Identity, business and Life | create a life that feels like your own

Maybe you're at a point in your life where everything looks fine on paper...

But...something feels...different...

The kids have grown. The career has changed. The relationship looks different. The life you built doesn't quite fit the woman you've become. Or maybe you simply woke up one morning and realized:

I don't actually know what I want anymore.

Letters From Ness

It's free to tag along for honest stories, useful ideas and the occasional well, shit...I didn't see that coming.

Ready for something different? Create a life that you own

not necessarily a completely different life

Maybe just a life that feels a little more like yours.

Maybe you're trying to find yourself again after years of putting everyone else first.

Maybe you've got an idea you've been sitting on for years and you're finally wondering what would happen if you actually built it.

Maybe you're starting over.

Maybe you're wanting to make more money.

Maybe you're figuring out who you are now that the version of you everyone needed isn't needed quite so much anymore.

Or maybe you don't know what you're looking for yet.

That's okay. You don't have to.

You can start here.

Three things I can't stop talking about...

The older I get, the more I realize these three things are connected. Who we are, what we build, and how we live.

Identity Reconnection, stop feeling like a stranger in your own life

Identity Reconnection

Build a Life that Feels Like Your Own

You spent years becoming who everyone else needed. Now it's time to figure out who you are when you finally get to choose.

Business Building | Build something that is yours

Business Building

Build Something that's Yours

You already have skills, experience and ideas. Let's turn what you know into something that gives you income, freedom and ownership.

Letters from Ness, real talk meets radical transformation

Life Lessons

Take What You Need

The stories, lessons and unfiltered truths I've picked up while growing older, making mistakes and figuring out how to build a life that is my own.

vanessa Somerton, entrepreneur, empty nester, author

I'm not here because I have it all figured out

I'm vanessa Somerton

Author. Entrepreneur. Empty nester. Lifelong overthinker. Professional figure-it-out-er

I've changed my mind more times than I can count. I've built things that worked. I've built things that absolutely did not.

I've had seasons where I knew exactly who I was and seasons where I had no damn clue.

I've spent years helping other people build things while simultaneously trying to figure out what I wanted to build for myself.

And somewhere in all of that, I realized something:

Maybe we're not supposed to have ourselves figured out once and for all. Maybe we're allowed to change. Maybe we're allowed to want something different.

Maybe we're allowed to build a new life without throwing away everything we've already lived.

That's what I'm doing.

And if you're somewhere in that messy middle too, you're welcome here.

So, What Are You Building?

Start Wherever You Are

A life that feels more like yours?

A business that's actually yours?

Or, simply, a better understanding of who you are today, in this season of your life.

Wherever you are, I'm glad you found your way here.

Letters from Ness Blog, made for women

Letters From Ness

Real Talk Meets Radical Transformation

This is where I write about something I've been thinking about. Sometimes it's identity. Sometimes it's business. Sometimes it's an uncomfortable truth I've learned or something I wish someone had told me twenty years ago. My honest stories, useful ideas and the occasional well, shit... I didn't see that coming. It's free to tag along. Come join me.

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