Rita Palumbo Coaching

Rocket Scientist at ESA & Women’s Self-Leadership Coach
I help professional women step into embodied authority - so they speak up, show up, and make decisions with calm confidence and magnetic presence.

Being fully yourself isn’t acceptable-it isyoursacredresponsibility to yourself, and to everyone whose life you touch.Wh...
29/04/2026

Being fully yourself isn’t acceptable-it is
your
sacred
responsibility
to yourself, and to everyone whose life you touch.

When you give yourself permission to be authentic, honest, fully-expressed, whole you give everyone around you permission to do the same.

That is your Divine assignment: to just be you.

With love,
Rita 🤍✨

5 quotes I live by. Let me know which one resonated most ✨With love, Rita 🤍
11/04/2026

5 quotes I live by. Let me know which one resonated most ✨

With love, Rita 🤍

If you get to Friday completely destroyed, and you already know that the weekend will not be enough for all the things t...
03/04/2026

If you get to Friday completely destroyed,
and you already know that the weekend will not be enough for all the things that need to get done, that Sunday evening will arrive with that familiar weight - because once again you weren’t able to fully exhale, unwind and prioritize yourself, that you will walk into Monday carrying everything you were supposed to have put down -

this is for you. I created a free guided audio practice and journaling prompts for the woman who is tired of running on empty and ready to remember what it feels like to actually be present.

15 minutes to come back to yourself.
To come home.
Present.
For yourself.
For the people you love.

Link in bio.

With love,
Rita ✨🤍

I spent years being the woman who had everything figured out on paper.The research, the PhD, the title, the confidence. ...
24/03/2026

I spent years being the woman who had everything figured out on paper.

The research, the PhD, the title, the confidence. And still, before every meeting, every presentation, every moment I was supposed to simply speak, something in me froze.

I called it perfectionism for a long time. Then I called it imposter syndrome. Then I stopped naming it and started listening to it instead.

Because underneath it was something more specific than a label.
It was the voice that said: everyone else here is more capable than me. Everyone else is smarter. Do I really deserve to be here? What can I actually offer?
It was the feeling of looking at the women leading around me and not being able to relate to them. Not being able to see myself in them. Wondering if I was the only one who felt this way - successful on the outside, quietly straining on the inside, moving sideways when I thought I’d be somewhere else by now.

I wasn’t the only one. And neither are you.

What I found underneath was a nervous system that had never learned to feel safe while being visible and leading. The body holding years and years of over-preparation, over-explanation, and careful performance, all quietly working against the authority and leadership that were already there.

That’s what The Self-Led Woman is built on. Not strategies to perform better under pressure, not a mindset reframe you’ll forget in a week. Rather, a real process, body first, then clarity, then authority, that makes leadership feel like something you inhabit naturally rather than something you continuously rehearse.

Because the woman who can walk into any room and feel genuinely secure, even in the presence of everything she doesn’t yet know - she already exists inside you.
She just needs to be revealed.

The founding cohort doors are open. Five to ten women, six weeks, starting 13 April. Doors close 31 March. 👉🏻 Link in bio or comment INFO 🤍✨

If you are a high-achieving woman who is successful on the outside and straining on the inside, this was built for you.

This program was born from my own journey + 15 years in high-performing contexts observing women make themselves small. ...
21/03/2026

This program was born from my own journey + 15 years in high-performing contexts observing women make themselves small.

The world needs women to step up in their leadership like never before.

Stop shrinking.

Stop hiding in rooms you’ve earned the right to be in.

The Self-Led Woman is not just a program. It’s a container you step into and don’t come back from the same.

Doors close March 31st. Link in bio or comment INFO ✨

Have you ever experienced your own version of the “leadership hangover”?Where externally everything went well…but intern...
18/02/2026

Have you ever experienced your own version of the “leadership hangover”?
Where externally everything went well…
but internally you keep replaying it?

This isn’t about being less capable.
It’s about your nervous system learning that visibility is safe.

This is exactly the work we do inside The Self Led Woman — building calm authority from the inside out.

Tell me in the comments if you can relate:
Have you ever experienced the leadership hangover?

Love&Light,
Rita ✨

The Universe has a funny way of bringing me back to myself and to what matters most on my birthday. Every year.Whether i...
07/02/2026

The Universe has a funny way of bringing me back to myself and to what matters most on my birthday. Every year.
Whether it’s bringing me on a sudden work trip, or celebrating among friends, or with my family, it always disrupts my plans of what I thought I wanted and brings me what I actually need.

This year I was planning a lovely party with my dearest friends. An unexpected cold virus that caught both Gaetano and Aurora forced us to change our plans. But I realised it’s brought me exactly where I was meant to be.
My purpose, my dharma in this phase of my life, is THEM.
It is being the best mum and wife I can possibly be.
It is caring for them, and being the anchor of this home.
It is enjoying our family life to the fullest.
And spending this day with them, making every single moment with them a ritual, has been so special.

This past year has been the most transformational of my life so far, it has made me a wife and a mother, has changed me on a cellular level and materialised my lifetime dreams. It has also brought clarity on what my mission looks like - clarity which I had been seeking and asking for for a long time. And I know that next year is going to be super exciting and will bring us lots of renewal and of change. I’m so excited to find out what’s coming, to create our future, and to do it alongside my angel family 🤍✨

I feel like the luckiest woman in the world, already living my dream life 💫

There’s a moment many capable women know well.You’re not unprepared.And you’re not lacking confidence.And yet, you don’t...
04/02/2026

There’s a moment many capable women know well.

