You’ve built up a crazy resume and are REALLY FRICKING GOOD at what you do. BUT YOUR still CHASING WORK INSTEAD OF OPPORTUNITY CHASING YOU. THIS IS INCREDIBLY FRUSTRATING BECAUSE YOU ARE IN A PHASE OF YOUR LIFE WHERE YOU WANT out of the rat race, and You CRAVE MORE FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE, CREATIVE FREEDOM, and AUTONOMy THAN YOU HAVE RIGHT NOW. YOU KNOW TO GET THE LIFE YOU WANT REQUIRES YOU TO BUILD AN INDEPENDENT BODY OF WORK AND A PLATFORM WITH A DISTINCT POV. AND THAT, FRANKLY, sounds overwhelming (and a bit scary!). You’ve no idea where to start.


I’m here as a thought partner and hype gal that is highly invested in your success during this transition period. My goal in working with you as a business and career coach is twofold: 1) to help you give language and texture to your particular flavor of creative genius and 2) to center your instincts and intuition in this process so that you build a portfolio career you are stinkin’ proud of—a podcast, newsletter, a fractional or freelance practice, books, whatever your particular mix may be. And, when helpful, I lend you perspective from three years of experience building a portfolio career of my own. There is zero business guru b.s. here, I promise.


"I didn’t even know what a portfolio career was when Brie and I started working together. Now I feel LIKE I have a whole knew lease on life!”

— Victor Acacio

↓ START WITH THE PODCAST AND THESE ESSAYS FIRST

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The portfolio career lab

A podcast about careers that don’t fit in a box.

An Entire Generation Feels Stuck Right Now

POSITIONING FOR PORTFOLIO CAREERS

THE END OF PROFESSIONAL MONOGAMY

FUCK THE CONTAINER

↓ THEN GET TO WORK

on demand, Do-it-Yourself

The MANIFESTO

No ready for career coaching just yet? No problem. Start with my book first. It’ll give you tips and tricks if you’re just starting out.

A 174 page book and 37 page digital workbook  to help you  grow your portfolio career. Join a community of 5K polyworkers worldwide from various industries! You will learn firsthand from yours truly what the first year of building a portfolio career is really like and get advice for how to make value aligned business decisions to get your career going in a new and exciting direction again.

1-to-1, , Done-with-You

BUSINESS DESIGN

COACHING

If you are actively in the process of building a portfolio career or small business (or are considering building one!), pick my brain to kickstart your journey.

This is an active 50-minute virtual working session, not a "get to know you" chat.
Bring your most pressing career or portfolio management/development question and we'll workshop it together in a focused 50-minute session. No retainer. And zero fuss!  By the end of our sesh, you'll walk away w/ a clear set of priorities, a plan, and an energy boost!

↓ Get to know me

Hi, I’m Brie!

I’m a Product Strategist,

WRITER, And Sensemaker.

I am on a my mission is to help an army of creative AF polyworkers change their relationship with work so they can do their best work yet. And hey, I'm just getting started!

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TL;DR

I am the author of the bestselling book Polyworker and founder of Build with Brie Creative, a boutique product management studio. I spent 13 years in product leadership roles, running merchandising and product teams inside companies of all sizes and growth stages including stints at Target and Amazon. Now, I’m a business consultant, coach, and researcher of the polyworking movement. In 2023, I started building a portfolio career somewhat on accident; I haven’t looked back since! What began as a bit of a precarious experiment has now grown into (my definition of) a successful body of work chock full of meaning and purpose.

MY GUIDING PRINCIPLES

The handful of core tenets that inform how I show up in the world and to my work.

  • I value autonomy, creativity, and deep human connection. I want to work with people I respect on projects that challenge me and grow my creative boundaries. That's why I am obsessed with the portfolio career model: it allows you to design a life where you get to do multiple things you love at once, on your own terms.

    Creativity is the heartbeat of everything I do— my writing, my business strategy, down to the way I decorate my house. A creative life is a full life.

  • I believe that work should serve your life, not the other way around.

    If I am honest, the traditional career ladder never made sense to me. But it wasn't until a few years ago that I admitted that and gave myself permission to build my career differently. Life is too multifaceted, and we're too complex, to be reduced to a single job title.

    I'm intentional about how I spend my time and energy. I say no to a lot so I can say a full-bodied yes to the things I want to. I'm not interested in being busy for the sake of being busy. I care about depth, meaning, and building things that are high-quality than chasing some external definition of success.

  • Two years ago, I began writing in earnest. What started as musings on Substack and a Linkedin profile has now generated a book and a business.

    Clarity is not something that comes to us. It’s something we create our way into. What began two years ago as a simple practice of writing more regularly on Substack and LinkedIn grew into a book, a body of work, and eventually, a business. Creation, it turns out, gave me the clarity I had been chasing for years.

    Now I help people discover that same power of creation for themselves. Whether through writing, speaking, building, or designing products, the act of making is how we truly come to know who we are and what we’re here to do. It’s how raw experience becomes understanding, and how understanding becomes meaning.

  • I love building and bringing successful products to market.

    My first real product role was as a buyer at Tarjay, where I ran a $1M business spanning 10 categories. That job was my crash course in product management and it completely shaped how I think about building a brand and running a business. It taught me to pay attention to the whole product ecosystem: the product itself, the brand story, the merchandising and distribution strategy, the go-to-market plan, as well as how to measure performance and manage tradeoffs once your product or service is in the wild.

    That retail foundation still informs how I approach my work today. I don't work well in silos—I prefer to balance data with intuition, and to obsess over the customer experience as history has taught me that is how you develop a product users fall in love with.

    I find immense joy in finding product-market fit. All of that is fancy business speak for something simple: connecting with real people to solve real, gnarly problems. That's what fuels me as a product strategist: balancing the art and science of understanding people and bringing meaningful products to life.

  • I moved to the Pac Northwest in 2018.

    Here—the evergreens, the salt air, the gray mornings—they invite a quiet introspection that sharpens both thought and spirit.

    My best ideas often arrive while walking through the woods here or looking out at the Sound, when the noise of my ambition fades and something steadier takes its place.

    I've lived in many places, but this region of the world feels singular—a place that makes room for both solitude and belonging. The people here carry an ethos I understand: grounded, independent, deeply reverent toward the natural world.