In this powerful episode of the Self Love Podcast, Kim sits down with Jodi Theisen, founding director of Digital Nomads HQ and recipient of the Corporate Woman of the Year award. Jodi opens up about her journey through motherhood, business, leadership and profound personal loss, including the heartbreaking loss of her eldest daughter. She shares how grief transformed her perspective on life, strengthened her resilience, and ultimately shaped the way she leads and supports others. Together, Kim and Jodi explore the importance of defining who you are unapologetically, embracing vulnerability, and recognising that strength doesn’t mean having to do everything alone.

Jodi also shares the philosophy behind her business success, including her belief in “burning the boats” taking calculated risks, committing fully, and creating a culture where mistakes become opportunities to learn and grow. From putting people before profit to leading with transparency and integrity, Jodi explains how her personal values have become the foundation of Digital Nomads HQ. The conversation returns to the heart of the podcast, self-love. For Jodi, self-love means believing in something bigger than yourself, caring for your own wellbeing, and recognising that you can only truly support others when you also take care of yourself. This is an honest and deeply human conversation about grief, resilience, leadership, motherhood and finding the courage to live fully.

About Jodi
Jodi is the Founding Director of Digital Nomads HQ. Headquartered right here on the beautiful Sunshine, DNHQ has the strongest online presence of any agency in Australia – working with 100’s of local, national and international businesses & enterprises. Jodi leads unapologetically, people first.
She strongly believes that culture is as much what you build within your team, as it is who you choose to work with. Her personal values are soaked into her business: Relationships, integrity, authenticity and joy. She talks fast, laughs loud and leads with love. Having experienced profound loss in her life – this has fuelled her to celebrate every moment and live without regrets. A Certified Practicing Marketer, her role at the agency allows her to daily indulge her love for helping businesses thrive and sharing her strategies for ethical and sustainable business in today’s economy.

Her definition of Self Love is: I really believe, for me, a big part of the definition of self-love is believing in something bigger than yourself.

Her favourite quote is: You can be the juiciest peach in the bowl and there will always be someone who doesn’t like peaches and that’s okay

Links to follow:
Website: https://digitalnomadshq.com.au/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joditheisen_/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jodi-theisen-dnhq/

Quotes:
I am very people focussed.
I am not one thing. I am all those things together.
My sole purpose in life is really to make people feel seen.
We really need to be solid in who we are. That takes time.
I really respect people who are confident in who they are.
When you go through loss of any kind, it does harden you because it is painful and so we protect ourselves.
I am so grateful for the hardest times of my life because I would hate to think who I would be and where I would be without them.
Everything that happens to you in life is either a stepping stone or a gravestone.
How we determine which way we go, whether we make it our stepping stone, our growth stone really determines who we are as a person.
You can’t outrun grief.
The most practical thing that I did was just to face it head on. It is almost like you have met your worst nightmare in the ring. Let’s go put your boxing gloves on.
That pain doesn’t go away. You can just incorporate it into your life.
Grief is the price we pay for love.
Life is a special occasion.
I believe I have been given every open door an opportunity from God.
I say yes to as much as I possibly can. I feel the fear and I do it anyway.
I really love things to blossom organically.
It is never a mistake. It is always a lesson.
This is a safe place to make mistakes.
If you don’t make mistakes and if you don’t learn, you are just going to carry on doing it the way that you have always been doing it.
We need to love ourselves. We need to surround ourselves with people who complement our skills and innate strengths, but we also are willing to tell you how it is.
Fill your own cup so you have something to pour out.
Team culture is not just who is in your team, it is who you choose to work with.
Just go for it. Just absolutely go for it. Burn those boats.

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