Then I turned that same eye on people.
I spent thirty years building some of the world's most iconic luxury brands—Versace, Hermès, Gucci.
I see who they are and, more importantly, who they're about to become.
Today I work with a handful of extraordinary women who've built remarkable lives and are ready to design what comes next.
Many accomplished women arrive at a point where they realize something unsettling.
They've been living by default.
The first half of life was built on values, beliefs, and expectations they inherited—from family, culture, circumstance. They achieved. They built. They succeeded.
But somewhere along the way, they stopped asking whether any of it was actually what they wanted.
Now there's a gap.
Between what they've achieved and how they experience it. Between the life everyone sees and the one they actually live inside.
They're not broken. They're not ungrateful.
They're ready for the second half to be different.
Conscious. Purposeful. Aligned with who they are now—not who they were at 25.