THE Design A Life You Love Philosophy
Design A Life You Love: 16-Week Coaching
Nervous system regulation, decision-making clarity, and identity-level change for executives and leaders ready for depth and sustainability.
You've built success by pushing through. However, the strategies that got you here are now costing you presence, energy, and the ability to fully engage in your life.
This 16-week experience rebuilds the inner architecture that sustainable leadership depends on: neural pathways that support regulation instead of reactivity, decision-making grounded in clarity rather than stress, and the capacity to hold complexity without collapse.
A calm, thoughtful first conversation. No pressure to commit.
“Working with Ann has been one of the most transformative experiences of my life. She met me exactly where I was, helping me come home to myself and step into authenticity and inner peace.”
Simon, Head of EMEA Solutions Architecture at Stripe
From Burnout to Coming Home
I came to her at a time when my professional journey no longer felt like mine, and I was stretching myself in a role that left me deeply uncomfortable. From our very first conversations, Ann offered clarity that resonated at the core of who I am. Over time, that clarity grew into calmness and trust - trust in myself, and trust in the unfolding of life without needing to control every step.
What I valued most was Ann’s intuitive way of guiding the process. She didn’t push me through a rigid program but met me exactly where I was, sensing what I needed in each moment. Through exploring my nervous system, reparenting the self, integrating my inner parts, and diving into Human Design in a way that felt deeply personal, I began to remember who I truly am.
I’m proud of having come back home to myself - deconstructing illusions, landing fully in my truth, and stepping into a place of authenticity and inner peace. This work with Ann has laid the foundation for how I now live and how I hope to support others on their path.
Creating Space for Intentional Living
Who This Coaching Is For
This 16-week coaching experience is for professionals, executives and leaders who:
Professionally, you want to:
Reconnect with your purpose and decision-making clarity
Navigate transitions or disconnections in your professional life
Expand your emotional and cognitive capacity to handle complexity without burnout
Make confident decisions without second-guessing or reactivity
Lead with presence, emotional regulation, and long-term energy
Stabilise and hold a new identity or role without compromising what matters most
Create meaningful momentum towards a legacy, not just another goal
Relationally, you want to:
Be more present with partners, family, and the people you love
Create quality time that feels meaningful, not just scheduled
Stop feeling distant or emotionally unavailable despite being physically there
Show up with depth and attention in conversations that matter
Reclaim the capacity for connection, joy, and spontaneity that achievement has eroded
Personally, you want to:
Integrate your strategic, intuitive, and soulful self into how you lead and live
Rewire outdated beliefs and unconscious reactive patterns
Explore or expand a Portfolio Lifestyle, turning passions, projects, or side ventures into part of a fulfilling life design
Follow the pull towards more meaningful, aligned, and embodied success, without more hustle
If you see yourself here, this coaching is a match for the next level of your leadership, self-connection, and sustainable success.
The Best Investment
“Working with Ann was one of the best investments I have made in myself.”
I came to her during the most challenging period in my life and was looking for guidance on how to move forward in my career. What I ended up getting was so much more. I gained a greater understanding of myself, a greater connection to my intuition and authenticity, and a clear path forward toward my purpose and goals. Every session with Ann is gold and I always come away feeling more grounded, more empowered, and with greater clarity on the next steps in my life. I’m forever grateful to her.
Jessica, Psychologist
The Cost of Override
You reached this level by pushing through. Ignoring signals. Optimising for output.
And it worked, until it didn't.
Now you're experiencing:
Mental fog despite razor-sharp thinking in the past
Decisions that feel paralysing, not energising
Success that costs presence with what matters most
A body that won't let you operate the way you used to
These aren't signs of failure. They're your system demanding architecture, not override.
Your body budget is overdrawn.
Your brain has been making withdrawals - stress, long hours, constant vigilance, without enough deposits - rest, connection, safety, nourishment. The account is depleted, and now every decision, every interaction, every moment of presence costs more than you have to give.
This isn't about doing more. It's about leading from within.
Sustainable growth isn't about adding more to your plate. It's about redesigning the foundation it rests on.
This work strengthens your inner architecture so you can meet life with clarity, resilience, and presence.
“I approached Ann after her coaching sessions with my husband. I saw such profound changes that I wanted to use her coaching for my career. Ann has such a unique set of skills and knowledge that I ended up with coaching sessions about motherhood, relationships and self-discovery. She was tailoring every session to my needs on the spot. She’s extremely talented and easily likeable. From the first session, I felt very safe and comfortable with her, never judged, always understood. Through my coaching with her, I feel more confident, self-sure and know what I want from my life.”
The 16-Week Journey: From Override to Architecture
This work moves through three distinct phases, strengthening six core capabilities for intentional living, personally and professionally.
Phase 1: Awareness (Weeks 1–6)
We name the patterns.
