The Glue Factor

When Rest Becomes Medicine

You can look confident on camera and still be fighting for peace off camera. Our guest, Hattie Hawks, knows that contrast intimately and she says the quiet part out loud: when you live with PTSD and chronic stress, your body can literally forget what relaxation feels like. Hattie is a former TV news anchor and now an emotional awareness coach who’s spent years learning the neuroscience of emotions, the mind-body connection, and what it takes to create real nervous system safety. We talk about how she met Jennifer Harris at an all-women networking event and how that surprising alignment turned into Mindful Retreats, a retreat experience centered on rest, safety, and honest human connection. Hattie shares her path from Philly roots to small-town newsrooms, the emotional armor that journalism can require, and the pressure of being “fine” in public while feeling broken at home. She opens up about leaving a marriage that didn’t serve her, relying on faith, navigating court, and doing the deeper work of changing patterns instead of repeating them. Then we zoom out to the bigger mission: building trauma-informed spaces for women and pushing for emotional safety at work. If you care about corporate wellness, psychological safety, burnout recovery, or supporting neurodivergent teams, this conversation gives you language and perspective that actually helps. You’ll also hear the simplest takeaway that can change everything: stay curious about yourself and others, without spiraling into overthinking. If this moved you, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review so more women can find this community. Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2436405/fan_mail/new] Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/shesuite/support] SHE SUITE SOCIETY EPISODE FOOTER Thank you for listening to She Suite Society! If this episode resonated with you, here's how you can help us reach more women who need to hear these stories: 🎧 Subscribe & Review * Hit subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen * Leave us a 5-star review and tell us which episode moved you most * Share your favorite episodes with friends who need inspiration 💌 Share the Love * Tag us in your stories when you're listening * Use #SheSuiteSociety to share how these conversations impact your life * Forward episodes to women in your life who are navigating their own journeys 🎙️ Be a Guest Do you have a story that could inspire other women? We're always looking for authentic voices from all walks of life. Email us at dalia@amplitudedigitalaccelerator.com or send us a DM. Remember, your story matters. Your journey is valid. And you're not alone in figuring it out. Until next time, keep making your life extraordinary. She Suite Society is a community where women from all backgrounds come together to share their stories, support one another, and reveal the unfiltered reality of our lives. New episodes drop every week wherever you get your podcasts.

The Glue Factor

Your résumé might look like a straight line, but your real life rarely does. I’m sitting down with Jennifer Harris, a self-described “glue” who connects people, systems, and emotions and somehow makes the chaos hold together. Her career story is the kind that instantly challenges the myth that you have to pick one path and stay there: interior design, a hard pivot into bookkeeping during the 2008 era, a rapid climb into executive finance leadership, then consulting and operations leadership as a COO.  We talk candidly about workplace culture, toxic leadership, and what it feels like to be underestimated and underpaid while carrying real responsibility. Jennifer also breaks down a truth that every leader and entrepreneur needs to hear: change management is mostly emotional. Building trust, translating complexity into human language, and helping teams move through fear often matters more than the tool, the software, or the plan. If you care about women in leadership, career pivots, consulting, and building healthy teams, there’s a lot here to take home.  Then the conversation turns to what happens when you refuse to just scroll past a world that feels heavy. Jennifer shares why she started Mindful Retreats, what she learned from an early flop, and how creating a day of rest, journaling, yoga, sound baths, and honest connection can restore people who are doing too much for too long. We close with her mother’s unforgettable metaphor: your life is a tapestry, and the back is supposed to be messy.  Subscribe so you don’t miss Jennifer’s business partner in the next conversation, and if this hit home, share it with a friend and leave a review so more women can find this community.  Jennifer Harris can be reached at jennifer@mindful-retreats.org or visit her webiste at https://www.mindful-retreats.org/.  Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2436405/fan_mail/new] Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/shesuite/support] SHE SUITE SOCIETY EPISODE FOOTER Thank you for listening to She Suite Society! If this episode resonated with you, here's how you can help us reach more women who need to hear these stories: 🎧 Subscribe & Review * Hit subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen * Leave us a 5-star review and tell us which episode moved you most * Share your favorite episodes with friends who need inspiration 💌 Share the Love * Tag us in your stories when you're listening * Use #SheSuiteSociety to share how these conversations impact your life * Forward episodes to women in your life who are navigating their own journeys 🎙️ Be a Guest Do you have a story that could inspire other women? We're always looking for authentic voices from all walks of life. Email us at dalia@amplitudedigitalaccelerator.com or send us a DM. Remember, your story matters. Your journey is valid. And you're not alone in figuring it out. Until next time, keep making your life extraordinary. She Suite Society is a community where women from all backgrounds come together to share their stories, support one another, and reveal the unfiltered reality of our lives. New episodes drop every week wherever you get your podcasts.

