Her Advantage Collective

What happens when the career you spent thirty years building disappears overnight? For Coach Mike Cormier, it was the beginning of the most important pivot of his life. In this episode, we sit down with our very first male guest on Her Advantage Collective, a former Silicon Valley tech warrior turned certified fitness coach and founder of RunFitMind. Coach Mike gets raw and honest about burnout, t...

What if the only thing standing between you and the life you actually want is you? In this episode we sit down with Erann Lincoln — director-level executive in the aerospace and aviation industry, mother of two, wife to one, and someone who knew exactly what she wanted and spent years talking herself out of it anyway. From a breaking point during the pandemic that brought her to her knees, to a de...

What do you do when life asks you to keep going after losing the people who made it make sense? Wendi Marshall has walked through every mother's worst fear, the loss of her daughter Lauren at 23, and then years later the sudden loss of her husband of 42 years. She didn't just survive. She built a nonprofit, raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in Lauren's name, showed up for her grandkids, and...

Are you feeling the "squeeze" of the sandwich generation? This week, Katie and Ms. K sit down with former educator and self-described "recovering fixer" Kim Brakmann for a conversation full of wisdom, laughter, and hard-won grace. Kim Brakmann has always been the one people call. The teacher. The organizer. The fixer. But caring for aging parents has a way of humbling even the most capable among u...

Have you ever hit a wall where your old productivity hacks just... stopped working? Where you felt like you were suddenly struggling to keep up, despite years of being the high-achiever who had it all together? This week on Her Advantage , Katie and Ms. K sit down with instructional designer and systems expert Kristen Vega Glass . Kristen shares the vulnerable moment her internal systems hit a bre...

​​"I guess I’ll just try this... and then it ended up being my life." Ever felt like you were coasting on a series of "happy accidents" until life suddenly demanded you get intentional? This week we are sitting down with our very first guest, Chandra Reilly. Chandra spent 25 years in the "physical sport" of high-stakes construction. She was the 9%—one of the only women in the room, riding high on...

Are you standing at a crossroads, and you feel the rumbling for change in your life,? Maybe you have a successful career and you are thinking "I just don't want to play this game anymore" ? Or you are wondering what the next chapter holds. You aren’t alone. In this episode, we tackling "The Great Breakup." Kristin and Katie dive deep into why so many midlife women are trading C-Suite titles for pa...

Welcome to the launch of Her Advantage Collective ! We’ve dropped the "AI" from our name to broaden our horizons, but we are keeping the Advantage. In this Season Premiere, Katie and Miss K tackle a topic that haunts high-achieving women everywhere: The pressure to be perfect. Using the Proverbs 31 woman as our case study, we dig into why aspirational figures often feel like a burden rather than a...

Are you actually productive, or just "recovering-multitasker" busy? This week, Katie and Ms. K dive into the "Productivity Propaganda" that keeps midlife women running on empty. From the heartbreaking moment Katie realized her daughter saw her as an "octopus" to the neurological shifts of perimenopause, we explore how to move from frantic hustle to a "Hustle and Float" rhythm. Plus, we break down...

STOP FIGHTING YOUR BIOLOGY! You've heard of Fight or Flight, but those rules were mostly based on research done on men. Women are wired differently—and this changes everything about how we handle stress and learning. The Female Instinct: Tend and Befriend TEND: Soothe and care for the young (or yourself). BEFRIEND: Gather, group up, and seek support. When we get stressed, our bodies chemically scr...

Does opening LinkedIn make you feel like you’re already behind? Do you feel like everyone else became an AI expert overnight while you’re still trying to figure out which button to press? You are not behind. You are just stuck in the "AI Frenzy." In this episode, Katie and Miss K break down the anxiety-inducing noise created by headlines and "bros in tank tops" selling get-rich-quick schemes. We e...

Katie and Miss K break down the real impact of AI at work and how women can approach it with confidence instead of perfection. A practical, honest look at the mindset and tools that matter most right now. The Resources you need:                                                          Substack: AI: The T2 Helper You Need, Not the T1  Hunter You Fear Above-the-Line graphic: Berne Brown's Genius Fra...

When AI shows up in your kid’s world, what do you actually do? This week, Katie (our optimistic AI newbie) and Ms. K (our wise, undercover industry insider) break down the surprisingly complicated world of kids, tweens, and AI—without panic, jargon, or “tech bro” energy. We get into: – Why tweens aren’t using AI nearly as much as people think – Whether AI “companions” are harmless… or a hard nope...

Katie and Miss K talk about what AI means for kids and young adults today—from school to job hunting to the new, non-traditional paths ahead. A grounded, hopeful guide for parents, caregivers, and anyone supporting the next generation in an AI-shaped world. AI can feel overwhelming—community makes it easier. Join the Her AI Skool group to deepen your learning : Her AI Advantage