YOU ARE YOUR GREATEST WORK
Live Your Opus is a 12-week guided reset for ambitious people who want to feel energized, aligned, and deeply connected to what matters most. It reframes overwork, chronic stress, and burnout as a response to operating in a world that’s fundamentally changed. Grounded in the Opus Way, it provides a structured approach to reclaiming your energy, clarifying what matters, and making more intentional choices. This is not a quick fix. It’s a practical, deeply human process for creating a life that feels even better on the inside than it looks on the outside—and that can hold you as you grow.
“If you’re a high achiever who hustled your way to success but lost yourself along the way, this book delivers. Janine Mathó offers a grounded, practical path to align your ambition with what matters most to you.”
— Mel Robbins, New York Times bestselling author
of The Let Them Theory and host of The Mel Robbins Podcast
Praise for Live Your Opus
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"Live Your Opus is a wake-up call for high achievers who are ready to stop running on empty and start living on purpose. If you’ve been chasing success, always wondering when 'enough' would finally hit—this is your essential guide."
Dorie Clark, executive education faculty at Columbia Business School and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Long Game
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“So many of us reach a moment, quiet and often hidden, when success begins to feel strangely hollow and the life we’ve worked so hard to build no longer fits. In Live Your Opus, Janine Mathó meets that moment with uncommon grace. This is not a book of easy answers, but a brave and generous companion for the inner work of returning to oneself. With clarity and care, Mathó helps us remember something essential, something we may have known once but lost track of along the way. That vitality, meaning, and contribution are not separate paths, but one path walked in alignment with the truth of who we are.”
Stephen Cope, author of The Great Work of Your Life
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“Janine holds what most coaches can’t: your ambition, your doubt, your vision—and helps you turn it all into clarity and power. I watched her carry this work from the shadows into the world. In Live Your Opus, she offers that same rare gift to every ambitious person: a path back to self-trust, energy, and a kind of success that doesn’t cost you what matters most. More than just wisdom, Janine offers high achievers the clarity they spend years chasing, delivered with heart, strength, and truth.”
Nimrod Mashiah, 3x World Medalist, Olympic Athlete & Elite Performance Strategist
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“In a world wired for fear and addicted to certainty, Live Your Opus is a powerful invitation to reclaim mastery over your own mind and design a life led by purpose. Janine doesn’t just ask us to dream—she shows us how to disarm the survival-driven wiring that keeps us small so that we can live our dreams. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to live their highest potential and shape a future where dreams aren’t just personal aspirations—they’re the responsibility we carry to model what’s possible for the next generation.”
Lina Ashar, Founder & CEO, Dreamtime Learning
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“A playbook for presence and purpose - Mathó lifts the veil on burnout, energy, and what really matters. Opus is a toolbox to help anyone wanting to live their best life.”
Professor Kerensa Jennings, Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA)
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“The use of musical metaphors, such as composition and opus, is a brilliant and original way to draw the reader into what becomes a true odyssey of self-discovery and creation. Part One offers a thoughtful approach to the vital act of taking charge of our minds, our choices, and the small details of our daily lives. Part Two provides a masterful blend of practical exercises, provocative insights, and moving stories of real people who have transformed their lives. It inspires the reader to begin their own journey, one small, mindful step at a time. This is the kind of book that, if it were required reading in every high school around the world, would change how we define success and how we live in pursuit of it.”
Claire Harbour, Trusted Advisor to C-Suite Leaders and Founders, Author and Disruptor
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“If you’re a high achiever who hustled your way to success but lost yourself along the way, this book delivers. Janine Mathó offers a grounded, practical path to align your ambition with what matters most to you.”
Mel Robbins, New York Times bestselling author of The Let Them Theory and host of The Mel Robbins Podcast
About Janine
Janine Mathó is a former Harvard and Pearson executive, an award-winning leader in global learning, and a trusted advisor to leaders navigating complex change. Over more than 25 years, she has raised $30M+ for education innovation, shaped global strategy on the future of work and learning, and worked with organizations and senior leaders across the US, UK, and globally.
