Founded in 2016 by Charlotte, The Burnout Slayer® is a groundbreaking consulting firm that challenges the traditional concept of work-life balance. We believe that the pursuit of a perfect work-life balance often creates unnecessary stress and unrealistic expectations.

Instead, we advocate and promote a paradigm shift guiding individuals and businesses away from the brink of burnout by embracing a blend-able way® of living without the constraints of the work-life balance myth by providing innovative solutions, advocacy, and education.

Through The Blend-able Way®, we challenge the traditional work-life divide, advocating for a seamless integration of professional aspirations, personal happiness, and mental wellness.

From our early days as a fledgling online consultancy to becoming a beacon for solo service providers, our journey is marked by innovation, resilience, and a relentless commitment to our community’s well-being.

Charlotte Lester, Online Business Consultant
Charlotte Lester
Founder & Visionary – With over a decade in corporate leadership and a heart set on change, Charlotte is the driving force behind our ethos and strategies.

Meet the Mind Behind the Movement

In 2016, Charlotte took a leap that transformed her life: She left the corporate world, with its rigid schedules and glass ceilings, to carve out a space where work, life, and well-being aren’t just co-existing but are deeply intertwined. With a trusty laptop and endless cups of coffee, Charlotte embarked on a journey that redefined what success means to her.

As a once-celebrated corporate star, Charlotte found her true calling not in climbing ladders but in bridging gaps – between our professional aspirations and personal happiness, between our business goals and mental health. This revelation led to Charlotte creating The Burnout Slayer®, a sanctuary for the solo service provider who’s been told they must choose between passion and peace.

Charlotte’s adventure wasn’t paved with only triumphs; it was an odyssey marked by trials, errors, and yes, burnout. But it was through these experiences that The Blend-able Way® was born. It’s more than a method; it’s a movement. A movement that challenges the outdated notion of “work-life balance” and replaces it with a fluid, flexible approach to living and working.

Navigating her agency taught her a critical lesson: the solo journey is uniquely rewarding yet undeniably demanding. The conventional wisdom of hiring before you’re ready is a myth I’ve debunked along her path. Instead, She advocate’s for simplicity, for systems that nurture growth without sacrificing well-being, and for a community that supports one another, entourage or not.

With a rich corporate background, battle-tested agency insights, Being an Amazon best selling co author, mum to 3 humans and 3 doggos, wife and a CPD certification (business consultant and energy practitioner) in her arsenal, Charlotte’s on a mission. A mission to empower you, the passionate solo service provider, with the tools, strategies, and support to flourish financially, personally, and professionally.

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Values

Our core values: Integrity, Innovation, and Inclusion

At The Burnout Slayer®, we’re more than a company; we’re a community. United by our commitment to ethical practices, continuous improvement, and fostering a culture where every voice is valued, we stand apart. Our environment encourages creativity, supports wellness, and celebrates every milestone, big or small.

Why Choose Us?

Your Success, Blended

At the Burnout Slayer® we believe in personalised strategies that fit your life by offering holistic solutions, tools and support that challenges conventional work-life balance. We help you optimise productivity, enhance well-being, and achieve your life’s blend, not balance using our ground breaking Blend-able Way® concept.

Giving Back

Our commitment extends beyond our services. We’re actively involved in mental health and animal rescue initiatives, and through our work with Mind and Underdog International, we strive to make a difference. Our environmental efforts aim to ensure a sustainable future for all.

Let’s Create Your Blend

You’re a dynamo, a solo service provider with a vision that’s uniquely yours. You’ve invested heart and soul into your business, only to find generic solutions fall short. Here’s where we step in. At the Burnout Slayer® we believe in personalised strategies that fit your life by offering holistic solutions, tools and support that challenges conventional work-life balance. We help you optimise productivity, enhance well-being, and achieve your life’s blend, not balance using our ground breaking Blend-able Way® concept.

