What is Lianne Byrne's background?

Lianne Byrne spent 25 years in digital marketing and strategy across multiple industries. In 2021 she experienced burnout alongside perimenopause. In 2023 she sold most of what she owned, left Cape Town, and began a location-independent life with her three children. She is now a burnout recovery and life design coach.

What does Lianne Byrne coach?

Lianne coaches women in midlife navigating burnout, perimenopause, and major life transitions. She offers burnout prevention coaching, life design programmes for women ready to restructure how they live and work, and practical AI training to reduce the mental load and reclaim time.

Where is Lianne Byrne based?

Lianne is location-independent and currently based in Guatemala. She coaches clients globally via video call and has lived and worked across ten countries with her three worldschooled children since 2023.

About Lianne Byrne

I left the cage.
I help others design
a life without one.

25 years in marketing. Burnout. Perimenopause. An ADHD diagnosis at 43. A decision to sell everything and start again. This is where that led — and why I coach the way I do.

Book a Free Call See how I work →

Lianne Byrne — burnout coach and life design coach working location independently

The story

A corporate escapee
who actually escaped.

I spent 25 years in digital and marketing — across industries, boardrooms, and every kind of business challenge you can imagine. I was good at it. Really good. Senior roles, high stakes, constant delivery. From the outside, everything looked fine.

In 2021, it stopped looking fine. Burnout and perimenopause arrived at the same time — and because I didn't understand what was happening hormonally, I spent a long time trying to push through something that couldn't be pushed through. Then came the ADHD diagnosis at 43. Suddenly, 43 years of pattern made sense.

"I don't coach people to optimise their cage. I left mine. Now I help others design a life that makes the cage unnecessary."

In 2023 I sold most of what we owned, left Cape Town, flew to the Philippines with my three kids and no return ticket. Ten countries later, three happy worldschooled kids, now living in Guatemala — and a life that finally fits.

I'm not standing at a destination telling you it's beautiful. I'm in the middle of the same redesign you're considering. That's who you'd be working with.

Mountain landscape at sunset — Low Friction Living

A little more about me

✦

AI and automation are how I redesign what isn't working

Most people are doing manually what could be automated — and burning their best energy on the wrong things. I use AI to strip out the repetitive, the draining, the decisions that don't need to be made twice. Then I teach others to do the same.

✦

My first love was always people

Obsessed with what makes people tick. Started a Psychology degree (thanks, ADHD), found coaching instead — practical, transformative, and it has changed me as much as anyone I have worked with. The work is never generic. It is always about this woman, this life, this season.

✦

Three kids, ten countries, no plan B

Sold everything. Left Cape Town. Flew to the Philippines. Kept moving. Ten countries later, three happy worldschooled kids, now living in Guatemala — and a life that finally fits. Not an influencer version of this. The real one, with the hard parts included.

The work is grounded
in lived experience.

I coach from where I've actually been — not from theory or a training manual. The burnout was real. The perimenopause was real. The ADHD was real. The decision to rebuild was real.

What I offer isn't a framework borrowed from someone else. It's what I pieced together over three years of dismantling one life and building another — and have now refined through coaching women doing the same.

25 yrs