. A want you’ve written down is much harder to talk yourself out of than one that only ever lived in the back of your mind on a Sunday evening.
Once it’s on paper, you can’t unknow it.
“I’d won an industry award and I was still sitting there asking myself why anyone would hire me. Six months after starting this work, I had a new role, with higher pay, building my own team from scratch and reporting to the C-Suite.”
Director, Financial Services
“But I already know why I’m stuck”
You probably do. You could give me the whole diagnosis right now and it would be a good one, because you have never been short of self-awareness. You’ve had the therapy, or the podcast, or the friend who told you precisely what your problem is and was right about it.
And you’re sitting in the same seat you were sitting in two years ago.
Knowing a reason and taking it apart are two different jobs. You’ve done the first one to death.
Hi, I’M LAUREN
I was very well-behaved for a very long time.
Fifteen years of nodding in the right meetings and making myself palatable enough that nobody felt threatened by how good I was. I called it strategy. It was survival, and I was f*cking brilliant at it, and it was turning me into someone I didn’t recognise.
So I stopped. I was quiet about it, and murderously intentional. I started saying no to what was eating my week and asked for the salary I’d earned. When the time came, I left and built something of my own.
Nothing exploded. The only thing that didn’t survive was the version of me that kept making herself easy to manage.
Now I help senior women do the same, and you don’t have to burn everything down to do it.
I’m not selling you leave and I’m not selling you stay. My job is to hand you back the ability to choose.
You were taught to want less. Defy that.
THIS IS FOR YOU IF:
→ You’re fifteen or more years into a career that looks great on paper and feels wrong on the inside.
→ You can say what you don’t want in forensic detail, and you’re ready to find out what you do.
→ There’s something you keep coming back to and keep calling unrealistic, and it still hasn’t gone away.
→ You’d rather do this on your own, with a pen, before you say any of it out loud to anyone.
→ You want to protect what you’ve built while you work out what’s next.
This won’t tell you whether to stay or go, and it isn’t trying to. It gets the want out of hiding. What you do about it is a different conversation.
“I feel like the old me again. Back in the driving seat. All of a sudden I could see all the possibilities.”
Finance Director
One evening. A pen and paper. The question you’ve been swerving for three years.
Frequently Asked Questions
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A printable workbook, four audios that walk you through it, and the full recording of The Awakening masterclass.
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Straight away. Access lands in your inbox the moment you’ve paid. You’ll l need to set up your account on Thrivecart (the platform I use to host it) and everything will be there straightaway.
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It’s up to you. In one sitting, allow at least an hour, or break it up into four small sessions of 15 mins.
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This isn’t journalling. A blank page asks you what you want, which is the one question you can’t currently answer on your own. This asks you a specific sequence of questions in a specific order, with me talking you through it, and it gets an answer out of you because it’s built to.
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No. The recording is included as a bonus, so you can watch it before if you want more context and to hear more of the ways we can make a change for you, after, or not at all.