i'M louisA shAeRi
I guide solo founders doing culturally transformative work
to attune their identity and business structures to
the true value of their work, and of doing it their way.
beyond cultuRe fit
You started your business turning a unique, lived perspective into your livelihood;
But past strategies for how to be recognised or safe in a system
have you holding back, doubting yourself,
or confused about what you do.
Your work just. doesn't. fit
established categories, norms and assumptions
legible ≠ Visible
The internalised working assumption is
'To be VALUED, I need to be compromised.'
But its the trying to be more legible that compromises
your energy, integrity, impact, and income,
and makes you less visible to your people.
VAlued without compromise
For the value of your work to be
accurately recognised and valued
that core value in your work needs to be
1) identified,
2) embodied by you
3) rolled out as the decision making lens for everything
(with no conflicting agendas in the mix).
This is you making decisions beyond:
validation
market fit
hustle + tactics
legibility
virtue signalling
professionalism
credentialism
performance
industry best practices
category norms
This is you in cultural leadership.
this is VAloRize
"Working with Louisa showed me that I can face any challenge in life without betraying myself.
It’s a precious gem I carry in my pocket reminding me to move courageously."
testiMoniAls
"Before VALORIZED, I had built a business, but I was in burnout cycles. I took many coaching courses that were helping me be more "authentic" but eventually realized that these places didn't have what I needed to get out of the habit of being "read" and understood.
VALORIZED feels expansive. I listen to our modules and replays over and over again, and have new valuable nuanced ahas listening to myself and my cohort manifesting our dreams imperfectly.
Louisa finds ways to find the universal of our collective experience, while individualizing (with beautiful consent) truth-telling about habits of mind with fierce compassion."
- Sarah, home systems facilitator
"VALORIZED radically shifted my artistic practice. There's something about the questions that Louisa asks, and the way the process continuously reminds you to really believe that value, in a world that is often skeptical.
I now see myself as an artist who works in a medium of relationship. I'm extremely grateful for that.
There's room to do difficult things here and to have difficult questions asked of yourself.
I gained a real sense of clarity - a really specific, concentrated embodied understanding of what I'm offering, and a sense of the magnitude of it as well."
- Laurie, artist
"i recommend this experience to e-v-e-r-y-o-n-e because everyone deserves to experience their agency the way that VALORIZED guides you to, especially if you are a sensitive dreamer who hasn’t touched their most heartfelt vivid dreams in some time 🫀✨
The ideas and practices have healed years of chaos, confusion and doubt in my soma. Doing my best work alongside VALORIZED feels like flying on a cosmic trapeze, free and exhilarated to challenge myself to a new standard.
It held me in realising that production work didn’t feed me like it used to. I moved through many torturous nauseating decisions to say “no” to people I adore and admire, and claimed space for creative ideative poetic processes that sustain my inner sun.
- soil, artist
"I had so much grief around what my life had become (even as it had so many great things) because I felt like I had to be constantly “responsible”. So many of my choices had been made without any real connection to myself.
VALORIZED really helped me to realise just how much pressure and fear I was experiencing and how much it was making everything harder than it needed to be.
I am so different now as a result of participating in VALORIZED and deciding to show up for what I want. I no longer see wanting things (whether career ambitions, standards of relating, material possessions, or the organisation of things to suit my way of being) as a danger to be avoided. VALORIZED has given me skills that I actually use, and that actually work when I feel stuck."
- Natalie, childcare practitioner + commentator
