E3: Free to Say Yes to Me & My Family with Maria Newman

About Maria

Maria Newman is a coach who helps high-achieving professionals and business owners overcome the challenges in their lives so they move from feeling overwhelmed and overlooked to confident, fulfilled, and thriving. Some of her clients come with specific challenges — like a loss of confidence, tricky dynamics at work or home, or recovery after a major life shift. Others can’t name it yet — they just know something doesn’t feel right anymore. She designed her signature Shift Sessions as three focused conversations to get to the heart of what’s really going on, to slow things down, name what’s underneath, and create space to move forward with clarity and intention.

As well as coaching, Maria is a published author, podcast host of ‘Rising From the Rubble’, and host of online networking group YaaMas.

Summary

In episode three of Never Too Late to Dream, Caroline interviews Maria Newman, a coach who helps women overcome challenges. Maria shares her journey from a corporate career at Rolls Royce to starting her own business. Inspired by her life coach, Anna Duckworth, she transitioned from promoting local artists to coaching professionals and business owners. She emphasises the importance of setting boundaries, as her experience with her parents’ business influenced her desire for a better work-life balance. Maria’s advice includes embracing mindset shifts and making the most of your existing skills. She defines success as the freedom to choose her own path and dreams of a future in the countryside with her family and a beautiful kitchen. Her theme song is Freedom! ’90 by George Michael.

Highlights

What do you do?

(0:01:44) “I got to where I am today, which is helping professionals and business owners to become unstuck, and their unstuckness is usually tied up in their mindset because the one thing that will always stand in our way is ourselves.”

What is your dream?

(0:03:54) “My dream, having gone through corporate, was to start my own business.”

What stopped you from going for your dream?

(0:13:21) “It was the experience of living my parents’ dream… the biggest hurdle for me actually coming around to starting my own business was based on the experience I’d already had, which is having to give up stuff, and I wasn’t willing to give up anything.”

How did you get unstuck?

(0:15:18) “It’s all about boundaries, deciding how you want to live your life, and sticking very much to those boundaries.”

What advice would you give your younger self?

(0:19:12) “Just keep doing what feels right, and it’ll all turn out well.”

Is there anything you’d do differently?

(0:20:33) “I wasn’t starting from zero. I may have been walking into being a business owner for the first time. However, I was bringing a wealth of knowledge and skills with me.”

What does success mean to you?

(0:23:38) “Every morning when I get up, my day is shaped by the choices that I make, and I am free to make those choices.”

Where do you see yourself in the future?

(0:26:22) “We want to buy a beautiful house in the countryside… a home, a beautiful kitchen… a kitchen that feeds people with love.”

What would you say to someone who’s put their dream on the back burner?

(0:28:06) “What are you waiting for?… If it’s on the back burner, is it really a dream? Do you really want it? Why wait?”

Maria’s Links

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-newman/
• Ways to work with Maria: learn more
• Book a FREE Ignite Your Life Coaching Call: Book
• Get the Book ‘Your New Chapter’: Buy
• Complete your life assessment: Download
• Book onto a YaaMas online networking meeting : learn more

Dream Theme Song

Freedom! ’90 – George Michael

Next Guest

Keith Blakemore-Noble (Ep4): https://keithblakemorenoble.com