Ready to create a life you love, doing the work you were born to do after a trauma, tragedy, illness or injury has made you question your life’s direction and inspired you to rethink your career?
You’re in the right place.
If you’ve got this overwhelming feeling you’re meant for more following a life-changing trauma, tragedy, illness or injury and you’re…
In the early stages of self employment and feel like a highly motivated hot mess as you try to wrestle your ideas into a viable career, instead of being a laser-focused entrepreneur who knows exactly what you’re doing, where you’re heading and how you’re going to get there.
Or
An experienced freelancer, sole trader or business owner, who knows the foundations but something just doesn’t feel right and nobody told you it would be such hard work yet you can’t shake the feeling you’re capable of more.
The Rise & Thrive Initiative
Will help you figure out exactly what you’re meant to do with your life and provide a clear strategic path forwards, so you can turn your audacious dreams into a fulfilling and sustainable self-employed career.
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You’re here for a Reason.
This isn’t just…
Business Consultancy
or Career Coaching.
This is a carefully crafted and curated experience that can help you navigate the next chapter of your personal and professional lives.
You’re not here because you want to own a successful business or make a living from self employment - anybody can have a job!
You’re here to find and fulfil you’re life’s calling, the deeply meaningful and joy-filled work that’s a combination of the four elements of the Life’s Calling Matrix©:
The skills and knowledge you’ve acquired
The things you care passionately for
The things you care deeply about
The most important and often overlooked element, YOU - the unique way you view the world based on your life’s journey.
It’s the work you were born to do and it’s been waiting for you.
As soon as you join Rise & Thrive, you’ll receive…
Everything you need to uncover your ‘life’s calling’
- the meaningful, joyful and deeply rewarding work you were born to do -
and put into action a focused strategy to turn your inspired ideas into your everyday reality.
Self-Employment Action Plan
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Self-Paced Training
Specialist Adversity Coaching
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Business Consultancy
Accountability Community
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Support Group
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Why is Rise & Thrive only $9?
When most coaches or consultants charge $195+ a month for this type of experience?
I want to address this question up front because you might be wondering if this initiative is only worth $9 and maybe it’s only a bit of ‘light touch, empty fluff’. It’s not. I don’t hold back anything from you.
It’s a fully formed training course, tried and tested resources, live coaching and consulting and an active, interconnected community of like-minded peers and mentors.
In fact, one of my coaches advised me to charge a minimum of $3000 for the course element alone, so you might wonder why I’m offering much more for just $9.
The truth is…
I know what it’s like to lose everything and have a burning commitment to change my life and the world but due to circumstances outside my control, not have the financial resources to access the specialist support and guidance I need.
People like us, we’re already facing a lot, as we navigate the challenges of the fallout from our life-changing experiences. I get it. I’ve been through it. I’m still going through it today.
Learning to work with rather than against my ‘trauma brain’, disability and chronic pain, while going through the process to heal and needing to earn a living because I still had bills to pay - I experienced an incredible lack of understanding or support for someone in my position, perhaps you can relate too?
I’ll never forget the day I sat on the lounge floor of my apartment and cried because I didn’t know whether to spend my last £10 on food or electric to keep warm. I chose food - which wasn’t an easy decision to make during a freezing UK winter.
In the past, I’ve also had to choose between accessing training for my business or buying food, as I built a new career on the other side of a breakdown due to untreated PTSD. I ate baked beans on toast for months because I chose to pay for a $2000 course in digital marketing, which I discovered wasn’t worth the money.
My past lived experience inspired Rise & Thrive’s pricing.
From the start I set out to help as many people as possible by creating a heart-led and compassionate business model, one that distributes our community’s wealth and resources (including my own), so that we can all rise and thrive together, regardless of the stage we are at on our own journeys.
Throughout your journey with the Rise & Thrive Initiative, you’ll find people who’ve gifted their time, money and expertise to support our community because they believe in you and what you want to achieve with your self-employment dreams. I believe in you too. It’s why I’m investing in your future alongside you.
Rise & Thrive is the support and guidance I wished was available, when I left the hospital at 21 years old unable to walk and in a wheelchair but with this overwhelming feeling I was meant to do more with my life.
I can’t remove the physical, spiritual or psychological suffering you’ve experienced through your life’s journey but I can remove some of the financial barriers to you succeeding with your life’s calling.
“Rachel has been a guiding force behind all the significant and successful moments in my career since I started as a freelance copywriter.
Her mentoring has given me the confidence to drive my business forward, taking it further than I thought possible in a relatively short time.
Her insight and advice has been instrumental throughout and I genuinely can't recommend Rachel highly enough.”
Dominic - CEO - (1-2-1 business consulting)
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You’re not alone.
Even though it can feel like it sometimes, because mainstream business support and career advice just doesn’t get someone like you, what you want to achieve and what you’re been through.
People like us, we’re driven by something much greater than only wanting to work for ourselves.
We want our lives to mean something.
We want to make a living doing work that lights us up and keeps the lights on at home because our experience of overcoming life-changing adversity means we’re no longer willing to waste our time stuck in a soul destroying job and the monotony of the 9-5.
