Before the Crash: What Your Body Knows About Burnout

Burnout rarely announces itself. It builds quietly, through months of decisions made on willpower, sleep that never quite restores, and a body that stays on high alert long after the board meeting ends. By the time it becomes visible, it has already been shaping your decisions, your relationships, and your company for some time. This workshop takes a systems view of founder capacity. We'll look at what burnout actually is at the physiological level, why stress and old patterns live in the autonomic nervous system rather than in your thinking, and why that explains something most high performers have noticed: knowing what to do doesn't always translate into change. 🌱 A path you might recognize. I spent nearly 17 years building software and data products at Slack, Meta, and Amazon. I'll share what I learned when the way I was working stopped working, and what changed when I started working with the system underneath the systems. 🧠 The science, made practical. How your autonomic nervous system runs beneath conscious thought, how stress and unresolved experiences get stored there, and how both overdrive and shutdown quietly erode performance over time. 📊 Your burnout score, live. You'll run Tathya's new AI Burnout Calculator during the session and leave with a personal snapshot of where you sit on the burnout continuum today. 🌊 A felt experience of regulation. We'll close with a short guided practice, so you leave knowing what a settled nervous system actually feels like, and how to find your way back to it. 👥 Your facilitator 🔹 Uma Uppin, Founder and CEO of Tathya, where AI and coaching come together to optimize your organization. Uma brings 17 years of engineering leadership at Slack, Meta, and Amazon, and integrates executive coaching with nervous system awareness to support sustainable leadership and personal growth. If this feels relevant to where you are right now, you're welcome to join us. This event is hosted at the Frontier Tower: We are transforming a 16-floor tower in San Francisco into a self-governed vertical village—a hub for frontier technologies and creative arts. Tier-one labs presenting AI, Ethereum, biotech, neuroscience, longevity, robotics, makerspace, human flourishing, and arts & music. These floors will house innovators and creators pushing the boundaries of human potential in a post-AI-singularity world. Apply here for founding citizenship: frontiertower.io/apply Why should I become a citizen? Be part of creating the first self-governed vertical villageConnect with the most creative people in the cityGet access to all floors, free event space & movement floor Website: frontiertower.io/ Need more reading? Visit frontiertower.notion.site/