Miriam A. Hearn

Miriam A. Hearn spent seventeen years in corporate operations management — excellent training, it turned out, for the unpaid second job she did not know she had accepted: running her mother’s medical care, her husband’s social calendar, her daughter’s college applications, her sister’s divorce logistics, and her direct report’s career development plan. Simultaneously. From a parking lot.

The breaking point came when she realized she could recite her mother’s cardiologist’s office number from memory but could not name a single thing she had done for herself in six weeks. She resigned from her unofficial CEO position and now writes and speaks about the invisible executive labor people absorb and how to put it back where it belongs. She is not anti-help. She is anti-default.