Hey- I’m Jen.

I’m Jen McDonald—founder of The Maven’s Mindset and a board-certified pediatric neuropsychologist. But before all the credentials and clarity, I was a high-achiever on the edge of burnout, juggling everything because I could—until I realized I no longer wanted to.

The year I launched my private practice, I was:

• solo parenting three kids while my husband was deployed

• running a household with two dogs and an aging cat

• serving on the school board, and being recruited for state office

• working full-time and launching a practice

From the outside, I looked like I was thriving. Inside, I was unraveling. I wasn’t living- I was performing. High-functioning. Low-fulfillment.

That moment of reckoning broke something open in me.

It wasn’t just burnout—it was the realization that somewhere along the way, I’d lost the sense of enough.

I was chasing productivity like a badge of honor: building systems and routines to squeeze more out of every moment... so I could do more, not be more.

The Maven’s Mindset was born from that shift.

It’s for women like me—and maybe like you—who are done performing their life and ready to start living it. It's for those who are tired of aspiration without embodiment, and ambition without peace.

Now, I help high-achieving women recalibrate. I’m not here to hand out bubble baths and breathwork (unless that’s your thing). I’m here to help you rewrite the internal narrative that says you have to earn your rest, that your worth is your output, or that scaling back means giving up.

There’s a better way. Let’s find yours.