A Year To Finally Do The Things You Say You Want
Publish the substack. Book the writing retreat. Move to Paris. Let yourself experience Deep Selfish Joy
This is about building a life where you pause to smile, actually go to your yoga class,
and have the confidence, energy, and time to live life your way — fully resourced.
You’ll learn how to make money doing what you love,
while enjoying your life now — not at the end of some 5-year plan.
With practical tools you can weave into the life you already have.
Because joy isn’t a luxury.
It’s the strategy.
Life Right Now:
You're the one everyone relies on.
Professionally, you're getting things done.
But the rest of your life? That’s a bit more tangled.
The writing retreat. The yoga teacher training. The weekend with no plans.
They keep getting pushed to “when things calm down.”
You feel amazing when you run in the morning…
But you went to bed too late (again), hit snooze, and now the day’s already running you.
Your life feels fragmented — like the parts of you are fighting each other.
It’s exhausting.
And when you do take time for yourself?
It comes with guilt. A side of shame. A mental spreadsheet of everything you “should” be doing instead.
You're running on empty, telling yourself you’ll make space... soon.
But if you’re honest — hasn’t it always felt like this?
The joyful, energised, grounded you?
She’s starting to feel far away.
And so is joy.
The kind of deeply selfish joy that makes you wriggle in your seat with delight — because it’s just for you.
And that’s exactly the point.
In Your First Season, Life Could Look Like This...
Your Finances?
They’re starting to match the life you actually want — not the one you outgrew.
Like a half-forgotten houseplant suddenly getting sunlight, they’re beginning to grow in the right direction.
Whether you're recalibrating after past decisions, building stability, or plotting your own Mr. Darcy-style DIY Pemberley — your money is working with you now.
Your Health?
Has shifted. Turns out you do have a yoga body — it’s just your body. And it loves yoga.
And your creativity?
It’s no longer something you squeeze into the margins.
You’ve got space to think, share, and make things that matter — whether that’s your next email, your book draft, or the first version of your offer.
You’re showing up visibly and joyfully — without draining yourself.
That’s just the first few weeks inside. One challenge. One season. Already, things feel different.
You might:
Launch your “no-settling” dating plan — led by joy, not scarcity
Invest in you — the version buried under burnout, people-pleasing, or grief
Finally pour your creativity into your dream — the site goes live, the fear fades, the momentum builds
This isn’t hustle. It’s a return.
If you feel like you lost yourself, you didn’t.
You’ve always been here.
Now you get to take up space — with joy, momentum, and the lightness of nothing to prove.
Four Seasons. One Year. A Life That Fits.
This is a year of choosing yourself — season by season, project by project.
Of living in rhythm with your life — not racing it.
No rushing. No stalling. No falling off and starting over.
Just one clear rhythm that makes your life feel like it finally fits, in harmony with nature.
This time next year, you could be saying:
That was the Spring I woke to birdsong and finally felt awake in my body.
The Summer I stopped pushing and started really living.
The Autumn I relaxed into ‘this is life now’, nourished, and activated my creativity.
The Winter I rested without guilt — and saw the ripple effect move through my life, relationships, work, and world.
Your life becomes a story told in seasons — not stress milestones you weathered and survived.
An adventure that’s rooted in joy.
Powered by clarity.
And above all in rhythm with you.
A year from now, you could:
Trust your intuition with your tools — not second-guess them
Build even deeper rituals around rest, nourishment, and play
Make brave decisions from joy, not fear
Feel your life instead of racing through it
And that dream that feels too fragile to say aloud?
We’ll build a structured sanctuary around it — until it’s strong enough to bloom on its own.
And you won’t be doing it alone.
I’ll be right there with you — guiding, coaching, cheering, untangling, and celebrating.
You’ll do this inside a community of humans who’ve also chosen unrepentant joy.
WANT. SHED. NOURISH. BLOOM. BE.
YOUR SEASONAL ROADMAP
SPRING SUMMER AUTUMN WINTER
What’s Inside The Joy Studio
This is a 12-month guided experience to help you make money doing what you love
— while enjoying life as an international woman.
You’ll get tools, coaching, community and rhythm that actually fits your real life.
Here’s how we do that:
1. The Challenge & Community
Every month begins with a 21-day challenge designed to build momentum — in one of three themes:
Create Space (Shed), Nourish, or Bloom (Make Money Doing What You Love).
You’ll be welcomed into our WhatsApp group the moment you join.
No extra apps. No performance pressure. Just real women doing real things — in 10-minute actions.
The community becomes your lifeline:
Celebrate wins in real time
Drop coaching questions from your dog walk
Feel the ripple effect of others going all in on their lives
2. The Joy Journey (Podcast + Journal)
This is your 9-part coaching journey — designed to move you from friction to flow.
Delivered as a private podcast or an interactive Notion journal, it meets you exactly where you are.
Whether you’re listening while walking, reflecting in your journal, or taking one clear action a day — this journey helps you reconnect with your rhythm.
