A 5-day experience for women at midlife

Have you become a supporting character in your own life?

Maybe nothing is dramatically wrong.
Maybe you've built a life you're actually proud of.

But somewhere between being responsible, capable, and the person everyone can count on... you stopped asking one surprisingly important question:

What do I want?

Not what makes sense. Not what everyone else needs. Not what a woman “your age” is supposed to want. What do YOU want?

And no, we're not going to answer that by quitting our jobs, abandoning our families, and moving to Bali. We're going to start much smaller.

Press play. Come sit with me.

Five Days. One Move. A life that feels more like yours.

Here's exactly what you're getting:

Five short video conversations with me, plus five guided Action Pages to help you figure out what you want, challenge what's holding you back, and take one real step toward it.

Just 10–15 minutes a day, at your own pace. No big life overhaul. No pressure to have all the answers.

Introductory price: $27
Yes — I'm ready to start my Unapologetic Chapter →

Five videos + five Action Pages • Start whenever you're ready • 14-day guarantee

By the end of our five days, you'll have:

✦

Rediscovered desires and parts of yourself you've quietly edited out.

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Caught those automatic “too old / too late / not realistic” stories before they decide for you.

♥

Separated what YOU actually want from everyone else's opinions and expectations.

✓

Chosen one thing you want—and taken one concrete, unapologetic step toward it.

Five conversations. Five focused Action Pages. One unapologetic move.

The problem

Maybe you're not stuck.

Maybe you've just stopped giving yourself a vote.

You've become very good at being responsible.

At remembering what everyone needs.
At keeping things moving.
At being the person people can count on.
At considering the family, the partner, the work, the calendar, the practicalities.

And somewhere in the middle of being very good at your life...

you may have quietly become a supporting character in it.

Nothing necessarily went wrong.

That's what makes this feeling so difficult to explain.

Because from the outside, your life may look absolutely fine.

Maybe even more than fine.

You're functioning. People rely on you. You get things done. You have people you love and plenty to be grateful for.

So when that little thought appears — “Is this really it?” — you may shut it down almost as quickly as it arrived.

Because what right do you have to want more when nothing is actually wrong?

Except “nothing is wrong” and “this feels like mine” are not the same thing.

You might have a life you're genuinely grateful for and still catch yourself wondering:

What do I actually want now?
When did I stop doing that thing I used to love?
Why does everything feel so predictable?
Am I allowed to want more when I already have so much?
Maybe I'm just too old for that now.

You're not ungrateful.

You're not having a breakdown.

And I don't think you need a dramatic reinvention.

Maybe you've simply spent so long being sensible, dependable, practical and available... that your own desires have become very easy to postpone.

Not reject forever.

Just postpone.

Until after this busy period.
After the children need less.
After work settles down.
After your partner is free.
After your parents need less.
After you know exactly what you want.
And somehow, “later” keeps moving.

That's the part I want you to notice.

Because maybe the problem isn't that you don't have a good life.

Maybe there just isn't enough YOU in it anymore.

And that doesn't require blowing everything up.
It requires putting yourself back into the conversation.

The shift

What if you stopped rejecting yourself first?

Here's what I don't want for you after these five days:

A prettier journal full of things you'd quite like to do someday.

I want something much more interesting to happen.

I want you to notice the moment you automatically tell yourself NO.

“They'd never hire someone my age.”

↓

Maybe. Let's find out.

Your partner doesn't want to see the exhibition.

↓

You buy one ticket.

“I don't mind. Whatever everyone else wants.”

↓

You actually have an answer.

You want to take a class and immediately ask, “But what would I do with it?”

↓

You let curiosity be enough for a minute.

You wear the thing you thought you might be “too old” to wear. You invite the woman you'd like to know better. You put two hours in your calendar without producing a sufficiently important reason for having them.

You say:

“I'd really like to…”

without immediately following it with:

“…but obviously I can't.”

That's the shift I'm interested in.

Not becoming fearless.

Not becoming selfish.

Not suddenly refusing to compromise.

Just stopping the habit of eliminating yourself before the conversation has even begun.

Because somewhere along the way, a lot of us became incredibly efficient at rejecting our own desires.

Too expensive.
Too late.
Too old.
Too impractical.
Too selfish.
Nobody will come with me.
What will people think?
Says who?

