The guide for when you‘re ready torecalibrate your business and redefine success - now in a fully updated second edition...
It’s time for your next chapter...
If you’ve got a quiet nudge inside – a sense that something new is calling – this book is for you.
Whether you’re dreaming up a fresh business idea, pivoting an existing one, or just craving more purpose, clarity, and freedom, Your Next Chapter is your companion for the journey. It’s honest, practical, and encouraging – designed to help you shift from second-guessing to strategic doing.
Because you don’t have to stay stuck in “it’s fine, I guess.” There’s something more aligned waiting.
Inside, you’ll find what you need to ditch doubt, embrace your next step, and build a business
that serves you as much as you serve your clients.
Why I wrote this book - and why I’ve updated it now
When I first wrote Your Next Chapter during the 2020 COVID lockdowns, I had no idea I had ADHD.
I thought my frenetic pace, unpredictable bursts of energy, and endless capacity for ideas were just... me. My personality. My quirks. I didn't have a name for the pattern - the confidence and doubt battling each other on an almost daily basis, the popcorn of constant new ideas, the incredible depth of focus one day followed by disconnection the next… the loop of perpetual potential despite genuine talent, great feedback and hard work.
The name came much later, at 53, after my daughter was diagnosed and I finally began to understand what ADHD actually looks and feels like in women.
As I unpacked this new knowledge about myself, I couldn’t help but see the impact my alternative operating system had on my life… AND my business over the years.
It explained so much about my weaving entrepreneurial adventure - ironically, it helped explain why when I first released my book, I scarcely promoted! Big goal - write book - TICK… next…
And so, yes, this updated edition weaves in my retroactive understanding of my own next chapter through a new ADHD lens AND it also features updates to several of the business models and ideas I shared in the original edition, reflecting new thinking.
It is still very much a book is for every woman who knows something more is possible in her business and wants an honest, practical companion for the journey there.
And now it is also for my fellow sparkies, who might be beginning to realise why the rules of business seldom seem to work…and what to try instead.
Stuck between where you are and where you want to be is an exhausting place to live.
The Deliberation Zone, that space between sensing change is needed and actually making it, has a way of draining your energy and enthusiasm over time. You're not standing still. You're working hard. But something feels perpetually unresolved, and that takes a toll.
I lived this for almost three years before I finally gave myself permission to step away from the marketing agency I'd built and into my next iteration of work. No staff felt like freedom - and the impact on my profitability? Massive.
Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard said “life is lived forward but understood backward”. It took time and space to shed the feeling of failure that had dogged that decision before I could see it clearly. That clarity became the foundation for the five-stage Next Chapter Change Cycle - mapping the journey from Discontent to Desire, through Decision, and into Design and Delivery, with honest guidance on what trips you up at each stage and how to move forward anyway.
You don't need more ideas. You need a way through.
The stuck spot this book moves you out of.
Does this sound familiar?
Your Next Chapter might be exactly what you need if…
You’re “successful” on paper, but are craving something that feels more meaningful
You’re tired of the ‘hustle and scale’ messages and would prefer a strategically small business without feeling like you need to apologise for that
You want to develop something that’s a better for for who you have become and the life stage you’re in
You know you’re standing at the edge of something new, but are not sure how, or where, to begin
You move fast, feel deeply, generate ideas constantly and can't work out why the traction you know you're capable is so damn elusive
You've tried 1001 planning systems, content calendars, and productivity tools - and still haven’t found the magical one that will “change everything”!
You’ve found yourself simultaneously envying the straight line of growth some of your business colleagues manage and wonder how the heck they have stuck to just the one thing (because you know that would drive you crazy)
Praise for Your Next Chapter
“Patricia Falcetta OAM Neurodiversity Advocate, Keynote Speaker & Founder of Social Living Solutions
"This updated edition brings an even deeper level of clarity and compassion. Angela's reflections on inner critics, rejection sensitivity, and the emotional terrain of building a business have only become richer and more resonant. In reading these new chapters, I felt seen, understood, and validated in ways I didn't even realise I needed. Your Next Chapter is not just a roadmap. It is a hand on your back."
