Francesca Facio in a red dress
About Fran

The woman behind the method.

A Latin American woman raised in Costa Rica, who spent years trying to fit an impossible model of "the perfect woman" — before learning, slowly and the hard way, how to come home to herself.

I became a mother at twenty, and somewhere in the years that followed — raising two kids, juggling two jobs, running a home, holding every role well at once — I became a superwoman. The one who did it all, held it all, dropped nothing. Until I broke down.

I found my way back — not by adding more discipline or self-improvement, but by learning to witness myself without judgment, do the inner work I'd been avoiding, nurture what I'd been depleting, choose gratitude on purpose, and finally, soar. That became the W.I.N.G.S. Method — not a theory I read about, but a path I walked first.

A silent Vipassana retreat taught me that my emotions weren't problems to fix, but guests to welcome. A near-empty room in Kuala Lumpur taught me I'd stopped asking myself what I wanted. Standing on a TEDx stage taught me that the truest thing I could offer anyone wasn't polish — it was honesty.

For over thirteen years now, I've sat across from close to three thousand people doing this same work: coming back to themselves after years of coming last. As Senior Coach and host for Mindvalley's Premium Programs, and through my own coaching practice, I've walked this path with founders, executives, parents, and leaders who all arrive with some version of the same quiet confession — they don't know what they want anymore.

You are the gift.

Credentials & Experience

13+ years in coaching & personal transformation
Close to 3,000 clients worldwide
TEDx Speaker
Senior Coach & Host, Mindvalley Premium Programs
Author, Unleash Your Wings
Author, How to Be Human in the Age of AI