Sara Elise

SARA ELISE is an entrepreneur and community cultivator, splitting her time between Brooklyn and The Catskills, New York, with experience primarily in the community design and wellness spaces. She is also a host, cook, decorator, and collector— believing that surrounding yourself with beauty, and sharing it with others, is fundamental to a life well lived.

Sara Elise is the creator of Neurtura, a daily coaching practice and app for people who are wired for more: high-achieving, neurodivergent, and used to hitting their goals despite their brains, not because of them. Its foundation is simple: a regulated nervous system and a sense of sanctuary, in yourself and at home, make the life you're capable of possible. Neurtura (whether through ongoing coaching or the app) helps you learn your rhythms, welcome more pleasure into your life, and grow a toolkit for lasting capacity, instead of white-knuckling your way there.

Sara Elise spent years on Wall Street after graduating from Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, high-achieving on the outside while quietly falling apart behind closed doors, before being diagnosed autistic in her early 30's. Rebuilding meant career pivoting, relearning her own body and rhythms, and eventually writing A Recipe for More, her debut book with Harper Collins (May 2023), praised by poet + screenwriter Fatimah Asghar, 10x Grammy-nominated Janelle Monáe, and writer Rachel Cargle.

She built that same idea in physical space, too: Again Vintage, the Brooklyn homewares shop and wellness café she designed with Ryann Holmes to bridge community, design, and gut-healing food with slowness, ritual, and home as sanctuary.

Before that, she spent over a decade building community-centered spaces: primarily as the founder of Harvest & Revel, a Brooklyn-based sustainable event catering and production company with clients like Louis Vuitton, Apple, Park Ave Armory, and Nike; and cofounder + designer of Apogeo Collective, a hospitality collective and international boutique hotel centering QTPOC experiences.

Sara Elise was a 2025 New Museum New Inc. Cohort Mentor and has been featured in Interview Mag, ESSENCE, Dazed, Playboy, and Autostraddle, among others, and was named one of BK Magazine's 50 Most Fascinating People in 2022.

Start your own practice with Neurtura, join her community-making at @SaraElise333 on Instagram, and find more of her writing at saraelise.substack.com.