6-12 Month mentoring

1:1 Mentoring experiences

VALUE YOUR VOICE

1:1 MENTORSHIP

The shift you will experience:

Value Your Voice is a revealing. It will call you forward to own your voice and let it be known. It will empower you to own your worth and stand in the value you serve. It will invite you to move from holding back to backing yourself. It will ignite you to be seen in full sight, and move you out of the side lines of hiding to being fully seen and shining in all parts of who you really are so you can be more brave, take up more space and share more of your voice and art.

The process and what you will gain from this mentorship:

  • It will ask you to see all the hungry, hurting, unworthy feeling places inside that need deeply held, heard and fed so you can show up and sustainably serve from overflow.

  • It will mirror the sneaky ways you swerve and squirm and second guess your message to offering it as medicine for yourself, others and culture.

  • It will show you how to stop misunderstanding your worth/value and under-sharing your voice or undercharging for your art so you can show up and offer your gifts, talents and skills more consistently.

  • It will teach and expand you how to hold permission in your nervous system so you can more easefully express your words, vision and wisdom in your own unique way at your own pace.

  • It will mobilise you to stop downplaying your talents and skills so you can go all in on your words, beliefs, art, and ideas and get behind the power and conviction of your mission and say what you ache to say.

  • It will tenderly and fiercely hold you to account when you hold back to become more resilient and flexible in getting back on track, have your own back so you can hold push back and make social impact.

  • It will revitalise and revolutionise your creative expression with reinvigorated vision, regenerative meaning and refined direction.

  • YOU WILL WALK AWAY CHANGED AND HAVING MADE ACTUAL ART IN WAYS YOU WON’T EXPECT!

The committed investment that is expected of you and given to you

1:1 mentorships are deep dives, and an investment in your expression that will ripple way beyond the time we work together. In full transparency, I have grafted my arse off to embody this work. I live this work of unhooking and untangling my voice and my value from my sense of self worth. I burn for you to know your value and I burn for you to act on that ache. I go all in with you, I hold you and I expect the same commitment back in you holding yourself to this work in between sessions and I’ll be right there with you. I am extremely empathic and sensitive when needed and also fierce love and direct when needed. I’m here for those who are organised, ready to show up and give your all to your voice and your vision. You are here because you are ready to say yes to an expansion of your expression and have it fully backed.

  • A custom notion organisational co-working space that holds all session notes, creative process, homework and a communication space for sharing messages, files, media for collaborating on your projects.

    Integration support, check ins and accountability on whatsapp via voice note, video and message between 11-7pm Mondays- Thurs and 11-1pm on Fridays.

  • Length 6 or 12 months

    Sessions fortnightly online 75 min sessions on zoom at a set time with loads of support in between

    For sustainability, payment plans available.

  • Those who know their voice and need support fully owning it and believing in it

    Those who ache to expand into more of their voice, vision and art so you can take up more space and make personal and socio-cultural change.

what’s included

  • A custom notion organisational co-working space that holds all session notes, creative process, homework and a communication space for sharing messages, files, media for collaborating on your projects.

  • Integration support, check ins and accountability on whatsapp via voice note, video and message between 11-7pm Mondays- Thurs and 11-1pm on Fridays.

"I went from not singing for 10 years, being scared of my own voice, to running and organising open mics, singing and performing at festivals, and writing songs that I am proud to call mine."

"I went from not singing for 10 years, being scared of my own voice, to running and organising open mics, singing and performing at festivals, and writing songs that I am proud to call mine."

HOLD YOUR OWN VOICE

1:1 MENTORSHIP

The shift you will experience:

Hold Your Own Voice is a returning. It will call you home to come back into yourself, to know your voice and clear everything standing in the way of you not being able to hold your own. It will strengthen your backbone so you can self contain, stay in your lane and go your own way.

The vital and valuable practices and process and what you will gain from this mentorship:

It will show you how to hold self doubt without it holding you back. It will release you from the roles, masks and identities of conforming who you thought you had to be and what you thought you had to say (or not say) over being and expressing who you really are. It will redirect your voice from the noise of the crowd and your mind from the grind so you may hold your ground and rediscover your own sound. It will create an emotionally mature space for you to recognise and rewire the holding back patterns and stories you hold by re-attuning your body and nervous system to your true voice underneath the noise.

It will reunite you to get to know the lesser known voices of your body, heart and soul so you can hold yourself whole. It will tenderly guide you into retrieving and remembering how to listen to the quiet, dormant/repressed parts of your voice and creative expression that are calling out for you to reconnect with them. It will expand you to recharge the creative spark of your voice that is a vital vessel full of potential aching to make art. It will teach you to receive your voice for yourself before anyone else. It will realign to your own spine, a voice that is mine that you feel tethered to from the inside-that’s what having your own back is. YOU WILL WALK AWAY CHANGED AND HAVING MADE ACTUAL ART IN WAYS YOU WON’T EXPECT!

