Alongside · 1:1 Coaching

Personalised coaching, with Merce right beside you.

Alongside is Forget the Office's 1:1 coaching — Strategy, Inner Coherence and Motion, worked as one, with real access to Merce. Start with a two-hour intensive, a three-session bundle, or a four-month cycle building right beside you.

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Strategy · Inner Coherence · Motion — the Forget the Office method, one-to-one.

Merce Maresma, founder of Forget the Office
Why 1:1

For when you need personalised expertise.

Sometimes you don't need a course or a community — you need expert eyes on your exact situation, and someone in your corner between the moves. Alongside is that: real strategy, the inner work that lets you act on it, and direct access to Merce while you build.

Sounds like you?

You've tried the courses, the groups and the free advice — and your situation still feels too specific for any of it.

Maybe you…

  • Have a decision you've been circling for weeks, and no one who knows your business well enough to help you make it.
  • Know what you should be doing, but something keeps pulling the handbrake.
  • Are facing a big move — leaving the job, raising your prices, launching — and want someone in your corner.
  • Have tried group programs, but need expert eyes on your exact situation.
  • Are tired of carrying every business decision on your own.

Imagine instead…

  • Bringing your real situation to every session, and leaving with a clear next move.
  • Making the big decisions with someone who knows your business inside out.
  • Charging your worth and being visible, without it feeling like a threat.
  • Having support between sessions, so nothing sits for three weeks.
  • Building at a pace that fits your life, without losing the thread.
  • Leaving each session already in motion, not stuck in your head.
The method

Three things, working together.

Strategy without a regulated body stays a to-do list. A calm body without a plan drifts. And the best ideas, without execution, go nowhere. Forget the Office coaching braids all three — so the decision, the capacity to make it, and the movement to carry it out arrive at the same time.

01 The plan

Strategic Clarity

Clear-eyed work on your offer, positioning, pricing, and the few moves that actually grow the thing. We cut the noise down to the next right decision — and make it.

02 The self

Inner Coherence

We work with the nervous system, not around it — so your identity, your beliefs and what you actually do finally line up. Charging your worth, being visible and leading stop feeling like a threat, and start feeling like home.

03 The movement

Motion

Insight becomes real when the body moves. We turn each session into motion — momentum you can feel — so you leave already in action instead of stuck in your head.

Anchor & Momentum

The containers in a nutshell.

A container is a place to focus on your goals, land them, give them structure and put them into action, with Merce alongside you for four months. Here's what you can achieve in each.

Steady

The Anchor Cycle

A steady point of anchor for your business, month after month.

In four months, you'll:

  • Turn your goals into a clear plan that's actually yours, built around your priorities and your capacity
  • Get clear on your offer, positioning and pricing, and make the big decisions with confidence
  • Have your marketing reviewed by Merce every month, so what you put out actually lands
  • Keep moving at a pace you can sustain, alongside a job, kids or both

Four months · five sessions (2 the first month, then 1)

Full pace

The Momentum Cycle

More support. Faster progress.

In four months, you'll:

  • Land your goals faster, with a session every two weeks and no gap long enough to lose the thread
  • Get something real built and out in the world: your offer, platform or program
  • Work through what's holding you back as it comes up, so you charge your worth and show up visibly
  • Grow your visibility with double the marketing reviews, and build momentum you can feel

Four months · nine sessions (3 the first month, then 2)

Same framework, twice the contact: Anchor keeps you steady, Momentum makes you fast.

Not sure which is yours? That's what the call is for — we'll feel out the right rhythm together.

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Merce, founder of Forget the Office
Who you'll work with

Strategy, inner coherence and motion — personalised to you.

Merce built Forget the Office on one idea: your business should work for you, not the other way around. Over seven years of building — an agency from scratch, real businesses, her own — she kept collecting the exact tools the journey asked for. Not one discipline, but three, woven together: strategic clarity, inner coherence and motion. Alongside is where she brings all of it to you, personally — the marketing strategist, the somatic-informed guide and the coach, in one person who's actually walked it.

