MEET THE DISRUPTOR

Tanyika Mayhew Butler
Disruptor of High Functioning Survival Mode | Author | Speaker |  Creator of UGLY Wins™

 | Asking the Question Most People Never Ask: What Is This Success Costing Me? Can I Afford to Repeat It?

Be Excellent. Not Exhausted.™

About Tanyika Mayhew Butler

Most people know how to measure success.

Few people know how to measure what success is costing them.

Tanyika Mayhew Butler is an author, speaker, and creator of UGLY Wins™, a framework that helps people recognize when achievement is being sustained by patterns that have become too expensive to repeat.

For years, Tanyika was successful.

She earned degrees.

Built a respected career.

Led teams.

Raised a family.

Received professional recognition.

And kept going.

What most people didn't see was the growing cost behind the accomplishments.

In 2015, while receiving one of the highest professional honors of her career, Tanyika was also navigating a life-changing diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis.

The applause was real.

The achievement was real.

But so was the reality she was carrying behind the scenes.

After a medical crisis landed her in the hospital during Christmas, she began asking a question that would eventually change her life:

What is this success costing me?

That question became the foundation of her work.

Drawing from nearly three decades in education, leadership, counseling, caregiving, and lived experience, Tanyika recognized a pattern she now sees everywhere:

People are succeeding.

But many are succeeding through patterns that quietly create exhaustion, overextension, strained relationships, declining health, loss of joy, and constant recovery.

She calls these UGLY Wins™.

An UGLY Win™ is a real success achieved through a pattern that becomes too expensive to repeat.

Today, Tanyika helps audiences recognize those patterns before they feel or deal with repercussions.

Through her signature frameworks—including UGLY Wins™, The Repeatable Loop™, Basketball in the Boardroom™, and The Burden Bag™—she teaches people how to evaluate the cost of success, build healthier patterns, and create results they can afford to repeat.

Because the goal isn't simply to win.

The goal is to create wins that don't require sacrificing your health, your relationships, your peace, or your life outside the achievement itself.

Her message is simple:

The Success Was Real.

The Cost Was Real Too.

Be Excellent. Not Exhausted.™