The committed investment that is expected of you and given to you

1:1 mentorships are deep dives, and an investment in your expression that will ripple way beyond the time we work together. In full transparency, I have grafted my arse off to embody this work. I live this work of unhooking and untangling my voice and my value from my sense of self worth. I burn for you to know your value and I burn for you to act on that ache. I go all in with you, I hold you and I expect the same commitment back in you holding yourself to this work in between sessions and I’ll be right there with you. I am extremely empathic and sensitive when needed and also fierce love and direct when needed. I’m here for those who are organised, ready to show up and give your all to your voice and your vision. You are here because you are ready to say yes to an expansion of your expression and have it fully backed.

structure

  • Length 3, 6 or 12 months

  • Sessions fortnightly online 75 min sessions on zoom at a set time with loads of support in between

  • Investment 3 months £1,500, 6 months £3,000 12 months £6,000

    For sustainability, payment plans available.

WHO THIS IS FOR

  • For those whose voice feels lost in the noise and are longing to know who you really are and what your voice and truth is

  • For those aching to hold a creative identity again

"I can’t believe that I have my own podcast now which is all about sharing my authentic truth of living with an invisible disability, this is something I hid for my whole life so it is MASSIVE to be sharing about it. "

"I can’t believe that I have my own podcast now which is all about sharing my authentic truth of living with an invisible disability, this is something I hid for my whole life so it is MASSIVE to be sharing about it. "

single mentoring sessions

GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY

Intensive voice unlocking, creative unblocking session

Who is it for? For those in a sludgey, sticky funk, can’t get your ideas clear onto the page or the words off your tongue and need to get radically unstuck.

The vibe: Tender and fierce love no bullshit cut to the core of it clearing the way so you can be on your way.

Structure: 75 min on zoom.

Process and what’s included: After you reach out, I will email you questions and prompts before the session to prepare, then we will get right into it in the session and I’ll follow up with an integration document after and a WhatsApp check in the following week.

Investment: £175

6 week mentoring

SAY WHAT YOU ACHE TO SAY

6 week self expression, self belief and creative direction package.

Who is this for? For those about to expand your range, make a change and feel shaky, second guessing and need to redirect and root into steady confident expression. You have something you are burning to say and are on the scary precipice of stretching into a growth edge in your voice, vision, art, identity and need support and a soundboard to hold you through that.

The vibe I’ll be a steady hand holding your hand and a grounding voice that is clear and calm as well as fierce love cheerleading you every step of the way.

Structure 3 x 75 min zoom sessions fortnightly with optional Whatsapp office hours voice note, video and message for accountability, check ins and integrative support through the messy in between.

Investment £600 for sessions and support in between or £375 for sessions only

Process: After you reach out, I will email you prompts to prepare for a 20 min connection call to chat about your needs, challenges and goals. Afterwards I’ll send you a brief outline/ proposal from that call to agree on and dates for the sessions, we co-sign a mentor/mentee agreement then we are good to go!

The value I offer as a mentor

My biggest value lies in how much my heart burns for this work, you will feel that scottish sicilian fire and passion when you are with me. I have pulled my voice, creativity and self value out of the absolute abyss many times and encourage you to listen to my podcast on that.

I have 26 years experience and 2 Bachelors degrees in the performing and creative and cultural arts and many years of gigging solo and with bands, writing, recording and releasing my own music.

I’ve been navigating the emotional and creative risks and shifts of running my own business for 8 years teaching yoga, embodied expression, somatics, 1:1 and group sessions, holding transformative space for thousands of folks from all backgrounds in studios, offices, community workshops, socio-cultural events, and festivals. I’m currently undergoing a training certificate in integrative somatic trauma therapy.

I hold 7 years of 1:1 mentee experience, run a 3 year strong thriving online creative community membership, and a whole life of being a poet, musician, writer and singer-songwriter amongst other art forms like film making.

I am brilliant at building real community for a common cause. I have a natural gift with making you feel deeply seen and understood and I am always honing my craft and skills in holding space for human aches. I have a highly creative mind and hunger to pull out your gifts and help you shift to your gifts.