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Why it works

Real strategy, held in a body that finally feels safe to move.

The space we hold

Built for how you're actually wired.

Coaching usually assumes you're calm, linear and endlessly available. Real humans aren't — and founders under pressure especially aren't. So Alongside meets you exactly as you 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 work with it instead of overriding it.

Neurodivergent-oriented

Coaching designed by an ADHD founder, for brains that don't run in straight lines. Clear and structured without being rigid — working 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.

Is it for you?

Alongside is for you if…

It's for you if…

  • You want personalised support on your exact situation, not a one-size-fits-all program.
  • You're facing a big decision or a big season — a launch, a pivot, leaving the job.
  • You want the strategy and the inner work together, with one person who sees both.
  • You're ready to do the work between sessions.
  • You value honesty — including being told when something isn't ready yet.

It's not for you if…

  • You want someone to do the marketing for you — that's what our Marketing Partner is for.
  • You'd rather build in a group, one stage at a time — have a look at Building Cycles.
  • You're looking for a quick fix or guaranteed results.
  • Trauma or a mental-health crisis is leaving you unable to function day to day. Coaching isn't therapy, so the kindest first step is a psychologist or therapist — we're glad to work alongside that support once you're steady enough to build.
After four months

When you finish a cycle, you'll…

  • Be clear on your offer, positioning and pricing.
  • Have had your marketing reviewed, month after month, by someone who knows it.
  • Make the big decisions faster, and trust them.
  • Charge your worth and show up visibly, with far less resistance.
  • Know your own patterns, and what to do when the handbrake comes on.
  • Have momentum you can feel, not just intentions.

"I want you to feel that your business finally works for you — not the other way around."— Merce, founder of Forget the Office

Not ready for a full cycle?

Start with a two-hour intensive.

Same 1:1 work, in an afternoon. Three intensives, each pointed at one thing — pick by what's actually in your way. Not sure? Book either; we'll switch in the first ten minutes if you're in the wrong one.

Most chosen

Strategy

Two hours · when you don't know what to do

  • Untangle the offer, the audience, the price and the way you'll sell it
  • Leave with a plan you could start tomorrow, plus tailored notes
  • A week of WhatsApp & email support after
Inner Coherence Intensive

Inner Coherence

Two hours · when you know what to do and aren't doing it

  • Work somatically — with the body, not just the story
  • Find the handbrake, what it's protecting, and what makes it safe to release
  • Tailored notes and a week of support while the shift settles
Motion Intensive

Motion

Two hours · when you need a plan to make it happen

  • Land the strategy on Earth — your next quarter or six months, on paper
  • Execution strategies built for how you actually work
  • Made for the neurospicy and anyone with a love–hate relationship with chaos

€147 / any two-hour intensive

Book an Intensive

Not sure which one is yours? Book any intensive — we'll switch in the first ten minutes if you're in the wrong one.

Make the shift stick
Best value

The Clarity Bundle

€377

Three focused sessions to untangle what's holding you back, find your direction, and turn your ideas into a clear plan of action.

Get the space, support and perspective you need to move forward with confidence, without trying to figure it all out on your own.

Three sessions. One clear direction.

Save €64 compared with booking individual sessions.
Get the Clarity Bundle · €377
The Alongside Cycles

Four months, building alongside you.

A cycle is four months of committed 1:1 work — a roadmap, regular sessions, your marketing reviewed, and someone watching the whole thing with you. Same framework, two tempos: Anchor for a steady hand on the wheel, Momentum for full pace and the most support.

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Anchor

The Anchor Cycle

For building alongside a job, kids, or both.

Four months with a steady hand on the wheel. You don't need daily hand-holding — you need a plan that's actually yours, and one reliable point each month where someone checks the direction and tells you the truth.

Length · 4 months Sessions · 1 a month (2 to start) Plus · Marketing review
  • 5 1:1 2-hour Business Coaching Intensives with Merce (2 in the first month, then 1 per month) — that's 10 hours of 1:1 coaching
  • 4 hours of marketing reviews by Merce
  • Direct line with Merce on WhatsApp & Email for doubts that arise
  • Notes and materials after each session

€947 · or €247 × 4 months

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Momentum

The Momentum Cycle

For when this is the season you've cleared for it.

