About Diane Corriette
For most of my younger life I kept quiet, went along with things, and called it keeping the peace. Now, I live what I teach.
I have self-authored my life - which means I stopped letting other people's expectations write my story. Instead I started making intentional choices aligned with what actually matters to me. It was a deliberate process of noticing where I was living in default mode, and choosing differently.
I help quiet women do the same. Stop waiting and start making intentional choices about your life, so you can finally choose your own direction.
Using AI
I enjoy using AI as part of the way I work and create. It helps me save time, develop ideas more quickly, and spend more of my energy on the parts of the work I care about most.
I use AI to support content writing, image creation, and video development. It allows me to bring ideas to life more easily while still keeping the message, direction, and final decisions in my hands.
The image on the right is an AI version of me, created as part of that process.
Personal Growth Author
As well as the products available on Inspirational Guidance, I am the author of the following:
- Self Talk Effect — An exploration of how the words you use with yourself shape your confidence, your decisions, and your daily experience — and how to shift that inner voice in a more intentional direction.
- The Zest Sparks Guide — A practical guide to reigniting energy and enthusiasm for life, filled with prompts and ideas to help you reconnect with what lights you up.
Personal Growth Coach
I am a Personal Growth Coach and the creator behind Inspirational Guidance. I bring decades of experience in coaching and mentoring, NLP, and personal development, backed by professional certifications and practical tools.
My work today brings these skills together in a more practical, grounded way — focused on helping women move forward with clarity and intention.
I am the creator of the PAUSE Framework — a five-step emotional resilience method built from my coaching work and personal practice. PAUSE stands for Pause, Accept, Understand, Strengthen, and Evolve. It is used by women navigating stress, setbacks, and difficult transitions who want to respond rather than react.
I am an INFJ introvert. A 29/11 path walker and a 6/2 Role Model/Hermit — Pure Generator — Human Design. What does all that mean? I was born to guide people towards transformation.
My Qualifications
- International Coach Academy — Professional Certified Coach Program, 6th December 2003
- Strong Research International — Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, 28 October 2001
- Performance Partnership — Certified Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, 27 May 2005
What I Write About
Every guide, article, and tool on Inspirational Guidance connects back to one core idea: that women deserve a life they have deliberately chosen. These are the six topic areas I write about — each grounded in my coaching training, NLP practice, and lived experience.
Self-Authorship
How to define your own beliefs, identity, and direction — rather than living by someone else's script. The central thread of my work.
Emotional Resilience — the PAUSE Framework
My own five-step framework for responding to stress and setbacks with calm and clarity. Created from over two decades of coaching experience.
Build Self-Confidence
Confidence as a practised skill — built through clarity, language, small actions, and evidence. Not motivation. Not affirmations. Real, repeatable steps.
Live With Purpose
Purpose as a daily practice of values-led choices — not a grand calling to locate once. How to align your everyday decisions with what genuinely matters.
Empowered Living
Boundaries, self-reliance, confident decisions, and turning awareness into action. Practical tools for women ready to take ownership of their lives.
Journaling for Personal Growth
A 10-minute daily practice for clarity, resilience, confidence, and self-knowledge. I have used journaling as a personal tool for over two decades.
Living Out Loud Definition
Living out loud means living your life authentically, unapologetically, and openly according to your own values and passions rather than conforming to the expectations of others. It is the practice of being yourself fully and sharing that identity fearlessly with the world.
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Start Your Live It ListInspirational Guidance Manifesto
This manifesto captures the shift from living on default to choosing your own direction. Each line was chosen to reflect a specific moment in that process - from noticing what isn’t fully chosen, to making small, deliberate decisions, to building a life that feels like yours.
If this resonates, join as a member and start working through it - benefits to being a member.
A Few Of My Free Resources
90 Day Goal Setting
Use our free goal tracker, journal prompt generator and this series of articles to design…
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Cozy Business Boundaries Checklist
Running your own business - whether empire, lifestyle or cozy - needs boundaries.
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Mind Over Matter
A collection of blog posts on the power of our mind for empowered living.
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Why Living Out Loud
I have spent the last twenty years or more living out loud. Not perfectly or without fear. But out loud …
Why You Should Focus on Your ‘Why’: Your Inner Reason Matters More Than You Think
I have been thinking a lot about my WHY lately.
This morning, while sipping coffee and watching the sky …
Who is On Your Mental Guest List? Expanding What Your Mind Lets In
Imagine you are hosting a dinner party. The table is set and the seats arranged just so. You are also …
Kintsugi: Finding Strength and Beauty in the Cracks
For a long time, I thought strength meant not breaking. I believed that if I could just hold everything together …
What I Do Instead of Watching Ads
I never watch TV ads. Not because I hate them - though I do not miss them - but because …
The Four Values I Won’t Live Without (and How They Brought Me Back to Inspirational Guidance)
I didn’t plan to rebuild Inspirational Guidance this year. Not officially, anyway. But in the middle of juggling projects and …
My Lifestyle Business with Cozy Principles
For years, the phrase lifestyle business felt like freedom to me. It meant choosing when and where I worked, traveling …
Living With Purpose Isn’t a Grand Escape—it Starts at Home
There was a time when I thought I had to search for a grand purpose. I would scroll through stories …
Counter Intentions That Hold You Back: Name the Belief, Free Your Action
I want to talk to you today about something quiet that holds a lot of power, those inner blocks we …