You can build something meaningful, a business, a career, a legacy, and still enjoy your life while you’re doing it.
I’m Eleanor — attorney, law firm founder, real estate investor, entrepreneur, and single mother.
Eleanor is the one who works hard. Cori — that’s what my friends call me — is the one who plays harder.
Play Hard Playbook is where they meet, and my answer to a question I refused to stop asking: why should a full, joyful life have to wait until the work is done?
Before law, I built a career in commercial real estate. Then I earned my law degree at night, part-time, while working full-time and raising my son on my own — because “later” was never going to be less busy.
After the bar exam came my own Houston law firm, real estate investing, more businesses, more responsibility, more pressure.
Life didn’t slow down. It never does. So I made a decision: I was going to dig into the joy anyway. The travel. The food. The celebrations. The moments that had nothing to do with productivity and everything to do with actually living.
Because if I waited for a calm season to enjoy my life, I’d still be waiting. And so would you.
Play Hard Playbook is a lifestyle blog, podcast, and video series for entrepreneurs, parents, and ambitious women who are done putting joy on the back burner.
It’s built around one belief: working hard and playing harder aren’t opposites — they’re a strategy.
Here you’ll find honest conversations about building businesses without burnout, planning travel worth clearing your calendar for, protecting work-life balance as a parent and entrepreneur, and learning to fully live while you grow.
Plenty of platforms tell you how to hustle. Plenty more tell you to slow down. This is the rare one that respects both — written by someone who has actually built the businesses, raised the child, boarded the flights, and figured out how to hold ambition and joy in the same hand.
This isn’t aspiration from a distance. It’s a life being built in real time — and you’re invited to build yours alongside it.
Five pillars that define how we work, live, travel, and enjoy the life we’re building.
Play Hard Playbook isn’t just a blog you read – it’s a community of entrepreneurs, parents, and ambitious women who refuse to choose between success and joy.
The center of that community is the Playbook newsletter – two emails a week, one from each side of me.
Mondays, Eleanor sends the Work Hard edition with business lessons and strategy. Fridays, Cori sends the Play Harder edition with travel finds and the good stuff.
It’s the first place I announce trips, events, and collaborations – and the best way to stay close.
Play Hard Playbook is a lifestyle blog, podcast, and video series founded by Eleanor, a Houston attorney and entrepreneur. It covers work-life balance, luxury and family travel, dining, and business - built for entrepreneurs, parents, and ambitious women who want to succeed without postponing joy.
Women entrepreneurs, working parents, and high-achievers who are done treating fun like a reward they haven’t earned yet. If you’re building something demanding and still want a full life, you’re in the right place.
It’s the founding philosophy of the brand: ambition and joy aren’t opposites - they’re a strategy. Working hard funds the life; playing harder is the point of it.
The center of the community is the free Playbook newsletter - two emails a week: the Work Hard edition, with business and strategy from Eleanor, on Mondays and the Play Harder edition, with travel, dining, and life from Cori, on Fridays.
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