Case Study: From overwhelmed to CEO mode – how Zahrah built a business that fit her life
Before: exhausted, stuck, and running on empty
When Zahrah and her business partner decided to launch a private tutoring agency, she was excited about the opportunity. She had years of experience as a tutor and a solid business background—but she also had two young children, one with severe allergies (which meant preparing meals from scratch), and another who barely slept through the night.
Her reality?
Unpredictable scraps of time to work, making planning nearly impossible.
Complete exhaustion from sleepless nights.
A brilliant business idea, but no time or structure to make it happen.
After two years of struggling to move forward, her business partner was ready to walk away. If Zahrah didn’t figure out how to make this work, she was going to lose the opportunity altogether.
That’s when she reached out to me.
The work: building a business that flexed with her life
Zahrah joined my Build a Business That Fits Your Life coaching program (before it even had a name!). Over six months, we worked together to build a business strategy that worked with her reality, not against it.
Here’s how we made it happen:
We tackled time & childcare first. Zahrah trialed home-based childcare providers and started using a meal prep service to ease the mental load.
We built a flexible ‘A & B day’ system. Instead of planning based on an ideal schedule, she had a bare minimum plan for low-energy days and a higher-capacity plan for when she had more time.
We focused on maximising her small pockets of time. Since her daughter’s sleep patterns weren’t changing in the foreseeable, we created quick, high-impact tasks she could do in short bursts.
The results: from chaos to clarity
The tutoring agency launched in just four months of working together!
Zahrah went from feeling completely overwhelmed to fully in control of her business and life.
She trialled different support systems and stopped feeling like she had to do everything alone.
She finally had a clear, flexible plan to move her business forward—without sacrificing her family time.
Her words?
"Working with Saloni, I was able to explore and try out a range of alternative means to get the support I needed. I was also able to explore some underlying mental barriers that were holding me back, and thanks to Saloni, I was finally able to progress in a way that worked well for my family."
Zahrah started this journey exhausted, overwhelmed, and stuck. But once she stopped second-guessing herself and built a business that worked with her life, everything changed, her tutoring agency launched, her confidence grew, and she finally felt in control.
Feeling stuck and ready for support? You don’t have to figure this out alone. My Build Your Business Around Your Life coaching program is designed to help solopreneurs like you create a business that works with your life, not one you have to force yourself into.
Contact me to chat about how we can make this happen for you.
