Rhianna Basore
The Escape Architect for Corporate Creatives
Rhianna Basore is the go-to voice for media covering one question:
Why do brilliant, high-earning women stay stuck in careers that are slowly draining the life out of them — and what does it actually take to get out?
She is the rare person who can sit across from your audience, describe their reality back to them with uncomfortable precision, and hand them a plan that actually holds up when life gets complicated.
Her clients leave corporate and launch their creative businesses within 6–9 months. That is the conversation she brings to every interview.
SIGNATURE TOPICS
The Golden Cage Why high-earning women cannot seem to leave the careers that are slowly draining them — and why it has nothing to do with courage or confidence.
It Is Not a Money Problem. It Is a Valuing Problem. The real reason corporate creatives keep sabotaging their own exit plans, draining their freedom funds, and introducing their creative work as a side thing. The pattern has a name. Once you name it, you can change it.
Both/And: The False Binary Keeping Brilliant Women Stuck You do not have to choose between financial security and creative fulfillment. But nobody has shown you the spreadsheet that sits next to the vision board. Until now.
Encouragement Is Not a Strategy What high-performing women actually need when they are ready to make a major life transition — and why the coaching industry keeps giving them the wrong thing.
The 6–9 Month Exit: What a Real Corporate-to-Creative Transition Looks Like Not a leap of faith. Not a manifesting practice. A real plan, built for someone with a mortgage, a team that depends on her, and a decade of financial security she is not willing to torch.
Book Rhianna for Your Podcast or Event
Looking for a guest who will make your audience feel seen instead of lectured?
Rhianna talks about the specific, real-life patterns keeping high-achieving women trapped in careers they have outgrown — and what the exit actually looks like. No vibes. No manifesting. No “just follow your passion.” Real strategy for women with real stakes.
She is a natural on mic and on stage. She has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The L.A. Times, The Chicago Tribune, and across top-ranked podcasts in the entrepreneurship and personal development space. She is a Guest Expert Columnist for Backstage Magazine and a professional actor and director with over 20 years on stage and screen.
She brings warmth, edge, and specificity to every conversation. Your audience will not forget it.
PRESS BIO
Short Bio (for show notes and introductions)
Rhianna Basore is an Escape Architect for corporate creatives — the coach who helps high-achieving women leave soul-destroying careers and build financially viable creative businesses, usually within 6–9 months. With 20+ years as a professional actor and director and a decade in nonprofit business development, she works at the rare intersection of creative vision and real financial strategy. She is a Guest Expert Columnist for Backstage Magazine and the founder of Self Trust Fund.
Long Bio (for press features and event programs)
Rhianna Basore spent over two decades building an international career as a professional actor, director, and producer — taking the stage from Off-Broadway to Paris to the Reykjavik Fringe Festival while simultaneously navigating the financial reality that most creative professionals are never taught to manage.
That tension between creative calling and financial security became the foundation of her coaching work.
Today, Rhianna works with high-achieving corporate women who have built impressive careers, earn real money, and are quietly suffocating inside a life that rewards their capability but ignores their calling. Through Self Trust Fund, she helps them build the real exit strategy — with actual numbers, a real timeline, and a plan built for someone with something to lose.
Her clients transition from corporate to their creative businesses within 6–9 months. Not because they finally got brave enough. Because they finally had a roadmap built for someone at their level.
Rhianna holds an NYU BFA in Drama and has spent over a decade in nonprofit business development and finance. She is a Guest Expert Columnist for Backstage Magazine and founder of Miz. Understood Media.
FEATURED IN
The New York Times • The Wall Street Journal • The L.A. Times • The Chicago Tribune • Medium • Thrive Global • Rose Gold Goddesses
She lives in San Diego, California, where she is also developing her first play for a Canadian debut production.
APPEARANCES
Podcasts and Interviews
Creatives Making Money — How to build a creative business that actually replaces your income, without starting from scratch.
Heal Your Life Talk Radio with Victoria Johnson — When your passion projects are not yet paying the bills — what actually changes that.
That’s Aloud Podcast — How high-performing women reframe the obstacles between them and the creative life they actually want.
Find Your Light — Personalized money strategy, flexibility, and how to pursue artistic dreams and the lifestyle you want simultaneously.
Press and Publications
Backstage Magazine — Guest Expert Columnist. Ongoing expert commentary on the business of creative careers.
The New York Times | The Wall Street Journal | The L.A. Times | The Chicago Tribune
Medium | Thrive Global | Rose Gold Goddesses
PRESS ASSETS
High-resolution headshots, official bio copy, and brand assets available for press and media use.
Ready to bring this conversation to your audience?
Your listeners are in the golden cage right now. They are doing everything right and feeling dead inside. They have been planning to leave for longer than they will admit. They need someone to name exactly what is happening — and show them the door.
That is the conversation Rhianna brings.