Championing female founders to move from imposter to impactful action to grow their impact and income ⚡ Turn ‘I’m not good enough’ into ‘I’ve got this!’ 🔥 Confidence Curator | Speaker | Mindset motivator

I help women over 50 become who they want to be (and not give a f*ck about what people think)

Most of my clients come to me feeling like they’ve…

- Spent years putting everyone else first
- Been surviving not thriving for a long time
- Lost themselves in work, marriage, or motherhood
- Had a sense that life is happening to them not for them
- Got stuck after a big life change, despite external success
- Lost touch with who they are after years of being a 'good' wife, mum, daughter, employee
- Been through divorce, separation, kids leaving home, menopause, death of their parents - grief, loss, and massive change

They’ve had enough.
And they want MORE.

They want something different from this next phase of life.
They want to feel vibrant, resilient, and fully themselves in midlife and beyond.

It’s not just about clarity.
Or confidence.
Or purpose.

It’s a Life Rebuild.

We REFRAME how you see yourself and what you’re here for

We REGULATE your system so you feel grounded, safe, and in control

We RECONNECT with who you actually are - the YOU you lost touch with

So you can RECEIVE joy, peace, calm, love, clients, health, wealth; whatever you desire


Working with me you’ll:

📌 Rebuild your confidence after years of putting yourself last

📌 Rewire your nervous system after decades of stress and anxiety

📌 Find your identity again and feel comfortable with who you are

📌 Break free from people-pleasing when it’s been a way of life for years

📌 Find meaning and purpose beyond your daily roles and responsibilities

📌 Feel excited and  passionate about life again and look forward to the next phase

📌 Create a plan & roadmap for what comes next - what YOU want and how you’ll get it


Excited for this?

DM me “REBUILD”

Denise Chester

Most women over 50 aren't confused about who they are.

They're just out of practice being themselves.

For decades, you've known exactly who you are to everyone else.
Mum. Partner. Employee. Daughter.
The one who holds it all together.

But ask yourself, "Who am I now?"
And it gets fuzzy.

Not because you've lost yourself.

But because the moment there's actual space to work that out… the guilt shows up.
The fear creeps in.
Your body tenses.

Here's what's really happening:
Your nervous system spent years learning that keeping everyone else happy = safety.

So when you try to prioritise yourself now?
It reads that as a threat 🚨
To your body, wanting more feels like risking everything you've built.

So what do most women do?
They try to think their way through it.
🖼️ Vision boards.
📖 Journaling prompts.
🧘‍♀️ Affirmations about self-worth.

All good stuff. But it skips the most important part.

Why that doesn't work:
👉 Because you can't talk your nervous system out of a panic response.
🧠 You can't mindset your way past a body that's been wired for decades to put you last.

You have to show it - in real time - that it's safe to be YOU again.

If you're ready to actually work with your body instead of fighting it, let's talk.
We'll figure out what's keeping you stuck - and how to shift it.

Transformational coach helping women 50+ move from survival & sacrifice to self-discovery & satisfaction 🔥

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"I want more."

Three words.
But if you're a woman over 50, they can feel like you're doing something wrong.

Not to anyone else. To you.
To the version of yourself who's spent decades saying yes when you wanted to say no.

If that's you... you're sooo not the only one.

Most women I work with carry this quiet thing underneath - a longing for something that's just theirs.

A morning that doesn't start with everyone else's needs.
A day that doesn't end absolutely shattered.
A life that actually feels like their life again.

But the second they feel that? The guilt arrives. Like clockwork.

"I should be grateful."
"It's too late now."
"Who do you think you are?"

Here's the thing: this isn't selfishness.
It's conditioning.

If you were raised to be the reliable one - the giver, the glue, the good girl - then of course wanting more feels dodgy.

That guilt isn't a fault in you. It's just what you were taught.

One thing I use with clients to interrupt this pattern is dead simple:

🧍‍♀️ Sit or stand tall.
🙌 Lift your chest, open your arms, raise your chin.
😮‍💨Breathe into that position.

Then say aloud (or in your head):
"I'm allowed to want more."
Say it three times, louder each time.

