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Pulling Threads, Weaving Authenticity

Pulling Threads is a podcast for women navigating life, career, past and current trauma, breakups and divorce, motherhood, reinvention, and the brave work of becoming who they’re meant to be.

Podcast · By Leslie Mathews · English · Official site

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14
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Sep 23, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 23, 2026

    Why your friend gets meaner when you’re happy (opens the original)

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    You drove home replaying a comment that was “just a joke.” Someone close to you gets a little sharper every timeyour life gets better — and you’re starting to wonder if you’re the problem.You’re not. Here’s what’s actually happening, and what to do about it without blowing up the relationship.→ Work with me: https://theloomlife.com/coachingThis episode is about the person who needs you to stay small. It is not a diagnosis, and Leslie is direct about why: a label becomes a place to hide, and you

  2. Episode · Sep 20, 2026

    How to Find Yourself Again: 4 Wrong Turns to Avoid (opens the original)

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    You keep waiting to feel like yourself again before you start doing the things a person like you would do.That is the wrong order, and it is why so many people try to come home to themselves,fail, and decide something is wrong with them. Nothing is wrong with you. You were given the wrong instructions.→ Work with me, one on one: https://theloomlife.com/coaching (open to men and women)Finding yourself is the wrong verb. Finding implies she is somewhere — misplaced, behind something — and that eno

  3. Episode · Sep 15, 2026

    I don’t know who I am outside of being a mom (opens the original)

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    You can name every birthday, every grade, every photo — and still not recognize the woman in them.This is the episode about the decade so many of us lose, and how to tell the difference between sacrificing for yourchildren and disappearing into them.Work with Leslie → https://theloomlife.com/coachingLeslie spent her thirties running four other people’s lives with the same intensity she had brought to a legal career.From the outside it looked like a woman doing a great job — the school events, th

  4. Episode · Sep 13, 2026

    The You, The Me, The We. What Happens When We Lose Ourselves in Love (opens the original)

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    You didn't lose yourself all at once. You said yes to one thing that wasn't yours, andthen another, and then another.Shoutout to James Sexton, NYCDivorceLawyer on IG for the inspiration for today's episode!This is the episode about how that happens — and how you come back.→ Work with me, one on one: https://theloomlife.com/coaching (open to men and women)If you retired tomorrow, or your kids moved out tomorrow, or your relationship ended,would you still know who you are? Not what you do. Not who

  5. Episode · Sep 3, 2026

    What Women Get Wrong About Divorce: A Lawyer’s Hard Truths (opens the original)

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    Divorce advice for women from an attorney who has spent 20 years representing women only. Heather Quick, founder and CEO of Florida Women's Law Group, joins Leslie to share what two decades of women's stories have taught her about courage, boundaries, and becoming, and the hard truths about divorce that no one prepares you for.Heather built a Jacksonville family law firm where women represent women, and in this conversation she pulls back the curtain on the parts of divorce that blindside so man

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