Susie Arnett spent the first half of her career at MTV, Lifetime Television, and HBO, before walking away at the peak of it, taking a solo kayak trip to Baja, and never going back.

In this episode, Susie sits down with Belinda to talk about what she learned building a media career, then a decade in retreat centers, and now global wellness programming at Six Senses: that the thing people actually want isn't information or a ten-step framework, it's to feel genuinely cared for.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why Susie says emotional hospitality isn't about what you do, it's about how you hold it, and what that looks like inside Six Senses properties
• What burning out at the peak of her TV career, and a solo kayak retreat in Baja, taught her about starting over
• Why she doesn't believe in one-size-fits-all wellness, and why “getting more men through the door” was the wrong question all along
• The piece of parenting advice she still uses today as a framework for prioritizing when everything feels urgent at once
• Why she believes information has gotten cheap, and real human experience is now the rarest thing any brand can offer
• What she's building toward next: helping people age with dignity, not just safety

By the end, you'll understand why Susie thinks the real risk right now isn't AI, it's forgetting what it means to be human.

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Full Tilt with Belinda Bradford is brought to you by WEGroup Global. We design and run retreats, summits, and offsites for creators, growing businesses, associations, and enterprises. We build on a simple belief: human connection matters more now than ever. The world has never been more connected, and people have never felt more alone. As AI takes over the routine work, judgement, trust, and the ability to lead a room are what's left to compete on. That still only happens in person. That's why we do what we do. We handle the hotels, the venues, the bookings, the logistics, and all the risks, backed by a network of 8,000+ hotels and venues in over 100 countries, trusted vendors and tour partners, and access to VIP tickets and top speakers most people can't get on their own. All you have to do is show up and connect with the people in the room. One team, one plan, from first idea to final day. Learn more about us at wegroup-global.com Connect with us at connect@wegroup-global.com

Before the next guest sits down across from her, Belinda Bradford wanted to hit pause and get real about why this podcast exists, and why WEGroup Global does too.

In this episode, Belinda steps out from behind the interview chair to share the belief that drives everything she's built: human connection is the real foundation of every successful business and every life well lived, more than strategy, more than funding, more than any framework you've ever paid for.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why Belinda believes human connection is the real foundation of every successful business and life well lived
• What she means when she says we're more reachable than ever, yet somehow more alone
• Why Full Tilt is built for honest conversations, the kind you won't find in a framework, a coaching pitch, or a highlight reel of exits and funding rounds
• What “full tilt” really means to her: showing up fully, as your real, unfiltered self
• Why WEGroup Global is built around real, in-person time together, with intention
• What she asks of every guest on the show, and of herself, every single week

Connect with Belinda on LinkedIn

Learn more about WEGroup Global on our website

Mentioned in this episode:

Full Tilt with Belinda Bradford is brought to you by WEGroup Global. We design and run retreats, summits, and offsites for creators, growing businesses, associations, and enterprises. We build on a simple belief: human connection matters more now than ever. The world has never been more connected, and people have never felt more alone. As AI takes over the routine work, judgement, trust, and the ability to lead a room are what's left to compete on. That still only happens in person. That's why we do what we do. We handle the hotels, the venues, the bookings, the logistics, and all the risks, backed by a network of 8,000+ hotels and venues in over 100 countries, trusted vendors and tour partners, and access to VIP tickets and top speakers most people can't get on their own. All you have to do is show up and connect with the people in the room. One team, one plan, from first idea to final day. Learn more about us at wegroup-global.com Connect with us at connect@wegroup-global.com

Today, Rajiv Arapurakal joins Full Tilt with Belinda Bradford. Rajiv is Co-Founder and Director of Strategy at IBUKU, the Bali-based design studio known for its work in sustainable bamboo architecture. Before Bali, he spent a decade practicing internal medicine in New Jersey, and before that, he walked away from a career in advertising to train as a yoga teacher. He is now an E-RYT 500-certified senior yoga teacher at ISHTA Yoga, having led over 3,000 classes in settings from hospitals to NYC's Times Square.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• How his last day in advertising became his first day of yoga teacher training, and what that leap actually took
• Why he calls himself “an aggressive listener,” and what changed when he started applying that instinct to medicine
• What he learned about belonging and listening from a decade practicing internal medicine in New Jersey
• How marrying into Elora Hardy's world introduced him to IBUKU and Bali's bamboo architecture movement
• The piece of advice he still lives by today: "Beware the man of one book”
• Why walking away from a steady advertising paycheck remains one of the hardest calls he's ever made

This is a conversation about reinvention: what it costs, what it teaches you, and why he keeps choosing it again.

Connect with Rajiv Arapurakal

LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajiv-arapurakal-md-8b41b91/

Connect with Belinda Bradford and WEGroup Global

Belinda Bradford on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/belinda-bradford-a7b41513/

Our website: WEGroup Global: wegroup-global.com

Nominate someone to be our next guest: connect@wegroup-global.com

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Mentioned in this episode:

Full Tilt with Belinda Bradford is brought to you by WEGroup Global. We design and run retreats, summits, and offsites for creators, growing businesses, associations, and enterprises. We build on a simple belief: human connection matters more now than ever. The world has never been more connected, and people have never felt more alone. As AI takes over the routine work, judgement, trust, and the ability to lead a room are what's left to compete on. That still only happens in person. That's why we do what we do. We handle the hotels, the venues, the bookings, the logistics, and all the risks, backed by a network of 8,000+ hotels and venues in over 100 countries, trusted vendors and tour partners, and access to VIP tickets and top speakers most people can't get on their own. All you have to do is show up and connect with the people in the room. One team, one plan, from first idea to final day. Learn more about us at wegroup-global.com Connect with us at connect@wegroup-global.com