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Two books, one throughline.

I'm writing both in parallel. Brand on Fire — the way I’ve built brands for seventeen years, which became my signature talk — releases first. Caliber, the manifesto behind it, follows.

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Book One · Releasing First

Brand on Fire

5 Must-Haves for Building a Million-Dollar Personal Brand

Brand on Fire is how I build brands. It’s the ethos and the experience of seventeen years building brands for institutions, founders and experts, the thinking that became my signature talk and is now becoming a book. It lays out the five must-haves of a million-dollar personal brand and how to build them in order, from the inside out, as one aligned system.

  1. IdentityWho you are.
  2. AuthorityWhat you know.
  3. PlatformThe system you build.
  4. VisibilityWho it reaches.
  5. MovementThe world beyond you.
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Book Two · Releasing Next

Caliber

A Manifesto on Brand, Business, and Becoming

After more than a decade building brands for the world's leading institutions — and reinventing my own life after divorce — I learned that the brand you build from the inside out is the one foundation that holds when everything else shifts.

Caliber is the book I wish I'd had in those seasons: a candid account of brand, business, and becoming, and a manifesto for anyone ready to chart their own pathway and build something of genuine caliber.

BrandWhy a magnetic brand is built from the inside out.
BusinessScaling without losing the soul that made it matter.
BecomingThe personal reinvention beneath the professional one.
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About the Author

Willa Kammerer

Willa is a brand strategist, filmmaker and the founder of Firestarter. She has spent 17 years building brands, first for institutions like Harvard and Qantas, then for the founders and experts she works with today. Both books come out of that work.

  • 17 years building brands, as an entrepreneur since 2009
  • Founder of Firestarter, the brand and growth ecosystem; earlier built Firestarter Interactive into a multi-7-figure creative agency
  • Harvard (multiple brand storytelling engagements) and Qantas (one of five American filmmakers, and the only woman)
  • Director of Starting at Zero, an award-winning feature documentary, interviewing five U.S. governors
  • Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses graduate and cohort graduation speaker
  • Host of The Firestarter Podcast and featured speaker at Life on Fire Live
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