Beautifully In-Between

I’ve been thinking a lot about what luxury really means, in this week’s episode of Beautifully In Between I get to explore the topic with my friend, Brand and Personal stylist, Lonnie Sean. .

He’s got the most chic, minimalist style making him perfect to chat about luxury and how it doesn’t always mean labels or spending lots of money. We talked about why a closet full of labels is not the same as a closet that works for you, why your tailor deserves a spot in your phone favorites, and how to tell if you are buying something you love or something you think you are supposed to want.

We also got honest about money. Lonnie never lets a client spend more than they have, and that rule alone is worth the listen. And yes, we got into hour long dog walks, coffee breaks in the middle of a workday, and Lonnie’s daily bubble bath habit, including the 4 AM ones.

Here is what I hope you take with you: you do not have to choose between enjoying your life and being responsible with your money. Luxury can be a decision you make about your time, your body, and your peace.

Take a listen… then tell me, what is the smallest luxury in your life right now?

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The second episode of this season opens with something a lot of us have quietly felt: the belief that creativity belongs to a different version of ourselves. The version that existed before the title, before the packed calendar, before we learned to fit a certain idea of professional. It was only recently that I started to realize that having a “creative” job (painter, sculptor, writer, etc.) isn’t the only form of creativity. Changing my point of view on this actually has brought in a lot more fulfillment to my daily corporate work.

This shift sets the stage for this conversation.

Megan Bell is head of marketing and communications at Falvey Insurance Group and the creator and host of InsHER, a podcast amplifying women in the insurance industry. She is also someone who has spent years refusing to leave parts of herself at the door.

Our conversation explores the gap between companies that say they want innovation and the ones that actually know how to hold it. We talk about what it costs women to keep their creative and professional selves separate, and what quietly opens up when they stop. We get honest about the roles that are hardest to make room for, what disappears first when life gets too full, and why so many of us are still grieving a version of success we never actually wanted.

And at the center of it all is a question I hope the Beautifully In-Between audience begins to grapple with often: what if you were never supposed to choose?

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In this very first episode of Beautifully In-Between, I sit down with Beth Diamond, a former litigator turned Global Head of Claims in the insurance industry, to explore a different definition of power. One that holds space for softness, compassion, and honesty all at once.

Beth shares the stories that shaped her: the law firm moment that told her exactly who she was not, the copy room night that cost her something real, and the pandemic boss who proved that people-first leadership is not just possible, it is powerful.

This conversation is for anyone who has ever wondered if leading as yourself is enough.

Spoiler: it is more than enough. It is the whole point.

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Welcome to Beautifully In-Between, I’m your host Chantelle Davis, and I’m thrilled to finally launch my podcast.

Have you ever wondered why our society is ruled by binary frameworks? Have you realized you have been hiding pieces of yourself based on the rooms you’re in?

I spent most of my adult life doing exactly that, fragmenting myself based on the rooms I was in. There was the corporate version, the creative version, the stylish and curious version, and none of those versions of myself were typically fully present except with friends and family. I was terrified of what I would lose, if the people in one room found out that I had other interests that did not depend on them. The world we live in wants us totally dependent on its validation of us, and not our validation of ourselves.

Recently something shifted for me. I started letting the different versions of myself show up in ways that I hadn’t allowed in the past, and instead of my world collapsing, the rooms and the opportunities expanded. This recent change helped me create Beautifully In-Between.

The purpose of this show is to challenge the idea that you have to choose. This is not a roadmap, a self-improvement plan, or a checklist for becoming your best self. It is a space for honest, unhurried conversations with women who are pushing back on the “either or” framework society hands us and are living fully in the grey. Over the coming episodes, we will explore career, identity, creativity, style, money, and culture, areas of life that can carry competing demands.

My hope is that even if you do not agree with every guest or find every episode applicable to your life, each episode inspires you to look at the binary frameworks around you and finally ask yourself the question I opened with. Did you ever actually agree to them in the first place?

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About Beautifully In-Between:

Beautifully In-Between challenges the idea that you have to choose. Host Chantelle Davis has honest conversations with guests who are quietly refusing to let society’s binary frameworks write their story, brings in experts across politics, finance, history, fashion, and beyond to examine the systems behind that framework, and in solo episodes reflects on what it looks like to question the framework in real time.