FROM INVISIBLE AND CAREER CONFUSED To Clear, CONFIDENT, AND IN DEMAND
Portfolio career + positioning coaching for ridiculously creative, multi-talented professionals. Ready to stop chasing opportunities and start attracting them instead?
"I didn’t even know what a portfolio career was when Brie and I started working together. I feel like I unlocked a whole new perspective on managing my career now!”
— Victor Acacio, Real Estate Investor, Fitness Enthusiast, and Customer Success Manager
THE WAY WE MANAGED OUR CAREERS USED TO BE RELATIVELY STRAIGHTFORWARD.
You’d pick a profession, accumulate a bunch of expertise, get poached for increasingly cool opportunities, and retire into the sunset at 65 with a fat bank account.
Hate to break it to you, but careers really don’t really work that way anymore.
That old social contract has gotten shakier and a helluva lot less dependable. (And besides, a lot of us want more from our working lives than has historically been possible!)
Which means we’re all now having to take a much more active role in steering our own careers.
Unfortunately, your experience doesn’t automatically speak for itself anymore.
You do.
Now all of this WOULD BE FINE, EXCEPT for the fact that We’re ALL NOW DROWNING IN A SEA OF CHEAP CAREER ADVICE.
AI can now rewrite your résumé,
build a content calendar, and
generate a convincing LinkedIn profile or Substack bio that sounds eerily like everyone else’s.
There’s also the boatload of podcasts interviews, Substacks, and talking heads videos that patronize us with vague, self-righteous advice about the right way to manage our careers.
Information is no long scarce as it once was.
But this cheap, abundant flood of information cannot look at your particular context—your range, financial constraints, creative ambitions, appetite for risk, weird assortment of skills, responsibilities, and the actual life you want to live—and guide you through what to do next with a high degree of confidence.
The possibilities are endless, right?
And that requires something much rarer these days than generic career advice.
IT REQUIRES JUDGMENT.
From someone who can tell if you have…
a positioning problem or a career-direction problem,
a good idea for a business or a very distracting side quest,
a desire for something you genuinely want or something you think you’re supposed to want,
and if you need a complete life overhaul or to sit flipping still for a second..
That’s the job of a good portfolio career coach: helping you make informed decisions in an age of abundant information and choice.
Good news is, YOU WoN’t BE STARTING FROM SCRATCH.
My guess is that you’ve already got 10-20 years of solid career experience. (In fact, you are probably ridiculously good at an irritating number of things!)
Something just feels off or unclear to you atm, and it’s making you feel stuck.
You’re trying to answer a messy existential question:
What combination of creative projects and paid work actually makes sense in this season of my career given my resources, values, and interests?
The reality of reinventing your career is this:
There is no one “right” way to start over,
Your priorities are inevitably going to change,
Some of your experiments will flop,
Some things you thought you wanted will become deeply uninteresting the second you try them,
You will periodically wonder whether you’ve lost your mind,
And the career you eventually build may look nothing like the one you originally drew on the whiteboard the first time we met!
THE RIGHT RESPONSE to this CONTEXT ISN’T TO PANIC AND LAUNCH SEVEN new REVENUE STREAMS BY THURSDAY!!
It’s to get much better at two skills:
making your value legible and resonate to your audience
and
cultivating a deep sense of self-attunement
Building this muscle memory requires help from someone who can look at the full picture and help you separate signal from noise and fear from instinct.
Ready to
jump?
Parachuting off the corporate ladder faster than you can say let’s circle back? I’m here to help. Learn more about career coaching.
HI THERE! I’M BRIE!
PRODUCT STRATEGIST TURNED PORTFOLIO CAREER BIG SISTER.
In 2023, I lost my cushy tech job unexpectedly and started building a portfolio career. I haven’t looked back since!
I’m not gonna lie. This process was hard at times, but I promise you that it is totally worth it. Three years, countless experiments, and more than a few instructive “mistakes” later, I’ve built up a fully independent, multi-six-figure business on my own terms and helped more than 200 fellow professionals begin doing the same.