For five days, I'm going to ask you to do something slightly rebellious:

Stop treating every desire like it needs to defend itself in court.

You're allowed to want something before you know whether you'll do it.
You're allowed to be curious before you've worked out whether it's practical.
You're allowed to try something and discover you hate it.
You're allowed to change your mind.
You're allowed to want something nobody else in your house wants.
You don't need to justify every desire before you're even allowed to have it.

We're giving you your vote back.

And once you have it?

Tuesday starts looking surprisingly different.

How it works

This isn't five days of lessons.

It's five days of conversations.

No long lectures.
No giant workbook.
No homework marathon.

I don't want this to become one more thing on your list of things you “should” be doing.

For five days, you'll spend about 10–15 minutes with me each day.

You can make it yours.

Coffee
Tea
Sparkling water
Champagne

Sit on the sofa. Listen on a walk. Close the door for a few minutes. Give yourself a little space where nobody needs anything from you.

And each day, I'll do what I would do if you were sitting across from me:

ask you a question,
challenge one of your assumptions,
make you laugh,
and help you hear yourself a little more clearly.

One conversation. One focused Action Page. One small move.

That's it. No trying to “keep up.”

And the five days build on each other:

1
Day 1

Interrupt

Notice where you've disappeared from your own life.

2
Day 2

Remember

Reconnect with the parts of you that got edited out along the way.

3
Day 3

Imagine

Question the stories telling you what's too late, too old or too unrealistic.

4
Day 4

Choose

Separate what you actually want from everyone else's opinions and expectations.

5
Day 5

Move

Choose one thing and take one concrete step toward it.

You don't need to solve your whole life in five days.

You just need to create enough space to hear yourself again.

And then move.

The Unapologetic Chapter

Ready to put yourself back into the conversation?

YES — I’M READY TO GIVE MYSELF A TURN →

$27 introductory price · 5 days · 10–15 min/day · 14-day guarantee

Where this began

It started with champagne.

But it was never really about the champagne.

Back in 2016, when I was living in Los Angeles, I started bringing women together for something I called The Healing Power of Champagne.

The idea was simple: create a space for women to come together, talk, share, celebrate, encourage each other—and give a little airtime to the things we don't always say out loud.

Yes, there was champagne.
Obviously. 🥂

But the champagne was really just the excuse.

The real point was what happened when women sat down together and had the kind of conversations we don't always make enough room for.

We talked.
We laughed.
We shared what was really going on.

We talked about the things we wanted to do, the things we were afraid to do, and the ideas we hadn't quite dared to say out loud yet.

And instead of immediately explaining why those ideas were impractical...

we gave them a little room to breathe.

That's the part I've never forgotten.

Because sometimes you don't need another person telling you what to do with your life.

You need a space where you can hear yourself think.

Someone who will listen to the thing you're considering and, instead of immediately asking, “But is that realistic?” might ask:

“Okay... but what if you did?”

Sometimes one honest conversation can change the way you see yourself.

The Unapologetic Chapter is, in many ways, a continuation of those evenings.

Only now you don't have to be in Los Angeles.

You don't have to come to my house.

And you definitely don't have to drink champagne.

Bring whatever you're drinking and come sit with me.

For five days, we're creating a little space in your life where nobody needs anything from you.

Except you. 🥂

The old way

“I’ll think about me when things calm down.”

It sounds perfectly reasonable.

When work settles down.
When the children need me less.
When my parents need me less.
When my partner has more time.
When I have more energy.
When I know exactly what I want.
When life is just a little less... life.

Then I’ll think about me.

The problem?

Life is remarkably bad at calming down on command.

One thing ends.

Another begins.

Someone needs something.

Something unexpected happens.

And the things you want get moved to that very accommodating place called:

That very accommodating place called

LATER.

Not because they don’t matter.

Because everything else seems to matter first.

And I understand that.

There are real responsibilities.

Real people we love.

Real financial considerations.

Real limitations.

I’m not interested in pretending otherwise.

But there’s a difference between:

Taking your life into consideration... Making thoughtful decisions around the people, commitments and realities that matter.
...and taking yourself out of consideration. Automatically removing your own wants before they even get a vote.

That’s the habit I want us to interrupt.

