Having an intuitive-led business and life
takes you to a whole new level of truth,
sustainability, and joy that logic, reason,
and practicality could never touch.
I help the accomplished woman become who she’s capable of being
—living, leading, creating, and earning at the level of the life she wants next
while engaging the conscious men who understand and support her evolution.
(formerly Marla Diann Mentoring Int’l)
Reverie + Velvet purpose
Evolving Women Entrepreneurs, Founders & Artists to Embody the Identity
Creating Their Next Chapter
She isn’t directing her next chapter from her intellect. She is creating it from an evolved, embodied identity—body, intuition, beliefs, spirit, soul and finances.
“Creating” expresses agency.
She is embodied. She is evolved. And from that identity, she creates—her business, income, leadership, relationships, impact, and life.
And critically and dynamically, the sequence begins with your body—not your mind.
The transformation begins with the body then the mindset. We hold decades of suppressed emotions in our body that silently dictate our every thought and action. When we learn to feel the emotions, release them, and have practices that sustain our well-being (nervous system regulation), we have permanent change.
Did you catch the men part in the statement at the top? What does that mean?
A FULL integration in relationship to the conscious men in your life of any kind – romantic, siblings, close friends, church community, neighbors, business associates, etc.
She doesn’t evolve in isolation from the relationships and environments she inhabits.
The conscious men in her world—partner, brother, son, friend, colleague, business associate, spiritual-community member, etc.—can understand, respect, engage with, and support the evolution taking place in women.
Reverie & Velvet is the house.
Transformation is the business.
The Elegant Way Forward is the methodology.
The evolved, embodied woman—and the life she creates from that identity—is the result.
Marla is the host of the Follow Your Joy Podcast since 2022, featuring conversations with entrepreneurs, artists, and thought leaders who have transformed their lives and careers by trusting their intuition, body wisdom, faith, and inspired actions as catalysts for expansion.
Reinvention takes courage.
I rebranded my company in 2026.
Which is interesting because I thought I had spent the last year trying to reinvent my 18 year-old mentoring business.
What I didn’t realize was: life wasn’t asking me to upgrade an old identity. It was asking me to return to myself.
Over the last year, I found myself in one of the deepest seasons of reinvention of my life.
The kind where nothing fit anymore. Not the business model. Not the pace. Not even the version of success I worked so hard to build.
After 38 years building creative businesses, brands, visibility, entertainment publicity, artist management careers, mentorships, and opportunities for others, I suddenly found myself asking:
Who am I now? What kind of life do I actually want to wake up to? What work still feels alive in my soul?
If you’ve followed my journey since late 2025, you’ve witnessed some of my own shedding, reinvention and changes.
Today, I can confidently and excitedly say I am on the other side of a rigorous transformation.
Not because everything in my life is complete. Because I am clear.
There is an alignment among what my body, heart, energy, mind and soul are telling me. My discernment about where I’m heading and the purpose I’m here to live feels solid, grounded and highly inspiring.
And one crucial truth emerged:
I know how I want to impact humanity—particularly accomplished women, while engaging the conscious men who understand and support their evolution.
After 18 years of transformational mentoring, I’m taking this work into a deeper and more sophisticated chapter through Reverie & Velvet and The Elegant Way Forward.
At the center of this is something I believe we’ve gotten backwards for far too long:
Transformation doesn’t begin with the mind. It begins with the body.
Our emotional lives, stress responses, protective patterns and years of suppressing what we feel can influence how we lead, create, earn, love, make decisions—and how much expansion actually feels available to us.
Mindset matters. But it comes next.
When we begin listening to and working with the intelligence of the body, we create the foundation for intuition, beliefs, spirit, soul and finances to evolve with us.
This is the purpose behind my work today: Evolving Women Entrepreneurs, Founders & Artists to Embody the Identity Creating Their Next Chapter.
Reverie is French for imagination and a state of dreaming, visioning.
Velvet represents timeless creative luxury, the dignity of a woman, classy, evolved, alluring, soulful glamour, emotional warmth, and creative salons.
We accept inquiries for mentorship consideration and if you are connected with a human potential organization, women’s group, mixed-gender business and/or transformational conference, or leadership team that is looking for a speaker on identity, body integration, nervous system regulation, leadership, and creating success without sacrifice, email support@marladiann.com.
If something in this story spoke to you deeply, perhaps that’s where the conversation begins.
We may be a fit if…
You've been in business for 2-20 + years and you are ready and COMMITTED to creating your next level of success and revenues while living a laptop lifestyle.
You seek a more innovative, intuitive, and progressive way to make an impact for your clients or customers.
You are ready for your NEXT level of impact and income if this is attractive to you.
Identifying and implementing new success habits, renewing your creativity, developing a leveraged business model supported by a qualifying sales system, discovering your genius zone for more fulfilment, and especially transforming your relationship with money (wealth consciousness) that results in a dignified self-worth, self-value, and empowering money conversations.
