Message in the Middle: Midlife Women, Reinvention & Personal Growth
Message in the Middle is a podcast for women navigating the challenges, transitions, and reinventions that often come with midlife.
Hosted by Marianne DeMello-Smith, each episode explores the messy, meaningful moments that shape who we become. Through honest conversations with experts, authors, thought leaders, and everyday women, you'll discover practical insights, inspiring stories, and new perspectives on what it means to grow through life's most difficult seasons.
Whether you're facing a career change, caregiving responsibilities, health challenges, grief, relationship shifts, menopause, identity changes, or simply wondering what's next, Message in the Middle offers encouragement, wisdom, and real-world strategies to help you move forward with greater confidence and purpose.
Together, we'll explore resilience, personal growth, self-discovery, emotional well-being, and the power of turning life's messes into meaningful midlife messages.
Because midlife isn't the end of your story. It may just be the beginning of your next chapter.
Message in the Middle: Midlife Women, Reinvention & Personal Growth
Latest Episodes
Are You Grading Yourself by Your Children’s Lives?
What if your child’s success has quietly become your success, and their struggles feel like your failures?For many mothers, that connection can be hard to see, especially after our children become adults. We know we can't control their c...
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Rebuilding a Life You Didn’t Choose
There are some life changes we choose. And then there are the ones that choose us.In January 2024, Jennifer White woke from a coma following brain tumor surgery and found herself facing a life she barely recognized. A retired registered ...
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When Life Is Lifing: How We Keep Going Anyway
Sometimes life isn’t falling apart because of one big thing. It’s just… a lot.The news feels relentless. The world feels increasingly complicated. Family dynamics can be difficult. Aging parents bring a whole new set of responsibilities....
Can You Create a New Marriage Without Finding a New Spouse?
What if your marriage doesn't need a new person? What if it needs two people willing to become new versions of themselves, intentionally choosing each other, over and over? That's the question at the heart of my conversation with K...
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When Anxiety Shrinks Your Life: How to Take It Back
Anxiety doesn't always arrive with racing thoughts or panic attacks.Sometimes it shows up as perfectionism. People pleasing. Constant overthinking. Staying busy so you never have to slow down long enough to notice how exhausted you've be...
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