Elle

A five-week immersion for the woman who is ready to stop auditioning for her own life

Elle is a five-week live immersion where you’ll recover the signal of desire, practice acting from it, and make one real-world move before the program ends.

What are you saving it for?

The good china. The lingerie. The laugh you've been swallowing in meetings. The desire you keep calling indulgent. The trip. The afternoon. The yes you have not given yourself permission to give.

It's a big juicy fruit out there, and you're living on crackers over the sink.

People don't regret what they didn't get done. They regret who they didn't get to be.

They regret not giving themselves permission to live the life that was wanting to get lived through them.

This is for the woman who has done the work. Built the life. Walks into rooms where people are waiting to hear her speak. And underneath the ease — the fluency, the earned presence — knows she is still performing for a jury that dismissed itself decades ago, and has not quite stopped.

She is also the woman who has stopped cooking on Sundays for no reason. Who hasn't taken the trip. Who deferred the desire so quietly she barely noticed.

Elle is five weeks of stopping the override.

Both halves of it. The room she shrinks in and the table she stands up at. The boardroom and the bath. The pitch and the pomegranate.

Not therapy. Not a course. Not a place to rehearse old wounds. A room of grown women, held with precision, walking into their own lives without apologizing on the way in.

Hi, I’m Deb.

I’m the founder of Moxie and the practitioner of The Long Seeing — a methodology I’ve been refining for thirty-five years across journalism, editorial leadership, organizational transformation, and one-to-one practice with women at thresholds.

My work lives at the intersection of narrative intelligence, developmental pattern recognition, embodied practice, and decades of helping women see what they could not yet see for themselves.

The Long Seeing is the practice of recognizing the patterns that run across a life — and helping a woman see herself with the kind of distance that finally makes them visible.

In practice, this means we look at the pattern beneath the pattern: where you learned to mute yourself, where that still costs you, and what move would restore authority now.

I’m an alumna of Chip Conley’s Modern Elder Academy. After my imaginal intelligence workshop landed the way it did with the Atlanta chapter, MEA invited me to offer it to all of their alumni chapters.

Elle is where this methodology becomes teachable for the first time.

I built Elle because the women in my work have been asking me, in different ways, for the same thing: a room where they can stop overriding what they know, recover the full voltage of what they carry, and bring all of themselves into every room they walk into — including the ones where they have been quietly shrinking for years.

Sit Down at the Table →

Her name is Elle.

Elle is French for she. One syllable. One pronoun. One whole woman.

I met her in a small flamenco club in Barcelona. She had to have been seventy. She was not performing youth. She was not performing authority. She was not performing at all. She swooped onto that small stage and the room went quiet around her — precise, ferocious, entirely herself. She caught each person with her eyes. Not seducing. Seeing.

That is Elle. The woman who walks into any room and it reorganizes itself around her — not because she is performing, but because she has stopped pretending she is not, in fact, on fire.

Here she is:

What actually happens inside Elle

You listen differently.
You begin noticing the desire, no, yes, resentment, longing, and aliveness you have been overriding.

You see the pattern.
You identify where the override was installed and how it still shapes your choices.

You practice moving.
Each week asks for one lived experiment — private or public, small or brave.

You make one real move.
Before Elle ends, you take one material action your future self can stand on.

The two forces you’re recovering.

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

EROS is not just sex. Eros is the pull toward life itself — the generative force that draws you toward what awakens you. The coffee in Paris. The bread torn with your hands. The laugh you can't hold back. The way your body knows yes before your mind finds the word.

MOXIE is the nerve to answer Eros when she calls. She sends the note. Names what she brought into the room. Says what she actually thinks. And also draws the bath, takes the afternoon, buys the ticket — because answering Eros is a private act as often as it is a public one.

Eros without Moxie is longing without motion.

Moxie without Eros is hustle without a life.

Together: a woman in full possession of herself. Every room. Same voltage.

Elle is the choreography that brings them back into one body.

Five movements. Five weeks. A sequence she carries for the rest of her life.

Eros pulls. Moxie moves.

The Listening

She tunes to her own signal. The work begins by getting quiet enough to hear what is actually being said — by her body, by her life, by the wanting she has been talking over for years. We open with a jolt, and then with quiet. She meets the larger version of herself that has been there the whole time. Moxie and Eros land, reclaimed at full size, as the two forces she'll be bringing back online together.

She begins listening on purpose, twice a day, for what she has been talking over.
The Unburdening

She puts down what she's been carrying that isn't hers. The habitual override of her inner knowing is not her character flaw — it was installed. By family, by lineage, by culture, by the century she was born into. Once she sees it, she stops feeding it. The unburdening is not a loss. It is the lightening that happens when she stops carrying someone else's instructions about who she is allowed to be.

