Hi, nice to meet you!
I'm Mirian Maffazioli. I rebuilt my life after The High-Functioning Collapse destroyed my career and nearly my marriage. Now I help Conscious Outliers redesign the invisible infrastructure that is breaking them, before it's too late
Why my approach works
Most burnout solutions target one system: your calendar, your therapy sessions, or your nervous system in isolation.
I spent 26 years in corporate teams: from software developer to Agile Coach and I watched high performers collapse when structure alone wasn't enough.
I learned this the hard way: When your operational infrastructure is chaos, your somatic system is in survival mode, and your relational patterns are unconsciously rebuilding the collapse. So if you optimize one piece only… it won't hold.
That's why I work with all three systems simultaneously:
OPERATIONAL. The invisible infrastructure of your life (tasks, decisions, invisible labor).
SOMATIC. Your body's stress response and nervous system regulation.
RELATIONAL. The survival patterns you inherited (perfectionism, over-functioning, self-reliance)
Integration is the only thing that holds. Not coaching. Not therapy. Not productivity hacks. All three, redesigned together.
I'm certified in Project Management, Flow/Lean/Kanban, Agile Coaching, Systemic Therapies, Integrative Health Coaching, and Neuro-Associative Conditioning—because this work requires seeing across domains most people treat as separate.
I'm an Italian descendant born in Brazil, now living in Berlin for the past decade. For most of my life, I operated from an unspoken rule we all learn in childhood: 'If I perform, I belong. If I achieve, I matter. If I succeed, I will be safe.'
That survival strategy took me to the top of my career as an Agile Coach, teams of 50+ people at DELL, Microsoft and King. Externally? I looked unstoppable (most of the time). Internally? I was collapsing.
2023: My manager sidelined me, calling Agile Coaches 'backpacks' while another discipline was the 'real work.' I was building a house in a language I didn't speak. Kindergarten was closing at the last minute. I was cancelling work constantly. I looked 'high-functioning.' I was in a functional freeze.
2024: I was laid off. Zero salary. Rock bottom. To make things trickier instead of filling for the next corporate role, I decided to create a business.
But here's what's wild: My marriage got BETTER. My life got clearer. Why? Because I stopped performing. I stopped managing the collapse. I used my 26 years as an Agilist to redesign the invisible infrastructure of my life: Operational, Somatic, Relational.
I rebuilt myself. And now I help other Conscious Outliers do the same, before collapse forces them to.
Built on experience and vulnerability
My Mission
To help Conscious Outliers recognize and reverse The High-Functioning Collapse.
before diagnosis…
before breakdown…
before it's too late.
Because the world doesn’t need more hustle. It needs more Conscious Outliers who choose the uncommon paths to reach extraordinary results.
My Drive
I want to be a role model for my daughter, my clients, and my community.
Showing up imperfect and embracing the state of “good enough to move ahead”.
With self-awareness and courageous action, we can set boundaries, reject the autopilot burnout culture driven by the silent pandemics of High Functioning; and build clarity-driven lives and careers.
