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With Zona Lord

Being On Your Own Side

An eight-week programme for entrepreneurs who know what they need to do, but struggle to follow through.

Build mental fitness to recognise the patterns that get in the way of taking action, and practise responding differently when overthinking, self-doubt, or pressure shows up in your business.

Your mind can be on your side, or in your way

You are not short of knowledge. You bring skills, ideas and a fair amount of self-awareness, and you may even be able to name the pattern that stops you.

Yet when pressure rises, the familiar response arrives first: reworking the idea again, waiting until you feel certain, or spinning in circles in the messy middle between an idea and consistent action.

This programme is about learning to stay on your own side.

How it works

The programme is built on Positive Intelligence, a mental fitness approach that draws on four fields: neuroscience, cognitive behavioural psychology, performance science and positive psychology.

Insight can help you understand a pattern. Daily practice helps you work on responding differently, which is why the programme is built around small, consistent practice.

Positive Intelligence reports that its research and assessments draw on more than one million participants in 50 countries.

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Mental fitness is your capacity to respond to challenges with a clear, steady and focused mind, rather than being derailed by stress, self-doubt or overthinking. Like physical fitness, it builds through small, regular practice, so you can trust your next step enough to keep showing up.

The practice has three parts

  1. 1Notice your SaboteursNotice the habitual patterns behind stress, self-doubt, avoidance and overthinking as they show up.
  2. 2Build Self-Command through PQ RepsUse short exercises through the day to quieten the mental noise and come back to calm, clear focus.
  3. 3Practise your Sage Perspective and PowersMeet challenges from a steadier place, drawing on Empathize, Explore, Innovate, Navigate and Activate, and learn when each one helps.

In the PQ app

  • Weekly learning: a video of about an hour, with short activities to apply it
  • Morning practice: 3 to 4 minutes a day
  • PQ Reps: 10-second attention exercises, such as noticing your breath, that you can do anytime
  • Trauma-sensitive content, your Saboteur Assessment results, and progress tracking on Apple, Android and desktop

In our facilitated sessions

With group or Premium support, you bring real business and life situations into our facilitated coaching sessions. I guide them with my wayfinding approach:

  1. See what is actually happening
  2. Discern the patterns and circumstances
  3. Move with a practical next step

The eight weeks

  1. Week 1Kickoff and orientationGet familiar with the app, the practice, and what you want to work towards.
  2. Week 2Self-Command and PQ RepsPractise interrupting autopilot and bringing your attention back so you can choose how to respond.
  3. Week 3The JudgeNotice the inner critic that finds fault with you, others, and your circumstances.
  4. Week 4Accomplice SaboteursRecognise patterns such as perfectionism, people-pleasing, or avoidance that get in your way.
  5. Week 5EmpathizePractise meeting yourself and others with compassion.
  6. Week 6Sage Perspective, Explore and InnovateBring curiosity to challenges, question assumptions, and consider new possibilities.
  7. Week 7ActivateTake a purposeful step and work with the patterns that interrupt your follow-through.
  8. Week 8Navigate and applicationsConnect your choices with what matters to you and plan how to continue practising.
Zona Lord

Who I am

Strategic Thinking Partner & Behavioural Science Researcher

I am Zona Lord. I work with entrepreneurs as a thinking partner, and for more than 25 years I have worked in learning and development, organisational development and business psychology, helping people turn insight into sustainable practice.

Building my own business, I met the same gap this programme addresses: knowing what to do did not always mean doing it. Positive Intelligence became part of my own ongoing practice, and it is what I bring to you.

  • MSc Business & Organisational Psychology, University of Liverpool
  • Associate Certified Coach, International Coaching Federation
  • PQ Coach™ Essentials Certification, Positive Intelligence™
  • Master's research in coaching practice

Three ways to join

Self-directed

Learn and practise independently.

$995 USD, all taxes included

or two monthly payments of $500 ($1,000 in total)

Solidarity rates and scholarships are available. Find out more.

