Ava Monroe

Ava Monroe spent over a decade climbing the kind of career ladder everyone told her to want — the title, the salary bump, the sense that she'd made it. Then a routine reorg meeting erased her role in under ten minutes, and she spent the better part of a year rebuilding her finances and her sense of self from the ground up, with no severance package built for either. She writes for the reader standing exactly where she once stood: employed and terrified, capable and behind, waiting for a permission slip nobody's going to hand them. Who You Are Without the Paycheck is the book she needed and couldn't find.