igniteHER™: Thinking Out Loud

This Weeks Guest Steph Lenne is the founder of High Quality Human. She helps women stop being the glass ceiling in their own business — by going deep on who they’re being behind the scenes. She’s a pattern wizard, a straight talker, and exactly the kind of guest this show was made for. →  Instagram: @stephlenne__ →  The Shadow Portal: stephlenne.thrivecart.com/the-shadow-portal Five years ago, Ste...

When we first start out in business, we wear all the hats. And when you’re wearing all the hats, you spend so much time just keeping the plates spinning — just doing — that you never really stop to look at how effective those plates actually are. How well are they actually spinning? In this solo episode, Gabrielle walks through three plates she found in her own business during a proper operational...

There’s a pattern I haven’t been able to ignore. After recording several conversations with women in completely different stages of life — different businesses, different experiences, different paths — the same thing kept coming up. The moment things started to feel hard…was the moment they stopped trusting themselves. And the moment things started to shift? Was when they came back to themselves....

In Episode 8 of Thinking Out Loud I sit down with Lucy Ellis — therapist, mother of three, and one of the most honest women I know — for a conversation I genuinely couldn't stop thinking about long after we stopped recording. Lucy has been working with women since 2008 and specialises in emotional processing, nervous system regulation, and helping women rebuild self-trust. She recently held her so...

What happens when the business you built becomes the thing that breaks you? Kristy Withers built Incy Interiors from a side hustle in 2010 into a globally recognised children's furniture brand stocked across 9 countries generating over $50M in sales. From the outside it looked like success. Behind the scenes she was burning out, mortgaging her house, and eventually watching everything she built co...

There are moments in life that change you completely not just what you do… but who you are. In this episode of Thinking Out Loud, I’m joined by Lauren Short — founder of Heart of the Hunter, meditation therapist, yoga teacher, and holistic practitioner — for a deeply honest conversation about motherhood, identity, and learning to trust yourself again. After experiencing miscarriage and later becom...

Why Community Matters More in the Seasons We’re Becoming There’s a season of life where community stops being a “nice to have” — and becomes essential. In this episode of Thinking Out Loud , Gabrielle explores why the moments when you’re becoming — not launching, not achieving, not performing — are the moments you need the right people around you the most. After years of building businesses, raisi...

We’ve all had those moments where something tiny sets us off, a comment, a mess, a tone, a win someone else shares online… and suddenly we’re spiralling, snapping, withdrawing, or doubting ourselves. It’s easy to blame the trigger. But the real work begins when we ask the deeper question: “What belief is sitting underneath this?” In this episode of Thinking Out Loud , I’m sharing the exact moment...

This episode was born on my front porch — staring at a garden I’d completely torn apart years earlier. When we first moved into our 1930s home, we went wild chopping everything back. Eight trailer loads to the tip. Busy. Productive. Exhausted. But totally directionless. And later, as that same garden slowly became lush, grounded, peaceful… I realised something huge: My life had followed the exact...

I used to think I was driven — ambitious, high-performing, unstoppable. But what I’ve learned is that motivation isn’t strength — it’s survival. It’s adrenaline wearing a productivity badge. In this episode, I’m sharing the moment I realised my “motivation” was really dysregulation — the snapping, the guilt, the exhaustion — and how I started rebuilding from calm instead of chaos. If you’ve been s...

It Took Me 25 Yrs, 3 Kids, and a Burnout to Learn This About Success Motivation isn’t strength — it’s survival. In this first episode of Thinking Out Loud for the igniteHER™ Collective, Gabrielle shares the story of saying no to “flexible work” that wasn’t flexible at all — and how that decision became the foundation of her next chapter.