You were never supposed to win this game.

Good. Let's build a different one.

For midlife, neurodivergent, multi-talented women who are done performing for a system that was never designed for them. This is where you stop optimizing yourself for someone else's game, and start building your own.

Courtney Broderick, founder of Chief Troublemaker Co.
Difficult by design.
Gen X

saw it coming and got called bitter.

Millennials

hit the wall and got called soft.

Gen Z

watched both and is refusing to play at all.

This isn't a generational problem. It's a system that's been failing workers for decades, and it's finally too broken to hide. Especially for women.

You're not broken

You were called difficult for noticing the system was broken.

You performed
Harder. Smaller. Quieter. Whatever it took.
You called it
Being professional. Leaning in. Playing the game.
It was really
A rigged game.

You've been running on someone else's operating system your entire career. Optimized for their output. Their pace. Their definition of success. Chief Troublemaker Co. is for the women who decided to build something better instead of shrinking to fit.

You can't fix this by simply changing jobs or starting a business. Worth keeping in mind, considering:

455K

women left the US workforce in 2025 alone. Many pushed out. Many done waiting to be.

49%

of all new businesses in America are now launched by women. Up 69% since 2019.

$34T

in investible assets women will control by 2030. Three times what they held at the start of this decade.

The game was rigged. So a lot of women have stopped playing it. But leaving is only half the work.

The reframe
you're too much
Exactly enough.
don't be difficult
By
design.
you're professionally behind
Right on schedule.
be easy to work with
Impossible to ignore.
you're emotional
F@cking angry.
you're intimidating
Worth keeping up with.
you're distracted
Multi-talented.
you're not a team player
Playing a different game.
What nobody tells you about leaving

Most women don't leave the conditioning. They take it with them.

Still over-delivering to clients the same way they over-delivered to managers. Still underpricing from fear. Still saying yes when every signal in their body is screaming no. Still scanning the room for approval that isn't coming anymore.

Still running someone else's operating system, with a shiny new logo slapped on top. This isn't a personal failing. It's a predictable pattern. And it's exactly what the tools below are built to interrupt.

Where to start

Two kinds of tired.
One way forward.

Come in whichever way fits where you are today: the woman tired of fighting to be valued for what she actually does, or the woman ready to understand how she works best and build from there, not around toxic expectations. Both paths lead to the same place, an operating system that works the way you do instead of the one you were handed.

then, when you're ready to go deeper ↓
Go deeper · self-study
The P.O.S.S.E. Starter Guide

The whole method, self-serve, all six pillars, with reflection prompts that save as you go. The bridge between a workbook and the 1:1.

$199
Get the guide →
and where every path lands ↓
The destination · 1:1 advisory
Build Your P.O.S.S.E.

Seven sessions. One outcome: a Personal Operating System built around how you are actually wired: your capacity, your values, your decision-making architecture. Not a vibe. Not a course. A codified system you'll use for the next decade.

Apply-only
See the offer →
Troublemaker Talks

Keynotes and workshops for companies, conferences, and women's events. The kind that make women feel seen, then send them home ready to burn the old playbook.

Book a talk →
Courtney Broderick portrait
Who's causing the trouble

I didn't become a Chief Troublemaker. The system made me one.

Silicon Valley dropout turned professional troublemaker. Culture and leadership advisor to companies by day. Personal and business advisor to the "difficult women" companies keep failing by night.

Over a decade inside the machine, believing each time that this one would be different. That when they said they wanted a disruptor, they meant it. They didn't. I left because I finally stopped trying to win a game that was never designed for me.

Senior Sales · Indeed
Enterprise Sales · LinkedIn
Partnerships · Handshake
Read her story

Putting the ideas we forged together into practice has grown my business 4x in less than a year. I'm doing fun, exciting work my clients love, and I still have a life outside of it.

Sandra Elliott · Learning Designer and Founder of BeLearning
Why this matters now

Midlife, neurodivergent, multi-talented women are not a side note.

We are the architects of what comes next. But we can't build differently while we're still organized around identities that were never ours. The parallel economy is already being built. The only question is whether you're building it on a foundation that's actually yours.

Welcome to the revolution,
you glorious misfits.