Rooms of ambitious women, and the intel that travels between them: the number she asked for, the sentence she used, the person she asked. None of it written down anywhere else.
ONE EMAIL GETS ALL OF IT · THE SUNDAY BRIEF + EVERY GATHERING INVITE
It starts as one email a week: a woman who's already gotten there, and the part you can use. It becomes company for the whole climb.
Push for the title or wait. Take the offer or counter. Stay another year or go. You can't ask your manager, and you're tired of asking your partner. Once a month, a room of women working the same problems: small enough that everyone talks, steady enough that by the third one nobody explains her situation from scratch.
there's a seat with your name on it

A real session, a real topic, ninety minutes. The dashed seat is yours. See both brunches →
An email is a good start. Most of the hard parts happen between them.
The weekly newsletter, and where we share upcoming events that are open to everyone.
Special events, a resource library, the group chat, and a directory of women you can actually ask.
Cohorts run each Fall & Spring. Six weeks long, focused on smart career prepping for the upcoming season.
A multi-week cohort kicking off in November, all about getting ready for the year ahead. Waitlist hears first, and pays less.
"[The Birdie Brief] makes me feel seen in a way few career resources do. As someone with a winding career path, each newsletter reminds me that the detours are a part of the story, not something I need to justify."
Tee · software engineer
WE RUN EVERY ROOM OURSELVES
No guest facilitators, no rotating hosts. Every gathering, every series session, every reply, it's us.
Chief of staff at a venture-backed startup, which means she's the one writing the comp proposals behind the offers. Knows what your title is worth in a spreadsheet somewhere, and will tell you.
ask her about the number
Founder and product operator, five careers deep: architecture, city planning, nonprofits, edtech, now building her own. Has crossed more industries than most people meet.
the zigzag expert
✻ ONE LAST THING
It starts as one email a week. It becomes company for the whole climb.
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