A five-week magical mystery tour of your own life’s possibilities — and I’m your guide.

Elle is not about becoming a better woman. It's about becoming a more vivid one.

Five live Wednesdays. A small group of unusually awake women. And me as your guide — on a tour of possibilities you haven't yet let yourself imagine out loud.

You don't have to arrive with the answer. You just have to follow the pull.

You came here following something. A pull. A hunch. A something is calling and I don't quite have the words for it yet.

Maybe your life is largely good. Maybe parts of it are not. Maybe you've built something the world calls a success, or maybe you've built something quieter that you've never had to defend. Either way: there is a part of you that is still in motion — and you know it, even when you can't quite explain it.

The days have been drifting into each other. Nothing in particular to look forward to. Something inside you keeps trying to get your attention. You've been calling it a midlife thing, or a season, or a phase. Or you haven't named it at all.

There is a quieter version of this you may not have said out loud:

What is my purpose, now?
What am I still allowed to want?
What am I allowed to still believe is possible for me in this life?

You have been told, in a thousand small ways, that the asking is a problem to manage. A midlife crisis. A failure of gratitude. A sign of poor adjustment to aging. That maturity means making peace with what you have. That wanting more — at your age, in your life — is greedy, ungrateful, immature, late, unrealistic.

Elle is built on a different premise.

The yearning is not the problem. The yearning is the design.

It is the way a human being signals to herself that she is still in motion — still becoming, still alive at the level where evolution actually happens. Aristotle had a word for that motion: entelechy — the inner force that drives a living thing toward becoming what it is meant to be. The acorn becoming the oak. The bud becoming the flower. In a conscious being, that force is felt — as longing, as restlessness, as the pull toward what is calling. What you are calling yearning is the human experience of entelechy still operating in you.

The stirring is not a sign that something is wrong with you.

It is a sign that you are still here.

Elle is where you stop explaining the yearning away.

What’s eros? What’s moxie?

Both words have been made smaller than they are. We're taking them back.

EROS has been narrowed in modern usage to mean sexual desire. Its older and larger meaning is the primordial pull toward life itself — the generative force that draws a being toward what awakens it. Beauty pulls. Hunger pulls. Curiosity pulls. The painting that stops you mid-stride pulls. The afternoon light through the kitchen window pulls. The body wanting to be touched pulls. The work that has been knocking on your interior door for fifteen years pulls. The conversation you have been waiting your whole life to have pulls. Sex is one of Eros's expressions. So is the long bath. So is the meal you make slowly. So is the trip you finally take. Eros is every yes the body has ever said before the mind asked for a reason.

MOXIE has been narrowed too. Reduced to spunk, pluck, sass — a little woman with a little attitude. Its truer meaning is nerve. The willingness to answer what is calling, even when the voice shakes. The move toward what one loves, made on purpose. Moxie sends the note. Says what she actually thinks in the meeting. Draws the bath. Takes the afternoon. Buys the ticket. Tells the truth she has been managing for a decade. Names what she brought into the room. Because answering Eros is sometimes a private act and sometimes a public one — and Moxie is what makes either possible.

Eros without Moxie is longing without motion.

Moxie without Eros is hustle without a life.

Together: a woman who is finally inhabiting the life she has built.

Moxie and Eros belong in the same body.

Moxie is the part of you that makes the move.

Eros is the part of you that knows what is worth moving toward.

Most women have been trained to split them apart.

Moxie without Eros becomes hustle with better lipstick.

Eros without Moxie becomes longing with excellent taste.

Elle brings them back into conversation.

Over five weeks, we move through a simple sequence:

The Listening. You tune to your own signal.
The Unburdening. You put down what was never yours to carry.
The Wanting. You name what is actually calling.
The Reckoning. You see clearly and reach anyway.
The Moving. You move — in your actual life — with this room as witness.

So your desire has a body.

And your courage has somewhere delicious to go.

Here’s what you get

❦ A sharper read on your own aliveness — the difference between a true yes, a polite yes, a fear-dressed-as-discernment yes, and the dead little yes that keeps everyone comfortable except you.

❦ One real move already made — the email sent, the conversation had, the application submitted, the line drawn, the reservation booked. Not imagined. Not someday. Done.

❦ A new relationship with the voice that overrides you — the one that says, “Be practical,” when it means, “Stay small,” and “Be patient,” when it means, “Keep waiting indefinitely.”

❦ Desire restored as data, not drama — a signal you can read in your body, your calendar, your closet, your conversations, your bank account, and the places where you’ve been performing indifference beautifully.

❦ More appetite with better discernment — because wanting your life back does not mean saying yes to every seductive false yes.

❦ The ability to catch the approval-trained override in real time — before it volunteers you, silences you, edits you, apologizes for you, or turns your actual desire into something more convenient.

❦ A sequence you can use again — when fear gets persuasive, desire gets inconvenient, or the old version of you reaches for the wheel and says, “Don’t worry, I know how to keep us invisible.”

