"Six months later I was asked to create a new departmentStephanie — Sales Director
and chair the company's leadership roundtable."
For high-achieving women who need to say the hard thing —
without losing the person. No-nonsense. Full heart.
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"Six months later I was asked to create a new departmentStephanie — Sales Director
and chair the company's leadership roundtable."
You have the words. You've repeated them in your head.
Maybe a hundred times.
And still — you haven't said it.
Sometimes it's personal — the partner who locks up the moment you try to get your point across. Sometimes it's professional — a controlling boss, male leaders, an investor — who meet your message with a wall. Either way: masculine energy meets masculine. And it clashes.
Because you know how this goes. You say it and it comes out wrong. Too masculine and the person shuts down. Too much feminine and nothing changes. Or you hold it in — keep the peace — and quietly carry the weight of it.
Most high-achieving women have built everything from drive, logic, force. The masculine edge that got them here. But in the hard conversation, that same drive either fires too hard — or swings to its opposite, people-pleasing to compensate. Neither lands.
What's missing isn't power. It's the feminine intelligence they set aside on the way up — the warmth, the presence, the ability to hold strong intention and stay warm at the same time.
You haven't been taught how to say the hard thing and stay no-nonsense and warm at the same time. Not because you found the right words — but because you found the right state first, in your body, not your mind. That's what changes it. That's what you'll learn here.
*Research: Albert Mehrabian, cited in Forbes
That means 93% of how your message is received has nothing to do with your words.
And yet boardrooms, investor pitches, and high-stakes meetings are won or lost on those 93%.
When your nervous system is tight or rushed — the room feels it.
When you are grounded and anchored — the room responds.
"Before people decide what they think of your message, they decide what they think of you. Leaders are judged first on warmth and competence. Competence without warmth leaves people feeling suspicious."
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You learned to protect yourself from it.
The missing piece isn't better words or a smarter approach. It's the feminine intelligence you set aside on the way up — the ability to hold strong intention and warmth at the same time, in your body, so the hard thing lands without breaking the connection.
Bringing down the armour — without losing your power. That's the Warm Edge. And it can be learned.
Calm & Unshakeable
A grounded internal anchor that holds during the hard conversation — no flooding, no shutting down, no losing yourself under pressure.
Intention That Shifts the Conversation
A physical state of strong intention you can raise consciously before you go in — so you enter for connection, not combat.
Warmth as Your Edge
The ability to hold strong intention and warmth at the same time — so your directness doesn't cost you the relationship.
Pride as Anchor
Not arrogance. Pride that is deeply internal and needs no comparison — held in the body as an unshakeable anchor. The final element that brings everything together, so you can say the hard thing with warmth.
You bring a real conversation you've been carrying — with a partner, a boss, an investor. One you know you need to have, but haven't found the way. We work it live. Each round, you go deeper — stripping out the protection, finding the voice underneath.
You find out which pattern is running you — over-driving or over-yielding — through the body, not the mind. When you're truly met by Chen through a felt experience, what's been quietly costing your outcomes starts to surface and release. Women who felt their intention at a 5 left at 9 — not from motivation, from finding a state inside them that is more powerful.
Push harder to be heard, or soften to seem approachable — most high-achieving women default to one at the cost of the other. Too much masculine. Too much feminine. Sabrosura is the third way: authority and warmth in the same breath. Your body learns to hold strong intention and warmth at the same time — and say the hard thing without losing the room or the relationship.
Most high-achieving women have been quietly trained not to own their achievements — pride feels too close to arrogance. It isn't. Pride is deeply internal: feeling good about who you are and what you've built, without needing it to make you better than anyone. You surface your proudest moments and hold them in the body as emotional anchors. Then it all comes together — elegance, intention, sabrosura, and pride — practiced as one. The shift: from the girl who manages herself to the woman who walks in whole.
One needed to speak to the man she loves — without it turning into blame. When she first delivered it, her words were clear. Her logic was sound. But her heart was behind a wall — and from behind that wall, her message sounded like an accusation. Not an opening.
We worked together. Each round, she dropped deeper — stripping away the protection, finding the voice underneath. And then something shifted. She delivered it crying — in her full power, completely vulnerable. From a place so open, so unguarded, so real — that every woman in that room got goosebumps. Including me.
