Even though you came highly recommended, I hesitated around the decision to work with you - to be honest, the price felt steep. But after some research, I realised it was the market rate for this type of personalised consulting.

In terms of research on your personally, I listened to several of your guest interviews on podcasts and I felt that you were business-minded yet real. Some of your comments resonated deeply with me and they closed the deal.

During the process, I felt that you really listened and dug deep into my answers. I felt engagement and a real desire to do a good job for me. Even though I felt some skepticism initially, I feel certain that you have found my Superpowers. I was very surprised by one - but it made SO much sense and the others made me feel validated and liberated.

I now feel inspired and ready to move on. I've thought for years that I have nothing left in me and that I'm totally disinterested in my work. You've made me realise that this is so far from the truth.

If I can achieve what I've achieved so far in a job I dislike, imagine what I can do in work that I love!"

What felt like a crisis [my redundancy] last summer now feels like a golden opportunity to do what I now know I want to do.

We are often driven by fear…fear of change, of taking too many risks or of looking stupid. The big takeaway for me is that what I fear most is not doing what I really want to do. And I don’t fear that much else. The biggest failure is not to try.

On the horizon I can see the chance of real fulfillment and I’m having fun.

I realised I’d forgotten what I’m good at and what I’m not good at, what I actually enjoy or don’t enjoy!

I now find myself making decisions and designing activities so that they can be more enjoyable.

After feeling stuck in my role for some time, one weekend I devoured most of Lucia’s website and then dropped an email saying Helllpppp!!!!

And help is exactly what Lucia did, beyond anything I could have imagined. I signed up to Lucia’s Superpowers programme, a 1-1 series of sessions with some extremely deep-dive exercises in between that really get to the nub of the key things you need to be doing in your every day work to thrive and also the “kryptonite” you need to reduce as much as possible to let those superpowers rise to the surface. Before I even got to the mega 3 hour 1-1 with Lucia which I can only describe as your own long LP version of Desert Island Discs, I had found so many a-ha moments, career highlights I had forgotten that that I realised were at the heart of what gave me work-joy, how positive patterns of behaviour that had been ingrained as a part of me since childhood were now missing and how for me, work could never be “just a job” and that I had been trying to kid myself of that for a while.

By the time the whole programme was finished, not only did I have my amazingly detailed Superpowers document - I felt I had regained 3 things, my confidence, my vision and my sparkle and that was the one thing I had said to Lucia at the start that I was desperate to regain.

I have so much energy and so many ideas in my head. I also have the clarity to do what I do well with those ideas, to creatively think through them, to explore all the possibilities and then to start putting some of those ideas into realities.

When you think about investing in support like this you naturally worry whether you’ll get anything out of it, now good the coach will be, and will I get insight but not know how to apply it?

After speaking with Lucia on the free starter call, my worries disappeared. I’d definitely recommend starting with a chat, you literally have nothing to loose. On that call I aired my concern that I might learn things about myself but still be left thinking ‘so what?’ Lucia recommended I did the Superpowers & Reset programme which would leave me understanding what criteria my new career needs to meet, as well as develop career ideas that meet it. After just 2 months of working together I have just that. I feel energised and excited and confident my career idea will make me much happier in my work life.

Over the last 10 years I have come up with lots of new business ideas but didn’t really know how to assess whether the ideas were right for me, and so never fully embraced them. After working with Lucia on her Superpowers and Reset programmes, I now have a criteria to understand what the right decision is for me and a new business idea that builds on this brilliantly.

Understanding my Superpowers gives me a way to assess and evaluate whether a potential career move is the right one for me. This has meant that I can fully embrace my next move knowing that I will enjoy it and find it rewarding.

The time I spent with Lucia was insightful, enlightening, motivating and fun.   She really helped me to understand what I really want rather than what I thought I wanted.  As a result of working with Lucia, I got great detailed insights into my own strengths, what specific type of career is most suited to me and how to go about achieving it.

I have been dealing with work stress which has been spilling into my weekends but since working with Lucia and doing some of her exercises, Sunday afternoons have been so much more relaxing.   I definitely have a higher degree of self-awareness and during our sessions I was able to think through lots of possible options and ideas that I may not have come up with myself.

I heard about Midlife Unstuck when I was in a fortunate position of having stepped away from my corporate career, taking some time out to decide on my next right move. The more I thought about what that move might look like and the more people I discussed it with however, the more blurred it became.

I wanted to become self-employed, but I had a number of potential directions I could go in. I struggled to decide how I could best delight my future customer. Importantly, I struggled to decide on the type of work I needed to do, to best delight the future me!

So when Lucia told me she would be able to find the answers, I was curious to know exactly how that would go! Lucia is warm, calm and empathetic, yet she will NOT let you off the hook. No matter how significant or insignificant a fact about your life or a comment you have made might appear, if she suspects there is a connection to the strengths you're looking to uncover which needs to be explored more fully, she will find all the right ways to question and probe around it until it becomes glaringly meaningful! Even before Lucia followed up with her spot-on assessment of my 6 clearly defined 'uber-strengths', I had already started to live them, simply as a result of the deep dive into my behaviours. What a transformation too! The whole coaching exercise gave me confidence like I'd not felt in years. It gave me structure to form a clear direction for my career from the options I had before me.

