The Book: “Matriarch Makeover”

“Matriarch Makeover: A 30-Day Invitation” is a daily journaling practice for women, to transform your leadership identity and craft a personalized map grounded in your unique cultural lineages. Twenty minutes a day for thirty days is all it takes to start your Matriarch Makeover.

This transformational book is a call-to-action for you to step into your full power as leaders, nurturers, and stewards of their communities and the natural world. You will be offered tools for a path toward greater self-awareness, resilience, and personal dignity, making it a valuable resource for any woman seeking to embrace and integrate her full potential into her daily life. 

You will learn tools for how to move beyond outdated patriarchal paths and to a new definition of success. Becoming a modern matriarch includes redefining power as a consensual experience. As you practice the daily activities, you are guided to map your truth, heal your wounds, own your lineages, and forge new paths to radically generative futures. Women leaders are invited to choose a new form of self-leadership that heals the past and creates a meaningful, whole, and modernized path to living as a modern matriarch.


“This book needs to be wrapped in yellow caution tape! If you dare to enter into this, your life will change, and you will never go back. Transformational!” — Ana Costa, Founder of Ana Costa Fitness and Esquina Brooklyn; mother of two.

20-Minutes Per Day for 30 Days

“Matriarch Makeover: A 30-Day Invitation” is a daily journaling practice for women, to transform your leadership identity and craft a personalized map grounded in your unique cultural lineages. Twenty minutes a day for thirty days is all it takes to start your Matriarch Makeover.

Join the Online Book Club

Planning to read the book or already started? Join this group of supportive women as we meet once per month via Zoom to discuss our leadership journeys and becoming a Modern Matriarch. Click here to learn more.

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.

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