LinkedIn briefly introduced “collaborative articles”, which were questions that anyone could answer. They wound up abandoning the feature, but I enjoyed responding to them with my own brief mental health focused rants. I also only had 750 characters and no options for gifs, so this is WAY better. :)

Let’s get into it.

LinkedIn briefly introduced “collaborative articles”, which were questions that anyone could answer. They wound up abandoning the feature, but I enjoyed responding to them with my own brief mental health focused rants. I also only had 750 characters and no options for gifs, so this is WAY better. :)

Let’s get into it.

Like this:

“Hi, I’ll be taking time off from [date] to [date]. Let me know if you need anything before then.”

LinkedIn briefly introduced “collaborative articles”, which were questions that anyone could answer. They wound up abandoning the feature, but I enjoyed responding to them with my own brief mental health focused rants. I also only had 750 characters and no options for gifs, so this is WAY better. :)

Let’s get into it.

LinkedIn briefly introduced “collaborative articles”, which were questions that anyone could answer. They wound up abandoning the feature, but I enjoyed responding to them with my own brief mental health focused rants. I also only had 750 characters and no options for gifs, so this is WAY better. :)

Let’s get into it.

LinkedIn briefly introduced “collaborative articles”, which were questions that anyone could answer. They wound up abandoning the feature, but I enjoyed responding to them with my own brief mental health focused rants. I also only had 750 characters and no options for gifs, so this is WAY better. :)

So let’s get into it.

Let’s start with something simple and true: You are not a machine. You are a person with limits, feelings, off days, high-energy streaks, family stuff, weird brain fog, creative bursts, and that one week a month where everything feels 20% more difficult and stressful. You are human. Beautifully, frustratingly, gloriously human.

So why do so many companies act like you're a robot?

LinkedIn briefly introduced “collaborative articles”, which were questions that anyone could answer. They wound up abandoning the feature, but I enjoyed responding to them with my own brief mental health focused rants. I also only had 750 characters and no options for gifs, so this is WAY better. :)

So let’s get into it.

Burnout doesn’t always crash in like a tidal wave. Most of the time, it’s a slow leak—quiet, sneaky, and easy to dismiss until it’s taken over everything. One day you’re on top of your to-do list, and the next you’re staring at your screen, wondering why you can’t make yourself care.

It doesn’t happen all at once. It builds.

Let’s talk about how burnout really shows up and how to spot it before you’re completely drained.

Let’s start here: advocating for yourself doesn’t make you a jerk. It makes you a person with boundaries, needs, and goals. That’s just a normal part of being a human being. But I get it, some of us were taught that asking for more is pushy, or that having needs makes us "difficult." So we bite our tongues, downplay our accomplishments, and hope someone notices and rewards us for being quiet and chill and agreeable.

Spoiler alert: THEY DON’T. And you will ENDLESSLY frustrate yourself if you live your life this way.

Before I ever worked in tech or started Threadsmith, I studied psychology. I didn’t know, at the time, how useful that would wind up being in my daily life. But, as part of my studies, I came across the works of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, famously known for coining what’s known in pop psychology as the 5 stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

At the time, I thought, surely that can’t be accurate for all experiences of grief. And maybe, for some, it’s not, but in all of my experience either personally experiencing grief or being with people going through it, she was definitely onto something.

Let’s set the record straight: coaching isn’t just about giving advice. If it were, every TED Talk would turn people into experts overnight. You could watch a YouTube video and I’d be out of a job. Luckily for me, I suppose, that’s not the case.

Coaching is about unlocking potential, shifting mindsets, and helping people see (and act on) what they’re truly capable of. It’s about transformation, not instruction.

Coaching is an entirely unregulated industry. There’s no single central board or governing body. There’s no “higher power” you can go to for someone’s coaching license to get revoked if they wind up causing some kind of harm in your life. You can take a weekend course and call yourself a coach or you can take no course at all and call yourself a coach. That’s not shade, it’s just facts.

Hi, welcome, I’m glad you’re here!

I’m Skyler, and I started this business because I got tired of watching brilliant people twist themselves into knots for broken systems.

For years, I’ve been the person people come to when they need someone who can cut through the chaos and say what’s actually going on—without sugarcoating it, but with just enough warmth to make it land. I’ve helped small teams untangle messy workflows, fix confusing products, and get their operations back on track. I’ve accidentally amassed a following on LinkedIn (hi!) based on my snarky responses to their AI-generated questions. And I’ve helped women find their voice in rooms that were never built with them in mind. I’m most proud of that.