Make The First Move

Your mom is your person, your phone call, your home and then she’s gone. That kind of loss doesn’t just hurt; it rewires how you see time, risk, and what’s worth doing with your one life. Dalia sits down with Amanda Black, founder of  The Solo Female Traveler Network [https://thesolofemaletravelernetwork.com/], and they go straight to the deep end: grief, the strange truth of bittersweet, and the moment you stop living for other people’s comfort and start choosing yourself. Amanda shares the story behind her one-way ticket to Honduras and the years of solo travel that followed. She doesn’t romanticize it. Solo female travel can be freeing and it can make you more vulnerable, especially on a small budget. When her hostel room was broken into and everything was stolen, she realized something simple and huge: there were women nearby who would help, but there was no easy way to find them. That spark became a Facebook group, which grew into Sophie, and eventually into transformational group trips where strangers bond fast through intentional design, not accident. We also unpack what women are hungry for right now: real friendship, community, and connection that doesn’t sit beneath romance on the priority list. Amanda explains how she sets expectations, plans itineraries with purpose, and creates space for “wow moments” and honest conversations that move beyond small talk. The closing takeaway is practical and brave: make the first move, with a friendship, a trip, or the life you keep postponing. If you feel alone, restless, or ready to rebuild after grief, listen through to the end. Subscribe, share this with a woman who’s looking for her people, and leave a review so more women can find the community they’ve been missing. Contact her at meetuptours@sofetravel.com or visit her website https://thesolofemaletravelernetwork.com Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2436405/fan_mail/new] Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/shesuite/support] SHE SUITE SOCIETY EPISODE FOOTER Thank you for listening to She Suite Society! If this episode resonated with you, here's how you can help us reach more women who need to hear these stories: 🎧 Subscribe & Review * Hit subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen * Leave us a 5-star review and tell us which episode moved you most * Share your favorite episodes with friends who need inspiration 💌 Share the Love * Tag us in your stories when you're listening * Use #SheSuiteSociety to share how these conversations impact your life * Forward episodes to women in your life who are navigating their own journeys 🎙️ Be a Guest Do you have a story that could inspire other women? We're always looking for authentic voices from all walks of life. Email us at dalia@amplitudedigitalaccelerator.com or send us a DM. Remember, your story matters. Your journey is valid. And you're not alone in figuring it out. Until next time, keep making your life extraordinary. She Suite Society is a community where women from all backgrounds come together to share their stories, support one another, and reveal the unfiltered reality of our lives. New episodes drop every week wherever you get your podcasts.

