Successful but Unfulfilled? Why So Many Women Feel Like They're Operating at 70%
I work with women who have done everything right, and still feel like they're operating at 70%.
I know that feeling intimately.
Just not in the way you might expect.
I wasn't a corporate executive.
I was a homeschool mom of seven. I managed a household that most people couldn't fathom — seven kids in competitive figure skating, All Star Little League, Boy Scouts, 4-H, music lessons. A small farm. A homeschool co-op where I taught, led, and sat on the board. A Cub Scout troop I ran myself.
From the outside, I was the woman who did it all.
From the inside, I was disappearing.
I worked from the moment I opened my eyes until the moment I closed them, for everyone else. My health quietly collapsed. My sense of self went with it. And even though people called me a superstar, I felt like a failure.
Because I knew the truth no one could see.
I was capable of so much more than what I was giving myself.
The turning point came when I decided, exhausted, depleted, and finally done with invisible suffering, to train for a half Ironman.
Not because I was an athlete. I was 40 pounds over weight at the time.
Because I needed to find out what I was actually made of.
Every mile I swam, every mile I cycled, every mile I ran, I was pushing through something deeper than physical pain. I was dismantling every limiting belief I had ever held about myself.
And somewhere on that course, I found her.
The woman I had been burying under everyone else's needs.
She was stronger than I knew. More capable than I had allowed. And completely done playing small.
That woman went to coaching school. Built her own business. And now she helps other high-achieving women do exactly what she had to learn the hard way —
Stop running on empty. Get clear. Get focused. And finally execute at the level they've always known they were capable of.
If you're successful by every measure and still feel the gap —
If you're the woman everyone relies on, and no one is holding space for you —
If you know, quietly, that you're meant for more than this —
You're exactly who I'm here for.
Follow along.
I think you'll find yourself here.