Marissa Brassfield

Marissa Brassfield

Los Angeles
Trusted advisor, simplifier, and loving catalyst of your biggest and best initiatives. Discovering how to stretch time, maximize ease, and optimize work-life alignment.
Feb 04

Why Your Calendar Needs an Energy Strategy, Not Just a Time Strategy

You had 14 meetings yesterday, responded to 83 Slack messages, and felt busy every single minute. But when someone asks what you actually accomplished, you have to think about it. Here's why your calendar needs an energy strategy.
8 min read
Feb 03

The question nobody asks at thresholds

What to ask instead of β€œwhat’s next?”
4 min read
Jan 30

20 years of pattern recognition

Your work of greatest value is always hidden in plain sight.
2 min read
Jan 27

The difference between change and evolution

Here's how to tell which you're in.
2 min read
Jan 23

Twenty years of watching people cross.

The pattern I finally recognized.
2 min read
Jan 20

The Real Cost of Saying Yes: Why Subtraction Creates More Than Addition Ever Will

Every yes carries an invisible no. The pillar guide to strategic elimination: the resentment audit, the honor test, and what multiplication by subtraction makes room for.
9 min read
Jan 20

Building Business Around Life (Not Life Around Business)

I was pumping breastmilk on an all-day strategy session. That's when everything changed. Stop fitting life into work's leftovers. Here's how I did it.
8 min read
Jan 20

When You've Outgrown the Container: Why Growth Means Letting Go

Sometimes the container that got you here is holding you back. You know the feeling. A situation that used to energize you now leaves you drained.
9 min read
Jan 20

Energy Audit vs Time Management: Why Your Calendar Is Lying to You

Time management assumes you're a machine. Energy auditing recognizes you're human.
9 min read
Jan 20

The Vision-Execution Gap: Why Your Body Knows Before Your Mind Does

Your body has been trying to tell you for months that something fundamental isn't working.
8 min read
Jan 20

Body Wisdom as Business Data: Your Sophisticated Early Warning System

Your body has been sending you memos for months. What if they're actually sophisticated business intelligence you've been trained to ignore?
11 min read
Jan 16

5 things I refuse to do

as a mom who got tired of losing herself
1 min read