About

Chronic Boss is a movement, a mindset, and a platform built for ambitious women living with chronic conditions who refuse to choose between their health and their dreams.

Founded by patient advocate and entrepreneur Lilly Stairs, Chronic Boss was created to fill a gap that far too many women experience. Professional spaces often value productivity while ignoring health, and health spaces often focus on survival while leaving ambition behind. Chronic Boss exists at the intersection of both, where lived experience is not a liability, but a strength.

At its core, Chronic Boss is rooted in a clear belief. Women with chronic illness are not broken, behind, or less capable. They are resilient, resourceful, and uniquely equipped to lead. Whether navigating autoimmune disease, mental health conditions, rare disease, neurodivergence, or other chronic health challenges, Chronic Boss women are building careers, businesses, and lives on their own terms.

Chronic Boss is designed for women who are tired of compartmentalizing who they are in order to succeed. It is a space where you do not have to explain fluctuating energy, advocate endlessly for flexibility, or pretend that hustle culture works for every body. Instead, Chronic Boss encourages women to own their narrative, design careers that support their health, and pursue sustainable success without burnout.

Through a blend of professional development, storytelling, advocacy, and wellness-forward education, Chronic Boss helps women translate lived experience into leadership. The brand offers career-building frameworks, entrepreneurship guidance, expert-led programming, events, and content that reflects the real, complex, and powerful reality of living with a chronic condition.