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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
Redefining Success, Sobriety, and Self-Awareness in Midlife with Ann Karber
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In this episode of Message in the Middle, Marianne welcomes Anne Karber for an honest and reflective conversation about the midlife moment when everything appears fine on the outside, yet something feels quietly off.
Anne is an entrepreneur, author of The Life Hack Playbook, and host of the Let’s Get Naked Podcast. Known for her grounded, no-BS approach, Anne helps people understand how self-awareness, patterns, and unconscious choices shape their lives, especially during seasons of burnout, transition, and reflection.
Together, Marianne and Anne explore numbing with work, addiction and recovery, motherhood, accountability without shame, evolving boundaries, and redefining success in midlife. Anne shares openly about stepping off autopilot, learning to sit in the quiet, repairing relationships, and using practical tools to create clarity and momentum.
This conversation is thoughtful, emotional, and deeply human. It is for women in midlife who are ready to slow down, get curious about their inner world, and begin living with intention rather than exhaustion.
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