Sierra Melcher
CEO of Red Thread Publishing, Awakened Executive Contributor
Sierra Melcher is an award-winning, best-selling author, international speaker, and educator. She is the CEO of Red Thread Publishing, an independent nonfiction publishing house devoted to amplifying impactful voices.
Through Red Thread, Sierra has guided more than 350 authors from 28+ countries to write and publish meaningful nonfiction and has overseen the publication of 72 books to date. While the company centers and elevates women’s voices, it works with authors of all genders who are committed to thoughtful leadership, integrity, and social impact.
Sierra is the author of 18 books and holds a Master’s degree in Education. Her work focuses on writing as a tool for leadership, legacy, and cultural change, with an emphasis on community, collaboration, and sustainable creative practice.
Originally from the United States, Sierra lives in Medellín, Colombia, with her daughter.
Recent Articles
The Leader You’ve Been Waiting For Is Already Within You
There is a version of leadership most of us were taught to perform: Stand straighter, Project confidence, Separate the personal from the professional, Bring your best self to work, and leave everything else at the door.
Reem Borrows spent over two decades inside some of the world’s most complex organizations, watching that version of
They Are Preying on Your Soul
I am going to tell you something that most people in the publishing industry will not say out loud, because too many of them are either complicit in it or too polite to name it plainly.
There is a vast and well-organized predatory economy built entirely around newly published authors. It is not a collection of isolated opportunists. It is an industry. It has databases, sales teams, tiered pricing structures, and a deep, studied understanding of one specific thing: the emotional state of a person who has just put their soul into a book and sent it out into the world.
Put Your Writer Pants On: A Journey Through Self-Doubt, Reinvention, and the Power of Publishing – An Interview with Sierra Melcher
In this conversation, Sierra Melcher speaks candidly about growing up dyslexic, giving up on her dream, and then finding her way back to the page…and eventually to founding Red Thread Publishing. But beneath the publishing expertise is a deeply personal story about identity, courage, and what happens when you finally stop talking yourself out of your own potential.
The Guardian At The Threshold: How Writing Becomes A Sacred Path To Meeting Your Inner Critic And Yourself
For many of us, writing doesn’t begin as a spiritual practice.
It begins as an idea.
A whisper.
A message. A book.
A desire to give shape to something unfinished inside us.
But somewhere along the way, the process becomes something far deeper than word-count and workflow. Writing becomes a mirror. A meditation. An awakening path.
When My Dreams Had to Wait: Relearning Desire as a Mother and Entrepreneur
“What do you want?”
For years, that question made my chest tighten.
Not for lack of ambition or trying, but because desire itself had gone quiet. Nothing was left after working and keeping my tiny human alive. Vision boards, year-end reflections, coaching prompts asking me to imagine my future all landed the same way: blank, overwhelming, vaguely irritating.