FOUNDER OF HUMBELHOUSE
Mia
Humble
| "Your life is your creation."
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"I knew something was wrong. I ignored it. And kept going."
Mia Humble
THE BEGINNING
She nearly worked herself to death.
At 40, Mia was an executive manager responsible for over 3,500 people, preparing a company for a stock exchange listing, and trying to be present for her two children — all at the same time. Her body had been sending signals for months. She ignored every one of them. The day she finally stopped, she didn't do it by choice. She was hospitalised in the cardiac intensive care unit with heart-muscle inflammation, 2.5 centimetres of fluid around her heart, and doctors inserting a hose to drain it. It was, she would later write, the beginning of everything.
THE STORY
What the hospital
couldn't fix.
Six months in and out of intensive care. Scars in her body and, as she put it, a large number of scars in her soul. When Mia returned to the company she had helped build for over ten years, the support she received mirrored the support she had always given herself — almost none. She left the company. Then her marriage of nearly 20 years ended. She was in poor health, divorced, and without a job. Most people would call that rock bottom. Mia calls it the moment she finally had to get honest with herself.
The decision that
changed everything.
She took a year off. Not to rest — to rebuild. She released physical pain through meditation, forgiveness work, and long walks in nature with her dog. She hired two coaches. She committed to learning something new every single day. The insight that changed her most wasn't a strategy or a method. It was simpler and harder: she had always put everyone else first. Their needs. Their feelings. Their growth. She had believed it was her responsibility to carry everyone and had never once questioned it. Telling herself a new story meant starting with that belief. And dismantling it completely.
WHAT MIA BELIEVES
A perspective that is often overlooked
After two decades in corporate leadership, coaching, and her own transformation, Mia holds a clear and sometimes uncomfortable view of what leadership actually requires.
"Leadership means daring to believe in your vision even when no one else does — and being willing to go first into unknown terrain."
"It is not about rescuing people. It is about seeing their potential, creating a safe space to grow — and then letting them own it completely."
"The most courageous thing a leader can do is question what the majority believes to be true. Including their own story about who they are."
WHY HUMBLE HOUSE
She built the place
she needed.
After her recovery, Mia returned to leadership — this time as CEO of a company building active lives for people with disabilities. She led differently. She showed up differently. And she noticed that the women around her were still leading the way she used to: from exhaustion, from obligation, from fear of stopping. Humble House is what she created when she realised the transformation she went through wasn't available to most women in the way she had experienced it. Not in a corporate training room. Not in a one-hour coaching session. It required space. Stillness. The right company. And a real willingness to meet yourself
WHAT COMES NEXT
If this lands — you are in the right place
Humble House exists for women who are ready to stop leading from exhaustion and start leading from something real. If you feel that pull — toward change, toward depth, toward a version of yourself you haven't fully met yet — this is where it begins
