For over a decade, Isi navigated the demanding landscape of the corporate world, building a successful career that, from the outside, looked like the definition of modern achieveme...mehr sehenFor over a decade, Isi navigated the demanding landscape of the corporate world, building a successful career that, from the outside, looked like the definition of modern achievement. Like her protagonist, Elena, she was intimately familiar with the relentless pace, the pressure to be constantly available, and the silent, creeping exhaustion that comes from living by a clock that is not your own.
After experiencing a profound case of burnout that forced her to re-evaluate everything, Isi made the terrifying and liberating decision to leave the perceived security of her job. She traded the "hustle culture" treadmill for the uncertainty and freedom of solo entrepreneurship, embarking on a personal journey to redesign her life around principles of well-being, intention, and sustainable creativity.
Isi wrote Between Two Clocks not as a memoir, but as a fictional vessel for a universal truth she discovered along the way: that our greatest professional and personal breakthroughs often happen only after we give ourselves permission to stop. She wanted to capture the nuanced, emotional reality of burnout and recovery in a way that self-help articles cannot, giving a voice to the "quietly overwhelmed" and offering a story of hope, reclamation, and the radical power of saying "no."
Today, Isi lives in Germany, where she divides her time between her entrepreneurial work and long walks in the forest. She believes that our best work, and our best lives, come not from relentless striving, but from a place of intentional rest.weniger sehen