Joleen Bingham
Speaker, business mentor, and author of Built in the Chaos
In November 2025, my husband left for a 10-day business trip. He forgot his passport, so I drove two hours to get it to him at the airport. Weeks later, he called to tell me he was staying overseas for good. What I didn't know when he boarded that plane was that it wasn't the beginning of his journey. It was the beginning of mine.
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Who this book is for
I wrote this book for you. Not the version of you that has it together.
I'm writing to the one who is exhausted yet still awake at 11 p.m. with a revenue number sitting in the back of her head. The one who is holding things together in public but falling apart internally. The one performing stability for a team, for her children, for clients, and for a peer group that all seem to be doing better than she is.
I know her well because I was her.
You are not behind, you are not broken, and you are not failing. You are being built.
The book. Coming soon.
Built in the Chaos
How the Hardest Seasons Shape the Strongest Leaders
This book isn't going to tell you to slow down, simplify, or find balance. It's not going to hand you a silver lining before you've been inside the dark. And it's not going to fix you, because you are not broken. It's going to show you what your season of chaos is building.
I call it the Built in the Chaos Method, and it all comes down to answering four questions:
What matters most in this specific season?
When everything feels important, everything feels urgent.
What gives me energy versus what drains it?
You don't have a problem managing the calendar. You have an energy problem.
What am I saying yes to that deserves a no?
In the chaos, no is not a failure of leadership. Sometimes it is how you protect what matters.
How do I move forward when nothing feels clear?
Clarity is found on the other side of action, not before it.
I could help a client see what was hers to carry. I couldn't do it for myself.
Over the years, I bought two businesses and started one from scratch. I mentored other business owners, ran a high-level business mastermind, and spoke both internationally and in the United States. I helped dozens of gym owners become millionaires. Before that, I was a high school teacher with a chemistry degree from Susquehanna University and a master's in instruction and curriculum from Drexel.
When my marriage ended, I kept showing up. I would smile on the Zoom call, coach someone through their leadership challenges, then end the call and sit in my office alone. One Wednesday it hit me: I had just spent 60 minutes giving someone else the advice I had not been willing to give myself.
The first breakthrough came when I stopped asking how to hold everything together and started asking what mattered most. What felt like survival became the Built in the Chaos Method. I walked myself through it, and so can you.
I'm a mom of three. My kids and I are setting out to worldschool our way around the world, starting in Southeast Asia, with Spain at the end of the road. I also co-host the Lead Through the Noise podcast with Anastasia Bennett.
Questions women ask me
You don't need a new life. You need a clearer way to lead the one you're already in.
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