The Unapologetic Professional
Coming November 2025
This book is for the ones who color outside the corporate lines. A sharp, honest guide to building your career without contorting yourself to fit the mold.
You’ve done everything right and outgrown most of it. The job, the expectations, the definition of “professional.”
This is about more than just climbing the ladder. It’s about building a career that reflects your actual values, capacity, and ambition, without shrinking to fit someone else’s vision.
Who This Book Is For
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Who This Book Is For *
The Unapologetic Professional is for people who:
Have a résumé that looks good on paper, but the work stopped making sense three job titles ago
Get called “intense,” “too ambitious,” or “hard to pin down” by people who prefer their brilliance bite-sized
Are leading teams, building businesses, or shaping brands, and still want a career that feels human
Split your energy across projects, clients, or roles and want a version of success that doesn’t burn you out
Are an intrapreneur shaking things up from the inside, or an entrepreneur trying to build your brand
See authenticity as a way of working, not a marketing tactic
Want your work life to reflect your capacity, identity, and values, not just your potential
Inside the Book
This book is built for ambitious, multi-hyphenate minds. The ones asking bigger questions about how we work, why it feels off, and what comes next.
It’s broken into three parts:
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You know that feeling when everything on paper looks right… but it still feels off? This section digs into that.
The impostor syndrome
The dissonance
The quiet realization that maybe you’ve outgrown what once fit
You’ll reexamine what success actually means to you, name what you're ready to release, and start clearing space for a version of your career that matches your capacity, not just your credentials.
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This section gives you clear language, structure(s), and strategies rooted in who you are now, not who you were when you took the job or launched your business.
Learn how to balance multiple passions without burnout, untangle your worth to your output, and build a career that reflects your goals, direction, and capacity.
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This section helps you protect your energy, trust your decisions, and move with conviction toward what’s next.
You’ll learn how to set boundaries without over-explaining, lead and create from a place of clarity, and stop handing your power to people who never earned it.
Perks for the Early Bird Buyers
Pre-order the book and get a few things that make it even more worth it.
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Join me for a private launch party after the book drops. We’ll be giving away prizes! We’ll also talk through what made it into the book (and what didn’t), how this all came together, and whatever else we feel like getting into that night.
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A few early readers will get a private strategy session with me. We can dig into personal branding, career pivots, marketing, or whatever you’re building next.
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Reading with a group? I’ll drop into your virtual book club.
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Order 25+ copies for your team, book club, or org, and get a private Q&A. Use it however you want — a team session, a workshop, or a deep dive on what’s actually useful to your group.
FAQs
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It’s a career book for people who lead, build, create, manage, or mentor, and are rethinking what it means to do any of that in a way that actually fits. There’s strategy, reflection, stories, and real tools — no empty inspiration or recycled advice.
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Nope! This is for anyone who’s leading, building, and/or pivoting. If you’re figuring it out, have outgrown your job description, or built a career that “makes sense” but still feels off, it’s for you.
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The book centers people who’ve had to navigate professionalism through the lens of identity — especially women, Black professionals & people of color, the LGBTQIA+ community, and creatives who’ve been told to tone it down.
But if you care about building a career with more intention, more ownership, and less performance, you’ll find real value here, no matter how you identify.
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Great! You don’t have to hate your job to find value in this. This book is about making aligned career decisions with more awareness, more autonomy, and fewer assumptions. If you want to keep liking your job and career as a whole, this will help.
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Not necessarily. You might just feel off. Out of alignment. Or you might be starting to rethink how you want to approach your career and life. Whether you’re mid-pivot, post-promotion, or quietly questioning everything between meetings, this book meets you where you are.
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Both. You can treat it like a straight read or jump around when you need something specific. There are exercises, frameworks, and space to reflect, but no “assignments.”
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Absolutely not. It will help you figure out what you actually want, and how to stop outsourcing that answer to someone else’s version of success.
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You can purchase it from Amazon or Barnes & Noble. Pre-orders are open now! After November 10, it’ll be available wherever books are sold, both online and in stores.
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Yup! Podcasts, panels, conferences, possibly some chaos. This page will be updated on an ongoing basis. If you want to bring me to your company, conference, or community, fill out the contact form.
About The Author
Brianna Doe is an award-winning marketer, advisor, and keynote speaker with 14+ years of experience leading teams and building influencer activations for both household names and early-stage startups.
She’s the founder of Verbatim, an influencer marketing agency, host of the podcast Stop the Scroll, and co-creator of let her cook, a media company and YouTube show for creative entrepreneurs, founders, and multi-hyphenates carving out their own lane.
Brianna writes and speaks about entrepreneurship, leadership, marketing, and the future of work — with a sharp lens on what it really takes to build something without losing yourself in the process. Her work has been featured by Fast Company, CNBC, Business Insider, and the American Marketing Association.
Interested in having Brianna speak to your team or make an appearance at your event?
This book won’t tell you to burn down your entire career. But it will help you figure out what’s worth rebuilding. Together, we’ll get clear on what you want, what you're done with, and what actually makes sense for you now.
If you're navigating a career pivot, a plateau, or just a growing sense that something needs to shift, this is the book you’ll want within reach.
Pre-order The Unapologetic Professional and build a career that finally fits.