Healing the Success Wound with Brooke Taylor & Daisy Crosswell {Mill Valley, CA}
Hosted by The Hivery | Open to All
Tuesday, June 23 | 6:30 – 8:30 PM
475 Miller Ave, Suite A, Mill Valley, CA
A Fireside Conversation on Ambition, Identity, and the Hidden Cost of Achievement
In conversation with Alexandra “Daisy” Crosswell, PhD and Brooke Taylor, author of Healing the Success Wound
Join us for an intimate and thought-provoking evening exploring the emotional, psychological, and physiological cost of modern achievement culture.
For many high-achieving women, success has come through striving, proving, pushing through, and holding it all together. But beneath outward accomplishment, many feel exhausted, disconnected, overextended, or uncertain about how to sustain this pace of life and still care for themselves.
In this fireside conversation, author Brooke Taylor and stress scientist Alexandra “Daisy” Crosswell, PhD will explore the deeper patterns underneath achievement, including identity, worth, stress physiology, motherhood, leadership, and our culture's pressure to constantly perform.
Together, they will dive into:
The hidden emotional dynamics that drive overfunctioning and chronic striving
Why achievement can stop feeling meaningful, even when life looks successful from the outside
The relationship between stress, identity, ambition, and nervous system states
How women can pursue meaningful work and leadership without operating in chronic overdrive
What sustainable success and human capacity can look like instead
Come ready for an evening of honest conversation, reflection, insight, and connection with other women navigating similar questions around work, well-being, family, leadership, and personal evolution.
The evening will include:
A live fireside conversation with Brooke and Daisy
Audience Q&A
Books available for purchase and signing
Wine, light bites, and community connection
Everyone is welcome at this event.
$35 Hivery Members | $45 Non-Members
Hivery members, purchase your discounted ticket here
Brooke Taylor is a globally recognized transformational career coach, keynote speaker, and the leading authority on a phenomenon she pioneered known as the “Success Wound™.” With a career that began in the high-pressure hallways of Silicon Valley, Brooke spent years as a Marketing Lead at Google.
Today, Brooke is the secret weapon for executive women at the world’s most influential firms, including Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Uber, Salesforce, Coinbase, and Meta. She has helped over 5,000 leaders decouple their self-worth from their achievements, allowing them to trade chronic burnout and workplace anxiety for a career rooted in deep fulfillment and sustainable power.
Alexandra “Daisy” Crosswell, PhD is a former UCSF professor and NIH-funded stress scientist who now advises leaders and organizations on stress, human capacity, and sustainable performance. Drawing from research in psychology, physiology, and neuroscience, her work explores how the constant pressure of modern life shapes our bodies, decision-making, relationships, leadership, and family life.
She now gives keynote talks to companies on navigating pressure and performance in demanding environments, and is the founder of CEO of Motherhood, which guides corporate women to create more sustainable ways to navigate career and family life while raising young children.