Experiment Your Way to Your Secret Dream in 90 Days – Without Joining the 5am Club or Quitting Your Job (Yet)
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On paper, your life looks successful. But inside, you fantasize about quitting it all.
You’re highly capable. You’ve got a great job, family, friends…
But somewhere between the second kid, the third re-org, and the last time you said, “I’ll get to that when things calm down,” you lost your own SELF in the hustle.
You keep thinking: “I’m a mother, partner, employee, but who am I when I’m just ME?”
You’re tired of putting your own self-care on the back burner and feeling trapped on the hamster wheel of life.
You have a secret dream: writing a book, teaching yoga, coaching clients…
You want something that’s yours, that feels meaningful and impactful. You want to wake up excited and energized to start the day.
You want to make time to do what you want without feeling guilty…
But you’re stuck running from meeting to meeting, living screen to screen, and occasionally convincing yourself to go to pilates.
Are you tired of not accomplishing what you really want?
You’ve heard it a million times:
You just need to optimize your calendar, wake up at 5 am, and habit-stack your routine.
(Yeah... sounds super doable and fun. Eye roll).
But despite trying all the productivity hacks, self-help books, and DIY courses… you set the same goal month after month.
You start to doubt whether your secret dream is even possible…
or whether you’re just lazy outside of work.
Here’s the tea...
Your dream feels hard because of one (or all!) of these secret fears:
The Golden Handcuffs
You worry you have to quit your job to make time to do your dream… and if you do, it might never cover all your benefits. Plus, with so many re-orgs and layoffs, you’re afraid to risk your financial security for something so selfish as doing what you want.
The Inner Critic
Every time you think about doing your secret dream, your inner critic haunts you: “who am I to do this?”, “your dream has been done already,” “you’ll never stick with it,” “no one will take you seriously at work,” and “if you change too much, your loved ones won't relate to you.” Ouch.
The All-Or-Nothing Trap
You don’t want to sacrifice your wellbeing to do your dream, but you’re worried you’ll fail unless you wake up at 5am, grind until 11pm, and habit-stack like a robot. But maybe the bigger fear is actually succeeding because what if you end up hating that reality too?
Don’t worry, you don’t need another therapy session or years of shadow work to move forward.
And you certainly don’t need to just grit your teeth and push through.
These secret fears are actually societal myths, things you’ve been taught so you keep doing the same-old, "safe," boring things (I'm looking at you, patriarchy!).
They’re holding you back from your true potential, but they’re actually not that hard to shift when you have the right approach.
Because the truth is you can do your secret dream when you stop following the old rules.
And no, you don’t have to sacrifice your wellbeing, relationships, or finances to do it.
Unlike what the internet, your bestie, and other coaches tell you… you actually need less pressure, less perfection, and less stress.
Go on, let out a looooong exhale of relief.
Let's move from healing to thriving, together.
Doing your secret dream doesn't have to be so hard.
Here are my hard-earned hot takes:
You DO have time for your secret dream right now, just not in the way you’ve been taught.
Hot Take #1: Action creates clarity, not the other way around.
You only need just enough clarity to take the next step. And you certainly don’t need confidence before you do.
We find our path and create more purpose by following breadcrumbs, one at a time…not trying to see the whole picture before we even start.
Hot Take #2: Your nervous system determines your progress, not your calendar.
If you try to make a massive change—like waking up at 5am or quitting your job—your nervous system sends stress signals to shut it down to keep you safe.
So if you want to make moves, you need to expand your nervous system's capacity first to avoid collapse. And you can do that with body-based practices in 3 minutes or less.
Jamie felt ready to take on her tasks. Nadia built trust in herself.
Hot Take #3: Soulful rituals beat habit-stacking any day.
Habits are automations your brain creates to be more efficient...not more alive.
Rituals, on the other hand, are heart-centered and human-first, focused on being in the present moment and creating the positive feelings you're after.
So instead of trying to optimize your life, we start with just one mind-body practice that sparks joy.