Because life doesn’t usually clear the calendar and announce:

“Okay. It’s your turn now.”

At some point, you have to give yourself the turn.

Not the whole year.

Not the whole life.

Not even the whole weekend.

Maybe just:

An hour.
A conversation.
A ticket.
An application.
A class.
A question.
A tiny experiment.

Something that says:

“I’m not waiting for my life to become empty before I’m allowed to be in it.”

And that’s where things begin to move.

The new way

You don’t need certainty. You need movement.

A lot of us think we need to know exactly what we want before we can do anything about it.

We want the full plan.

The right answer.
The confidence.
The guarantee that we won’t waste time, money, energy or look ridiculous.

So we wait until we’re sure.

And while we’re waiting...

nothing gives us any new information.

Because sometimes the answer doesn’t come from thinking harder.

It comes from moving a little.

You don’t have to decide you want a new career. You can have one conversation with someone doing work that interests you.
You don’t have to become a woman who travels alone. You can take yourself somewhere for one afternoon.
You don’t have to call yourself an artist. You can paint something.
You don’t have to know whether a new idea is “the thing.” You can explore it.

You don’t have to commit to the whole future.

You just have to make one move that gives you more information than you had before.

Desire isn’t a contract.

Wanting something doesn’t mean you have to do it.

Exploring something doesn’t mean you have to commit to it.

Trying something doesn’t mean you have to become good at it.

And changing your mind doesn’t mean the experiment failed.

YES. MORE OF THIS. Sometimes the move opens something up.
Well... that answered that. Sometimes the move closes a door you didn’t need to keep wondering about.

Both are useful.

Because movement gives you information.

That’s why I’m not asking you to figure out your entire next chapter.

I’m asking you to get curious enough to test something.

One conversation.
One booking.
One application.
One class.
One invitation.
One small experiment.

Because the first move doesn’t have to carry the weight of your whole future.

The opposite of stuck isn’t success.

It’s movement.

That’s what we’re creating here.

Not a perfect plan.

Not certainty.

Not a dramatic reinvention.

Just enough movement to hear yourself more clearly and discover what wants to happen next.

What you get

Here’s what happens over our five days together

This isn’t a giant course.

It’s five short conversations designed to help you notice what’s been missing, hear yourself more clearly, and make one real move.

Each day gives you one focused conversation and one simple Action Page to turn that insight into something practical.

Day 1

Interrupt

$27 value

See where you’ve quietly disappeared from your own life.

We’ll look at where your time, energy and attention are going — and where you’ve stopped giving yourself a vote.

You’ll use the WHERE DID I GO? Action Page to spot what’s been getting postponed and choose one small piece of space to reclaim.

Day 2

Remember

$27 value

Find the woman underneath all those sensible decisions.

We’ll reconnect with the things you used to love, the desires you stopped naming, and the parts of yourself that may have gone quiet without ever really disappearing.

You’ll use the FORGOTTEN DESIRE LIST to uncover what still has energy for you now.

Day 3

Imagine

$27 value

Before you reject yourself, let’s make reality do some of the work.

We’ll challenge the “too old,” “too late,” “too unrealistic” stories and separate what’s actually true from what you’ve simply assumed.

You’ll use the FACT / FEAR / UNTESTED Action Page to stop eliminating possibilities before you’ve explored them.

Day 4

Choose

$27 value

Before the invisible committee gets a vote, you get one.

We’ll separate what you genuinely want from what your partner, family, friends, colleagues or the imaginary public might think you should want.

You’ll use the UNAPOLOGETIC FILTER to hear your own answer before everyone else’s opinions crowd it out.

Day 5

Move

$37 value

Enough thinking. We’re doing something.

You’ll choose one desire, make it smaller, and turn it into one concrete move you can actually take.

Not someday.

Not when everything is perfect.

Now.

48 hours later

The Unapologetic Commitment

$17 value

Two days after Day 5, you’ll receive one final short video from me and your Unapologetic Commitment Action Page.

Did you make your move?

If yes, we’re not brushing past it.

We’re celebrating it.

If not, there’s no guilt and no shame.

But we’re not quietly forgetting about it either.

We’ll look at what got in the way.

Was the move too big?

Were you waiting for someone else’s approval?

Was it not actually the right move?

Then we make it smaller, clearer or better.

