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Adrienne Richardson

Life & Business Coach for women who “have it all” but feel like they're quietly unravelling on the inside.

If you’re ready for deep alignment with your true self and to live your life fully alive, visit my website or send me a DM. After graduating high school a year early, Adrienne joined the military and served as a paramedic in the US Air Force for 7 years. She went on to graduate Cum Laude from Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ, with a degree in Public Relations. After graduation, Adrienne landed a

job with a marketing and PR agency in Philadelphia, working with NASCAR, Palmer's Chocolate and the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation. She handled everything from pitching to media outlets... to copywriting... to promoting live events. In 2007, shortly after having her first child, Adrienne started a local parenting magazine called South Jersey MOM. In the first month, she printed 10,000 full-color copies and had just ONE paying advertiser. Over the next 4 years, the magazine grew to a distribution of 30,000 copies per month in 7 counties. Eventually Adrienne sold the magazine, but it’s still in print today! When Facebook's advertising platform was fairly new, Adrienne saw a huge opportunity to tap into this powerful marketing tool. In 2013, she started Powerplay Media, a Facebook Ad Agency, that became the driving force behind more than $90,000,000 in client revenue. She helped over 6,500 business owners create and scale ad campaigns and has worked with some of the top names like UC Davis, Digital Marketer, Pete Vargas, Michael Hyatt, Jen & Chris Winfield, Eric Worre, Bossbabe, Anthony O’Neal, Selena Soo, Bethany Hamilton, ThinkMedia, Siimon Reynolds and many more. She was also the Director of Marketing at Clients on Demand for 5 years, where she helped grow the company from $1 MIL per year to $15 MIL per year, earning $10–15 for every $1 spent on ads. Today, Adrienne brings together her 17+ years of leadership, entrepreneurship, and real-life experience to serve women who look successful on the outside but quietly feel like they’re unraveling on the inside. Through her private coaching, she helps high-achieving women who are stepping into a new chapter—after divorce, career shifts, or simply outgrowing the life they built—reconnect with who they truly are, find their strength again, and create a life that actually feels good to live. Adrienne knows what it means to carry the weight of responsibility, to lead under pressure, and to reinvent yourself when life doesn’t go as planned. Her mission is to help women stop performing for the world and start living fully alive and free as themselves.

26/08/2025

This is the ache nobody warns you about:

When the life you worked so hard to build starts feeling too small for the woman you’ve become.

It doesn’t mean you’re ungrateful.
It means you’re growing.

And growth doesn’t always look graceful.

You can love your people, your success and your past and still want more for your next chapter.

If you’re exhausted from performing a life that looks good, but feels hollow… and you’ve started to disappear inside it, you’re in the right place.

I help high-achieving women who are done pretending everything’s fine get back to living a life that is full of clarity, joy and purpose.

What sign is showing up in your life right now? DM me and let me know, I’d love to hear from you.

20/08/2025

With a few anxious butterflies, but so much joy for what this next chapter will bring, I’m excited to share the details of my new coaching program.

This has been in the works for a long time… a crazy calling from God to start something completely different. A call to let go of a career I built over 20 years in marketing, so I could step fully into the deeper work I was created to do.

Obedience rarely makes sense at the beginning. But here’s what I know: when God calls you to move, it’s not about LOGIC, it’s about ALIGNMENT.

So I said yes. And I created something I wish I had when my life looked fine from the outside, but didn’t feel right on the inside.

My Big Beautiful Life is private, high-touch 1:1 coaching for high-functioning women who are tired of holding it all together… and quietly unraveling.

It’s not another “how-to” system. It’s not endless zoom calls. It’s real-time, soul-level support for the woman who’s ready to stop performing, stop shrinking and live her life fully alive and free.

If you’re navigating a major life pivot, feel disconnected from the woman you used to be, or simply know you’re meant for more than what your life currently looks like, I would love to chat with you.

Send me a DM or visit the link in my bio to apply. Let’s build your big, beautiful life, together.

08/08/2025

Wholeness starts where self-abandonment ends.

Not all self-abandonment is loud.

Sometimes it’s quiet, responsible… even praised.

It looks like being the reliable one.
The one who always says yes.
The one who never needs too much.

But here’s what it REALLY is:

High-functioning women are often the most practiced at disappearing.

Not because they’re weak. But because they’ve spent their whole lives being strong for everyone else.

You cancel your own needs to make space for theirs.

You say yes when everything in your body says no.

You keep achieving, producing and serving because that’s who you’ve always been.

Somewhere along the way, you stopped asking yourself what you actually need. And now… you don’t even remember.

You’ve abandoned your desires so long, it feels selfish to want anything at all.

But it’s not selfish. It’s necessary.

It’s your body and your mind signaling a deep, burning desire to be authentically seen, loved and heard.

I know because I’ve lived it. And now I’m creating a space for women like us to overcome this pattern and live a big beautiful life.

I’ll be opening my calendar soon for private coaching. This isn’t another weekly meeting on your calendar. It’s deep, personal, real-life support for real-life women who are done pretending.

If you want to be notified the moment spots become available, my DMs are open. Shoot me a message and let me know you’d like to be added to the list.

30/07/2025

“Maybe it’s not meant to be.”

➡️ Translation: “This got hard and I got scared.”

Growth hurts.

Obedience stretches.

Sometimes doing the right thing feels like walking through fire barefoot.

It’s super uncomfortable.

Comfort is a great nap, but not a great guide. Ease isn’t proof you’re on the right path.

