Space To Exhale

Feeling like you just need a minute? A moment to rest, to breathe, to be?

Space to Exhale: A Handbook for Curating a Soft, Centered, Serene Life is your invitation to pause. To release the grind. To reclaim your peace.

Written by Anthem Award-winning activist and Reiki Master Lisa Hurley, Space to Exhale is for:

💚 Anyone exhausted by hustle culture — this book offers gentle guidance for embracing rest.
💚 Anyone craving quiet and reflection — you’ll find meditations, breathwork, affirmations, and soulful tools to center yourself.
💚 Black women who are tired of doing it all — here, you are seen, supported, and validated.
💚 Black women ready to retire the “Strong Black Woman” trope — this is your soft era.
💚 Anyone dealing with post-election fatigue or burnout — this is your reminder to choose you.

Space to Exhale is about creating ease—bit by bit, step by step, breath by breath.

If you’re ready to live a softer life , this book is your blueprint.

Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Goodreads, and all major booksellers
Learn more at spacetoexhalebook.com

Author

Space To Exhale: The Podcast

Host & Executive Producer

The Great Exhale

The Great Exhale is an award-winning private membership community where Black women can relax, lay their burdens down…and exhale. It is a virtual space that prioritizes mental wellness, soft living, and psychological safety. 

If you’re a Black woman who is ready to take your cape off, take a breath, and rest, The Great Exhale is for you. Join the sisterhood today. www.thegreatexhale.com

The Great Exhale is also a strategic partner to companies who are ready to improve their hiring and retention as relates to Black women. If you’re a company that is ready to:

✅ Increase employee engagement
✅ Enhance the onboarding experience
✅ Reduce attrition and turnover
✅ Promote workplace wellness
✅ Diversify your talent pipeline

then let’s talk. Email us at hello@thegreatexhale.com, or learn more at www.itsthegreatexhale.com

Founder & CEO

Wiley

Space To Exhale: A Handbook for Curating a Soft, Centered, Serene Life.  

Say no to hustle culture, and yes to a life of ease. Lisa Hurley, Anthem Award-winning activist and Founder of The Great Exhale, provides you with an inspiring and practical guide to help you beat burnout, embrace rest, and live a soft, fulfilling life.

Part memoir, part manifesto, part meditation manual, Space To Exhale is a self-help handbook that empowers you to remove your superhero cape, put your mask on first, and create lasting life-work balance. 

Lisa draws on her experience as a Reiki Master, community builder, and burnout survivor, sharing anecdotes about her trials and triumphs, as well as the tools that have helped her transform. 

Through healing modalities like affirmations, meditations, and breathwork, as well as her powerful Exhalation Point™ framework, Lisa guides you on a life-changing journey to help you:
 
 
* 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.

This valuable resource, filled with soft-life strategies and written with Lisa's warmth, wit, and well-earned wisdom, invites you to curate a life filled with joy, peace, and glimmers of delight. 

By sharing her belief that "Rest Is The New Success," she encourages us all to get off the treadmill of constant busyness: avoiding overdrive, and instead welcoming underdrive.

Space To Exhale is a balm for the spirit. It is "woosah" in the form of a book. It earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of anyone seeking to take a breath, redefine success, and curate a life filled with love, alignment, and peace—so you can move from merely surviving to vibrantly thriving.


Out now! Get your copy: https://www.spacetoexhalebook.com/

Lisa Hurley Official 

Founder

For The Culture And The Coins®

Yuvoice

Yuvoice is the online townsquare for superheroes. We are a pro-democracy, community engagement platform and an alternative to toxic social media. We gamify doing good and doing well.

We educate, inspire, and reward superheroes for creating international micro and macro movements. Using a secret, AI-powered algorithm and strong online community building, we aim to hit 1 billion users in a decade.

Our full platform launches publicly in 2025, invite only. You can sign up to follow along and to read honest, on-the-ground stories from our global editorial team.

Advisory Board Member

The Anthem Awards

Presented by IADAS and founded by The Webby Awards in partnership with GLAAD, NAACP, Feeding America, NRDC, WWF and Born This Way Foundation, the Anthem Awards honors the organizations, brands and people creating a world where purpose & mission-driven work becomes the status quo for all business across society.

