The same patterns running your love life are running your business.See them. Interrupt them. Choose different.
I’m Marisa, a performance coach for life and business. I help high-performing people come back to themselves — in love, in work, in leadership. You don’t need to be “fixed” to perform at your best, or to be loved.
You’re capable. You’ve built a career and a life. From the outside, it works.
But the same ceiling keeps showing up — in the role you can’t seem to grow past, the relationship that ends the same way, the goal that stays just out of reach. Different area, same limit.
That’s not a motivation problem. It’s a blind spot — a pattern running underneath that you can’t see from inside it.
You’re not a problem to fix. You’re a person with a pattern — and patterns can change.
My story
I spent years hitting the same ceiling. Then I saw what was actually holding it in place.
I’ve overcome childhood trauma, addiction, self-sabotage and self-loathing. I know what it’s like to look like you have it together while struggling with how you feel about yourself.
I spent 25 years in corporate and earned an MBA. From the outside, it looked like proof I was fine. Inside, the same loop kept running — the same ceiling, the same quiet voice saying not enough.
It wasn’t until I came back to my own life that anything shifted. And I mean that plainly — no crystals, no rituals, no good vibes. Coming back to yourself isn’t a spiritual performance. It’s the unglamorous practice of coming home to you, and it’s exactly what The Five teaches.
Everything changed from there — including love. I met my husband at 40 and had my daughter at 43, within about three months of doing this work. Not because I’d become a perfectly healed version of myself. Because I’d stopped abandoning myself and started living my own life.
I didn’t need to become someone else. I needed to see what I couldn’t see.
You don’t need to earn your potential by becoming someone else. Come back to yourself. See the blind spot. And step into the life you’re actually capable of.
MBA | 25+ years in business | Trained in NLP and Landmark communication
Strategy brain, open heart.
I’ve spent a career spotting patterns in organisations. Now I help you spot them in your life, your business and your love.
In their words
A little of what’s changed.
“I was finally able to release deep trauma I had carried with another person for years. It created space in my life to finally move forward.”
Louise
Marketing Executive
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I cannot recommend Marisa at The Five highly enough. Through the work she undertook with me, I was finally able to release deep trauma I had carried with another person for years. During the process, I could genuinely feel that connection leaving me, and it created space in my life to finally move forward. In the 12 months since working with Marisa, I have gone from strength to strength, I've been able to completely block contact and free myself from the negative hold this person had over my life. The change in my mindset, emotional wellbeing, and personal strength has been incredible. Marisa's care, intuition, and practice have truly changed my life, and I'm deeply grateful for the freedom and peace I now feel.
“She created an environment where I felt completely safe, supported, and genuinely heard. I felt deeply seen, without judgment.”
Amy
Business Owner, Sydney
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Marisa came into my life unexpectedly, in what I can only describe as perfect divine timing. I've now had three NLP sessions with her, and every single one has been a complete game changer. Before working with Marisa, I'd never really considered just how closely connected my conscious and subconscious mind were, or how deeply my subconscious was influencing my choices, reactions, behaviours, and long-standing patterns. Marisa gently helped me uncover parts of myself that I didn't even realize existed including hidden beliefs and unconscious programming that had been quietly shaping so much of my life. She didn't just guide me through the process; she created an environment where I felt completely safe, supported, and genuinely heard. I felt deeply seen, without judgment, and that's something I don't take for granted. Her depth of knowledge, lived experience, wisdom, and intuitive understanding have all prepared her beautifully for this work. I can't recommend Marisa highly enough. I'm so grateful our paths crossed, and I truly hope to continue working with her for a long time to come. These sessions have already changed the way I see myself, and I have no doubt they'll continue to shape my life in the best possible way.
The method: The Five
Most advice tells you to try harder. The Five shows you what’s already running underneath.
Disconnect from the patterns, perceptions and beliefs keeping you stuck. Connect with your voice, your self-trust and the life and business you want to create — by changing the language you speak about yourself, first.
A workshop for teams, leaders and workplaces. Break down the perceptions and beliefs people hold about themselves, and change the language they speak about themselves — and each other.