Who Are You When No One Needs You

You can do everything “right” and still feel like you disappeared inside your own life. That’s the tension we get into with women’s empowerment coach Andrea Universo, starting with one brave question: who are you outside of everyone else? When identity gets built on roles like wife, mother, caretaker, high achiever, any big shift can feel like the ground drops out. Andrea shares what changed for her when her daughter went to college and she realized how many women live on the “I’ll be happy when” track, always chasing the next train station without touching real joy. We talk self-awareness in a way that’s honest and usable: the dusty mirror moment where you finally see yourself clearly again, the inner critic that sounds like a “mean girl” in the back of your head, and the practice of turning that volume down with small, compassionate wins. Andrea’s “bad witch and good witch” metaphor is funny, but it lands because it names what so many of us experience in our self-talk, especially during transitions, confidence rebuilding, and midlife reinvention. We also go deep on how growth changes relationships. When you evolve, some people still hold the old version of you, and that can feel lonely. Andrea explains it through a canoe-and-shore image and then offers a simple framework for personal growth and purpose: Connect, Learn, Grow, Lead. The missing piece for most of us is Learn, asking who am I and why do I want what I want, so we stop looking for fulfillment in external milestones. If you’ve been feeling restless, stuck, or strangely numb after reaching goals, hit play and come back to yourself with us. Subscribe, share this with a friend who’s been carrying everyone else, and leave a review so more women can find this conversation. Contact Andrea here womenleadnow.org [http://womenleadnow.org/] today to get started. Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2436405/fan_mail/new] Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/shesuite/support] SHE SUITE SOCIETY EPISODE FOOTER Thank you for listening to She Suite Society! If this episode resonated with you, here's how you can help us reach more women who need to hear these stories: 🎧 Subscribe & Review * Hit subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen * Leave us a 5-star review and tell us which episode moved you most * Share your favorite episodes with friends who need inspiration 💌 Share the Love * Tag us in your stories when you're listening * Use #SheSuiteSociety to share how these conversations impact your life * Forward episodes to women in your life who are navigating their own journeys 🎙️ Be a Guest Do you have a story that could inspire other women? We're always looking for authentic voices from all walks of life. Email us at dalia@amplitudedigitalaccelerator.com or send us a DM. Remember, your story matters. Your journey is valid. And you're not alone in figuring it out. Until next time, keep making your life extraordinary. She Suite Society is a community where women from all backgrounds come together to share their stories, support one another, and reveal the unfiltered reality of our lives. New episodes drop every week wherever you get your podcasts.

From Corporate Finance To A Women’s Wellness Club In Ohio

You can do everything “right” and still miss the truth your body is trying to tell you. Dalia sits down with Jessica Gesue, a lifelong seeker who followed her curiosity from suburban Cincinnati to corporate finance, through years of dieting and overtraining, and into a new definition of women’s health that’s built on honesty, strength, and support. We talk about what it looks like to “seem healthy” while quietly running on empty, and why real wellness can’t be judged by appearance. Jessica opens up about 90s body image pressure, extreme restriction, and losing her period, then walks us through the turning points that helped her rebuild trust with food, movement, and her hormones. We dig into pregnancy as an unexpected moment of body respect, plus her 15 years as a vegetarian and what she learned about protein, planning, and fertility. If you’re sorting through nutrition advice, strength training myths, or the fear of “getting bulky,” this conversation brings clarity without shame. Then the story takes a bold turn: competitive bodybuilding at 40, followed by a leap out of corporate life and into coaching women. During COVID, Jessica starts training women in her garage and discovers that the real transformation isn’t just physical, it’s community. That spark becomes Alluvita Social Wellness in Worthington, Ohio, a community-first club designed for the wellness-curious woman who doesn’t know where to start, especially in the messy middle of life and the lead-up to perimenopause. Listen for a practical takeaway you can use today: habit stacking, small steps, and consistency over overhauls. Subscribe, share this with a woman who needs a starting point, and leave a review so more listeners can find the She Suite Society. Contact Jessica at jessica@alluvita.com to get in. Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2436405/fan_mail/new] Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/shesuite/support] SHE SUITE SOCIETY EPISODE FOOTER Thank you for listening to She Suite Society! If this episode resonated with you, here's how you can help us reach more women who need to hear these stories: 🎧 Subscribe & Review * Hit subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen * Leave us a 5-star review and tell us which episode moved you most * Share your favorite episodes with friends who need inspiration 💌 Share the Love * Tag us in your stories when you're listening * Use #SheSuiteSociety to share how these conversations impact your life * Forward episodes to women in your life who are navigating their own journeys 🎙️ Be a Guest Do you have a story that could inspire other women? We're always looking for authentic voices from all walks of life. Email us at dalia@amplitudedigitalaccelerator.com or send us a DM. Remember, your story matters. Your journey is valid. And you're not alone in figuring it out. Until next time, keep making your life extraordinary. She Suite Society is a community where women from all backgrounds come together to share their stories, support one another, and reveal the unfiltered reality of our lives. New episodes drop every week wherever you get your podcasts.