For the woman who has read everything and still holds back the second it gets real.
You didn’t need another book.
You needed a practice you could rely on.
Allyship? You don’t want to burn out. But you don’t want to bow out either. These ten lessons give you the practice, the push, and the power to stay in the solidarity zone, even when stepping away feels easier. Building trust and collaboration across difference is uncomfortable and messy right now. But you were made to do hard things.
Built over six years across more than forty organizations, taught through the lives of Foremothers who held their ground under far higher stakes. Nautilus Book Award winner. You do the first rep in one sitting; you get six months of short weekly emails to keep you focused, inspired, and growing.
Nautilus Book Award winner, 2023. More than forty organizations served. Thousands of readers across more than a dozen countries.
You did the reading. Here is the part no one trained you for.
If you took the assessment to get here, you already know the shape of it. You have read at least a couple of the books. You probably sat through a bunch of webinars. You did the book club. You meant all of it.
Maybe it’s been hard to say this truth out loud, but deep down you know the reading was just stage one. You did a great job there. But now we all need stage two, the continued doing. And that doesn’t come from a book. This is no failure on your part. It’s just a different stage, and the old tools didn’t set you up for it.
So when a friend posts another reading list, no need to add another to the nightstand stack to gather dust on top of the three titles other friends posted last year. It was never about what is on the nightstand; it was about what is in your heart.
You didn’t need another book.
You needed a practice you could rely on.
This is not a brand-new idea being tested on you. For six years this work has been taught, in person and to groups, across more than forty organizations, reaching thousands of readers across more than a dozen countries. The book it grew from won a Nautilus Book Award. And the philosophy and design of the practice is the result of several decades living and working in mixed-race spaces, often as “the only one.” We’ve seen it all, and we know when it comes to navigating difference and building solidarity, all that is needed is your willingness to stay in the work.
Every lesson opens with a Foremother whose life modeled the exact move you’re about to practice. The Foremothers aren’t decoration, they’re the curriculum. That’s what makes our offering unique to Brave Sis Project. And this is what sets us apart from the pack of self-help, equity, or leadership tools out there.
Where this began.
I watched women who had read all the “right” books slip away at the same pace as women who had read nothing. When it came to sustaining solidarity and unity across difference, I knew something was missing. When an ancestral spirit visited me on Christmas morning 2019, she sparked my desire to celebrate the many brave Foremothers who changed the world in countless ways but whose stories were too little known. Over six years I built an equity and leadership practice on the lives of these and other Foremothers, taught it across more than forty organizations, and wrote a book celebrating one hundred of these women, which won the Nautilus Book Award in 2023.
This is not a skill for the really hard conversations. It is for any old Tuesday.
We’re not building a toolkit for the really hard conversations. We’re skilling you up for any old Tuesday. There are the heavy confrontations around race and difference, but there are also the everyday moments where you can make a difference in small yet important ways. This course is there to set you up for success for those moments.
A white woman in 2026 might feel called into this work because she sees how inequity touches every part of life, and recognizes that these harms are the result of deliberate systems, not accidents or a few bad apples. When she understands that her own safety, comfort, and opportunities are often propped up by those same unjust structures, being simply nice or well-intentioned begins to feel inadequate and hollow. Instead, she becomes motivated to use her privilege, voice, and relationships to interrupt bias, follow the leadership of those most impacted, and commit to long-term, structural change rather than one-time gestures.
And that is why this practice is not for the rarer, big crisis. It’s for the PTA meeting, the hiring committee, the water cooler, the book club. Any old Tuesday.