What's more, it excited me!

As a result, I have come away from this programme with 6 little statements about myself that have the power to transform my future. I may be at a midpoint in my career, but I've got everything to look forward to and I'm doing so with renewed energy and enthusiasm. And now I know exactly how to make that energy and enthusiasm sustainable.

Thank you Lucia!

I’ve just this morning been offered a new role close to home within a smaller company who want me to bring my 20yrs of experience to help them and their clients grow. It’s shaping up to be a massive breath of fresh air: small; forward-looking; growing; devoid of bureaucracy; and enough money to live well enough on.   

In all sincerity I would not have found this role had I not a) consciously decided to escape [my former employer] before it spat me out even closer to 50 and b) gone in to meet them in a positive mindset, being clear on what I do well and what I wanted; I read your summary document before my meeting.

Both of these I have to give you full credit for, so sincere thanks go out to you for all your help.

The Discover Your Superpowers programme has provided some truly valuable insights that could not have been achieved without Lucia’s tailored framework and expert guidance.

The energising effect of more consciously applying a core set of abilities has been almost immediate, and is proving a significant help in formulating options and making better choices.

The process itself is also enjoyable and so the programme comes highly recommended, especially for those exploring alternative career options or simply looking to get more out of their existing careers.

(This testimonial was offered to me recently, after I gave my lovely friend Helene a copy of my first ever book. She explains how we helped each other design our new careers over our weekly walks in the stunning Surrey Hills.)

3 years ago, I decided to change career, but was not exactly sure what to do next, how to start, where to start. Every one said it will come naturally to me…?? really ????

For a while, I went for a weekly walk with my friend Lucia. I loved these walks. I loved these talks. And we talked, we asked each other questions, wondered, imagined…

After many months, many walks and many miles, I realise how much these talks have helped me, supported me, and brightened my vision for my new career path….It did happen and it came to me.

She already knew she wanted to help others in their career change. She was ready to listen, asked the right questions and supported me. She did it for me. She was just not clear yet how. She was scared, worried, but so passionate and so good already!

Today, a few years’ later and after a long journey for both of us, I got her book. I’m so happy!

I don’t need to read it for my professional life, but I’m so eager to read it, to discover these stories, and the official way of ‘walking’ :-)

Thank you Lucia x

I honestly thought I wouldn’t be able to pinpoint my “superpowers” but Lucia proved me wrong. I really enjoyed the session we had. She was so skilled at making me see how I could use the things I do naturally to shape my work life and find some happiness every day.

Working with Lucia has helped me to think about my future and, whilst I am not looking for a radical change, I can really focus on asking the right questions to find an environment that will suit me.

Our conversation last year made a huge difference for me, giving me permission to think about my skills in a different way.

I have since trained as a Life Coach, and am in the process of completing Certification. I LOVE IT. Love it, love it, love it. If there were ever a job that I was put on this earth to do, this is it. The business is new, and it is big and scary and some days I wonder what on earth I am doing, but I love it.

Working with Lucia helped me process my thoughts, so that now, I can move forward without doubt.  

I’d been in my career for nearly 20 years and was considering my options.  Do I stay safe or do something different? I was finding it really difficult to create the head space to reflect properly so that I could make a decision.   

The biggest thing that came out of the process with Lucia was the realisation that I hadn’t been using some of my real strengths (or “Superpowers” as Lucia calls them) for so long that I thought they were my weaknesses. 

I enjoyed being more analytical about what I’ve done in the past and liked the combination of short visual tools and longer form profiling tools we used to help me figure out what I’m very good at. 

Of course, I know I’ll have tough days going forward but I feel that I have a much stronger foundation upon which to build that future.

It was great to have someone as positive and enthusiastic cheering me on when I had kind of lost hope.

Working with Lucia was like a breath of fresh air because I'd been going round and round in circles, ruminating over the same ideas and the same stuck patterns of thought on what I might like to do.  The positivity, passion and clarity Lucia offers can really open the gates of possibility for you to change career.  She gave me the confidence to take some steps towards a career change that I hadn’t had the belief or confidence to take.

I liked the authentic interest Lucia showed throughout our coaching sessions.  Her genuine curiosity in helping me to understand myself better made me more curious about myself as a person and more committed to my pursuit of finding a satisfying career.  For example, Lucia tended to summarise what I had said or what we had covered during our calls – it was enlightening to hear someone else bring things together in a completely different way.

"I thought the workshop was very thought-provoking, and reassuring in many ways - that making what seems a large 'leap of faith' can be done in smaller steps over a period of time. 

Lucia is an engaging speaker and the amount of information provided was just right for the evening, to allow people to reflect, take some ideas away, explore a bit themselves and potentially come back for more guidance."