WHY I DO THE THING I DO…
“There is nothing more powerful than the moment you stop performing strength — and let yourself be held”
— Suze Maclaine Pont, Shipbuilder for your Soul and Trauma Therapiost for High Functioning Professionals
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 — And Back Again
You’re the one everyone relies on.
The leader. The safe pair of hands. The one who makes it all look effortless.
I know, because I was that person too.
I could grow revenue, manage huge projects, and bring people together with ease. I had freedom in my calendar, money in the bank, and the admiration of people who thought I’d “figured it out.”
But here’s the truth:
I was running on empty.
I was lonely in my own success.
And I had built a life I could manage — but not one I could truly live.
The First Real Test
When I became pregnant, everything changed.
The systems I’d built couldn’t hold the sacredness of life — not mine, not my child’s.
I thought I had two choices:
-
Keep earning and disconnect from myself.
-
Stay connected and sacrifice what I’d built.
Neither felt like living.
That was my first initiation into soul-led living — a pivot that had nothing to do with strategy, and everything to do with presence.
When It All Fell Apart — and Came Together
Not long after, I met Jakko — the man who would become my husband.
He was willing to stand with me… but I didn’t know how to let love in.
Debt was growing. My business was faltering. I was exhausted.
Like so many smart, capable people, I tried to fix it:
✔ Work harder
✔ Learn more
✔ Push through
But nothing worked — because the real problem wasn’t out there.
It was the relationship I had with life itself.
The moment I stopped trying to fix and started listening, everything shifted.
I let God back in.
I let love back in.
And I began to rebuild — from the inside out.
A Few Things That Make Me… Me
I live tucked away in the countryside of the Netherlands, where the air is still enough for the Soul to breathe.
I’m married to Jakko — a trauma therapist with a heart as steady as his presence — and together we raise our children in a home filled with honesty, laughter, and long, slow meals that stretch into the evening.
I still build ships. Not from steel anymore, but from stories, presence, and truth. My favorite is the self-righting rescue vessel — a boat designed to capsize, and always return. That’s how I see the human spirit.
My kitchen is often alive with the sound of retreat participants chopping vegetables, singing, and sharing quiet moments over simmering pots. I believe healing happens as much in these moments between sessions as it does in the deep work itself.
I am endlessly drawn to Hebrew Kabbalah, Christian mysticism, and ancient texts — to the art of threading spiritual truth through the small, ordinary cracks of daily life.
And I cry easily when someone finally returns to themselves. It never stops feeling holy.
The Shipbuilder for Your Soul
I began my career as a naval architect — designing vessels that could survive any storm.
Now, I help people become those vessels.
Not with steel, but with presence, story, and truth.
Like the self-righting rescue ship — built to flip and always return — I help high-functioning, high-responsibility humans return to themselves.
Because survival isn’t the same as freedom.
And success without soul will quietly break your heart.
What I Teach — and Why
I don’t hand people tools.
I walk them back to what they never lost:
-
Your power.
-
Your peace.
-
Your truth.
The system I’ve built healed my relationship with love, time, presence, and leadership.
It now lives in everything I teach — from my 1:1 Sacred Reset to the Sacred Pause Retreat, from Speaking Miracles to my two-year Integrative Trauma Therapy Certification.
If you’re here, you’re probably already feeling it:
What got you here will not get you home.
And pushing harder isn’t strength — it’s delay.
If You’re Still Reading, You’re Already Being Called
Something in you already knows:
It’s time to come home.
Not to start over, but to remember who you are when the noise quiets and the soul leads.
I’ll walk beside you — not to lead, but to mirror back who you already are.
Welcome home.
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
Book Suze As
A Speaker For
Your Next Event!
Ut enim ad minima veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur? Quis autem vel eum iure reprehenderit qui in ea voluptate.
Check what's happening on the Podcast
The Ache Beneath the Success: A Conversation About Shame, Safety, and Soul
The Ache Beneath the Success: A Conversation About Shame, Safety, and Soul In this raw and intimate conversation, Suze and Jaco explore what lives underneath our accomplishments — the places of shame, the quiet longing for safety, and the moments where we sense God...
30 June 2025 – Finding God in Chaos
Episode Title: Finding God in ChaosPodcast: Sacred Conversations — From Survival to Soul in Everyday LifeHosts: Suze Maclaine Pont & Jakko SmitLength: 40 minutes ✨ Episode Description In this sacred conversation, Suze and Jakko explore what it means to find God...
22 June 2025 – Sacred Conversations
“The Divine Thread: Why Your Survival Mode Is Not the Enemy” Podcast: Sacred Conversations with Suze and JakkoRelease Date: June 22, 2025Length: ~55 min ✨ Episode Summary: In this first episode under our new name Sacred Conversations, we (Suze and Jakko) explore one...
