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

Lola Bakare

Author “Responsible Marketing” | Future Is Female Shortlist ‘25 | Adweek Creative 100 ‘23 | Anthem Award Winning Strategist | CMO Advisor | Exec Thought Partner/Co-Creator | Speaker | Moderator | Facilitator

***Anthem Award-winning CMO Advisor***

Author | Inclusive Marketing Strategist | Keynote Speaker

I provide marketing leaders and their teams with empathetic real talk, fluff-free guidance, actionable thought partnership, coaching, workshops, and training to accelerate career growth, and maximize business outcomes. 

Owner —> be/co (www.makeitbe.co)
Movement Leader —> #responsiblemarketing

Previously: 
* Daily Dot
* Dell
* Gatorade
* Ronzoni
* Smirnoff

Bylines: 
* Adweek 
* Business Insider
* Campaign
* Harvard Business Review
* Marketing Brew

Featured In: 
* AdAge
* Adweek 
* SHRM

Panels / Keynotes: 
* ANA Brand Purpose Committee
* Brandweek
* Equality Lounge (The Female Quotient)
* LIONs for Marketers Series
* Sustainable Brands
* SXSW
* Tory Burch Foundation

Juries: 
* Anthem Awards
* Dubai Lynx
* Shorty Awards

Boards:
* Sparks & Honey (Omnicom)
* Monument Lab

Books: 
* Responsible Marketing: How To Create An Authentic & Inclusive Marketing Strategy (December 2024, Kogan Page)

Work with me —> lola@makeitbe.co



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