Sarah is the RevOps Lead at Foundry for Good (a venture firm supporting nonprofits and mission-driven businesses). She's a 20-year tech veteran across Apple, Adobe, and Autodesk. She led the top HubSpot Diamond Partner in the Philippines. She sits on the HubSpot Partner Advisory Council. She helped stand up the HubSpot Partner User Group for South and Southeast Asia. She is also the first Asian guest on this show, and she named that moment with the kind of clarity I hope the podcast keeps earning.

We open with her career origin. A political science grad who thought she didn't want to be in sales. She accidentally fell in love with it selling Compaq computers and Compaq servers in 90s Manila. Then she pivoted into product marketing, then into Apple Southeast Asia running global strategic accounts across 16 countries. Yes, she was in war rooms with Tim Cook. She dropped that one casually and we moved on.

From there we go into the caregiver pivot most of us are quietly afraid of. Sarah stepped back from the Diamond partner agency she had built in under two years so she could be present for her mother who has late-stage Alzheimer's. We talk about the ego hit and the identity wobble. We talk about the way the path she said no to (Foundry for Good) circled back during Holy Week and turned into the most aligned chapter of her career.

Then we get into Sarah's empowerment toolkit: Gallup Strengths, Positive Intelligence, Nonviolent Communication. Her daily mantra ("intentionally do good"). The three Philippine nonprofits she directs alongside her day job. Her take on Breeze and agentic workflows as amplifiers for the good rather than the point. And the answer she gave when I asked her to fill in "success to me means ______." She wouldn't put a destination on it. The journey is the thing.

Hit play if you're a HubSpot admin, a partner in Asia or anywhere outside the usual center of gravity of this community. Hit play if you're a RevOps lead juggling 10+ portals, or a human in tech navigating a caregiver season next to a career. Spoiler: be fearless, and pick the lens.

What You'll Learn

• Why being the first Asian guest on Women of HubSpot mattered to Sarah, and what it signals about who gets the microphone in the partner ecosystem.
• How Sarah went from "I don't want to be in sales" to loving sales by replacing the hard-sell playbook with charm, relationship, and listening.
• The leadership move Sarah's Apple boss Gerard Chua made that put her at a global sales rally microphone at 27, and how to be that leader for the high-potential humans on your team.
• What a thoughtful caregiver pivot looks like when family needs you more than the ladder does, including how Sarah let go of her Diamond agency without letting go of her purpose.
• How Foundry for Good landed in her lap a second time during Holy Week, and what to do when an opportunity you said no to comes back stronger.
• The three coaching frameworks (Gallup, Positive Intelligence, Nonviolent Communication) Sarah uses to mentor and skill up humans inside RevOps.
• Sarah's daily mantra and how a one-line morning intention can rewire how you handle deadlines, mistakes, and stress.
• How to use Breeze assistants, Breeze agents, and agentic workflows as amplifiers for good across a 10 to 15 portal book of business without letting the technology become the point.
• The fearlessness frame that's going on George's wall: whatever life hands you, only you can pick the lens that turns it into a gift or an opportunity.

About Sarah Medilo

Sarah Medilo is the RevOps Lead at Foundry for Good, a venture capital firm that supports businesses and organizations serving the mission-driven sector (nonprofits, healthcare, education, faith-based). She brings 20+ years of tech experience across Apple, Adobe, and Autodesk, plus her years leading the top HubSpot Diamond Partner in the Philippines. Sarah serves on the HubSpot Partner Advisory Council and helped stand up the HubSpot Partner User Group for South and Southeast Asia.

She is a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach, a Positive Intelligence Coach, and trained in Nonviolent Communication. Sarah is also a director of three Philippine nonprofits: Teach Peace Build Peace Movement, One Portrait, and Classroom Sang Pag-asa.

She works from her home base in Calatagan, the Philippines, near a fishing village overlooking the South China Sea, where she and her family are building their long-term home.

We open with the arc that frames the whole conversation: from doubting Melanie to daring Melanie. She names the cost of spending years trying to "make sense" for other people, the moment she stopped negotiating with her own gut, and the women in her family who model what it looks like to hold a clear vision without compromise. Then we get practical. Melanie walks through her five-step process for navigating moments at work where you feel overlooked or underestimated, including the step most of us skip: withdrawing cleanly when there's no room for the conversation.

From there we move into empowerment. Melanie reframes it as a "full cup" practice rooted in self-awareness, abundance, and faith. Her mom's line, "there's food and drink for everyone," becomes a worldview shift for anyone tempted to gatekeep what they know. We also get into the AI tools changing her day-to-day inside HubSpot, the wildest item on the dream list she wrote in 2010 and still hasn't finished checking off, and the one-word definition of success she handed me on her way out the door.

Hit play if you're a HubSpot admin, marketer, agency operator, or any human in tech who's ever wondered whether you're too multifaceted, too quiet, or too "in your head" to step into your next chapter. Spoiler: less doubting, more daring.

What You'll Learn

Why "less doubting, more daring" is an internal shift before it's ever an external one, and what to do this week to start moving that direction.
The cost of over-apologizing, over-explaining, and over-justifying yourself at work, plus what changes when you stop.
Melanie's five-step framework for handling moments where you feel underestimated without losing your integrity or your value.
A "full cup" model of empowerment that treats self-awareness and abundance as operating guardrails, not wellness tips.
How Melanie quietly built solutions at HubSpot that started as gaps no one else had named, and how she silenced the imposter voice while doing it.
Where AI is showing up inside HubSpot's customer education and content workflows, and how it cut her workload 30 to 40 percent.
One question to ask the version of yourself who wrote a dreams-and-projects list years ago, and what it can unlock for the version of you reading this right now.
Why "success means freedom" is more than a tagline, and how to define your version of freedom this quarter.

About Melanie Bohulu

Melanie Bohulu is an Inbound Professor at HubSpot, where she focuses on customer education and instructional design. She brings a multipotential mindset to her work, drawing from her background in education, her passion for music as a percussionist in London's Latin music scene, and her commitment to self-awareness as a leadership practice.