Lead from rest. Live spaciously. Flourish without sacrificing your health.
The Rested CEO is a 4-month incubator created to help Black women in corporate and entrepreneurship lead from rest so success stops costing them their health.
You'll move from calendar chaos and survival-driven success into rest-centered rhythms that restore your energy and protect your capacity, the proof that success was never supposed to cost you this much.
This work is grounded in faith as much as it is in strategy. Rest isn't something you have to earn permission for, it's something you were always meant to receive. That belief runs underneath everything here, whether or not faith is a word you'd use for it yourself.
A small, vetted circle of 6 women. No pressure — start with a conversation.
"I'm relearning how to rest and I don't think I'm alone in that. This is what's so desperately missing and Malica is offering it. I'll be singing her praises every chance I get."
— Dr. Jylla Moore Tearte, host of Whispers Behind the Words
The question you came here with
That's a fair thought. Whatever you've been doing has worked. You have the title, the track record, the proof.
But here's what "this far" doesn't show you: the cost that hasn't come due yet. The body sends warnings long before it sends a bill — a sleep debt you've stopped noticing, a health screening you keep meaning to schedule, a version of yourself at home that's smaller than the one at work. "I've made it this far" is true. It's just not the same as "this is sustainable for the next ten years."
And here's the part almost no one says out loud: the higher you climb, the more this pattern costs you — not less. What got you promoted won't get you through the next level without a different foundation underneath it.
Rest isn't the thing that stops your momentum. It's what makes it possible to keep climbing without your body sending you the bill first.
This isn't about stopping. It's about not finding out the hard way what "this far" was actually costing you.
Start here
Burnout sounds like the extreme — like someone who's already collapsed. So you don't see yourself in it. You're still performing. Still delivering. Still in control. But "just tired" has been your answer for a while now. See if any of this is yours:
The double life
You've been managing the symptoms. The Rested CEO goes after the system underneath them.
Why Malica
Former Service Design Leader, Accenture Song · Former Booz Allen Hamilton · Certified Rested Path Guide · Author, Rest Is The Way
I'm not a rest coach who read about burnout, I lived it. For over 14 years, I led service design and research work inside places like Accenture Song, Lockheed Martin, and Booz Allen Hamilton, climbing from the projects to the boardroom: awards, promotions, accolades, and nights and weekends spent running on empty.
Then, at a routine physical, my doctor delivered the news: two decimal points from type 2 diabetes, thirty pounds overweight. From the outside, I'd made it. On the inside, I was breaking down. The double life had a price, and my body was quietly paying it.
It took seven more years and a layoff, before I finally took rest seriously. What got me there wasn't willpower. It was faith, a quiet trust that I didn't have to hold everything together alone to be worthy of rest.
I'm not teaching you to slow down from the outside. I rebuilt my own system from the inside first, because I had to.
"If you've ever won in public but got a diagnosis in private, I built this for you."
Today, I help Black women in corporate and entrepreneurship stop living that double life and rebuild their health, identity, and leadership around rest.
How it works
Eight weeks back-to-back would be one more thing crushing you. So this is 4 months, with breathing room built in — the program practices what it teaches.
We meet every other week. The weeks between are yours — for the work, for your accountability partner, for actually living it.
Paired with accountability partners. Every woman in the room is known before she walks in so the space stays sacred and safe.
Sessions are recorded and you can send questions in advance. The only ask: commit to showing up for yourself.
The 4-month arc
This isn't rest tips. It's a guided redesign — and you'll know exactly what's shifting and when.
Your calendar becomes the mirror. We surface your energy leaks, stress triggers, and first rest block — and "I'm just too busy" meets what's actually on the page.
You see exactly where your exhaustion has been living — and name it without flinching.
Name your burnout style and build a personal early-warning system from fatigue, cravings, and brain fog.
You read your own signals instead of pushing past them.
Reframe cravings, fatigue, low energy — and the sugar, caffeine, and overwork you reach for — as communication, not failure.
Your body becomes a messenger, and your cravings become messages you can answer.
Trace where busyness became proof of worth — the guilt, the shame in stillness, the fear of falling behind.
You begin to separate your worth from your work.
Meet the resistance that surfaces the moment you try to rest — then dissolve it: design recurring rest into your calendar and learn how to actually drop into it, move first, then settle.
A rest system that holds — and you know how to enter it.
Wherever you are in your faith, we anchor a practice of sacred time, space that isn't for producing, isn't for proving anything, just for being met.
You shift from striving to receiving.
Protect the rhythm at work and home as an act of faith — with a protocol for the moments that used to pull you back under.
Boundaries and a plan that hold under pressure.
Weave it all into how you lead your life, your team, and your business.
You lead from restoration, not depletion — with a system that never requires self-abandonment.
An honest filter
If you just nodded through more than two of those — you already know.
Investment
Two ways in. One intimate, intentionally designed experience.
The full 4-month transformation, in community.
$2,500
4 monthsor 3 payments of $850
Payment plans available · Inaugural cohort pricing
Everything in the group, plus private one-on-one.
$3,500
4 monthsor 3 payments of $1,200
Payment plans available · Inaugural cohort pricing
Prefer fully private? Ask about 1:1 coaching on your call.
Before you talk yourself out of it
Then this is exactly who it's for. Biweekly, not weekly. Recorded, so nothing's lost if life happens. Send your questions ahead if you can't make it live. This isn't one more thing on the calendar — it's the thing that makes the rest of the calendar work.
The value
The next cohort
Bring your biggest problem right now, the one you're not saying out loud to anyone else. We'll get clear on it together, and see what's actually needed. If that's this program, you'll know. If it's not, I'll tell you that too.
If Week 1 doesn't give you real clarity on where your exhaustion has been living, we'll talk. This is built to work from the first session, not the eighth. I'm not interested in you paying for something that doesn't land.
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