Understand
Recognize the story, identity, and responsibilities driving your burnout.
October 15, 2026 · Walsh College · Troy, Michigan
Success opened the door. Burnout quietly followed you in.
Rewrite
Your Story
Leadership Workshop + Live Comedy Show
Burnout is not just exhaustion. It can be the consequence of the story you've been living.
Understand the story driving your burnout. Choose a new story that serves you. Lead in a way that lifts others and releases you.
Save $20 · Register by August 30
A Different Way to Understand Burnout
Burnout often begins long before someone stops functioning.
It can look like success, responsibility, commitment, and being the person everyone trusts to keep everything moving.
These are the stories you can change...
A story about responsibility, identity, performance, belonging, proving ourselves, or taking care of everyone else.
I have to be the strong one.
If I do not do it, it will not get done.
Everyone depends on me.
Leadership means carrying more.
Those stories may have helped create your success. They do not have to define how you lead next.
Rewrite the Story
A new story creates a new way of leading.
Choose
Decide which stories still serve you and which ones you are ready to release.
Lead Differently
Lead in a way that develops others, shares responsibility, and releases you.
Rewrite + Release
The workshop helps you see your story. The comedy helps you let go of it.
This is not another day of being told to manage your time better or simply become more resilient. It is an opportunity to understand what has been driving your burnout and experience a different way forward.
The workshop creates insight. The comedy lowers defenses, shifts perspective, and helps you release what no longer serves you.
Morning + Afternoon
Rewrite Your Story Workshop
A guided, interactive experience with Merit Kahn and Natalie Luke, PhD, designed to help you recognize the stories and leadership identities shaping how you work, lead, and carry responsibility.
- Understand the story driving your burnout
- Recognize roles and patterns you have outgrown
- Choose a new story that serves you
- Lead in a way that lifts others and releases you
Evening
Optimistic Personality Disorder™
Merit Kahn’s inspiring and hilarious one-woman show blends stand-up, storytelling, and irreverent optimism to explore life’s messiest plot twists and help audiences see themselves differently.
- Laugh—really laugh
- See your story from a different perspective
- Release what no longer serves you
- Leave lighter, energized, and inspired
Does This Sound Familiar?
The most dangerous version of burnout can still look like success.
You may still be delivering, solving problems, and meeting expectations. But the way you have been leading may be quietly costing more than anyone sees.
You were promoted, but never stopped carrying your old responsibilities.
You became the expert, and now too much keeps routing back to you.
People trust you, so you keep becoming the answer to every problem.
You are still succeeding, but success feels heavier than it used to.
You want to develop others, but carrying everything leaves little room to do it.
You know something must change, but you do not want to abandon what you built.
You do not have to abandon your success. You can release the old ways of leading and build a new story around shared responsibility, stronger leaders, and sustainable impact.
Meet the Team
Leadership insight, unforgettable performance, and meaningful connection.
Rewrite Your Story brings together three distinct strengths: the performance that opens people up, the leadership insight that helps them see what needs to change, and the connection that makes people feel supported while they do it.
Creator and Featured Performer
Merit Kahn, CSP
Comedian · International Keynote Speaker · Playwright · Producer
Merit is the creator and performer of Optimistic Personality Disorder™, a hilariously healing one-woman show blending comedy, storytelling, and transformational insight.
Producer and Workshop Leader
Natalie Luke, PhD
Leadership Strategist · Researcher · Host of UnCeiling You™
Natalie helps high achievers understand the stories, roles, and leadership patterns that cause responsibility and unresolved work to keep routing back to them.
Executive Director of Community Engagement
Mariette Frey
Community Builder · Strategic Connector · Partnership Leader
Mariette is the relationship and community voice of Rewrite Your Story. She helps sponsors, community partners, organizational leaders, and attendees move from curiosity to meaningful connection.
Get a Glimpse of the Show
Laugh. Release. See the story differently.
See why audiences connect so deeply with Merit’s blend of comedy, storytelling, and transformational insight.
What You Will Leave With
One day. Less stress. A new way to lead.
Greater Clarity
Understand the story and identity shaping how you lead.
Less Stress
Release responsibilities and patterns that no longer belong to you.
Stronger Leaders
Develop others instead of becoming the answer to everything.
A New Future
Choose a story that supports both your impact and your wellbeing.
Choose Your Experience
Reserve your seat for October 15.
Save $20 · Register by August 30
Full-day tickets include the interactive workshop, practical tools, meaningful connections, and the evening performance of Optimistic Personality Disorder™.
Best Available Value
Early Bird Full-Day
$147
Save $20 through August 30.
The complete workshop and live-show experience.
- Interactive full-day workshop
- Practical tools and guided exercises
- Meaningful connections
- Evening performance
General Full-Day
$167
Begins August 31.
The complete workshop and live-show experience.
- Interactive full-day workshop
- Practical tools and guided exercises
- Meaningful connections
- Evening performance
VIP Full-Day
$197
The complete day with premium seating and VIP benefits.
- Interactive full-day workshop
- Premium seating
- Priority access
- VIP benefits
- Evening performance
Group Full-Day — 6+
$140 / person
Bring your colleagues, leadership team, clients, or community.
- Complete full-day experience
- Workshop and evening show
- Group seating coordination
Evening Show
$30
Join us for the live performance of Optimistic Personality Disorder™.
- General admission
- Live one-woman show
- Comedy, storytelling, and inspiration
VIP Evening Show
$40
Enjoy the evening performance with VIP seating.
- VIP show admission
- Premium seating
- Live one-woman show