About Forget the Office

Where strategy meets soul — and ambition meets ease.

A home for the purpose-led entrepreneur of the new era. This is the story of why we build businesses that give you freedom — not another job.

Our reason for being

We help purpose-led entrepreneurs launch, grow and scale online businesses with clarity, strategy and ethical marketing — and the inner work to hold it all.

Forget the Office was created as a place where you feel at home as an entrepreneur of the new era: free to dream big, take real action, and build a life beyond the desk.

Merce Maresma, founder of Forget the Office
The founder's story

Hi, I'm Merce.

I started my career as a corporate lawyer in Spain. On paper it was the plan working perfectly. In reality, years of over-achieving with undiagnosed ADHD led me straight into a full-blown, neurodivergent burnout — the kind that makes you question everything you thought success was supposed to feel like.

A business is meant to give you freedom. So many of us build one that quietly takes it away.

So I rebuilt. I retrained in digital marketing, launched my own agency, and spent years learning what actually moves a business — funnels, ads, positioning, offers. But I kept seeing the same thing: brilliant founders held back not by strategy, but by the fear of being seen, the overwhelm, the belief that growth had to cost them their health.

Forget the Office is the answer I wish I'd had. A place where aligned marketing, solid business foundations and deep inner work finally sit in the same room — so you can grow something that's truly yours, without burning out to do it.

~100
Entrepreneurs guided to more clarity and growth
7+
Years walking this path alongside founders
3
Worlds in one place — marketing, strategy & inner work
What we stand for

Bold. Authentic. Inspiring.

Three principles behind everything we build together.

01

Bold

We'll tell you the truth about your offer, your positioning, your next move — kindly, but straight. Then we help you build something that actually works, not just something that looks good. Clarity is a form of courage.

02

Authentic

Ethical marketing that still sounds like you. We build around your voice and your values — never a generic template, never tactics you'd be embarrassed to stand behind.

03

Inspiring

Growth shouldn't cost you your life. We pair real business systems with the inner work, so your business can scale while you stay in your energy.

The training behind the work

Strategy, psychology and coaching — properly qualified.

Forget the Office blends marketing that actually works with coaching that changes how you show up. That mix is deliberate — and it's backed by years of real training, not just good instincts.

  • Law degree & 3 years of Business School
  • Master's in Digital Marketing (Instituto Marketing)
  • Certified Professional Coach (OCC-I)
  • NLP Practitioner
  • Level 1 Coach — Institute of Applied Psychology, Sydney
  • Founder & former digital marketing agency owner
Grow in good company

You're not meant to build alone.

The best growth I've ever seen happens in a room full of people building something real — encouraging each other, holding each other accountable, refusing to play small.

The space we hold

Built for how you're actually wired.

Business advice usually assumes you're calm, linear and endlessly available. Real humans aren't. So we built a space that meets you as you truly are.

Trauma-informed

We move at the pace of trust — no shame, no pressure, none of the "just push through it." How you feel in your body shapes what you can build, so we make room for it instead of overriding it.

Neurodivergent-oriented

Built by an ADHD founder, for brains that don't run in straight lines. Clear and structured without being rigid — designed to work with how you're wired, not against it, so momentum finally feels possible.

Radically inclusive

Everyone belongs here. We're actively committed to equality and non-discrimination — whatever your race, gender, sexual orientation, background or story. You get to show up and grow exactly as you are.

In their words

"Merce gave me the clarity, the strategy and the confidence to finally build a business that feels like mine — and it's growing without running my whole life."

— A Forget the Office founder

Ready when you are

Let's build a business that gives you your life back.

Whether you're just starting or ready to scale, there's a way in — a community to grow with, courses to guide you, and support that meets you where you are.

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