Grounding & Inner Architecture Assessment
Understanding how your brain predicts, how your nervous system responds, and how your patterns were formed.
We map nervous system responses, identity beliefs, and thought patterns. This phase establishes the foundation for growth by identifying what must shift internally before external change can hold.
You'll develop:
Metacognition (the ability to observe your thinking patterns without being consumed by them)
Attentional Awareness (recognising where your focus goes and learning to redirect it intentionally)
Mapping your stress signatures and your window of tolerance (understanding what pushes you out of regulation)
Outcomes: Clarity on what's driving reactivity, where override became your default, and what needs to change for regulation to become possible
Phase 2: Regulation (Weeks 7–12)
We build capacity.
Regulation & Rewiring
Strengthening your capacity to hold complexity without collapse.
Awareness alone doesn't create change. Regulation does. In this phase, we strengthen the systems that allow you to hold pressure, emotion, and uncertainty without collapse.
You'll develop:
Interoceptive Awareness (learning to read your body's signals and respond before you hit shutdown)
Emotional Regulation (expanding your capacity to feel without being overwhelmed or numbing out)
Nervous system recovery capacity (strengthening your ability to recover from stress)
Body budget management (understanding how your brain allocates energy, and learning to make deposits instead of only withdrawals)
Reframing limiting beliefs (updating old thought patterns and catching stress spirals before they take over)
We apply these tools to real-time challenges: difficult conversations, high-stakes decisions, team dynamics, and the daily pressure of leadership.
Outcomes: Expanded capacity. Decisions made from groundedness, not reactivity. The ability to be present under pressure instead of performing through it.
Phase 3: Agency (Weeks 13–16)
We redesign the structures.
Expansion & Integration
Designing your life and leadership structures to match your renewed inner architecture.
With your inner architecture stabilised, we turn to external design: the systems, structures, and rhythms that allow you to lead and live sustainably.
You'll develop:
Cognitive Flexibility (adapting strategy, updating goals, and shifting direction without destabilisation)
Working Memory strengthening (holding multiple priorities and integrating complexity clearly)
Portfolio Lifestyle mapping (designing where career, creativity, family, and contribution fit into your life)
Future self frameworks (training your brain to expect aligned outcomes)
Daily scaffolding (embedding new patterns into routines, environments, and systems)
This is where inner work becomes outer reality.
Outcomes: A life designed around your values and capacity. Leadership that feels steady. Presence with what matters. A portfolio life that integrates instead of fragments.
From Critical Burnout to Confidence
“To say that working with Ann was life-changing, would be an absolute understatement.”
Before working with Ann, I had experienced significant burnout in both my professional and personal life and my mental health was at a critical point. I began looking for a life coach that used Human Design and I found Ann. From our first conversation, she made me feel heard and understood. The information she has taught me about myself and how I navigate through life was invaluable. She helped take me from a person that was suffering from debilitating depression and anxiety to a completely confident mom and business owner. I have had a lot of traditional therapy in my life, but was really looking for someone to help me get “unstuck.” I had a very bleak overview of what my life looked like and now I can’t wait to get started on all of the plans that Ann and I made during our sessions.
Ann was instrumental at helping me look at my life and figure out what was working and what wasn’t. She has given me the tools to move confidently throughout my life and to be genuinely happy. To say that working with Ann was life-changing, would be an absolute understatement.
Sophy, Attorney
What's Included:
This is high-touch, deeply personalised work designed to meet you in real time, not a pre-recorded programme
A Future Visioning Session to anchor your 16-week journey in clarity, alignment, and purpose
16 weekly 90-minute sessions, plus unlimited Telegram and email support (Monday–Friday)
Telegram support for high-stakes moments between sessions
Your personalised Notion Coaching Dashboard to track progress, insights, and practices
A Full Inner Architecture Assessment across cognitive, emotional, nervous system, behavioural, and somatic layers
Neuroscience-based tools: catching unhelpful thought patterns, strengthening interoceptive awareness, learning to reframe beliefs, and expanding your nervous system's tolerance for pressure and recovery
Body budget practices to help you understand how your brain allocates energy across your day, and how to make deposits (rest, connection, nourishment) rather than only withdrawals (stress, overwork, depletion)
Portfolio lifestyle mapping to design external structures that reflect your renewed inner architecture
Future self frameworks and narrative repatterning to train your brain for the outcomes you want
Behavioural strategies and daily scaffolding to embed changes into habits, rituals, and environments that support you long-term
Optional Human Design lens (Type, Strategy, Authority, Profile, key gates) where helpful
Before This Work, Clients Often Felt:
Constantly "on" but never truly at ease
Rushed, reactive, and mentally crowded
Emotionally flat or stretched thin
Operating at the edge of their nervous system's limits
Outwardly successful, yet strangely unfulfilled
After This Work, Clients Consistently Experience:
Greater nervous system capacity (able to hold pressure, change, and opportunity without collapsing into stress)
Calm clarity in high-stakes decisions, grounded in self-trust
Emotional depth and presence in both leadership and relationships
More energy and creativity, as stress loops release and space opens up
A felt sense of alignment between who they are and how they live
The ability to thrive, not just perform (sustaining success without self-abandonment)
This Is How You Grow Without Losing Yourself
Because of the depth and personal nature of this coaching, spaces are limited. If you're ready to lead your next chapter with clarity, capacity, and inner confidence, now is the time to take the first step.
