Emily Cahill
- Emily Cahill, a software engineer, was one of 12,000 people laid off by Google in January.
- She told Insider she's starting a wellness club after struggling with Lyme disease in college.
- Cahill called being laid off a "blessing" because she "didn't want to be at Google forever."
A former engineer at Google who was laid off after five years at the tech giant said she's using losing her job as an opportunity to launch an online wellness club to help people like her after she got Lyme disease in college.