HeyJaredCreate Your Best Empty Nest
Your kids are almost gone, or already gone, and nobody told you it would feel like this. Create Your Best Empty Nest is where women figure out who they are now and what comes next.
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No...Is a Complete Sentence. (A Recovering People Pleaser's Guide) (opens the original)
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You just said no to something and then spent the next four sentences apologizing for it. If that sounds familiar, you're not alone, and it's not a personality flaw. It's people pleasing, and it's one of the sneakiest habits keeping women in the empty nest and midlife stuck in a version of themselves they're ready to outgrow. In this episode of Create Your Best Empty Nest, Marianne Iverson breaks down why a plain "no" feels like it needs a resume of reasons attached to it, and what actually happe
4 Simple Strategies to Connect With Your Adult Child (opens the original)
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Your kid used to need you for everything. Now they need you for almost nothing, on their schedule, in ways you don't control. If that whiplash has you lying awake wondering how to stay close to your adult children without hovering, this episode is for you. Marianne Iverson, certified life coach and host of Create Your Best Empty Nest, breaks down four simple, doable strategies for building real connection with your adult child in this new season of parenting. Drawing on her own experience naviga
4 Secrets to Survival When Your Kids Leave For College (opens the original)
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The car pulls out of the driveway and the silence hits different this time. If you're staring down the season where your kids leave for college, or you're already living in it, this episode is the real talk you actually need. Not the Pinterest list. Not "go find yourself." Just what to do with the grief, the guilt, the pride, and the quiet calendar that comes with empty nest syndrome. In this episode of Create Your Best Empty Nest, you'll learn: Why the empty nest transition hits so much harder
God Doesn't Whisper 'You're Not Enough,' Now with Hilary Weeks (Part 2) (opens the original)
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Every time Hilary Weeks sat down to write music, the same thought showed up. "You're not good enough. Nobody wants to hear this." It happened so often she almost stopped noticing it. Then her husband said one sentence that changed how she heard that voice for good. This is part two of my conversation with singer-songwriter Hilary Weeks, and it might be the most important thing she says in this whole series. If you've ever felt that quiet voice of self-doubt creep in right when you're trying to b
You Don't Have to Disappear to Be a Good Mom: The 30 Minute Secret with Hilary Weeks (opens the original)
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You Don't Have to Disappear to Be a Good Mom: The 30 Minute Secret with Hilary Weeks She released fourteen albums. Raised four daughters. And never had to choose between the two. If you're in the empty nest season asking yourself "who am I now," or you're standing at the edge of it wondering how you're supposed to want anything for yourself again, this conversation is for you. Hilary Weeks, singer-songwriter, mom of four, and now grandmother of five, joins me to talk about how she built a real m
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