THE BOOK
Rewired
You don’t have problems. You have patterns.
A companion guide and journal for anyone leading something — a family, a business, a team inside someone else’s business, or just their own life by example — and keeps solving the same problem in a different room. Eight patterns. One honest question under each.
For years I watched good leaders — good people — solve the same problem on repeat. It didn’t matter what
changed: new people, new marketing, new systems, new year. It was the same situation, every time, run by a
pattern hiding under the symptom, without fail.
It was never a shortage of effort or intelligence. It was a pattern. An old script that worked once, kept
working, and then quietly started costing them the thing they were trying to protect.
That’s the part almost nobody actually gets into — not in a way that creates change that lasts. The problems you
think you have are rarely what they’re actually about. You don’t struggle with delegating, or saying no, or
letting go. Something underneath is driving it. That’s the pattern.
I wrote Rewired because change starts at the source, not the symptom. Not another idea. Not another label. Not
somewhere else to put the blame. It takes vision, accountability, and the will to change it at the root. It’s
still a choice — this just helps you finally see how to make it.
“Do you want control, or do you want the result?”
— Chapter Four, The Controller
Eight patterns. One honest question under each.
The Controller
Hands off the project, but never actually leaves.
The Perfectionist
Says yes so no one is disappointed.
The Chaotic
Keeps the pace high enough to outrun the question.
The Armor
Protected from looking wrong. Blocked from seeing what’s true.
The Pushover
Says yes so no one is disappointed.
The Firefighter
Answers every alarm bell, cancels every plan.
The Ghost
Goes quiet exactly when it matters most.
The Fixer
Solves it for you so you never have to struggle.
HOW EACH CHAPTER WORKS
Every chapter runs the same way — where the pattern shows up, the tell that gives it away, and then space to write. It isn’t a book you read at. It’s one you answer.
The Moment — You watched what actually happened, not what it felt like.
The Feeling — Name it in your own words, in the third person if that’s what it takes to see it.
The Ego’s Story — The version your ego is telling you, and where it stops being true.
The Opportunity — The question you’ve been avoiding, in writing, where it can’t slip away.
HOW EACH CHAPTER WORKS
Every chapter runs the same way — where the pattern shows up, the tell that gives it away, and then space to write. It isn’t a book you read at. It’s one you answer.
The Moment — You watched what actually happened, not what it felt like.
The Feeling — Name it in your own words, in the third person if that’s what it takes to see it.
The Ego’s Story — The version your ego is telling you, and where it stops being true.
The Opportunity — The question you’ve been avoiding, in writing, where it can’t slip away.
COMPANION WORKBOOK
The book names the pattern. This is where you go after it — into the story running underneath it, the one your brain has already decided is true. Every page names what you’re predicting before you’ve even tested it, then gives you the room to test it anyway and write something different. It’s the same process I walk clients through directly, put on paper.
All eight patterns, deeper — the same eight from the book, taken past the name of it.
Where the real work happens — actually change the story, not just point at it.
See how far you’ve come — a record of what’s actually shifted, not just what you meant to change.
Full-color interior — original artwork throughout, not just on the cover.
It’s not just acknowledging the pattern. It’s real life, real practice, real change. Paperback only, $29.99. Sold separately from the book.
JK
Jessica Klatt
I’m Jessica Klatt, founder of Wired To Be. I do behavioral leadership strategy with executives and teams across the Twin Cities and beyond — and the work almost always comes down to the same thing. Not a skills gap. A pattern nobody had named out loud yet. This book is the version of that conversation you can have on your own, at your kitchen table, with a pen.