Safety & Trauma – 16 June 2025
Podcast Title: The Suze Maclaine Pont ShowEpisode Title: Safety & TraumaAir Date: June 16, 2025Hosts: Suze Maclaine Pont & Jakko SmitLength: 55 minutes Episode Summary: In this intimate, unscripted episode, Suze and her husband Jakko explore the subtle, sacred...
2 June 2025
How Toxic Shame Shows Up—and What to Do About It Podcast: The Suze Maclaine Pont ShowHosts: Suze Maclaine Pont & Jakko Smit Episode Summary:In this intimate and soul-baring episode, Suze and Jakko return to the tender terrain of toxic shame—but this time with a...
9 June 2025 Toxic Shame & Burn Out
You Are Not the Problem: The Hidden Link Between Toxic Shame and Burnout Shownotes: Episode Summary:In this raw and real conversation, Suze and her husband Jakko unpack the invisible weight many professionals carry—burnout not caused by overwork, but by toxic shame....
Decisions: When Your Mind Wants Certainty—but Your Life Wants Movement
We’re taught to decide with facts, plans, and common sense. But if you scan your life honestly, the moments that shaped everything rarely came from logic. They came as you moved—often before you could explain why. When I was eight months pregnant, I wasn’t “looking”...
When Safety Breaks: Loneliness, Power & How We Reset What Hurts
Some headlines should never be normal—and yet our feeds keep repeating them. A woman doesn’t make it home. Children don’t return from school. Your mind tries to file it as “the world out there,” but your body knows better. Your chest tightens. Your sleep lightens. You...
The Price of Carrying It All: Why Leaders Break in Silence. The Hidden Cost of Carrying the World Alone
You think you’re strong because you keep going.But let’s be honest — strength isn’t staying awake at 3AM solving problems no one else dares to touch.Strength isn’t swallowing your loneliness because “that’s what leaders do.”That’s slow suicide. The Captain’s Dilemma...
The Silent Suffering Behind Success: Why Having It All Can Still Feel Empty
What no one tells you about the loneliness, anxiety and disconnection that can hide behind achievement – and how to reset from the inside out. You made it.The clients, the revenue, the home, maybe even the partner and family you once dreamed of.And yet… inside,...
Money management system
In this podcast we're talking about how to build your business without sacrificing your relationships, your family, your life or anything else that is important to you while growing your business. In this episode we will talk about creating a money management system...
Money blueprints
In this podcast we're talking about how to build your business without sacrificing your relationships, your family, your life or anything else that is important to you while growing your business. In this episode we will talk about money blueprints. Do you...
Managing Money
In this podcast we're talking about how to build your business without sacrificing your relationships, your family, your life or anything else that is important to you while growing your business. In this episode we will talk about managing money. Do you...
The two biggest problems when it comes to money and finance
In this podcast we're talking about how to build your business without sacrificing your relationships, your family, your life or anything else that is important to you while growing your business. In this episode we will share the two biggest problems when...
What is success?
In this podcast we're talking about how to build your business without sacrificing your relationships, your family, your life or anything else that is important to you while growing your business. In this episode we will talk about the definition of...
Blueprint navigation
In this podcast we're talking about how to build your business without sacrificing your relationships, your family, your life or anything else that is important to you while growing your business. A tip about how to navigate your blueprint. Do you want to...
Your contribution to the world
In this podcast we will share how to build your business without sacrificing your relationships, your family, your life or anything else that is important to you while growing your business. A tip about how to start contributing to the world. Do you want...
The second biggest problem when it comes to money and business is not knowing how to create anything you want
In this podcast we will share how to build your business without sacrificing your relationships, your family, your life or anything else that is important to you while growing your business. The second biggest problem when it comes to money and business is...
Business without compromising your life, your family or your relationships
In this podcast, we will share with you how you can build your business without compromising your life, your family, your relationships, whatever it is that really, really, really matters to you. We're going to talk about one of the biggest problems that is actually...
Why and how to break free and unlock your life
In this podcast, I go deep into where we get stuck around money, why and how to break free and unlock your life. Because if you came into this world to bring value, change, potential, then why not do it in a way that's also best for you? Let's create the...
Money Mindset Strategies with Thijs Lindhout
Video Special with Thijs Lindhout - 100% Inspiratie Podcast Thijs is on tour this fall with his 100% Inspiration show! Want to know more? Keep reading and listen to the video. Want tickets? SCROLL DOWN! In this episode I am interviewing Thijs Lindhout. Thijs is a 30...
Episode 022: The Money Interviews with Mike Watts
Mike Watts This weeks interview is with Mike Watts. Entrepreneur, one of my business partners, husband of Kate Northrup, father of Penelope, and great friend. The best thing about Mike is his honesty. His way of not holding back, wanting to learn...
“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