Guidance That Changes Everything
“I would not be where I am today without her guidance.”
Ann has challenged me, supported me, accepted me and encouraged me in so many ways. I would not be where I am today without her guidance. She is an amazing woman who lights up any room she’s in. Anyone would be lucky to work with her.’
Emily, Senior Analyst, Global Strategy
What Other Clients Have Said
“This work gave me a way back to myself. I no longer feel like I'm performing at the expense of my spirit. I'm connected to my work, my team, and my own inner life in a way I never thought was possible. It’s not just that I lead better, it’s that I live more fully.”
- Michael, CMO
“It wasn’t just my work that changed. It was how I felt at home, how I showed up with my family, and how I related to myself. I stopped outsourcing my worth and started building a life that feels rich, connected, and real. This changed everything.”
- Angela, Management Consultant
“Before this work, I was burning out at both ends. Now I make decisions with more clarity, show up for my team and family with more presence, and enjoy my success again. The transformation was real and lasting. I now know how to lead myself.”
- Norma, Business Owner
Next Steps: Book a Consultation
If this work resonates, the next step is a free 30-minute consultation call.
This call is an opportunity for us to connect, explore what you're looking for, and determine whether the Design a Life You Love Coaching Philosophy is the right fit for you.
During the call, we'll:
Explore what's currently challenging you or calling for change
Identify how this coaching approach might support you
Answer any questions you have about the structure, support, or focus areas
Clarify next steps if it feels aligned to move forward
Because this coaching is highly personalised, I only work with a small number of clients at a time to ensure depth and transformation.
This is a space for honest conversation, not obligation. Come as you are, and we'll take it from there.
Not Quite Ready?
Start With the Design A Life You Love Journal (a 30-day neuroscience-based guide to reconnect with your future self)
Book Office Hours (a focused 2-hour session to untangle one decision or challenge)
Explore Coaching for Your Organisation (if you're an HR or People leader supporting high performers)
For HR Leaders and People-Centred Organisations:
If you’re a Human Resources Manager, Chief People Officer, or responsible for wellbeing and leadership development in your organisation, this work extends beyond the individual.
The Design a Life You Love coaching framework supports sustainable high performance by addressing the root causes of burnout, disconnection, and misalignment. When leaders operate from a place of nervous system regulation, emotional intelligence, and meaningful connection to purpose, organisational culture transforms, from reactive to resilient, from high-pressure to high-integrity.
If you’re exploring ways to support your team or senior leaders in cultivating greater clarity, capacity, and inner steadiness, while fostering spiritual well-being in professional contexts, get in touch.
This is a neuroscience-grounded approach that values human depth as a leadership asset, one that integrates emotion regulation, decision-making capacity, and resilience-building into the core of leadership development.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Therapy addresses past wounds and psychological healing. This work rebuilds the foundational neural, emotional, and physiological systems that determine how you think, decide, regulate, and lead in the present and future. It's architecture, not analysis.
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No. Human Design is integrated into the coaching as one tool among many, and only where helpful. You don't need prior knowledge. I'll guide you through what's relevant to your leadership and life.
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Yes. Many clients do, especially when framed as leadership development or executive coaching. I can provide documentation to support this conversation with your HR or L&D team.
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Portfolio Living is the integration of career, creativity, family, and contribution into a coherent whole, rather than fragmented silos competing for time and energy. It's whole-life design, not work-life balance.
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Engagement, honesty, and follow-through. This work requires active participation: completing practices between sessions, tracking patterns, and applying new frameworks in real time. Transformation happens in the integration, not just the sessions.
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I focus on integrated work where Human Design, neuroscience, and strategy come together. If you're looking for a standalone reading, it is suggested that you book an office hour session with Ann.
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Curiosity is encouraged around here so I promise, no question is a silly one. Feel free to email me at ann@annsmyth.com and I’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
About Ann Smyth
Ann Smyth is a Certified Life and Leadership Coach and current M.Sc. Neuroscience candidate at King’s College London. Her work blends cognitive neuroscience, identity transformation, Human Design interpretation, and practical strategy to support high-performing professionals in leading lives of clarity, purpose, and sustainable growth.
