You’ve mastered the standard.
Now it’s time to author what comes next.
The Next Chapter Studio - Now Open
Coaching, community, and identity-level transformation for midlife women ready to stop proving and start living.
"Ellen Baker is a gifted coach, compassionate, insightful, and exceptionally gifted in guiding conversation, deep reflection, and transformation. With her help, I released the ties that bound me to my past and defined what I wanted for my future, then began to create it."
— Carrie S., Minnesota
You’ve built a life that works.
You’re capable. Competent. Keeping it all afloat.
Nothing has fallen apart.
More effort isn’t helping.
It feels like you’re just spinning your wheels.
Like you’re waiting — for clarity, for permission, for something to shift.
And yet. You feel constrained. Oddly unsatisfied.
The problem isn’t your ambition, your perfectionism, or your high standards.
It's that you’re still living inside a framework that no longer fits.
A framework made of unspoken, inherited stories of what it means to be accomplished, acceptable, good.
This framework has gotten you this far. You’ve done everything right inside it.
But it simply can’t take you where you want to go next.
When the standard becomes the ceiling, identity becomes the work.
Inside the Next Chapter Studio, you’ll find coaching, community, and curriculum for a personally tailored, self-paced transformational journey inside a monthly membership.
You're invited to explore for seven days at no cost and see what begins to shift.
"I don't know many coaches who are the real deal like Ellen."
— Lara Z., Michigan
The experience.
When you step inside The Next Chapter Studio, you begin making visible the internal rules, inherited standards, and unconscious stories that have been shaping your results.
And you learn how to become the author of your own life so you can consciously create the results you desire.
A brief, transformative curriculum is inside for you to begin the experience at your own pace:
The foundational course “ENOUGH: From Meeting the Standard to Authoring the Direction” shifts your orientation from proving and accommodating to becoming your own authority.
The Identity Rewrite Method provides a simple, repeatable process for you to use anytime you notice yourself shrinking, negotiating, or defaulting to an old standard.
Then, you learn intregration tools to practice embodying the new ways of being in order to create new results.
Finally, you’re supported by a community of like-minded women and intimate group coaching calls.
This is not another program to complete or list to check off.
It’s a space to start creating a new chapter in the story of your life.
From Ellen.
I created The Next Chapter Studio because I know how painful and disorienting it is to find that the successful life you’ve built no longer fits.
I divorced in 2010, moved cross-country from Minnesota to Maine, and spent the next several years wrestling with a question that many women face in midlife: Why did a life that looked perfectly fine from the outside simply not feel right? And why did I keep repeating the pattern of looking to others for approval and permission—not to mention making the same mistakes?
As I trained as a mindset coach and energy healer and continued writing character-driven novels, I began to see the same truth everywhere: our trajectory in life is the result of stories we believe about ourselves—usually without even knowing it.
Those stories—inherited, absorbed, or learned long ago—tell us who we’re supposed to be, what we should want, and who and how we need to be to be worthy of love, approval, or belonging.
I discovered that pain and limitation comes from living inside these invisible stories—and that relief and expansion comes when you uncover and revise them to align with the truth of who you are and what you want.
Inside The Next Chapter Studio, I help you make visible the stories that have been shaping your choices and keeping you stuck.
Then I help you rewrite these stories and embody a new version of you so you can stop repeating old patterns, start making choices from a place of clarity and self-trust, and consciously author what comes next.
Over time, this work changes.
How you make decisions.
How you hold ambition.
How you approach your finances.
How you define responsibility.
How you experience desire.
And because those foundations shift, so does:
What you tolerate.
What you leave.
What you pursue.
Curriculum, coaching, and tools to spark your transformation.
A community and space to hold it.
Inside the Studio
The Foundation: enough
Begin with a focused experience that shifts your orientation — from meeting external standards to consciously authoring your own life. This shift alone can change everything.
Identity Rewrite Method
A clear, repeatable process for making your internal rules visible and rewriting the stories shaping your results. Use it anytime you catch yourself shrinking or defaulting to old patterns.
Monthly Open Studio Calls
A live, focused conversation where women bring real decisions they're navigating. Together, we slow it down, examine the underlying story, and consciously redesign it in real time.
Weekly Reflections + Private Circle
Short weekly audio reflections to anchor the work in your current life — plus a private community of thoughtful, high-achieving women doing the same work alongside you.
This Space Is for You If…
You are not in crisis.
You are not starting over.
