Your Next Chapter in business…Ditch your doubt, own your worth, and build the business you really want.
Revised edition with a sparky-brained lens.
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 a business that’s a better fit for you waiting to be unlocked.
Stuck between where you are and where you want to be is an exhausting and 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.
I postponed the decision for that long because I was afraid - “what will people think if I make such a big change - will it be seen as a failure? That fear that stopped me from making the best choice for me, and once I could clearly see how much that thinking had held me back, it fired me up.
Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard said “life is lived forward but understood backward” and so it was with me.
My new clarity became 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.
Who this book is for.
This book is for you if:
the business you’ve built is no longer the right fit for who you have become
you’ve often felt there is a frustrating gap between your capabilitiy and the impact you’re making
you’re tired of pushing through doubt, overthinking and self-pressure
you’re ready to lead yourself with more honesty, self-trust and self-respect
Your Next Chapter doesn’t offer a rigid blueprint, a fast-growth formula or a one-size-fits-all business strategy.
It’s for women who are ready for a truer conversation with themselves so they can shape the business that’s right for them, now.
And for my fellow sparky-brained businesswomen...
If you have ADHD - formally diagnosed, self-recognised, or newly suspected, or if the descriptions I share just feel true, you’ll recognise something extra in these pages I’ve added. Priority pinball, popcorn brain, the confidence see saw, the loop of perpetual potential despite everything you know and everything you've tried…these do all impact how we show up and run our businesses, and I share ideas that shifted things for me.
What this book will help you do
Your Next Chapter will help you:
recognise the patterns of doubt, overcompensation and self-undervaluing that may be shaping your business
reconnect with your worth without needing to “prove” it first
make braver, more honest decisions about the kind of business you actually want
let go of versions of success that are costing too much
build stronger self-leadership and clearer inner authority
create more alignment between who you are and how you work
develop clarity and momentum around your model, marketing, pricing and more
For many of my readers, it’s a catalyst for realising they don’t need more pressure - they need a business that’s a better fit for them.
Listen to the preface - Through a New lens
If you would like a feel for the revised edition, you can click to listen to the audio below where I share:
why I decided to revise the book
what I see differently now
how the sparky-brained lens changes the business conversation
Why I wrote this book - and why I’ve updated it now
When I first wrote Your Next Chapter, it was to speak to women who were brilliant, capable and full of potential, but who were carrying far too much doubt and making business harder than it needed to be.
What I didn’t yet know was just how many of those women, myself included, were navigating life and business with a sparky brain.
Since then, my own lens has changed. My late stage ADHD diagnosis has given me language for patterns I’d lived, witnessed and supported for years: the mismatch between capability and achievement, the hidden exhaustion of trying to do business in ways that don’t fit, and the cost of constantly questioning yourself when the problem is not your potential.
I’ve revised this edition because I didn’t want to leave this book behind. I wanted to bring it forward with me.
It’s still the same core book. It’s not a full rewrite, and it can’t contain the full depth of the work I do now, as that’s evolved, - we’re always evolving! But it does continue to offer a truer frame for the women I’ve always wanted to reach and support - women with big ideas and big hearts, who are doing brilliant work in the world, but are held back from the impact they’re here to make by self-doubt and business models that are not the right fit for them.
If you see yourself in these pages, I hope the book gives you a sense of relief, a vision of what’s possible in your next chapter and the next steps to take you there.
Your Business Strategy Toolkit
For when you need to zoom out and see honestly what's working and what isn't - the Focus Filter
For when you want dedicated thinking time to work ON your business rather than in it - the CEO Hour
For when everything feels urgent at once and you need to find the one thing that will actually build traction - the 4D Lens
For when you want to start your week with intention rather than reaction - My Next Week
For turning your income goals into concrete and achievable targets that the influence your pricing and packaging - the Know Your Numbers Trifecta Calculator
When you buy the book, you also access these bonuses:
Inside the book you'll find the password to an exclusive resource library - strategy and self-leadership tools that take the ideas off the page and into your actual business and life.
Your Self-Leadership Toolkit
For when you've lost touch with what's actually energising you and what your business needs more of right now - the Weekly Reflection
For when you need to reconnect with what you do brilliantly, before busyness buries it again - the Strengths Finder
For when your emotions are running the show and you need to respond rather than react - the Emotions Wheel
For when comparison and self-doubt have taken hold and you can't quite break the loop - the Mind Loops Reset
For when you keep defaulting to busyness and reaction instead of intentional action - the Deliberate Pause Practice
Praise for Your Next Chapter
“Patricia Falcetta OAM Neurodiversity Advocate, Keynote Speaker & Founder of Social Living Solutions
"As a late-diagnosed ADHD woman, I felt profoundly understood and supported through every chapter - I felt seen, understood, and validated in ways I didn't even realise I needed. Your Next Chapter is not just a roadmap. It’s 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
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”.
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