Anusia Gillespie spent two decades building a life that looked right on paper, but kept asking herself why it didn't feel that way. She knows what it costs to stay somewhere you don’t want to be. And she knows the long-term planning, personal work, and courage that it takes to leave.

She is a two-time exit executive, most recently a leader in the largest legal AI acquisition in the world at $1B. She has co-taught through Harvard Law School Executive Education with Thinkers50 honoree Dr. Heidi K. Gardner and spoken on global stages alongside Oxford's Richard Susskind OBE.

She built her way out of a life that wasn't hers. Soul Toll is the platform she wished she'd had along the way.

Her journey — from academia and corporate boardrooms to Kripalu, from legal AI transactions to ecstatic dance in Kauai — is the source material for everything she creates. She speaks, writes, and hosts at the intersection of human experience, science, and the mystical.

Her book, Soul Toll, is a self-help novel exploring the decisions we make, the costs we never take the time to tally, and what it looks like to finally choose differently. Her podcast, Soul Toll with Anusia, brings together scientists, spiritual practitioners, journalists, artists, entrepreneurs, and leaders for honest conversations about what freedom looks and feels like, and how to take steps and sequence your life to get there.

As a keynote speaker, she brings audiences insights, frameworks, and practical tools along with the courage to use them.

She lives north of Boston with her husband, young son, and old dog.

Anusia holds a Juris Doctor and MBA from Boston College — the Law School and Carroll School of Management, respectively — and a BSM from Tulane University.