Founded in 2021 by Bryna Haynes, WorldChangers Media is a boutique publishing company focused on “Ideas for Impact.”
We know that great books can change lives, topple outdated paradigms, and build movements.
Our commitment is to deliver superior-quality transformational nonfiction by, and for, the next generation of thought leaders.
We work with people who think differently, work differently, and teach differently.
Our ideal clients are expert coaches, mentors, conscious entrepreneurs, influencers, and industry disruptors — leaders who are committed to positive change and expanding the consciousness of the planet through their work.
We are committed to producing top-quality books that meet and exceed industry standards.
We are more than just a book production company. We fully meet the IBPA’s revised criteria for Hybrid Publishers and are invested in helping our authors succeed.
We select authors based on the viability of their ideas, not their audience size. We develop marketing plans to support our books, not the other way around.
We do not receive royalties except by special agreement with our authors. All of our authors retain full control of their intellectual property.
About Bryna Haynes, Founder & CEO
Bryna Haynes is a nationally-known book coach, speaker, editor, ghostwriter, and facilitator. Her company, WorldChangers Media (formerly known as The Heart of Writing), has helped hundreds of thought leaders, conscious entrepreneurs, healers, and changemakers deliver their messages and radically uplevel their expert status through best-selling, impact-driven books.
With nearly twenty years of experience in the transformational/prescriptive nonfiction book space, Bryna’s zone of genius is taking clients’ big ideas, stories, experiences, and teaching platforms and synthesizing them into books that hit home for readers.
Bryna’s current and past clients include several well-known names in the personal development and conscious leadership community. Clients that have published with her through WorldChangers Media have been recognized with multiple prestigious indie book awards (including Nautilus, IBPA, NIEA, Foreword Indies, NY Big Book Awards, Eric Hoffer, International Business Awards, and many more). Past clients have also been published by traditional publishers including Simon & Schuster, Hachette Books, Bloomsbury, and Quercus Books (UK).
When she’s not busy alchemizing big ideas into handheld paper packages, she can be found hanging out with her kids in rural Rhode Island, traipsing through the Scottish wilderness, riding etheric dragons, and talking people’s ears off about spiritual evolution.
Our Team
Marie SaoBento, COO and “Team Mom”
Marie has over 15 years of experience in Client Success, Operations, and Project Management, she succeeds in handling multiple projects and clients simultaneously, all with varying degrees of complexity. In the words of one client “she is dedicated, hardworking and truly cares about the client” which makes her a great connector with others. She has a degree in business management, PMP certification and believes in maintaining a positive approach while focusing on collaboration, teamwork and problem solving to successfully bring project teams together.
Alexa Gorman, Chief Marketing Goddess
Alexa has been reading, creating, organizing, and chasing dogs in Connecticut for most of her life. A graduate of Stony Brook University’s School of Journalism, she quickly learned the hard-hitting life of a reporter was not for her. She’s spent the last 9 years as a saleswoman, social media marketer, content creator, energy healer, virtual assistant, and somehow, insurance broker, before combining her skills to support WorldChangers and our authors.
When she’s not hyping up authors, strategizing or creating content, you can find her obsessing over her fur babies, Java (the snuggly pit bull), Merlin (the high-maintenance beagle), and Bucky (the adorable rabbit). She loves listening to her partner James theorize about all things Marvel comics, and loves the thrill of a midnight premier. You can also find her dancing (16 years and counting!), running (blame quarantine), devouring either fantasy or personal development books, or binging bad TV.
Paul Baillie-Lane, Pre-Press Manager & Wandering Book Wizard
From R.L Stine obsessed farm boy to Bloomsbury flaneur, and now as pre-press manager at WorldChangers, Paul’s career has been a singular and slow evolution toward his one true passion: books that inform and inspire. An apologetic Englishman, Paul received an MA in Book Publishing in 2009, and over the next thirteen years developed his skills as a project manager, editor, proofreader, page designer and typesetter. What’s a pre-press manager? Well, think of a literary physician with a calm demeanor and firm grip, taking each author and manuscript through the various stages of distillation to birth books of the highest editorial and visual quality.
When the wizard robes are off, he enjoys gliding around coral reefs with a tank of air strapped to his back, reading bleak dystopian fiction, and fiercely debating which side of the Atlantic has the most dysfunctional political system. (Sorry American brothers and sisters, but we take the crown for that one!)
Audra Figgins, Developmental & Line Editor
Audra (she/her) is a developmental editor, copy editor, proofreader, and general word enthusiast. She has over seven years of editing experience with nonfiction publishing houses as both an in-house editor and freelancer. When she doesn't have her hands in a manuscript, she is an avid reader (200+ books per year) who can also be found ghost hunting, kickboxing, and watching scary movies. She lives in Boulder, CO, with her partner, a fluffy goldendoodle (find him on Instagram @ouijareads), and an assorted menagerie of plants, curiosities, and creatures. She has a great respect for dusty bookstores, high strangeness, and the serial comma.
Monica Herald, Content Editor
Monica is a writer, a storyteller, a list-maker, a teacher, a daughter, a sister, a friend. She’s passionately curious about the role stories play in our lives, and believes in the power of listening — real listening, where the listener and the speaker feel seen, heard, and met. Thresholds, edges, and the in-betweens beckon and fascinate her, and she is particularly fond of the long dash (otherwise known as the em-dash), which she has found to be a particularly versatile tool in both life and writing. Learn more at www.MonicaHerald.com.
Kimberly Elkins, Developmental & Line Editor
Kimberly is a developmental editor, novelist, essayist, playwright, and former Creative Writing Professor. She's edited work in virtually every genre from spiritual self-help to memoir to literary novels to YA fantasy, and loves to dig in deep with her clients. Her best-selling novel, WHAT IS VISIBLE, chronicles the 19th-century life of Laura Bridgman, the first deaf and blind person to learn language, long before Helen Keller. Kimberly's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Chicago Tribune, Best New American Voices, and Glamour, among others. She grew up in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, and has lived all over the world, including Hong Kong, Turkey, Italy, and Greece. She's finally settled down now in Brooklyn with her two kitties, where she's hard at work on a second novel, set in 1980's New York. To learn more about Kimberly, go to www.kimberlyelkins.com.