Hot Take #4: Willpower burns out quickly. Playful, bite-sized life experiments build momentum.
When you approach your dream as a series of 15-minute experiments sprinkled throughout the week, you remove the pressure, center curiosity, and actually make lasting progress without the grind or hustle.
Elizabeth and Yumi welcomed in more joy (and less stress!) by running bite-sized life experiments... and they keep renewing :)
I'm Emily Schickli, and I discovered this approach the hard way (so you don't have to).
Here’s the thing: without hustling harder, I became a coach, author, and yoga teacher in my spare time while working full-time at an EdTech startup.
Now, I’m a sought-after speaker and a Nervous System and Intuition Coach with a Masters and multiple certifications who’s helped hundreds of busy women working at places like Google, Meta, Microsoft, and more reclaim their time and energy and do their secret dream too.
But before I got here, I spent 10 years in the tech industry. Yep, I know exactly what it feels like to be trapped by the golden handcuffs, achieving everything you're supposed to, while secretly feeling drained.
In 2015, I burned out. Big time. I had daily migraines, gut issues, and chronic pain because I had let the stress of trying to prove myself at work put a chokehold over me.
At first, I tried to fix it the old way by optimizing my life, but I realized I was missing the most important part: soul.
Sitting in a conference room at work one day in 2016, I wrote down a secret dream I didn’t know I had until then: I wanted to become a yoga teacher.
I started running bite-sized life experiments. I got my certification and taught yoga 2x a month at work––for 5 years.
That one experiment sparked a ripple effect: I started to care less about office politics, prioritized my time better, got more done, and even got promoted.
I didn’t leave my job to take my business full-time until 2022, when I felt ready, and I didn’t sacrifice my wellbeing or my relationships to do it either.
That’s all to say, you don't have to either. I’d love to help you skip the struggle and explore your secret dream too.
Introducing:
The Compass Club™
The Compass Club is not another course with endless modules. This is your living support system with a proven path, judgment-free community, and guide who gets it.
You'll get clear on what’s next, free up more time and energy for you, and finally create the life you secretly want, one bite-sized life experiment at a time.
Whether you don’t know what you want or feel way too busy to do it...
Bite-sized life experiments are the engine that helps you build momentum with your secret dream and feel more fulfilled in 3 core phases:
Phase 1: Clarity on What You Want
We’ll find out what your new path is, together. We'll get just enough clarity on what you want to create and uncover your unique genius, decision-making style, and intuition using tools like Human Design and NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP).
From there, we'll design your first bite-sized life experiment that you can do in as little as 15 minutes, 3 times a week to make progress.
🎁 Bonus Unlocked: 5 Steps to Overcome To-Do List Overwhelm & Prioritize Your Dream Like Magic recorded workshop and illustrated step-by-step guide.
Phase 2: Capacity to Make Calm Changes
Because I know the biggest blocker to actually prioritizing your secret dream is having enough time and energy to do so, our second step is to free up MORE time and energy by leveraging behavioral psychology, nervous system regulation, and energetics.
Here, we'll build your capacity by crafting your personalized self-care system. You’ll streamline your calendar, establish supportive boundaries, install soulful rituals, and boost your energy with stress-relieving practices you can do in 3 minutes or less.
🎁 Bonus Unlocked: Calm Your Nervous System in 3 Minutes Toolkit. Includes bite-sized videos and practices to release stress fast so you can become a self-sufficient regulator.
Phase 3: Confidence to Make Lasting Progress
As you compound win after win with your first experiment, your confidence, skillset, and understanding of what works for you (and your purpose!) will naturally grow. You’ll take actions that used to exhaust you with ease, integrate your secret dream as a passion project into your daily work and life, and actually DO the action steps (even if you've struggled with consistency before).
Before you know it, you'll reach the next level of clarity and start running your next experiment. This is the system that grows with you.
🎁 Bonus Unlocked: Momentum Magic 5-day challenges to ditch overwhelm, boost energy, and build confidence with bite-sized audios and guided modern mystic rituals you can do in 10 minutes or less.