Because the point was never to complete five days of content.

The point was to move.

The point was to move.

And that’s what you’re really getting here: five days designed to get you out of your head and back into your own life.

Total standalone value

$162

Your introductory price

$27

Five days. One move. A life that feels more like yours.

The Unapologetic Chapter

Five days. One move. A life that feels more like yours.

START MY UNAPOLOGETIC CHAPTER — $27 →

$27 introductory price · Start whenever you’re ready · 14-day guarantee

A little about me

I used to think an extraordinary life was about making big moves.

Moving countries.
Changing careers.
Starting companies.
Taking risks.
Starting over.

And I’ve done quite a few of those things.

The first big leap

A fashion startup. Seven years. And a hard ending.

In my 30s, I left corporate life and started a fashion business around a product I had invented.

It became a huge part of my life. I spent seven years building it.

I raised money. I got on television. I built something real. I took the risk.

I experienced the excitement of watching an idea that had once existed only in my head become something real.

And eventually, I had to close it. I went bankrupt.

That was not the ending I had imagined when I started.

But it also wasn’t the end of me.

Then I tried again

This time, with sparkling wine.

Years later, during Covid, I launched something completely different: a sparkling wine brand.

I loved what it represented — celebration, connection, women gathering around a table, a little French joie de vivre.

But I had been far too ambitious about what it would take to sell directly into the U.S. market without distribution.

It didn’t become the success story I had pictured.

But trying it gave me something thinking about it never could: information.

I discovered what I loved, what I didn’t, what I wanted to carry forward — and what I was very happy to leave behind.

Sometimes trying it IS the answer.

Not because everything you try will work. It won’t.

But because movement tells you things that standing still simply can’t.

Then life changed the lesson

Not every chapter is about making a big move.

I came back to France to be closer to my family.

My father became very ill, and I reorganized my life so I could be there. He passed away about a year later.

At the same time, life was also bringing me love, a new relationship, and the completely unexpected experience of becoming a stepmother.

Grief + joy
Responsibility + possibility
Love + loss
Learning + change

There were plenty of moments when life did not remotely resemble the plan.

And somewhere along the way, my definition of an extraordinary life changed.

I no longer think an unapologetic life has to look dramatic.

It doesn’t mean constantly reinventing yourself, abandoning the people who need you, or making reckless decisions just so you can say you were brave.

I think it means something much simpler.

An unapologetic life isn’t a life without responsibility, grief or people who need you.

It’s a life in which you don’t disappear either.

That is the idea underneath this entire experience.

I can’t tell you what your next chapter should look like. I don’t think anybody else can.

But I can sit beside you for five days and help you question the assumptions, hear yourself more clearly, and make one move toward something that feels like yours.

Because the woman who knows what your next chapter needs?

You.

The Unapologetic Chapter

Five days. One move. A life that feels more like yours.

START MY UNAPOLOGETIC CHAPTER — $27 →

$27 introductory price · Start whenever you’re ready · 14-day guarantee

Why this approach works

I’m not teaching this from the sidelines.

I’ve spent much of my adult life starting again.

I spent 12 years in corporate life before leaving to build my first company.

I spent seven years building that business, raised investment, appeared on television, landed a major department-store client — and eventually went bankrupt.

I’ve built other ventures. Changed direction. Returned to corporate life. Moved countries and continents.

I’ve built a new relationship, become a stepmother, reorganized my life around family when my father became very ill, lost him, and found myself asking some very different questions about time.

And at 50, I’m still asking them.

Not because I haven’t figured my life out.

Because I no longer believe a meaningful life is something you figure out once and then faithfully execute forever.

We’re allowed to keep responding to who we are becoming.

And through all of those chapters, I’ve learned something from starting things, stopping things, taking risks, getting things wrong, trying again — and sitting in a lot of honest conversations with women.

Most of us do not need more advice.
We already have plenty of advice.

What we often need is a little space.

Space to say the thing out loud.
Space to notice the story we’ve been repeating.
Space to question whether that story is actually true.
Space to admit what we want before we explain why we can’t have it.
Space to try something small enough that we can learn from it.

That is the process behind The Unapologetic Chapter.

I’m not giving you a formula for the perfect next chapter.

I don’t believe one exists.

