In the theater of your life, the house lights are low.
In the darkness, a single beam creates a perfectly illuminated spotlight on stage.
Cast and crew, the entire production is hanging on your cue…
The audience is silent, yet buzzing with anticipation… primed for applause, ready to take to their feet in standing ovation at the first glimpse of…
the Leading Lady,
STAR of the show.
Your Goal is a Role
You Can Start Living Now
with Mindset, Methodology and Magic
My love, you’ve been playing a minor character in the story of your life for far too long, and I am here to say “No More!”
You deserve to feel – and more importantly, to be treated and paid – like the leading lady you were born to be.
Cherished, adored, accomplished … and waited on, hand and foot, why not? 😉
Now, doesn’t that sound better than slog, drudgery and resentment?
Here’s what I know to be true:
whatever you desire, whatever you aim for,
wherever your North Star to happiness leads,
the Leading Lady in you can make it happen.Your goal is a role that comes with an invitation
to take center stage,
shaping the whole story and every part of it
Darling, it’s time.
As an actress, master of stagecraft, glamour magician and life coach extraordinaire, I will show you exactly how to get everything you want from life.
Starting right where you are, with what you have.
Watch and see…
Once you start embodying the role of Leading Lady of your own damn life, you’ll see
- That goal that’s eluded you forever, suddenly dropping into your lap;
- the things you’ve tried, in your search for happiness and fulfillment, click into place;
- that the Leading Lady in you knows exactly what to do, in any situation, to turn it toward your advantage, and make your own damn dreams come true.
- how easy it is to magically discover the relationship of your dreams, career fulfillment, harmonious friendships…
all while being unabashedly, utterly, fabulously you.
You’ll feel the glow of the spotlight – and yes, the butterflies too – as you scoop up flowers, corporate accolades, a standing ovation of applause ……
Perhaps it will mean having to start that waiting list because you’re fully booked;
or relaxing in the knowledge that you have an entire week of meals planned and shopped for;
or sighing with delight as you gaze round your home …
Whatever your version of success looks like,
it requires you to BE the Leading Lady of your own damn life.

Hello, dahlink!
I’m Jacqueline Gates –
Leading lady, coach, alchemist and doyenne of deliciously theatrical identity shifting
Like most ‘overnight successes’, I come by this work the honest way, through hard work and hard-won expertise: a quarter-century on the theatrical stages of two continents, a dozen years reinventing entrepreneurship, and nine years as a coach.
All of that hard-won wisdom is now available for your delectation and delight, in Leading Lady U.
Come in, ‘just little old me,’
and leave a STAR.
Radiant, self directed
and able to take strategic, multi-dimensional action
to achieve and revel in the things she wants.
Here’s the thing …
Most entrepreneurial, ambitious, empathic, magical people are not usually skilled in theater crafts.
And yet those are precisely the skills we need to acquire, to become the person we dream of being.
Leading Lady U is your invitation to explore, rehearse and master the elements that create a show-stopping role, and translate them into real-life results – Will you accept?
THE INAUGURAL RUN IS SOLD OUT
TICKET OFFICE IS CURRENTLY CLOSED
CLICK HERE to get yourself on the Advance Notice list to get first dibs when enrollment opens again
way to snag your vip access, dahlink
This show runs for three months: June 14th to September 9th, 2022 SOLD OUT
Act 1: The Tools of Stage Craft
- Assigning roles, rewriting your backstory and the delicious power of the plot twist
- Words and music
- Wardrobe and costume for your new reality – letting your clothes speak to you as well as about you
- Setting the stage – the theater of home
Act 2: Being the Leading Lady
- “What’s my motivation?” a frightfully useful cliché when applied in my rather unusual way
- In Character: the use of thought models, catch phrases and body language to literally reshape your identity
- Working with props and makeup – powerful, and entirely optional
Act 3: Just Add Magic
- Routine, Rehearsal and Ritual – using your calendar as a manifesting tool
- Immersion and Embodiment – how to go all in
- The Grand Finale – showing up as the Leading Lady YOU.
This PRODUCTION includes:
– Six video lessons on The Tools of Stage Craft, Being the Leading Lady, and Just Add Magic – from me, Jacqueline Gates.
– I’m teaching live for this inaugural run. The calls will be at various times to honour our global ensemble, and all will have recordings for you to review at your leisure. Every live lesson will have the script available for you to follow along with.
Lessons are specifically choreographed so that you can begin with what you need most first.
The focus is on how you can put the theory to work in your life, right away.
– An ever-growing, downloadable library of short, digestible, potent lessons in PDF form – yours to keep, and apply, over and over again, as needed
– Weekly live Q&A calls (with replays available)
– Six Leading Lady calls, where you can practice taking the spotlight, in 15 minutes of live coaching from your co-Director (moi!).
– Safe and sumptuous community and rehearsal space off Facebook
– The very first ever Backstage Pass (deets to follow) for ongoing support even after the show has ended.
SNAG YOUR SEAT BEFORE JUNE 5th, 2022 SOLD OUT
CLICK HERE to put yourself on the Advance Notice list
way to snag your vip access, dahlink
to get first dibs when enrollment opens again
Behold the rave reviews from fab folk who’ve done this work




OPENING DAY IS JUNE 14TH, 2022
Programme Notes:
- Inaugural production opens on June 14th, and runs through September 9th, 2022
- Six live classes with additional bite-sized, immediately implementable lessons in PDF form
- Six spotlight group coaching calls – with four to six 15 minute slots of 1:1 solo coaching, with exclusive booking link to choose your slot
- Live calls will happen on Tuesdays at 2:00pm and 7:00 pm Central time, with bonus ad hoc calls on Thursdays at 7:00pm Central
- Calls are scheduled to allow everyone to attend at least two sessions per month, no matter the time zone
- All calls will be recorded and available for download
- Downloadable scripts/transcripts of all live calls
- A safe and sumptuous community space – off Facebook
- PLUS you’ll get a seat at every forthcoming launch of the Leading Lady U program, for no extra cost
There’s already a version of you, who knows her lines, has perfected her costume and makeup, and is just waiting to take center stage and shape this show into a blockbuster hit:
the life you want.
Leading Lady U is currently sold out.