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Dear Friend,
Whether we like it or not, we're halfway through 2025. I hope you are doing well enough, taking good care of yourself, and getting the care you need and deserve. Thanks for being part of our year so far.
As we gently drift into Q3, here are some questions I’m holding and reviewing with many of my coachees as a soft mid-year reset:
- What’s feeling most aligned, easeful, or energizing right now?
- Where am I leaking time, energy, or attention?
- What do I want the second half of 2025 to feel like, and what needs to shift to get there?
- What am I proud of from the first half of the year that I haven’t celebrated yet? How can I honor my wins and celebrate my big and small achievements this month?
I invite you to take a moment today or this week to reflect on or journal about these prompts (independently or with your team). Even a five-minute pause can help you reconnect to your values, your vision, and your capacity to lead with intention. And if you need help? We're here!
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Since my sabbatical in the fall, I have been doing a lot of thinking about the best way to "update" my services and ensure that you and the rest of my faithful followers know what I'm doing and how I can help. I've decided to use July to do just this with all of you. And, I'm hoping that my website will catch up to my brain by the end of the summer.
Today, I will share a bit about Reloveution, and over the next six weeks, I will offer some more specific details about each of our buckets of work, including services, stories from the field, a few tips and tricks, and a relevant free tool you can use right away.
I want these emails to be fun, too, so look out for easter eggs (🥚) and secret giveaways (🤫) in each one! Hint: there's one in this email!
Let's get to it!
How do you say Reloveution?
It's love in the center of the revolution, and phonetically, is pronounced Ree-love-ooshun or Reh-love-ooshun. Focus on the love part, and you'll be right every time!
What is Reloveution?
Reloveution helps organizations and leaders leverage the magic of humanity to strengthen teams, deepen leadership impact, and catalyze professional well-being. Through transformational learning and community experiences—such as workshops, retreats, coaching, and strategic advisory services—we equip leaders and teams to build trust, navigate complexity, resolve conflict, and create cultures where people thrive. Our approach is deeply relational, trauma-informed, and firmly grounded in equity, care, and courage.
We play in four primary lanes:
- Team Culture & Cohesion
- Leadership & Management Development
- Conflict Transformation
- Burnout Prevention & Professional Well-Being
We also run the Millennial Manager Collective, a virtual community that helps millennial leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs build the skills, mindsets, and community they need to thrive in the modern world of work.
TLDR: We help organizations make sense of humans, and humans make sense of work. |
Who We Work With
Organizations: We primarily partner with small and midsize teams, including nonprofits, schools, foundations, start-ups, and mission-driven small businesses. However, we have worked in nearly every industry over the last 5.5 years (from healthcare to tech to the arts), and our solutions are widely applicable across sectors. For better or worse, humans are remarkably consistent!
Leaders: Our public programs and coaching are designed for mid-, senior-, and executive-level leaders and changemakers who have real responsibility and seek to lead with greater humanity, authenticity, equity, strategy, and impact, without burning out or martyring themselves.
TLDR: Whether we’re partnering with an entire organization, supporting a small team, or coaching a single leader, we work with people who are ready to lead and work differently and who believe that strong teams, thoughtful management, and human-centered practices are key to lasting impact.
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A Few Testimonials
Here's what some of our past clients and partners have to say about their experience working with us:
"Marissa has been a phenomenal supporter of our organization since day 1. She helped us identify our needs and provided us with workshops, connected us with outstanding coaches and cohorts for our leaders, and facilitated multiple on-site staff retreats. Not only has she responded to our requests with care and great thought, but she has proactively reached out with much-needed support even when we were too busy to ask. Our last year of working with Marissa and Reloveution has been wonderful, and we can't wait for more!” - Marti Bier, Vice President of Programs, Texas Freedom Network "Working with Marissa was a transformative experience for many of our staff members. By evaluating our team in advance and understanding what we needed and how we interacted, she was able to tailor the leadership development sessions to help us grow as a team and as individuals over several months. The experience was fun, educational, and sustainable. After our work together, we began communicating better with each other and clients, expressing our thoughts more clearly, and were reinvigorated." - Mark Thompson, Executive Vice President, Capalino "Coaching with Marissa was a job saver for me and has helped me through some difficult work scenarios. I would not be in my current situation if it weren't for coaching and working with Reloveution. Participating in coaching and other Reloveution opportunities has made me a better manager, better at balancing my job and home life, and better at finding solutions to problems. Marissa is compassionate and always points out the wins, even when they are sometimes hard to see. She is honest, clear, and direct. She is good at asking questions that can help get to the root of what’s going on or provoke you to think further and deeper about a topic." - Emily Waniewski, Programming Director, Hartford Performs
TLDR: We're great at what we do, and we can help you and your team be even better at what you do.
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Sound Like What You Need?
If you or your organization is looking to breathe life back into your team, support your managers more effectively, resolve conflict with more courage and clarity, or finally put real systems in place to prevent burnout, we’d love to support you in the second half of this year.
Keep following along over the next six weeks to explore each area more deeply (and snag some free tools along the way!). And if you're already feeling a 'heck yes, this is what we need right now,' you can always reply to this email or book a connection call to start a conversation.
With so much love and gratitude,
Marissa
P.S. - If you're one of the first three people to respond to this email sharing one thing you're proud of from the first half of the year, I will send you a Sugarwish (cookies, candy, popcorn, tea, wine, or pet treats — your choice!).
Upcoming Public Experiences & Events
Changemaker (Re)Boot Camp
August 20/21-24 | Stony Point Center, Stony Point, NY
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CT Community Learning Day: Preventing Burnout & Cultivating Professional Well-Being
July 14 | New Haven, CT
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Peer Learning Circle: Sustainable Leadership in 2025
July-December 2025
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