I’m giving you five guided sessions designed to help you:

NOTICE what has gone quiet.
REMEMBER what still has energy.
QUESTION what you’ve been assuming.
CHOOSE what actually feels like yours.
MOVE before you have every answer.

Clarity does not always arrive before action.
Sometimes it arrives because of action.

A small move gives you information.

A conversation. A class. An application. A ticket. A small experiment.

And every time you stop automatically rejecting yourself, you get a little more honest about what might come next.

Certified Coach

I’m also a certified coach.

My training gave me tools and frameworks for helping women hear themselves more clearly.

But I’m not here to sit above you with a clipboard and tell you how to live your life.

I’ve reinvented enough parts of my own life to know that nobody else can design yours for you.

What I can do is help you stop automatically ruling yourself out of it.

Ask the question you’ve been avoiding.
Notice when you’re dismissing yourself too quickly.
Challenge the “obviously I can’t” before it ends the conversation.
Separate wanting something from deciding whether you’ll actually do it.

One important thing: this is not 1:1 coaching.

Each day, you’ll press play on one short, pre-recorded session with me.

My goal is to make it feel less like watching a lesson and more like we’ve pulled up two chairs and started talking.

So every time you start explaining why something is impossible, impractical, too late or probably a terrible idea...

“Okay...
but what do YOU want?”

And then we see what happens.

The Unapologetic Chapter

Ready to stop automatically putting yourself in “later”?

I’M GIVING MYSELF A TURN →

$27 introductory price · 5 days · 10–15 min/day

Is this for you?

This is for you if...

You recognize yourself somewhere in this.

You have a good life — but something still feels missing.
You’re responsible, capable, and usually the one other people can count on.
You’ve spent so long considering everyone else that you’re not always sure what you want anymore.
You keep talking yourself out of things before you’ve even explored them.

“Maybe I’m too old.”

“Maybe it’s too late.”

“Maybe that’s not realistic.”

“Maybe I should just be grateful.”

You don’t want to blow up your life.
You’re not looking for a dramatic reinvention.

This is probably not for you if...

You want someone else to tell you what your next chapter should look like.
You’re looking for a rigid plan, a personality makeover or a formula for getting your life “right.”
You want inspiration — but you have no intention of actually doing anything differently.
You want permission to abandon every responsibility in your life and call it freedom.

That’s not what we’re doing here.

I’m going to ask you to get curious, tell yourself the truth, and make one real move.

You just want more curiosity.
More aliveness.
More possibility.
More of YOU back.

I’m not going to tell you what your next chapter should look like.

I’ll help you stop automatically ruling yourself out of it.

14-Day Guarantee

Try it without overthinking it

Come spend five days with me.

If it’s not for you, that’s okay.

Try the experience.

1 Watch the sessions.
2 Use the Action Pages.
3 See what it opens up for you.

And if you decide it wasn’t the right fit, just contact me within 14 days and I’ll refund your $27.

No complicated process.
No proving you “did the work.”
No awkward back-and-forth.

I want you thinking about your life.

Not worrying about whether you made the wrong $27 decision.

The Unapologetic Chapter

Come spend five days with me.

YES — LET’S SEE WHAT HAPPENS →

$27 · Protected by the 14-day guarantee

Why now?

When exactly were you planning to give yourself a turn?

There probably won’t be a perfect week.

A magical gap in the calendar.
A moment when everyone else suddenly needs less from you.
A time when life becomes completely calm, clear and convenient.

Life does not usually organize itself around your desires.

Which means if you keep waiting until everything is calm, clear, convenient and fully approved...

you may be waiting for a very long time.

And I don’t mean that dramatically.

I mean it quietly.

Another season passes.
Another year goes by.
Another thing you wanted gets moved to “later.”

Not because it wasn’t important.

Because everything else got there first.

Introductory price

The Unapologetic Chapter is currently available for $27.

As I continue to develop and evolve the experience, the price will increase.

But the real reason to start now isn’t the price.

It’s this:

You don’t have to wait until life gets quieter to start including yourself in it.

You do not need a clear calendar.

✓ You do not need a life plan.
✓ You do not need certainty.
✓ You need 10–15 minutes a day — and enough willingness to give yourself a turn.

Maybe this is where you give yourself one.

