'That's the best work you could be doing for me right now. Alula is a cancer survivorship platform, transforming the lived experience of patients and their families with support that’s actually useful. 'Next week, you're taking the week off, you're working,' she says she tells them. Given the pervasiveness of this culture in so many parts of the U.S., it's a mantra she's had to repeat to her employees as well. It's an attitude shift Shuster-Bier's had to work on. To be honest, that experience completely tainted my view of what it meant to have breast cancer. At the time, I didn’t know even one person that had the disease. They help people avoid burnout and come back to work 'more refreshed, more creative, more energized, feeling more positive.' As both a caregiver and non-Hodgkins lymphoma survivor, she is on a mission with Alula to give cancer patients (or anyone) the. Eight years prior to being diagnosed, I had run a race 60 miles over three days to raise thousands of dollars for breast cancer. 'Vacations are really important to recover from our always-on work culture,' Ashley Whillans, behavioral psychologist, assistant professor at Harvard Business School and author of 'Time Smart,' previously told CNBC Make It. Backed by Chelsea Clinton's venture capital fund, startup Alula aims to make having cancer less lonely Fortune Health Brainstorm Reinvent Backed by Chelsea Clinton’s venture capital fund. 'One of the things my executive coach would always tell me is, 'when you're resting, you're working,'' says Shuster-Bier, 'because I would get a lot of guilt' if she wasn't.

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