Stephanie LaFlora is a writer, mother, entrepreneur, and cultural strategist whose voice blends radical clarity with lived defiance. As a Black woman in tech and a recovering overachiever, her work is forged in the tension between visibility and exhaustion, ambition and authenticity. She’s spent years building brands, tools, and narratives that challenge dominant systems—and You Control the Narrative is her boldest work yet: a call to reject self-optimization as survival and reclaim personal sovereignty instead.Rooted in the legacy of Black feminist thinkers like Audre Lorde, Bell Hooks, and Tricia Hersey, Stephanie writes from the threshold between burnout and breakthrough, expectation and truth. Her stories are not abstractions; they are weapons of liberation drawn from a life lived at the margins of power, yet always within reach of personal agency.With unflinching insight and a fiercely intimate voice, she speaks to those who feel depleted and culturally disoriented—readers who are ready to stop performing and start choosing. Stephanie doesn’t write to fix you. She writes to walk with you, as you reclaim your time, rewrite your story, and create a life that honors your deepest self.