What happens when an unexpected life event opens the door to a completely new direction?

Host Natalie Benamou is joined by speaker, author, and executive coach Liz M. Lopez for an engaging conversation about the journey into becoming an entrepreneur. The two met at Innovation Women Speaker Friends Live event in Chicago and Natalie was excited to bring Liz on the show for you to hear her story.

Liz shares how a plumbing emergency became the starting point for a business she has now leads for 19 years. In Liz’s book, Permission to Dominate Your Success, Liz talks about how small steps create momentum.

Feel inspired to move past self-doubt, give yourself permission to prosper, and discover why surrounding yourself with bold examples proves that courage is truly contagious. Tune in to find out how courage grows when we see other women take the first step.

About Liz M. Lopez

Liz M. Lopez is an Executive Coach, Strategic Advisor, two-time bestselling Author, and international Speaker who guides corporate leaders and entrepreneurs to elevate their visibility, expand their influence, and achieve meaningful success in their careers and businesses.

Website: www.LizMLopez.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizmlopez/

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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 happens when the playbook that helped you grow is no longer enough for where business is headed?

Today on Women Leaders on the Move, Natalie Benamou encourages leaders to rethink how they are growing, leading, and making decisions in the AI era.

Natalie shares how to future-proof your business by asking better questions, looking beyond the “one solution” mindset, and identifying the capabilities needed to create growth now.

Walk away with a clear idea how to evaluate what still works, what needs to change, and where human judgment matters most. Get a behind the scenes of CoLab3, a new HerCsuite® framework designed to bring three entrepreneurs together to align complementary strengths, create new business ideas, and generate revenue in a 90-day sprint.

This episode gives a multiplier effect strategy and will help leaders, founders, board directors, and executives who are ready to remove the silos to success and start building what's NEXT with a new playbook in the AI era.

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About Natalie Benamou

Natalie is an executive AI leader, speaker and Founder of HerCsuite®.

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.

How does one moment, turn into a movement?

This is a special moment for Women Leaders on the Move and host Natalie Benamou. Tune in to this interview with

Shelley Zalis, the CEO and Founder of the Female Quotient to hear their connection to CES and the 'power of the pack'.

Get an insider view on the 80 events the Female Quotient hosts globally- and how you can join us in Chicago in July!

This conversation is for every woman leader who is building what’s next, and finding a way to integrate work and family like Shelley created at Camp Cannes with a little inspiration from a visitor during the episode!

In this uplifting conversation, Shelley shares 'All you need is one yes, you're gonna get lots of no's, but there's always a solution, you just have to find it.'

Thank you Shelley for our interview together and a special note of gratitude to Jackie Joy and Holly Corbett.

About Shelley Zalis

Known as the “Chief Troublemaker,” Shelley Zalis, CEO & Founder of The Female Quotient, is a trailblazing CEO, entrepreneur, three-time movement maker and global advocate for women in the workplace.

www.thefemalequotient.com

IG: @shelleyzalis

LI: Shelley Zalis

Join us in Chicago at the FQ Lounge

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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 happens when a career built on facts, research, and storytelling meets intuition?

In this episode of Women Leaders on the Move, host Natalie Benamou talks with Holly Corbett, former Condé Nast journalist and founder of Human Design by Holly. She shares how her career path has been shaped by trusting her intuition.

Today, Holly brings together journalism, storytelling, and human design to help women better understand how they make decisions, use their voice, and lead from a place of self-trust.

This conversation is especially meaningful for women in midlife who are ready to stop looking outside themselves for validation and start listening to the wisdom they already carry.

Learn how Holly uniquely combines human design and journalism to help women find confidence in themselves.

About Holly Corbett

Holly Corbett is a journalist (former Condé Nast, Hearst), human design specialist, and reiki master. She believes we need a new value system that's not just about profit and interviews people who bet on themselves, drive change, and/or embody conscious leadership.

Connect with Holly

• Substack
• LinkedIn
• Substack
• Human Design by Holly

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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 are women leaders in the second half of their careers asking about most?

In this solo episode of Women Leaders on the Move, Natalie Benamou shares the five questions women are asking as they explore portfolio careers, board roles, entrepreneurship, AI leadership, and what’s NEXT.

