Mindfully Successful: Unlock the Power of Your Brain, Body, and Breath to Elevate Your Leadership

“This book is the ultimate toolbox for tapping into the power of your brain, body, and breath to go from successfully exhausted to mindfully successful.” —MEL ROBBINS, New York Times bestselling author and host of The Mel Robbins Podcast

Finalist in Leadership for the National Indie Excellence Award

You're succeeding by every external measure: delivering results, hitting the metrics, doing all the things you're supposed to do. And somewhere in the middle of all of it, you find yourself running on fumes. Losing the thread of how to be human under pressure.

The leaders leaving the biggest trail of damage behind them almost never do so intentionally. They're depleted. Running on patterns that stopped serving them years ago. And they've never been given anything better to replace them with.

That's not a character problem. It's a capacity problem.

And it has a solution.

Brain. Body. Breath. Not three separate things — one system. And when leaders learn to use all three, not just the brain, not just the thinking, everything changes.

Mindfully Successful gives you that. Not mindfulness as a retreat from your work, but as the operating system that makes you sharper, steadier, and more effective in the middle of it.

With Mindfully Successful you will:

• Cut through the overthinking and self-doubt that slows your decisions under pressure

• Replace the patterns driving unproductive behavior with ones that actually work

• Perform at your best without depleting yourself or the people around you

• Regulate your nervous system so you lead from clarity, not reaction

• Regain energy, improve focus, and move through high-stakes demands with less friction

 

Executive coach Margo Boster built this framework from 25 years inside high-stakes technology and government environments — then spent the next chapter studying why it works. Her training includes coach training from Georgetown University, an Executive Certificate in Neuroleadership from the NeuroLeadership Institute, and Harvard Medical School's program in The Science of Leadership: The Brain, Resilience, and Mindfulness. She has worked with Fortune 500 executives, US military generals, university administration, and federal senior leaders. Hundreds of them have used this framework to go from successfully exhausted to mindfully successful — performing at their best without leaving wreckage in their wake.

Margo Boster is an executive and leadership coach and yoga teacher with more than twenty-five years of rich experience in diverse senior leadership roles in information technology across private sector companies and governmental organizations. She has spent the last fifteen years as an executive and leadership coach, supporting leaders, including CEOs, US military generals, and other senior executives, to reach their peak potential.

Margo holds the prestigious Master Certified Coach (MCC) credential from the International Coaching Federation (ICF). She further contributes to the coaching community as an ICF Mentor Coach and Assessor, supporting other coaches in enhancing their coaching skills. She is also an adjunct faculty member in Georgetown University’s Coaching Program, a facilitator and mentor coach at Flatter Leadership Academy, and a guest lecturer in Arizona State University’s graduate program for Environmental Leadership and Communication.

Drawing on extensive studies of psychology, anatomy, philosophy, neuropsychology, and adult development, Margo has crafted a coaching philosophy that integrates the latest insights from these fields with her decades of leadership experience. Her approach is enriched by over three hundred hours of training as a certified yoga teacher, blending the wisdom of the mind-body connection with modern leadership principles.