About Brittney

You deserve the longest paid leave!

You're smart. You're organized. You're the person who reads the fine print before everyone else even finds the document.

And yet somehow, your own maternity leave has you staring at a government website at 11pm, drowning in acronyms, more confused than when you started.

You're not missing something. The system is just deliberately hard to navigate.

California offers up to seven months of parental leave — with 70-90% income replacement and job protection your employer will never volunteer to explain. Most expecting parents who qualify never claim what they're owed. Not because they aren't capable. Because nobody told them how.

That's exactly what drives me and why I want to make parental leave knowledge accessible to everyone!

Accessing them means navigating four separate state programs — each with their own timelines, their own paperwork, and their own deadlines. None of which are clearly explained anywhere. Least of all by your HR department.

Most parents piece it together from Reddit threads and half-answers from EDD representatives who say something different every time they finally get through.

Most parents leave money on the table. Not because they didn't try. Because nobody gave them the map.

Every parent deserves to know this information

I'm Brittney O'Brien. I'm a working mom in Sacramento, California. My husband and I are both entrepreneurs and small business owners, so I know firsthand how much is riding on getting your parental leave right (financially and personally!).

I spent nearly a decade in Silicon Valley tech sales. While pregnant with my son, I did everything right. I filed on time. I thought I had it handled.

Then the denial letter arrived from the EDD. My claim was denied for "still working" and I had no idea what to do to get paid.

What followed was weeks of phone calls that went nowhere, setting an alarm every day at 8am (only to be hung up on) and EDD representatives who gave me a different answer every single time I got through. My company also said they couldn't help so I almost gave up on $30,000 of my own tax money coming back to me.

I was exhausted. I was fighting a system that seemed designed to make people give up.

I didn't give up. I recovered $30,000 in benefits.

But I couldn't stop thinking about what came next.

I had years of navigating complex, broken systems. I knew how to be persistent. I knew how to read the fine print. I had the energy and the toolkit to fight back.

Not every expecting parent does.

How many accepted the denial without question? How many went back to work at six weeks because the money ran out and they never knew they had options? Companies are doing the bare minimum to help and it's not okay!

That's why I left corporate tech after 20 years and built Itsyourleave! Since 2024, I've helped over 1,100 California families claim every dollar they're owed. This is my full time career now and I love making parental leave equitable for everyone!

This is bigger than your leave plan.

The United States is the only developed country in the world with no federally mandated paid parental leave.

Zero.

Which means that in California, where the benefits are genuinely world-class, parents are still left to figure out a fragmented, complicated, poorly communicated system entirely on their own. At one of the most overwhelming moments of their lives.

HR isn't legally required to help you navigate your leave. The EDD isn't designed to help you optimize your claim. Nobody is coming to hand you the map.

Until that changes at a federal level, and I'm committed to advocating for exactly that, parents need someone in their corner who understands this system inside out and will fight to make sure they get every dollar and every week they're owed.

Since launching IYL, I've supported more than 1,100 California families.

When you go through the Blueprint, here's what that actually looks like for you: you sit down for under two hours, work through your specific numbers and your specific employer's policies, and walk away with your full timeline mapped from your due date, your filing order locked in, and your office hours access ready for whenever a question comes up that the modules didn't cover.

No call to schedule first. No waiting on a strategist's calendar. You start the moment you're ready, on your own time, and you're never doing it from scratch, because the entire system, every form, every deadline, every transition point, has already been mapped out by someone who's lived it 1,100 times over.

I'm a one-woman operation, intentionally. Every answer inside the Blueprint, and every answer in office hours, comes from two and a half years of documenting everything this system doesn't explain. Not a generic template. Not a chatbot. Me.

The parents who come out ahead are almost always the ones who started early. If you're in your second trimester or earlier, right now is the right time!

"Brittney's course was amazing to have in my corner throughout the entire process of figuring out what my maternity leave would look like.

Because of Brittney's help and resources, I was able to take 5.5 months off to spend time with my baby, which I will be forever grateful for. I would 10000% recommend this... Worth every penny!"

You can absolutely do this on your own. But, this is the easy button!

You knew something wasn't adding up when HR handed you that packet. You knew when the EDD website defeated you. You knew when you found yourself on Reddit at midnight trying to figure out whether the rules had changed since 2021.

You've already paid into this system. You've already earned this time.

You just need someone to show you how to claim it.

Let's go get it!

GET THE BLUEPRINT NOW!