Honored, then walked past.
The Wanting

She names what she wants — out loud, in her body, on purpose. Desire returns as directional intelligence, the body's compass. The oranges on the counter because they're gorgeous. The bath drawn for no reason. The trip she stopped explaining. The yes that arrived in her body before her mind asked for a reason.
This is the week she starts romancing her own life — not as recovery. As a claim.
The Reckoning

She sees fully — and reaches anyway. Full-bandwidth knowing — body, field, imagination, reason — all of it data, all of it legitimate. She practices holding the hard fact in one hand and the luminous desire in the other, and walking forward holding both. The lens shifts from fear to love. Same facts. Different moves. This is where Moxie starts being taught: the capacity to see truly — about a job, a relationship, a boundary, a yes, a no — and reach anyway.

The body's clean yes and clean no, restored as legitimate intelligence.
The Making

She makes the move that creates the thing. Interior becomes exterior. Knowing becomes life. She walks out of Elle with one irreversible move — something she has done, is doing, or will do before a specific date, with the room as witness. The conversation had. The email sent. The application submitted. The line drawn. The thing released. The thing claimed.
Small or large, but material. The world is now different because she moved.

You will leave Elle with one luscious move already made — and a way of moving through the rest of your life that you will not be able to un-know.

The sequence is yours now.

When we gather.

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

Each session runs 90 minutes.

17 seats remaining.

What’s on the table.

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

❦ Direct practitioner transmission. Deb leads every session herself. The container is held with precision.

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

❦ The Inner Symphony framework. The organizing teaching across all five weeks — that the woman in the room is not broken. Her energies are out of relationship. The work is not repair. The work is conducting.

❦ Live coaching in the room. In Weeks 2 and 4, real-time engagement with what one or two women are working through — a decision, a pattern, a move waiting to be made. Witnessed by everyone present.

❦ Witnessing rounds. Volunteer-based, in every session. Each woman who speaks is reflected back — not coached, witnessed. The Long Seeing operating live, in front of the room.

❦ 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 in contact with the cohort between sessions.

❦ A room of women at your altitude. Some of them you'll keep.

❦ A closing benediction. Not a certificate. A sending.

You are a system to conduct.

You are not a problem to solve.

Is Elle for you?

Elle is for the grown woman who has done the work, built the life, and knows — privately, most days without letting herself feel it — that something is still waiting to come out.

Not a deficit. A summons. A wanting she has kept small because small was the price of keeping things pleasant. A voice kept quiet because quiet was the price of being easy to love.

She is tired of the gap between the woman people think she is and the woman she knows herself to be — the one who stops at the flower, cries at the cello, wants to put on the dress and dance and say the thing and stop being so fucking manageable.

She doesn't need rescuing. Nothing is missing. She needs a room where she stops holding it in.

Elle is that room.

This is for you if

You have done real work on yourself. You're not a beginner.

You've built a life with substance. The external metrics no longer orient you.

You can feel, in the quiet, that something is waiting. Something you've been overriding.

You walk into rooms you once had to prove yourself in, and you are ready to stop proving and start arriving.

You can hold intellectual rigor and embodied surrender in the same breath.

You are tired of work that only lets you bring half of yourself.

You've become selective about your time, and you know exactly why.

Your interior development has outpaced the structures around you. You’re ready for the structures to catch up.

You are ready to stop curating the evidence of your past and start making the moves that belong to your future.

This is not for you if

You're looking for someone to fix you.

You are in acute crisis and need clinical support.

You want to rehearse old wounds without moving.

You're staying loyal to a version of yourself you've already outgrown.

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“The her I uncovered and let out to play is someone who loves herself and everyone else.

As a verb.

Someone who accepts help, gifts, love, and success with gratitude, and but of course.

Someone who experiences disappointment and is not silenced by it.

Someone who has herself to give to the world.

Whether she does anything or not, she is cherished and priceless.”

— Letitia Johnson

"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

Pull up a chair — Elle begins Wednesday, May 20, 2026.

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(With the Club Moxie discount, your tuition is just $499.50)

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"The course caused me to take leaps in my life rather than little snail movements. It empowered me to stop playing it safe."

— Monica Dashwood, professional coach

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"The energy is so palpable. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. That's an intimacy that I don't think we often get to experience."

— Sue Perisi, intuitive healer

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"Deb's wise and soulful leadership models vulnerable sharing in a way that helps women drop down to deep work immediately."

— Joann Hershberger Henderson, psychotherapist

Questions you might be holding.

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.
Grown women who have done the work, built the life, and know — in the quiet — that they have been overriding something. See Is Elle for you above for fuller detail. If reading that section made your chest open, you are in the right room.
Three things. Elle is the first teachable expression of The Long Seeing — a methodology refined across thirty-five years. The container is held in whale energy: spacious, unhurried, never extractive. And the work is the integration of Moxie and Eros — the two deepest forces in a woman's life, taught and practiced as one.
The Long Seeing is the practice of recognizing the patterns that run across a life — what installs them, what reinforces them, and what is now possible if a woman sees herself from enough distance to navigate from there. It's the methodology underneath every session in Elle.
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.

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This is the table.

This is the room.

Walk in.