Juror 

The Book Academy

Led by New York Times bestselling author Luvvie Ajayi Jones, The Book Academy is a comprehensive course designed to guide students from the initial idea to the final reality of a published book. Luvvie's journey as an author has been both remarkable and inspiring, with four New York Times bestsellers to her name in just eight years. Her books have not only changed her life but have touched the lives of countless readers, empowering her to retire her mother, achieve financial success, and gain access to new opportunities.

Founding Member

International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences

With a network of 2000+ intellectually diverse members, IADAS is an international organization that was founded in 1998 to help drive the creative, technical & professional progress of the Internet. 

Presented by the Academy, The Webby Awards, The Lovie Awards and The Anthem Awards recognizes excellence in digital creativity, European Internet, and purpose-driven work respectively, establishing best practices on a yearly basis, and thus pushing the standards of the work continually higher.

Executive Member

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 three-time Anthem Award-winning activist, second-generation Reiki Master, author, podcaster, 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.

Ready to exhale?
📚 Learn more, and order Space To Exhale: www.spacetoexhalebook.com
🎙️ Listen to Space To Exhale: The Podcast: bit.ly/STEPodcastOnSpotify
🔗 Stay connected: https://linktr.ee/lisahurley

Lisa Hurley

It’s the season finale of Space To Exhale: The Podcast!! 🎉🎉 Tomorrow, on Tuesday  November 25, I’ll be joined by my good sis (and my actual sis!) Sharon Hurley Hall (she/her) for the 30th and final episode of Season 1. 

For this very special show Sharon and I will share a rich and restorative conversation about gratitude as a tool for elevation. 🙏🏾🙏🏾 This Thanksgiving week, we invite you into a reflective space to pause, soften, and rediscover gratitude as a transformative force.
 
As second-generation Reiki Masters, we bring a spiritual lens to this dialogue, connecting gratitude with energy, embodiment, and ease. In this episode, you will get insights on:

🙏🏾 The link between gratitude and grace
🙏🏾 Staying centered during challenging times
🙏🏾 Making appreciation part of your daily rhythm
🙏🏾 Mindfulness and meditation tools to help you exhale
🙏🏾 How Black women can reclaim softness as a form of care

This 30th episode marks a powerful close to the first season. Join us, breathe deeply, and allow yourself to receive the gift of gratitude. 

Join us TOMORROW on Tuesday, November 25 at 12 PM ET. Click here to tap in 👉🏾 https://lnkd.in/eYq-cJKB

Click “Attend,” and we'll see you then! This is your time to exhale.

P.S. Remember to add the event to your calendar so you don’t miss the show!
P.P.S. Invite or tag someone who you know would enjoy this convo. 

#SpaceToExhale #Thanksgiving #HappyThanksgiving #Grateful #Gratitude #TheGreatExhale #SharonHurleyHall #SARN #TheSpaceToExhaleShow #TheIntrovertSisters

Promotional image for Space to Exhale: The Podcast, hosted by Lisa Hurley. The design features a soft mint-green background with smooth fabric-like folds. The title “space to exhale: the podcast” appears at the top in modern sans-serif type, alongside a teal heart noting the air date: “Tuesday, Nov. 25 at 12:00 noon EST.” A banner reads “weekly inspiration for self care & soft living.” Below are two circular portraits: on the left, host Lisa Hurley, smiling in a white blazer, labeled “Host: Lisa Hurley – Author, Space To Exhale & Founder, The Great Exhale.” On the right, guest Sharon Hurley Hall, in a teal top and necklace, labeled “Guest: Sharon Hurley Hall – Author, I’m Tired of Racism & Founder, Sharon’s Anti-Racism Newsletter.” A pink banner reads “Episode 30 | The Gift of Gratitude: Appreciation as Alchemy.” Footer text includes “spacetoexhalebook.com | #spacetoexhale.” The image evokes calm, softness, and community.

Yuvoice (founded late 2024) is the revolutionary social media platform that rewards users for tangible impact. 