Unlike the majority of employed people, we refuse to settle or simply get by and we’re different to most business owners because we’re motivated by much more than the ‘bottom-line’.
The problem is…
Try explaining this to the average career advisor or business consultant and they won’t get it.
It’s not their fault, they’ve just not been through, what we’ve been through.
They haven’t walked the miles in our shoes.
I know, because I’ve been there.
As a ‘disabled’ entrepreneur and a business consultant,
I’ve had to navigate both sides of the self-employment world.
I learnt something valuable that I want to share with you.
Most conventional advisors, coaches and consultants can’t understand your self-employment needs
- your inspiration, your motivation and the additional challenges and barriers you experience -
as someone whose mind, body or spirit has been changed by the adversity you’ve faced.
Orthodox training and lack of life experience means they’re not equipped to advise you because they can’t understand you. People can’t obtain this knowledge from gaining a degree, reading a book or getting a certificate, only by walking the miles while navigating a ‘dark night of the soul’.
You’re not just starting a business or a new career but discovering who you are as a new person in the next chapter of your life, often with unique physical, spiritual or psychological health needs.
You can’t go back to the life you had before.
Your only way through is forward.
It’s a lot to go through alone.
You need someone who deeply understands this.
Let me help you figure out exactly what you’re meant to do with your life and how you can turn your audacious self-employed career ideas into your everyday reality, so you can rise and thrive on the other side of your life-changing adversity.
“You gave me clarity and direction, helping me to look internally, which I’ve always found so hard to do before. You’re wonderful and I’m so lucky to have you in my life.”
Karen, Vice President of HR
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How Does It Work?
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Step One
CLARITY & ALIGNMENT
Figure out exactly what you’re meant to do with your life.
Nearly 20 years in business consultancy gave me an essential insight - the majority of the problems in existing businesses are caused by the business being out of alignment with the business owner.
Whether in start-up, early stage or years down the line, this isn't a problem for my clients.
By applying the 'Life's Calling Matrix'© we ensure we're completely aligned, inspired and clear on what we're doing, where we're going and why our work is important to ourselves and the world.
People describe it as calibrating their compass to True North and the results speak for themselves - Think of it as discovering you BIG WHY.
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Step Two
STRATEGY & LOGISTICS
Understand how to achieve your version of success.
Doesn't sound exciting - I know! But this step is how you transform your audacious dreams and ideas into tangible and realistic goals.
Traditional business support focuses mainly on strategy and often in a dull and boring way but at Life's Calling we do things differently.
You and your unique needs are placed at the heart of your self-employment strategy because your business isn't only about selling a product or service. It's about the impact you were born to make through your work and how your self-employment can create a life you love.
This is much more than a business plan!
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Step Three
ALIGNED & INSPIRED ACTION
Successfully navigate the gap between your current situation and what you want to achieve.
It's not enough to have an inspirational idea and a great plan, aligned action is the only thing that will bring your dreams to life. The thing is, all action ends with our bodies but begins with our minds.
Many great business ventures lead by incredible people, don't achieve their full potential because they're missing the right support to help them implement and integrate their ideas & strategies.
It's why Rise & Thrive is specifically designed to support you as you navigate the gap between where you are now and where you desire to go, not just through strategy alone. With a wide variety of support options available you can choose a unique combination that works for you.
You'll instantly receive all of these (and more)!
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The Life's Calling! Self-Paced Program
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The Life's Calling! Action Plan
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Live Coaching & Consultancy
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Interactive Community of Experts & Peers
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The Thought Leaders Video Vault
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Tried & Tested Tools & ExclusiveTechniques
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Pay-As-You-Need Customised Consultancy
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Guest Expert Training & Q&As
Carefully designed, crafted and curated to help you find the answers you’re looking for and to get you where you want to go.
Why am I uniquely qualified to help you with this important work?
My own journey into self-employment began because of a tragedy.
The day I should have died but instead was left paralysed after a stranger drugged me, without my knowledge or consent, and I fell from the 5th floor of a hotel balcony.
I don’t share my story to shock you or for sympathy but because that life-changing moment became the catalyst for everything that came next in both my professional and personal worlds.
I’m not going to lie - it’s been a long road through to the other side including burnout and breakdown, success and failure. Winning awards and losing everything, not once but 3 times. Let’s just say…
I’ve become an expert in knowing what it takes to transform your darkest moments into the motivation for a brighter future and a better world.
My journey inspired me to become an expert in Adversity Inspired Entrepreneurship with over 15 years professional practice as a Business Consultant, including being headhunted to work on £multi-million entrepreneurship projects for local governments.
But right from the start, I realised there was something essential missing from mainstream business support - nobody was asking the most important questions. Every consultant and advisor I met was more focused on the products or services and not the people behind them.
Focusing solely on a business idea is fundamentally flawed - it’s a sure path to stress and misery - and I know because I’ve often been the person hired to sort it out.
