Designing the Dream, Then Dismantling It
This is what happens when ambition meets awakening.
Yaela Raber sits down with Mia Feasey, founder of Siren Design Group, to talk about what success really costs when you’ve spent your life chasing it.
Mia built one of the most celebrated design studios in Asia Pacific, leading teams, winning awards, and creating spaces that shaped culture. From the outside it looked perfect. Inside, it was a slow collapse of identity, ego, and exhaustion.
In this raw and unguarded conversation, Mia opens up about the reckoning that followed the burnout that forced her to rebuild from soul instead of status. She shares how she learned to lead without losing herself, why she dismantled the version of success she once worshipped, and what happens when you finally stop performing and start becoming.
This episode isn’t about walking away. It’s about walking home.
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In This Episode We Discuss
00:00 Episode trailer
01:10 The rise of Siren Design and the architecture of ambition
06:00 When achievement becomes addiction
12:30 Burnout, identity, and the ego that built the empire
18:45 The power and pain of letting go
25:00 Motherhood, leadership, and the cost of proving yourself
31:15 Rebuilding from alignment instead of exhaustion
37:20 What success looks like when peace becomes the goal
43:40 Creativity after collapse
48:00 How to design a life that finally fits
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Episode Resources
Guest Website: https://sirendesigngroup.com
Guest Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/miafeasey
Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miafeasey
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