Today's guest is Dr. Seanelle Hawkins, CEO of Daystar Kids. With more than twenty-five years of executive leadership experience, she's known for leading transformational growth across education, healthcare, and nonprofit organizations. Before joining Day Star Kids, she served as the president and CEO of the Urban League of Rochester. She also chairs New York State's Community Commission on Reparations Remedies, helping shape policy and systemic change across the state. Dr. Hawkins is a passionate about building-- Dr. Hawkins is passionate about building innovative systems of care that better support medically complex children, their families, and the professionals who serve them. We're so excited to have her with us today.

Are you the one who has to prove it? The one who can't sit still? The one everyone counts on to carry it all, alone? And what would happen if the grind that built you wasn't the thing that had to carry you forward anymore?

In this episode of Journey to Radiance, Melissa, Jo, and Alana sit down with executive and community leader Dr. Seanelle Hawkins to explore what happens when hustle stops being the answer, the grind that built our careers, the identities we formed around proving ourselves, and the ones we're finally learning to put down.

Together, they reflect on ambition, ego, burnout, motherhood, and the quiet courage it takes to ask: is this grind still serving me, or am I just afraid of who I am without it?

From working multiple jobs to prove you belong, to putting your own emotions aside, to tying your worth to how much you get done, this conversation invites you to look honestly at the habits that once protected you but may no longer serve the life you are building.

This episode is for anyone who is tired of grinding alone and ready to let their success multiply through the people around them.

Your Hosts: Melissa Suchodolski, USC Builds • Jo Rowe, USC Builds • Alana Cummings, Superbloom Coaching

With Special Guest: Dr. Seanelle Hawkins

About Journey to Radiance: Journey to Radiance is a weekly podcast about personal growth, life transitions, reinvention, and the courage it takes to live authentically, even when life is messy. Hosted by Melissa Suchodolski and Jo Rowe of USC Builds, and Alana Cummings of Superbloom Coaching. We hold space for the in-between seasons, because radiance is not something you chase, it is what emerges when you stand in who you truly are.

New episodes every week.

Recorded at ROC Vox Recording & Production Studios, Rochester, NY  rocvox.com