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It's time to live your best life, on purpose, in your power, and with the courage to ROAR!
Are You Successful on Paper But Exhausted in Reality?Â
You've checked all the boxes. You've climbed the ladder. From the outside, you look like you're thriving.
But inside?
You're running on empty, wondering if this is all there is. You wake up dreading Monday mornings. You've lost the spark that once made you love what you do. You're constantly putting out fires, managing other people's emotions, and saying "yes" when every cell in your body is screaming "no."
Perhaps you're dealing with a difficult boss or toxic colleague who's making your life hell. Maybe you're the leader who's burning out while trying to hold it all together for everyone else. Or you've simply realised that the life you've built—impressive as it looks—isn't the life you actually want to live.
Here's the truth nobody tells you: You can't keep pouring from an empty cup.
The anxiety attacks before meetings. The wine that's become your nightly anaesthetic. The weekends spent recovering instead of living. The growing distance between you and the people who matter most.
This isn't sustainable. And deep down, you know it.
But what if there was another way?
What if you could reclaim your power, rediscover your purpose, and create a life that actually energises you instead of depleting you?
You're not broken. You're not weak. You're simply ready for something more.
And that journey begins here.
"Don't let fear, self-doubt and limiting beliefs hold you back. You are wasting your valuable life by allowing fear to control you. The only question is whether you're ready to choose courage over comfort."
- Marilise -
The ROAR! Blueprint: Your Transformation Framework
My work is built on a proven framework that transforms how you navigate every aspect of work and life. At its heart lies the ROAR! Blueprint—four interconnected elements that create sustainable, meaningful change:
1. Authentic Purpose
Ignite your authentic purpose. Know who you are and what truly matters to you. This isn't about finding work-life balance—it's about creating work-life integration where your professional and personal selves align.
2. Win Your Inner Game
Master your thoughts and feelings. Your mind is your most powerful tool, but only when you learn to control it rather than letting it control you. Transform limiting beliefs into empowering narratives. Silence your inner critic and amplify your authentic voice.
3. Win Your Outer Game
Transform your words and actions. Generate sustainable energy through your Mind, Body, and Energy systems. Show up as the best version of yourself—not through willpower alone, but through practices that actually work.
4. Amplify Your Authentic Voice
Use the four-step ROAR process to communicate with impact and influence:
- Recognise the behaviour or pattern
- Observe and listen attentively
- Assert and state the impact
- Redirect the conversation toward mutual benefit
Hi, I'm Marilise,Â
I am a Certified High Performance Coach, Accredited Liberating Leadership® Practitioner, TEDx speaker, and bestselling author.
A qualified chartered accountant who spent eighteen years climbing the corporate ladder in London's Big Four firms, I have learned first-hand the devastating cost of toxic workplaces.
After walking away from my career that was slowly killing me, I founded my consultancy and now specialises in helping leaders and professionals create sustainable success—work that energises rather than exhausts.
I'm based in Stellenbosch, South Africa, I am on a mission to bring more kindness and authenticity to workplaces worldwide.
MOAR! Your Hero's Journey  to Making Work Magic Inside and Out takes you on a transformative Hero's Journey from burnout to brilliance. Drawing on ancient Jungian archetypes, neuroscience, and hard-won personal experience, Marilise reveals how to create sustainable wellbeing in today's demanding work environment.
Through twelve practical steps across five stages, you'll learn to master your inner game (thoughts and feelings) and outer game (words and actions). Meet your four inner guides—the King/Queen, Warrior, Lover, and Magician—who help you navigate challenges with wisdom and grace.
This isn't another wellness book offering quick fixes. It's a complete transformation framework teaching you to show up Present, Peaceful, and Powerful in every moment that matters. Your mess becomes your message. Your breakdown becomes your breakthrough. And your transformation gives others permission to begin theirs.
Pre-Order your copy here!
Work With Marilise: Transform Your Life, Reclaim Your Power
You've Been Playing Someone Else's Game Long Enough
Maybe you're the high achiever who looks successful on paper but feels empty inside. The professional who's climbed every ladder only to realise it was leaning against the wrong wall. The leader who's holding it all together for everyone else while quietly falling apart.
You know something needs to change. You just don't know where to begin.
That's where I come in.
How Can We Work TogetherÂ
Ready to create something extraordinary together?
I invite you to book a personal call where the real magic begins.
This isn't about fitting into a one-size-fits-all solution. It's about you—your unique vision, your specific challenges, and the transformation you're seeking.
During your call we can dive deep into understanding exactly what you need, exploring possibilities you might not have considered, and crafting an approach that's tailored precisely to your situation.
Everybody's journey is different, and that's what makes this work so rewarding. Whether you're at the beginning of your path or ready for your next breakthrough, this conversation is your opportunity to be truly heard and to discover what's possible when someone takes the time to understand your individual needs.
Let's start the conversation.
Book your call  today and take the first step toward something truly magical.
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Where you build momentum and master how to ROAR! with your authentic voice. This is your guide to transforming work from something you survive to something that makes you come alive.
When brilliant, capable professionals like you learn to ROAR! - the magic happens, whether you are navigating work challenges, leading through uncertainty or you are ready to create cultures where people actually thrive - we'll take you on the hero's journey of work place transformation.
Because work isn't meant to deplete you, it's meant to fuel you. Your authentic voice is the foundation that makes meaningful impact and influence possible.
Meet your host, Marilise de Villiers. A Mindset & Performance Coach, founder and CEO of ROAR! Coaching and Consulting and Best-selling Author.
Marilise is passionate about helping people find their ROAR! Now it’s time to make work magic inside & out.
About Marilise ....
Marilise is a Mindset & Emotional Resilience Coach, Bestselling Author, TEDx Speaker & Award-Winning leader with over 25 years' experience in large-scale global organisations.Â
The last 10 years, she has been specialising in Cyber Security Awareness, Culture & Talent. She supports organisations to create cyber safe cultures, where people feel confident and safe to speak-up, so that suspicious behaviour and mistakes can be surfaced and addressed quickly.
ROAR! supports anyone struggling with fatigue and burnout, to (re)ignite their authentic purpose, rebalance their priorities, achieve alignment and better work-life integration. Marilise's signature ROAR! Blueprint and training programmes centre around learning how to spot your inner bully and reframe any limiting inner conversation into a powerful inner roar. It helps you to face the difficult conversations with others - to ROAR. Marilise's curriculum is based on her own experiences, and the tools she has been using and refining for over two decades - to get through an eating disorder in her 20s, and to get through work addiction and burnout in her 30s. You can read more about Marilise's story in her best-selling book ROAR! How to tame the bully inside and out. You can also watch her TEDx talk, 'Have you found your ROAR!?'
Marilise is proudly South African. She recently returned to the Cape Vineland's after 18 years in England and is now writing her second book, MOAR! which will dive deep into holistic wellbeing. Marilise is married to Heinie and they have two teenage sons.Â
ROAR! is passionate about investing in empowering our youth with digital skills, including digital health & wellness
We are proud to support the MiDO foundation, a not-for-profit organisation on a mission to turn young people in South Africa into digital citizens with the digital skills needed for the 4IR, a world where their mastery of these skills will be vital to finding employment. Our goal is to build a digital hub at every under-resourced school in the Western Cape and expand to other provinces in South Africa. There are currently 9 active digital hubs.
Marilise, visits Lückhoff digital hub in Ida’s Valley, Stellenbosch.
Website:Â https://mido.org.zaÂ
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