While pregnant with twins, Corina Sanchez was also navigating a high-stakes job in tech, managing a toddler at home, and still taking on side projects. Every hour of her day was accounted for. But when her doctor told her to stop working — not “slow down,” but stop — she realized the real problem wasn’t her schedule. It was the story she’d absorbed about what being capable was supposed to look like.
She had always equated output with value. But in that forced pause, she started asking a different question: what would it look like to design systems that support your actual life? That question became a framework. And that framework turned into a business.
In this episode of Business Origin Stories, Corina shares how she built Moms Who Leverage — a company that helps high-achieving women reclaim capacity through values-aligned systems. We talk about releasing guilt, building trust inside partnerships, and why protecting your energy means only doing what’s yours to do.
Let Go Without Losing Control
One of the most freeing things Corina teaches her clients is this: just because you care about something doesn’t mean you need to be the one doing it. You can own the outcome without managing every detail. You can set the standard without holding the bag.
She helps women map their responsibilities into three simple categories:
- What only you can do
- What you want input on but don’t need to execute
- What someone else can fully own
This framework helps shift the conversation from “Can I let this go?” to “What’s the smartest use of my energy?”
For many of her clients, this one reframe is enough to change the entire dynamic inside their homes, teams, and partnerships. Because when you’re no longer the default for every decision, your time opens up. And so does your brain.
The Right System Feels Like a Deep Breath
Corina’s version of system-building has nothing to do with color-coded charts or militant routines. It’s about creating support for the parts of life that regularly drain your bandwidth.
She helps women document what already works, and turn it into repeatable rhythms they can lean on. Grocery runs. Kid handoffs. Morning routines. Decision loops that used to suck up an hour now get handled in ten minutes because there’s a plan in place.
The goal isn’t to turn your life into a flowchart. It’s to stop bleeding energy in the same five places every week. When you have a system that handles the stuff that doesn’t require your genius, you get more room to show up where it does.
Build Your Day Around What Matters Most
Most of the women Corina works with know how to push through. They’ve built careers, businesses, and families on very little sleep and a lot of internal pressure. But the problem with powering through is that there’s rarely anything left when you get to the other side.
So instead of waiting for permission to enjoy their life, she invites them to start from joy.
Not performative self-care or forced gratitude. Just one intentional moment at the top of the day that feeds them, so they’re not running on scraps by 10 a.m.
Because when joy isn’t something you’re trying to earn, it becomes something you build around.
Want more from Corina? You can follow her on Instagram @momswholeverage or grab a copy of her Delegation Playbook for Working Moms.
🎧 And if you want to check out this whole conversation, you can find it on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
