You are living through an era of great change

—and you’re ready to amplify your efforts toward making a life that is an expression of who you *really* are and what you *really* want

*If you're ready to reimagine what's possible for yourself and our world, keep scrolling.

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It’s time to get off the hamster wheel and discover how to trust yourself to meet the moment.

What if instead of ceding your authority to external forces that promise solutions but deliver more disconnection, you could access an inner guidance system that lights up your unique path toward personal and collective liberation? 

I meet you as a committed, visionary individual who is ready to free yourself from societal and cultural expectations in order to step into your purpose and potential as defined by nobody but you.

If you’re nodding along, exhaling a little, or feeling fired up… hell yes. You are my people.

Here at Self Made, you won’t just insulate yourself in a self-care bubble— you’ll expand creativity, agency, and impact—and increase your ability to consciously and intentionally trust your life’s unfolding, no matter what is happening in or around you.

I’m Dani, and here are a few ways we can get started:

01. Get My Core Resources

  • Read: In Self We Trust

    Why developing self-trust is a prerequisite for personal and collective liberation.

    You have a built-in navigation system to filter through the nonstop influences of internal and external forces working overtime to keep you following the steps of an outdated map. That filter is your own inner guidance. 

    This essay will demonstrate how creating a world that works for everyone starts within.

    Read the Essay

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02. Work 1:1 With Me

Where uncategorizable people design on-purpose lives

Self-development coaching for doing life differently

Your life is to be made, not tolerated.

More than simply setting and achieving goals—though that *is* absolutely a fundamental part of this work—Integral Coaching attends to your overall development as a human being.

You’ll develop practices that deepen your identity, purpose, and vision, and take action toward concrete goals. It’s both practical and transformational.

In this intensive 6-month experience, you’ll reconnect to your core self, fine tune your inner GPS system, and map out the exact steps you need to start living a life that is a reflection of your unique essence—authentically and by design.

Love for Self Made

  • "Dani's thoughtful, comprehensive coaching truly made a difference. She listens attentively, remembers key details, and skillfully guided me forward. Her somatic support and suggestions for practices between sessions deepened and nourished my personal growth. Before coaching I was feeling energetically crowded and muddy. Through the process and plan Dani created, I am now feeling a deep sense of self-trust, spaciousness, and clarity in my life. I took the leap I had been ready and waiting for."

    Emily R.

  • “Working together was such a positive experience. Dani helped me change my mindset in practical, concrete ways. Our work together has stayed with me and continues to impact my thoughts and behaviors.”

    — A.

  • "Dani brings deep insight and a beautiful combination of enthusiasm and tenderness to her coaching."

  • “My life is so different today from where I was a year ago."

  • "I know I’m just getting started, but I’m finally at a place where I am solid in who I am, what I need, and have learned to truly trust myself—maybe for the first time in my life."

    — S.K.

  • “I had no idea that a program like this—judgment-free, genuine, authentic—could exist."

  • "I was welcomed with open arms and never felt like any of our conversations were prescriptive to what my practice should look like. It was my journey, and I received nothing but the most caring and genuine support."

    — A.R.

Dani Cirignano

Writer | Integral Coach | Recovery Guide

Hi friend, I’m Dani,

While many paths to “self-improvement” focus on conforming to cultural defaults or rely on rigid structures, I founded Self Made to swim in different waters. After all, why fight to transform your life while staying within constructs that don’t work—maybe never worked—for you?

For a long time, I stumbled my own way through all the shoulds and supposed tos, until I woke up to just. how. much. time. I’d spent putting off my life “until tomorrow.”

And now, as an Integral Coach, I partner with creative, rebellious, and bold people like you to help you live into an on-purpose life of your own design.

Together, we nurture supportive practices to sustain ourselves through the long game of healing, self-discovery, deprogramming social constructs, dismantling harmful systems, choosing things that make us feel better rather than worse, navigating all the things life will inevitably throw our way, and, most important of all, cultivating a world that works for all of us.