Many women feel invisible or silenced during hard seasons. Putting pressure on themselves to suck it up and push through. My guest this week, Heidi Schalk, believes that visibility is a healing and transformational act for women and she wants to help get them there. Heidi's story is incredibly powerful — from single motherhood and burnout to rebuilding your life and business. Heidi Schalk is the co-founder of HLH Growth Solutions, an author, speaker, and host of two top-ranking shows: The Be S.H.E. Podcast (Be Seen. Be Heard. Be Empowered.) and the Business Growth Spotlight Podcast. Heidi believes success is not reserved for a select few. It’s available to anyone willing to be seen, step into their voice, and claim the life they dream of. Her work is centered on empowering others to lead with authenticity, courage, and possibility.
On this guest episode, Heidi shares about when she first realize she was hiding and how she found the courage to be seen again. She also talks about the moment that sparked her own awakening & transformation the led her to create the Be S.H.E podcast to encourage Women to be seen, heard, and empowered. Heidi offers advice for Women who feel called to lead but are terrified to be visible and how women can step into leadership without falling into the patterns of competition, perfectionism, or self-sacrifice. And she tells how healing and inner work influenced her business success in building multiple businesses both B2C and B2B and now running a successful growth agency. Finally, together we discuss how burnout is not as a time problem, but an alignment problem and why so many women struggle with receiving love, money, support, & visibility and how to shift that.
Bio:
Heidi Schalk is the co-founder of HLH Growth Solutions, an author, speaker, and host of two top-ranking shows: The Be S.H.E. Podcast (Be Seen. Be Heard. Be Empowered.) and the Business Growth Spotlight Podcast. She is a contributing author in Heart Talks Volume 1 and has been featured on FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS, and The Daily Herald. She was also named one of the Top 30 Inspiring Entrepreneurs to Look Out for in 2024 by The NYC Journal. For the past five years, Heidi has helped women break through their limits, achieve their goals, and build online businesses they truly love. Along the way, she learned firsthand that while entrepreneurship isn’t easy, it can be simple, aligned, and fun with the right support and strategy.
In 2025, she made a bold pivot building a six-figure-plus marketing and visibility agency in just seven months. Today, Heidi helps leaders, experts, and companies grow their brand authority, expand their audience, and generate demand through strategic visibility, content ecosystems, and “podcast-to-pipeline” systems. Most recently, Heidi has expanded HLH Growth Solutions with cutting-edge AI tools including the AI Receptionist and the Sales Analyzer, designed to help businesses reduce workload, increase conversions, and accelerate growth with smart automation. These solutions allow companies to create 24/7 customer experiences, analyze sales opportunities in real time, and scale with efficiency.A mom of two teenagers (16 and 14), Heidi credits her children as the catalyst for her entrepreneurial journey. As an animal lover, she often fosters and transports pets in need, helping them find their forever homes.
What is Women Waken: Spiritual Healing for Trauma in Relationships to Shift from Codependency to Divine Feminine?
My name is Whitney Walker, welcome to Women Waken! I am a Licensed Mental Health Therapist specialising in substance abuse, addiction, eating disorders, trauma, and Spirituality. Over 10 years ago I walked into a therapist office for the first time because I realised that I felt incapable of handling life. I abused drugs and alcohol, had rock bottom self esteem, often felt suicidal, was very self destructive, and had no idea how to resolve what felt like a complete mess inside my mind and emotions.
After years of therapy, getting sober, and choosing to begin the journey of unconditional self love for myself, things started to change. My self esteem rose along with my self regard and kindness towards myself. I knew there was only one thing I wanted to do with the rest of my life; help others out of the place that I was in and start figuring out how we can end these cycles for good, for all of us.
Women Waken is building community and offering a platform for Women to come together who share a vision of creating a new way of life where insecurity, low self esteem, and self- destruction are no longer the norm. Where we are able to rebalance the dynamic between the inner and outer Worlds so that our ability to love and accept ourselves is no longer dependent on externals.
On this show, we speak to Women who are seeking to heal from traumas/habits/addictions that are keeping them in a place of disempowerment who are ready to begin aligning with their true self and are ready to let their light shine
I release two episodes a week, an interview and solo episode,
If you feel ready to reclaim your power and stand in your Divine light I hope this show finds you!