Chronic Boss
About Capacity
Capacity plans your work around your real capacity, so you can build big without the tradeoffs. Big Ambitions. Flexible Plans.
About Chronic Boss
Chronic Boss is the media and opportunity platform for ambitious women entrepreneurs and professionals living with chronic conditions, founded by Lilly Stairs in 2023. She's a two-time founder living with multiple autoimmune diseases, and she kept meeting brilliant women who were building businesses and careers around infusions, flares and specialist appointments. None of the business spaces they were in had been built with them in mind.
So we built one. Today Chronic Boss reaches thousands through the Chronic Boss Unfiltered podcast, the Chronic Boss Hub and our weekly newsletter. We've awarded $40,000 in scholarships to entrepreneurial students with chronic conditions, and our community has spent years trading strategy in masterminds, cohorts and coworking sessions built to work on flare days too.
We believe a chronic condition is a professional asset. Living with one teaches you to adapt fast, plan ahead and advocate for what you need, AND it means your career deserves a plan that bends with you. Health and wealth, no tradeoffs.
How Capacity was built
Capacity started inside our community. Before we designed a single screen, we went back through two years of conversations in the Chronic Boss Collective: more than 1,200 posts, 6,300 comments and 167 events where members talked openly about how they plan their work around their health.
The patterns were clear. Members described living in cycles, with seasons of building and seasons of protecting what they'd already built. Many of them narrowed each day down to one most important task, and on low-energy days whole cohorts would cut a session short and share just one focus for the week. On good days, the challenge was knowing when to stop. Capacity is built around those same habits, so every task comes in three sizes, Small Wins always count as progress, and there's a stop line on the days you could keep going.
The weekly rhythm came straight from the Monday Mavens, one of our community cohorts. They set their priority on Mondays and celebrate wins on Fridays, and that ritual is now built into Capacity for every member.
The method comes from Chronic Boss
Capacity runs on the frameworks Lilly has taught for years:
Secret Sauce
Your skill × your superpower, the professional edge your condition has given you.
Non-negotiables
What has to be in place for you to do your best work.
The Energy Audit
Sorting tasks by what gives you energy and what drains it.
The resources come from our columnists
When Capacity recommends something to read, it's an article from the Chronic Boss Hub, written by a woman who has lived it.
Capacity is free while we launch, and we'll keep shaping it with the women using it. If you have an idea, tell us at hello@chronicboss.com.
Inspired by our community
The Monday and Friday rhythm
This weekly rhythm was created by the Monday Mavens, a Chronic Boss community cohort. Set the week on Monday, celebrate wins and reflect on Friday.