You’ve had an idea for a while needing more exploration and a sounding board to speak your thoughts out loud.
You want to see it come to fruition, alive, and out into the world, but something happened along the way in the creative process to slow it down.
As a high achieving, spiritual woman, I aspire for you to live and work from a blend of Feminine wisdom and grace with Masculine strategies and actions. It’s a beautiful blend of both. That’s how we were made. But, with one vital change – your Feminine energy leading the way.
You will learn to see, feel, and experience through coaching that there is a dynamic dance between intuition, desires, play & structure as you redesign how you operate in life and business without neglecting your feminine nor diluting your edge.
The new paradigm of success is:
Desires + Goals = Success + Transformation.
No more “goal-setting” alone.
This is the foundation of my Creative Achievement Formula, and the core of how I help women reinvent —with feminine energy and traits leading the way.
I created it out of my own serious breakdown to breakthrough in 2017 that led to a reinvention by honoring my long-held desire to live and work in Florence, Italy as a month-long stay—and how that changed everything.
I serve accomplished women 40+ by guiding them how to listen to and use their intuition as a reliable and essential resource helping them design their next life chapter and create a renewed belief in their dreams.
Symptoms of frustration, uncertainty, and in-decision nudge you internally to cause a lingering, daily discontent. It’s time to honor your dreams, desires, and discover who you are meant to be at this season in your life.
You have several options
in how we can work together
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Smart Time Investment
90-min Empowering Strategy Sessions
for Business, Life, and Your Money Story
Life Design & Entrepreneurial Coaching
creative achievement formula
I am very passionate about teaching high achieving, spiritual, compassionate and intuitive women how to integrate a new paradigm that changes their success metrics in how to live and work in balance rather than a constant set up for overwhelm and burnout.
It is called the Blend of Feminine and Masculine.
Your Focus
Life Design, Money Legacy Coaching, Business Strategy
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What’s possible when we work together?
What my clients are saying…
“Core to my money beliefs prior to coaching included the myth that having an abundance of money meant there was a lack of creativity involved. It was an either/or statement. Now, I come from creativity first and truly welcome an abundance of money spearheading my vision.
Marla helped me create both a qualifying sales funnel system to determine the kind of clients I want to work with first and foremost.
I stand for my worth — and am not willing to offer any cut rates, discounts, barters, or negotiated rates. Marla also helped me determine the kinds of strategic offerings that will escalate my business. I have shifted perspective on client engagement because of it.”
"Since implementing my new rates and Marla’s qualifying sales system, I have experienced my highest month of income in my seven years of business at $14,000 in just one month. And we are on track to hit almost that amount again this month!
I am now standing in my worth, believing that I am an expert in my industry, and have established and maintained boundaries with my clients.”
"The two months during the program coincided with my largest earning months of my business to date and I booked my largest jobs to date (2 booking over $4,000 apiece from $2,800 base package price). I made $12k in one weekend. I raised the rates on all of my packages and no one has asked for a discount or tried to negotiate with me on rates.”
“My business took a hit as a result of Covid, like many businesses. Not exclusive to my business or industry. I was getting frustrated around money. Why is money not coming in? Why can’t I achieve the sales I am accustomed to? Why, why? Then I was referred to Marla from a colleague of mine and that’s when things began to turn around.
Marla pointed out to me I had a block around money. So, I applied the techniques she has taught me in my personal life and business and, a MIRACLE happened, a blessing, a gift! From that point on, April-December 2021, my revenues escalated with ending the year well beyond my financial goals!”
"In the brief few weeks, I have acquired 6 new clients at my higher rate, created a strong list of professionals who I have contacted and gained their commitment to providing strong referrals to prospective clients and have developed a higher frequency of self-worth and balance."
WHEN WE WORK on your business TOGETHER
EITHER PRIVATELY OR WITH YOUR TEAM
my passion is to help you…
Cultivate CONFIDENCE when it comes to having empowering money conversations in sales while charging what you are worth and converting that more consistently.
Collapse the time frame of how long you think it will take to increase your revenues while leveraging your business in a way that does not burn you out.
Define a new identity that represents the next version of who you are meant to be.
Understand the difference between masculine and feminine traits in business and why it is paramount to have a masterful blend of both so that you can make healthier decisions for your well-being and success.
Develop money habits of a high earning creative entrepreneur by learning to make decisions from where you want to be; not where you are.
Apply your genius zone talents to a 7-point metric system that helps you choose daily which projects and actions are worthy of your time. And much more.
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Prioritizing Your desires
What if you could manifest your one-year goals in 90-120 days by using the blend of masculine and feminine energies and actions? Imagine what you could accomplish quicker with a regulated nervous system and more ease.
Top Book Recommendations
I credit profound transformation for myself and clients reading these recommended books.
Train Your Brain & Nervous System to Match Your Bold Money Goal
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