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· FOR THE ACTOR WHO IS READY TO BOOK ·

Go from under-booked and overlooked to the undeniable leader of your career - on stage, on screen and all the moments in between.

Join the 16-week coaching program created by the Award-Winning Leading Star of Netflix, the BBC, and London's West End, Adele James.

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You're good. You know you are.
So why does your career feel like it's standing still?

My love, you've been doing this long enough that you know "just keep going" doesn't cut it anymore.

You've got the training. You've put in the hours.

You've invested in the headshots, the workshops, the casting website subscriptions.


You've shown up, again and again and again.
 
And although you've convinced yourself you are fine to wait, you still feel crushed every time you get another "no" or your emails go ignored.

You genuinely celebrate your peers landing the agents, the callbacks and the bookings...

...but in private you're torturing yourself over what they're doing right, that you are not.

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The industry just... hasn't caught up yet.

That's not because you're less talented than your peers.

It's not because the industry is oversaturated or "slow right now" either.

(I promise you someone is working on the biggest job of their career as you read this)

 

The gap is that you haven't been taught how to actually lead your career... until now.

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Our clients are ticking off their vision boards - What's on yours?

The real reason you're not further along by now...

The training you have had so far was brilliant at teaching you how to act. But it has not been brilliant at training you to build an acting career.

Drama school teaches you craft.

 

Workshops give you tips and advice.

 

Other actors give you snippets of their journey, usually guarding the ugliest parts from view.

 

But no one has taught you how to:

 

  • Position yourself in an empowered way

  • Build connections that actually move the needle

  • Own a room before you've said a word

  • Keep your head straight when it's deathly quiet

So you do what most actors do and what you think makes sense: You hustle hard. And then you wait.

 

  • Wait for a better agent to spot you.

  • Wait for a casting director to remember you.

  • Wait to be validated.

  • Wait to be chosen.

And before you know it, the waiting has become the career.​

Adele James - Founder of the Empowered Actors Network

LEADING LADY MATERIAL IS THE GAME CHANGER

It teaches you how to do what the most successful actors are doing:
 
Get so rooted in who you are, so strategic and intentional about where and how you show up, and so unshakeable in your own belief that the industry has no choice but to take notice of you.

AND THE PROGRAM WINS START EARLY

This module happens in week 2 of the program

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Message received in Week 4 of the program

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The truth is, you have been trying to solve a puzzle with (a lot of) missing pieces for years.

Leading Lady Material gives you the whole picture —

 

The inner work and the outer strategy, sequenced in the right order and held inside a real coaching container. 

It's been built from years of coaching actors at every stage of their career and trains you in the complete, tried and tested, L.E.A.D Framework and The Booked Club Strategic Roadmap.

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This isn’t a “watch a few videos and hope for the best” program.

It’s 16 weeks of being supported through deep inner work and all of the actionable strategy and technique upgrades that allow you to finally step into the woman you know you’re meant to be.

See below exactly how your coaching journey is structured

1
CREATE CLARITY

You'll get crystal clear on the future you truly want and the season you are creating from, to create a roadmap to actualise your deepest desires as an actor and beyond for decades to come.

2
FIND YOUR LIGHT

Embody the version of you that can call in and hold the success you want. You'll increase your capacity for more, honouring where you are now. Plus, always thrive through rough patches too. 

3
INCREASE OPPORTUNITY

Build consistency taking action on the needle moving efforts that are in your control, and multiply your opportunities to audition and work via high quality networking and agents.

4
MAXIMISE OPPORTUNITY

Take the emotion out of your audition process (except for in the scene itself), with techniques and analytical frameworks for easy, reliable, and truthful auditions, every time. Includes a Self-Tape Challenge to get those reps in!​

5
STAYING POWER

It is always action that will make the biggest difference to your ability to prevail through highs and lows long-term. Solidify the process for sustainably elevating your career on repeat and in harmony with the rest of your life.

Every phase is covered completely throughout the program, and all the learning is yours to keep, rinse and repeat for life.

 

You won't be without the complete roadmap ever again.

YOU'LL HARDLY RECOGNISE YOURSELF AFTER

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TAKE IT FROM THEM

Some clients may reference The Booked Club, which was the OG program that Leading Lady Material has evolved from (and includes trainings from too - so you won't miss out, you'll actually get MORE!)

EVERYTHING YOU'LL GET INSIDE:

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Live Group Coaching Calls with Adele

 

Kick-Off Call — 25th May — We start strong, together.

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Midway Call — Week 8 — We recalibrate. We adjust.​

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Graduation Call — Week 16 — We celebrate and map out what's next.

Replays included.

The L.E.A.D Framework

 

16+ hours of coaching lessons led by Adele. The complete methodology to shift how you think, show up, and how the industry sees you. Yours to keep for life.

The Booked Club Strategic Roadmap

 

25+ video trainings, worksheets, resources, and templates covering how to look after yourself, step into your CEO era, network effectively, smash all auditions and self-tapes, and find the right agent. Yours to keep for life.

Exclusive Client-Only Platform

 

Instant access from the moment that you enrol in the program with all your coaching trainings and assignments contained within in one convenient location.

