About Sustainable Cadences
Hi, I’m Brionna and I’m the creator of Sustainable Cadences.
My rebellion against artificial timing began in college, when I chose walking as my primary mode of transportation instead of biking frantically across campus. It’s not that I couldn’t bike, it’s just that biking around campus seemed stressful to me and people always seemed to be racing to their destination.
Something in me needed to move slower, so I did. I walked everywhere. To classes, to practice, to the library – everywhere.
When I started working as a corporate lawyer many years later, I lost track of my need to move slower. It was the first time I wasn’t living in a walkable city as an adult. I had to drive everywhere and battle Los Angeles traffic twice daily. Add eighty-hour work weeks to that and my life started to revolve around rushing. Rushing to stay on other people’s timelines: the partners at my firm, the clients of the firm, etc. And in between meeting their needs and demands, I’d squeeze in something for myself like getting in a workout and eating a meal (occasionally not in front of a computer screen). I didn’t walk as much anymore, but when I did it was at a treadmill desk in my office just to get steps in while I was on conference call.
Nothing about my life was slow or on my terms and as a result, I lost track of myself – my wants, my needs, and my rhythm. So it’s no wonder that I eventually quit to take a sabbatical to re-gather myself. When I finally quit from exhaustion, the first thing I rediscovered was walking—two hours daily along Venice Beach. The slowness brought back my creativity, my love for cooking, my ability to write, and my voracious appetite for reading.
After years of masking undiagnosed ADHD, I quit the corporate world altogether and became an entrepreneur–partly out of desire and partly out of necessity. Something about the pace of the corporate world and I didn’t mix and I had no interest in trying to force oil and water to mingle.
So I became an entrepreneur, but the pressure to rush remained. Everyone preached that you had to hustle 24/7 to build a successful business. And this sort of hit me sideways in the back of the head. I had just come from a world where you had to work constantly to be successful only to find myself in a different version of that same world.
The old rebel in me outright rejected hustling and busyness as prerequisites to successful entrepreneurship. I became an entrepreneur to get my time back and to have space and permission to honor my unique needs throughout the days, weeks, months, and years.
But in rejecting that status quo, I found myself needing a structure in which to craft my life as a neurodivergent business owner. I searched online and found productivity hack after productivity hack and tons about meditating every morning, but nothing about what it looked like to structure your life and work outside of capitalism’s 9 to 5 paradigm.
So I set out to create one. I turned to astrology, particularly the moon phases, and for 18 months, I tracked how the moon's position influenced my energy, creativity, and motivation. I documented everything—from my work drive during Capricorn moons to my need to rest during Virgo moons.
The results defied conventional wisdom. Operating on moon time, I found myself thinking of and launching programs on the same day with ease. Moving at my own pace created space for better ideas and more effective execution.
What I Believe
Time isn't linear, and neither is progress.
Your natural rhythm is your competitive advantage.
And if you're confused about how to spend and structure your time, that's a natural response to an unnatural system.
Structure emerges through flow, not force.
What I Do in This Space
I document my ongoing experiment of building a thriving business by working with the different astrological cycles and honoring my natural cadences.
You won’t find me sharing about the perfect productivity system or becoming a better hustler in this space.
You will see me sharing about what it looks and feels like to reconnect with your innate timing and build structures that support your unique way of moving through life and work.
Through transparent documentation of my journey—including the messy parts, the failures, and the constant adjustments—I'm creating space for others to discover their natural way of being.
Join the Journey
If you're a neurodivergent entrepreneur tired of forcing yourself into neurotypical time structures, or if you've always suspected there's a better way to run a business than constant hustle, you're in the right place.
I share my real-time experiments with Sustainable Cadences through:
- Monthly moon cycle documentation
- Weekly rhythm experiments
- Real-time business building updates
- Personal practice insights
- Systems and methodology breakdowns
There are no quick fixes or guaranteed solutions here. Just honest documentation of what happens when one entrepreneur decides to trust her natural rhythm and build a business that honors it.
If you want to explore what it is to trust yours, I invite you to stay for a while.
-Brionna