Complimentary • Application Only • 8–10 Women

The Next Chapter Circle: Founding Circle

A four-week guided experience for women navigating change and deciding what comes next.

**You are not starting over.

You are starting again—with assets.**

You are carrying more than you may realize.

The Founding Circle is an invitation to look again at what life has already given you—and begin deciding what deserves to come next.

The Next Chapter Circle: Founding Circle

A four-week guided experience for women navigating change and deciding what comes next.

**You are not starting over.

You are starting again—with assets.**

You are carrying more than you may realize.

The Founding Circle is an invitation to look again at what life has already given you—and begin deciding what deserves to come next.

Complimentary • Application Only • 8–10 Women

The Next Chapter Circle: Founding Circle

A four-week guided experience for women navigating change and deciding what comes next.

**You are not starting over.

You are starting again—with assets.**

The Next Chapter May Be Calling

Maybe something is changing.

Maybe work is changing.

Maybe retirement is getting closer.

Maybe a role that once fit no longer fits the woman you have become.

Or maybe nothing is wrong—you simply know something is shifting.

" You do not need a perfect plan.

You only need enough curiosity to begin."

This Circle may be for you if you are asking:

• What comes next for me?

• Does my experience still matter?

• What do I already carry that I can build from?

You do not have to know what comes next

before you begin

This Circle begins with what you already carry—not with pressure to have your future figured out.

The Next Chapter May Be Calling

Maybe something is changing.

Maybe work is changing.

Maybe retirement is getting closer.

Maybe a role that once fit no longer fits the woman you have become.

Or maybe nothing is wrong—you simply know something is shifting.

" You do not need a perfect plan.

You only need enough curiosity to begin."

This Circle may be for you if you are asking:

• What comes next for me?

• Does my experience still matter?

• What do I already carry that I can build from?

You do not have to know what comes next

before you begin

This Circle begins with what you already carry—not with pressure to have your future figured out.

YOUR WEALTH IS BIGGER THAN YOUR BANK ACCOUNT.

Money matters. But money is only one form of wealth.

Your experience has also built skills, knowledge, relationships, reputation, technology ability, and legacy.

The Seven Forms of Wealth™ help you see what may have become so familiar that you stopped counting it.

Financial Wealth — What I own and manage

Career Wealth — What I can do

Knowledge Wealth — What I know


Relationship Wealth — Who knows and trusts me


Brand Wealth — What people know me for


Technology Wealth — What I can multiply


Legacy Wealth — What continues because I was here

YOUR WEALTH IS BIGGER THAN YOUR BANK ACCOUNT.

Money matters. But money is only one form of wealth.

Your experience has also built skills, knowledge, relationships, reputation, technology ability, and legacy.

The Seven Forms of Wealth™ help you see what may have become so familiar that you stopped counting it.

Financial Wealth — What I own and manage

Career Wealth — What I can do

Knowledge Wealth — What I know

Relationship Wealth — Who knows and trusts me

Brand Wealth — What people know me for

Technology Wealth — What I can multiply

Legacy Wealth — What continues because I was here

YOUR WEALTH IS BIGGER THAN YOUR BANK ACCOUNT.

You have spent decades building more than money.

You carry knowledge, skills, relationships, reputation, experience, technology, and legacy.

The Seven Forms of Wealth™ help you see what may have become so familiar that you stopped counting it.

Financial Wealth — What I own and manage

Career Wealth — What I can do

Knowledge Wealth — What I know

Relationship Wealth — Who knows and trusts me

Brand Wealth — What people know me for

Technology Wealth — What I can multiply

Legacy Wealth — What continues because I was here

You do not need a polished plan to belong here.

You only need to be willing to look honestly at what is changing,

recognize what you already carry, and explore what may come next.

Four Weeks. Four Important Shifts.

You do not have to solve everything at once.

We move one step at a time.

WEEK 1 — RECOGNITION

See what remains.

What am I carrying?

WEEK 2 — RECLAMATION

Stop minimizing what experience has taught you.

What have I treated as ordinary?

WEEK 3 — ACTIVATION

Put what you carry to work.

How can I make it easier to use and see?

WEEK 4 — CHOICE

Decide what deserves more of you.

What deserves what I carry?

FOUR WEEKS FROM NOW

You may not have every answer. But you will see what you carry more clearly,

know what deserves your attention, and leave with one grounded next step.

