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What Will You Choose Next?
For women ready to turn everything they've built into greater possibility.
The Book
Power Shifts
Stop Waiting for Permission.
Success is not the same as ownership.
You can have the title, the experience, the paycheck, the responsibility, the business, and the life you worked hard to build, and still realize that too much of what comes next depends on decisions you do not control.
Power Shifts is for the woman ready to change that.
Through personal stories, practical strategy, and the four-part Ownership Framework, Marsha Guerrier explores what it takes to own more of your career, your money, your value, your choices, and the life you're creating next.
Ownership Changes Everything.
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You Did Everything You Were Supposed to Do.
You worked hard. Built the experience. Became the person people could count on. You learned how to deliver, lead, solve problems, carry responsibility, and keep going.
And still, a question can begin to surface:
Is this it?
Not because you've failed. Because success no longer feels like the whole answer.
Maybe you're advancing in your career and want greater authority over what comes next.
Maybe you're building something of your own alongside it.
Maybe you've already made the leap into entrepreneurship.
Or maybe you've reached the thing you spent years working toward and discovered that freedom brings questions of its own.
Power Shifts is about what happens when you stop measuring your life only by what you've achieved and start asking how much of it you actually own.
This is not a book about walking away from what you've built. It's about owning enough of it to decide what comes next.
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The Question at the Center of the Book
How much of your life are you actually choosing?
• You can be excellent at your work without having influence over what happens next.
• You can earn a strong income without having the financial options to make a different choice.
• You can be visible without being known for the value you actually bring.
• You can be needed by everyone around you without having the leverage to step away.
• And you can finally reach freedom only to discover you haven't decided what you want to do with it.
Power Shifts examines the places where women quietly give away authority, and what changes when they begin taking it back.
Praise for Power Shifts
What Readers Are Saying
Marsha reminds us that true ownership goes far beyond financial success. The women who make the greatest impact are those who stop waiting for permission and step forward with confidence, resilience, and purpose. Power Shifts is both inspiring and practical, I highly recommend it to any woman ready to embrace her own power.
Cheryl Nash
President, APL at InvestCloud
I wish I had this book when I was in my 9-to-5 and when I became a corporate dropout. I still need it now, seven years in as a business owner. Power Shifts is not a one-and-done book. It is the book you consistently pick up when you feel you are giving away your ownership and need to reorient yourself.
Latrice Cole
Executive Image and Presence Strategist, Latrice Monique Consulting
As an entrepreneur, business owner, and friend, I know firsthand that building something meaningful requires more than strategy. It requires courage. Power Shifts is the kind of book I wish I had when I started. Marsha shares the wisdom she has earned through experience, reminding every woman that her greatest power has always been believing in herself.
Stacy Beaucicaut-Etienne
Photographer, Stacy BE Photography
Power Shifts is an essential read for every woman striving to make an impact in corporate America and beyond. Marsha Guerrier’s willingness to share her story resonates deeply with me and with many women who are hesitant to speak about their own experiences. By bravely recounting her journey, Marsha empowers others to embrace their stories and confidently pursue their goals.
Dr. Sharon Wilson, h.c., MBA
Financial Consultant
Power Shifts gives you the exact mindset shifts and permission to stop waiting that most leadership books miss. This book is an invaluable gift for any woman ready to build beyond limitations.
Rande Bynum
CEO, Girl Scouts of Nassau County
Power Shifts is a book that says the quiet part out loud: entrepreneurship is hard, unpredictable, and constantly changing, especially right now. This is not just a book about believing in yourself. It provides practical, honest, and informative guidance for anyone navigating the realities of starting, growing, or pivoting a business.
Natasha M. Nurse, Esq.
Neurodivergent Innovator, Founder of Dressing Room 8 and Co-Host of the WokeNFree Podcast
In Power Shifts, Marsha Guerrier sets a new standard for leadership. She provides a deeply relatable and instructional guide that helps you connect the dots between your unique journey and your professional goals.
Dawn Cotter-Jenkins
Speech Pathologist and Founder, World Class Speech Services
Marsha Guerrier doesn’t give you theory. She gives you the exact mindset shifts, financial honesty, and permission to stop waiting that most entrepreneurship books never get to. When I made my transition from corporate America to full-time entrepreneurship I had no one to speak to about how to navigate it. I wish I had this guide five years ago.
Naja Bomani
Founder, House of Salih LLC
There comes a moment in a woman’s life when she realizes that proving herself is no longer enough. Rather than asking women to work harder to earn a seat, Marsha challenges them to reconsider who gets to define their worth in the first place. Stepping into your power is not about becoming someone new. It is about refusing to abandon who you have always been.