Participant: "It's so hard to speak with emotions."
Chen: "It's hard because it makes us vulnerable. But if you don't touch him with your emotions — how will he understand what it means for you? It's not about the facts."
The other needed to speak to her boss — a controlling man. And in his presence, something shifted in her. She's completely competent. She knows exactly what she's doing. But when he treated her as small, she felt small — and she felt she needed to prove herself. She was either pulling back or pushing too hard — voice rising, body bracing.
So instead of softening her voice, I gave her body protection to hold — so she no longer needed volume to compensate. When she felt that in her body, her voice changed on its own. Calm. Clear. Impossible to dismiss.
The third session, something different happened.
Different women were asked to say the same hard sentence — first with force, then with people-pleasing. They felt in their bodies how neither worked.
Then 20 minutes of Sabrosura practices. And then: say the hard thing again — this time with strong intention and love in your heart simultaneously.
It felt strange. Wrong, even. Two energies that don't belong together.
Participant: "I felt strong but still vulnerable at the same time. I had never felt that before."
Participant: "I realized it doesn't have to be powerful in a forceful way. You still have the love — but you can be non-nonsense in a loving way."
This is what happens inside the program.
"I had been so afraid of addressing it — but on Sunday it suddenly felt completely natural. I was so calm and clear while still being able to express everything that had been upsetting me. I asked more questions than making statements. He stayed very open. The very next day, he invited me to dinner and introduced me to his son. It feels like a blocker in our relationship has finally been resolved."Program Participant
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"I attended Chen's workshop in NYC. If you want to be successful personally and professionally. Chen Lizra avoids the pitfalls of business skills and techniques and instead takes you to the heart of the matter: the human factor. The body, our primary home, is where we learn to love, trust, and act. Chen brings you home, and restores connection. You take off for your highest reach."Esther Perel — Psychotherapist, 2× NYT Bestselling Author
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"If you feel like you're not showing up at work consistently how you want to show up, come learn how from Chen — I feel so much stronger at work now that I know how to channel my strength."Jeni Merino — Business Analyst
Chen Lizra is a Somatic Intelligence expert with over 13 years of experience, 13 million views on her TED Talk, a 2025 Stevie Award winner, and a 2024 Global Recognition Award winner. She has spent over a decade working with high-achieving women on the conversations that cost them most — using the body as the primary tool for change. Because 93% of communication is non-verbal.
The hard thing doesn't land from a script. It lands from an embodied state.
Four sessions. A shift that changes every hard conversation you face.
What's Included
25 seats only. Once full, next cohort date TBD.
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"After years of business coaching and still feeling something was missing, Chen showed me the difference between 'doing' and 'being.' Learning to align the two changed everything. I experience far less anxiety, my presence in rooms has shifted, and my relationships have markedly improved."Sheryl L. Houch — Founder, Cash Offers Consultants
"I finally understand what it means to feel grounded and connected — and how that transforms the way I show up professionally. It's been transformative in how I think, move, and lead. My only regret is I didn't find Chen sooner."Aiki Altmets — Founder & COO
Yes. Chen leads every session live. You'll receive personal feedback from her directly — on your state, your delivery, how your message lands. This is not a facilitated group, it's Chen's work, delivered directly.
All sessions are recorded and replays are available for one month. That said, the live experience — the somatic work, the breakout rooms, the group energy — cannot be replicated in a recording. We strongly encourage attending live.
If you give us 48 hours' notice before a session, we might be able to carry your spot to the next cohort. Cancellations are non-refundable, though your spot may be transferred to another qualified female founder or executive if she meets the criteria. Cancellations with less than 48 hours' notice are non-refundable and non-transferable.
You will practice out loud, in the group, and in pairs in breakout rooms. It's challenging — and that's the point. The group is intentionally small, professionally curated, and the environment is built for safety. You will be stretched, not exposed.
Executive coaching works top-down — from insight to behaviour. Communications programs teach what to say and how to structure it. This works from the body up. Most hard conversations fail not because the words are wrong — but because the state underneath them isn't right. That's what we train here.
Four sessions. A shift that changes every hard conversation you face.
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