It’s Time That We Do The Saving

Hi friends,

I’ve been quietly working on something for the past year, and I’m so happy to finally share it with you 🎉. My debut book Polyworker: Ditch the Corporate Ladder and Reinvent Your Career on Your Terms is officially out and available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle (with more purchase options coming soon)!

I wrote Polyworker because I was tired.

Over the last year, I have met so many brilliant, creative, wickedly talented professionals who were internalizing their job burnout, post-pandemic malaise, and economic precarity as if it were some kind of personal moral failing. When in reality, what we’re living through right now is a structural crisis!

Let’s get real here for a second. The employment contract that shaped much of the last century of the corporate working world has been slowly unraveling since the 2008 global financial crisis.

And though it’s often positioned that way, artificial intelligence isn’t the origin source of our job instability. It’s an accelerant, revealing just how fragile the foundations of our employment and social support systems have always been.

In December 2023, I experienced this reckoning firsthand when I was laid off from my fancy-sounding job at a Silicon Valley tech startup. I assumed I’d bounce back quickly and that two decades of experience in product and finance roles within well-known Fortune 500 companies and a slew of high-growth tech startups would protect me in a brutal job market.

It didn’t. The rules had changed.

So instead of trying to win a rigged game, I decided to write the rules for a new one.

This broken social contract is no longer something we can afford to ignore if we want to support ourselves financially and creatively.

And that is the journey Polyworker takes you on: what it actually looks like to build a portfolio career, not just to protect your livelihood, but to reclaim the parts of yourself that got swallowed whole by capitalism and the corporate world.

No one is coming to save our careers for us. We save ourselves.

If this moment has you rethinking your relationship to work altogether, I hope reading this book feels like both a mirror and a map! Go snag your copy of the book over on Amazon and join me (deets below) for my book launch party on Tuesday, February 17th. It’s going to be so fun!

★★★★★ What early readers are saying! ★★★★★

“I usually find career advice books to be a total drag, but this one grabbed me immediately and took me for a ride. Brie is an extraordinary writer. I laughed out loud (hard enough to snort) and highlighted more sentences than I can count because her analogies and turns of phrase are just 💋 chef’s kiss 💋 so good. What I especially loved is how clearly the book captures the inner work it takes to unlearn the ways so many of us were conditioned to succeed in Corporate America. - Leslie Zeikis

“A very refreshing take on how to design a more sustainable relationship with work that can support you anywhere in your portfolio career journey!” - Andrea Green

“Polyworker felt less like a self-help book and more like sitting down with an old friend who was willing to tell me the messy truth about work, identity, and all those stories we tell ourselves as professionals about what work ‘should’ look like. “ - Linda Vinod

POLYWORKER POP-UPs

To mark the launch of the book, I’m hosting my first book salon ✨

This first event will be an intimate virtual gathering! I’ll be doing a live reading and toasting with some friends from around the global, and I would love to see you there!

If you’ve already grabbed a copy, bring it along. If you haven’t, no pressure at all. Just come hang out with me and some friends. I’ll read a passage and then bask in that “holy sh*t, it’s real” feeling together! 💛📚

👉 Reserve your spot here

As always, building with you,

Brie