What’s on the table.

❦ Five 90-minute live sessions. Wednesdays, May 20 through June 17.

❦ Direct work with Deb. I lead every session myself — precise, alive, and attuned to what is actually moving in the room.

❦ A clear arc across five weeks. We’ll work with desire, discernment, appetite, beauty, self-trust, and the real-world moves that turn a woman's lights back on, focus them, and put her in motion.

❦ Curated resources. Readings, frameworks, prompts, and tools drawn from decades of study and practice — slipped under the door between sessions.

❦ Live coaching. In Weeks 2 and 4, we work in real time with what one or two women are moving through: a decision, a pattern, a move waiting to be made. Witnessed by the group. Useful to everyone.

❦ Witnessing rounds. Volunteer-based, in every session. Each woman who speaks is reflected back — not fixed, not flattened, not turned into a project.

❦ Practices between sessions. Each week closes with one act that crosses from inside to outside: the email sent, the class signed up for, the book begun, the bath drawn, the yes given. Small or large. Yours.

❦ A private community space. Stay connected between sessions.

❦ Meaningful conversation with kindred women who are being real. The kind of conversation where intelligence, tenderness, humor, and truth can all sit at the same table.

Yes, please.

GROUP SESSIONS (WEDNESDAYS):

May 20, 27 · June 3, 10, 17, 2026

All Elle sessions are conducted via Zoom and begin at:

4 pm LA · 6 pm CHI · 7 pm NY

Replays available if you can’t make a session live.

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Club Moxie members: use code MEMBERDISCOUNT at checkout for 10% off ($499.50).

Hi, I’m Deb.

Elle exists because the women in my practice have been asking me for a room they could afford that would actually move them.

What stirs in a woman is not always clear at first. Sometimes she knows exactly what she wants and has been waiting for permission to want it. Sometimes she does not yet know — only that something is moving in her that she has not let herself listen to. Either way, what she needs is the same: to get the parts of herself that have fallen out of sync back into right relationship — so that what she actually wants can be heard, and answered, on purpose, from a body that knows.

That is what Elle does. Five weeks. $555. A small group of grown women, held with precision, getting back in sync with themselves — and walking into whatever is next, big or small, on their own terms.

I have been doing the work behind this for forty years — across journalism, editorial leadership, brand voice, ritual, and one-to-one practice with women at thresholds. Ten years ago I named the work Moxie and started teaching it directly. The work has had many forms. What I do, in all of them, is help a woman see herself accurately enough — and love herself enough — to summon the courage to go after what turns her on. What makes her heart sing. What makes her neurons zing. What is, on a body level, hers. The seeing is the door. The loving is the ground she stands on. What she does with both, together with me, is the work.

AI has been part of my toolkit since early 2023 — a thinking partner for seeing patterns I couldn't see on my own. You'll get a glimpse of how that works inside the room.

I am also one of the women in the room. I’m 66, and I’m still in the work I’m teaching.

If you have read this far, you are probably ready to begin.

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"For the first time in my life, I realized I really am a special person. I'm not more special than anybody else, but nobody else is more special than I am."

Melanie Stanton, sr director
"You've given me my MOXIE back."

Diane Reed, CEO + author
“The everyday had pulled me into inertia. The work reconnected me to the possibility of being a vibrant, beautiful woman."

Carole Baumgart, marketing executive

FAQs

Five live 90-minute Zoom sessions, one per week, Wednesdays May 20 through June 17, 2026, at 7 pm Eastern. Sessions are recorded if you have to miss one. Elle is designed to be experienced live. That's where the work happens.
Elle is for you if:
- You have done real interior work, and you are not interested in turning your life into another self-improvement project.
- You are reaching for something larger, but you do not want to wait until you feel perfectly ready, healed, solvent, certain, organized, or approved.
- You are tired of treating desire like a suspicious character who needs to show three forms of identification before entering the room.
- You suspect the next move is not more information. It is more appetite, more discernment, and one honest move made in your actual life.
- You are hungry for meaningful conversation with kindred women who are smart, generous, funny, and being real.
Three things. The work brings Moxie and Eros back into one body — desire and the courage to answer it, practiced as one. The room moves slowly enough for real work to happen, and nothing in it is asking you to perform. And the room is small by design — intimate enough that no one disappears, structured enough that real work happens.
Elle is probably not the right room if:
- You are looking for someone to fix you.
- You are in acute crisis and need clinical support.
- You want to rehearse old wounds without moving.
- You prefer insight without appetite.
- You are staying loyal to a version of yourself you have already outgrown.Item description
Every session is recorded. Elle is designed to be experienced live, but if a conflict arises, the recording is there and the cohort holds the space.
Because Elle is a small, intimate cohort, your registration is non-refundable. Please say yes on purpose.
Club Moxie is our ongoing private community — the living room of the Moxie world. Club Moxie members receive 10% off Elle with code MEMBERDISCOUNT at checkout.