I have been a Corporate Exec for 15 Years. Here’s What I Wish I’d Known.

I know what it feels like to run a high stakes operation on stress and willpower and the stubborn conviction that if you just stay disciplined enough, you’ll eventually feel in control. I spent 15 years in corporate tech doing exactly that. I was good at it. I was also slowly paying a price I didn’t fully understand until my body started sending me invoices I couldn’t ignore.

I wasn’t in crisis. I wasn’t falling apart. I was high functioning, well compensated, and increasingly hollow in ways that were hard to name and harder to admit. The success was real. The disconnection was also real. And nobody in my professional world had a framework for addressing both at once.

What I Found When I Started Looking

My path to breathwork wasn’t linear and it wasn’t convenient. I came to it the way most high achievers come to anything that challenges their worldview, reluctantly, after everything else stopped working well enough.

What I found was a practice that worked the way nothing else had. Not because it was magical, but because it was physiological. It worked at the level where the problem actually lived: in the body, in the nervous system, in the accumulated years of stress that no amount of strategy sessions or executive coaching had been able to touch.

And then I kept going. I trained as an accredited Breathwork Facilitator (GBPA coming soon baby…). I became a Holy Fire Reiki Master, a lineage that works with energy at a depth that complements breathwork in ways I find profound and consistently effective. I studied the science: CO2 tolerance, HRV, the Bohr effect, the polyvagal theory, the neuroscience of trauma and stress storage. Because I needed to understand why it worked, not just that it did.

Why My Corporate Background Is the Point

When a founder sits across from me, or appears on my screen, I’m not meeting them as a wellness practitioner looking in from the outside. I’m meeting them as someone who has navigated the same world they’re navigating. I understand the board dynamics. I know the 11pm decision making. I’ve felt the particular loneliness of being the person everyone else in the room is looking to for certainty, while privately wondering if you’re making the right call.

That context changes the work. I don’t ask my clients to become different kinds of people. I help them access a version of themselves that’s more sustainable, more present, and frankly more effective, one that their nervous system has been making available to them all along, if only it weren’t carrying the weight of years of unresolved pressure.

“The most successful leaders I work with come to me because they’re smart enough to recognize that what got them here isn’t going to get them to the next level, and that the upgrade they need isn’t strategic. It’s physiological.”

What I Do and Who I Work With

I’m Kikky George, High Performance Breathwork Strategist, Holy Fire Reiki Master, and meditation facilitator based in the Dallas Fort Worth area. I work with founders, CEOs, and executives who are serious about their performance and serious about not destroying themselves to sustain it.

My sessions combine high performance breathwork, Reiki energy work, and somatic nervous system practices in a way that is tailored to where you are and what your body needs. The results my clients report include better sleep within weeks, measurably improved HRV, a significant reduction in reactive decision-making, and, perhaps most importantly, the return of a quality of presence and enjoyment that chronic stress had quietly been eroding for years.

If you’re in Dallas Fort Worth, I work with private clients in Dallas, Plano and Frisco and see people by appointment. Virtual sessions are available for clients outside DFW.