A community for immigrant women
Ready to build a life that serves you, from the inside out.
Most of us spent our twenties and early thirties inside expectations we didn't choose. Systems that weren't designed for us. Versions of success we'd internalised before we knew any better. At home, at work, in society.
For a while, it worked. We did well. We over-achieved. We got the things we were told to want. Then at some point, usually after a lot of years and a lot of evidence, we started to know ourselves better. We noticed what we'd outgrown. We felt the difference between the life we had built and the life we would build now, knowing what we know.
This community is for women in that place. In that knowing. Building work, relationships, inner lives, and futures that are actually ours.
Landed events
Meet-ups and workshops
Our meet-ups and workshops are where the community comes together in person to talk honestly about the things that don't get said publicly.
We bring in women who've lived it and people who can teach the practical skills, but the real value is the room itself: peers in similar terrain, sharing what they're actually noticing and asking each other the questions they can't ask anywhere else.
The format is part discussion, part teaching, part practice. You leave with new language for what you're inside, real tools you can use the next week, and a group of women who get it.
Hey! I'm Ellen Nguyen!
I'm a community builder, writer, author and podcast host. I moved to the UK at 17 and I've built an abundant life and thriving career in Financial Services at director level. Over the past decade I've worked at companies including Mastercard, J.P. Morgan and Google (as a contractor), with journalism bylines in BBC Worklife and Business Insider along the way. I've published several books, most recently How You Heal in Your 20s, host the Landed podcast, and have built a community of 40K+ across Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn.
Weekly Newsletter
Personal essays on self-discovery and growth in your 30s, for those unafraid to look inward and live on their own terms.
I write about the long, often invisible and silent work of becoming yourself: healing the old wounds, building the structure that nurtures the ever-expanding all of you, learning to channel intensity into a life that's actually yours. The early-career chaos, the slow construction of identity and security, the parts of yourself you meet once survival isn't the default mode anymore. From the inside out.
A video podcast about finding jobs and sponsorships
You came to the UK. You got the job. And then one day you look up and realise: the map ran out. There's no next obvious milestone. No blueprint. No checklist. Just... life. Your life. In a country that still sometimes feels like it belongs to other people.
On this podcast, I’m talking to people, just like you and me, who are figuring it out in real time, what it means to grow, to belong, to lead, to grieve what you left behind, and to build a life that's actually yours.
This is what landing really looks like.