Defining balance for the sandwich generation | Isabel Vallejo Echavarría | TEDxThonglor Women

What happens when caring for your parents and raising your children become your responsibility at the same time? This talk challenges us to rethink what caregiving really means and how we can create healthier, more human ways to care for the people we love while navigating our own lives. As a systems engineer, business development manager, and digital strategist across three continents, Isabel kept encountering the same puzzle: Why do brilliant people feel inexplicably stuck? After navigating her own journey as an expat mother managing competing priorities across countries and cultures, she discovered the answer: We're anchored by stories about our past that we’ve mistaken for truth.
Now an EMCC Senior Practitioner and founder of Motiva Coaching & Supervision, Isabel specialises in helping driven professionals courageously face their personal history and rewrite it as aprendizajes—transformative wisdom that opens the path to fulfilling relationships and prosperity. Her innovative approach combines neuroscience-backed frameworks like "Energy Economics" and "Boundaries as Bridges" with creative methodologies including LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® and systemic mediation. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx