Black women are often expected to lead with excellence while carrying pressure that remains invisible to everyone else. The result can be that they experience chronic stress, continuous mental exhaustion, and a version of success that leaves little space to exhale.

In “Clear, Calm & Capable: Leading Without Burnout,” Lisa Hurley welcomes Dr. Yvette Ankrah MBE, transformational coach, therapist, consultant, and Founder of Leading with C.L.A.R.I.T.Y. Together, they explore the realities of Black women and burnout in the United States, the mental health impact of high-pressure leadership, and why life-work balance must be treated as a leadership priority.

The conversation will also move beyond the problem to examine what healthier, more sustainable leadership can look like.

You will learn:

💚 How chronic pressure and burnout affect Black women

💚 Why clarity is essential for strong decision-making

💚 How leaders can create space to process and reset

💚 What sustainable leadership looks like in real life

💚 How calm, compassion, and support strengthen leadership

Join Lisa and Dr. Ankrah for a conversation that can help every woman who wants to lead well without losing herself in the process. 

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📚 Get your copy of Space To Exhale

If you are ready to move beyond burnout and create a life rooted in rest, self-love, boundaries, and wellbeing, Space To Exhale offers practical tools, affirmations, breathwork, and gentle guidance to help you get there.

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ABOUT SPACE TO EXHALE: THE PODCAST

Space To Exhale: The Podcast is a wellness show exploring rest, self-care, soft living, burnout recovery, mental health, boundaries, work-life balance, joy, and personal growth.

Each week, Lisa Hurley sits down with advocates, experts, authors, and changemakers for uplifting conversations designed to help listeners create lives they don’t feel they need a break from.

CREDITS:

👸🏽Guest

Dr. Yvette Ankrah MBE, Founder of Leading with C.L.A.R.I.T.Y.

👸🏽Host & Executive Producer 

Lisa Hurley, five-time Anthem Award-winning author of Space To Exhale, Host of Space To Exhale: The Podcast, and Founder of The Great Exhale 

CONNECT WITH YVETTE:

• Connect with Yvette on LinkedIn and Instagram

• For updates, visit YvetteAnkrah.com

CONNECT WITH LISA:

• Connect with Lisa on:

• LinkedIn

• Intro

• TikTok

• Instagram 

• Facebook

• IYKYK

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Black people are expected to carry the weight of racism while continuing to work, lead, care for others, and prove their worth. It’s exhausting. That exhaustion has a name: Black fatigue, a phrase coined by Mary-Frances Winters to describe the cumulative, intergenerational toll of racism on the mind, body, and spirit. 

In addition to being the founder and CEO of The Winters Group, Mary-Frances Winters is the bestselling author of “Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit” (Berrett-Koehler, 2020). Her daughter, Mareisha Winters Reese, is the president and chief operating officer of The Winters Group, and coauthor of the newly released second edition of Black Fatigue (Berrett-Koehler, 2026). 

In this episode of Space To Exhale: The Podcast, Lisa welcomes this powerful duo to unpack what Black fatigue looks like, why it persists, and what can be done about it.

In “Black Fatigue: Rest, Resistance & Reclaiming the Self,” they explore:

🖤How racism creates chronic, cumulative, and intergenerational stress

🖤Why Black fatigue results in even more adverse health impacts in a post-COVID world

🖤What it means to reclaim the self beyond work, proving, and survival

🖤Why Black people deserve to experience rest 🖤How individuals and organizations can move from awareness to meaningful change

Join Lisa, Mary-Frances, and Mareisha for an honest conversation about naming the harm, resisting depletion, and creating space for Black people to heal, flourish, and rest.

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📚 Get your copy of Space To Exhale

If you are ready to move beyond burnout and create a life rooted in rest, self-love, boundaries, and wellbeing, Space To Exhale offers practical tools, affirmations, breathwork, and gentle guidance to help you get there.

Already read it? Please consider leaving a review on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Goodreads.

ABOUT SPACE TO EXHALE: THE PODCAST

Space To Exhale: The Podcast is a wellness show exploring rest, self-care, soft living, burnout recovery, mental health, boundaries, work-life balance, joy, and personal growth.

Each week, Lisa Hurley sits down with advocates, experts, authors, and changemakers for uplifting conversations designed to help listeners create lives they don’t feel they need a break from.

CREDITS:

👸🏽Guests 

Mary-Frances Winters, Founder, The Winters Group, Inc.; Bestselling author, Black Fatigue 

Mareisha Winters Reese, President & CEO, The Winters Group, Inc.; Co-author, Black Fatigue 

👸🏽Host & Executive Producer 

Lisa Hurley, five-time Anthem Award-winning author of Space To Exhale, Host of Space To Exhale: The Podcast, and Founder of The Great Exhale 

CONNECT WITH MARY-FRANCES and MAREISHA:

• Connect with Mary-Frances on LinkedIn and Instagram

• Connect with Mareisha on LinkedIn and Instagram

• Follow Black Fatigue on Instagram

• For updates, visit Black Fatigue.com 

CONNECT WITH LISA:

• Connect with Lisa on:

• LinkedIn

• Intro

• TikTok

• Instagram 

• Facebook

• IYKYK

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What happens when we stop treating noise, crowds, constant activity, and performative networking as the only paths to meaningful connection? In this spontaneous episode of Space To Exhale: The Podcast, Lisa Hurley is joined by her sister, author and community builder Sharon Hurley Hall, and her friend, author and event strategist Latrice Torres, for a warm, candid conversation about creating spaces where introverts can connect, contribute, and thrive.

Together, they explore what becomes possible when gatherings are designed with introverts in mind. From intimate networking events that generate real relationships and tangible opportunities to retreats where participants can step away without explanation, they demonstrate that quieter spaces are not less powerful. When people feel safe, respected, and free from the pressure to perform, deeper connections can emerge.

The conversation also examines the hidden energy required to host, network, build community, and “people” as an introvert. Lisa, Sharon, and Latrice discuss honoring different expressions of introversion, rejecting the idea that quietness is a flaw, and building rest into the experience before, during, and after showing up. Introverts can do big, visible, impactful things, but that does not mean the impact comes without an energetic cost.

In “Less Noise, More Connection: Creating Spaces Where Introverts Can Thrive,” viewers and listeners will learn:

💚 Why introvert-affirming spaces can foster deeper connection and belonging

💚 How intentional event design can reduce overwhelm without diminishing impact

💚 Why introverts need the freedom to step away, recharge, and participate on their own terms

💚 How to create community without relying on performative networking or constant social engagement

💚 Why rest should be built into our lives, events, and experiences 

You'll also get a sneak peek into Sharon's fabulous event in Barbados, the Still & Sovereign Retreat, and into Latrice's equally fabulous book launch/TEDx Talk celebration From the Page to the Stage.

Join Lisa, Sharon, and Latrice for a warm, honest conversation about  introversion, intentional community, restorative rest, and what it takes to create spaces where quieter people can fully belong. 

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📚 Get your copy of Space To Exhale

If you are ready to move beyond burnout and create a life rooted in rest, self-love, boundaries, and wellbeing, Space To Exhale offers practical tools, affirmations, breathwork, and gentle guidance to help you get there.

Already read it? Please consider leaving a review on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Goodreads.

CREDITS:

👸🏽Guests: 

Sharon Hurley Hall, Award-Winning author of I’m Tired of Racism, Curator-in-Chief of Sharon’s Anti-Racism Newsletter, and Creator of the Still & Sovereign Retreat⁠ 

Latrice Torres, SPHR, Owner & Principal Consultant, LeaderKeys Consulting, TEDx Speaker, and contributing author to Triumph in the Trenches Volume III.

👸🏽Host & Executive Producer: Lisa Hurley, five-time Anthem Award-winning author of Space To Exhale, Host of Space To Exhale: The Podcast, writer of The Gentle Breath newsletter, and Founder of The Great Exhale

CONNECT WITH LISA:

• Connect with Lisa on:

• LinkedIn

• Intro

• TikTok

• Instagram 

• Facebook

• IYKYK

Learn More

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Burnout is not a mark of personal failure. It is usually the body’s honest response to systems that ask people to keep producing while ignoring what their nervous system is trying to say.

In “Not Built for Burnout: Somatics and Sustainable Success,” Lisa Hurley welcomes Lauren Dike, Performance Consultant, Somatic Coach, founder of Harmonna, and creator of The Body-Based Guide to Surviving Modern Work.

Together, they will explore what sustainable success can look like when the body is included in the conversation. Lauren brings a powerful blend of finance, elite athletics, organizational culture, and trauma-educated somatic work to help people understand how burnout, disengagement, conflict, shutdown, and overperformance often begin in the nervous system.

This conversation will hold both the problem and the possibility: the real cost of modern work, especially for Black women, and the practical ways people can begin to return to themselves with more clarity, care, boundaries, joy, and self-trust.

You will learn:

• How somatics can help people heal burnout, stress, and workplace survival patterns

• The difference between somatic practices and Somatic Experiencing

• Why life-work balance is not enough without nervous system safety

• How rest, joy, self-love, and boundaries support sustainable success

• Why Black women deserve tools that honor both their softness and their strength

Join Lisa and Lauren for a grounded, practical conversation about work, the body, burnout, and what it means to build success in a way your body can cope with.

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The Gentle Breath is Lisa Hurley's Sunday newsletter featuring affirmations, reflections, wellbeing resources, podcast updates, and gentle encouragement for living a soft, centered, serene life. More than a newsletter, The Gentle Breath is a weekly invitation to slow down, reconnect with yourself, and begin each week from a place of peace. 

📚 Get your copy of Space To Exhale

If you are ready to move beyond burnout and create a life rooted in rest, self-love, boundaries, and wellbeing, Space To Exhale offers practical tools, affirmations, breathwork, and gentle guidance to help you get there.

Already read it? Please consider leaving a review on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Goodreads.

ABOUT SPACE TO EXHALE: THE PODCAST

Space To Exhale: The Podcast is a wellness show exploring rest, self-care, soft living, burnout recovery, mental health, boundaries, work-life balance, joy, and personal growth.

Each week, Lisa Hurley sits down with advocates, experts, authors, and changemakers for uplifting conversations designed to help listeners create lives they don’t feel they need a break from.

CREDITS:

👸🏽Guest: Lauren Dike, Performance Consultant and Somatic Coach 

👸🏽Host & Executive Producer: Lisa Hurley, five-time Anthem Award-winning author of Space To Exhale, Host of Space To Exhale: The Podcast, and Founder of The Great Exhale 

CONNECT WITH LAUREN:

• Connect with Lauren on LinkedIn and Instagram

• Discover The Angry Black Woman Aftercare Guide

• For updates, visit Harmonna.co

CONNECT WITH LISA:

• Connect with Lisa on:

• LinkedIn

• Intro

• TikTok

• Instagram 

• Facebook

• IYKYK

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What resonated with you most? Share your biggest takeaway using #TheSpaceToExhaleShow and tag Lisa so we can continue the conversation. 

Overdrive has become the default for far too many of us. Hustling. Pushing. Relentlessly pursuing more, more, more. This episode invites you to imagine a different way forward. 

In Season 2, Episode 5 of Space To Exhale: The Podcast, "Overdrive vs. Underdrive: Redefining Success," host Lisa Hurley welcomes leadership coach, HR executive, TEDx Speaker, and LeaderKeys Consulting Founder and CEO Latrice Torres for an honest conversation about work-life balance, leadership, rest, authenticity, and what it means for Black women to thrive without constantly proving themselves.

Drawing from one of the most talked-about concepts in Lisa's award-winning book, Space To Exhale, this episode explores why overdrive has become the default for so many high-achieving women and why underdrive may be the healthier, more sustainable path forward. Together, Lisa and Latrice challenge hustle culture, examine the hidden costs of chronic overwork, and share practical wisdom for building a successful career without sacrificing peace.

You will discover:

💚Why overdrive often keeps high achievers stressed, overwhelmed, and disconnected from themselves.

💚How embracing underdrive can support sustainable success, leadership, and well-being.

💚Practical strategies for creating healthier work-life balance and navigating career growth with intention.

💚Why authenticity, affirmations, and rest are powerful leadership practices, especially for Black women.

💚How redefining success can create more space to exhale at work and in everyday life.

Join Lisa and Latrice for a thoughtful conversation that invites everyone to pursue success with greater ease, clarity, and intention.

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🙏🏾 Get The Gentle Breath Newsletter

The Gentle Breath is Lisa Hurley's Sunday newsletter featuring affirmations, reflections, wellbeing resources, podcast updates, and gentle encouragement for living a soft, centered, serene life. More than a newsletter, The Gentle Breath is a weekly invitation to slow down, reconnect with yourself, and begin each week from a place of peace. 

📚 Get your copy of Space To Exhale

If you are ready to move beyond burnout and create a life rooted in rest, self-love, boundaries, and wellbeing, Space To Exhale offers practical tools, affirmations, breathwork, and gentle guidance to help you get there.

Already read it? Please consider leaving a review on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Goodreads.

ABOUT SPACE TO EXHALE: THE PODCAST

Space To Exhale: The Podcast is a wellness show exploring rest, self-care, soft living, burnout recovery, mental health, boundaries, work-life balance, joy, and sustainable success.

Each week, Lisa Hurley sits down with advocates, experts, authors, and changemakers for uplifting conversations designed to help listeners create lives they don’t feel they need a break from.

CREDITS:

👸🏽Guest: Latrice Torres, SPHR, Founder and CEO of LeaderKeys™ Consulting 

👸🏽Host & Executive Producer: Lisa Hurley, five-time Anthem Award-winning author of Space To Exhale, Host of Space To Exhale: The Podcast, and Founder of The Great Exhale 

CONNECT WITH LATRICE:

• Connect with Latrice on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook, 

• Follow LeaderKeys Consulting on LinkedIn

• Subscribe to LeaderKeys on YouTube

• Discover the LeaderKeys Career Success Tracker app

• For updates, visit LeaderKeysUnlocked.com

CONNECT WITH LISA:

Connect with Lisa on:

LinkedIn

Intro

TikTok

Instagram 

Facebook

IYKYK

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People experiencing menopause deserves more than myths, fear, and silent suffering. They deserve honest conversations, practical tools, and the reminder that this season of life can also be one of renewal.

In this episode of Space To Exhale: The Podcast, "Menopause, Managed: Rest, Resilience & Reclaiming Yourself," host Lisa Hurley welcomes licensed naturopathic doctor, menopause educator, and Eat More Plants author Dr. Daemon Jones for a thoughtful conversation about navigating perimenopause and menopause with knowledge, confidence, and self-compassion.

Together, they explore what happens when women stop viewing menopause as something to survive and begin embracing it as an opportunity to reconnect with themselves.

From hormonal changes and fatigue to rest, nutrition, resilience, and soft living, this conversation offers a balanced look at both the challenges and the possibilities of midlife. 

You will discover:

💚 Simple mindset shifts that make “the change” easier

💚 Practical ways to ease the transition through perimenopause and menopause

💚 Why rest, self-love, and resilience are essential to supporting hormonal health

💚 How nutrition, lifestyle habits, and a plant-forward approach can help women feel their best

💚 Why menopause can become a season of growth, wisdom, and renewed purpose instead of something to fear

Join Lisa Hurley and Dr. Dae for an empowering conversation that reminds every woman that menopause is not the end of her story; it can be the beginning of an even healthier, more grounded, and more vibrant chapter of life.

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The Gentle Breath is Lisa Hurley's Sunday newsletter featuring affirmations, reflections, wellbeing resources, podcast updates, and gentle encouragement for living a soft, centered, serene life. More than a newsletter, The Gentle Breath is a weekly invitation to slow down, reconnect with yourself, and begin each week from a place of peace. 

📚 Get your copy of Space To Exhale

If you are ready to move beyond burnout and create a life rooted in rest, self-love, boundaries, and wellbeing, Space To Exhale offers practical tools, affirmations, breathwork, and gentle guidance to help you get there.

Already read it? Please consider leaving a review on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Goodreads.

ABOUT SPACE TO EXHALE: THE PODCAST

Space To Exhale: The Podcast is a wellness show exploring rest, self-care, soft living, burnout recovery, mental health, boundaries, work-life balance, joy, and personal growth.

Each week, Lisa Hurley sits down with advocates, experts, authors, and changemakers for uplifting conversations designed to help listeners create lives they don’t feel they need a break from.

CREDITS:

👸🏽Guest: Dr. Daemon Jones, Certified Naturopathic Doctor, and author of Eat More Plants!

👸🏽Host & Executive Producer: Lisa Hurley, five-time Anthem Award-winning author of Space To Exhale, Host of Space To Exhale: The Podcast, and Founder of The Great Exhale 

CONNECT WITH DR. DAE:

• Connect with Dr. Dae on LinkedIn

• Get your copy of Eat More Plants

• For updates, visit HealthyDaes.com

CONNECT WITH LISA:

• Connect with Lisa on:

• LinkedIn

• Intro

• TikTok

• Instagram 

• Facebook

• IYKYK

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What resonated with you most? Share your biggest takeaway using #TheSpaceToExhaleShow and tag Lisa so we can continue the conversation.

Success means very little if it costs you your peace.

In this episode, Lisa Hurley is joined by Lola Bakare, Founder of be/co, architect of the #ResponsibleMarketing movement, and author of Responsible Marketing, for a conversation about building a meaningful life, pursuing sustainable success, and thriving without losing yourself along the way.

Together, Lisa and Lola explore what it means to build a life, career, and legacy that feel good on the inside, not just impressive on paper. From work-life balance and boundaries to rest and manifestation, this conversation challenges the idea that success must come at the expense of wellbeing.

In "Responsible Success: Thriving Without Losing Yourself," you will discover:

• A grounded way to rethink success without burnout or self sacrifice 

• How boundaries, rest, and joy can help create a more sustainable approach to achievement

• What it means to practice self-love in a culture that often rewards self-sacrifice

• How the power of affirmations and "acting as if" can help bring a desired future into the present

• Why Black women deserve lives that are defined by more than productivity

• A deeper understanding of responsible marketing and values-first leadership 

Whether you’re navigating a demanding career, building a business, or simply trying to create more space to breathe, this conversation offers practical wisdom and a powerful reminder that success should support your life, not consume it.

Join Lisa Hurley and Lola Bakare, and discover what responsible success can look like when joy, rest, and self-preservation are part of the plan.

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The Gentle Breath is Lisa Hurley's Sunday newsletter featuring affirmations, reflections, wellbeing resources, podcast updates, and gentle encouragement for living a soft, centered, serene life. More than a newsletter, The Gentle Breath is a weekly invitation to slow down, reconnect with yourself, and begin each week from a place of peace. 

📚 Get your copy of Space To Exhale

If you are ready to move beyond burnout and create a life rooted in rest, self-love, boundaries, and wellbeing, Space To Exhale offers practical tools, affirmations, breathwork, and gentle guidance to help you get there.

Already read it? Please consider leaving a review on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Goodreads.

ABOUT SPACE TO EXHALE: THE PODCAST

Space To Exhale: The Podcast is a wellness podcast exploring rest, self-care, soft living, burnout recovery, mental health, boundaries, work-life balance, joy, and personal growth.

Each week, Lisa Hurley sits down with authors, advocates, experts, and changemakers for uplifting conversations designed to help listeners create lives they do not feel they need a break from.

CREDITS:

👸🏽Guest: Lola Bakare, CMO Advisor & Inclusive Marketing Strategist at be/co, Author of Responsible Marketing 

👸🏽Host & Executive Producer: Lisa Hurley, five-time Anthem Award-winning author of Space To Exhale, Host of Space To Exhale: The Podcast, and Founder of The Great Exhale 

CONNECT WITH LOLA:

• Connect with Lola on LinkedIn

• Get your copy of Responsible Marketing

• Book Lola on Intro

• For updates, visit www.responsiblemarketingbook.com

CONNECT WITH LISA:

• Connect with Lisa on:

• LinkedIn

• Intro

• TikTok

• Instagram 

• Facebook

• IYKYK

Learn More

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JOIN THE CONVERSATION

What resonated with you most? Share your biggest takeaway using #TheSpaceToExhaleShow and tag Lisa so we can continue the conversation. 

Bad bosses do more than ruin a workday. They can impact our mental health, our relationships, our confidence, and our ability to rest.

In Episode 2 of Space To Exhale: The Podcast’s second season, host Lisa Hurley sits down with Mita Mallick, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Reimagine Inclusion and USA Today bestselling author of The Devil Emails at Midnight, for an honest conversation about the hidden cost of toxic leadership and the impact bad bosses can have on our mental health, wellbeing, and sense of self. 

A noted workplace strategist, Mita shares powerful insights on organizational culture, and finding work-life balance. Together, Lisa and Mita explore how workplace stress follows us home, why boundaries are the bedrock of true success, and what it looks like to choose joy, rest, and wellbeing in a culture that often rewards burnout. 

In “The Devil Emails at Midnight: The Cost of Bad Bosses,” you will learn:

✅ How bad bosses can contribute to stress, burnout, anxiety, and emotional exhaustion 

✅ How to recognize unhealthy workplace dynamics before they take a deeper toll

✅ Why healthy boundaries are essential for protecting mental health at work 

✅ Why self-worth should never be tied to productivity or professional achievement 

✅ How leaders can create healthier workplace cultures that support wellbeing 

✅ What it means to prioritize joy, rest, and self-preservation without guilt

Tune in and join the conversation. It just might be the reminder you need that people don’t quit bad jobs, they quit bad bosses, and it’s not worth it to sacrifice your health to achieve success.

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The Gentle Breath is Lisa Hurley's Sunday newsletter featuring affirmations, reflections, wellbeing resources, podcast updates, and gentle encouragement for living a soft, centered, serene life. More than a newsletter, The Gentle Breath is a weekly invitation to slow down, reconnect with yourself, and begin each week from a place of peace. 

📚 Get your copy of Space To Exhale

If you are ready to move beyond burnout and create a life rooted in rest, self-love, boundaries, and wellbeing, Space To Exhale offers practical tools, affirmations, breathwork, and gentle guidance to help you get there.

Already read it? Please consider leaving a review on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Goodreads.

ABOUT SPACE TO EXHALE: THE PODCAST

Space To Exhale: The Podcast is a wellness podcast exploring rest, self-care, soft living, burnout recovery, mental health, boundaries, work-life balance, joy, and personal growth.

Each week, Lisa Hurley sits down with authors, advocates, experts, and changemakers for uplifting conversations designed to help listeners create lives they do not feel they need a break from.

CREDITS:

👸🏽Guest: Mita Mallick, bestselling author of Reimagine Inclusion and The Devil Emails at Midnight

👸🏽Host & Executive Producer: Lisa Hurley, five-time Anthem Award-winning author of Space To Exhale, Host of Space To Exhale: The Podcast, and Founder of The Great Exhale 

CONNECT WITH MITA:

• Connect with Mita on LinkedIn

• Get your copy of The Devil Emails at Midnight

• Book Mita to speak

• For updates, visit MitaMallick.com

CONNECT WITH LISA:

• Connect with Lisa on:

• LinkedIn

• Intro

• TikTok

• Instagram 

• Facebook

• IYKYK

Learn More

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JOIN THE CONVERSATION

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Season 2 of Space To Exhale: The Podcast opens with a conversation that feels like a deep, relaxing breath.

In this début episode of the second season, Lisa Hurley sits down with her big sister Sharon Hurley Hall, author of I’m Tired of Racism and creator of “The Unsilenced Method™, to explore what it means to intentionally create spaces where Black women can rest, reflect, reclaim themselves, and simply be.

Together, they unpack the power of designing environments that do not require performance. From Sharon’s Still and Sovereign Retreat in Barbados to her Quiet Queens gatherings in London, this conversation explores what becomes possible when softness, sovereignty, and self-trust are treated as practices instead of rewards.

