A former engineer at Google who was laid off after five years at the tech giant said she's using losing her job as an opportunity to launch an online wellness club to help people like her after she got Lyme disease in college.
"There are people out there that are going through the same thing that I went through. How can I be the person that I needed when I was in college and I was struggling, and I had no one to tell me that my lifestyle — what I was eating, drinking, consuming — was making that worse?" Lyme disease is a bacterial infection caused by a bite from an infected tick and includes symptoms like high temperatures, fatigue, and loss of energy. Cahill described similar symptoms including frequent colds, chest pain, heart palpitations, anxiety, panic attacks, dizziness, and fainting.
She decided to get an Integrative Nutrition Coach certification during the COVID-19 pandemic while working at Google. "It's very isolating to change your whole lifestyle. You're the only person that's going through that so I wanted to create this community so that other people who are going through the same thing don't feel alone and can connect with others." Cahill said being laid off"freed me up a lot" because work was so time consuming. She can pour her"whole energy" into Whole Healing Club.