Personal Growth & Reinvention for Women | say YES to yourself!
If you're ready to stop living by everyone else's expectations and start creating a life that feels authentic, intentional, and fully your own, you're in the right place.
Say YES to Yourself! is a personal growth podcast for women navigating life's transitions and asking, "What's next for me?" Through honest conversations and inspiring stories, host Wendy Harrop interviews women who have reinvented themselves, trusted their intuition, overcome life's challenges, and created meaningful change—one courageous yes at a time.
Every Wednesday and Friday, Wendy sits down with authors, entrepreneurs, coaches, creatives, and everyday women to share honest conversations about personal growth, life transitions, and what's possible when you choose yourself.
Whether you're navigating a career change, an empty nest, divorce, burnout, caregiving, entrepreneurship, or simply feeling like you've lost yourself, this podcast will remind you that your next chapter is still waiting to be written.
You'll find conversations about:
- Personal growth and self-discovery
- Reinvention and life's transitions
- Building confidence and trusting yourself
- Purpose, fulfillment, and intentional living
- Career changes and entrepreneurship
- Relationships, boundaries, and people-pleasing
- Divorce, grief, healing, and resilience
- Creativity, courage, and living boldly
- Women's empowerment and authentic leadership
This podcast explores questions like:
• How do I reinvent myself when life no longer fits?
• How do I stop people-pleasing and start trusting myself?
• How do I rebuild after divorce, grief, or a major life transition?
• How do I find purpose in my next chapter?
• How do I create a life that feels aligned instead of expected?
• How do I build confidence after years of putting everyone else first?
• Is it too late to change careers, start a business, or follow a dream?
• How do I reconnect with the woman I've become?
If you're looking for encouragement, practical wisdom, and real stories from women who have chosen themselves—and found something even better on the other side—welcome.
Your best chapter doesn't happen by accident.
It begins the moment you say YES to yourself.
Personal Growth & Reinvention for Women | say YES to yourself!
Podcasthon 2026 | Preventing Divorce-Induced Poverty with Susan Tripi of The Sparrow Collective
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself!
Join Wendy for her Summer Solstice White Party, June 20, 2026: Wear white, gather at the long table in the field, and toast to the season ahead. Save your seat here.
This episode is part of the 4th edition of Podcasthon—the world's largest podcast charity initiative, bringing together podcasters globally to raise awareness for important causes. For one week, more than a thousand podcasts highlight a charity of their choice, uniting voices to make an impact and increase awareness for amazing nonprofits.
In this special Podcasthon 2026 episode, Wendy welcomes back Susan Tripi, founder of The Sparrow Collective—the first supportive living community in Massachusetts exclusively for women transitioning through divorce. Susan turned her own devastating divorce into a mission to prevent what the statistics reveal: 80% of women are unprepared to navigate divorce, 44% fall into poverty post-divorce, and $113.5 billion in child support sits in arrears.
The Sparrow Collective isn't a shelter. It's a sanctuary. A fully equipped, intentionally designed community providing safe housing, comprehensive empowerment programming, and holistic support for women in the critical 1-3 year window after divorce—the period when women are most vulnerable to slipping into poverty.
They explore:
- Why slowing down and allowing space to breathe is essential when building something transformational
- What happened when the "perfect" property fell through—and how Susan held the vision with loose hands
- Why this model is replicable and scalable across underutilized properties nationwide
This is a conversation about holding big vision with open hands, trusting divine timing even when doors close, and understanding that the energy behind the movement doesn't stop when one opportunity ends.
Connect with Susan:
Contribute to the mission here.
Previous Episode: Redefining Divorce Support
Susan.SparrowCollective@gmail.com
________________________________________________________________________________________
Connect with Wendy:
Linkedin
Instagram: @wendy.harrop
Facebook: Phineas Wright House
Website: Phineas Wright House
PWH Farm Stays
PWH Curated Experience and Travel
Interested in being a guest on the show?
Send your pitch to podcast@phineaswrighthouse.com
Podcast Production By Shannon Warner of Resonant Collective
Want to start your own podcast? Let's chat!
If this episode resonated, follow Say YES to Yourself! and leave a 5-star review. It helps more women in midlife discover the tools, stories, and community that make saying YES not only possible, but powerful.
