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The Beauty in the Mess

The Beauty in the Mess Podcast is about rewriting your story. You feel like others (or yourself) have boxed you into a specific role, but you know that is not who you truly are.

Podcast · By Michele Simms · English · Official site

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

    Ep. 166 When Everything Falls Apart: Building A Live You Never Planned with Missy Moritz (opens the original)

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    When Everything Falls Apart: Building a Life You Never Planned What happens when the life you worked so hard to build suddenly falls apart? My guest on this episode of The Beauty In The Mess is Melissa Moritz, better known as Messie Missy. Melissa spent more than 20 years in executive leadership and ultimately became CEO of a $75 million healthcare company. Then, within a relatively short period of time, she lost her career, businesses, financial security, home, marriage, and much of the identit

  2. Episode · Sep 16, 2026

    Ep. 165 Love Is Not Luck: What 54 Years of Marriage Taught Belle Gayer (opens the original)

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    Love Is Not Luck: What 54 Years of Marriage Taught Belle Gayer What does it really take to make love last? In this episode of The Beauty In The Mess, I sit down with Belle Gayer, author of Are Relationships For Suckers? , to talk about what she has learned through more than five decades of marriage, and seven years of answering relationship questions online for millions of readers. Belle believes one of the biggest mistakes we make is expecting lasting love to feel like the beginning of a relati

  3. Episode · Sep 9, 2026

    Ep. 164 Braver Than She Knew: Starting Over At 58 with Cathy Collier (opens the original)

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    Braver Than She Knew: Starting Over at 58 What happens when the life you thought you’d have suddenly isn’t your life anymore? In this episode of The Beauty In The Mess, I sit down with author, speaker, and educator Cathy McCoy Collier, who found herself starting over at 58 after more than 30 years of marriage. After years of betrayal and trying to save her marriage, Cathy finally reached her limit. Walking away meant facing fears she had avoided for decades: living alone, managing money, making

  4. Episode · Sep 3, 2026

    Ep. 163 When Life Breaks Your Heart But Not Your Spirit with Rita Cartwright (opens the original)

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    When Life Breaks Your Heart, But Not Your Spirit What happens when life breaks your heart more than once, yet somehow you keep finding the strength to move forward? In this episode of The Beauty In The Mess, I sit down with Rita J. Cartwright, entrepreneur, author, speaker, and founder of Go Beyond The Limit. Rita is a survivor of two domestic violence relationships and has endured betrayal and devastating loss, including the death of her husband and, just one year later, her oldest son. But Rit

  5. Episode · Aug 19, 2026

    Ep. 162 Speak From Your Scars, Not Your Scabs with Elaine Mingus (opens the original)

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    What happens when you've survived some really hard things, but you refuse to let those things define the rest of your life? In this episode of The Beauty in the Mess, I sit down with Elaine Mingus, a mom of seven, entrepreneur, speaker, author, pageant coach, and Mrs. Texas USA Globe. Elaine's story is a lot deeper than the crown and sash. She opens up about being groomed and sexually abused by a youth pastor at 13, the devastating response she received afterward, and how that trauma eventually

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