Why the name
Mind is what you are carrying right now: thoughts, feelings, memories, questions.
Becoming is the quiet process of shaping a life that feels more true. It lives in small choices, in how you spend your time, what you hold on to, what you let go of, and how you speak to yourself along the way.
It is not about becoming a different person. It is about growing more into who you already are.
Mind and Becoming lives in the space between those two things: what you notice inside and what you gently change in everyday life.
You do not need to be ready. You just need one page.
About Daniela
My name is Daniela.
For eighteen years I worked in leadership and compliance roles across the UK and Europe. I was good at it and I genuinely loved it, the people, the complexity, the responsibility. Along the way, a manager I respected suggested I train formally as a coach. I did, and something shifted. I discovered I was just as interested in how people think and grow as I was in how organisations work.
I began working with women, helping them get promoted, find their confidence, navigate moments of change. Then the pandemic arrived, and coaching became something deeper. I decided I needed to understand human behaviour more seriously. I left my corporate role, moved to Italy, and in 2025 graduated in Psychology from the University of Essex with a First Class degree.
I started writing. I wanted to write about beginning again, about the moment when something in you shifts and you realise it is time to move in a new direction. That theme has been with me through every change I have made.
Mind and Becoming grew from that writing, and from a simple creative ambition: to build something bigger than a coaching practice. Books, guides, and writing tools that help someone begin. Not a programme. Not a method. Just a well-designed place to start.
A Date with a Notebook is that place.
There is more to come. But this is where we begin.