About Forget the Office

Strategy, identity work and community, in one place.

The clarity to know your next move, the tools to make it, and the support to keep going — everything you need to build, grow and succeed in the business you actually want.

Merce Maresma, founder of Forget the Office
The founder's story

Hi, I'm Merce.

I started out as a corporate lawyer. At some point I knew, without much doubt, that I didn't want to be one anymore — I was pulled toward something more creative, and I began exploring the world of marketing.

So I built my own marketing agency from scratch, with no previous agency experience. It was an incredibly humbling thing to do — and it brought a lot of my own limiting beliefs straight to the surface.

The hard part was the discernment: knowing what was actually right for me. Trusting my own abilities. Believing I had what it took — and that people would pay me for my work. And, perhaps most of all, learning how to stay in motion.

Entrepreneurship was also surprisingly lonely. There was no clear path to follow, no one telling me what to do next, and no shortage of moments where I questioned whether I was making the right decisions.

There were plenty of starts and stops. The ADHD hurdles I thought I'd left at the door of my corporate career came straight back. There were moments of doubt, an empty bank account, and plenty of times I fell off the wagon and had to find my way back on. Like so many founders, it was easy to read getting stuck as proof that maybe I just wasn't cut out for it.

I was cut out for it. Getting stuck was never proof of anything — and Forget the Office is the support I wish I'd had back then: strategy, identity work and community in one place, so you can keep your business moving forward without doing it alone.

The training behind the work

Rooted in strategy, psychology and coaching.

Forget the Office is built on research, state-of-the-art marketing, somatic techniques for working with your beliefs from the inside out, and coaching and applied psychology — all developed and delivered by Merce, with a very personal touch.

Credentials

  • Law degree & 3 years of Business School
  • Master's in Digital Marketing (Instituto Marketing)
  • Certified Professional Coach (OCC-I)
  • NLP Practitioner
  • Level 1 Coach — Institute of Applied Psychology, Sydney
  • Founder & former digital marketing agency owner
Our point of view

What we believe about building a business.

Strategy alone isn't enough.

A brilliant strategy means very little if you're constantly second-guessing yourself, changing direction, avoiding the uncomfortable bits or struggling to follow through.

Business is personal.

What you build is shaped by your identity, beliefs, decisions, values and relationship with yourself. You can't separate the strategy from the person implementing it.

Falling off the wagon doesn't mean failure.

Building a business isn't a straight line. Losing momentum, changing direction or needing to pause doesn't mean you're not cut out for it. The skill is learning how to get back into motion.

You don't need to become someone else.

The goal isn't to force yourself into someone else's version of entrepreneurship. It's to build a way of working that actually works for you.

A sage-green Mediterranean doorway in a sunlit facade
Why it matters

A calmer door into the same ambition.

You can be deeply ambitious and still refuse the grind. Forget the Office is for the founder who wants a real business and a real life — built at the pace of a Mediterranean morning, not a hustle feed.

75+
Entrepreneurs guided to more clarity and growth
7+
Years in business, walking this path alongside founders
What actually happens

Where the work takes people.

Founders who came in stuck, second-guessing or starting over — and what changed once the strategy and the inner work moved together.

"Amazing women who not only helped me create a clear vision, but also made me feel that I can do this."

Kasia | Studio Dobra Aura | @studio.dobra.auraStudio owner

"Forget the Office helped me make real what, for so long, was only a vision. Today I have a living digital product — automated and, above all, with soul."

Lucía Revert | Anicca Academy® | @aniccaacademy

"One of the best decisions I made last year was joining the program."

Group coaching program client

"I had a coaching session with Mercè at the very beginning of my entrepreneurial project, and it was incredibly helpful. She guided me in making important decisions about how I wanted to communicate, how to highlight my brand, and how to follow a clear line that allowed me to define myself in an organized way. That session gave me clarity and confidence to take the next steps, and I'm really grateful for her support."

Laura R.Digital product creator

"I renewed LinkedIn Premium to keep up with the requests — in just 30 hours I received 16 requests for CV reviews."

Alongside 1:1 Coaching ClientA career-services client

Grow in good company

You're not meant to build alone.

The best growth I've ever seen happens in partnership — whether that's a room full of people, or being witnessed by someone who holds you accountable and sees your vision.

In their words

"I loved everything about the program. Not only did it give me the tools to launch my business — it created a big mindset shift for me."

Alba Marín | Sinequal | sinequal.netCEO & Founder

The space we hold

Built for how you're actually wired.

Business advice usually assumes you wake up every day feeling the same, you're linear and endlessly available. Real humans aren't. So we built a space that meets you as you truly are.

Trauma-informed

We move at the pace of trust — no shame, no pressure, none of the "just push through it." How you feel in your body shapes what you can build, so we make room for it instead of overriding it.

Neurodivergent-oriented

Built by an ADHD founder, for brains that don't run in straight lines. Clear and structured without being rigid — designed to work with how you're wired, not against it, so momentum finally feels possible.

Radically inclusive

Everyone belongs here. We're actively committed to equality and non-discrimination — whatever your race, gender, sexual orientation, background or story. You get to show up and grow exactly as you are.

Ready when you are

Live your potential. Look back and know you gave it all.

Whether you're just starting or finding your feet, there's a way in — a community to keep you in motion, trainings to learn from, and 1:1 support when you want it. Start where you are.

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