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Are You Secretly Grappling With…
- A debilitating identity crisis? If your sense of self, once so tightly woven with your achievements, roles, or public persona, now feels stripped away or drastically altered, leaving you questioning who you are at your core.
- Disorientation and paralysis? If the established structures and routines that once defined your highly successful life have suddenly vanished, leaving you feeling adrift, lacking control, and unsure of your next move.
- Unsettling vulnerability and a loss of control? If you, who are accustomed to finding solutions and being in command, are now facing circumstances where you feel powerless or at the mercy of forces beyond your influence.
- Mind-numbing isolation? If, despite your extensive network, you find yourself lacking genuinely deep, confidential connections, making it incredibly difficult to confide in anyone about the unique challenges of your success and current struggle.
…then I can help you sort this out.

I am an experienced medical doctor – MBChB, MRCGP, NLP master pract cert, Transformational Life Coach (dip.) Life Story Coach (cert.) Counselling (cert.) Med Hypnotherapy (dip.) and EAGALA (cert.) I may have an impressive number of letters after my name, and more than three decades of professional experience, but what qualifies me to excel at what I do is my intuitive understanding of my clients’ difficulties and my extensive personal experience of managing serious life disruptions using strategies I developed over many years.
Are You Going Through a Severely Disruptive Life Transition?
Certain life shifts can be uniquely disruptive, challenging your very identity and the structures you’ve meticulously built. You’re accustomed to control and success, but these transitions can feel profoundly unsettling:
Forced or Unexpected Career Change
Whether it’s a layoff, the failure of a venture you poured your soul into, or even a public scandal, a forced career exit shatters more than just your professional path. Your identity is often deeply intertwined with your career, and suddenly, your sense of purpose, competence, and public image can feel lost. This can lead to immense shame, self-doubt, and a struggle to define who you are without your professional title. You might find yourself asking, “Who am I if I’m not the CEO, the top surgeon, or the successful entrepreneur?” You could also be grappling with a fear of irrelevance, a loss of status, and the difficulty of navigating life without the relentless demands and familiar structure of your high-powered career.
Major Health Crisis
For high-achievers who often push physical and mental limits, a significant health issue—be it a personal diagnosis, a chronic illness, or a debilitating accident—forces a confrontation with mortality, vulnerability, and a sudden lack of control over your own body. If it’s a loved one’s health crisis, your focus and priorities can be entirely derailed. This can manifest as a loss of perceived invincibility, a fear of physical limitations impacting your ability to achieve, grappling with a future that looks drastically different from what you envisioned, immense emotional strain, and a powerful, often unplanned, re-evaluation of life’s priorities.
Divorce or End of a Long-Term Significant Relationship
Beyond the raw emotional pain, for high-achievers, the breakdown of a long-term relationship can feel like a profound personal failure. Your personal life may have often taken a backseat to your professional drive, and the collapse of such a foundational relationship can expose deep insecurities and the hollowness of external success. You might experience a loss of identity as a partner, face social stigma (especially if you’re a public figure), navigate complex financial challenges and co-parenting dynamics, feel profound loneliness, and even begin questioning your judgment and ability to connect deeply.
Retirement (Especially Unplanned or Early)
While often anticipated, the actual transition into retirement can be deeply unsettling. The sudden absence of daily demands, challenges, and your accustomed sense of contribution can trigger a profound identity crisis. You may feel lost or lack direction despite having ample resources, grappling with the question, “What now?” You might also experience a loss of structure and routine, feel obsolete or irrelevant, struggle to fill newfound time meaningfully, and begin grappling with aging and mortality as you re-evaluate your life’s purpose when it’s no longer defined by work.
Loss of a Loved One
Grief is universally challenging, but for high-achievers, the loss of a spouse, child, or parent can be particularly isolating. You may feel immense pressure to “be strong” and “process it efficiently,” denying yourself the vital space for raw emotion. This loss shatters your world view and often your entire sense of future. The specific pain points can include profound sadness, questioning the meaning of life, guilt over past priorities, difficulty expressing vulnerability, and feeling misunderstood by those who don’t grasp the depth of your loss combined with the public persona you maintain.
