When Lisa Hammett sat down with Canvas Rebel, she didn’t lead with the highlight reel. She led with the truth.
For 26 years, Lisa climbed the ladder in corporate retail — and slowly burned out. The cost wasn’t just exhaustion. It was 65 pounds of weight gain, her health, her emotional wellbeing, and strain on her marriage. From the outside, she was succeeding. On the inside, she was running on empty.
What came next changed everything. Lisa rebuilt her health, lost the weight, and discovered the power of mental fitness — the practice that would become her life’s work. Today she’s a Certified Positive Intelligence (PQ) Coach, TEDx speaker, and best-selling author, helping HR and healthcare leaders manage stress and prevent the burnout she lived through.
In this conversation, Lisa shares the full arc of that journey — including the TEDx moment when her microphone cut out ten seconds into her talk, and how the very mental fitness practices she was there to teach kept her calm enough to start over and finish strong.
Burnout wasn’t the end of her story. It was the beginning of a better one.