The program is designed to leave participants with increased clarity, a small activation step,

and a Next Chapter Declaration and Build Forward commitment.

What could become clearer in four weeks?

You are making time to see your life more clearly, recognize what you already carry, and decide what deserves your next step.

The participant guide captures this same movement through four questions: what remains, what do I know that I treated as ordinary, how can I make my wealth easier to use and see, and what deserves what I carry.

What could become clearer in four weeks?

You are making time to see your life more clearly, recognize what you already carry, and decide what deserves your next step.

The participant guide captures this same movement through four questions: what remains, what do I know that I treated as ordinary, how can I make my wealth easier to use and see, and what deserves what I carry.

What could become clearer in four weeks?

You are making time to see your life more clearly, recognize what you already carry, and decide what deserves your next step.

The participant guide captures this same movement through four questions: what remains, what do I know that I treated as ordinary, how can I make my wealth easier to use and see, and what deserves what I carry.

A Small Circle designed for honest conversation.

You do not need another room where you have to perform.

You need space to think, speak, listen, and decide what matters to you.

8–10 women

Four guided virtual sessions

Private by agreement

Room to speak, listen, reflect, and choose

This is not a large class or traditional book club. The book gives us a shared language. The Circle is where reflection, conversation, and application happen.

The Circle is intentionally designed as a facilitated small-group experience rather than a traditional class or book club.

Your Founding Circle Includes

4 Live Sessions

Four 75-minute virtual conversations with Anna.

Signed Book + Participant Guide

A signed copy of The Wealth You Carry™ plus your Circle guide.

Seven Forms of Wealth™ Framework

A guided way to recognize the financial and non-financial wealth you already carry.

Next Chapter Declaration + Follow-Up

Leave with a personal declaration, a next-step commitment, and follow-up after the Circle.

The strategy and program materials include the signed book, participant guide, Seven Forms framework, declaration, and follow-up.

A Small Circle designed for honest conversation.

You do not need another room where you have to perform.

You need space to think, speak, listen, and decide what matters to you.

8–10 women

Four guided virtual sessions

Private by agreement

Room to speak, listen, reflect, and choose

This is not a large class or traditional book club. The book gives us a shared language. The Circle is where reflection, conversation, and application happen.

The Circle is intentionally designed as a facilitated small-group experience rather than a traditional class or book club.

Your experience includes:

4 Live Sessions

Four 75-minute virtual conversations with Anna.

Signed Book + Participant Guide

A signed copy of The Wealth You Carry™ plus your Circle guide.

Seven Forms of Wealth™ Framework

A guided way to recognize the financial and non-financial wealth you already carry.

Next Chapter Declaration + Follow-Up

Leave with a personal declaration, a next-step commitment, and follow-up after the Circle.

The strategy and program materials include the signed book, participant guide, Seven Forms framework, declaration, and follow-up.

Your Founding Circle

This is the first small cohort of The Next Chapter Circle.

Founding participants will experience the full four-week program and offer thoughtful feedback that will help strengthen future Circles.

There is no participation fee for this Founding Circle.

Complimentary • Application Only • 8–10 Women

Your personal stories remain private. Giving feedback does not give Thrive Leadership Institute permission to use your name, story, photograph, or testimonial. Those permissions are separate.

This matches the Founding Circle strategy, which treats feedback, anonymous learning, testimonials, and story permission as separate matters.

Dates to save!

Thursday, October 1 (Orientation)

6:30 p.m. Eastern

Tuesday, October 6 (Live Circle Session)

Week 1 — Recognition

Tuesday, October 13 (Live Circle Session)

Week 2 — Reclamation

Tuesday, October 20 (Live Circle Session)

Week 3 — Activation

Tuesday, October 27 (Live Circle Session)

Week 4 — Choice

All four Circle sessions:
6:30–7:45 p.m. Eastern


All sessions are virtual via Zoom.

Your commitment

Please plan to:

• Attend all four live sessions.

• Complete the reading when possible.

• Protect the privacy of the women in the Circle.

Please request an invitation only if you expect to attend all four weekly sessions.

The Circle works best when the same women return each week, protect confidentiality, and participate with care.

Orientation is also part of the Founding Circle experience.

Your story remains yours.

Joining the Circle does not give permission to use your name,

photograph, testimonial, or personal story.

Any request to share your story will be made separately, and you may say yes or no.

