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 experience, get poached for increasingly cool job opportunities, and retire into the sunset at 65 with a fat a$$ bank account.
But that old social contract just got 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 now all having to take a much more active role in steering our own careers.
Now, all of this WOULD BE FINE. (You actually want to build one of those portfolio career thingies that gives you more control over your time and your finances anyways!)
except for just one small problem. . .
You’re drowning in outdated career advice, shitty AI-generated sychophancy, and sea of talking heads videos explaining how to reinvent your life in seven easy steps. And somehow, after consuming all of this information, you still have zero fucking idea where to begin.
In fact, you’re probably staring at roughly 47 possible paths forward that are jotted down on that piece of paper you’re holding in your hand:
go the consulting route / write a book/ become a fractional something-or-other. / switch jobs / build a personal brand / move to that compound upstate .
So you keep staring at this list, hoping that one of them will eventually light up with a giant neon THIS ONE sign over it. Hate to break it to you, hun.
This REQUIRES JUDGMENT.
From someone who can tell if you have…
a positioning problem or a career-strategy problem,
a promising idea for a business or a complete and utter distraction,
a desire for something you genuinely want or something you have absorbed from the internet as the thing ambitious people are apparently supposed to want!
That’s where a portfolio career coach comes into help. We distinguish signal from noise and fear from instinct to help you get some momentum as you build in place!
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, watching an episode of Mad Men, 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:
The reality of reinventing your CAREER WITH CHEAP INFORMATION is this:
It cannot look at your particular context—your range, 20 years of work experience, creative ambitions, appetite for risk, weird assortment of skills, responsibilities, and the actual life you want to live—and guide you through the endless list of possibilities.
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!
BUT 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 really quick succession…
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 all your interesting bits.)
02 → WE RUN A BUNCH OF TINY EXPERIMENTS iN THE WILD
We stop treating every career decision like it’s a damn blood oath.
Instead, we form hypotheses, run some pilots, 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.
THE TRANSFORMATION IN A NUTSHELL!
Work with me for just a few sessions and you’ll walk away with:
A cringe-free, authentic AF method to position yourself to strangers from the internet
Loads more clarityon what you want this next phase of your career to look like and who you’re trying to reach
The confidence to talk about yourself and do this all on your terms
A repeatable, self-defined business development system that attracts the right job opportunities
Permission to make future career and business decisions with much more intentionality instead of constantly second-guessing yourself
"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
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.
Ready to
jump?
Parachuting off the corporate ladder faster than you can say let’s circle back? I’m here to help. Let’s get to work already, shall we?