Stop Performing.
Start Designing.

You've spent decades figuring out how to be who the world wants you to be.
Now it's time to figure out who you want to be.

Monthly salons where women think out loud together.
Questbooks™ that help you curate yourself, not fix yourself.
Retreats for deep work with your people.

This is your Second Coming-of-Age!

Join the Conversation!

What You’ll Find Here…

  • Midlife Women Masterminds

    Heroine's Salons

    You know that conversation where ideas connect in real time and you leave thinking differently than when you arrived? Where someone names something you've felt for years but couldn't articulate? Where you realize you're not alone in the questions that keep you up at night?

    That's what happens here. Every month.

    Leave with new language for old struggles. Discover insights you couldn't see alone. Get smarter alongside women who read deeply and think carefully.

  • Find Your Purpose Midlife

    Questbooks

    You know that moment when you write something by hand and suddenly see what you've been avoiding? When a question on paper reveals an answer you already knew? When physical pages become proof you're not just thinking about change, you're actually doing it?

    That's what these are for.

    Print them. Hold them. Work through them at your own pace. No logins, no notifications, no pressure to keep up. Just you, a pen, and questions designed to help you curate what you already know into what comes next.

  • Midlife Luxury Retreats

    Retreats

    You know those conversations that need more than 90 minutes? Where you're just getting to the real question when time runs out? Where you need space to think without your regular life interrupting every five minutes?

    That's why we go away together.

    Beautiful places where you can actually hear yourself think. Deep conversations that shift something. Space to figure out what you want without explaining yourself to anyone back home.

Don't Optimize to Be Efficient. Optimize to Be Irreplaceable.

Feel stuck?
(Even though you did everything right?)

This is where your real story begins.

The world is automating everything.
Which means the things that can't be automated become even more valuable.

What AI can't replicate:

  • The spontaneous insight that emerges in live conversation

  • The physical act of writing by hand in a beautiful book

  • The transformation that happens when you're actually present in a room with other humans

  • The taste that curates experience, not just information


I'm betting on the irreplaceable.
The physical. The present. The human.

If you're tired of optimizing yourself into efficiency and ready to curate yourself into irreplaceability, you're in the right place.

This is your Call to Adventure!

 Who This Is For?

You've been excellent at being who everyone needed you to be.
Partner, professional, parent…you’ve checked all the boxes.

But lately, there's a question that won't go away: What do I actually want?

You don't need someone to fix you. You need:

  • Space to think out loud with other smart women

  • Permission to follow your intellectual curiosity wherever it leads

  • Tools that don't require you to be online 24/7

  • Community formed around ideas, not algorithms

You're not looking for the next productivity hack. You're looking for your next chapter.
And you want it to feel like your chapter, and not some template someone sold you.

If this sounds like you, welcome heroine!
You've found your people.

Everything I create uses story structure as the organizing principle. Because your life isn't a problem to solve. It's a story to shape.
The Heroine's Adventure gives us the map.

New to All This? Start Here.

Grab The Heroine's Guide to Designing Your Extraordinary Life - a free interactive guidebook that introduces the story-based methodology behind everything you'll find here.

It's the framework. The questbooks, salons, and retreats are where you live it.

Book titled 'The Heroine's Guide: To Designing Your Extraordinary Life' by Lisa-Marie Cabrelli, Ph.D., shown alongside an e-reader displaying the book cover, both positioned on a plain light blue background.