Now Dawn is "better able to recognize and celebrate my magic and say YES to experimental passion projects that bring joy into my life."
Psst: Your secret dream is VITAL to helping you become who you want to be.
Your secret dream isn’t just “something nice” to do when you magically have more time.
When you say a big bold YES to your secret dream, you unlock the vital life force energy you’ve been losing to constant notifications, school drop-off traffic jams, and figuring out what’s for dinner.
You wake up rejuvenated and clear on what really matters. Things that used to throw you into a rage or analysis paralysis now feel like passing inconveniences. Essentially, it feels easier to do life.
Imagine Your Life 90 Days From Now…
- In 2-3 weeks: You have a fresh, clear vision of what you really want, stronger work-life boundaries, more mental clarity, and a feel-good plan to experiment your way to a more fulfilled life.
- In 4-8 weeks: You enjoy 1.5 times more time freedom for self-care, your secret dream, and loved ones––without feeling guilty or like you should be checking your email. You’ve built true resilience, feeling less thrown by challenges and trusting yourself and your intuition more.
- In 3-6 months: You double or even triple your energy and confidence, delivering everything required at work with less stress. You’re calm, present, and aligned with your purpose. You’ve stepped off the wake-up-work-sleep treadmill, yet you keep getting positive reviews at work because you’re that much happier!
Just ask my client Hannah, who used our Experiment Method to move from healing her nervous system into thriving as a yoga teacher.
After focusing on recovering from chronic stress from a previous toxic work environment, an opportunity came up to teach a yoga class for free at a folk music meet-up.
That single class generated the "rocket fuel" she needed to start making her yoga business a reality. She reached out to her new job’s office facilities manager and was given a free space to teach a series of classes to her coworkers!
Or Jamie, a mom of two navigating divorce, who’s building resilience and regaining her power and sense of self, one ritual at a time.
She recently shared: "I have started to rewrite my future, I feel more present for my children, and I feel more connected to myself."
🎁 Bonus Unlocked: $50 OFF Private 1:1 Sessions Book private sessions with Emily for $50 OFF while you’re enrolled to dive deep into your Human Design chart, shift unconscious beliefs with NLP, or experience a soul retrieval when you need it.
What’s Included Inside Your Living Support System:
Inside The Compass Club™
You get direct access to me with everything you need and nothing you don’t. The Compass Club is an essentialized path and a living, breathing support system, designed to fit into your busy schedule even while we carve out more space for you.
The Compass Club is "an investment that comes back to you and helps you become who you want to be."
You also get these bonuses:
#1: Employer Reimbursement Request Template
If you’ve embraced the idea of growth, you’re probably thinking about how to afford it. We can do this on your employer's dime. Many companies offer a wellness, personal, or professional development budget to employees.
When you join, you get the exact template to hand to your manager or HR to help fund your enrollment. My Google clients usually get approval to cover 2/3 of the cost!
As Jennifer A. and Nora share: The Compass Club is "a supportive, soulful space" to "consider your dreams and how you can turn them into meaningful action."
Who this is for...
The Compass Club is perfect for the 30+ woman-identifying person working in tech, corporate, or education who is ready to build the clarity and capacity to do what lights her/them up.
If you're...
- Navigating a high-stress work environment and want the certainty of science-backed frameworks and tools to boost your wellbeing and build momentum with your secret dream, this is for you.
- "Woo-curious" (or full-on hiding in the spiritual broom closet) and are looking for an experienced guide and soulful rituals to keep exploring your mind-body-spirit connection, you’re in the right place.
- Craving a heart-centered community and judgment-free space to explore what really matters to you and what could be possible for your next career move or life after kids or divorce, we’re your people.