In Still & Sovereign: Designing Spaces to Exhale, you will discover:

✅ How creating a space to exhale can support healing, clarity, and self-knowledge✅ Why rest for Black women is more than self-care and can become a form of activism✅ The unique needs of introverts and high-achieving women seeking softer ways to live and lead✅ Practical reflections on building communities and experiences that affirm who people already are✅ What it means for Black women to choose a soft life without apology 

This season of the show is about becoming more centered and less exhausted, so this discussion is the perfect place to begin. Join the conversation if you are ready to exhale. And don’t forget to share this with a friend who needs more space, more softness, and more room to breathe.

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If you are ready to move beyond burnout and create a life rooted in rest, self-love, boundaries, and wellbeing, Space To Exhale offers practical tools, affirmations, breathwork, and gentle guidance to help you get there.

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ABOUT SPACE TO EXHALE: THE PODCAST

Space To Exhale: The Podcast is a wellness podcast exploring rest, self-care, soft living, burnout recovery, mental health, boundaries, work-life balance, joy, and personal growth.

Each week, Lisa Hurley sits down with authors, advocates, experts, and changemakers for uplifting conversations designed to help listeners create lives they do not feel they need a break from.

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👸🏽Guest: Sharon Hurley Hall, author of I’m Tired of Racism and Creator of The Unsilenced Method™

👸🏽Host & Executive Producer: Lisa Hurley, five-time Anthem Award-winning author of Space To Exhale, Host of Space To Exhale: The Podcast, and Founder of The Great Exhale 

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• Connect with Sharon on LinkedIn

• Learn about the Still & Sovereign Retreat in Barbados

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• Book Sharon to speak

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Gratitude is a verb. It must be felt, implemented, and expressed.

In the Season 1 finale of Space To Exhale: The Podcast, Lisa is joined by her big sister Sharon Hurley Hall, author of I’m Tired of Racism, for a heartfelt conversation about the power of appreciation, especially when the world feels heavy. 

Just in time for Thanksgiving, and the holiday season, this episode invites you into a tender and transformative space to reflect, reconnect, and reclaim gratitude as a gentle-yet-potent force for healing.

Lisa and Sharon talk about sisterhood, softness, and how appreciation can transform not only our inner world but also the structures around us. Whether you are already living the soft life or just beginning to explore it, this episode will meet you where you are.

From this reflective conversation led by two second-generation Reiki Masters, you will discover:

🙏🏾 The sacred connection between gratitude and grace

🙏🏾 How to embrace and embody appreciation as a practice

🙏🏾 How appreciation connects to liberation, healing, and community care for Black women

🙏🏾 What it means to stay grounded in softness during stressful seasons

🙏🏾 Meditations and mindfulness practices to help you create your own space to exhale

This milestone 30th episode is a beautiful close to Season 1. Tune in and give yourself permission to breathe, reflect, and receive. It is time to exhale.

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CREDITS:

👸🏽Guest: Sharon Hurley Hall, author of I’m Tired of Racism, and Founder of Sharon’s Anti-Racism Newsletter.

👸🏽Host & Executive Producer: Lisa Hurley, Author, Space To Exhale and Founder, The Great Exhale

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ABOUT SPACE TO EXHALE:

It is time to exhale: to say no to hustle culture, and yes to a life of ease. In Space To Exhale, Lisa Hurley, Anthem Award-winning author, activist, founder of The Great Exhale, and leader in the rest movement for Black women, provides you with an uplifting and practical guide to help you beat burnout, embrace rest, and live a soft life.

As a soft Black woman, and an advocate of rest for Black women, Lisa supports readers via modalities like affirmations, meditations, and breathwork, as well as her powerful Exhalation Point framework. This inspiring self-help book guides you on a life-changing journey to:

• Know Yourself: Remember who you are, align with your values, and 

• celebrate your strengths.

• Love Yourself: Practice positive self-talk, select your close circle, and prioritize rest.

• Be Yourself: Show up authentically, protect your energy, and live a soft, centered, serene life.

Ready to exhale? Get your copy today. Published by Wiley, Space To Exhale is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Goodreads, and wherever books are sold.  Need several copies for your book club, event, retreat, or ERG? Visit our bulk orders partner Porchlight Books.

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