YOU ARE YOUR GREATEST WORK

Live Your Opus is a 12-week guided reset for ambitious people who want to feel energized, aligned, and deeply connected to what matters most. Two powerful truths: Your life is your Opus—a masterpiece only you can create—and you are your greatest work—will set you free from burnout, overwork, and the quiet ache of living a life that doesn’t quite fit. It’s time to reconnect with yourself, remember what matters, and build a life that feels like yours. When you come home to who you are—beneath the noise, beneath the roles—everything shifts.

“If you’re a high achiever who hustled your way to success but lost yourself along the way, this book delivers. Janine Mathó offers a grounded, practical path to align your ambition with what matters most to you.”

— Mel Robbins, New York Times bestselling author
of The Let Them Theory and host of The Mel Robbins Podcast

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Praise for Live Your Opus

"Live Your Opus is a wake-up call for high achievers who are ready to stop running on empty and start living on purpose. If you’ve been chasing success, always wondering when 'enough' would finally hit—this is your essential guide."

Dorie Clark, executive education faculty at Columbia Business School and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Long Game
“So many of us reach a moment, quiet and often hidden, when success begins to feel strangely hollow and the life we’ve worked so hard to build no longer fits. In Live Your Opus, Janine Mathó meets that moment with uncommon grace. This is not a book of easy answers, but a brave and generous companion for the inner work of returning to oneself. With clarity and care, Mathó helps us remember something essential, something we may have known once but lost track of along the way. That vitality, meaning, and contribution are not separate paths, but one path walked in alignment with the truth of who we are.”

Stephen Cope, author of The Great Work of Your Life
“Janine holds what most coaches can’t: your ambition, your doubt, your vision—and helps you turn it all into clarity and power. I watched her carry this work from the shadows into the world. In Live Your Opus, she offers that same rare gift to every ambitious person: a path back to self-trust, energy, and a kind of success that doesn’t cost you what matters most. More than just wisdom, Janine offers high achievers the clarity they spend years chasing, delivered with heart, strength, and truth.”

Nimrod Mashiah, 3x World Medalist, Olympic Athlete & Elite Performance Strategist
“In a world wired for fear and addicted to certainty, Live Your Opus is a powerful invitation to reclaim mastery over your own mind and design a life led by purpose. Janine doesn’t just ask us to dream—she shows us how to disarm the survival-driven wiring that keeps us small so that we can live our dreams. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to live their highest potential and shape a future where dreams aren’t just personal aspirations—they’re the responsibility we carry to model what’s possible for the next generation.”

Lina Ashar, Founder & CEO, Dreamtime Learning
“A playbook for presence and purpose - Mathó lifts the veil on burnout, energy, and what really matters. Opus is a toolbox to help anyone wanting to live their best life.”

Professor Kerensa Jennings, Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA)
“The use of musical metaphors, such as composition and opus, is a brilliant and original way to draw the reader into what becomes a true odyssey of self-discovery and creation. Part One offers a thoughtful approach to the vital act of taking charge of our minds, our choices, and the small details of our daily lives. Part Two provides a masterful blend of practical exercises, provocative insights, and moving stories of real people who have transformed their lives. It inspires the reader to begin their own journey, one small, mindful step at a time. This is the kind of book that, if it were required reading in every high school around the world, would change how we define success and how we live in pursuit of it.”

Claire Harbour, Trusted Advisor to C-Suite Leaders and Founders, Author and Disruptor
“If you’re a high achiever who hustled your way to success but lost yourself along the way, this book delivers. Janine Mathó offers a grounded, practical path to align your ambition with what matters most to you.”

Mel Robbins, New York Times bestselling author of The Let Them Theory and host of The Mel Robbins Podcast

• Inside Live Your Opus

What if the life you’re chasing isn’t built by doing more—but by becoming more you?

Live Your Opus is a 12-week journey that helps you reclaim your energy, realign with what matters most to you, and create sustainable success that truly feels like you.

This book meets you where you are. For some, it offers a chance to reset or transform their life. For others, it supports a pivot. Sometimes it takes one slight shift to change everything.

You’ll move through four stages: Connect. Dream. Compose. Embark. Each one builds clarity, energy, and momentum—so you can stop running on empty and start living with intention.

Part memoir. Part coaching. Part framework. Live Your Opus is a practical, soulful guide to building a life that truly matters.

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It’s the Promise I Made to Myself

In January 2020, after years of high achievement that looked enviable from the outside, my life as I knew it came to a complete stop—burnout collided with grief after my mother’s sudden death.

I’d built the life I thought I wanted—but it no longer felt right. In the quiet that followed, I began asking new questions: How do I build a full, ambitious life while staying healthy and true to myself? And what if success is more about who I am than what I produce?

As I traced patterns through my life, the research, and hundreds of conversations, a framework began to emerge. A way of creating healthy, meaningful success that lasts. That framework became Live Your Opus: a practical, soulful path to reclaim your energy, redefine success, and build a life that truly matters.

It’s the promise I made to myself: that no one should have to go through what I did—alone.

Everywhere I looked, I saw the same patterns:

people report symptoms of chronic stress and burnout today.

7 in 10

of leaders say they feel overwhelmed most of the time at work.

45%

keeps many in draining jobs, making change feel too risky.

Uncertainty

Live Your Opus is written for that reality.
Instead of quick fixes, it offers something deeper and more lasting: a way back to yourself.

Within weeks you’ll start to notice…

Your energy returning. Your clarity deepening.
And a sense of alignment you may not have felt in years.

Shift from reactive overwork → to intentional impact.
Align your identity and ambitions → with where you’re going (not where you’ve been).
Rediscover what matters most → and let it guide your choices.
Build a rhythm → that fuels both your work and your life.
Thrive → without burning out, selling out, or numbing out.

Within 12 weeks you’ll learn how to :

This book is for you if:

You’ve outgrown the old rules of success, and you’re done trading what matters most, including your peace and well-being, just to keep it all together.
Maybe you’re a high achiever, tired of running on empty.
Or you’ve checked all the boxes, climbed all the ladders…and still feel like something’s missing.
Or perhaps you’ve built your career to the top—and now you’re ready for your next chapter, lived with clarity and intention.
And if you’re just starting out—but already questioning the “traditional” playbook—you’ll find a framework to build a life that aligns with who you are, from the beginning.

Wherever you are—mid-career, leading teams, stepping out on your own, or wondering what’s next—Live Your Opus is your companion for creating a life that feels meaningful, sustainable, and true.

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About Janine

Janine Mathó is a former Harvard and Pearson executive, award-winning leader in global learning, and trusted advisor to changemakers navigating growth and transition. Over 25+ years, she has raised $30M+ for education innovation, shaped global strategy on the future of work and learning, and guided organizations through complex transformation.

Her work sits at the intersection of high-performance, leadership, and meaningful success. Drawing on neuroscience, learning science, motivation theory, longevity, and ancient wisdom—plus lived experience—she helps high achievers align who they are with how they live, so their ambition and well-being can finally coexist. She also serves as Chief Learning Officer of Dreamtime Learning Asia, supporting conscious learning for students and their parents.

A first-generation Cuban-American, Janine has lived in three countries and led work on four continents. She now calls Provence home with her husband and two Labradors, and travels often to London and Boston, where they raised their three grown children.