So, if you’re ready to break free from the cycle of hard work with little reward, to embrace a methodology that champions progress, and to redefine success on your terms, you’re in the right place. I’m here not just as an advisor but as your co-navigator, mentor, and friend on this exhilarating journey of entrepreneurship.

Forget the one-size-fits-all mantra. Your business, like you, is one-of-a-kind. It’s time to honour that with The Blend-able Way®. Ready to join the movement and create a life where work, wellness, and personal fulfilment blend seamlessly? Let’s connect and make your vision a reality.

Contact Information

Embark on a transformative journey with The Burnout Slayer®. For inquiries or more information, reach out to us at hello@burnout-slayer.com. We’re here to guide you to a life of balance and joy.

Recognised Excellence

Our innovative approach has not gone unnoticed. 

Jo Oogarah – Jo Oogarah Coaching
"I have just completed the Simple Systems to Scale Group Programme and I wanted to share how amazing it has been for my business. As someone who is not naturally organised and hates anything filing etc, I was a bit wary of starting the course, especially at the start of my business journey, but it has been so useful. I now can find things easily which saves me so much time onboarding clients and keeping track of who I have spoken to. For the first time I have a proper system for all the functions of my business. I would thoroughly recommend taking this course to really start to see what is going on in your business and managing it so much more effectively in the day to day. Thanks so much Charlotte!"
CVA Associates
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2021-11-03T20:52:54+00:00
As someone who is not naturally organised and hates anything filing etc, I was a bit wary of starting the course, especially at the start of my business journey, but it has been so useful.
Katie Carswell – Katie Carswell Coaching
"Charlotte and her team are amazing. I challenge you to find anyone as dedicated to your and your businesses success as Charlotte is. She consistently goes the extra mile, nothing is too much trouble, she really knows her stuff and has made my life so much easier, in so many ways. She really is a diamond find and I would recommend her to anyone who is looking to make their business more streamlined and simpler. Plus she is one of the loveliest people you will ever meet."
CVA Associates
5
2021-11-03T20:54:09+00:00
I challenge you to find anyone as dedicated to your and your businesses success as Charlotte is.
Sarah Street – Street & Co
"Charlotte has been a great support to our business, managing numerous support services from daily admin, organising Dropbox and IT, to HR services and organising team events. We have always felt Charlotte was one of the team, even if she wasn't sitting next to us every day. I highly recommend Charlotte's skills in supporting any small business."
CVA Associates
5
2020-04-18T14:32:07+01:00
"Charlotte has been a great support to our business, managing numerous support services from daily admin, organising Dropbox and IT, to HR services and organising team events. We have always felt Charlotte was one of the team, even if she wasn't sitting next to us every day. I highly recommend Charlotte's skills in supporting any small business."
Tara Barton – Birch & Wilde
"Virtual Assistant & Online Business Management Services - Charlotte and her team are fantastic and I would now be lost without them. Highly professional, super knowledgeable, full of ideas and ways to solve problems, positive and extremely efficient and organised. I can't hesitate to recommend CVA Associates."
CVA Associates
5
2020-09-07T12:00:18+01:00
Highly professional, super knowledgeable, full of ideas and ways to solve problems, positive and extremely efficient and organised.
Jill Pringle – Brand Symphony Marketing
"I'm so glad I found Charlotte and her business CVA Associates. Charlotte is so friendly, client focused and organised in the way she runs her business, and matches clients like me with our exec assistants. If you're a business owner and need a bit of support to take away all the small, fiddly, technical tasks each week, or need help with a particular project, then the range of people and skills Charlotte can access is amazing. I got support setting up all of my GDPR processes, my CRM and Email Automations, project managing my website rebuild and then ongoing admin and marketing tasks. What's best about Charlotte is she matched me perfectly with my EA Gill, and also stays in touch regularly to make sure things are working well. A real pleasure to work with."
CVA Associates
5
2020-07-24T17:05:32+01:00
"If you're a business owner and need a bit of support to take away all the small, fiddly, technical tasks each week, or need help with a particular project, then the range of people and skills Charlotte can access is amazing."
Rose Cox – Certified Human Potential Coach, Advanced Rapid Transformational Therapist and Clinical Hypnotherapist
"I recently had an online session with Charlotte where she walked me through her business hub set up in ClickUp. It was super useful and I came away with great strategies to implement for my own business in helping me keep everything systematised and on track, both with my goals, my overall business planning and right down to my project planning and daily task management.