With a dual structure of for-profit scale and nonprofit storytelling, Yuvoice is a healthy, ethical, and empowering digital ecosystem that connects people to communities, causes, and changemaking action.

Its nonprofit sister, The Yuvoice Sentinel (launched 2023), runs community moderator training, algorithm R&D, and a world-class editorial hub. The Yuvoice Sentinel is building one of the largest citizen journalism networks in the world, spotlighting stories from everyday people living through history. Focusing on international breaking news and lived experiences missing from mainstream media, the content is exclusively published on the Yuvoice platform, educating users on how and why to make an impact. 

“At our core, we make good people great heroes,” said CEO, Isvari Maranwe. “Yuvoice empowers superheroes for a brighter tomorrow.”

Chief Executive Officer

www.rishimohan.com

Author alongside Janani Mohan and Nathaniel Maranwe under the name "Rishi Mohan." Agented by the incredible Jessica Reino, Metamorphosis Literary Agency. 

Published:
THE EYES OF MIKRA, a literary novella about a spy who knows everything about the war she's fighting, but nothing about herself. Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/The-Eyes-Mikra-Isvari-ebook/dp/B00RMC3Z10 

UNBOUND: A collection of diverse short stories about transformation, love, and life. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56886311-unbound#other_reviews

Dweebs Global

I was the President of Dweebs Global, an international nonprofit operating in over 35 countries and providing free career mentorship, free resume edits, and free mental health support to everyone in need. 

I oversaw over 23 teams and 1500 people from Video Production and Social Media to Human Resources and our General Counsel Department.

President and Co-Founder

National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service

I was an Attorney Advisor with the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service, which was created by Congress to review the military selective service process and consider ways to increase service by all Americans. The Commission had a broad, aspirational mandate: to develop ideas that will foster a greater ethos of military, national, and public service among Americans of all ages and, in the process, strengthen our democracy. Over the course of about two years, the Commission sought to ignite a national conversation around service and inspire more Americans to serve. We stood down in 2020.

Attorney Advisor

Sidley Austin LLP

I worked in the cybersecurity and data privacy law practice of Sidley Austin.

Associate

Boston Globe Media

I wrote a regular column on business issues for millennials. 

Stories: https://www.bostonglobe.com/queryResult/search?q=isvari+mohan

Freelance Columnist

Georgetown University Law Center

I taught a weekly class section and helped with grading, problem set creation, and lesson plans. Computer Programming for Lawyers is a unique upper-division law school class that is aimed at teaching lawyers useful programming skills in Python 3. 

Paul Ohm's Computer Programming for Lawyers: 
https://apps.law.georgetown.edu/curriculum/tab_courses.cfm?Status=Course&Detail=2723

Teaching Assistant for Computer Programming for Lawyers

Global Law Scholars are selected based on foreign language and work experience. We met for two hours/ week during the semester, in the first year meeting with practitioners in the field of law and in the second year working on a project with a concrete deliverable (like a publication/ conference). Our class worked on the implementation processes of the UN Convention against Corruption.
I also worked on the Alumni Outreach Committee.

Global Law Scholar

I researched on national security, cyber security, and data protection laws, including network investigative techniques, drones, automated weapons systems, 3-D printing, remote ID, and encryption.

Research Assistant for Prof. Laura Donohue

LinkedIn

I wrote and created content for LinkedIn's publishing platform, pitched ideas, edited content, found great student writers, and helped them get heard.

Campus Editor

United States Department of Defense

I work on hot button legal issues in national security and defense. (I'll update more on what I'm doing when I can.)

Summer Honors Legal Intern

Federal Communications Commission

I worked on data privacy, telecommunications law, consumer protection, and cybersecurity issues.

Legal Intern, Enforcement Bureau

I keep you informed and make you a superhero.

This boosts your career, wins you jobs and clients, makes you friends, supports your mental health, and changes your life.

Most of you (66% of GenZ!) want to change the world online.

But today’s platforms make impact hard and thankless.

I educate, connect, and empower you to become the changemaker of your dreams. 

𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿:

👉🏽Nontraditional coverage on tech, politics, and culture to make you the smartest global citizen in the room without overwhelm

👉🏽Behind-the-scenes on startup life

𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗜'𝘃𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲:

🔭TECH/SCIENCE BKGD: I’m a tech founder; a former particle physics and supernova cosmology researcher at CERN, Fermilab, and the Lawrence Berkeley Lab; and a programmer (I even taught law students Python!). 

⚖️ AWARD-WINNING ATTORNEY: I’m a Georgetown-educated cyber and national security attorney. I’ve represented the U.S. DoD, State, the FCC, and Fortune 500’s. 

My work on legislation to expand civic education earned the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Office of the Secretary of Defense. 

🎤JOURNALIST/AUTHOR/SPEAKER: I'm a keynote speaker (notably 2x TEDx; 5x at Medium). I had regular columns with The Boston Globe, The Washington Times, and Medium (been a Top Writer in Politics, Love, Race, Relationships, and Business). I’m also an author.

🦄COFOUNDER OF DWEEBS GLOBAL: In 2020, I co-founded the viral mentorship nonprofit.

👩🏽DIVERSE: I'm a minority, LGBTQ+, the daughter of immigrants, now an immigrant myself, and recognized by the Out in National Security Award in 2021. 

🌍GLOBAL: I've worked across three continents (Silicon Valley, D.C., Geneva, Bangalore, London, Lisbon, and more). I’ve been to >40 countries. I speak six languages. 

👩‍💻𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗜’𝗺 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗬𝘂𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲.

The Yuvoice platform (launching soon!) rewards you for tangible impact. 

We are mentally healthy, boost real friendships, and turn your free time into global change. Backed by an 80-person, 20-nation expert team, our patent-pending, AI-backed karma engine creates an international town square.

Meanwhile, the Yuvoice Sentinel (nonprofit sister) trains moderators, leads algorithm R&D, has a world-class editorial hub, and is building one of the largest citizen journalism networks in the world. 

📧 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁: 

🦸 Join 45K+ readers of the Weekly Superhero Brief (Top 5 News Stories and Advice)
📢 Brand deals → email.isvari@yuvoice.org (subject: Brand Deal)
🎤 Speaking / media → celestestein@bsaprinc.com

Isvari Maranwe

I know undocumented immigrants. 

They are friends, fellow citizens, employees and employers.

They are family.

Some of them live paycheck to paycheck and some of them are wealthy businessmen winning the capitalist wars. 

They are not "the other." This is not happening to "someone else."

And every day I am terrified someone will out them or call the cops on them or deport them or kill them. 

It is happening to children. 

It is happening to valid visa holders, asylum seekers legally in America, and the spouses of citizens.

It is happening to citizens.

But I care also that it is happening to every undocumented immigrant who has been ripped from their homes and their families and their lives. 

I care that they are being tortured and kept in prisons worse than POWs and being deported to countries they aren't from or countries that will kill them. 

Not because of what it indicates for a rise in fascism, or the fall of our democracy, or "who comes next." 

Not for our sake. 

But for their sake alone. 

They are human beings too. 

They are people many of us know, love, and protect. 

They deserve to be fought for as many of them have fought for us. 

They deserve to be fought for even if they aren't perfect, contributing to the economy, or critical workers. 

ICE, on the other hand, are racist monsters. 

Nearly a quarter of people held in solitary in detention are Black, even though Black migrants make up less than 4% of ICE detainees. 

Solitary is torture and a violation of human rights law in developed countries.

People are getting deported to countries they have no ties to, money is changing hands, and that's legalized human trafficking.

And I am terrified to even post this, but I am doing it.

Fight for free speech. 

Talk about this post. 

They are brave enough to live it. Are you brave enough to speak out? 

🌎💕

You deserve better political analysis. 

This is The Isvari Report, where I cover major news with the nontraditional perspective you need to stay brilliant.

I'm an AI, tech, law, and policy expert. I also founded Dweebs Global, the Sentinel, and Yuvoice (all of whom are independent and this post does not necessarily reflect their views).

You don't want to miss the latest. Follow me so you don't.

Founder & CEO, Yuvoice | Award-Winning Cyber & Tech Attorney | Political Analyst, Speaker, and Influencer with 350K+ Followers

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