The Pretirement
Blueprint™
A 180-day 1:1 hybrid mentorship for GenX professionals who want to turn 20+ years of expertise into a coaching income that closes the retirement gap.
- ✦ No certification required
- ✦ No audience to build first
- ✦ No quitting your job before you begin
You're not here to learn
how to be a coach.
You're here to finally get paid for what you've been doing for free.
If you're a GenX professional who's been quietly building a coaching Plan B (on nights and weekends, in between everything else) you're not starting from zero. You've taken programs. You've downloaded frameworks. You've filled notebooks. You've thought about your niche, your offer, your brand. A lot.
You just don't have paying clients yet. And that's not a knowledge problem. It's a game problem.
The Pretirement Blueprint™ is a 180-day 1:1 high-touch hybrid mentorship for GenX professionals who already have the expertise and need the system to package it, price it, and put it in front of the people who will pay for it.
- 1 Your first three paying clients in the first 90 days
- 2 A coaching income running alongside your job, not instead of it
- 3 A clear path to $10K–$20K/month built on credentials, not content
If you've done the retirement math and the numbers don't work…
If people have been coming to you for advice your entire career, for free…
If you're done circling "someday" and ready to actually build…
This is where we start.
The problem isn't your experience.
It's the game you've been playing.
There are two completely different games in the business space. Most GenX women trying to build a coaching practice are playing the wrong one, working twice as hard because of it.
When someone in your world needs help, they shouldn't have to compare you to five other coaches. They should think: "Obviously, I should work with her."
It didn't start working when I worked harder.
It started working when I built from what I already knew.
I exited a consciousness business that did $1.4M in lifetime revenue. I rebuilt from scratch in 2024.
Not because I had a bigger platform or a better certification. Because I had a system for packaging lived expertise into a business that actually runs.
"The Pretirement Blueprint™ exists to put that same system in your hands, so the next 15 years of your working life fund the retirement your 401k never will."
Is this you?
The Pretirement Blueprint™ is designed for GenX professionals who already have the expertise — and are ready to charge for it.
"When someone in your warm network needs help, they shouldn't have to compare you to five other coaches.
They should think: obviously, I should work with her.
That's what premium positioning builds."
Here's what we build together
over 6 months.
Everything inside The Pretirement Blueprint™ is built around one outcome: your first three paying clients. Not theory. A working coaching business, built from what you already know.
Before we build anything, we run the real numbers. What you actually need to save each month for the next 15 years to retire without depending on Social Security. Once you see it clearly, the coaching business stops being an interesting idea and becomes the only rational plan.
Twenty-five years of high-stakes professional life leaves a mark. Most women at this stage are running on a stress-wired nervous system optimized for survival, not for the bold, visible action that signs clients. We fix that before we build anything. Less than 15 minutes a day.
One person. One problem. Positioning so clear the right people recognize themselves immediately, with pricing that reflects 25 years of expertise, not a certification you got last year. We angle your offer toward the leading, stable end of your market. About 30 minutes once the inputs are clear.
Something complete enough to sell and compelling enough that the right person says finally when they hear it. Your promise, proof, process, price, and risk reversal, output directly into a Google Doc and a visual model you can pitch from tomorrow. No website needed.
This is where we fully exit the research loop. We build your Warm 75: a list of people who already know you, drawn from your phone, LinkedIn, and email. Then we run a Power Start: 30 real conversations in 30 days using The Seed Session Scripts™. Out of those 30, we aim for your first three paying clients. Not content. Not ads. Real conversations with people who already trust you.
GenX professionals who stopped giving it away.
She had 700 people in her Facebook group. Not 7,000. 700. She already had her first 10 coaching clients signed into her 16-week program. Not because she had a massive platform. Because her premium positioning gave her the confidence to reach out and connect.
She committed to the Seed Conversation system and something interesting happened. She signed one client. Then two more, five days later. Not because she had a huge following. Her premium positioning gave her the confidence to reach out and connect with the people already in her world.
She landed her first coaching client from just 5 warm conversations. Not a funnel. Not a launch. Five conversations with people who already knew her, with a clear offer and the right positioning to make the ask.
Not a plan.
A practice.
- 1 Your retirement number, and a coaching income target that closes it
- 2 A rewired baseline so the woman who shows up to conversations is confident, not white-knuckling
- 3 Positioning that's unmistakably yours: one person, one problem, rates that reflect your track record
- 4 An offer you can sell tomorrow: complete, priced, in a Google Doc
- 5 Paying clients, signed through real conversations with your warm market
Three clients. Real income.
The math starts working.
This is a hybrid, high-touch mentorship. You get direct 1:1 access to Christel for your build, supported underneath by a community of women headed in the same direction.
When you get stuck, you have three places to turn: Christel directly, the program content, and a group of builders who understand exactly where you are. The attention is personal. The support is layered.
A hybrid mentorship,
not a course.
Over 6 months, you get direct 1:1 access to Christel for your build, weekly private coaching calls, and group coaching and community support underneath it. Three layers of support: Christel directly, the program content to reference when you're stuck, and a group of women building in the same direction. The 1:1 work drives your practice. The rest makes sure you're never without somewhere to turn.
