Something needs to change
A career that made sense, a city, a role, a rhythm. Nothing is wrong exactly — but something is. Maybe it started with a new job, a move abroad, becoming a mother, or simply a year that asked more of you than you expected.
What if the next step
is the one
you choose?
Private coaching for ambitious women navigating change and ready to shape what comes next. With a neuroscience-informed approach, we understand the patterns behind your choices, create clarity around what you truly want, and turn that clarity into intentional action.
Different stories. One shared moment.
A life that looks good on paper — and a quiet sense that it no longer fits. You don't need to have it figured out. You just need to be willing to start looking.
I've lost clarity on what I actually want
You've been so good at the next logical step that you stopped asking whether you wanted it. The old definition of success doesn't feel like yours anymore — and you're not sure what replaces it.
I'm ready to choose what comes next
You're done drifting on autopilot. You want to decide consciously — with a clear head, not under pressure — and then actually move.
A career change, motherhood, a relocation, a new phase of life. The trigger is different for every woman. The patterns underneath are often the same — and that's where we work.
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Three movements. One direction you choose.
Not a productivity hack and not a five-step formula. A way of paying attention to what has actually changed in you — and building consciously from there.
Identity
Understand who you are now — your values, your needs, and the definition of success that is genuinely yours, not inherited.
Clarity
Decide with intention. Not by default, not by pressure — but by knowing clearly what you want next.
Momentum
Step forward on your terms. Turn clarity into action and build a next chapter that fits who you are now.
Most of what keeps us stuck runs on autopilot. The work draws on how the brain forms habits and makes decisions, so change doesn't depend on willpower alone.
Understand the patterns
See the automatic thoughts, behaviours and decisions that keep pulling you back to the familiar.
Create new choices
Build awareness in the moment, so a pattern becomes a choice instead of a reflex.
Practise new responses
Repeat what you choose until it becomes how you move — that is where momentum comes from.
Her Next Chapter
A 4-month private coaching programme for the space between who you have been and who you are becoming. Not a formula for reinventing your life, but a structured space to understand what is happening underneath the surface, challenge the patterns that keep pulling you back to the familiar, and consciously decide what comes next.
8 private sessions
60-minute 1:1 sessions across four months — a coaching relationship, not a series of calls.
Support between sessions
Voice and text support, so the work continues in real life, not only on the call.
In your language
English, Italian or Dutch — whichever you feel most yourself in.
Not sure what comes next? That's exactly where we start.
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One programme. One clear price.
No menu of packages to decode. One private programme — and, if you're not ready for that yet, one session to start with. All prices include VAT.
4 months · 8 private sessions · between-session support
€895incl. VAT · regular €1,500
When those five spots are filled, the price moves to €1,500. Booked an intro call at the founding rate? You keep it.
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Prefer to pay in instalments? Ask on the intro call.
Clarity Session
€175 incl. VATA standalone session to leave knowing what is really going on — and what your next step is.
Join Her Next Chapter within 30 days and the €175 is credited in full toward the programme.
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Meet Maaike
I'm Dutch by birth, Italian by heart, and I've spent my life moving between both worlds. For years I built my career across tech and hospitality, marketing and sales — accumulating skills, titles, and a quiet sense that I was running on automatic.
One turning point came when I became a mum. It wasn't a crisis. It was a question: who am I becoming, and is it actually me?
That question became my work. It taught me how transitions really unfold — the identity shifts, the patterns we fall back on, and the gap between the life we build automatically and the life we consciously choose. As a certified neuroscience coach, I now work with ambitious women around the world who feel that gap: successful on paper, but ready to decide for themselves what comes next.
I'm not here to give you a five-step plan. I'm here to help you understand what is really going on — and build a next chapter that reflects who you are.
My mission
Too many capable women spend years performing a version of their life instead of living one that's true. My mission is to help women find their way back to their own voice — to choose their next chapter consciously instead of by default. Not with quick fixes, but with the space, method and honesty real transformation requires.
Why DWAIT
Dutch With An Italian Touch isn't just my name — it's how I work.
- Dutch clarity
- Direct, honest, no performance. The willingness to ask the question you've been avoiding.
- Italian warmth
- Depth, intuition, and the understanding that real change happens in the body and the heart, not just the head.
I first learned this work from the one and only Lucy Spicer, trained formally as a transitional coach, and certified as a neuroscience coach — so I bring method to the work as well as heart. And because I've lived between cultures, languages and identities myself — as a mother, a founder, a woman who chose to redesign her life rather than inherit it — I understand the in-between. The space where you're no longer who you were, but not yet who you're becoming. That's exactly where I'll meet you.
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From those who started
“After my second maternity leave I didn't know where to begin. Four months later I had a direction that was mine — not a default, not someone else's.”
What you might want to know first.
Ambitious women navigating change who are questioning what they want next — a career shift, a relocation, motherhood, a new phase of life, or simply the feeling that the old definition of success is no longer yours. You don't need to be a mother, and you don't need a crisis.
Four months, with 8 private 60-minute sessions and voice/text support in between. Long enough for real change, structured enough to keep moving.
€895 incl. VAT at the Founding Client Rate, for the first 5 clients (regular price €1,500). If you've already booked an intro call at €895, that rate is yours.
We start with a free intro call — no payment needed to book it. If we decide to work together, you can pay in full; if instalments would help, ask on the call.
Yes — the Clarity Session is one 90-minute private session (€175 incl. VAT) to understand what is really going on and what your next step is. If you join Her Next Chapter within 30 days, the €175 is credited in full.
The coaching draws on how the brain forms habits and makes decisions. We look at the automatic patterns behind your thoughts and behaviour, create awareness and new choices, and practise new responses until they stick. It's a method, not therapy and not a lecture.
English, Italian or Dutch. You pick the one you feel freest in.
Yes, up to 24 hours before, at no cost. You'll find the link in your confirmation email.
DWAIT
Four months to choose what comes next.
It starts with a free intro call — no commitment. We'll see together whether Her Next Chapter is right for where you are now.
Let's talk.
Have a question, or want to know if this is right for you? Write to me — I read every message myself.
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