Shannon Miles

Shannon Miles is an entrepreneur, author, and the co-founder of BELAY, a premium virtual staffing company she and her husband, Bryan, launched with their own funding during the Great Recession. In 2021 the couple sold a majority interest in the company while remaining shareholders. A mother of two, she also runs Own Not Run, which advises business owners on owning rather than running their companies, and co-founded a craft brewery in Atlanta. In her book The Third Option, she shares how she built a flexible career that gave meaning to both her work and her family, and shows readers how they can do the same.