Women Leaders on the Move - by HerCsuite® Radio

Have you been thinking about what to do in your next career?

Today on the podcast, host Natalie Benamou walks us through the concept of the 'Negative Split' where runners run faster in the second half of a race. She reframes this to be the Second Half Split and shares how to live your best life applying the idea of making what you do next your best effort ever.

Listen in as Natalie she takes us behind the scenes of how to include a board career as part of building what's Next.

Natalie shares how meeting Naomi Kent, CEO, The Boardroom Co and co-founder of HerCsuite® women on Boards programs, changed the way she thought about corporate boards. Find out why serving on a board can be a powerful next move for women leaders who want to guide companies, contribute strategically, and make an impact.

You’ll hear five reasons board service can be a meaningful part of your next chapter, from giving back and having your expertise valued to advising without doing all the day-to-day execution.

Walk away knowing how your experience has value, your voice belongs in the boardroom, and your best work may still be ahead of you. Wherever you are on building what's NEXT, this episode will give you insights to help you on your path.

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn. This podcast is sponsored by HerCsuite® Ready Summit.

Great leaders elevate the people around them. In this episode, Uma Subramanian, Founder of Limitless Leaders, shares with host Natalie Benamou, how her 20-year career at Microsoft shaped the way she thinks about leadership, visibility, and what it means to become sought after.

Uma reflects on the leaders who saw potential in her before she saw it in herself, and how that experience inspired her to help others build influence, communicate their impact, and step into bigger opportunities.

This conversation is a powerful reminder that great work is only the beginning. The leaders who stay relevant and in demand are the ones who think beyond their role, build trust, strengthen relationships, and make their value clear in the rooms where decisions are made.

Tune in and hear how great leaders elevate people, why leadership visibility matters, and what it takes to become the leader others remember, recommend, and invite into what’s next.

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

About Uma Subramanian

As the founder of Limitless Leaders, Uma Subramanian empowers mid-career tech professionals to become confident, impactful leaders who inspire trust and deliver results. Drawing on over 20 years of experience, including a lengthy tenure at Microsoft, she understands the challenges of stepping into leadership roles and thriving in today’s fast-paced tech landscape. Certified in Executive Coaching, DISC Behavioral Analysis, and advanced leadership training, Uma helps clients lead with clarity, emotional intelligence, and purpose.

Website: http://thelimitlessleaders.com 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/uma-subramanian-limitless/

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn. This show is sponsored by HerCsuite® Board Ready Summit May 29th hosted at LinkedIn Chicago.

Your energy is already speaking before you say a word.

In this special in-person conversation recorded live in downtown Chicago, host Natalie Benamou sits down with Jackie Joy to talk about the leadership signal people feel before we ever begin speaking. From client meetings and sales conversations to virtual calls and team dynamics, Jackie shares why presence, intention, and awareness shape how people experience us.

Drawing from her work with sales professionals and leaders, Jackie explains how energy can influence trust, connection, and the outcome of a conversation. She also shares simple ways to reset your presence before a meeting, lift the energy in a room, and help others feel seen, heard, and valued.

This discussion will help you shift how people feel even before you start to speak with them.

Listen in to learn how to bring the kind of energy that builds trust, creates momentum, and changes outcomes in your next meeting.

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

About Our Guest:

Jackie Joy empowers women to lead with confidence and clarity. As Chief Strategy Officer of The Perfect Plan, she fuses data-driven insight with heart-centered leadership. A champion of culture, growth, and inclusion, Jackie inspires high-impact change, backed by research, fueled by purpose, and devoted to helping women rise and thrive.

https://donbarden.com/

Jackie Joy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackiejoy28/

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

In an era where AI can generate endless streams of content in seconds, what truly makes a company stand out? It all comes down to authentic human connection.

Listen in as host Natalie Benamou welcomes Sue Kirchner, Founder of Brand Strong Marketing, for an energizing conversation about the power of storytelling, personal branding, and community building.

Sue shares how she guides companies to leverage their unique strength and their authentic brand story.

Whether you are a solopreneur trying to carve out your niche, or a founder preparing your company for an acquisition, this episode is packed with actionable insights to help you build loyalty and trust.

Highlights

• The AI Content Trap
• The Missing Brand Story in M&A
• Creating Memorable Experiential Brands
• Scaling Beyond the Founder
• Personal Branding Essentials

Grab a notebook and get ready to reflect on how your brand shows up in the world!

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

A note of gratitude to Jen Anderson for introducing us!

About Sue Kirchner

Sue Kirchner is the Founder of Brand Strong Marketing - a brand strategy consulting firm, and Host of the Turbo Branding Show. Leveraging her proven Brand Strong Methodology she has helped thriving businesses create Wow! brands, allowing them to scale faster, easier and more successfully. 

LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suekirchner/

YT: https://www.youtube.com/@brandstrongmarketing

IG: https://www.instagram.com/brandstrongmarketing/

PN: https://www.pinterest.com/BrandStrongMktg/

Podcast: YT: https://www.youtube.com/@brandstrongmarketing/podcasts

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-turbo-branding-show/id1771868942

HerCsuite® is a portfolio career network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

Have you ever felt like something in your body was changing, but you weren't sure what was happening? 

Natalie Benamou sits down with Dr. Sarah Berg, board-certified OBGYN, menopause specialist, and founder of Selfority, to talk about the health issues women need to know about. They uncover why perimenopause and menopause education makes a big difference in women's health outcomes.

