Real life is rarely
as simple as we
make it sound.
I'm Monique Hatchett.
I write, create, listen, and ask a lot of questions
about the spaces between what we intend, what we experience, and what we're capable of carrying.
Sometimes that work is personal.
Sometimes it's organizational.
Either way, I'm interested in what's actually going on underneath the surface.
Most things are worth paying attention to.
The stuff
in the middle matters.
Most of life doesn't happen in neat chapters.
It's the conversation you keep replaying.
The job that's fine on paper but doesn't feel fine anymore.
The relationship that's changed.
The thing you thought you'd have by now.
The team that says one thing but feels another.
The season where you're grateful and disappointed at the same time.
I’m interested in those places.
Paying attention to what’s happening - in ourselves, in our relationships, and in the environments we create - gives us better information about what we need, what we value, and ultimately,
what needs to change.
here's the truth:
The M Between is my writing and podcast space for women navigating the stuff that doesn't fit neatly into “before” and “after.” Grief. Growth. Capacity. Relationships. Faith. Identity. Disappointment. Curiosity. The things you're grateful for alongside the things you're still grieving.
It's not a place where I have all the answers.
It's a place to get honest about what's actually happening, find better language for it, and maybe see your life a little differently.
For your life |
The M Between
Organizations tell us a lot about who they are.
It's in the mission statement.
The values on the website.
The employee handbook.
The things leaders say in meetings.
But that's only part of the story.
I work with organizations that want to understand the other part:
What does it actually feel like to work here?
I help organizations examine the gap between what they say they value and what their people actually experience.
Because sometimes the problem isn't that your organization doesn't care.
It's that something is getting lost between intention and experience.
For your organization |
Culture, Care & Communication
WELCOME TO THE m between PODCAST!
Some Stuff Doesn’t Fit into a Soundbite - The M Between Podcast
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The M Between is a podcast about the parts of life we don't always know what to do with. I’m not here to tell you how to live your life or wrap every conversation in a neat little lesson. I’m here to think out loud, ask better questions, have honest conversations, and occasionally help us find words for something we've been feeling but couldn't quite name.
Think a really good conversation with someone who isn't afraid of nuance — with enough curiosity to keep asking, enough care to stay
with the hard stuff, and enough perspective to help you see it from another angle.
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I'm interested in the things we don't always have words for - the grief that shows up alongside gratitude, the ways our capacity gets stretched without us noticing, the difference between what we mean to communicate and what people actually hear, and all the other complicated stuff that makes us human.
My work is shaped by lived experience, years of working with people and organizations, graduate study in organizational leadership, and a tendency to ask one more question.
I don't think we need to have everything figured out.
I think we need room to be honest about what's actually happening.
That's usually where the interesting stuff starts.
I'M GLAD YOU'RE HERE.
There's a lot to explore.
Take what you need.
Read something.
Listen to something.
Look around.
Or don't.
I'll be here.