I highly recommend working with Charlotte if you need someone to show you the most structured and easy to implement way to keep track of everything related to your business."
CVA Associates
5
2022-07-25T13:59:00+01:00
"I highly recommend working with Charlotte if you need someone to show you the most structured and easy to implement way to keep track of everything related to your business."
Nick Myers – Owner, Loveable
"Charlotte does so much more than keep me organised and ensure Loveable keeps its various plates spinning. She brings ideas and a point of view to the table. She’s passionate, resourceful, ever learning and such an asset I really didn’t want to make this recommendation public in case she gets too busy to continue helping me!"
CVA Associates
5
2018-12-31T19:50:29+00:00
"Charlotte does so much more than keep me organised and ensure Loveable keeps its various plates spinning. She brings ideas and a point of view to the table. She’s passionate, resourceful, ever learning and such an asset I really didn’t want to make this recommendation public in case she gets too busy to continue helping me!"
Tara Burgin – Owner, Active Early Years
"Charlotte is an amazing VA she is currently the P.A to Active Early Years and does a fantastic job she is always willing to help, highly organised, efficient no task too big and is very knowledgeable in her expertise always delivering at a high standard. If you want more time back in your business then Charlotte really is the answer."
CVA Associates
5
2018-12-31T19:51:27+00:00
"Charlotte is an amazing VA she is currently the P.A to Active Early Years and does a fantastic job she is always willing to help, highly organised, efficient no task too big and is very knowledgeable in her expertise always delivering at a high standard. If you want more time back in your business then Charlotte really is the answer."
Helen Cox – Owner, Helen Cox Marketing
"I would highly recommend working with Charlotte. As a busy marketing consultant, I often didn’t have time to do my own marketing. I’ve used Charlotte to help with my social media, email marketing, proofreading and inbox management and she is so efficient – it makes my life so much easier. What I liked about Charlotte is that she has a background in corporate as a PA so she knows how to run everything, she’s friendly, approachable and nothing is too much effort!"
CVA Associates
5
2018-12-31T19:52:27+00:00
"I would highly recommend working with Charlotte. As a busy marketing consultant, I often didn’t have time to do my own marketing. I’ve used Charlotte to help with my social media, email marketing, proofreading and inbox management and she is so efficient – it makes my life so much easier. What I liked about Charlotte is that she has a background in corporate as a PA so she knows how to run everything, she’s friendly, approachable and nothing is too much effort!"
Anonymous – Nature of business
"I just wanted to let you know that already your admin support has made such a difference to me, staff members and clients. Smashing work Charlotte."
CVA Associates
5
2018-12-31T19:54:35+00:00
"I just wanted to let you know that already your admin support has made such a difference to me, staff members and clients. Smashing work Charlotte."
Denise Todd – Head of Operations, Delivery Associates
"Charlotte did a brilliant job for us, helping with some rebranding work that needed to be done on a tight timescale. She understood straight away the requirement and just got on with it, which was what was needed! She supported on extensive word and ppt docs. A pleasure to deal with Charlotte and we will definitely be in touch for future support!"
CVA Associates
5
2018-12-31T19:55:25+00:00
"Charlotte did a brilliant job for us, helping with some rebranding work that needed to be done on a tight timescale. She understood straight away the requirement and just got on with it, which was what was needed! She supported on extensive word and ppt docs. A pleasure to deal with Charlotte and we will definitely be in touch for future support!"
Marc Goatcher – Head of, Lex Autolease & Black Horse finance
"Charlotte is a dedicated and committed p.a. and assistant. She has a fantastic work ethic and was able to adapt to the needs of the stakeholder.
