Not long ago, I found myself standing in the middle of my million-dollar home with everything I thought I had worked so hard for—an overflowing bank account, recurring revenue, a rockstar team, incredible clients, a podcast, sold-out retreats, and a family I deeply adore. By all accounts, I had made it. I had every reason to feel fulfilled. And yet, I was 40 pounds overweight, emotionally numb, and completely disconnected from myself.
I remember standing in my beautiful kitchen, looking around at all the things I had once dreamed of, and thinking: “This was never my dream. This was someone else’s.” I looked in the mirror and barely recognized the woman staring back at me. And the hardest part? No one had noticed. Because I was so good at pretending I was okay.
That was the moment something snapped. I realized it wasn’t just my schedule or my business model that needed to change—it was everything about the way I was living. So I did what most would call drastic: I let go of my team. I shut down my business. I stopped posting. I stopped emailing. I walked away from the machine I had built—and I entered what I now call my selfish era. Five full months where I gave myself permission to put myself first, on purpose, for the first time in my life.
It wasn’t perfect. It was messy, tender, and at times, incredibly uncomfortable. But it was also sacred. Healing didn’t come from optimizing my calendar or doing another mindset reset. It came from choosing differently, over and over again. From remembering who I was underneath the performance. From slowing down long enough to feel again.
I know the skepticism you’re feeling—
because I’ve lived it.
The Burnout Breakthrough is the exact first step I wish I had then.