LOS ANGELES, CA, September 05, 2026 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Bukky Osifeso, author of the debut book Rooted and Rising: Building a Life That Holds You While You Grow, continues to reach readers with a message that is resonating far beyond its August launch: ambition and rest are not opposites, and building a sustainable life does not require doing more.

Rooted and Rising is written for high-achieving women — executives, entrepreneurs, mothers, and everyone building a life across all three — who have built something extraordinary and, somewhere along the way, lost themselves in the process. Osifeso, who spent more than two decades in senior People leadership roles at Amgen, Netflix, and Disney before founding The TAG Group, an AI-native People Strategy consultancy, writes from firsthand experience of what sustained achievement costs when it comes without rest.

The book's message is not "do more." It is an invitation to pause, breathe, reflect, and return to yourself. Each chapter opens with a Yoruba proverb passed down through Osifeso's mother and the elder women in her family, pairing ancestral wisdom with contemporary insight on ambition, boundaries, and what it actually means to build a sustainable life.

A LANGUAGE FOR WOMEN TIRED OF THE OLD ONE
Throughout the book, Osifeso draws on Mel Robbins' widely known "Let Them" framework, which Robbins pairs with its essential second half, "Let Me." Osifeso brings her own lived application to that second half — exploring what it looks like to stand in front of your own mirror and declare, simply: Let me be happy today. Let me be at peace.

"Let me choose a pace that keeps me well. Let me be loving without being limitless. Let me live this life as though it actually belongs to me," Osifeso writes. For her, that practice sits at the very foundation of what it means to be rooted — not a philosophy borrowed from someone else, but a daily act of reclaiming permission that once belonged only to other people's expectations.

MORE TO COME
Osifeso will also be taking Rooted and Rising on the road with an upcoming book tour. Details, dates, and cities will be announced soon. Join the movement at rootedandrising.io to be the first to know.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bukky Osifeso is a writer, entrepreneur, and leadership strategist with more than twenty-five years of experience at the intersection of performance and humanity, including senior roles at Amgen, Netflix, and Disney. She is the founder of The TAG Group, an AI-native People Strategy consultancy. A Nigerian-American writer of Yoruba heritage, she was raised on the proverbs of her mother and the elder women in her family. She is a wife of nearly seventeen years and a mother of three. Rooted and Rising is her debut book.

ABOUT THE BOOK
Rooted and Rising: Building a Life That Holds You While You Grow is available now in hardcover, paperback, and eBook wherever books are sold.

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