I Built a Room I Wished Had Existed for Me

I Built a Room I Wished Had Existed for Me

May 04, 20264 min read

I want to be honest with you about something.

There was a season in my life where I had everything I had worked for and still felt like something was missing.

Not ungrateful.

Not lost.

Just quietly aware that the rooms I was walking into were not built for the fullness of who I was becoming.

The professional spaces were focused on performance.

The personal spaces were focused on everyone else's needs.

And somewhere in the middle of all of it, I realized I had never once been in a room that was built entirely around the woman I was right now.

Not the woman I used to be.

Not the woman someone else needed me to be.

Just her.

The one who had done the work, carried the weight, built the life, and was still hungry for something more.

I looked for that room for a long time.

And when I could not find it, I built it.


What It Feels Like to Walk In

I wish I could adequately describe what happens in the first few hours of WANTED Woman LIVE.

There is a moment, and it happens every single year, where the room shifts.

It is not something you can plan for or put on an agenda.

It is the moment when a woman says something honest.

Something she has been carrying quietly for months or years.

And instead of being met with silence or advice or a quick pivot to something more comfortable, she is met with recognition.

With the exhale of six other women who needed to hear someone say that out loud.

With the quiet but unmistakable feeling of not being alone.

That moment is why I do this.

That moment is everything.


She Has Been Waiting for This Room Her Whole Life

The woman who comes to WANTED Woman LIVE is between 40 and 65.

She is accomplished in ways that are visible to everyone around her.

She is also carrying things that are invisible to almost everyone around her.

The uncertainty about what comes next after decades of climbing.

The longing for friendships that go deeper than schedules allow.

The quiet grief of parts of herself she set aside somewhere along the way and has not had the time or the space to go back for.

She is not broken.

She is not in crisis.

She is simply a woman who has spent a very long time showing up for everything and everyone else and is finally, tentatively, wondering if there is a room somewhere that will show up for her.

There is.

It is called WANTED Woman LIVE.

And it was built with her heart in mind.


What She Finds There

She finds women who understand without explanation.

Women who have navigated the same intersections of ambition and identity and reinvention and do not need her to justify why she still wants more.

She finds conversations that go to the real places.

Not the polished, professional, everything-is-fine places.

The honest places.

The tender places.

The places where growth actually begins.

She finds tools from Coach Cass that give her a language for what she has been living, that connect her personal life to her professional performance in ways that finally make the invisible visible.

And she finds something she may not have even known she was looking for.

Herself.

The version of her that got a little quieter over the years.

The one who had opinions and dreams and a sense of her own joy that somewhere got buried under the weight of being everything to everyone.

She finds her way back to that woman in this room.

And she leaves different.

Not because we changed her.

Because she finally had the space to remember who she already was.


To the Woman Reading This Right Now

If you have made it this far, something in you recognized something in these words.

I do not think that is an accident.

I think you have been waiting for a room like this longer than you have admitted to yourself.

I think part of you already knows you belong here.

You do not have to have it all figured out before you come.

You do not have to be at a certain level or a certain stage or a certain version of yourself.

You just have to be willing to show up for yourself the way you have always shown up for everyone else.

Just once.

Just this October.

Spots are limited because this experience is designed to stay intimate.

We protect the size of this room because we protect what happens inside it.

If you feel the pull, honor it.

Visit wantedwomanlive.com to learn more and secure your place at WANTED Woman LIVE this October.

You have spent enough time in rooms that were not built for you.

This one was.


When love eludes you, there is only one woman who can help you capture it, and she is Dr. Casandra “Coach Cass” Henriquez. 
An Executive Love Coach and matchmaker for successful women with InspireMany.com, Coach Cass sets stages aflame as an in-demand speaker and as a TedX presenter. 

The creator of the Love Deck, dating conversation cards, her voice has graced the airwaves weekly on the #1 radio show in South Florida and hosted the television show Fiscally Fit. 
Coach Cass has been chronicled and featured by Woman’s Day, Fast Company, and Black Enterprise, to name a few. 
Author of the best-selling children’s book Princess Zara’s Birthday Tradition, and now WANTED Woman: Busy Woman's Guide to Attracting and Choosing A Love That Lasts, you can often find her relaxing on the beaches of the world with her husband Andy and daughter Ava, jamming to reggae vibes. 

Follow her on Instagram: www.Instagram.com/InspireMany. 
Book her services via www.WANTEDWoman.com

Dr. Casandra “Coach Cass” Henriquez

When love eludes you, there is only one woman who can help you capture it, and she is Dr. Casandra “Coach Cass” Henriquez. An Executive Love Coach and matchmaker for successful women with InspireMany.com, Coach Cass sets stages aflame as an in-demand speaker and as a TedX presenter. The creator of the Love Deck, dating conversation cards, her voice has graced the airwaves weekly on the #1 radio show in South Florida and hosted the television show Fiscally Fit. Coach Cass has been chronicled and featured by Woman’s Day, Fast Company, and Black Enterprise, to name a few. Author of the best-selling children’s book Princess Zara’s Birthday Tradition, and now WANTED Woman: Busy Woman's Guide to Attracting and Choosing A Love That Lasts, you can often find her relaxing on the beaches of the world with her husband Andy and daughter Ava, jamming to reggae vibes. Follow her on Instagram: www.Instagram.com/InspireMany. Book her services via www.WANTEDWoman.com

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