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Created and owned by Itzel Yagual When Energy Feels Like It’s Missing We often talk about time management as if it were the golden solution. Get the right planner, block your hours, wake up at 5 AM, and you’ll finally be on top of it all. But what if the problem was never your time? For many women leaders, especially neurodivergent and culturally complex women, the real drain is capacity debt™ . This isn’t about forgetting tasks or failing to organize. It’s about running on a

Created and owned by Itzel Yagual The Real Cost of Capacity Debt™ in Leadership Organizations lose talented women every day — not because we lack ambition, but because we’re drowning in capacity debt ™. What is capacity debt ™ ?  It’s the invisible overload that builds up when roles stack too high. Caregiver. Professional. Culture keeper. Survival-mode strategist. For neurodivergent and culturally complex women, capacity debt™ looks like carrying five jobs in one body while t

Capacity Debt™: Why Women Leaders Keep Paying Invisible Bills Opening Insight Living in-between is not confusion. It’s not dilution. It’s not brokenness.It ’s adaptive navigation — a way of moving that builds identity fluency where others only see misfit. For neurodivergent, culturally complex women, it’s the unseen labor of translating yourself across contexts while protecting your wholeness. Too often, that labor is dismissed as inconsistency or over-sensitivity. But in rea

Created and owned by Itzel Yagual Opening Insight Leadership doesn’t always collapse loudly. Sometimes it pauses quietly in the middle of a project, in a half-written email, or while staring blankly at a to-do list that once felt purposeful. For neurodivergent women, especially those carrying multiple roles and navigating workplace misfit, that pause is often mislabeled as inconsistency or a lack of motivation. But in industrial-organizational psychology, we understand diseng