“Empty Nest” Syndrome
While a natural progression, for highly involved parents whose identity heavily revolved around raising their children, this transition can create a significant void. It often triggers profound questions about their purpose now that their “primary job” is seemingly complete. You might face a significant identity shift from parent to “what’s next?”, feel lost or unneeded, begin re-evaluating your marriage or relationship without the central focus on children, and consciously or unconsciously face your own ageing.
Sale of a Business or Major Company Acquisition
For entrepreneurs and leaders who built their companies from the ground up, selling it or being acquired can feel like losing a part of themselves, or even “their baby.” Even with significant financial gain, there’s often a profound sense of loss of control, purpose, and community. This can lead to an identity crisis (you’re no longer “the founder”), a loss of daily challenge and stimulation, feeling adrift despite wealth, and struggling to identify the next “big thing” or find a new sense of purpose.
Your Solution: The Platinum Protocol – Accelarated Personal Growth
The Platinum Protocol is a discreet, 3-month high-ticket medically-informed mentorship program, meticulously designed for outstandingly successful people like you. This isn’t another online course you’ll never finish; it’s a no-nonsense, strategic, and in-depth personalised partnership engineered for quantifiable results in the minimum amount of time.
I will guide you, one-on-one, through your transition as if we’re walking the Camino de Santiago together. Leveraging my extensive medical training, experience, and knowledge, and putting all my expertise at your disposal during twice-monthly, hourly sessions, we will bypass the noise and get straight to what truly matters. Each mentorship is entirely unique, tailor-made, and exclusive to you.
What The Platinum Protocol Delivers:
- Profound Clarity and Renewed Purpose: You’ll gain a crystal-clear understanding of your core values, true passions, and the mission that genuinely sets your soul on fire. This clarity transcends past achievements and societal expectations, giving you an unshakeable sense of direction for your next chapter.
- Authentic Self-Reclamation: You’ll shed identities that no longer serve you, moving beyond past roles or the “mask of perfection.” This is a deep rediscovery of who you are at your core, fostering an empowered and integrated sense of self that feels genuine and liberating.
- A Blueprint for a Meaningful Future: Armed with purpose and clarity, you will co-create a concrete, actionable blueprint for a life that is not just successful, but deeply fulfilling and impactful. This isn’t about chasing new metrics, but building a life where your daily actions align harmoniously with your deepest desires.
- Strategic Navigation and Confident Decision-Making: You’ll develop the frameworks and internal compass to confidently navigate future uncertainties. The overwhelm and paralysis of transition will be replaced by a calm assurance in making strategic, purpose-driven decisions that propel you forward.
- Inner Peace and Increased Resilience: You will cultivate a profound sense of inner peace, knowing you are living a life true to yourself. This is coupled with enhanced resilience, equipping you to embrace change, adapt, and face future challenges with grace and strength.
- Legacy Beyond Wealth: You will realise a legacy that extends far beyond financial success—one defined by personal meaning, authentic contribution, and profound impact on your own lives and, potentially, the lives of others, creating a future that truly resonates with your highest aspirations.
While you’ll have exclusive access to my five online Protocols (The Survive the Storm Crisis Intervention Protocol™, The Purpose Pursuit Protocol™, The Purpose Pivot Protocol™, The Rooted in Resilience Protocol™, and The Firm Foundations for Your Future Protocol™) and five books (After the Divorce, After the Diagnosis, After the Loss, Embracing Change, and You Are Still Good Enough) to provide structure and support, the focus is on guiding you directly through your crisis and life transition, offering laser-sharp intervention for purpose alignment and refinement as your personal and professional circumstances evolve.
The Platinum Protocol is more than a personal growth program; it’s a life-changing partnership dedicated to helping you move beyond your current transition and into a future defined by authentic purpose and impactful and meaningful fulfilment.
Let’s get you to the top of that hill. The view from there is breathtaking.
Email me at Solutions@MargarethaMontagu.com
The Post-Crisis Personal Growth Protocols
Step 1: Survive the Storm Protocol
Step 2: The Purpose Pursuit Protocol or Purpose Pivot Protocol
Step 3: The Rooted Resilience Protocol
Step 4: The Accelerated Growth Protocol