Emmy-nominated producer Erika Bryant releases "Doing It Scared in Love & Relationships" September 9, with a 50th birthday launch celebration in Los Angeles September 27
LOS ANGELES, CA. For more than twenty years, Erika Bryant produced transformation for everyone else. Iyanla Fix My Life. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. The Real Housewives of Atlanta. Always Lady London (Tubi), her directorial debut. More than 20,000 interviews with people at their most raw. This September, she steps in front of the story.
Bryant releases "Doing It Scared in Love & Relationships" (Iron Orchid Media) on September 9, 2026, culminating with an invitation-only launch celebration in Los Angeles on Sunday, September 27, as she celebrates her 50th birthday. She marks the milestone by giving herself what she hopes readers will ultimately give themselves: the permission to choose themselves.
"We did not come here to find love. We came here to become it."
Erika Bryant, Author & Iron Orchid Media CEO
Written as the gift Bryant chose to give herself as she entered a new decade, "Doing It Scared in Love & Relationships" extends that same invitation to readers: to choose themselves with honesty, compassion, and courage. The second installment in Bryant's Doing It Scared series, the book expands the conversation from facing fear to transforming the way we love, receive love, and see ourselves.
Rather than offering relationship advice from a distance, Bryant explores performative love, people pleasing, forgiveness, self worth, healing, and the patterns that quietly shape the relationships we build with others and with ourselves.
"On the other side of everything we fear is a version of ourselves we may never meet unless we're willing to lean in," Bryant writes. "This book is my way of going first. It's me doing it scared."
Erika Bryant, Author of Doing It Scared in Love & Relationships
A former Senior Creative Development Executive at Sony Pictures Television and a Television Academy Executive Peer Group member, Bryant is available for interviews, podcasts, panels, and speaking engagements on aging with intention, reinvention, choosing yourself in every season of life, storytelling, relationships, self worth, emotional resilience, and what more than two decades producing unscripted television taught her about human behavior.
For Bryant, turning 50 is not the story. It is the moment that inspired it. "Doing It Scared in Love & Relationships" is an invitation for every reader to discover what becomes possible when we stop performing for love and finally come home to ourselves.
Limited Signed Edition
The first 50 readers to preorder receive a limited signed copy of "Doing It Scared in Love & Relationships."
Event Details
Doing It Scared in Love & Relationships Launch Celebration
Sunday, September 27, 2026 | Los Angeles, CA
Media welcome. RSVP and press credentials: tmckenzie@sandandshores.com
Sunday, September 27, 2026 | Los Angeles, CA
Media welcome. RSVP and press credentials: tmckenzie@sandandshores.com
Book available September 9, 2026
Media Contact
Tonya McKenzie, Sand & Shores
tmckenzie@sandandshores.com | sandandshores.com
tmckenzie@sandandshores.com | sandandshores.com
About Erika Bryant
Erika Bryant is an Emmy-nominated television producer, director, author, and founder of Iron Orchid Media. Over a career spanning more than twenty years, she has helped shape some of television's most recognized unscripted series and franchises. A proud Clark Atlanta University alumna and Television Academy Executive Peer Group member, Bryant is the author of the Doing It Scared series. Doing It Scared in Love & Relationships is her second book.
