Hella Rader

Podcast Host & Somatic Coach

Hella Rader has spent more than twenty years navigating the terrain she now helps other women cross—moving through grief, finding her voice, and learning what it actually means to inhabit her own life. That personal history is not just background. It is the credential.

It is what she brings to Embody & Create, her somatic coaching practice, where she works with women one-on-one using the body as a guide rather than an obstacle. Hella helps women get unstuck, map what comes next, and build lives they love from the inside out. And it is what she brings to Stories That Sparkle, the long-form interview podcast she built to give other women the same space: intimate conversations with women navigating grief, starting over, reclaiming their voices, inhabiting their bodies and building community. Fifty-plus episodes in, these conversations are recorded wherever the story lives—living rooms, sunrooms, kitchens, conference rooms, and even outside in a park.

Before the podcast and the coaching practice, Hella spent twenty years working across creative industries—PR, arts management, tour management, and radio—always in service of other people’s stories. She co-hosted a live show on East Village Radio and served as tour manager for Shara Nova and My Brightest Diamond, work that took her across the country and into rooms she had to figure out how to navigate in real time. That instinct—to go where the story is, and handle what you find—informs everything she does.

Hella is GenX with millennial tendencies, the first American in her family, a global traveler, and someone who has driven a Porsche on a racetrack, surfed off the coast of Mexico, and shaped a raw emerald in the Diamond District. She will try almost anything at least once. Except olives. Or mushrooms. Of any kind.
She writes weekly on Substack and can be found at hellarader.com.