The Unapologetic Chapter

Ready to stop automatically putting yourself in “later”?

I’M GIVING MYSELF A TURN →

$27 introductory price · 5 days · 10–15 min/day

A few last questions

Still have a few questions?

Good. I’d be slightly concerned if you didn’t.

What if I have no idea what I want?

Perfect.

You do not need to arrive with a dream, a five-year plan or a secret ambition you’ve been waiting to unleash.

In fact, “I don’t even know what I want anymore” is one of the reasons I created this.

Over the five days, I’ll help you notice what still has energy for you, what you may have quietly edited out, and what deserves a little more curiosity.

You don’t need the answer before you begin.

But I have a partner. Children. Parents. People who actually need me.

Of course.

This isn’t about pretending those responsibilities don’t exist.

It’s about remembering something very simple:

You are also one of the people in your life.

Considering the people you love is not the same thing as automatically removing yourself from consideration.

What if I can’t make a big change right now?

Excellent.

I’m not asking you to.

The whole point is to stop assuming that meaningful change has to begin with a dramatic decision.

Your first move might be a conversation. An hour in your calendar. Booking the class. Sending the message. Researching the possibility. Going somewhere alone. Trying something before deciding whether it belongs in your life.

Small does not mean insignificant. Small means you can actually move.

Am I too old for this? What if I’m 50, 55, 60… or older?

Some things genuinely get harder with age.

I’m not going to insult you by pretending otherwise.

But “harder” and “too late” are not the same thing.

Before you decide something is impossible, I want you to find out what is actually true — and what is simply a conclusion you’ve been repeating to yourself.

You do not have to reject yourself first.

How much time will this take?

About 10–15 minutes a day for five days.

Each day, you’ll press play on one short session with me, then use a simple Action Page to turn what you’ve just explored into something concrete.

And on Day 5, you’ll choose one move to make within 48 hours.

This is designed to fit into your life. Not become another project sitting on top of it.

Is this therapy or 1:1 coaching?

No.

The Unapologetic Chapter is a self-guided personal-development experience.

The sessions are pre-recorded. You’re not booking private calls with me, and there is no live coaching component.

I am a certified coach, and that influences the kinds of questions I ask and the way I’ve designed the experience.

But I’m not here to diagnose you, fix you or tell you what decision to make.

I’m here to help you hear yourself more clearly — and then do something with what you hear.

Do I have to drink champagne?

Absolutely not.

Coffee. Tea. Sparkling water. Wine. A glamorous Diet Coke.

Bring whatever you’re drinking.

The champagne is a state of mind. 🥂

What if I start and realize it’s not for me?

Then you have 14 days to let me know, and I’ll refund your $27.

No proving you completed everything.

No awkward justification required.

I’d much rather you try it than spend another six months wondering whether you should.

You don’t need every answer.
You just need enough curiosity to begin.

One last thing

Five days from now, you probably won’t have your whole life figured out.

Good.

That isn’t the goal.

Maybe you’ll apply for the job.
Maybe you’ll book the class.
Maybe you’ll go to the exhibition alone.
Maybe you’ll finally say what you want to do with the weekend.
Maybe you’ll protect two hours in your calendar.
Maybe you’ll send the message. Ask the question. Make the booking. Start the thing.

Or maybe the biggest shift is simply this:

You say,

“I want this.”

Without immediately apologizing for it.

That matters.

I’m not promising you a completely different life by Friday.

I’m promising you a different relationship with your own desires.

One where they don’t automatically get dismissed.

One where practicality gets a vote — but not the only vote.

One where you stop rejecting yourself before anyone else gets the chance.

I can’t promise everything will change.

And actually?

I don’t want everything to change.

I want one thing:

I want something to move.

A little curiosity.
A little courage.
One decision.
One experiment.

One tiny move that says:

I’m back in the conversation about my own life.

So come sit with me.

Let’s see what happens.

Five days. One move.
A life that feels more like yours.

Total standalone value: $162

Introductory price

$27

Start my Unapologetic Chapter — $27 →

10–15 min/day  ·  Start whenever you’re ready  ·  14-day guarantee

You don’t need permission from me.

But if you’ve been waiting for an invitation...

Consider this yours. 🥂

Claire Vidal - The Unapologetic Chapter@2026 - claire@vidalventures.com

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