You’re not unprepared.
And you’re not lacking confidence.

And yet, you don’t speak up.

What tightens in those moments isn’t your thinking -
it’s your nervous system responding to visibility.

Leadership doesn’t break down because you don’t know what to say.
It breaks down when your body doesn’t feel safe being seen, heard, or decisive.

This is why pushing yourself to be “more confident” rarely works for long.

The shift isn’t about becoming louder or more assertive.
It’s about becoming steadier.

When authority is embodied, you don’t need to manage yourself as much.
Your words land with fewer explanations.
Your presence does the work before your words do.

If this feels familiar, you’re not behind.
You may simply be ready for a different way of leading.

The waitlist for The Self-Led Woman is open.
You’re welcome to join - no commitment, just to stay close and see if it feels right.

🤍 Link in bio

You don’t hesitate because you lack confidence.You hesitate because your nervous system hasn’t been taught how to feel s...
31/01/2026

You don’t hesitate because you lack confidence.
You hesitate because your nervous system hasn’t been taught how to feel safe in authority.

Most high-performing women I work with are already capable, intelligent, and prepared.
Yet in meetings, visibility moments, or decisions that matter, they freeze or tighten.

So they wait.
They soften their words.
They don’t speak up.
They over-explain.

Not because they don’t know -
but because they’re trying to push from the mind, instead of being supported by the body.

What if the work isn’t about gaining more confidence…
but about less internal friction?

When your body feels regulated, your leadership becomes quieter - and stronger.
You speak with fewer words.
You decide without revisiting.
You take up space without bracing.

This is what embodied self-leadership looks like.
Not performance. Not fixing.
Just coming home to the authority that’s already yours.

If this resonates, you’re not behind - you’re ready. 🤍



2016 was the year I:✨ got my Master’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering✨ ended a relationship with my ex living in the US✨...
16/01/2026

2016 was the year I:
✨ got my Master’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering
✨ ended a relationship with my ex living in the US
✨ travelled in Scotland and UK
✨ went to Farnborough Airshow (hello nerd Rita)
✨ started my PhD in Bristol
✨ detoxed every area of my life and left Italy with a very small (emotional+physical) baggage to start my new life in the UK
✨ met Gaetano on day 1 of my arrival (I had an immediate crush, but we wouldn’t get together for another 1.5 years!)

BUT MOSTLY… how blonde can you get?! 🤣

#2016

Today I had my “Closing the Bones” ceremony — also known as the Cerrada.The Cerrada is a traditional postpartum ritual t...
16/08/2025

Today I had my “Closing the Bones” ceremony — also known as the Cerrada.

The Cerrada is a traditional postpartum ritual that honors the mother’s journey through pregnancy and birth. It acknowledges the physical and emotional shifts she has undergone, and facilitates a sense of closure and renewal. The ritual includes an energetic and physical “closing” of the body, using techniques such as massage, body wrapping with rebozos, and a warm bath.

For me, it felt like a profound rite of passage — a fundamental ceremony that allowed me to reflect deeply on these past few months.

So much has come up. So much has happened.

Giving birth and becoming a mother has been the catharsis I didn’t know I needed — to finally release so many things that no longer served me. Things I had set the intention to let go of so many times before… but that could not be cleared by intention alone. They needed to be released at an energetic and cellular level.

I let go of the part of me that felt small, insecure, doubtful.
There is no room for that in motherhood.

I let go of the old stories where I saw myself as a victim — just so I could feel “right,” even at the cost of my peace.

I let go of the belief that I must simply accept life as it comes, and instead embraced the knowing that limitless possibilities exist — and that I can create the life I dream of.

Motherhood has called me to rise into a greater version of myself.
But not through force.
It simply made it happen — when I couldn’t do it on my own.

And I am so deeply grateful for that.

So excited for what’s yet to come.

No longer for me as an individual.
But as a part of a greater entity - my family. ✨

✨✨✨ infinite gratitude to my fairy doula for supporting me and us through this journey, during the most powerful time of our lives 🤍

To my husband,Thank you for being by my side every step of the way in these past 9 months.For the countless massage/acup...
05/06/2025

To my husband,
Thank you for being by my side every step of the way in these past 9 months.
For the countless massage/acupressure/rebozo sessions :)
For prioritising taking care of my aching body even when you were tired and needed rest.
For taking me out for strolls, when I could barely walk anymore.
For giving me reassurance and emotional support in the moments of need.
For helping me out with chores and doing anything I needed or asked for.
For educating yourself and taking courses just to make sure you knew how to best support me.
For having been such an active participant in the whole process of bringing Aurora to us.

Thank you for being my anchor and our protector during the birth.
For praying, meditating, chanting and even drumming for us!
For creating and holding the space so that I could channel this beautiful Soul Earthside in a calm and peaceful environment.

Thank you for showing up so fully during postpartum.
For taking care of our home, as well as this recovering mama and our baby.
For each single time you get up at night to soothe Aurora. For singing to her, for rocking her, for providing strong loving arms that hold her.
For every nappy change session :)
For showing up for us and protecting us when upsetting unexpected events have come up.

Thank you for bringing so much light and joy in my life.

We love you and thank you. Forever.
🤍✨

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