Hannah Austin
CEO/Founder at SheShatters LLC
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Education: Oregon State University - George Fox University
Portland, OR, USA
Biography
Hannah Austin is a bestselling author, international podcast host, and the CEO of SheShatters. She specializes in the management and prevention of burnout for professionals. She has been featured on ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox News.
Before founding SheShatters, Hannah spent 20 years as an executive in the healthcare industry, a role in which she faced immense pressure and witnessed her colleagues suffering the effect of burnout en masse. She became determined to make a change that would impact not only her path in life but also the paths of the many inspiring professionals she knew and worked with. Hannah founded SheShatters in 2021 to help employees and managers with their mental health and find a balance between their personal and professional lives, and on a macro level, leading a movement away from corporate hustle culture.
Passion
I’m on a mission to help people on the brink of setting fire to it all, learn how to burn brightly instead of burning out, and finally find some balance.
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I am willing to travel
More than 100 miles
When it comes to payments
I generally get paid for speaking but make exceptions
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Best Story
As a young girl, I traveled with my parents to Africa. We were sleeping in a tent on the plains of the Masai Mara. A wounded lion and his pack circled our tent for hours roaring that evening. They were so close to us that I could hear them breathing. The only thing that separated us was a single piece of nylon from the tent. My parents and I were so afraid that they would pounce on us at any moment and kill us. It was a defining moment in my life that taught me how precious life is. At that moment, I also learned first-hand the importance of having internal survival skills.
Origin Story
Hannah Morgan Austin was born in Palmer, Alaska. At the age of four, Hannah’s parents took a huge leap of faith and quit their jobs to travel the world. From studying dance in Indonesia to trekking the Himalayas in Nepal, these life-changing experiences shaped Hannah’s vision to see the world from a unique holistic lens.
Hannah moved to Oregon in 1997 where she earned her Bachelor of Science degree from Oregon State University and her master’s degree in Business from George Fox University. Her 20-year healthcare career offered many opportunities in leadership, program design, employee development, coaching, innovation, and execution. She is well known for mentoring and coaching young women early in their careers to help shape them into the Shatterer’s they were destined to be.
Hannah is described professionally and personally as a leader who can be both a visionary and an executor. In 2021 after the stress of the pandemic and 50-hour work weeks, Hannah found herself burned out. She decided to leave her job as a successful healthcare executive and set out on a journey to heal herself. Three months later she started SheShatters with the hope that she could have influence in women’s lives and share with them how she turned her darkness into light.