The Midlife Ripening Podcast
Conversations on becoming radically yourself in your second bite of life. Real talk on creativity, rest, play, rooted confidence, and everyday audacity for midlife women.
Episodes
14 episodes
Why Rest Feels Impossible
Retreat details: Join Brooke in Tuscany this October for six days of dolce far niente.What if the most radical thing you c...
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Bonus episode: Unhooking From The Good Woman Myth
In this bonus episode, I’m sharing a live workshop replay where we name—and begin to gently unhook from—the Good Woman Myth. That inherited script that urges us to work before we rest, care for everyone else before we care for ourselves, and pr...
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The Power of Companionship in Midlife: Inside the Second Bite Experience
In this intimate round-table conversation, two original members of Second Bite — Ann and Tara — join me to reflect on a year of soulful transformation. Together we ...
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27:25
Why Midlife Women Feel Stuck—and How to Finally Be Whole, Not Just Good
Unhooking from the Good Woman MythStop censoring — and finally say and be what you want.RSVP for the free workshop here.In this intimate ...
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21:48
The Mid-life Betrayal List
Register for my free upcoming workshop:Unhooking from the Good Woman MythStop censoring — and finally say and be what you want.Click here to RSVP.
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20:54
From Powering Through to Moving at the Pace of Trust.
How were you taught to meet the waves—the ones in the water, and the ones in your life?In this episode of The Midlife Ripening Podcast, Brooke shares three parables from a week at the ocean’s edge—moments that reveal how we’ve been train...
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The Five Dances of Anxiety—and How to Step Into Something More Alive
What if your anxiety isn’t a problem to fix—but a pattern you’ve been dancing for years?In this episode of The Midlife Ripening Podcast, Brooke explores how anxiety often shows up as over-responsibility, perfectionism, or disapp...
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Bonus episode! 3 Soulful Steps to Go from Overdoing to a Life That Breathes
If you’ve been carrying it all—while quietly emptying your own cup—this conversation is for you.Join midlife coach and mentor, Brooke Hofsess, for An Overflowing Cup, a soul-deep workshop exploring what it means to clear the nois...
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Initiated by Life: A Conversation with Lianne Raymond on Midlife, Mentoring, and the Maturation of Women
From Self-Help to Rhythm, Agency & Confidence in MidlifeIn this soul-nourishing episode of The Midlife Ripening Podcast, I’m joined by my longtime coach and mentor, Lianne Raymond—a life poet and a deeply wise guide for what i...
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From Proving to Inhabiting All of Who You Are: A conversation with Joanna Lindenbaum on True Self-Acceptance.
In this powerful, intimate episode of The Midlife Ripening Podcast, I’m joined by my longtime mentor and renowned coach-trainer, Joanna Lindenbaum, for a soul-deep conversation about what it means to stop worrying—and start inhabiting the truth...
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How to Name—and Nourish—What You Really Want
Desire can feel slippery in midlife.Maybe you don’t know what you want anymore.Or maybe you do—but it feels too big, too selfish, too risky to say out loud.In this episode, I share the deeper reasons why wanting can feel...
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Why I Stopped Measuring My Worth by Being Useful
In this deeply personal episode, I share the story of how I unraveled my good-girl identity, said yes to midlife truth-telling, and began building a life that feels more like mine.I talk about burnout, overfunctioning, embracing a late-i...
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The Midlife Ripening: Begin Again from the Inside Out
In this inaugural episode, I share why I created The Midlife Ripening Podcast and the deeper longing that fuels it: the need for conversations that go beyond hot flashes and hormone shifts—and into the quiet ache, the inner questions, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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