A love note to all who helped me stand in more of who I really am

I am eternally grateful to be standing on the shoulders of great humans who helped me stand in more of who I am. I wouldn’t be as emotionally or creatively expressed without the various rites of passage and training with wise humans of music and embodiment 2006 to present: LIFETIMES of gratitude to my teachers and mentors Marcia Escoffrey, Francine Luce, Liz Tillotson, Pete Zeldman, Pat Cotton, Letty Mitchell, Erin Prichard, Naomi Absalom, Leila Sadeghee, Simon Borg Olivier, Mimi Kuo Deemer, Emma Elizabeth Knight, Amy Rogerson, Sarah Durham Wilson, Mei Lei Swan, Natalie Brite, Nkem Ndefo and Ruby Gibson and a big bow to my students, mentees, parents and partners, mother nature, culture and close friends who are my mirrors and teachers always. Holly Hodgson-Simmons I adore you and could not have created this body of work we began in 2020 without you. My bandmates and producers who made my music dreams real Steve Holmes, Alec Gage, Sinead Egan, Hannah Ledwidge, Asbjorn Ystanes, Jay Bridger, Rich Davis, Raphael Mann, David Young. A big thanks to my energy healer Ivan Carrasco and my therapist Debbie Beauchamp for helping me hear and heal the old and hold myself in love.

public speaking

If you would like me to come and speak at your organisation, event or facilitate a group session on any of these topics reach out and let’s see what we can co-create together! I’m also always open to collaboration if you also offer work in these fields.

I LOVE to speak and facilitate on topics of…

  • Gender equality in the workplace and beyond

  • Seasonal and sustainable living

  • Embodied emotional expression and maturity through voice, movement, somatics and the creative and spiritual arts

  • Developing a devoted Creative Practice and Process

  • Self Expression, Self Worth, Self belief and Self Value

what mentees are saying 

‘I went from not singing for 10 years, being scared of my own voice, to running and organising open mics, singing and performing at festivals, and writing songs that I am proud to call mine. There is a freedom in my voice, a freedom that I know I’ll never let go, and I thank Francesca. for helping me see my voice, hear her, work with her, know her, and not be afraid of my voice. Francesca has so many tools for owning power through voice work: from speaking truth and communicating in relationships to singing and writing beautiful songs. Working with her gave me a skip in my step and air in my lungs. I’ve been carving my way as an artist ever since. There is always more to learn and I know that I would go back to Francesca for voice work in a heart beat as her knowledge, respect and love for her mentees is so raw and honest, she really cares! I care more than ever, and I promise I’ll never let my artist die again! You brought out what I needed to see and I’ll thank you forever for believing in me! Love you F- I’ll be back for more for sure!

— Artist, Singer, Writer, DJ and Hold your own voice and Value Your Voice mentee Tianna Alexander @tiannafranxx

2 years ago, in 2021, I was unconfident in my own skin. I knew I had a message to share but had so many blocks in believing that I could share them with the world. Francesca helped me to unlock these blocks that only now i can see how much they were holding me back. When I started the mentorship I was a yoga teacher running on empty and hiding the real me. Now two years later I’m delighted to share that I work with integrity to show up as my authentic self. It’s not been a simple quick fix, Francesca has continue to support me throughout this transition. I really feel like she’s with me for all of it, not just the session time that we spend together. I can’t believe that I have my own podcast now which is all about sharing my authentic truth of living with an invisible disability, this is something I hid for my whole life so it is MASSIVE to be sharing about it. Not only this but my yoga teaching has now evolved to leading classes combining both acting and yoga techniques which is amazing as I never thought I’d be able to hold space that combined my lived experience as an actor and yogaa teacher. And of course, all of this seeps into how I show up in my daily life- AS MY WHOLE SELF, UNASHAMED TO BE AUTHENTICALLY UNAPOLOGETICALLY, ME!

— Podcast host, facilitator for women’s health, actor Jess Swallow Living With an Invisible Disability Podcast

I knew that I wanted to start putting myself and my music out there again, but I felt held back by a deep sense of inadequacy and fear that was hard to shake. Francesca’s loving, no bullshit (but in a good way) approach helped me unravel the stories I’ve been telling myself over the years that have only held me back and kept me small. Having her in my corner to support and believe in me has been incredibly valuable and helped me get back to a place where I’m no longer held back by fear. I know that I can step back on a stage and put my music out in the world and be proud. Sometimes we really do need an external voice to remind us of our inner truths and to speak words of affirmation to us. Francesca did a wonderful job at helping me build my confidence at a time when I was struggling to do this on my own. l lfet our sessions feeling inspired, invigorated and with plenty of food for thought and growth. Thanks to our work together, I have slowly but surely started sharing my voice again. Most importantly I now have a deep understanding that my voice is of value in this world and it deserves to be shared, regardless of what the external world may or may not reflect back to me at any given moment. I’m so grateful to have crossed paths with Francesca and look forward to co-creating together again in the future!

-Singer-songwriter, artist and performer, Kat Appelgren

let’s work together