Founder, The Great Exhale™ | Award-Winning Activist | Entrepreneur & Speaker | Top 10 LinkedIn Creator in Inclusion & Diversity | Judge, The Anthem Awards | Forbes Featured | #ActuallyAutistic | INFJ | 🇧🇧🇯🇲🇹🇹🇺🇸

Lisa Hurley is a five-time Anthem Award-winning author, activist, podcaster, second-generation Reiki Master, and rest advocate. Her work centers Black women, and converges at the nexus of self care, community care, joy, and rest. Through her writing, speaking, and community-building, Lisa champions soft living for Black women. 

Hurley is the author of Space To Exhale, a transformational book created to help people beat burnout, embrace rest, and curate a soft life. Part memoir, part manifesto, part meditation guide, Space To Exhale is a self-help book that inspires readers to practice the pause and take time to exhale.

As a champion of rest for Black women, Lisa is the founder of The Great Exhale, a global virtual community dedicated to sisterhood, serenity, and soft living. TGE offers curated rituals, inspiring affirmations, and healing conversations for those ready to say no to hustle culture and yes to a life of ease. It is a healing hub where Black women can relax, lay their burdens down—and exhale.

An Executive Member IADAS, Lisa is also a board member of Yuvoice, and a Juror for the Anthem Awards. A respected figure, she has been honored as one of the Top 20 Entrepreneurs to follow on LinkedIn, voted as one of LinkedIn’s Top 50 Black Creators, and recognized as one of the Top 10 Anti-Discrimination Activists in the world. In addition, Lisa has been honored by Hush Loudly as an Introvert to Watch, and as one of pocstock's Future of Black America Top 50 Leaders. As a result of her activism, her thought leadership has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Adweek, and more. 

With a passion for speaking out that belies her natural introversion, Lisa is a prolific podcaster. In addition to being the Host and Executive producer of Space To Exhale: The Podcast, a five star-rated show that focuses on self care for Black women, she is also the Co-Founder & Co-Host of The Introvert Sisters Podcast, and a former Co-Host of The Tea on Tap podcast. 

With a strong belief in good vibes, Lisa is known for her inspiring affirmations on TikTok. In her free time, she enjoys bonding with her family, reading a good book, and expressing her creativity through fashion.

Of Caribbean heritage (Barbados, Trinidad, and Jamaica), Lisa is a world traveler with an understandable preference for warmer climes. Her love languages are sunshine, laughter, and naps.

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Lisa Hurley

L.A.B.

Analyze evidence to verify the presence or absence controlled substances.
Report findings.
Testify in court to findings as needed.

Senior Forensic Chemist

Analyze evidence to verify the presence or absence of controlled substances.
Report findings.
Testify in court to findings as needed.

Forensic Chemist

Salmon Family, Inc.

Homemaker

Lemongrass Doula Services

I support you and your decisions on how you want to birth.

Doula

Florida School Of Traditional Midwifery

Student Midwife

FDLE

Analyze evidence to verify the presence or absence of controlled 
 substances
Report findings
Testify in court to findings as needed

Open and inventory evidence
Perform the initial screen for blood and urine specimens using automated immunoassay instrumentation
Perform daily, weekly, and monthly quality control measures on instrumentation and reagents
Order supplies, transfer evidence to analysts, prepare reports, restock reagent solutions, and other general laboratory duties

Forensic Technologist

Doctors' Laboratory, Inc

Verify chain of custody and other case-related paperwork
Review and maintain records of instrument performance
Facilitate automated immunoassay techniques
Perform validity tests

Negative Certifying Scientist

Hampton University

Perform AFLP, RAPD's, and PCR to isolate and identify tree DNA 
    Identify or eliminate specimens as possible offspring
    Utilize gel electrophoresis as apart of identification process

Biochemistry Research Colleague

Georgia State University

Synthesize, isolate, purify, and characterize organic compound, 
      3,4-dimethoxychalcone and its derivatives
Interpret 13C NMR data as apart of identification process
Perform gas chromatography analysis and interpret data

Undergraduate Researcher

University of Georgia

Develop a Standard Operating Procedure for measuring out small                       
      amounts of Potassium Superoxide
    Develop a standard curve for measuring KOO in aqueous solutions

High School Research Assistant

* Qualified as an Expert in Seized Drugs a total of 75 times in the 2nd, 3rd, 8th and 9th circuits in the State of Florida and in the U.S. District Courts of Northern, Middle and Southern - Florida (Federal); in the states of North Carolina, Alabama, Texas and in Puerto Rico.
* Made more than 5000 Identifications using ASCLD/LAB and ISO 17025 accredited guidelines.

Specialties: GC, GC/MS, ATR-IR, TLC, Color Tests, Expert Testimony, Quantitation/Purity Classification, NMR

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