Twelve women will win real gifts, live on 9 August.

Let's be real with you, because so many haven't been.

We've both bought things that promised the world and delivered nothing — recently, and more than once in the past. We know exactly how it feels to be sold a dream and left with an empty inbox. It makes you sceptical, and rightly so.

So here's our promise: we will never sell you something we can't deliver. We'll always tell you plainly what you're getting — free or paid — and what you're not. We'd rather you leave saying "that was more than I expected" than ever feel over-promised again.

If you join us, you'll get exactly what's written on this page. Nothing hidden.

And here's the one thing we can promise, you'll leave with one honest question, and one small, brave answer — a seed to carry home. You won't walk away the same as you came.

That's the whole point of who we're becoming.

— Lorelle & Amber

A Woman In Progress isn't only a Women's Day event — it's an evergreen community on Skool for every woman who's still becoming.

Free to join, always open. Inside is a growing home of experiences to keep you growing — live event days, the LEGACY JOURNEY, and talks, workshops and courses in AI, growth and transformation.

Some are free, some are paid; you choose what's right for you and when.

Whether or not you ever step into a paid experience, you belong here.

— Lorelle

It didn't begin as a business. It began with a shift. In 2016, I started Scarlette Raes — built on a journey of my own growth that began back in 2008.

And in 2017, a friend who had watched that change happening in my life asked me a question that changed everything:

"Could you create a space for women like me? Women who want to grow, but can't do it on their own?"

That question became A Woman In Progress — AWIP. It started as an in-person gathering with 15 women in the ROOM on Women's Day about a month later — women in a room, becoming, together.

When COVID closed those rooms in 2020 and 2021, we didn't stop. We moved online — and women from around the world found us. What began in one room became a global community, which is why we serve our community in a global $ currency.

And in 2026, someone I've known my whole life stepped in beside me.

— Amber

Lorelle and I grew up like sisters in a small Eastern Cape town, just 30 minutes from the world-renowned surfers' paradise of Jeffreys Bay. Our parents were best friends, and both our families were built by teachers who believed deeply in what people could become.

Life eventually carried me across the world to the United States. But it was through my own season of reinvention that I discovered the power of community, courage, and creating new opportunities. That's what inspires me about this work.

Now we build it together — one of us in South Africa, one in America, rooted in the same small-town belief: that no woman should have to become alone.

That's still exactly what we are — a home for women who are still becoming, and who'd rather not do it by themselves.