Direct feedback on your personal strategy

 

Get daily Q+A support from Adele and Team Empowered in your private forum for the full 16 week container so you are taking the highest quality actions consistently.

Community of A-Players

 

You don't have to do this alone. From the moment you join, you're in a private cohort with actors who are serious, supportive, and building alongside you. Upon graduation, your place in the wider Empowered Actors client community unlocks too. This is the industry network you've been missing.

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PLUS, ALL OF THESE:

EXCLUSIVE BONUSES TO ACCELERATE  YOUR SUCCESS

GUIDED MANIFESTATION SERIES

Visualisations, meditations, EFT tapping, and journal prompts designed to support the inner work running alongside your outer strategy.

 

Because the L.E.A.D Framework works from the inside out, and this is your toolkit for the inside. Instant access.

Value: £222

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INDUSTRY TRAILBLAZER Q+As

It is important to hear from a wide variety of sources within the industry if you want to know how to navigate it best.

 

These are real, unfiltered conversations with agents, directors, writers, casting directors, and industry professionals. The inside knowledge that nobody tells you in drama school. Instant access.

Value: £397

FUNDING THE DREAM TOOLKIT

Your career and your finances are not separate conversations. This toolkit unlocks halfway through the programme, exactly when you need it — as your strategy is building and you need your financial foundation to match. Unlocks at week 8.

  • Money Mastery (2-part training)

  • Side HUSTLA (8-part workshop)

  • £5k in 7 Days challenge

Value: £444

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EXPERT MASTERCLASS PASS

Covering the areas that matter most to a working actor's whole life, not just their career. Unlocks upon graduation.

  • Rewire Your Anxious Mind with therapist and neuroscientist, Anaïs Bachet - dismantle your self-doubt once and for all.

  • Serving C*ntent with content strategist, Jess Bruno - make showing up on social media more authentic and fun!

  • Built to Build Dreams with Functional Health Practitioner, Monique Took - master your energy, capacity and performance.

Value: £597

WORKING ACTOR'S TOOLKIT

So, you've booked the job... YAY! This toolkit has all the practical tools you need to generate award-winning performances. From an award-winning actor.

 

Plus Adele's tools for how to sustain your career strategy long term, while keeping things in balance and flow with the rest of your life through the lows and highs. Unlocks upon graduation.

Value: £347

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→ Fast Forward to

16 WEEKS
FROM NOW

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Picture this: It's four months in the future...🔮

 

You've completed the program. You've done the work — the real work, not just the strategy on paper but also the internal shift that makes the strategy actually land. And now...

  • You know what you’re doing each week and season of your career - and why. No more spiralling in decision paralysis or guesswork.

  • You are more grounded in your path, excited for the future and you're enjoying the journey again.

  • Your inner critic is quieter, your habits and boundaries give you a magnified quality of life, and you regulate yourself better in quiet and busy seasons.

  • You lead your career like a boss, making aligned decisions about agents and opportunities.

  • You nurture and expand your network with incredible creatives, without feeling cringe or fake.

  • Your audition process is easy, solid and fun!

  • Your life and your career are on the same team, not at war.

  • You are held by a 100+ strong community of amazing actors.

You never have to feel like you are in this on your own again.

JUST LIKE NINA:

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LET HER TELL YOU WHAT CHANGED:

p.s. this was recorded before those messages you just read!

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SOUND LIKE YOU?

If you relate to one (or all) of these descriptions...

then Leading Lady Material is  for you.

JUST LIKE JESS:

3 weeks into the program

At the end of the program

In this

here 2026

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LEARN FROM

I'm Adele, and I am rooting for you babe -

Today, you meet me as an award‑winning actress, best known for playing Cleopatra in Jada Pinkett‑Smith’s Queen Cleopatra on Netflix, leading roles at the National Theatre and in the West End.

But if I take you back to 2015...

 

I had just finished my Drama Degree from the University of Bristol and was diving headfirst into the industry as a Black-biracial, working-class Londoner, raised by a single mum (my hero!), who had zero contacts in the industry and never went to Drama School.

Though my journey has not been short of challenges:​

😬 financial hardship
🥲 two 10-month work gaps in 3 years
😟 more rejections than I can count
😖 getting dropped by my agent of 5 years 
😰 burning out a few times...

The truth is, ​I struggled and hustled way more than was necessary in the early days.

Why? Well, quite simply - I was overcompensating. Big time.

Leading Lady Material is everything I figured out from learning to do things the easier way - and more successful way -  structured into a methodology for you to adapt to your own career dreams.

 

It's the program I wish had existed when I was sitting exactly where you're sitting now.

I've coached actors who've gone on to book Netflix, HBO, the BBC, ABC, MGM+, Paramount+, the National Theatre and the RSC, to name a few. I've  watched women who were invisible to the industry become actors the industry actively seeks out.

And every single one of them had one thing in common: they stopped waiting to be chosen and started leading.

Now I'm handing you the map...

REAL EXPERIENCE

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peep my vision board from 2020 - so many things checked off already!

Hear from the actors who were recently in your shoes:

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Some clients may reference The Booked Club, which was the OG program that Leading Lady Material has evolved from (and includes trainings from too - so you won't miss out, you'll actually get MORE!)

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