ABOUT HANNAH
The first time I burned out, I was 16.
For most of my working life, I was exceptional at one very specific thing: building systems that protected other people's capacity. As a high-level executive assistant to CEOs and global executives, I got very good at reading energy patterns, structuring schedules around peaks and crashes, and anticipating what someone needed before they knew they needed it.
"I was doing for other people what I couldn't figure out how to do for myself."
The burnout kept coming — at 19, at 21, at 24, at 27 — and each time I recovered just enough to restart the same habits that had broken me down in the first place. It wasn't until I started connecting the dots between my corporate experience, my own creative businesses, a chronic illness I'd been managing undiagnosed for decades, and a neurodivergent brain I didn't have language for yet — that something finally clicked.
The systems hadn't been failing because I was undisciplined. They'd been failing because they were designed for someone whose brain and body work nothing like mine. And once I understood that, I couldn't unfigure it. That's what this work is built on.
WHAT THIS WORK ACTUALLY IS
I am not here to fix you.
There is nothing to fix.
What I do is help founders find the version of themselves that exists underneath everything that's been layered on top — the productivity culture, the optimization advice, the morning routine borrowed from someone whose body works nothing like yours, the definition of success you inherited before you knew you had a choice.
I call it your eigenkind — a word I built from German roots, my heritage, because I couldn't find an existing word for one's own fundamental nature; the thing that stays itself under pressure. In German colloquial use, an eigenkind is a willful child — the kind who hasn't yet been convinced to override their own instincts for someone else's comfort.
Most of us start out there. Then the world gets to work on us.
This work is about finding your way back — and building a life and business that can hold the person you actually are.
THIS IS WHERE THE STORY GOES DEEPER
And where the map out begins.
Part memoir. Part framework + case studies. Part proof of what’s possible.
Same You, Better Systems picks up where this page leaves off — the burnout cycles, the diagnostic process, the research, the clients who rebuilt their businesses around who they actually are — and gives you the tools to do the same. If something on this page made you feel seen, the book is the next right thing.
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FOR MEDIA, PODCASTS, + PRESS
For bio information, headshots, speaking topics, and media kit materials, visit the press page. For podcast booking and collaboration requests, use the media contact form to reach out.
