Gia is a widely-regarded trauma-informed empowerment coach, international motivational speaker, women’s leadership expert, children’s book author, board officer, podcast host, and girl-mom. She supports high-achieving women who are silently drowning under the weight of their own success—outwardly thriving, inwardly depleted—break free from the belief systems keeping them stuck in over-functioning, and finally build lives that feel as good as they look.
Susan Kleiner: Hello and welcome to the Think factory where we interview and speak with industry leaders on important topics. My name is Susan Kleiner, I’m with outside General Counsel solutions and I’m going to be your host here today of today’s episode. I am so happy to have with me here Gia Lacqua.
Gia is a renowned empowerment coach, international motivational speaker, podcast host, children’s book author, board officer and leadership expert, known for her transformative work with high performing women. With nearly 20 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, including serving as Vice president of a Fortune 100 company, she brings a wealth of expertise and strategic change management, innovation and transformation.
So it is amazing to have you here with us today—and you know, thank you so much for making the time.
Gia Lacqua: Susan, thank you so much to you and the think factory for having me on today.
I’m happy to be here.
Susan Kleiner: I know you have this really interesting background where you worked in the biopharmaceutical industry, you know, serving as a VP, I mean, you were reaching important goals in your in your corporate career and then you shifted out, right? Which is also the name of your podcast.
Gia Lacqua: Great segue. So I there’s been a lot of shifts along my journey, right? Most most of our paths are not linear. But yeah, like you said, I I was doing all the things climbing the corporate ladder. Yes, I checked all the boxes was doing all the things. Hustling had two kids. The house. The job.
And there was still this nagging feeling inside of me that I wasn’t there —like, even though on the outside I was successful, there was this nagging feeling on the inside that something was missing.
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