Monthly Membership

The Unchaining Circle

For women who are doing the work — and who know the work is better done with others.

£18
per month · cancel any time
Founding member rate — join now and this price is yours permanently, however the membership grows.
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A letter from Mariyah

I want to tell you something I've learned from writing this book — and from the work that preceded it.

The hardest part of examining a self-limiting belief is not the examination itself. It is doing it alone. In silence. Without anyone who understands the particular texture of what you're moving through.

Most of us try to do this in isolation — reading books late at night, journalling in private, making quiet promises to ourselves that dissolve by Thursday. We protect our work because we are not sure it is real yet. Because we are afraid that saying it out loud will invite judgment. Because we don't know anyone else who is doing the same thing.

The Unchaining Circle exists because I believe this work is better witnessed than hidden.

Not performed. Not broadcast. Witnessed — by women who understand what it means to be mid-transition, mid-unravelling, mid-becoming. Who will not tell you to think positive. Who will ask the honest question and sit with you while you find the honest answer.

This is not a motivational community. It is not a place to curate your progress. It is a place to do the actual work — with the actual tools — alongside people who are doing the same.

I will be in it with you. Every month, live.

Mariyah Acka'a
Author, Unchaining Potential · Founder, The Acka'a-Hitchman Foundation
Clarity

What this is — and what it isn't

This is not
A place to perform your growth for other people
A cheerleading community built on positivity
A course with modules to complete and forget
Passive content consumption — another subscription you don't use
A space where you're expected to have it together
A networking group or professional development forum
This is
A monthly live session where you are heard, not just informed
Honest community — real conversations, real stakes
A structured container that moves with the book's framework
Active, applied work — using the tools, not just reading about them
A space where being mid-process is the qualification
The place where the book becomes a lived experience
What's inside

Everything in one membership

Five things, each built to support a different dimension of the work. Together they form something more than the sum of the parts.

01
Monthly · Live
The Chapter Session with Mariyah
Each month we go deep into one chapter of Unchaining Potential — not as a lecture, but as a guided conversation. You bring your real responses to the material. We work through what it's surfacing together. This is not a summary of what's already in the book. It is the room where the book becomes personal.
"The session is 90 minutes. The first 30 are mine. The next 60 are ours. I will ask questions you haven't asked yourself yet."
02
Monthly · Matched
Accountability Partner Matching
Each month you are paired with another Circle member for weekly check-ins. The pairing is intentional — matched on your primary belief pattern and current life context. You receive a simple check-in structure, based on the Specific Ask tool from Chapter 15, so the relationship has shape without being scripted.
This is one of the most underestimated parts of the membership. The women who stay longest in the Circle consistently name their accountability partner as the thing that changed most.
03
Always On · Growing
The Choose Forward Library
Every session is recorded and added to the library. Alongside recordings you'll find guided audio practices for specific tools, bonus workbook extensions for chapters we go deep on, and a growing archive of the written reflections and resources Mariyah shares with members. The library is yours for as long as you're a member.
Current library includes: The Cultural Lens guided audio · The Worth Audit deep-dive workbook extension · Choose Forward — 30-day practice guide.
04
Ongoing · Moderated
The Circle Community Forum
A private, moderated community space for Circle members. This is not a Facebook group. It is a deliberately small, intentionally managed forum where the culture of honesty that defines the live sessions extends into the space between them. You can ask questions, share what's surfacing, respond to others, and find the people working through the same things you are.
Moderated by Mariyah. No toxic positivity. No performance. Real responses only.
05
Included · Free
Progress Tracker + 10% Off All Products
Circle members get free access to the Unchaining Potential interactive progress tracker — log weekly scores across all 24 chapters, track your movement on a visual chart, and record where and why you backslide. Members also receive 10% off all digital products including the book, workbook, and the 90-Day Choose Forward Journal.
The tracker was built specifically for Circle members doing long-term, multi-chapter work. Pair it with your accountability partner check-ins for the clearest picture of where you are.
How it works

A typical month in the Circle

Week 1
Day 1–3
Chapter of the Month announced
Mariyah shares which chapter we're working with this month — along with a short reflection prompt and the relevant workbook pages to prepare. This is your personal reading and writing time before the live session.
Week 2
Live Session
90-minute live session with Mariyah
The session opens with Mariyah's 30-minute guided exploration of the chapter's core tool. Then the room opens — real questions, real responses, and the kind of conversation that doesn't happen in public. Recorded and added to the library afterwards.
Week 2–3
Ongoing
Accountability partner check-ins
Your weekly 20-minute check-in with your matched partner. Structured around the Specific Ask tool — what you're working on, where you're stuck, and one thing you're committing to before next week. Simple. Consistent. More powerful than it sounds.
Week 3–4
Community
Forum thread — "What's this chapter revealing?"
A monthly thread in the community forum where members share what the chapter's tool surfaced for them. Reading someone else's honest response to the same question you asked yourself is one of the most quietly transformative things this community does.
Week 4
Close
Monthly Choose Forward reflection
A short written prompt from Mariyah to close the month — what shifted, what didn't, and what you're choosing to carry forward. This lands in the forum and in your inbox. The month closes with intention.
Who the Circle is for

