Ariane Conrad

Like the rest of the humans involved with the House of Beautiful Business, Ariane Conrad is a conscious optimist. She believes in the power of storytelling and the humanizing potential of the sharing economy. She’s inspired by positive alternatives and is unafraid of challenging the status quo to get there.

As a part of those efforts, Ariane has devoted the majority of the last ten years to helping remarkable people tell their stories.

Bringing anything into the world can be daunting, and condensing a lifetime of experience into a format others can benefit from is a particularly challenging task. That’s where Ariane comes in. She helps leaders from diverse backgrounds share their expertise in ways both accessible and appropriately inspiring. She accompanies individuals through the process of defining, composing, and publishing books. Her creative assistance, supportive approach, and long-term commitment are expressed in her sobriquet The Book Doula.

The goal of each of these works is never purely autobiographical, however. All the projects she’s worked on have a larger purpose. The Green Collar Economy. The Age of Dignity. The Story of Stuff. (To name a few…) The people she works with are “building the more beautiful world that our hearts know is possible”. “They’re not fighting against,” she says, “they’re building something up,” and Ariane’s contributions are catalytic in this process.