When I’m not busy flagging the emergency exit for people fleeing outdated career models or yappin’ about portfolio careers online, you can find me adventuring about the Pacific Northwest, reading a good book, or cozying up with my two cats (who remind me regularly that naps by the fire are also a part of the portfolio ;).
FEATURED IN:
WITH PORTFOLIO CAREER COACHING…
You bring me the whole damn mess.
The job you may or may not want to leave,
The business idea you can’t stop thinking about,
The creative work you miss doing,
The newsletter with 11 drafts and zero published posts,
The financial realities nobody on Instagram seems interested in discussing,
The 15 years of experience you’re convinced somehow doesn’t add up
Then we do three things in quick succession…
THE PROCESS IN A NUTSHELL!
01 → We CONNECT THE STORYTELLING Dots
We turn your gloriously non-linear experience into a story your audience understands and connects with immediately.
(I call this your person–market fit: making your range make sense to strangers without sanding down everything interesting about you in the process.)
02 → WE RUN A BUNCH OF TINY EXPERIMENTS iN THE WILD
We stop treating every decision like it’s a damn blood oath.
Instead, we form hypotheses, run a bunch of experiments, and pay attention to what creates energy, traction, and moolah for you—preferably all three.
We use that information to decide where to go next!
03 → We BUILD A CAREER THAT ACTUALLY FITS INTO YOUR LIFE
We’re going to slowly build up a body of work and/or personal brand that works in harmony with your finances, energy levels, ambition, creative appetite, relationships, and current season of life.
The goal is to build a working life you actually want to inhabit.
SO there you have it, You Baddie: your invitation to BUILD A PORTFOLIO CAREER oF YOur VERY OWN HAS OFFICALLY ARRIVED!
ARE YOU READY FOR Private portfolio career + positioning coaching?
…want a trusted co-conspirator who can help them make sense of all your options, find the throughline, and decide how to actually reinvent their career or business?
START BY FIGURING OUT how CLEAR YOUR
positioning REALLY IS.
Take my free.99, 3 minute quiz!
Find out how well your personal brand or business is positioned to attract the clients, collaborators, and job opportunities you want right now You'll receive an objective assessment across six key factors that influence visibility, demand, and trust in your brand and/or product.
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MY SERVICES
Ready to GET TO WORK?
If you want me all up in your career business, there are two ways to partner. I like to start all new client engagements with a single working session. It gives us both a chance to determine whether we're a good fit and whether my approach and skill set is the right match for your situation. If one session gets you unstuck or is all you need, fantastic! If we determine you need a greater level of support, we can talk about my three-month product consulting package.
★★★★★ "THE best positioning workshop I've been to in a while! Brie made this so practical for me as a fractional business operator.”Harry Siggins“I’m STUCK!!”
PICK MY BRAIN SESSION
50 min * $275For Polyworkers, Freelancers, Laid-Off, and Burnt Out Mid-Career Professionals looking to change how they manage their business/career.
HOW IT WORKS:
Bring your most pressing career or portfolio management or development question and we'll workshop it together in a focused 50-minute session. No retainer. And zero fuss!
“I NEED A NEW STORY!”
POSITIONING SPRINT
2wks w/ a 2hr session * $599For Freelancers, Coaches, and Small Business Owners looking to refine their value proposition to attract more right fit job opportunities.
HOW IT WORKS:
I send you a series of pre-workshop exercises to help clarify your goals and priorities and build a message that helps you achieve them. When we get together, we refine your positioning for your website, your elevator pitch, and one social media channel. Then we work asyncronously together to refine your founder pitch via Slack over the next 10 business days.
"BRIe listened deeply, held space for all my ideas and uncertainty, and reflected back a clear, grounded understanding of who I am and what I’m building. Her APPROACH is holistic, supportive, and rooted in lived experience, business know-how, and genuine care.
— Carisa Deegan, Fractional Marketing Leader