  • Shared 60-minute onboarding call
  • Programme content and PQ app access
  • Begin on any Friday
  • 14-day money-back guarantee

No ongoing coaching or private community.

Premium

Individual coaching on your own situations.

$2,500 USD, all taxes included

By application only

Payment plans, solidarity rates and scholarships are available. Find out more.

  • A tailored approach, shaped around you and your circumstances
  • Eight individual 60-minute coaching sessions
  • Sessions scheduled flexibly, at a pace that suits you
  • 60-minute onboarding call
  • Programme content and PQ app access
  • Private Skool community
  • 14-day money-back guarantee

Not sure which suits you? Book a short conversation with me.

Next steps

  1. 1

    Choose your option

    Pay securely through Stripe, or book a conversation first. Your receipt arrives by email.

  2. 2

    Get set up

    I email you your PQ app access and the details of your onboarding call.

  3. 3

    Begin

    The next group starts on Friday 23 October and meets on Wednesdays at 17:30 Amsterdam time from 28 October. Enrolment closes on Thursday 22 October. After that, the next group starts on Friday 22 January 2027. Self-directed participants can begin on any Friday until 4 December.

  4. 4

    Take 14 days to decide

    If the programme is not right for you, email zona@liveyourdashcoaching.com within 14 days of your programme start date for a full refund.

All group session dates

Wednesdays at 17:30 Amsterdam time: 28 October (kickoff), 4, 11, 18 and 25 November, and 2, 9 and 16 December.

Curious where to start?

Saboteurs often show up in subtle but familiar ways:

  • second-guessing your decisions
  • reactions that feel out of proportion
  • constant pressure, even when things are going well

Saboteur Assessment

Takes about two minutes and shows which patterns tend to get in your way. It is a useful first look, whether or not you join the programme.

Take the free Saboteur Assessment (opens in a new tab)

PQ Score

Asks about the emotions you have felt over the past 24 hours and gives a snapshot of your mental fitness today.

Check your PQ Score (opens in a new tab)

Both assessments are free, come from Positive Intelligence, and can be taken before deciding whether to join.

Questions

Who is this for?

Entrepreneurs and solopreneurs, often building online businesses, who already have the knowledge and a fair amount of self-awareness but find it hard to act on what they know when pressure rises. Newer coaches are very welcome, and you do not need to be a coach to join. It suits people who want steady momentum in their business while leaving room for the rest of their life.

How much time does it take?

In the app, about an hour a week for the learning video, 3 to 4 minutes of morning practice, and short 10-second exercises through the day. Group-supported participants add one 60-minute live session a week, and Premium participants have their individual sessions.

Do I need to know Positive Intelligence already?

No. The first session introduces mental fitness and the app, and the ideas build week by week.

Is this a business strategy programme?

No. It works on the patterns that affect how you follow through, so you can act on the strategy you already have.

What if I cannot attend a group session live?

The recordings are saved in the Skool community, and you keep access to them for life.

What happens after the eight weeks?

You can continue the practices on your own. Continued PQ app access can be arranged for an additional fee, which is not included in the programme price.

What happens in the 15-minute conversation?

It is a short, relaxed conversation so we can get to know each other. You can tell me a little about where you are in your business, ask anything about the programme, and we can look at which option, if any, suits you. There is no pressure and no obligation. It is simply a clarity call, and there is nothing to prepare. Book a time that suits you.

Do you offer solidarity rates or scholarships?

Yes. If the full price would be a real barrier for you, perhaps because you are early in your business, a single parent, part of a single-income household, or living somewhere where US dollar prices weigh more heavily, a limited number of solidarity places and scholarships are available. Email me for further details and to apply.

For Premium, longer payment plans are also available, and we can talk about them in your application conversation.

Any questions not answered here? Email me at zona@liveyourdashcoaching.com.

Ready to begin?

If you already know much of what you need to do, this is a place to practise doing it, with your whole life in view.

Something holding you back? Tell me in a short conversation or by email.