Reignite Your Spark: Starting Your Next Chapter with Anne Paphitis
Anne Paphitis · September 15, 2026
Interview with Anne Paphitis
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About Anne Paphitis
Resilience Coach, Speaker & Personal Reinvention Expert
2019 Began formal coaching trainingFounder Cambridge school for students outside mainstream education3 steps Crown Intentions reinvention roadmapAcquired business Rebuilding a new company
Anne Paphitis builds work from the conviction that life can be rebuilt, even after everything familiar has been stripped away. Born and raised in South Africa, she spent years running a Cambridge school she founded for young people who did not fit into mainstream education - students wrestling with anxiety, bullying, depression or simply falling through the cracks. Watching teenagers who once doubted themselves sit exams, head to university and later return with messages of thanks shaped her belief that change often starts the moment someone finally believes they can do more. A formal coaching course in 2019 gave Anne new tools to work with that same dynamic in adults.
She has reinvented her own life several times: falling unexpectedly in love with Ireland, emigrating, and more recently selling her school and buying another business she is rebuilding. Those lived pivots - the uncertainties, the practical choices and the tiny steps that rekindled hope - are the material of her work.
She is drawn to conversations that lift people out of survival mode and help them reconnect with purpose, confidence and simple joy. Anne prefers dialog and human connection to one-way advice. She loves being onstage or in conversation because she feeds off other people’s energy and watches them leave with a small but real shift.
About this episode
Feeling stuck or overwhelmed and wondering if it's too late to start over? In this episode, I sit down with resilience coachAnne Paphitisto talk about reinventing your life at any age, letting go of what no longer serves you, and stepping into your next chapter with more confidence and less stress.
Anne Paphitis is a resilience coach, speaker, and personal reinvention expert who helps women navigate major life transitions, rebuild confidence, and reconnect with purpose. Drawing from both her coaching work and her own experiences of starting over, Anne brings a practical and compassionate approach to resilience, burnout, and creating a meaningful next chapter.
In this episode:
Anne shares how her personal journey of starting over led her to coach young students with social anxiety and help them build their confidence.
She explains that middle-aged women often feel overwhelmed and lost in the exact same ways as younger students when going through big life transitions.
She talks about her own brave move to Ireland four years ago to completely reinvent her life and help women lower their daily stress.
Anne shares why you need to audit your life first and declutter old habits before trying to add new self-care routines to a full schedule.
She explains her creative self-care journal called Steady, which helps you track your daily activities and pay attention to how they actually make you feel.
Anne offers her top tip for reinventing yourself, which is to be extra patient and kind with yourself because big changes take time.
She talks about the importance of being super clear about your goals while remaining flexible enough to adjust your path as things evolve.
She encourages women not to be afraid to ask for help or find online support groups to be their ultimate cheerleading squad during changes.
She reveals that her favorite way to practice self-care is simply stepping away to clear her mind, like taking a walk in nature or spending time in the garden.
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