The three careers
Two of these were guesses.
Mara changed direction twice without a method and once with one. The gap between those two experiences — years of drift, then six weeks of evidence — is the whole reason Daybreak exists.
2008 — 2014
The lawyer
Six years of corporate law, chosen at 19 by a teenager who no longer existed. Good at it. The first fog took three years to name.
2014 — 2019
The PM
Useful years — Mara learned to run discovery on products, then realized nobody runs discovery on their own life.
2019 — today
The coach
The decision that finally used a method: evidence, criteria, a cheap trial, a written commitment. That method, refined over 1,100 client hours, became Daybreak.
The numbers
Three principles
One decision, built like a case.
Principle 01
Evidence over vibes.
Most advice waits for passion to strike. Daybreak mines ten years of your own record — absorption, trust, money, repeat requests — and lets the data argue. The feeling arrives after the verdict. It always does.
Principle 02
Rule out to rule in.
Deciding what's out is half of deciding what's in. Kill criteria turn an impossible ranking problem into simple pass/fail checks — and most maps of twelve collapse to two in one sitting.
Principle 03
Test with a weekend, not a resignation.
Every finalist earns one cheap, real-world trial — a shadow day, a tiny gig, a single client. Evidence beats imagination, and a Saturday costs less than a leap.
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