You'll explore:
9 audio-based coaching concepts (2–15 min each)
Self-coaching prompts to clarify what’s next
Integration tools to make your shifts stick
Personal notes, examples, and extra support
You’ll begin with Focus, Safety, and Joy Ambition, then flow through clarity, nourishment, time freedom, and activation — building momentum in a way that feels energising, not overwhelming.
This isn’t about going faster.
It’s about moving forward with clarity, ease, and a current you can trust.
3. Coaching & Live Momentum
Twice a month, we meet live (1st & 3rd Saturdays 10:00–11:30 CET).
You can get coached live or send questions in advance — all calls are recorded and shared.
Coaching is also ongoing in WhatsApp:
This is support in your back pocket before the spiral, during the wobble, or after the win.
We also run seasonal workshops to help you reflect, reset, and plan your next season from a place of joy — not pressure.
💛 And Your Welcome Call
When you join, you’ll be invited to book your 1:1 welcome call.
Together, we’ll get clear on your biggest block — and name your ambitiously joyful dream. (Not the polite one. The real one.)
(It’s almost always the first time anyone’s said it out loud — and that’s where the magic begins.)
The Joy Journey: What You’ll Learn
This isn’t a course you power through.
It’s a method you apply — again and again — to stay connected to your energy, ambition, and joy.
Here’s what you’ll explore over 9 core concepts:
1. Focus
Learn how to want. Get honest about what you’re craving.
Use the 3 core questions to choose one energising project — and clear the path to start now, not later.
2. Safety is Sexy
Regulate your nervous system and stop waiting to “feel ready.”
Discover how calm, clarity, and courage are all rooted in real emotional safety — and how to build that safety from the inside out.
3. Joy Ambition
This is the core coaching model — WANT → SHED → NOURISH → BLOOM → BE.
Learn how to use it to set goals that energise you and build rhythms that hold you.
4. Unlock
Upgrade your mindset without toxic positivity.
Shift your internal narratives and learn to move through perfectionism, procrastination, and fear with intention and grace.
5. Decide
Dynamic decision-making changes everything.
Learn how to make choices that align with your energy, vision, and priorities — so you stop overthinking and start creating space.
6. Nourish
Raise the bar on your self-care to match your ambition.
Practise emotional hygiene, dissolve people-pleasing, and discover how pre-rest and pleasure protect your momentum.
7. Fail
Redefine failure with the Success Formula.
Learn how to extract data, self-trust, and clarity from every “flop” — and turn setbacks into power moves.
8. Time
Reclaim your relationship with time.
Work in flow, track energy drops, create rituals, and use time freedom tools to build a schedule that serves your creativity and health.
9. Activate & Integrate
30 days of micro-practices to embody the changes you’ve made.
Rest, reflect, and recalibrate — so you can keep moving forward with depth, momentum, and joy.
You’ll return to these concepts throughout your year — layering in new clarity with each season.
They’re not here to overwhelm you.
They’re here to support the version of you that’s already emerging.
Your Coach & Joy Studio Founder, Emma
The Joy Studio was born from one big decision (easy to see looking back, not at all clear at the time!):
To stop trying to fit my life into a shape that looked “good” — and start building one that actually felt right.
In 2021, I found myself in a crumbling French cottage, post-breakup, with my dog, a coaching certification… and a gut feeling.
An insistent, sometimes annoying, sometimes tantalising thread I couldn’t ignore.
So I grabbed it and followed it, along the wimbly, windy, stumbly path that felt wild, beautiful and terrifying all at once.
I trained as a Time Hacker coach, rebuilt my business with one joyful offer, cut my work week from 80 hours to 12, and discovered how rest, creativity, and structure could coexist — beautifully.
The Joy Restoration model I now teach is the same one I live by.
And the same one I’ve used to help women around the world reconnect to what they really want — and go after it.
Our imaginations are limited to what we’ve experienced before, so even when you let yourself do as we do in The Joy Studio and dream extravagantly?
The reality will still be a 1000 times more incredible than you can imagine right now, and that knowledge is why I’m smiling so delightedly at what’s in store for you right now!
How do I know you can achieve your ‘impossible’ goal in 3 months? Because i’ve done it again and again, and have guided my clients through the same process.
I see you, I know what you’re capable of and my mission in life is to let you discover that yourself too, in your own time, at your rhythm, enjoying the journey.
Emma x
This Isn’t One More Thing to Fit In
It’s the reason everything else fits.
The Joy Studio isn’t a course to finish or a box to check.
It’s the rhythm that supports your entire life — so you can finally live it your way.
This is the structure that lets you:
Go to your yoga class and actually enjoy it
Be present with your partner without mentally rewriting your to-do list
Schedule the massage, take the walk, read the book — without guilt
Launch the project, say yes to the retreat, publish the thing
Dress how you want. Eat what fuels you. Rest because it matters.
Take up space in every part of your life — without losing yourself in any of it
This is the harmony.
