Your next move is already in you.
For women at the edge of change who can’t see their next step, yet.
A nature-led experience that helps you quiet the noise,
trust your gut and find your way forward.
You’re standing at a crossroads.
Part of you is ready to move.
But another part keeps asking, “Which move is the right one to make?”
Whether it’s a turning point in life, career or your business, the edge of change feels the same.
You feel the pull to move, but the uncertainty ahead stops you in your tracks. So you go looking for one more gut-check before you leap:
The course you convince yourself you need to be taken seriously
The friend you ask for the hundredth time, “what would you do if you were me?”
The busyness you pile on as proof you don’t need to jump at all
That swirl isn’t wrong, it’s resistance, and it’s how you know you’re standing at the edge.
The edge is full of uncertainty. It keeps you up at night and leaves the door wide open for the imposter to walk in, if you let it.
But there is a way through it with more clarity and confidence, and I created The Forest’s Edge to help you find your way.
Now is the time to stop second-guessing and start following your own compass.
Hi, I’m Marissa,
your wayfinding guide
After 22 years swept up in the hustle of Fortune 500 consulting, I felt stuck. I knew I needed a change, but uncertainty pinned me down and made it hard to see through a sea of possibilities.
So I took real time away. One month unplugged from work and plugged into everyday moments and nature. I did it because I needed to find clarity, but I ended up finding something far more valuable.
I found that nature unlocked something that my corporate, strategic mind rarely accessed:
a deep trust in my own direction.
So I started sharing the experience with other women. Testing a hypothesis that something unique and eye opening happens when we take our biggest questions out into nature.
I learned that the same nature-led practice I use, also helped other women find the deeper answers they need to move forward in the face of change.
I’m on a mission to help 1,000 women (in 2027) reconnect to nature so they can find their way forward in a world that is changing fast.
And, I’d love for you to be one of them!
Meet me at the Forest’s Edge
The Forest’s Edge is a nature-based, guided experience
that helps you figure out your next step forward.
Nature opens something in us that no laptop ever will: access to a deeper wisdom that only shows up when we step out of the daily grind.
That’s what The Forest’s Edge is designed to help you do - step out of the grind and into your own wisdom.
In nature, the forest’s edge is where two worlds collide. It’s the most chaotic part of the forest, and it’s also where the most diversity and growth is possible. Scientists call this the ‘edge effect’. I call it the meeting place.
Every time you step through change, it’s like being at the edge of two worlds colliding. You know you’re ready for what comes next, but you don’t have a clear map forward, yet.
The edge feels uncertain right before you jump. That’s when you start looking for answers outside of yourself. The world is full of people ready to tell you what you should do next. But you don’t need their map to move this time.
The Forest’s Edge is where you remember how to find your own way forward.
Laptops down. Phones away. Step outside & find your way forward.
What edge of change are you standing at?
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You checked all the boxes and followed the recipe to a tee. And suddenly you’re standing in a life that fits more like an itchy sweater than the cashmere you were promised. Change is the only thing you really crave. And you know the next thing can’t be just anything, it has to be worthy of who you’ve become.
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Every leap before this, you trusted yourself and jumped. But something about this one carries more weight. The pull feels so real, you can’t NOT follow it, but there is a part of you that is afraid to step all the way in. So you keep checking, looking for more certainty than ever, even though deep down you know the point of it all is to take a step without it.
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The role you sacrificed to hold on to suddenly got stripped away. The marriage you were sure about became something you needed to leave. One part of you is grieving and the other is relieved. Now you're looking for a next step that is fully yours to make.
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You’re standing on a foundation that took years to build, but life has changed and so have your dreams. To walk forward, you know you have to set something down, but there’s something almost sad about leaving that piece of you behind. You’re looking for the clarity, and the conviction, to set it down with grace to make room for what comes next.
What if I told you you don’t need someone else’s certainty to make your next move?
There is a version of you with a mind clear enough to see her own needs. She knows how to walk through uncertainty with clarity and conviction to follow her next dream. That version of you isn't lost, she has simply been waiting to be heard.
You'll find her at the Forest's Edge.
I wasn't entirely sure what two hours outdoors was going to accomplish. Turns out, quite a lot.
I'd gone in with a business question on my mind. And at some point, I realized I'd turned it into a pretty binary choice in my head. There was option A and option B, and I was trying to figure out which one was right. But as I sat and walked in nature, and Marissa guided our thinking, I started seeing all new possibilities in between. Maybe I didn't actually have to choose between A and B. Maybe I'd just stopped looking for C, D and E. I came away from this experience with more clarity about the question I'd brought with me, but also with a reminder I want to hang onto: Sometimes thinking harder isn't what gets us unstuck. Sometimes we need to change the conditions we're thinking in.
Thank you, Marissa, for getting me out of my office and giving me the space to see something I wasn't seeing before.
Ann Melinger, CEO bink.