Are you a purpose driven, intuitive woman?
Your insights, sensitivity and depth of spirit are gifts. But our culture seldom encourages girls with these gifts to develop their authentic expression of self.
Without this deep confidence, sensitive and intuitive girls often grow into women who live life giving way to others, caring for others, and empowering everyone else around them at their own expense.
- Are you feeling disconnected from what you want or believe is possible for you?
- Are you the person that always ends up getting things done?
- Did you “toughen up” because others don’t understand you?
- Are you so busy doing, that you forget to enjoy the journey?
It doesn’t have to be this way!

Hi, I am Vanessa May,
I too have exhausted myself being everything that everyone else needed me to be. I was stuck and frustrated, pushing myself past my limits personally and professionally.
One day, I decided to step beyond my fear and doubt, trusting that I was worthy of a more fulfilling experience of life. My journey was transformational, and I found my calling - to empower woman ready for authentic change.
After working with hundreds of women, I developed a potent process and the Live Courageously Empowerment Coaching program was born.
Are you ready to embark on an empowering journey of self-discovery?
The Live Courageously Empowerment Coaching Programme is part of a powerful framework that helps you embrace your courage, reconnect with your inner wisdom, and experience your authentic self in a gentle yet powerful way.
I will guide you through this transformational process that unlocks your intuition, helps you stand in your authority, and fulfil your potential with grace and ease.
Using the Live Courageously Process as your compass, you will embark on a path of growth, self-empowerment, and courageous living.
Reclaim your confidence & fulfil your dreams
The Live Courageously Programme of Empowerment Coaching for Women will empower you to embrace a purpose-driven life, where you are confident to express your authentic self and contribute meaningfully in the ways you have dreamed of.
In this process, you will grant yourself permission to dream once more. You will embark on a journey of the reinvention of self, nurturing a compassionate and supportive relationship with yourself, which will hold you accountable for fulfilling your dreams.

Live Courageously Empowerment Coaching for Women
Programme inclusions
The Live Courageously programme, is a transformational journey that includes ten powerful empowerment coaching sessions and two integration sessions, building solid foundations that unlock your potential and ignite your inner strength.

Session 1:
Focus on the Here and Now
Stop abandoning yourself and discover your own presence.

Session 2:
Draw on You Inner Strengths
Stop focusing on self-improvement and reconnect to your strengths.

Session 3:
Simplify Your Focus
Take stock and pivot your focus towards more of what you want.

Session 4:
Decide What Truly Matters
Clarify your values and prioritise what you care deeply about.

Session 5:
Build a Healthy Routine
Create healthy, nurturing, rhythms and routines.

Session 6:
Embrace Your Own Authority
Become self-validating, rise in your life and step into your authority.

Session 7:
Reimagine Your Dreams
Let go of disappointed dreams and create clarity for the change you desire.

Session 8:
Build Your Support Team
Create an emotional support team that champion your authenticity.

Session 9:
Cultivate Resilience
Create strategies for wellbeing, focus and conserve your energy.

Session 10:
Be Accountable
Define practices and commitments that get you in the courage zone.

Session 11:
Integration
Bring it all together and apply the learning & cultivate a practice mindset.

Session 12:
Integration
Move on with clarity, vision, purpose, self-compassion and acceptance.
Plus!

Ongoing access to Vanessa
Struggling between sessions?
Get personal support for challenges along the way.

Inner Balance Heartmath Sensor (value £188)
Monitor your coherence (heartrate variability) and learn about your heart signals, wellbeing and performance.

The Live Courageously Book
A guide to living a brave and authentic life. Get a signed copy of my book delivered to your door.

