You Came In Strong.
You'll Leave Resilient.
There's a difference. Strength is holding it together. Resilience is knowing you'll be okay even when things fall apart — because you finally have the tools to meet the moment. The Leadership Code is the emotional toolkit built by a founder who's lived the pressure and a clinician who treats it, made for the women actually doing the leading.
The Problem
You're doing well. And you're running on empty.
You're the one everyone turns to for answers you don't always have. You hold it together for the team, the investors, the family, the version of you that's supposed to have it figured out by now. And then it's 2 a.m. and you're replaying a conversation, doing the math on everything that could fall apart if you slow down for even a second.
Here's what no one tells you: you were handed the pressure of leadership and almost none of the tools for holding it. Be strong. Be decisive. Be composed. And then — good luck with the anxiety, the second-guessing, the quiet fear underneath it all.
That's not a personal failing. It's a gap. And it's the gap we built The Leadership Code to close.
You shouldn't have to choose between the mission and yourself.
What It Is
A toolkit you do — not another book you'll never finish.
The Leadership Code takes the real, evidence-based tools that help people steady themselves under pressure — the ones grounded in CBT, DBT, and mindfulness — and puts them in a format a leader can actually use. Real exercises with space to write and work. Reset tools for the moment your nervous system is running the show. Scripts for the conversations you dread. A decision filter for the choices that come loaded with guilt.
It's part psychology, part field guide. Built to be written in, not shelved. Because the doing is where the change happens.
Why This is Different
Look at what a woman leader has to choose from today, and you'll see the problem:
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Mostly written by and for men. Long on strategy, silent on the inner experience of leading.
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High on motivation, low on substance. "Just reframe it" — without ever teaching you how.
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Powerful, but rarely built for the specific pressures of leadership, and not always there on the timeline a founder actually lives.
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bubble baths and affirmations that don't touch the real weight of holding a company or a team.
Nobody had put the founder's lived reality and the clinician's toolkit in the same place, built specifically for women who lead.
So we did.
What you get here that you won't find anywhere else:
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Built by a founder + a clinician.
Build systems that scale without losing the magic.
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Made for women who lead, specifically.
Not adapted from generic advice. Designed for this pressure from the ground up.
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Tools you do, not a book you read.
Real exercises with space to work. The doing is the point.
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Evidence-based, but human.
Grounded in CBT, DBT, and mindfulness — delivered like a conversation with a wise friend, not a textbook.
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Honest, not saccharine.
We name the hard things directly. No toxic positivity. No "good vibes only."
Who It’s For
This is for you if you lead — and privately carry more than anyone sees.
Founders and startup CEOs. Senior executives. Agency and practice owners. Ambitious, high-functioning, respected on the outside. You're not looking for therapy or a pep talk. You want real tools that fit a real leader's life.
If you've ever thought "I'm doing well and I'm exhausted. I hold it together for everyone else. I don't have time to fall apart — and I don't want to be told to meditate. I want something that actually works" — you're exactly who we made this for.
The Transformation
(The Promise)
We're not here to help you push harder. We're here to help you lead without abandoning yourself in the process.
Resilience isn't a personality trait you're born with, or a luxury you earn once you've "made it." It's a skill set. It can be taught. And once you have it, the weight doesn't disappear — but you stop carrying it alone, and you stop paying for it with your health.
Strong doesn't have to mean alone.
The Leadership Code works because it sits at an intersection almost no one else occupies: a founder who has actually lived the pressure, and a clinician who has spent a decade treating it.
Sarah makes it real. Maddy makes it work. One of us has been in the fire; one of us knows the science of getting through it.
Neither of us could have built this alone — and that's exactly why women trust it.
Sarah Larson Levey
FOUNDER
Sarah knows the weight of leadership from the inside. She built Y7 Studio from a single basement studio into a national fitness brand — and from the outside, it looked like a clean success story. From the inside, it was constant questioning and investor conversations and reorgs and a pandemic and the particular loneliness of being the person everyone turns to for answers she didn't yet have.
What got her through wasn't hustle. It was learning — slowly, and often the hard way — how to stay grounded when everything was on fire. The Leadership Code is the thing she wishes someone had handed her years earlier, so the next woman doesn't have to learn it all in the dark.
Sarah Larson Levey is the founder and former CEO of Y7 Studio, who built a national brand from a basement - and learned, the hard way, how to lead without losing herself.
Dr. Maddy Ellberger, LCSW, PhD
FOUNDER
Maddy knows that weight from the other side of the room. For over a decade, she's been the person clients trust with their most overwhelmed moments — and she kept noticing the same thing: how many of the most capable, high-functioning women were quietly struggling under pressures no one around them could see.
Grounded in evidence-based practice, she has the tools that work. What she wanted was to get them to more women before the breaking point, not after. A licensed clinical therapist and founder of Downtown Behavioral Wellness, she's the voice behind the Are We Okay podcast and she's the one who makes sure every tool in The Leadership Code is clinically sound before it reaches you.
Dr. Maddy Ellberger, LCSW, is a clinician who has spent over 11 years treating the exact pressures women in leadership carry — and decided to build the tools beyond the therapy room.
Get The Tools You Were Never Handed.
The next hard moment is coming. The 2 a.m. spiral, the impossible decision, the meeting that leaves you shaking in the parking lot. You can meet it the way you always have — or you can meet it with a toolkit built exactly for this.