Hello, I’m Maria

My whole life has been about stories, not just telling them but understanding why some people find it almost impossible to tell theirs – and what happens when they finally do.

I help you find your voice when you don’t feel confident in who you are and how you show up.

I’m a journalist, coach and founder of Writers Ink, helping creative people and business owners stop hiding and start showing up – as who they actually are.

I started out in journalism at 22, which means I spent years in rooms where the real story was almost never the one being presented, and my job was to find it!

I had  to listen past what people were saying and get to what they actually meant. It turns out it’s exactly the kind of skill that matters when you’re sitting across from a writer who can’t finish their book or a business owner who doesn’t know what to say or someone who has quietly and systematically talked themselves out of the life they actually wanted.