Not hustle. Not sacrifice. Not waiting until things calm down.
Just you, finally living at your pace — with momentum that energises you.
The Joy Studio
1980€ / Year
One year. Four seasons. Your rhythm — fully supported.
When you join The Joy Studio, you’re not just buying coaching.
You’re building a year that fits you — powered by clarity, momentum, and support that doesn’t fade after the first few weeks.
This is a 12-month membership designed around your real life.
And now, with a 1:1 seasonal written coaching and feedback every quarter, you’ll have built-in checkpoints to reflect, reset, and rise — again and again.
What’s included:
The Joy Journey (9-part coaching method via podcast + Notion journal)
Monthly 21-Day Challenge (Shed, Nourish, or Bloom)
Private WhatsApp Community — momentum in your pocket
2x Group Coaching Calls / Month — 1st & 3rd Saturdays (replays included)
Seasonal Workshops for reflection + goal setting
Full Resource Library — trainings, tools, and mini-courses
1:1 Welcome Call with Emma to set your focus and start strong
This membership isn’t just coaching.
It’s the rhythm that makes everything else possible.
It’s the way back to your life — fully, joyfully, on your terms.
Annual membership, renews every 12 months automatically
From Our Joy Studio Members
I feel incredibly fortunate to have been one of Emma's very first clients, a journey that began for me two years ago. As a Chinese speaker, I often struggled with expressing myself confidently in English, especially in cross-cultural settings. There were so many times I'd rack my brain for words, only to end up second-guessing myself.
However, I chose Emma as my coach because I felt an immediate and deep connection with her. In her presence, I could truly relax, and the usual language barriers seemed to simply fade away. This is truly her unique charm.
As a coach, Emma maintains a wonderfully neutral and non-judgmental approach. She has a remarkable ability to convey profound and insightful philosophical ideas using humorous analogies, which made our sessions both enlightening and enjoyable. Under her warm and focused gaze, I felt that everything was possible. She's like a gentle, warm breeze; no matter how much energy I had to grow, she always made me feel it was enough to simply be, to just exist in peaceful presence.
I wholeheartedly recommend Emma to anyone from a different cultural background. She consistently demonstrates a respectful and genuinely curious approach, which fosters a fascinating collision of cultural perspectives. This has broadened my own perspective on issues significantly and has helped me break free from many self-imposed limitations.
Ultimately, I am so grateful to have met Emma, and I truly believe she can bring positive change to many more people from all walks of life.
Sylvia, Beijing 🇨🇳
Working with Emma has been truly transformational. In just the first month, she helped me overcome procrastination, improve the way I speak to myself, and brought clarity and focus to what felt like a dark tunnel. Over the past four months, I’ve completely shifted my mindset — I realised I had been fighting against a path that wasn’t right for me. Now, I’m in a space where I’m building a new business with a partner, feeling more aligned and seeing things much more clearly. Emma’s coaching gave me the tools and perspective I needed to move forward with confidence.
Natasha, Wyldform Creative 🇿🇦/🇫🇷
I started working with Emma after a difficult year; I knew something needed to change but wasn't sure what. Turns out a lot of it was my mindset. I put a lot of pressure on myself, and Emma gave me the tools to better understand myself and to be more patient and kinder to myself. As a result, I feel calmer and happier overall.
- Kate 🇬🇧/🇪🇸
Work, relationships & a professional pivot
“I can see that the work I did with myself and my relationships meant that I was ready for this incredible job opportunity with these people who feel so aligned with my values and Emma your support and approach is for me and many other people a perfect mix, and I know that life can keep getting even better as I continue to do this work so I’m so happy to have you around me, living these concepts yourself and I know that anytime I want I can just go grab some content or be in touch with you and this will make the expansion and joy even deeper and this is so precious, thank you Emma.”
— Kasia, Poland 🇵🇱
Balancing language learning with a PHD, busy job in a hospital, relationships, self-care and future business goals.
Like many of our Joy Studio members, the goal is creating harmony without compromising on ambition, which means prioritising health and social time? Not optional. It’s the fuel
— Silvia, Spain 🇪🇸
Anastasia’s notes from our group call speak for themselves and I wanted to share hers directly with you as she was the inspiration and motivation for me to bring DEEP SELFISH JOY to the forefront of The Joy Studio, this one is for those of you struggling with guilt around pleasure and joy, you get to make it a project!
Balancing an existing small business aligned with her values of regeneration and sustainability whilst wearing all the hats that entails, marketing, producing, customer service, finance whilst also exploring and developing other creative projects and making space for intrepid cycling trips
— Frances, UK🇬🇧
Want to talk it through first?
If you’re feeling the pull but have a few questions, I’d love to meet you.
You can book a free 20-minute call to get clarity on whether this year inside The Joy Studio is the right next step for you.
This is not a sales pitch.
It’s a conversation — about where you are now, what you want next, and whether this programme is the right container for your next season.
If you leave with clarity, it’s time well spent.