Inside, you’ll meet:
- Mid-career leaders in tech, health, finance, and education
- Women pursuing a secret dream or passion project
- Soon-to-be creative entrepreneurs, yoga teachers & coaches
- Moms looking to reclaim "me time" and purpose outside of parenthood
- Midlife women navigating career, relationship, or life changes
The Compass Club is not some massive membership where you get lost or never get your questions answered.
We connect live on calls and I’m often in the group WhatsApp chat, personally sharing and responding to everyone so you feel seen, heard, and supported.
Join the 10+ women changing their lives for the better now.
JOIN THE COMPASS CLUBWho is this NOT for?
If you are looking for pure productivity or basic time-management hacks or a program that demands 150% perfection, this isn't a fit.
We don't force massive, scary leaps before your nervous system is ready, and the most important focus we have is helping you feel more like the most relaxed, lit up, and aligned YOU.
It's also worth noting that if you're allergic to spirituality and not interested in being even a little bit "woo curious" as you figure out what you really want... it probably won't resonate. We often leverage astrology, Human Design, and Oracle cards in our rituals.
Don't Just Take My Word For It.
The women inside The Compass Club are breaking the old rules and building their secret dreams without hustling harder.
Here's what happens when you prioritize yourself over your to-do list:
Danièle (Busy Mom of 2 & Manager in Tech)
Danièle dreamed of pivoting into coaching and out of the tech industry. Instead of overwhelming her nervous system by quitting her job right away, she built capacity and confidence first in The Compass Club.
She ran bite-sized life experiments to coach folks pro bono and blended her new coaching skills with her manager role to mentor her direct reports. She recently won an award at work as a result of the impact she’s made!
Jennifer S. (School Therapist & Mom)
Jennifer was constantly putting others first. But The Compass Club helped her shift that.
She shared: "Putting myself and my self care first (rather than prioritizing my to do list tasks) has led to a big shift in how I feel. Now when I start the secondary activities AFTER taking time to meet my own needs, I feel so much better regulated."
She realized her self-care was way more valuable and purposeful than completing another to-do list item and it changed her family's culture! Now she prioritizes her wants and needs with less guilt and healthy boundaries.
Celina (Navigating Layoffs with Peace)
After getting laid off, Celina used the judgment-free and focused space in The Compass Club to pause her job search so she could come home to herself.
She realized she needed to "get my nervous system calmed down from all the years I gave to my employer." The practices, guidance, and community gave her the support she needed to be present in life and gear up for her next chapter from a place of calm.
Plus, she got clarity on a fun business idea she wants to pursue: luxury cat bandanas!
Get the exact system used by leaders in tech, finance, education and more to reclaim their lives:
Frequently Thought-Of Questions:
"What if I don't know what I want or don't have a secret dream yet?"
"Can I actually do my secret dream in 90 days?"
"Will starting a passion project or side hustle affect my reputation at work?"
"I’m already overwhelmed. Won't this just be one more thing on my to-do list?"
"I feel guilty taking time for myself. Is doing this selfish?"
"What happens if I fall behind or can't attend the live calls?"
"What happens once I enroll?"
"Is there a refund policy?"
"Can I ask another question?"
Like Jakeline, you can "feel more centered and organized" and pursue your calling, too.
Our "No-Perfection-Required" Policy
If you're still reading, you might be worried that you’ll be too tired to keep up, that the zillions of tasks you have will take over, or that your tendency to go all-or-nothing will cause you to break the promises you made to yourself.
Please know we do not require 150% perfection here, and 90 days to do your secret dream is just a suggestion, not a race.
I'm a real human too, and I'm not always consistent. The key is to have the self-compassion and the plan to get back into building momentum in a way that feels good –even when life gets life-y.
We don't let you fall into inertia. We provide the support, bite-sized tools, and community to help you re-align, increase your capacity, and start again with unconditional self-love.
Still have questions?
Let’s make sure this is a fit. Email me directly at [email protected] and I'll personally help you figure out if The Compass Club is the right next step for you. No pushy sales tactics, just an honest back-and-forth conversation.
Life is too short NOT to honor the wish your heart whispers in the middle of the night.
