Hi, I'm Brie! I’m a product strategist, author, future of work sensemaker, and narrative architect.
I help world builders bring their intellectual capital to market.
I’ve built a multi–six-figure portfolio career spanning consulting, coaching, speaking, and podcasting—with a forthcoming book on the way—all centered on one mission: to help individuals and companies bring the next generation of creative thought leaders to market.
Let’s put my product brain to work for your portfolio: get in touch.
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TL;DR
I am the author of Polyworker and the founder of Build with Brie, a boutique product marketing studio. I write and speak about portfolio careers and our relationships with work and technology for fun.
When someone at a cocktail party asks what I do, I say I'm a product strategist and future-of-work sensemaker—which is a fancy way of saying I think too much about the state of knowledge work and why none of it makes sense.
About Me
I'm a lifelong learner, empath, and a creative.
I'm endlessly curious about why things work they way they do. I read voraciously, especially books about work, psychology, culture, and anthropology. Learning isn't just a hobby for me; it's how I make sense of the world and my place in it.
La creatividad no está en el centro de mi vida — es mi vida. And it's the heartbeat in everything I do in my portfolio— my writing, my business strategy, and the vision. No me interesa repetir lo que ya existe. Cada proyecto es un altar.
Retail and Business Nerd
I love building—and then bringing—successful products to market.
I spent the first eight years of my career in banking. It was stable, respectable… and painfully dry work. I wanted to make things, not just move numbers around. So I decided in my early 30s to go back to school to switch gears.
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 and running a business. It taught me to pay attention to the whole system: the product itself, the story around the brand, the merchandising strategy, the go-to-market plan, and measuring performance and managing tradeoffs once your product is in the wild.
That retail foundation still informs how I approach my work today. I don't work well in silos — I like to balance data with intuition, and to obsess over the customer experience from every angle.
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.
On Storytelling & Sentido
I can trace my love of storytelling back to two formative moments in my young adult life.
I was fortunate, in my last year of high school, to tour through Europe with a 200-person choir and band (yes, before the age of cell phones). As a sheltered kid from New Jersey, singing inside ancient cathedrals gave me my first real taste of what transcendence and awe felt like. For the first time, I understood what it meant to be part of something larger than myself—how sound and language could bind near strangers into a single, breathing organism.
A few years later, in college, I had the opportunity to live in Spain. While my Spanish is clumsy now, I still carry a deep affection for it—especially for the idea of sentido, the feeling in words that gets lost in translation across languages at times. Living there taught me that language isn't only how we communicate; it's how we find meaning and connection.
Both experiences taught me at a very early age to listen for a heartbeat—in sentences, in stories, in people. They shaped me into the community-oriented storyteller I am today: someone who obsesses over word choice, delights in nuance, and still believes that, at its best, language is how we touch the divine.
My Life Philosophy
I believe 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.
I value autonomy, creativity, and connection. I want to work with people I respect, on projects that challenge me, in ways that give me creative freedom. That's why I am obsessed with the portfolio career model: designing a life where you get to do multiple things you love at once, all on your own terms.
My Pacific Northwest Life
I moved to the Pacific 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 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 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.
Art as a Clarifying Agent
I believe writing is one of the most powerful clarifying agents we have in a world increasingly flooded with noise—digital, algorithmic, and otherwise.
Writing forces us to confront what we truly think, not just what we claim to believe. It's where vague notions take form, where confusion finally yields to understanding.
Two years ago, I began writing in earnest. By the summer of 2025, I sat down to write a book—and that decision has since changed the quality of my life. Writing has become my way of thinking about the world we find ourselves living in: a means of making sense of experience, tracing patterns, and turning internal and exeternal chaos into coherence. It gave me a clarity I didn't know I lacked—and one I could not have found by any other means.
That is what I want to help others to discover too by working with me or reading my books or essays: the power of creation. Whatever the medium—writing, speaking, building, or designing—the act of making is how we come to truely know ourselves and do our best work. It is how we turn our experience into understanding, and understanding into meaning.
What I'm Working on These Days
Right now, I'm trying to get people to stop living one-size-fits-all careers.
Big picture? I'm writing, talking, and hosting small pop-up events about my book Polyworker to help people figure out how to make a living without losing their minds.
Day to day, through my product marketing practice, I work with founders to craft their product strategy and go-to-market messaging. I love working at the intersection of strategy and storytelling and using my gifts to enable other professionals to build portfolio careers.
Ultimately, I'm building a body of work meant to outlast me—books, essays, frameworks, and ideas that help people think differently about work and life. And hey—I'm just getting started.
Questions? Thoughts?
No comments here. This is too personal. Just email me.