Four months at full pace, with no gap long enough to lose the thread. Maybe you've left the job, or you're about to. You don't want to be nudged forward — you want to be pulled. The plan, the person and the marketing, all moving at once.

Length · 4 months Sessions · 2 a month (3 to start) Plus · Double marketing review
  • 9 1:1 2-hour Business Coaching Intensives with Merce (3 in the first month, then 2 per month) — that's 18 hours of 1:1 coaching
  • 8 hours of marketing reviews by Merce (2 hours per month)
  • Direct line with Merce on WhatsApp & Email for doubts that arise
  • Notes and materials after each session

€1,297 · or €347 × 4 months

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Not sure which is yours? That's what the call is for — we'll feel out the right rhythm together.

I wanted to monetise my side project so I could quit my office job. Six months later it had become my full-time business — from non-profit to €13–16k profit per launch.

Daria · From side project to full-time business

Kind words

From the coaching room.

"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."
Laura R.Digital product creator
"I renewed LinkedIn Premium to keep up with the requests for my services — and in just 30 hours I received 16 requests for CV reviews!"
Alongside 1:1 Coaching clientCareer services
"The money mindset session was so useful — I could finally understand my values around money. Some beliefs were limiting me and my business. Now I'm more capable of making the right decisions for my values, lifestyle and needs."
AriadnaBusiness mindset & automations
"Merce was an awesome business coach. Not only did she support me business-wise, but also emotionally."
DariaFrom side project to full-time business
Straight from the messages
Client message: Mercè was exceptional at identifying my blind spots; I left lighter and confident about my ideal client.
Client message: my last 1:1 in a moment of business transition left me with more clarity and confidence.
Client message: our 1-on-1 got to the core of what was holding me back and gave me a push in the right direction.

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Questions

Good to know.

What's the difference between Anchor and Momentum?

Same four-month framework, different pace. Anchor (€947, or €247×4) is one session a month plus an hour of marketing reviews by Merce, with WhatsApp and email support in between — your point of anchor once a month, built for people building around a job or kids. Momentum (€1,297, or €347×4) doubles it: two sessions a month and two hours of marketing reviews, with support close at hand — more support, faster progress. Each container starts with a personalised plan we revisit as we go.

Do I need to know anything about somatic work?

Not at all. You don't need experience or a particular belief about it — just a willingness to notice what happens in your body. Merce guides every part of it; nothing is weird or woo, and everything is optional.

Can I join if I'm neurodivergent or carrying a trauma history?

Yes — it's built for exactly that. Alongside is trauma-informed and neurodivergent-oriented: we move at the pace of trust, work with your nervous system instead of overriding it, and shape the work around how you're actually wired. Nothing here asks you to push through or mask.

One honest note: coaching isn't therapy. If trauma is leaving you unable to function day to day, the kindest first step is a psychologist or therapist — and we're glad to work alongside that support once you're steady enough to build.

Is this business coaching or personal coaching?

Both, on purpose. We work on real business strategy — offer, pricing, positioning, the next move — while working with the nervous system that has to carry it out. In practice the two are inseparable, which is exactly why this works.

What if I only want one session?

That's what the intensives are for — two focused hours, €147, pointed at the one thing in your way. Want it to hold? The Clarity Bundle is three sessions over three months for €377. Either can roll into a full cycle later.

How do we meet?

Sessions are 1:1 over video, with voice-note support between them. Wherever you are, we can work together — in English, Catalan or Spanish.

How do I start?

With a discovery call. It's a real conversation, not a hard sell — we get clear on where you are, what you need, and whether Alongside is the right fit before anything else.

Let's find your rhythm.

It starts with one honest conversation. Book a discovery call and we'll find the right way in together, exactly as you are.

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Any questions? Write to us at hello@forgettheoffice.com or find us on Instagram at @forgettheoffice.