Dr. Berg shares why women feel isolated and alone, and the complexity of symptoms that can last 7-10 years.

Beyond hot flashes, listen in for why the 5 health issues you need to know about. Dr. Berg talks about why this topic belongs in broader workplace conversations because it affects teams, families, retention, and overall performance.

Health transitions happen to all women and this is the episode for you to feel you are not alone, your health matters and what steps you can do to improve health outcomes.

About Our Guest

Dr. Sarah Berg is a board-certified OB/GYN and menopause specialist and the founder of Selfority, a digital platform dedicated to evidence-based women’s health education. Through clinical care, writing, speaking, and online courses, she translates complex science into clear guidance that empowers women to navigate midlife with confidence.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-berg-selfority/

www.selfority.com

www.instagram.com/selfority

www.facebook.com/selfority

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

What if what got is here...is keeping us there?

Today on the show, Natalie Benamou introduces CoLab3, a framework sparked a conversation with Jackie Joy and the book ‘Here Come the Girls’ by Don Barden.  She walks through the multiplier effect when three women collaborate, it turns into a 9X result.

Listen in to how Natalie applied the CoLab3 framework with Bobbie Carlton, Founder of Innovation Women and Meghann Conter, Founder, The Dames. It’s a success story of 3 entrepreneurs, 3 complementary strengths, one shared goal and 90 days.

Natalie breaks down why collaboration is in our DNA as women leaders, how siloed thinking keeps us stuck even when we're succeeding, and what becomes possible when we stop competing and start creating together.

What you'll hear: The breakthrough moment that sparked CoLab3. How peer collaboration creates a multiplier effect. The 90-day fast track framework. HerCsuite® vision: Activate 10,000 women leaders and their companies in ten years to build a new collaborative economy.

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

Resources:

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Here Come the Girls

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

If you had only one story to tell, what would it be? Host Natalie Benamou sits down with Christina Vidovich, Founder of Women Getting Visible, to talk about owning your story, finding the courage to speak, and why visibility starts from confidence within ourselves.

Christina shares her unexpected journey from professional ballroom dancer to building a movement that brings women together across the country to find their voice and show up fully in the world. Listen in to hear how Christina is partnering with two other women to create in-person visibility events where women are discovering their voice through story.

If you have hesitated to be a speaker...or if you are one but want to uplevel what you are doing this is for you.

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

About our Guest

Christina Vidovich is the founder of Women Getting Visible, a global movement and the leader in visibility conferences for women founders. She empowers women to step into the spotlight, own their stories, and turn them into influence and authority in leadership. Through high-impact events and media, she helps women be fully seen and strategically positioned.

https://womengettingvisible.com

https://www.instagram.com/womengettingvisible

https://www.facebook.com/christinavidovich/

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

What does it really take to make a gutsy move? In this episode of Women Leaders on the Move, Natalie Benamou sits down with LauraAura to talk about listening to your body, paying attention to the quiet signs, and giving yourself permission to know what you want.

Laura shares her journey from selling the branding agency she built over 16 years to stepping fully into speaking, coaching, and hosting her own podcast.

Together, Natalie and Laura explore what it means to slow down, trust yourself, move through doubt, and take the small steps that lead to big change. This conversation is a beautiful reminder that clarity often comes when we make space to hear ourselves again.

Special thanks to Adrienne Lawrence for the introduction to LauraAura!

About our Guest:

LauraAura is a dynamic Keynote Speaker, Personal Growth Coach, and host of The Gutsy Podcast, a Top 100 show helping people own their desires and take gutsy action. With over 18 years as a business owner and a decade of speaking experience, she’s helped countless individuals and teams break through hesitation and move boldly toward what they truly want.

Through high-energy, activating speeches, LauraAura teaches audiences how to cut through mind junk, gain clarity, and take action—without overthinking or overcomplicating their next steps.

LauraAura on LinkedIn http://linkedin.com/in/thatlauraaura

https://lauraaura.com/

https://tiktok.com/@thatlauraaura

https://www.instagram.com/thatlauraaura/

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

What does the messy middle and making a career pivot have in common?

In this episode of Women Leaders on the Move, Natalie Benamou sits down with former Google executive and author Alana Karen to talk about why so many leaders are feeling the tension of AI right now.

Together, they explore what Alana calls the “messy middle,” where the pressure to move faster with AI is colliding with the reality of how people actually work, lead, and adapt. The conversation looks at the gap between AI hype and day-to-day execution, why leaders need hands-on experience with the tools they expect others to use, and how women can stay visible and grounded in a changing environment. Alana also shares why her own next chapter includes a portfolio career and a return to work that creates real-world impact.

About Alana Karen

An award-winning tech leader, author, and speaker with over 25 years in the industry, including two decades at Google. Led the development and scaling of teams and products that impacted billions of users globally. Her best-selling book has received awards, and a second edition, Navigating the Hard Tech Era, launched in 2025.

Learn more about Alana on her website.

HerCsuite® is a portfolio career and leadership network where women build what's next. Members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

What does a 5K have to do with leadership?

Find out in this personal reflection from host Natalie Benamou, about discovery, persistence and how to keep moving one step forward towards a goal.

Listen in to how a few sunrise runs on the beach led me to reflect on what it really means to move forward before you feel fully ready. If you have ever questioned your timing, compared your pace, or wondered whether you are ready for what’s next, this episode is for you. I share five simple lessons on persistence, presence, and progress that can help you keep going one step at a time.

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.