Sunshine Theory exists because these problems aren't strategy problems. They're architecture problems.
I didn't arrive at this work through research. I arrived through my own reckoning — years of operating at the highest levels of Google, managing relationships with some of the world's largest brands, delivering results I was proud of. And then a cancer diagnosis stopped me. I was pregnant with my third child, four months out from a clean mammogram, and my first instinct — before fear, before anything — was to keep working.
In the forced pause that followed, I began to see what I had been doing to myself. The absence of graze. The elimination of move. A life built without the conditions that make sustained performance possible.
What I rebuilt wasn't just my own health. It was an entirely different relationship to how work happens — and a framework I now bring to leaders who are still inside the architecture I had to leave before I could understand it.