Meet the Founder
They thought I was doing all right
A little tired, maybe
I was not
I was crumbling
That was the start of Open Tabs
Elysha · Founder
For years, I moved fast. Naturally driven, wired for achievement, and deeply committed to excellence in everything I did. I built my career in executive support and operations — the kind of work that requires you to hold everything together without ever making it obvious that you're the one doing it. I was the one anticipating needs before they were voiced, managing complexity without flinching, and running operations with the kind of precision that made chaos look like calm. I had the energy of someone who had never met a challenge she couldn't outwork. I was good at it. Really good at it.
Until I wasn't.
The third time stopped me in my tracks in a way I couldn't push through or perform my way out of. Tasks that used to take me an hour suddenly took a day. Decisions that once came easily felt impossible. I was dropping things, missing things, and quickly crumbling behind a very polished exterior.
That season cracked something open in me, and I found myself making a simple but pivotal statement: there has to be a better way to work. Not a prettier version of overfunctioning. But a truly sustainable way to build, lead, rest, decide, and keep going without losing myself in the process
What followed was a slow, sometimes painful, but ultimately transformative process of rebuilding — not just my business, but my relationship with rest, with work, with capacity, with what I actually believed success was supposed to look and feel like. I stopped treating exhaustion like proof of commitment. I started learning what sustainable productivity could look like in real life: working with my actual capacity, creating rhythms I could maintain, honoring rest as part of the work, and building a business that did not require my constant depletion to survive — all while honoring very real demands, deadlines, and commitments.
And then I realized that the leaders I had spent years supporting were carrying the same burden. Silently. Alone. Pretending to be "fine" while running on empty.
So I rebuilt Open Tabs around what I had learned and what I wished someone had offered me when I was in the thick of it. Not just operational support. Not another productivity system that ignores the person using it. But a real, high-touch, whole-person partnership for leaders who are done surviving and ready to build a more sustainable relationship with their business, their ambition, their rest, and themselves.
Sustainable productivity for entrepreneurs who want to keep building without sacrificing their sanity, relationships, health, or wholeness in the process
Welcome to Open Tabs
I'm so glad you found your way here
The convictions that shape how we work, who we serve, and the way we move through every season of building
We believe in operating with excellence and integrity at all times. We don't do funny business and expect the same of you. If "shady" is the name of your game, kindly go somewhere else.
We believe in gentleness with oneself. Superman doesn't exist, and Wonder Woman is fiction. We're real people, with real dreams, real struggles, and real limitations to our time, energy, and capacity. We work diligently on our good days and grant ourselves grace when we're a little off. We learn to boldly say "no" to lesser things, and we courageously delegate tasks off our lists.
We believe that peace is possible and soul-care is essential. Though chaos may occasionally visit, we firmly believe it's not permitted to take up permanent residence in our homes, minds, emotions, businesses, or lives. We believe in finding solutions that work for each individual, understanding that these solutions may change depending on the season of life. We believe that we prosper only as our souls prosper (3 John 2), therefore, soul-care is vital to our overall health. We believe that caring for our people holistically — body, soul, spirit, and goals — is the better way to conduct business.
We believe that Christ calls us to rest, honor the Sabbath, and keep it holy. We reject hustling, grinding, striving, and the stress and overwhelm that accompany them. We champion the importance of both productivity and recovery and seek creative solutions that allow us to align our work with our well-being. We are committed to growing in the discipline of rest, as we understand that both our lives, businesses, and relationships will greatly benefit from it.
We believe that you don't have to carry hard things alone. Support is not weakness. It is wisdom. It is the thing that makes everything else sustainable. You don't have to have it all figured out before you ask for help. You don't have to be falling apart to deserve support. You are allowed to be held — right now, exactly as you are, in the middle of everything you're carrying.
We believe in truth. We reject gimmicky sales tactics, icky marketing strategies, and toxic-yet-accepted ways of doing business. We're not afraid to challenge the status quo and assert that there is a better way of thinking, a different approach to operating, or that a certain way of moving through life is fundamentally flawed.