2025 Book Club: “Matriarch Makeover”

If you’re reading the book “Matriarch Makeover: A 30-Day Invitation,” you will get the most out of it by joining this amazing group of supportive women.

We meet online via Zoom once per month for 90-minutes (11:30am to 1:00pm PST), on the following dates in 2025:

  • 3/24, 4/28, 5/26, 7/28, 8/25, 9/22, 10/27, 11/24, 12/22

This is the perfect opportunity to ask Maija (the author) questions about the book, and about your journey to becoming a Modern Matriarch.

Fee range: $188-482 for all nine sessions. When registering, select your preferred fee. Please reach out if you’d like to join the group but have financial restraints, by submitting a request via our Contact page form.

100% Online Book Club

Join us monthly via Zoom from wherever you are most comfortable.

Pricing for everyone

2025 Book Club (Full Rate) ~ $482.00

2025 Book Club (Some Support) ~ $323.00

2025 Book Club (More Support) ~ $188.00

*Please reach out if you’d like to join the group but have financial restraints, by submitting a request via our Contact page form.

Before we lead with the courage to speak our truth, we need to establish a foundation of support, and the ability to resource. We also need to be able to navigate the challenges of a structural system that was designed to keep a diversity of perspectives out of positions of power, and to maintain and reinforce a dominant culture meant to keep producing in a way that is unsustainable for humans, other living things, and the Earth’s natural resources. We have an inkling of what needs to be done. But without listening to our own truth and having the resources needed to speak it, the systems continue to cause harm while we stand by, feeling helpless.  

The good news is that you can be part of the change. It starts with remembering who you really are and by designing a leadership map that is sustainable to your well-being and circumstance.

Testimonials

  • “Maija has undergone her own transformation as a professional, a woman who is living with her spirit connection from a place of reverence. Her humility and commitment to community is held in high regard. This book is perfect for any woman ready to know herself and harness her personal power, from 18-50 years old and beyond. For any woman ready to know and love herself, or wanting it and willing to keep her word to herself. This book teaches women to spend some personal time daily, identifies for each woman that her personal power lies in her choices, brings spirit into conversation that freely allows each woman to define it for herself; and brings culture, ancestors and the mother earth into the lives of women to help the remembering process of what being on purpose is, for each one of us.”

    — Eli PaintedCrow, Indigenous ceremonialist, Iraq War Veteran, author of Why You Matter, and co-founder of Turtle Women Rising (https://www.turtlewomenrising.live/).

  • “I didn’t know that the conversation about lineage was for me (as a white woman) before this experience.”

    —Carol Tisson, Management consultant and executive coach with nearly 30 years of experience in organizational effectiveness, leadership development, and culture change

  • “You need to be ready. Not a book to just pick up. This book makes you do the work, and therefore you must be prepared to delve into yourself.”

    — Plasha Fielding Will, CEO, PFW Consulting & Political FrameWorks

  • “Any woman who desires to dig deeper into her soul, to rise up and let her light shine, could benefit from Maija's wisdom and daily practices of self-reflection. This guide is a compilation from years of Maija's embodied practices that she's gathered from her professional work, commitment to social and racial justice through healing and reconciliation, reconnecting with her lineage, Indigenous wisdom, and her own inner ways of knowing. It's been such a joy to witness her evolution over the years that has culminated in this generous offering to women around the world.”

     — Louellyn White, Assistant Professor in the First Peoples Studies Program at Concordia University in Montreal, and author of Free to Be Mohawk: Indigenous Education at the Akwesasne Freedom School

  • “This book lays out a clear path for self-reflection and growth that is doable but also very bold in its invitation to rise into our most rooted feminine strength and virtues. To help bring balance to the patriarchy, we must be grounded in our most authentic expression of feminine power and wholeness as individuals and in the collective.”

    — Jessica Dune, Artist, author and licensed landscape architect in present day Carmel, CA - Rumsen homeland

  • “Why read this book? Because it's FUN, educational, expanding. I have already recommended this book to several friends.”

    — Jacquie Cordova, Retired public school art teacher, community organizer, elder and supporter of many

  • “What I appreciated most in this process: We are pulling together all of these resources to pass down to the next generation.”

    — Safira Vinci, Owner of Vinci Digital Marketing

Meet The Author

Maija Danilova West is a business consultant, advisor, and peacemaker, drawing on 15 years of practice as a former attorney and strategist. As the founder and managing partner of Maija West Consulting, she combines leadership training with a fierce commitment to elevate and support women’s voices during this time of great change.  

Maija’s leadership vision is guided by the cultural practices of her Latvian heritage—she was raised to honor and support relationships, traditions, and life’s many transitions. Professionally, she has been advising nonprofits, foundations, businesses, Tribes, and government agencies for over 25 years. Maija uses reconciliation, peacemaking, and other forms of conflict resolution to support advanced communication and leadership in diverse communities. She is also the co-founder of the Healing and Reconciliation Institute.

Guest Speakers

Eli PaintedCrow

Eli is from the Yaqui Nation in Tucson, Arizona, and is a 22-year retired Army veteran. Her last tour in Iraq profoundly changed her, inspiring her to advocate for peace, unity, and the healing of Mother Earth. As a mother of two sons, both disabled veterans, and a grandmother of eight, she deeply understands the impact of military service.

Living in the Central Valley of California, Eli's work focuses on helping women remember their sovereignty and purpose. A ceremonialist elder, she facilitates healing circles, sharing Indigenous wisdom and promoting balance with our planet. With experience as a soldier, social worker, and counselor, Eli supports those committed to positive change.

Hilary Giovale

Hilary carries herself with a deep care and humility in this work. For those of you who have read my book and are seeking more in your personal or leadership exploration, Hilary's voice will likely be one you will go back to again and again. Her story is rich, intimate and relatable.

“Becoming a Good Relative is a prayer and manual for societal change, urging us to reexamine our relationships with history, culture, and each other. Hilary’s exploration serves as a blueprint for engaging in the world with reverence, love, and a deep sense of responsibility towards fostering equitable relationships across difference.”

~Taij Kumarie Moteelall, Intersectional Feminist Writer, Director, and Producer

Pegi Eyers

Pegi is a curator, visual artist and author of “Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community,” an award-winning book that supports the recovery of authentic ancestral wisdom and traditions for all people.  ASR also engages with social justice, uncolonization, nature spiritualities and the holistic principles of sustainable living.  Pegi self-identifies as a Celtic Animist, and is a member of the Helena Clan (descended from “Mitochondrial Eve”), with more recent roots connecting her to the mythic arts of England and Scotland.  She lives in the countryside on the outskirts of Nogojiwanong in Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg territory (Peterborough, Ontario, Canada), on a hilltop with views reaching for miles in all directions.

More guest speakers coming soon…

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