So stop using difficulty as your excuse to bow out. Sometimes the right thing is the HARDEST thing.

And if you keep waiting for it to feel safe before you move, you’ll miss the miracle.

07/07/2025

You call it burnout. I call it carrying too much.

When your nervous system is shot, your mind is racing and you can’t figure out why life feels harder than it should…

It’s not because you’re doing it wrong. It’s because you’re doing it for the wrong reasons.

Because we live in a world that tells us we’re not enough. Do more. Be More. Then do it better. And then be even more.

The pressure of perfection we carry as women doesn’t stay in a neat little box labeled “personal.”

It bleeds into your leadership.
Your decision-making.
Your creativity.
Your business.

And nothing in the world seems like it can fix what’s breaking inside of you.

If you keep hiding the parts of you that are barely holding on…

your business will suffer…
your relationships will fall apart…
your joy will fade…

and you’ll wake up one day wondering how the woman with so much just… disappeared.

But it doesn’t have to end like that. You’re allowed to lay it down. To stop pretending you’re fine.

To be held, seen and supported as you find your way back to you.

Because underneath the exhaustion, there’s still a woman with vision.

With purpose. With so much life left to live and lead.

You don’t have to carry it alone anymore.

There’s another way… and it starts with being honest about how heavy it’s all gotten.

If this hits something in you…if your heart whispered “this is me…”

Then don’t stay silent.

I will be opening up coaching spots soon. If you’re ready to rebuild from a place of strength, not survival, DM me ‘READY’ to get on the waitlist.

30/06/2025

This is the ache nobody warns you about:

When the life you worked so hard to build starts feeling too small for the woman you’ve become.

It doesn’t mean you’re ungrateful.
It means you’re growing.

And growth doesn’t always look graceful.

You can love your people, your success and your past and still want more for your next chapter.

If you’re exhausted from performing a life that looks good, but feels hollow… and you’ve started to disappear inside it, I will be opening coaching spots soon. I help high-achieving women who are done pretending everything’s fine.

DM me ‘POWER’ to be added to the waitlist. You’ll be the first to know when spots open.

10/06/2025

You’ve held it together for so long.

Smiled when it hurt.
Performed while empty.
Carried the weight without letting it show.

But peace doesn’t come from pushing through.

It comes from laying it down. It comes from a place of surrender.

He sees the full picture. We just need to follow His lead.

04/06/2025

I thought these things made me weak.

Once I healed myself, I realized they actually made me powerful.

Strong women don’t break. They just bend under the pressure of trying to hold everything together.

And then one day… they reach a point where they realize the most powerful thing they can do is ask for support.

Hiring a coach doesn’t make you weak. It makes you wise.

You don’t need a pep talk. You need a partner who can match your strength.

Someone to help you operate at your highest level without sacrificing your peace, your joy or yourself in the process.

I will be opening up coaching spots soon. If you’re ready to rebuild from a place of strength, not survival, comment “POWER” to get on the waitlist.

This is your next chapter. You don’t have to walk through it alone.

29/05/2025

Let’s be honest…

Part of us wants a God we can manage.

Control.

Micromanage, even.

So we shrink Him down to the size of our understanding.
We box Him in based on our limited perspective and priorities.

And what we’re left with… is a downsized version of Him.

One that can’t possibly carry us through pain.
One that seems too small to cover our shortcomings.
One that fits our comfort, but not our calling.

That’s where most people lose faith…not because God failed them, but because the version of God they believed in was too small to begin with.

Our biggest problem?

Isn’t that God’s not showing up…

It’s that we don’t believe He’s big enough.

21/05/2025

When a season in your life changes, you can always trust this: God hasn’t.

He’s not punishing you with change… He’s positioning you.

He’s not taking something from you… He’s preparing something FOR you.

And sometimes the only way to receive the new thing… is to release the old one.

Let Him remove what no longer fits so He can place what does.

Because when a chapter closes, God’s not done—He’s just making space.

So if He’s asking you to let go… it’s not rejection.

✨It’s redirection.✨

And it’s always about preparation for the next chapter.

In my weekly newsletter, I share my unfiltered and “off-the-record” take on life, business and living fully alive to help and inspire successful women who are ready to begin their next chapter.

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16/05/2025

I’m alive, got home before lunch and surgery went well. Since I’ve been home, two words just won’t leave me alone:
SUFFER WELL.

It feels so contradictory.

“Suffering” and “well” don’t belong in the same sentence.

But that’s exactly what I want to do.

I don’t want to whine and complain my way through recovery from shoulder surgery.

I don’t want to be grumpy.
I don’t want to spiral into self-pity.

I don’t want to lose my peace every time I feel pain or frustration.
(Not being able to use my right arm for months is FOR SURE going to be annoying).

But still, I want to suffer well.

Which means letting the pain draw me closer to God instead of pulling me away.

It means allowing the limits to slow me down, but not shut me down.

It means being honest about how hard it is… but not letting that hardness harden me.

I’ve got two choices:

I can gripe and complain and talk about how much this is going to suck
(which I’ve definitely already done MANY times over the last few weeks)...

OR

I can take my thoughts captive.
I can focus on what IS going well.
I can choose to see what God is doing in the middle of it.

Suffering well isn’t about pretending I’m fine.
I KNOW I’m going to have moments where I want to cry, or quit or scream.

But I’ve walked through worse.
And God didn’t waste any of it.
This isn’t just about healing my shoulder.

This is about surrender and letting God do something in me during the healing process.

So if I HAVE to go through this, I’m CHOOSING to suffer well.

15/05/2025

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