- ◎ 12 weekly live modules, released in sequence
- ◎ 24 weekly 1:1 coaching calls: direct feedback on your implementation
- ◎ The Vague Slayer™ retirement calculator
- ◎ The Rewiring Duo™ daily practice (less than 15 min/day)
- ◎ The Unscatter GPT Trio™ for positioning
- ◎ Ophelia™ offer-building assistant
- ◎ Mela™ model-building assistant
- ◎ Scout™ + The Seed Session Scripts™
- ◎ Community support and accountability
- ◎ Onboarding 1:1 with Christel before we begin
This is not a library of videos you'll add to the pile.
It's an implementation space where we build your premium expertise practice, together, in real time.
Christel. On Your Build.
Your calls, your feedback, your strategy. Every piece of direct coaching is built around your specific situation, market, and timeline. Not a template. Not a general answer.
Builders Headed the Same Way.
You're surrounded by a community of women building the same thing. When you need a sounding board, a reality check, or just someone who gets it, they're already there.
Something to Return To.
The program content lives inside the platform so you can reference it whenever you need it. Between calls, between modules, between courage moments. It's there when you need to go back.
It pays for itself
with one client.
One client at a modest coaching rate covers a significant portion of this investment. The second client is near-profit. By month three, you'll have proof that your expertise can pay your future, not just your present. By month six, you're on your way to a full practice.
For April enrollees, a $1,000 scholarship is applied automatically, bringing your investment to $5,000. This offer does not carry forward to future rounds.
2 & 3-pay plans available.
Canadians: CAD e-transfer available on request.
Scholarship for April enrollees only. Full price resumes next round.
One-time investment · Payment plans available
Apply Now →Hybrid mentorship · Application only · Response within 48 hours
I take very few clients.
I'm looking for the right fit.
The Pretirement Blueprint™ is application-only. Because this is 1:1 work with direct access to me, I work with a very limited number of clients at a time. Depth and results require real space. Not every application will move forward to a conversation. That's by design.
We're aligned. Over 6 months we build your positioning, your offer, and your first paying clients, together, 1:1, with direct feedback the whole way.
We connect, explore it honestly, and decide it's not the right moment. No pressure. No obligation.
I take very few clients at a time. When capacity fills, applications close until a spot opens.
P.S. The moment you apply, I'll send you Una The Unscatterer GPT. Together with her, you'll begin clarifying your positioning based on your lived experience. Right after, we'll book our onboarding 1:1 so we can take what you learned from Una and build it into a personalized game plan for our 6 months together. Your first paying clients are right around the corner.
The honest answers.
Neither. The Pretirement Blueprint™ is a hybrid, high-touch mentorship. You get direct 1:1 access to Christel for your build: weekly private coaching calls, direct feedback on your work, and strategy specific to your expertise and market. Underneath that, you're supported by a community of women building in the same direction, group coaching calls, and program content you can reference whenever you get stuck. Three layers: Christel directly, the content inside the platform, and a group of builders who understand exactly where you are. The 1:1 work drives your build. The rest is there so you're never without support between calls.
No. The Pretirement Blueprint™ is built on the premise that you've been coaching (informally) your entire career. People come to you for advice because you have expertise. We don't add a certification to that. We add a system for charging for it.
No. This is designed to run alongside your employment, not instead of it. The goal in the first 90 days is proof of concept: your first three paying clients. The income grows from there over 6 months. You don't need to leave anything to begin.
The modules are designed for a real life. Expect 3–5 hours per week: module content, implementation, and the live coaching call. The goal is always leverage and clarity, not volume.
This is for people who have. The Pretirement Blueprint™ is different because it starts with your financial number, not a business model. And it's built for someone with deep expertise, not someone who needs to develop it first.
Within 48 hours, I'll review your application and respond. If it's a fit, I'll send you Una The Unscatterer GPT and we'll book your onboarding 1:1 before the mentorship begins. If it's not the right moment, I'll tell you that too.
No. Like the mentors I've invested in myself, I don't offer guarantees of specific results. What I offer is a proven method, direct access to me, and a system that works when you work it. Your results depend on your implementation. I provide the blueprint. You bring the commitment.
Yes, with one condition. You need substantive lived expertise in your field, even if you've never sold it. The Pretirement Blueprint™ is not for people who are still developing their skills. It's for people who already have them and have never packaged or charged for them. No business background required. No startup experience needed. What you need is 20+ years of doing something people already come to you for.
HR leaders, healthcare professionals, nonprofit executives, corporate trainers, therapists, consultants, educators, operations directors, and senior individual contributors across a range of industries. The common thread is not the field. It's the pattern: deep expertise, a career spent advising others, and a retirement gap the math makes impossible to ignore.
If you have 20+ years of expertise people seek out for free, you've done the retirement math and the numbers don't work, and you're prepared to implement over 90 days rather than research for another six months. You're ready. The application will tell us both.
You've been coaching for 20 years.
You just haven't sent an invoice yet.
The expertise is there. The need is real. The window is not closing.
It's also not getting longer.