She has an ability to cut through and get to the issue and solution at pace. I am sure she will be an asset to anyone that she supports."
CVA Associates
5
2018-12-31T19:56:49+00:00
"Charlotte is a dedicated and committed p.a. and assistant. She has a fantastic work ethic and was able to adapt to the needs of the stakeholder. She has an ability to cut through and get to the issue and solution at pace. I am sure she will be an asset to anyone that she supports."
Stuart Beaver – Partnership Director, Lloyds Bank
"Charlotte is a proactive, hardworking and committed PA. Highly dependable in delivery and all round, great to work with."
CVA Associates
5
2018-12-31T19:57:45+00:00
"Charlotte is a proactive, hardworking and committed PA. Highly dependable in delivery and all round, great to work with."
Robert Longhurst – Owner, Advanced Vision Care
"I cannot recommend Charlotte enough as a PA. She is ruthlessly professional and works quickly yet diligently. I trust her completely and she frees up so much of my time, I can honestly say my business is better because of her."
CVA Associates
5
2018-12-31T19:58:54+00:00
"I cannot recommend Charlotte enough as a PA. She is ruthlessly professional and works quickly yet diligently. I trust her completely and she frees up so much of my time, I can honestly say my business is better because of her."
David Patterson – Partner, Optima
"Charlotte is a conscientious, diligent and hard working person who is committed to performing her role and duties to an extremely high quality. She is very punctual, is always willing to go the extra mile and is extremely dedicated and supportive."
CVA Associates
5
2018-12-31T19:59:51+00:00
"Charlotte is a conscientious, diligent and hard working person who is committed to performing her role and duties to an extremely high quality. She is very punctual, is always willing to go the extra mile and is extremely dedicated and supportive."
Olivia Longson – Marketing Manager, Lloyds Bank
"Charlotte is an absolute pleasure to work with at Lloyds Bank. Nothing is ever too much trouble for her and she frequently goes above and beyond to ensure she can help. Incredibly organised and driven, charlotte has successfully managed a number of senior stakeholder’s diaries. If you want a organised, passionate & personable assistant Charlotte is your lady!"
CVA Associates
5
2018-12-31T20:00:39+00:00
"Charlotte is an absolute pleasure to work with at Lloyds Bank. Nothing is ever too much trouble for her and she frequently goes above and beyond to ensure she can help. Incredibly organised and driven, charlotte has successfully managed a number of senior stakeholder’s diaries. If you want a organised, passionate & personable assistant Charlotte is your lady!"
Deborah Neville – Senior Marketing Manager, Lloyds Bank
"Charlotte is one of the best assistants I have worked with, nothing is ever too much trouble, but she runs a tight ship and is very efficient. If it needs doing she knows how to get it done, organising large team events, meetings etc. What I have always loved about Charlotte is her ‘can do’ attitude which has stood her in good stead in her roles. I truly believe Charlotte is an asset to any company or individual that needs her fantastic skills"
CVA Associates
5
2018-12-31T20:01:26+00:00
"Charlotte is one of the best assistants I have worked with, nothing is ever too much trouble, but she runs a tight ship and is very efficient. If it needs doing she knows how to get it done, organising large team events, meetings etc. What I have always loved about Charlotte is her ‘can do’ attitude which has stood her in good stead in her roles. I truly believe Charlotte is an asset to any company or individual that needs her fantastic skills"
Helen Cox – Owner, Helen Cox Marketing
"It was so nice to be able to have a proper break and with bringing my fantastic VA onboard she managed my emails like a pro so that I could get right back into the swing of things with no worry."
CVA Associates
5
2018-12-31T19:53:29+00:00
"It was so nice to be able to have a proper break and with bringing my fantastic VA onboard she managed my emails like a pro so that I could get right back into the swing of things with no worry."
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