Stop Paying
the Good Girl Tax.

Learn the language of rooms
before they decide who you are.

You already know how to do the work.
This book teaches the invisible rules behind
promotions, influence, and respect—
the ones nobody writes down.

Early readers call it the career book
they wish they'd read at 24.

Professional women in a meeting room
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I realised I wasn’t invisible. I was just playing by rules nobody else was using. ”

Every chapter explained something I thought was bad luck. ”

Raw, honest, and uncomfortably accurate. I finished it in one night. ”

You’re not behind.
You’re fluent in work.
You’re just illiterate
in rooms.

School teaches craft.
Companies reward perception.
Nobody teaches the second half.
Until now.

✏️
Craft
Do the work.
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Room Literacy
Read the room.
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Influence
Earn trust.
Opportunity
Open doors.

The Eight Codes

01 ☁️
Learn the
Local Weather
The meeting isn’t where decisions happen.
02 🥗
Eat Your
Coleslaw
Great work doesn’t introduce itself.
03 🪣
Put Down
the Tray
Stop volunteering for work nobody rewards.
04 🪑
Take the
Whole Chair
People hear confidence before content.
05 ✍️
Sign Your Own
Permission Slip
Nobody is coming to choose you.
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Watch the Eyes
Before the Mouth
Titles aren’t power. Attention is.
07 🧥
Nice Is
A Coat, Not A Wall
Being liked isn’t protection.
08 🚪
Re-enter
The Room
Your reputation can be rewritten.

If you’ve ever
thought…

  • Why do less capable people get promoted?
  • Why does nobody notice my work?
  • Why do I always end up helping everyone else?
  • Why am I afraid to speak in meetings?
  • Why does confidence feel effortless for everyone else?

This book was written for you.

Real stories.
Not motivational theory.

Every lesson begins with an actual career mistake.

Then Mia explains exactly what happened—and what she’d do differently now.

Built from anthropology.
Psychology. Corporate
politics. And lived
experience.

Inside you’ll find ideas inspired by

…but translated into language that feels like your smartest older sister texting you.

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Before
Room Literacy

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After
Room Literacy

Room Literacy
“The meeting isn’t where decisions happen.”
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“Being liked
isn’t protection.”
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Why Mia
wrote this.

I spent years believing work spoke for itself. It doesn’t.
I watched quieter women lose promotions to louder men.
I watched brilliant people become invisible because nobody had taught them how rooms worked. This is the book I wish someone had handed me when I was twenty-four.
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Stop paying the Good Girl Tax.

Learn to own the room.

Get Room Literacy