About Us

Hi. We Need to Talk About Burnout (and Candles).

Founded by a Recovering Corporate Elder Millennial Who Finally Snapped

So here's the thing: I spent 15 years climbing the corporate ladder in sensible heels and business casual, answering emails at 11 PM, and saying "circle back" in meetings like it was a real sentence. I had the very maxed out credit card, the standing desk, the reusable water bottle with motivational time markers. I was winning at adulting.

Except I was also having a mild breakdown every Sunday at 6 PM, subsisting on what I generously called "girl dinner" (crackers + cheese + denial), and fantasizing about those mythical "everything showers" I kept seeing on TikTok but never had time for.

That's when it clicked.

We can't always control the chaos. We can't manifest away our overflowing inboxes or toxic work cultures. We definitely can't add more hours to the day for actual self-care. But we can create little moments that feel like taking our lives back.

Enter: These Candles

I started making candles in my dining room (because apparently that's what elder millennials do when they're having a crisis, we craft). But instead of calling them "Serenity Breeze" or whatever, I named them after the actual moments we're all living through. The Sunday Scaries. The Everything Shower we'll never have time for. The Girl Dinner we're eating without shame.

Because here's what I learned after burning out spectacularly: we don't need more productivity hacks or morning routines that start at 5 AM. We need permission to be human. We need someone to say "eating cheese over the sink is valid" and "you're allowed to dread Monday."

We need candles that get it.

What We're About

These aren't just candles—they're tiny acts of rebellion against the hustle culture that broke us. They're permission slips to take 20 minutes for yourself. They're inside jokes with yourself about the beautiful chaos of being a professional woman in your late twenties, thirties, or forties who's figured out some things (just not all of them).

Every candle is:

• Hand-poured (by me and my small team of fellow burnout survivors)
• Made with natural soy wax (because we're toxic enough about our screen time)
• Packaged with sass (because life's too short for boring labels)

A Note from the Founder

I'm not a wellness guru. I don't have morning routines or gratitude journals. I still answer emails at weird hours and sometimes my "everything shower" is dry shampoo and a prayer.

But I do know this: we're all just trying to survive with our sanity (mostly) intact. And if a candle that smells like coffee cake and validates your Sunday dread helps even a little? That's enough.

Thanks for being here. Thanks for choosing yourself, even in small ways.

Sam 
Founder, Chief Burnout Officer & Professional Girl Dinner Enthusiast