All Up In Your Business: Managing Your Business Crap
CBS People of Distinction
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The Host Benjie Cole
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The Author Inspiration
Julianna Newland explains that All Up In Your Business: Managing Your Business Crap grew out of more than three decades spent inside corporate leadership, including 24 years at a Fortune 500 company. Over time, she observed patterns that employees everywhere quietly endure—confusing expectations, unnecessary bureaucracy, unspoken rules, and emotionally draining workplace dynamics. Instead of dismissing these experiences as “just part of the job,” she began documenting them. The book emerged as a way to help others recognize these realities, navigate them with confidence, and regain a sense of control over their professional lives.
A Book That Speaks the Unspoken
All Up In Your Business is a candid, humorous, and deeply relatable guide to surviving—and understanding—modern workplace culture. Drawing from firsthand management experience, Julianna Newland addresses the frustrations employees rarely feel safe talking about, from office politics and ineffective leadership to burnout and unrealistic performance expectations. The book validates the reader’s experience while offering clarity on why workplace dysfunction happens in the first place.
Blending sharp wit with practical insight, Newland breaks down common business scenarios and provides tools for handling them without sacrificing professionalism or self-respect. She explores topics such as self-advocacy, communication with leadership, navigating team dynamics, and maintaining visibility in evolving work environments. Rather than offering corporate clichés, the book delivers honest guidance grounded in lived reality.
Adding a playful but purposeful element, the book includes craft cocktail recipes tied to business themes, giving readers moments to pause, reset, and reflect. These breaks reinforce the central message: work is important, but it shouldn’t consume your identity or drain your humanity. The result is a book that educates, validates, and empowers.
The Voice Behind the Experience
Julianna M. Newland is an award-winning author and distinguished communication strategist whose voice bridges business, politics, and storytelling. With a career spanning more than three decades, she has built a reputation for turning complex ideas into clear, compelling narratives that inspire change. Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, her early education under the guidance of nuns instilled discipline and curiosity that followed her to the University of Indianapolis, where she earned dual degrees in English and Political Science. Her professional path has been as wide-ranging as it is influential, with leadership roles across a Fortune 500 company, state government, nonprofit organizations, and a national trade association. In public affairs, government relations, lobbying, and fundraising, her blend of insight, empathy, and eloquence consistently set her apart as a trusted communication expert.
Her love for language began early as editor-in-chief of her university newspaper, where she first experienced the power of words to shape perspective and move people. That passion deepened into a lifelong dedication to writing, further refined through her marriage to award-winning journalist James G. Newland Jr., whose storytelling and political reporting continue to influence her craft. Now writing from her hometown of Indianapolis, where she lives with her husband and their son, Patrick, Julianna brings wit, candor, and clarity to everything she creates. Her acclaimed book, All Up in Your Bizness: Managing Your Business Crap, earned the Literary Titan Silver Award in 2023 and continues to resonate with readers for its sharp observations on modern business and communication, offering not just expertise, but experience, humor, and authenticity.
Deserve To Be Here
This book deserves its place on People of Distinction because it speaks to a global workforce navigating burnout, disengagement, and shifting expectations. Its relevance cuts across industries, job titles, and career stages. By combining humor with actionable insight, the book helps readers feel seen while giving them tools to move forward with clarity and confidence. In a time when work culture is being questioned and redefined, All Up In Your Business deserves to be known for giving people language, perspective, and permission to take their work—and themselves—seriously.