Hi,
I'm Sara
This Is My
Silicon Valley Burnout
Story
Hi, I'm Sara
I help people create
work-life balance
through small,
powerful mindset shifts.
Here Is What I Know
You are not the problem.
That after-hours email spiral?
The weekends that disappear into “just one more thing”?
The guilt that sneaks in every time you try to rest?
You didn’t make that mess.
You were just handed a rulebook that said hustle equals worth, rest is weakness, and boundaries are selfish.
That’s the lie I’m here to help you unlearn.
My Wake-Up Call
When My Kid Renamed the Weekend
I spent years running on empty at Silicon Valley startups and, at Google, EA, and Microsoft. I chased promotions and answered every late-night ping like my life depended on it.
Then one Saturday morning, my child looked up and asked:
"Mom, are you having another work-end instead of a weekend?" asking if I was going to work through the weekend AGAIN.
A Work-end™. That one-word mic drop stopped me cold.
In that moment, I realized, I had let my job steal the very life I was working so hard to enjoy.
I Didn't Fix My Burnout With A New Planner
I didn’t time-block my way to inner peace.
And I definitely didn’t figure it out by “hustling smarter.”
What changed was my mindset.
I stopped chasing a system that only rewarded exhaustion.
And I started building new practices and minset building moments that actually made space for breath, rest, and boundaries that held.
What I Did Next
I took everything I’d learned in my career, all the systems, frameworks, leadership tactics, and rewrote them to actually support humans, not just performance metrics.
I started testing small mindset-first tools on myself and with my teams and they worked, not because they were revolutionary, but because they were realistic.
Tiny shifts, realistic tools, and one belief shift at a time that makes things feel lighter.
That’s what we do here.
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