Bonjour, I'm Annabelle
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About
About
About
Bonjour, I'm Annabelle
From music agent
to agent of change
For nearly 25 years, I’ve been navigating creativity, uncertainty, and change across five countries and three continents.
What’s driven me from the start? Curiosity, independence, and a belief in doing things differently.
From music agent
to agent of change
For nearly 25 years, I’ve been navigating creativity, uncertainty, and change across five countries and three continents.
What’s driven me from the start? Curiosity, independence, and a belief in doing things differently.
Very early on, I knew I wanted to build a career in the creative industries, on my own terms.
With no connections, I started at the bottom with an internship, then years of learning the business from the inside, building the skills to grow something that was mine.
Fast forward ten years: I was running my own booking and music management agency, touring the world, living and working in my dream places, alongside artists and people whose talent still humbles me. I was proud of what I'd built: a network spanning continents, partnerships that lasted, and the trust that I earned along the way.
Very early on, I knew I wanted to build a career in the creative industries, on my own terms.
With no connections, I started at the bottom with an internship, then years of learning the business from the inside, building the skills to grow something that was mine.
Fast forward ten years: I was running my own booking and music management agency, touring the world, living and working in my dream places, alongside artists and people whose talent still humbles me. I was proud of what I'd built: a network spanning continents, partnerships that lasted, and the trust that I earned along the way.
Then my back gave out. One morning, I woke up, stood from my bed, and found myself bent double, unable to straighten, with my tailbone curled under. A posture I've learned later is one of the body's own signatures of fear.
Then my back gave out. One morning, I woke up, stood from my bed, and found myself bent double, unable to straighten, with my tailbone curled under. A posture I've learned later is one of the body's own signatures of fear.
A dear friend handed me a book, Healing Back Pain by Dr. John Sarno, and something shifted. Things started making sense.
What Sarno named in his book is Mind Body Syndrome, an idea I later found echoed in Bessel van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score. And I began to understand how I actually function, where the real levers are, what needed attention, what my body had been carrying long before my mind caught up. That understanding led me somewhere I didn't expect.
A dear friend handed me a book, Healing Back Pain by Dr. John Sarno, and something shifted. Things started making sense.
What Sarno named in his book is Mind Body Syndrome, an idea I later found echoed in Bessel van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score. And I began to understand how I actually function, where the real levers are, what needed attention, what my body had been carrying long before my mind caught up. That understanding led me somewhere I didn't expect.
Over the years, I immersed myself in neuroscience, nervous system regulation, sensory approaches, and evidence-based coaching. I completed professional training, earned my ICF coaching certification, and gradually built the foundations of what would become Shape Futura.