# The Launch Pad: Busy Is Not the Same as Whole with Sayda Desroses

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Podcast: [Launch My Brand Today](https://stenobird.com/podcast/launch-my-brand-today-6742140)
Published: 2026-05-20T11:30:00+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/launchmybrandtoday/episodes/The-Launch-Pad-Busy-Is-Not-the-Same-as-Whole-with-Sayda-Desroses-e3jk9q6
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## Resource

In this deeply honest Launchpad conversation, I sit down with Sayda Desroses, co-founder and managing director of brand strategy and operations at Desroses & Gillenwater, to talk about what it really means to build a life that looks successful from the outside while learning how to come home to yourself on the inside. With more than 25 years of executive experience inside global luxury houses including Hermès, Gucci, and Tiffany & Co., Sayda brings a rare perspective on excellence, identity, leadership, client experience, and the quiet cost of constantly performing. But this conversation goes far beyond brand strategy. Together, we explore the difference between being busy and being whole, why luxury is really about time, peace, and alignment, and how protecting your peace can become one of the most powerful acts of leadership. This episode is for the high achievers, the hidden experts, the leaders, the builders, and anyone who has ever wondered whether the version of themselves that looks successful is also the version that feels free. Sayda and I talk about: • Why “busy” can become a hiding place • The difference between achievement and wholeness • What luxury teaches us about identity, belonging, and self-worth • Why people often look outside themselves for validation • How trauma, healing, and self-acceptance shape leadership • Why protecting your peace is an act of leadership • The difference between performing success and actually feeling well • What it means to build from integrity instead of approval • Why time, rest, and aligned relationships are the real luxuries • How to stop outsourcing your worth to titles, brands, or other people “Busy is not the same as whole.” “Time is a luxury.” “Protecting your peace is an act of leadership.” “You are enough.…

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