From wondering “Am I qualified?” to join a board to deciding where to focus first when starting a business, this episode offers encouragement and practical perspective for women who are ready to create their next chapter with more intention.

Listen in and discover why your experience still holds tremendous value, how to think about your next opportunity through a wider lens, and why being with the right circle of women can create momentum, referrals, collaboration, and growth.

This episode is a reminder that you don't have to figure it all out alone. You are qualified, your work matters, and what’s NEXT is up to you. Fly through the window and embrace the possibilities.

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About Natalie Benamou

Natalie Benamou is the Founder of HerCsuite® and Board President and CEO of HER HEALTHX, a nonprofit improving women’s health outcomes by bridging the care communication gap. Natalie is a speaker and bestselling author.

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.

How can you translate the skills that come easiest to you may into career opportunities?

In this episode of Women Leaders on the Move, host Natalie Benamou welcomes Angela Finlay, is a CHRO, Columbia University Professor, and Author of Skill Stacking: Taking Ownership of Your Career in Changing Times.

Angela brings a fresh perspective on career ownership and why the skills women use every day are often the same skills that create new opportunities. She shares how to recognize your strengths, build new capabilities, and connect your experience in ways that support your next move.

Natalie and Angela talk about AI, portfolio careers, reinvention, and the power of skill stacking in a changing world of work.

This conversation will help you see your experience as an advantage and take a more intentional step toward what’s next.

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About Our Guest

Angela Finlay is a Chief Human Capital Strategist, CHRO and educator who helps organizations and professionals rethink what it means to build a successful career in today’s ever-changing workplace.

LinkedIn https://windwardhcm.com/ stackingyourcareer.com

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.

Do you feel like you are carrying a full load and burned out? It could be you aren't aligned with your zone of Genius.

In this episode of Women Leaders on the Move, host Natalie Benamou welcomes Sue Davis, a Working Genius coach and entrepreneur to explore how high-achieving women can shift from burnout to bandwidth. Sue breaks down how to use Patrick Lencioni's The Working Genius assessment to help women identify what truly brings them joy across four core pillars: leadership, relationships, energy, and productivity.

If you are ready to stop burning out, let go of the guilt, and start leaning into the work that actually lights you up, this episode is your roadmap.

About Sue Davis

Sue Davis is a seasoned executive with 30+ years of experience in sales leadership, service quality, retail operations, and relationship building. Known for guiding teams through change, including mergers and acquisitions, she brings a strong passion for developing leaders, building alignment, and driving growth across organizations.

Website: Suedaviscoaching.com

Special gratitude to HerCsuite® member Lisa Agapis for introducing us and to Sue for being a member of HerCsuite®.

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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. Join us at an upcoming Event. Find out how you can be Board Ready in a Day.

What if bringing your authentic self to work could open new doors for your career?

Listen in to this engaging conversation with Claude Silver, Chief Heart Officer at VaynerX and bestselling author of 'Be Yourself at Work', joins Natalie Benamou for a conversation about authenticity, kindness, and what it means to lead without shrinking.

Claude shares how leaders can create space for people to feel seen and how small acts of kindness can have a ripple impact.

Take a listen to this personal discussion of discovery and what led Claude to write her national bestseller. If you want to experience joy and purpose in your work, this is for you.

About Claude Silver

Claude Silver, the world’s first Chief Heart Officer at VaynerX, believes that showing up with heart and humanity is the key to unlocking greatness in people. As a leader, she sees it as her job to infuse empathy into every aspect of the organization. As a speaker, author, podcaster, industry trendsetter, and LinkedIn influencer, she’s now inspiring other leaders to do the same.

Claude has proven time and time again that empathy fuels growth. With her as Chief Heart Officer, Vayner has grown from 400 people to a global team of 2,000+ with offices in 11 countries. Claude also helped lead VaynerMedia—Vayner’s foundational company—to be named the Breakthrough Media Agency of 2022 by Adweek.

Claude Silver

Claude Silver on LinkedIn

Special thanks to Michelle Pecak for introducing us!

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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, where our core value is kindness and connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.