WHY I DO THE THING I DO…

“There is nothing more sacred to me than the moment someone remembers who they really are.”

— Suze Maclaine Pont, Soul Healer, Trauma Guide, and Shipbuilder for the Human Spirit

What if you could build
your dream business without sacrificing your family
or financial security?

“What if you could build
your dream business without sacrificing your family or financial security?”

Are you compromising your own energy, talents and dreams because your family really needs you?

Are you holding off what you KNOW you should be doing because there is always something more urgent with kids, projects, your spouse or ‘life’?

Are you afraid of losing everything you built up if you were to answer your inner calling!

From Steel to Soul: A Life Rebuilt from the Inside Out

I started my career designing ships that could survive any storm. Naval architect. Builder. Strategist.
I didn’t know then that I was designing the very thing I would later become.

Because I wasn’t here to build stronger boats.
I was here to help people become vessels strong enough to hold real life.
Not the curated version. The whole, raw, sacred thing.

“The First Real Test”

I was brilliant at managing projects, growing revenue, bringing people together. I could take months off each year, invest in every course I loved, and earn more than most would dream of. On the outside, it looked like success.
And in many ways, it was.
But then came the deeper test.

I got pregnant.
And suddenly, the systems I’d built couldn’t hold the sacredness of life. Not mine, not my child’s. I was faced with what looked like a choice — keep earning but disconnect, or stay connected and sacrifice.

Neither was an option.
That was my first real initiation into soul-led living.

A Few Things That Make Me Me

I live with my family in the countryside of the Netherlands, where the air is quiet and the Soul can breathe.

I’m married to Jakko — a trauma therapist in his own right — and together we raise our kids in a home filled with honesty, laughter, and long, slow meals.

I still build ships. Not with steel, but with stories and presence. My favorite metaphor is the self-righting rescue vessel — a boat designed to flip, and always return.

My kitchen is often filled with retreat participants, chopping vegetables and singing as we cook. I believe healing happens just as much in the silence between sessions as it does in the work itself.

I love Hebrew kabbalah, Christian mysticism, ancient texts, and the art of weaving spiritual truth into the cracks of daily life.

And I cry easily when people return to themselves. It never gets old. It is always holy.

The Turning Point” → “When It All Fell Apart — and Came Together

Around that time, I met Jakko — the man who would become my husband.
He was willing to stand with me. But I had no idea how to let love in.
The fear in me ran too deep.

Debt was growing. My business was faltering. I was exhausted.
And I did what so many smart, spiritual, well-trained people do — I tried to fix it. Strategize. Learn more. Work harder.

But nothing worked.
Because the real problem wasn’t out there.
The real problem was the relationship I had built with life itself.

That was the moment everything changed.
I stopped trying to fix.
I started listening.
And I let God, and love, back in.

I Don’t Teach Tools. I Teach What I’ve Lived.

What came next wasn’t a tool or a tactic. It was a deep remembering of the Soul’s thread beneath every pattern, every block, every trauma.

The system I built didn’t just bring me back into financial harmony.
It healed my relationship with love, time, presence, motherhood.
It aligned my outer world with the truth of who I am.

And now, it lives in everything I teach.

From the Integrative Trauma Therapy Certification
to the Divine Warrior Retreat
to the Speaking Miracles Week

Every program I now lead—
to the sacred 1:1 work I do—
is born from this turning point.

I don’t hand people methods.
I walk them back to what they never lost.

Your power.
Your peace.
Your truth.

You Are Not Broken. You Are Being Called.

You’re simply still carrying the brilliance that once helped you survive.
But survival is not the same as freedom.
Not the same as love.
Not the same as living fully expressed.

I walk with high-functioning, high-responsibility humans who are ready to drop the old armor
and let their real life begin.

You don’t need fixing.
You need remembering.

To build a business and a life that is uncompromisingly aligned with the Divine thread inside you.

To live and lead from a place where Soul meets strategy, and nothing in you has to be pushed aside.

If You’re Still Reading, You’re Already Being Called

Something in you already knows.

Knows that it’s time.
Knows that what got you here will not get you home.
Knows that pushing harder isn’t strength—it’s delay.

I will walk beside you.
Not to lead.
But to mirror back who you already are.

Welcome home.

Suze

If something in you stirred as you read…


if your Soul whispered, “this is what I’ve been waiting for” —

then the next right step may not be another course,
but a return.

A return to yourself.
A return to what you already know.

Come walk with me at the Divine Warrior Retreat

“The Divine Warrior Retreat is not a training. It’s not a fix.
It’s a sacred return — to the still, steady thread within you.
If something inside stirred… you already know.
Come home to the truth that never left.”

The results speak for themselves…
see what these beautiful people are saying about
working with Suze

HERE’S THE MANTRA I LIVE BY

“Would you stay in prison if the doors were wide open?”

— spoken by the mystic poet Rumi

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“After a very intense and sad period in my life I was looking for an acceleration in my development and needed a helping hand to get there”

Three days filled with time and attention, a treasure; both for my personal and business development. Both Suze’s warmth and professional interventions as well as the other people in the group were a gift.

The seminar gave me exactly what I was looking for: an acceleration to dive back into my business & personal growth. And above all an enhanced zest for life and enjoyment of my true talents.

The seminar brought me way more than I could have imagined it to. To speak in terms of Michelin: worth the journey!”

— Karin Raes, Management Consultant, Raes Management Consultancy

“I have been in business for 25 years and did deep personal development for 35, …

… but working with Suze made me understand – for the first time in my life – what freedom REALLY is, and that I can choose whatever I want.”

— Rob Punselie, ContentKings.nl

“Once you BELIEVE in yourself and who you are truly meant to be in this life, it is EASY to offer it to the world as the gift that you were meant to be all along.”

—Suze Maclaine Pont, Business Coach & Trauma Therapist