After Chapter Podcast
Welcome to The After Chapter Podcast, a show about identity in seasons of change. For anyone navigating or anticipating a meaningful transition, especially when the life you planned no longer fits and the next step isn't clear.
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- Sep 15, 2026
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- Jul 14, 2026
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The No You Learned Not to Say | After Chapter Podcast 29 (opens the original)
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Contact Us at info@afterchapterpodcast.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There's a version of 'no' that costs nothing to say and a version that costs everything. Most women only learn the first. Jackee de Lagarde spent decades on the wrong side of that line, then went back and named exactly why. This conversation goes after the specific conditioning, cultural, gendered, inherited, that made refusal feel dangerous long before i
The Back to School Reset | After Chapter Podcast (opens the original)
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Contact Us at info@afterchapterpodcast.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Somewhere between expertise and beginner, there's a version of you willing to start over. Traci Hughes has rebuilt her sense of self more than once, through new languages, new countries, new rooms where she didn't yet know the rules. This episode opens the season with the question underneath all the others: what does it actually take to be a beginner on p
The Audit I Kept Postponing (opens the original)
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Contact Us at info@afterchapterpodcast.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In Episode 1, Cecilia shared she has more career years behind her than ahead of her. We've been circling that all summer. Now she turns the audit on herself. She's spent her career helping organizations figure out who belongs and how, she's good at running the audit. What she kept postponing was her own. This episode covers the four things she's been sitt
Still Building Without A Blueprint (opens the original)
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Contact Us at info@afterchapterpodcast.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In Episode 9, Chris Strattner talked about getting to the kernel, the thing that remains when you strip away every identity you've built. Michele turns that question on herself. Two decades in financial services. A communications and culture career with a clear architecture. And now this: a podcast, a brand, a founder identity she is making up as she goes
The Price of the Pivot | After Chapter Podcast 25 (opens the original)
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Contact Us at info@afterchapterpodcast.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What does it actually cost to bet on yourself or to simply stop? For women in transition, the financial question is rarely just about money. It's about what the number means when it starts to move in the wrong direction, whether the sacrifice is adding up to something, and the fear that lives in the gap between what you built and what you thought it would
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