Live Courageously Programme Workbook
Delve into the framework with step by step exercises to take charge and set yourself up for success.
You will stop:
You will start:
- Being harshly self-critical
- Exhausting your energy on others' needs
- Diminishing your own worth to fit in
- Being consumed by anxiety
- Obsessing about other’s perceptions of you
- Silencing your own voice and viewpoints
- Allowing societal expectations to hinder your desires
- Living a life confined to your comfort zone
- Being your own advocate and champion
- Prioritizing your well-being
- Embracing your unique gifts and strengths
- Confidently expressing your feelings, opinions, and values
- Handling confrontation and conflict assertively and constructively
- Asking for what you want and need with confidence
- Navigating failures with resilience
You will stop:
- Being harshly self-critical
- Exhausting your energy on others' needs
- Diminishing your own worth to fit in
- Being consumed by anxiety
- Obsessing about other’s perceptions of you
- Silencing your own voice and viewpoints
- Allowing societal expectations to hinder your desires
- Living a life confined to your comfort zone
You will start:
- Being your own advocate and champion
- Prioritizing your well-being
- Embracing your unique gifts and strengths
- Confidently expressing your feelings, opinions, and values
- Handling confrontation and conflict assertively and constructively
- Asking for what you want and need with confidence
- Navigating failures with resilience
Vanessa has a beautiful way of pulling information out...even the things you aren't sure you can or want to see. She is incredibly gentle, but encourages you to move forward...to see the possibility.
She has an amazing gift for helping you see your own light. And not just seeing it but locating it within yourself so that you can access it at any time. Very powerful and highly recommended.
Louise, Accountant
Vanessa's enthusiasm for the job that she does is contagious. Her empathy towards her client is the unique quality that makes her stand out, and this approach makes her someone trustworthy, so you can bring out your true self with her.
I say ‘trustworthy’ because you as an individual need to be listened to non-judgmentally so you feel comfortable to share your personal story, and Vanessa was able to resurface my values and principles through my story.
She has encouraged me to see the other side of the precipice which I had been avoiding during a very difficult period of my life, and this has been truly transformative. In short, Vanessa can guide, inspire and empower her clients to achieve their full potential.
Ronak, VC
Empowerment Coaching FAQ
There isn’t one type of woman that needs an empowerment coach.
It is human to get stuck or reach a plateau in life and work and feel like the resources that you have won’t get you where you want to go. It’s at these moments where we can disempower ourselves and think in ways that sabotage our process or feel emotions that pull us down and have us feel stuck and hopeless. It’s at these points where it’s useful to have an empowerment coach to help you find new strategies to move forward and self-empower.
I recommend twice a month because that gives you time to practice new ways of being and doing in between the session. Empowerment coaching a co-active process and for you to make progress requires you to apply the learning in between the sessions and explore the impact.
Before your first empowerment coaching meeting I will send you a short discovery questionnaire to help you think through what you want to focus on and the ideal outcomes you want from working with me as your coach.
The best way is let go of the notion that you need fixing in any way. Whilst you may not be getting the results you want in work or life, it’s important not to give your power and agency to your coach. You may be stuck or having a difficult time but you are resourceful and it’s the coaching that will help you uncover that resourcefulness and unfold your courage to do things differently moving forward.
An empowered woman knows who she is and what she stands for. She is clear on her purpose, values and navigates towards that. She recognises drama for what it is and chooses not to get drawn into it, instead holding clear boundaries, emotionally, physically and intellectually.
An empowered women is able to ask for what she wants and help without feeling weak.
We use Zoom for our empowerment coaching online. I recommend doing your sessions in a comfortable space where you have enough privacy to feel fully self-expressed and be vulnerable without worrying about who is listening in!
You can book your empowerment coaching sessions via my booking tool for a time that works for you, and I will send you links to access the calls. Through the wonders of technology, we can meet face-to-face and work together intimately from any country in the world!
I am physically located in Surrey in the UK, however I have empowerment coaching clients around the world.
No. I have never been asked for a refund! I put a lot of care and love into this work, and have very connected relationships with my clients. Occasionally in the journey things may get hard, transformation can feel tricky! I offer support between sessions to ensure you stay on your chosen path.
I offer a discovery call prior to booking so that we can get clear on your desired outcomes and the measurements to ensure that you’re achieving your milestones.
I have worked with other coaches before, but none like Vanessa, who gets to the core of an individual and brings out the best. Without you even realising what your best is. Are you brave enough to get under the skin? It is tiring work but worth it. I wish I would have met her sooner.
Linda, GP