This is supported by the Circle agreements, which separate participation,

confidentiality, recording consent, and public use of stories.

Your Founding Circle

This is the first small cohort of The Next Chapter Circle.

Founding participants will experience the full four-week program and offer thoughtful feedback that will help strengthen future Circles.

There is no participation fee for this Founding Circle.

Complimentary • Application Only • 8–10 Women

Your personal stories remain private. Giving feedback does not give Thrive Leadership Institute permission to use your name, story, photograph, or testimonial. Those permissions are separate.

This matches the Founding Circle strategy, which treats feedback, anonymous learning, testimonials, and story permission as separate matters.

Dates to save!

Thursday, October 1 (Orientation)

6:30 p.m. Eastern

Tuesday, October 6 (Live Circle Session)

Week 1 — Recognition

Tuesday, October 13 (Live Circle Session)

Week 2 — Reclamation

Tuesday, October 20 (Live Circle Session)

Week 3 — Activation

Tuesday, October 27 (Live Circle Session)

Week 4 — Choice

All four Circle sessions:
6:30–7:45 p.m. Eastern

All sessions are virtual via Zoom.

Your commitment

Please plan to:

• Attend all four live sessions.

• Complete the reading when possible.

• Protect the privacy of the women in the Circle.

Your story remains yours.

Joining the Circle does not give permission to use your name, photograph, testimonial, or personal story.

Any request to share your story will be made separately, and you may say yes or no.

This is supported by the Circle agreements, which separate participation,

confidentiality, recording consent, and public use of stories.

Anna D. Banks

MEET YOUR FACILITATOR

Author • Executive Coach • Trainer • Workforce Development Professional

I created The Next Chapter Circle because I have seen how quickly women can count what ended and overlook what remains.

After decades of coaching, teaching, leadership, workforce development, writing, and navigating new chapters of my own, I know this: we do not arrive at our next chapter empty-handed.

The Circle gives us room to recognize what life has already built in us—and decide what deserves to come next.

I will be there to guide the conversation, not tell you what your next chapter should be.

Anna D. Banks

Author • Executive Coach • Trainer • Workforce Development Professional

I created The Next Chapter Circle because I have seen how quickly women can count what ended and overlook what remains.

After decades of coaching, teaching, leadership, workforce development, writing, and navigating new chapters of my own, I know this: we do not arrive at our next chapter empty-handed.

The Circle gives us room to recognize what life has already built in us—and decide what deserves to come next.

I will be there to guide the conversation, not tell you what your next chapter should be.

Does this sound like the conversation you need right now?

You do not need to have your next chapter figured out.

You only need to be ready to show up, reflect honestly, and explore what you already carry.

Anna D. Banks

MEET YOUR FACILITATOR

Author • Executive Coach • Trainer • Workforce Development Professional

I created The Next Chapter Circle because I have seen how quickly women can count what ended and overlook what remains.

After decades of coaching, teaching, leadership, workforce development, writing, and navigating new chapters of my own, I know this: we do not arrive at our next chapter empty-handed.

The Circle gives us room to recognize what life has already built in us—and decide what deserves to come next.

I will be there to guide the conversation, not tell you what your next chapter should be.

Request an Invitation

Thank you for your interest in The Wealth You Carry™ — The Next Chapter Circle: Founding Circle.

Complete this short form to request a place in the Founding Circle.

This is not first-come, first-served. We are selecting a small group of women

who can attend the sessions and who are ready for a thoughtful small-group experience.

What would you most like to understand or feel clearer about during these four weeks?
What is changing—or what question about your next chapter is on your mind right now?

You already carry more than you realize. The Wealth You Carry invites you to see your experiences, wisdom, relationships, and strengths as valuable resources for your next chapter. Through reflection, intention, and action, discover how to transform what you already know into what comes next—and create a future rooted in purpose, possibility, and impact.

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The Wealth You Carry™ — The Next Chapter Circle

The Wealth You Carry™, The Seven Forms of Wealth™, The CEO Pause™, My Wealth I Carry Plan™, and related program materials are proprietary intellectual property of Anna D. Banks and/or Thrive Leadership Institute, Inc.

The Next Chapter Circle is an educational and developmental experience and does not provide individualized medical, mental-health, legal, financial, investment, or employment advice.

The Wealth You Carry 2026 | All rights reserved.