Starting you up
Entrepreneurship as your second act? Ladies who Launch is an initiative designed to support seasoned professional women in launching their own startup or business. See it as a mini-accelerator, particularly suited for women with work and life experience! Its core value lies in its tailored support & curated community.
Transforming Aspirations into Action
Why Ladies who Launch?
Many women aged 35-55 feel the urge to build something for themselves, create meaningful impact, or gain more freedom and control in their careers. But the transition from a stable corporate role to entrepreneurship often comes with doubts:
Where do I even start?
Is this too risky?
What if it doesn’t work out?
Am I too late to begin?
You're not alone - these are the challenges every new entrepreneur faces. Ladies Who Launch exists to help you navigate this journey with clarity, confidence, and a supportive community of like-minded women, so you can achieve that freedom and fulfilment that comes with entrepreneurship.
Your challenges, solved
When leaving corporate careers to start a venture, people often struggle with:
- Shifting from corporate to entrepreneurial thinking – How do you (re)define success, manage risk, and structure your time when there’s no boss setting deadlines?
- Loneliness & self-doubt – The shift from working in teams to working alone can be isolating. Finding a tribe that understands your challenges is crucial.
- Selling yourself & your business – Whether you’re creating a product or a service, you need to sell it - something many professionals have never had to do before.
- Overcoming chaos & procrastination – No one tells you what to do next. Structuring your time effectively is key to keeping momentum.
How we help
Think of Ladies who Launch as a mini-accelerator for women who choose entrepreneurship as their second act.
The programme delivers highly personalised guidance & mentoring for professional women at the beginning of their entrepreneurial journeys for a smooth start, supported by a peer community of like-minded women.
It transforms aspirations into action, shapes ideas and boosts confidence.
What do participants gain from joining?
Entrepreneurial Mindset Training
Entrepreneurial Mindset Training
Entrepreneurial Mindset Training
Learn how to balance confidence with execution, dream big while staying strategic, and embrace learning as a lifelong process.
Step-by-step Venture building
Entrepreneurial Mindset Training
Entrepreneurial Mindset Training
Based on hundereds of success cases, this proven methodology helps you to set up the fundaments of your venture.
Personalised Roadmap
Entrepreneurial Mindset Training
Personalised Roadmap
No two journeys are the same. Our programme includes personalised guidance to help you create a clear roadmap for the next 6-18-36 months.
Curated Community
Entrepreneurial Mindset Training
Personalised Roadmap
You’ll be surrounded by other women navigating similar transitions, providing support, accountability, and inspiration.
Become part of it!
You bring the idea. We help you gain commercial traction.
Join the next Cohort or Intensive and build that something of your own!
The Programme: Mindset + Venture building + Mentoring
1 - Mindset building (Masterclasses)
2 - Venture building (self-guided with support)
2 - Venture building (self-guided with support)
Mindset building - a series of five 90 minute Masterclasses, building the entrepreneurial mindset that is essential for sustainable success. Topics include how to balance ego and positioning, dreaming big and effective execution, energy management, and building an always-be-learning mindset. Conversations and integration on these topics takes place in the fortnightly Cohort Coaching sessions, happening in the alternating weeks.
2 - Venture building (self-guided with support)
2 - Venture building (self-guided with support)
2 - Venture building (self-guided with support)
Venture building - building your startup takes effort, but you don’t have to do it alone! The Venture Framework provides a structured, step-by-step methodology combined with 1:1 check-ins to keep you on track. With 8 units and 50+ bite-sized modules (10-15 min each), you’ll gain practical, actionable insights and make steady progress at your own pace. This flexible, independent approach ensures you can build your venture in a way that fits your schedule, with expert guidance to support you along the way.
The Venture Map is also available stand-alone.
Cohort Coaching & 1:1 Mentoring
2 - Venture building (self-guided with support)
Cohort Coaching & 1:1 Mentoring
At Ladies who Launch, you don’t just learn — you grow alongside a powerful cohort of like-minded women. Through structured group coaching sessions, you’ll gain insights, accountability, and support from peers navigating similar transitions. Complemented by personalised 1:1 mentoring - because no 2 paths are the same - the programme ensures every participant gets tailored guidance to shape her venture, overcome roadblocks, and build with confidence.
Peer Community: support and getting stuff done, together.
Entrepreneurship can be lonely.
As a starting entrepreneur, the journey can be lonely and overwhelming, especially when coming from a career in a corporate, where there are structures, boundaries and people to work with every day. Ladies who Launch solves that problem through a well-curated cohort for collaboration, accountability, soundboarding and celebrating successes, together.
Is this for me?
This programme is for you if you are:
- a woman with work and life experience
- at the beginning of your entrepreneurial journey (idea stage to recently launched)
- looking for a community of like-minded women to comfortably connect, build, brainstorm, vent, learn, grow and find re-assurance with
- Appreciate a structure and something/someone to be accountable to
Get in Touch
I'd love to hear from you!
Email: hester@hesterspiegel.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hesterspiegelvandensteenhoven
WhatsApp: +6581807364