You belong here if

You're mid-transition and can't quite name what's holding you back
Career change, relationship shift, identity renegotiation — you're moving, but something keeps pulling you back to the same place. The work isn't about pushing harder. It's about understanding what the resistance is protecting.
"I knew I needed to change. I just didn't know where the change had to start."
You've read the books. You know the frameworks. And you're still stuck.
Information is not the problem. You have enough of it. What you need is a container where the information becomes practice — and where there are real people watching you do the practice, so you actually do it.
"I'd been trying to do this alone for three years. The only thing that changed was the company."
You're in recovery, healing, or re-emergence — and the old version of yourself no longer fits
After grief, after illness, after the relationship that defined a decade — there is a version of you that is trying to come forward. The Circle is built to hold that process with the seriousness it deserves.
"I needed a room that could hold the real version of where I was."
The Circle is for women who are serious about this work — not women who have it figured out. If you're waiting until you're ready, this is the place that will help you understand what ready actually means.
Limited — Founding Member Rate

Join now. Keep this price forever.

The Circle is in its founding period. The price will rise as the community grows and the library deepens. Founding members lock in £18/month permanently — however the membership develops.

£18
per month
Your price · locked for life
Cancel any time. No questions. No guilt. The work you've done stays with you.
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Mariyah Acka'a
Author · Founder · Senior Manager

I am the author of Unchaining Potential: Breaking Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Crafting a Life You Love. I wrote it after the death of my brother, through a period of significant family difficulty, and across the kind of life transition that strips away the version of yourself you thought was permanent.

I am also a Senior Manager in global technology, co-director of a family business, mother to Rayo and Trev, and founder of The Acka'a-Hitchman Foundation. I know what it means to be doing serious professional and personal work simultaneously — and to have almost no honest space to process it.

The Circle is the room I needed and didn't have. I built it for you.

Questions

Answered honestly

Do I need to have read the book first? +
No — but you'll get more from the sessions if you have access to the relevant chapter each month. The workbook is available separately and contains the full tool for each session. If you join and don't yet have the book, we'll point you to exactly what you need before each live session.
What if I can't attend the live session? +
Every session is recorded and added to the Choose Forward Library within 48 hours. Many members watch the recording during the week and then bring their questions to the community forum or their accountability partner. The live session is the heartbeat of the month, but it is not the only way to receive the value of it.
How much time does membership actually require each week? +
The minimum meaningful engagement is roughly 2–3 hours per month: one 90-minute live session (or recording) plus a weekly 20-minute accountability check-in. Beyond that, how much time you spend in the library and forum is entirely your choice. The Circle is designed to be sustainable alongside a full life — not another source of obligation.
Is this only for people who have experienced trauma or serious difficulty? +
No. The Circle is for any woman who is doing honest work on self-limiting beliefs — whether that work has been prompted by significant difficulty or simply by the growing awareness that something is holding her back. You do not need to have suffered visibly to belong here. Wanting more from your life is qualification enough.
What makes this different from other membership communities? +
Three things. First, it is built around a specific, structured framework — the book's 24 tools — rather than general inspiration. Second, Mariyah is present every month, live. This is not a community run by a team on behalf of an absent founder. Third, the culture is actively moderated to protect honesty and discourage performance. Most communities reward the most curated version of yourself. This one is specifically designed to make that unnecessary.
Can I cancel if it's not for me? +
Yes, any time, with no notice period. Cancel before your next billing date and you won't be charged again. There is no guilt, no follow-up email asking what went wrong. The work you've done — in sessions, with your accountability partner, in your own journal — stays with you regardless. That part is yours.
What is the founding member rate and how long is it available? +
£18 per month is the founding rate — available while the Circle is in its launch period. Once the membership opens more widely, the price will increase to reflect the growing library and community. Founding members keep their £18 rate permanently, regardless of how the membership develops. The exact close date for the founding rate will be announced in the Circle community before it changes.
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The work is better
done together.

The cage was built in silence. It does not have to be dismantled that way.

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