Jessica Douglas
Community Advocate
Power Shifts gives voice to the experiences that far too many Black women and women of color have had to navigate on their own. By sharing her own journey with honesty and authenticity, she empowers readers to reclaim their power and redefine success on their own terms. This book is more than a resource. It is a gift.
Nathalie C. Lilavois, Ed.D.
Founder, Zahara Crown, Inc.
Marsha Guerrier writes about ownership the way founders should talk about capital: as something you build for yourself, one honest decision at a time. Power Shifts is unflinching about what it costs to build a life on your own terms, and generous enough to hand you a framework for doing it. Every woman waiting for someone else's permission needs this book.
Allison Byers
Founder & CEO, Scroobious
The Framework
Own More of What Is Already Yours.
At the heart of Power Shifts is a practical framework for turning ownership from an idea into a way of making decisions.
01
Own Your Mind
Separate facts from the stories shaping your decisions, and stop letting old beliefs decide what you do next.
02
Own Your Money
Move beyond income as your only measure of security and build the financial options that give you greater choice.
03
Own Your Value
Stop waiting for recognition to confirm what you've already earned, built, and proven. Claim your value before someone else validates it.
04
Own Your Freedom
Build the leverage, capacity, and support that allow your life to work without everything depending on you.
Four areas of ownership. One life that belongs more fully to you.
The Moment Everything Changed
After more than thirty years of building her career, Marsha Guerrier was laid off.
And she cried tears of joy.
Not because losing the job was easy. But because years earlier, she had begun making decisions that meant one employer no longer held all the power over what happened next.
She had built relationships. Strengthened her finances. Created income beyond her paycheck. Built a business. Expanded her visibility. Learned to trust her own authority.
The layoff didn't create her freedom.
It revealed how much freedom she had already built.
Power Shifts is about the decisions that made that moment possible, and how you can begin creating more options before you need them.
Inside the Book
Ten Chapters. Ten Places Where Power Can Shift.
01
What They Never Put in the Handbook
02
Both. At the Same Time. On Purpose.
03
Build Your Board of Directors
04
Money, Fear, and Freedom
05
The Currency of Visibility
06
The Authority Shift
07
The Power of Leverage
08
Begin With Yourself
09
The Morning After
10
The Ownership Framework
From career and money to visibility, authority, leverage, and freedom, each chapter examines a different place where women can build greater ownership over what comes next.
Step Inside Power Shifts
Read It in Marsha's Own Words.
"I looked around and recognized the pattern immediately. Credit moved upward through the hierarchy while the people carrying the operational weight waited for acknowledgment that never came. As the only Black woman in many of those rooms, the moment felt familiar. Contributing to something successful didn't always mean the recognition, influence, and opportunities would reach the people doing the work. It reinforced something I'd come to understand: sometimes your labor is welcomed long before your leadership is."
"I had spent my entire adult life being needed. Being the one who solves. Being the one who shows up, delivers, stabilizes, and keeps everything moving. My sense of purpose had been so completely built around doing for others that when the doing quieted, I did not know who I was inside the quiet. If I was not filling every hour with meaningful work for someone else, something felt profoundly wrong with me. I didn't know if what I was experiencing was depression."
"We want to be seen on a Tuesday afternoon in a meeting where our idea is heard the first time we say it. We want to be seen on the day we ask for flexibility because our child is sick, and this request does not cost us the promotion we have been working toward for three years. We want to be seen when we are excellent, when we are exhausted, and when we are both at once. That’s not a complicated request. It just requires you to pay attention."
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Power Shifts creates a powerful starting point for conversations about ownership, authority, visibility, leadership, financial agency, and what it takes for women to build greater choice in their careers and lives.
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About the Author
Marsha Guerrier
Marsha Guerrier is a business strategist, entrepreneur, TEDx speaker, bestselling author, Founder & CEO of HerSuiteSpot®, and Founder of YvaMarie New York™, a skincare brand she built as part of her own entrepreneurial journey.
Her career spans more than 30 years across financial services, technology, corporate leadership, and entrepreneurship. Along the way, she built businesses while building her career—and learned firsthand what it means to create options before you need them.
Power Shifts brings together the lessons, decisions, setbacks, and strategies that shaped how she thinks about work, money, value, leadership, ownership, and freedom.
Read Marsha's Full Story →The Power Was Never Outside of You.
Not in another title.
Not in another paycheck.
Not in someone else's recognition.
Not in another opportunity that finally feels like permission.
It's in the choices you make about what belongs to you and what comes next.
Own Your Mind. Own Your Money. Own Your Value. Own Your Freedom.
Power Shifts: Stop Waiting for Permission.
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