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Angela Raspass has written a book that every woman in business should have on her shelf.
When Angela wrote her first edition of Your Next Chapter, she did not yet have the language of ADHD to describe her fast-firing, deeply perceptive, emotionally intelligent inner world. Yet even in that first edition, so much of her writing spoke directly to my own lived experience as a woman with ADHD. She understood the inner landscape, the doubt, the imagination, the emotional intensity, the spirals of possibility long before she had a diagnosis to explain it.
That is Angela’s gift. Her insight, self-awareness, and emotional honesty have always been ahead of their time.
This updated edition brings an even deeper level of clarity and compassion. Now, with the perspective of her ADHD diagnosis, Angela invites readers into a far more expansive understanding of courage, self-worth, and the realities of being a ‘sparky-brained’ woman navigating the world of entrepreneurship. Her reflections on inner critics, rejection sensitivity, bounce-ability, expectation traps, and the emotional terrain of building a business have only become richer and more resonant.
In reading these new chapters, I felt seen, understood, and validated in ways I didn’t even realise I needed.
I have worked with many coaches, strategists, and mentors throughout my decade in business, but none have had the grounding impact that Angela has had on me, both professionally and personally. Her guidance is not loud or forceful. She doesn’t preach. She doesn’t demand. Angela walks beside you. She carries you gently when needed, and she offers tools and insights so seamlessly that you only realise later how much your life and business have shifted because of her presence.
While sharing the lessons she learned in her recovery journey, as well as the practical strategies she teaches for managing energy, emotions, expectations, and the inevitable pivot points in business, Angela models what true, grounded, values-led leadership looks like. Her writing in this edition is honest, emotionally intelligent, deeply human, and profoundly supportive, especially for women whose brains work differently and brilliantly.
If you are a woman on the cusp of change, or yearning for a business and life aligned with your values … if you are navigating self-doubt, late diagnosed neurodivergence, burnout, or the feeling that there must be another way … this book is the companion you need.
Your Next Chapter is not just a roadmap. It is a hand on your back. A reminder that your worth is innate, your story matters, and your next chapter can be written in a way that honours your brain, your strengths, and your truth.
I recommend it wholeheartedly.
Patricia Falcetta OAM
Neurodiversity Advocate, Keynote Speaker, Facilitator & Trainer
Founder of Social Living Solutions
Canberra, Australia
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Barbara Huson
Wealth Coach, Author of: Overcoming Underearning & Sacred Success
“This brilliant book lays out a clear path to confidently move through the discontent and doubt that’s holding you hostage and into the purpose that’s calling you. It’s an affirming blend of practical wisdom and inspirational guidance that will empower you to release your remarkable ideas into the world and live your greatness. Read it today!”
Susannah Conway
Author of THIS I KNOW: Notes on Unraveling the Heart
"This is a brilliantly practical and inspiring guide to stepping into your next chapter in life. Angela’s the down-to-earth friend you want by your side as you embark on the adventure. I loved it!”
Donna Brown
Global Business Strategist
“Angela has the gift of clarity and leadership. She takes you by the hand, sharing stories and insights that lead you to your own realisations, and there is nothing more powerful. To read this book and do the work, is to be transformed.”
Emma Grey
Bestselling Author of "The Last Love Note”
"Angela has a knack for reaching into an inner world many of us know intimately, but haven't articulated. She paints a description of discontent so acutely relatable it's like she’s inside our heads, and then gives us a roadmap towards an enchanting new future.”
Jo Hanlon
Leadership, Mindset, and HR Coach
“Angela’s book comes straight from her heart and speaks directly to mine. For anyone seeking an actionable roadmap which they can put into practice immediately to dream about, explore, develop and/or take action on their next chapter (whether it be their first, fifth or fifteenth), this book provides the way, peppered with feeling, passion and commitment, to do just that”.
Carolyn Tate
Educator & Consultant, author of The Purpose Project.
“Women need this book, because for too long we’ve not been true to ourselves or our calling. We all have something greater inside each of us and if it remains unearthed we will never fix the problems our world is facing. If every woman on the precipice of a new chapter in life, had this book, imagine the world we could live in?! Just imagine”.