That physical shift - body open, chest up - it tells your nervous system something different.
That you're safe.
That you don't have to collapse just because the world taught you to shrink.

This is just the start.
If you want the rest of the process so you can actually want things without feeling like you're letting everyone down, comment "more" and I'll send it over to you.

You're not selfish. You're just waking up to what you've been ignoring.
Waking up to YOU ❤️

#WomenOver50
#MidlifeReinvention
#NervousSystemregulation
#SomaticHealing
#PermissionToWantMore

Feeling stuck? Look to your body.

Sometimes we want things to be different.

❌To stop doing this.
✅To start doing that.
🧠To think differently.
😍To be different.

But when it comes to it, despite all our good intentions, we find we're still thinking, saying and doing the same things.
You know, the things we swore we'd stop.

Or we start the new thing, only to realise we've slipped back into our old ways.

Your body is the key.
It acts habitually without you even being aware of it.

So if you want change, start to notice what's going on in your body.

😱Always panic when someone asks you a difficult question? 
What does your body do? What sensations do you feel?

🗣️Freak out when you have to speak at a meeting?
What happens in your body before you speak? 

🥺Feel guilty when you think about what you want?
What do you feel inside and where?

If you want to change something you don't like about your behaviour or reactions, start paying attention to your physical body and what's going on inside.

You can't change what you aren't aware of.  

#somaticcoaching #bodyawareness #changeyourlife #iwantchange

I bring engineers, innovation teams, and leaders from disengaged to thriving - DM me if this is you 🐲 Techie, Liberator, Complexity Buster, Motivator, Engineering Director @ Novoda

I’m a Head of Engineering who combines hands-on leadership with systems-level leadership development. Alongside my full-time roles, I run a small leadership coaching practice focused on engineering leaders, which strengthens my ability to scale trust, clarity, and impact across organizations.

Sarah G.

Unfortunately, my time at Last Mile Solutions has come to an end.
Due to a restructuring of the engineering department, my position was made redundant.

I am therefore immediately available and open to work.

I’m pleased to share that I am leaving with a letter of recommendation, which can be made available upon request. I wish the company well and look forward to staying in touch. I will be following its next steps with interest.

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What I’m looking for next

I’m looking for a long-term leadership role, Sr. Engineering Manager, Head of Engineering, or Director level (in the Netherlands or remote).

I work best in environments where human leadership capabilities are treated as core engineering competencies, not as “soft” extras.

That includes:
💚 Trust, autonomy, and psychological safety as foundations for quality
💚 Clear direction, well-defined boundaries, and shared accountability, because autonomy works best when expectations are explicit
💚 A sustainable delivery pace that supports quality and long-term outcomes
💚 A shared understanding that scaling means improving systems, clarity, and flow, not just adding people
💚 Strong collaboration between engineering, data, and business
💚 Focus on organizational impact, not just local optimization

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What I bring

I’m a leader of leaders, with 20+ years in software engineering and 15+ years in engineering leadership.

I’m known for reducing complexity and unlocking motivation, across technical systems, organizations, and people.

I work with what I often describe as a golden/red thread:
ensuring strategy, values, systems, and day-to-day engineering decisions stay meaningfully connected. When that threads are clear, teams don’t need heavy control, they understand why their work matters, what value it creates, and how to make good decisions within clear boundaries and accountability.

A key part of my expertise is helping technical teams translate their needs, constraints, and ideas into business value, without forcing everything into artificial customer-facing narratives.

I don’t believe in a 50% tech / 50% product split.
I believe in 100% business value, delivered through technology and product, each measured in ways that fit their nature. Too often, engineering work is undervalued not because it lacks impact, but because it is explained in the wrong language. I help teams bridge that gap so essential work is understood, prioritized, and trusted.

Not all important engineering work produces immediate functional features. Work such as lifecycle management, platform health, reliability, and security creates value through efficiency, risk reduction, continuity, and long-term trust. For example, lifecycle management may not add a new feature, but neglecting it introduces security and operational risks that can lead to service disruption, reputational damage, and ultimately customer loss. …

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Sarah Gruneisen 🐉

Head of Engineering | Scaling Leaders, Teams & Sustainable Impact

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