I'm Mara Cole — career and life coach to ambitious women who are ready to stop optimizing the wrong things and start building the life they actually want.
Whether you want focused 1:1 time, the community of a cohort, or a self-paced container — there's a way to start.
12 months. 24 sessions. Voxer access between calls. A full year of focused, custom work on the inflection point you're in.
12 weeks. Small group (max 8 women). Bi-weekly group calls + monthly 1:1. For women navigating a major shift.
A 120-page printable workbook. Quarterly visioning, monthly check-ins, weekly micro-actions. The work I do with private clients, distilled.
I spent twelve years climbing a ladder I'd built someone else's blueprint for — VP at a Fortune 100, big salary, big title, increasingly small life. Then a Tuesday came when I sat in my own office and realized I couldn't name three things that lit me up anymore.
I left in 2017 to figure out what I actually wanted. I got ICF-certified, started taking on private clients, wrote a book that became a Wall Street Journal bestseller, and built the coaching practice I run today.
I work with women who are smart, accomplished, and quietly miserable. We do the deep work that nobody promotes you for — and the deeply practical work of redesigning your career, relationships, and time around what you actually want.
— Mara
The real outcomes from real women who've done this work.
"Mara helped me finally make the move I'd been talking about for three years. I left my law firm, started my own practice, doubled my income, and got my Saturdays back."
"I came to Mara mid-burnout, expecting career help. We ended up rebuilding the way I think about ambition itself. Twelve months later, I have a healthier business and a marriage that actually works."
"The Next Chapter cohort gave me something I didn't know I needed: other women in the same season, doing the same work. Best $2,400 I've ever spent on myself."
I take on a small number of private clients each quarter. If something here is calling to you, the next step is a free 30-minute discovery call.
One short, useful note every Sunday morning. 40k readers across 80 countries.
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