I decided to create a better way for people to build a successful and sustainable business that lights them up while keeping the lights on at home. The Life’s Calling Matrix & Methodology was born from the last 2 decades of helping hundreds of business owners, professionals and entrepreneurs figure out the deeply meaningful and joy-filled work, they were born to do. It’s the foundation and the heart of everything I design, deliver and curate.
Being uniquely placed to understand the needs of adversity-inspired entrepreneurs, I’m fully committed to this important work. It’s my life’s calling and I’m ‘all in’ because I’m driven by the motivation of my own, near-death-experience and a profound question I asked my self, while paralysed in my hospital bed.
If that had been it, because it should have been it,
HOW WOULD THE WORLD REMEMBER ME?
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Kind Words From Past Clients
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Jules - Apothecary
Rachel has a natural ability for putting you at ease and has the most thought provoking, expressive and creative ways of helping you find your true self including your passions and purpose in life.
She provides honest insights in a gentle way, that you know speak to the truth of who you are, and our work together helped me find my place in the world.
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James - Senior Manager & Director
Rachel is an extraordinarily creative thinker allowing her to see solutions that are not available to others.
She encouraged me to develop both in my professional role and personally, by enabling me to see myself differently and empowered me to rethink my career path and options, which has been instrumental in my development.
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Emma - Business Owner
Rachel brings such creative ideas and insights to the table, really thought provoking and definitely something I needed in the season I was in.
She created an intimate, inspiring and inclusive environment, the group was lovely and it was so helpful to see others on the same journey as you.
Life’s Calling was created for you!
If you feel like a highly motivated hot mess with a whirlwind of ideas…
But you’re unclear exactly how to turn them into a rewarding, longterm and viable self-employed career.
You’re fully committed to starting or growing your ‘business’…
But you’re also worried about how to meet your current financial commitments and other important responsibilities.
You’ve spent (or thinking about spending) a lot of time and money…
On academic qualifications, professional certifications or sitting through a whole host of boring business courses that leave you feeling like something’s missing.
The good news is you don’t need to know more stuff to figure out what you’re meant to do with your life, although the education system has encouraged us to believe this isn’t true.
You just need someone to ask you the right questions and give you the tools to create a roadmap to turn your audacious ideas into your everyday reality.
If you’re ready to get started.
I’m waiting to help you.
Let’s begin the journey, together.
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FAQs
If you have any questions that aren’t covered below, please reach out with your query by email.
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This isn't just another business course - I help people discover their life's calling by answering some of the biggest questions any person can ask about the meaning of their life.
Our training is based on The Life's Calling Matrix, a framework and method created from over 20 years of personal adversity research, 15+ years professional practice including learning from some of the most innovative organisations such as NESTA, UK and the School For Social Entrepreneurs, where I am a Fellow, combined with my personal journey thriving on the other side of 3 life-changing traumas (physical, spiritual and psychological).
You won't find this training available anywhere else in the world.
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Rise & Thrive was specifically designed to create a lot of touch points with both myself, peers and experts - people who really understand what you're going through because of their similar journeys.
However, I also know some things we want to keep private and I've also been frustrated by coaching experiences I've bought myself, that never offered the opportunity for me to book specific 1-2-1 support when I really needed it.
Although not usually offered for this level of membership, I made sure to provide heavily discounted 1-2-1 sessions ($97 instead of $220) with Rise & Thrive that you can book whenever you feel you need extra support.
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Yes, it's as simple as logging into your account and cancelling. You're in control of your membership the whole time.
This membership is designed to grow alongside you and the tools are created to specifically last the lifetime of your working life (they're designed to revisit whenever you need them). I'm always open to evolving and improving the membership experience, based on your feedback.
If at any point you feel something is missing - please reach out before cancelling because this membership is crafted to help someone like you. I care deeply about you achieving your life's calling and building a professional life that caters for your personal needs.
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Yes! Over the years I've worked with business owners at a variety of stages in their journey from start-up to heading for retirement.
Life's Calling! is applicable to the entire journey of your professional life. The Life's Calling Matrix has helped existing business owners gain more clarity on what they're doing, who it's for and why it's important, while answering some of their everyday logistical problems such as "where should my next office be located?"
This is big picture leadership combined with strategic level thinking that's rarely available on a typical business support programme (I know because I've worked in that world and was incredibly frustrated by the gaps in support that were glaringly obvious).
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Yes! I've worked with many start-up business owners over the years, some with a solid idea and others having no idea what they want to do - just they want to be self-employed.
The Life's Calling! Matrix will help you gain incredible clarity on the work you were born to do, that goes beyond only the skills and knowledge you have. It will also give you the practical tools to understand how you can create a career from your idea.
It's a unique combination of high level, existential thinking about the meaning of your life and the nuts and bolts of starting and running a self-employed career.
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You're not alone. Rise & Thrive was carefully curated to include both expert and peer support with people who really get what you're going through because of their similar journeys.
Community members are at various stages in their journeys from start-up to sustaining with the initiative designed to support you towards succeeding with your ideas while navigating the highs and lows that come with running your own business.
This community understands not only the challenges of being self-employed but more crucially what it takes to thrive professionally while taking care of your unique health needs after a life-changing event.