I walked away from a 6-figure startup career to prove one thing: you can build success without self-destruction. After 13 years of hustling myself into burnout, I now help high-performers and creatives break up with grind culture—using equal parts NLP coaching, dark humour, and hard-won nomadic truths (yes, the Wi-Fi meltdowns are real). You’ll find me:🍵 Slurping matcha while debunking "rise and grind" nonsense 🎙️ Interviewing grit-makers who’ve rebuilt after burnout (or breakdowns) ✈️ Geographically confused (London → Bangkok → Cape Town → Casablanca) My newsletter is for you if: You’ve ever cried in a Slack thread but still said "I’m fine!" Your dreams and dread feel equally heavy You want real talk about resilience—zero toxic positivity included! Subscribe for: Unfiltered burnout prevention hacks Behind-the-scenes "WTF is sustainable success?" stories Podcast teasers that won’t waste your time. Think of me as the friend who won’t let you glorify overwork—but will send memes at 2AM.
Do you need to snap from Survival mode?
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Hi Resilient Sunshine! If your past month has been anything like mine, it’s probably been a whirlwind. After “Summer holidays”, and “back to school”, here's to “fall”, “Halloween”, and “Black Friday”… we like to slap seasonalities on things… The truth is, there’s something peaceful in bringing order to chaos. Having these labels can sometimes provide a comfort blanket to phases of our lives where we’re not feeling in control. But... You don't have to stay in survival mode at all time.Entrepreneurship comes with its own dose of survival mode. There’s some unnecessary hustle whilst chasing the myth of "balance". We’ve had an honest conversation about these labels and how to define and re-define things our own way during the last podcast episode: "Beyond the Hustle: A Somatic, Astrological & Mindset Guide to Business Resilience". An astrologer, a mindset coach, and an embodiment teacher got together, and not for the start of a good dad joke! Instead we dismantled the myth of the "grind":
Overall, there's always room to break the silence around shame and recognise our strengths. Explore. Be playful. Make the rules. Break them. Make them again. Making some time to let go? That's also possible.October marked the end of the 35 days meditation challenge: you’ll now find on Youtube a playlist with the different meditation to use when it is called for. Intention settings, sleep relaxations, conversations between your past, present and future self, celebrating wins, gratitude, feeling the hard stuff… we cover it all. One of my favourite I’d like to share with you is one to recenter and let go of something that weights on you, as little as it might be: What's coming up?I know October is coming to an end, and the next podcast episode won’t spook you out I promise! We’ll have another open hearted conversation around what it takes to run your business sustainably. We will talk about:
This conversation is for anyone ready to create their own rules for sustainable success. Join us live and let's build resilience together. See you on: October 30th at 9.30AM BST With Love and Resilience,
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Mouna Laaragat (aka The Burnout Exorcist)
I walked away from a 6-figure startup career to prove one thing: you can build success without self-destruction. After 13 years of hustling myself into burnout, I now help high-performers and creatives break up with grind culture—using equal parts NLP coaching, dark humour, and hard-won nomadic truths (yes, the Wi-Fi meltdowns are real). You’ll find me:🍵 Slurping matcha while debunking "rise and grind" nonsense 🎙️ Interviewing grit-makers who’ve rebuilt after burnout (or breakdowns) ✈️ Geographically confused (London → Bangkok → Cape Town → Casablanca) My newsletter is for you if: You’ve ever cried in a Slack thread but still said "I’m fine!" Your dreams and dread feel equally heavy You want real talk about resilience—zero toxic positivity included! Subscribe for: Unfiltered burnout prevention hacks Behind-the-scenes "WTF is sustainable success?" stories Podcast teasers that won’t waste your time. Think of me as the friend who won’t let you glorify overwork—but will send memes at 2AM.
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