→ You are already successful — yet you can feel yourself chafing at the rules that built your current life
→ You sense there's more available, not because what you have is broken, but because it no longer fits
→ You are no longer willing to wait for clarity to arrive on its own
→ You're not looking for another program to optimize yourself — you want a space to become who you already know you are
→ You are ready to stop outsourcing authority over your own life
If this is you, The Next Chapter Studio was built for you.
Working with Ellen Baker.
"Ellen has a unique way of blending the encouraging, supportive coaching you want with the insightful and critical eye that you need. She mirrors your intentions in a way that keeps you clear on where you want to go."
— Kym K., New York
"Ellen's gentle yet persistent and powerful coaching... provided the exact guidance I needed."
— Heather R., Maine
"Ellen is extremely perceptive, intuitive and right on point."
— Kristin C., Maine
Investment
Begin with the free 7-day trial.
Stay for the transformation.
FOUNDING MEMBER RATE
$111
PER MONTH.
✓ ENOUGH Foundational Course
✓ Identity Rewrite Method + Tools
✓ Live Open Studio coaching calls
✓ Audio reflections + resource library
✓ Private community circle
✓ Author's Companion guided journal
Explore for 7 days at no cost — full access, no commitment required.
Your Founding Member rate of $111/month locks in for as long as you remain inside the Studio.
Through 6/30/2026, to celebrate the release of Ellen’s new novel, use code SUMMERLAND to take 30% off your first month’s membership.
You May Be Wondering…
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Full access to everything inside the Studio: the ENOUGH foundational experience, Identity Rewrite Method tools, the Author's Companion, weekly reflections, and the private community. No credit card surprises. If you choose to stay, your Founding Member rate applies going forward.
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The Studio is structured, self-directed, and spacious.
You begin with ENOUGH: From Meeting the Standard to Authoring the Direction — a foundational experience that shifts your orientation from meeting external standards to consciously authoring your own life.
From there, you receive these foundational tools, designed to make authorship practical and ongoing:
• A short training on the Identity Rewrite Method — a clear, repeatable process for making internal rules visible and rewriting the stories shaping your results
• A one-page Rewrite tool you can use anytime you catch yourself shrinking, negotiating, spiraling, defaulting to an old standard, or getting results you don’t like
• An Identity Rehearsal audio to help you stabilize and embody your new identity
• The Author’s Companion — a guided space for written reflection to deepen and stabilize the work in your own timeInside the Studio, the work becomes ongoing and integrated within a private circle of thoughtful, high-achieving women doing the same work.
Each week, you receive a short audio reflection to anchor the work in your current decisions.
Each month, we gather for a live Open Studio call — a focused, spacious conversation to which women bring the decisions they’re navigating, the standards they’re renegotiating, the ceilings they’re encountering.
Together, we slow it down, examine the underlying story, and consciously redesign it in real time.
There is no race to complete anything.
This is a space that holds you as you expand into the identity you author for yourself.
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The Next Chapter Studio is designed for depth, not busyness. It is not another program to complete, but a structure you return to and integrate into your real decisions – the conversations you’re avoiding, the standards you’re redefining, the moves you’re preparing to make.
There is one monthly Open Studio call.
Short weekly reflections to anchor the work.And repeatable Identity Rewrite Method tools to use the moment you notice yourself shrinking, negotiating, defaulting to an old standard, or talking yourself out of what you know you want.
This is not about adding more to your calendar.
It is about eliminating the hours you spend second-guessing, overthinking, and internally negotiating decisions you already know are right.
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The Studio is designed for women who are capable, reflective, and driven.
You probably already know where you overwork, shrink, or default to old rules.
But awareness does not redesign identity—and behavior and results are difficult to change from within an existing set of patterns, no matter how well those patterns are understood.
When you become the author of who you are, you gain outside perspective — the ability to see the internal standards you’ve been living inside and then consciously rewrite them to point you toward the results you want.
This is not about collecting more insight.
It is about creating and stabilizing a new identity to expand beyond old standards and stories that have been holding you back.
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No, it’s structured identity work. Inside the Studio, we don’t process the past. We consciously design what comes next.
We make visible the internal standards and beliefs shaping your present experience — and consciously redesign them for expansion.
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You are welcome to begin for a month to see how the work fits.
You are likely to experience meaningful shifts quickly – especially in how you make decisions, relate to your standards, and hold authority in your own life.
Expansion deepens and stability strengthens over time, but authorship begins the moment you step inside.
Transformation requires a space that can hold it.
The Next Chapter Studio is that space.
Through 6/30/2026, to celebrate the release of Summerland Cove, use code SUMMERLAND at registration to receive 30% off your first month’s membership.