She is a future of learning expert focused on how individuals and organizations develop the capabilities required to live, perform, and adapt well in a world that has already changed. Through advisory work and writing, she translates shifts in technology, policy, and work into how skills and capabilities are built in practice.
Drawing on learning science, neuroscience, and lived experience inside complex systems, she brings a clear, practical lens to what it takes to sustain performance, clarity, and sound judgment over time.
This same lens shapes her work in education. As Chief Learning Officer at Dreamtime Learning Asia, she helps build learning environments that develop the capabilities people need for life and leadership, beginning early and evolving over time.
A first-generation Cuban-American born and raised in New Jersey, Janine has lived in three countries and led work on four continents. She now calls Provence home with her husband and two Labradors, and travels often to London and Boston, where they raised their three grown children.
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• Inside Live Your Opus
• Inside Live Your Opus
What if the life you’re chasing isn’t built by doing more—but by becoming more you?
Live Your Opus is a 12-week journey that helps you reclaim your energy, realign with what matters most to you, and create sustainable success that truly feels like you.
This book meets you where you are. For some, it offers a chance to reset or transform their life. For others, it supports a pivot. Sometimes it takes one slight shift to change everything.
You’ll move through four stages: Connect. Dream. Compose. Embark. Each one builds clarity, energy, and momentum—so you can stop running on empty and start living with intention.
Part memoir. Part coaching. Part framework. Live Your Opus is a practical, soulful guide to building a life that truly matters.
It’s the Promise I Made to Myself
In January 2020, after years of high achievement that looked enviable from the outside, my life as I knew it came to a complete stop—burnout collided with grief after my mother’s sudden death.
In the quiet that followed, I began asking a different question: What does it actually take to live a full, ambitious life without losing yourself along the way?
As I traced patterns through my life, the research, and hundreds of conversations, something became clear. This isn’t just about working too hard. It’s about how we’ve been taught to live and work—and what’s missing.
That insight became Live Your Opus: a practical path to reclaim your energy, think more clearly, and build a way of living and working that you can sustain.
It’s the promise I made to myself: that no one should have to go through what I did—alone.
The Live Your Opus Workbook is a guided companion to the book—designed to help you work with its ideas, questions, and practices at your own pace.
Everywhere I looked, I saw the same patterns:
people report symptoms of chronic stress and burnout today.
7 in 10
of leaders say they feel overwhelmed most of the time at work.
45%
keeps many in draining jobs, making change feel too risky.
Uncertainty
Live Your Opus was written for these realities.
It offers a different approach: one that helps you strengthen your energy, focus your attention, and make better decisions in the moments that matter.
Nothing about you needs to be fixed. What changes is how you understand yourself, and how you operate as a result. And that changes how you live.
Within weeks, you’ll start to notice small but meaningful shifts.
More available energy. Greater clarity where there was urgency.
And a stronger sense of alignment in how you live and work.
Moving from reactive overwork to more intentional, focused impact
Aligning your ambition with who you are and how you want to live instead of who you’ve been expected to be.
Letting what matters most guide your decisions.
Building a rhythm that fuels and sustains both your work and your life.
Sustaining performance without burning out, selling out, or numbing out.
Over time, this becomes:
Over twelve weeks, you’ll work toward these changes in a practical, structured way.
This book is for you if:
You’ve outgrown the old rules of success—and you’re no longer willing to trade your well-being to keep up.
You may be a high achiever, tired of running on empty.
Or you’ve achieved what you set out to do, but something still feels off.
Or you’ve reached a point in your career where you’re ready to think differently about what comes next.
And maybe you’re earlier in your journey, already questioning the traditional path and looking for a better way to build your life from the start.
Wherever you are—mid-career, leading teams, stepping out on your own, or wondering what’s next—Live Your Opus is a companion for creating a way of living and working that is meaningful, sustainable, and true to you.
It’s time to
Live Your Opus.
Reclaim your energy. Think more clearly.
Create a way of living and working that you can sustain.
