When your successful career no longer fits your life
You do not need to abandon everything you have built. But you may need to reconsider what success should look like now.
Luna Earth helps successful professional women over 40 decide whether to stay, change or leave—and turn that decision into a realistic career-and-life plan.
Physician-led. Evidence-informed. Designed for the realities of midlife.
““Sustainable success begins when your career supports your life, not when your life must keep adapting to your career.””
Make your next career decision with clarity—not urgency
Sustainable career change is not about escaping a difficult week or chasing an idealised new life. It means looking honestly at your work, health, responsibilities, finances, identity and ambitions—and making a decision that can hold up in the real world.
Luna Earth gives you a structured path to:
· understand what is no longer working;
· identify whether career, health or another life domain needs attention first;
· explore realistic options without dismissing what you have already built;
· decide whether to stay, change or leave;
· translate that decision into a personal career-and-life plan;
· make change through manageable experiments rather than one dramatic leap.
Choose the path that fits your rhythm.
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Free Sustainable Success Score™
A short questionnaire that looks beyond career satisfaction alone. Receive your personal score and profile, with a brief interpretation showing whether your career, health or another part of life may need attention first.
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The Self-Directed Balance Journey
Use evidence-informed reflections and practical exercises to examine your energy, values, identity, relationships and direction. For a better balance in life. Work through the book independently.
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The Sustainable Success Method™
A structured cohort for women who are ready to decide whether to stay, change or leave. You will build a realistic career-and-life plan with the support of fortnightly facilitated peer-learning meetings. After the programme, the cohort can continue meeting monthly to support implementation and sustainable progress.
A career method that considers your whole life
Career decisions made after 40 rarely concern work alone. Health, family, financial security, professional identity, changing ambitions and limited time all belong in the conversation.
The Sustainable Success Method™ brings these factors together in six connected phases:
1. Insight — understand your current reality, identity, energy and priorities.
2. Motivation — separate obligation, expectation and fear from what you genuinely want.
3. Plan — develop realistic future scenarios and career options.
4. Autonomy — make decisions based on your values, needs and available choices.
5. Connection — use thoughtful peer learning, feedback and support.
6. Transformation — turn your preferred direction into experiments, decisions and a practical plan.
The goal is not reinvention for its own sake. It is a form of success you can actually sustain
Created by a physician who understands high-responsibility careers
I’m Mariska de Velde, a physician, former medical CEO and experienced facilitator of professional reflection and peer learning.
After more than 15 years in medicine and leadership, I know that professional success can remain meaningful while becoming increasingly difficult to combine with your health, responsibilities or changing life. I also know that experienced women do not need simplistic advice to “follow their passion.” They need a rigorous way to think, decide and act without disregarding income, identity or the people who depend on them.
I created the Sustainable Success Method™ by adapting a professional-development method originally designed for Dutch doctors. It combines evidence-informed reflection, career design, behavioural change and facilitated peer learning in a practical programme for successful women over 40.
Your next chapter does not need to begin with a leap
It can begin with a better question, an honest decision and a plan that fits your actual life.
Applications are now open for the next cohort of the Sustainable Success Method™.
Not ready for the full programme? Start with the Free Sustainable Success Score™
Small-print note: Luna Earth programmes are educational and developmental. They do not provide medical care, psychological treatment or psychotherapy.