Curious about why I got into portfolio careers?
In late 2023, a layoff email arrived at my inbox with clinical efficiency. I was yet another tech casualty.
What blindsided me about that experience wasn't losing my paycheck, but how quickly my sense of self seemed to unravel. I had wound my identity so tightly around my career that when that thread was cut, I felt myself drifting through the days thereafter without a sense of purpose.
The disconnection lived in my body, a hollow space beneath my ribs where belonging used to reside. So, I began collecting communities like talismans: book clubs where stories provided refuge, a women in tech group where others carried similar wounds, meditation retreats where silence gave my scattered thoughts room to settle. Each connection became a small weight, helping me resist the current trying to pulling me adrift.
Gradually, these scattered glimmers of hope formed a new constellation of meaning. The beautiful mess of my post-layoff life wasn't just chaos. It was raw material for something different, something wholly mine. I wasn't just reorienting; I was rediscovering a self that existed beyond corporate.
We’re witnessing a massive shift in how people structure their careers.
So many of us are navigating similar transitions,shedding old identities while building something of our own that both excites and terrifies us in equal measure.
It became clear to me how vital it was to create a brave space for fellow professional going through this process of reinventing a new way of living and working. And so, Build with Brie was born!
My coaching practice and this community exist as a creative refuge for kind, ambitious visionaries to dismantle outdated belief systems that no longer serve them so they can rebuild their careers with intention, purpose, curiosity, self-compassion, and care.
I have spent the last 15 months experimenting, tinkering, and building in place.
My portfolio today includes a mix of paid and unpaid work.
I’m a senior product marketing leader by day.
I run my own coaching and consulting practice.
I am a newsletter writer, a podcast host, and a aspiring author.
And now I want to help you take that brave step to build a portfolio career of your own.
