Working on Amazing
Working on Amazing is all about rebuilding an amazing life after divorce or a bad breakup. This is a podcast for women who feel like they are starting over midlife. Coming out of a long term relationship can feel overwhelming and finding your footing in the new normal takes time. This podcast offers a mix of hope and encouragement along with some practical advice on rebuilding a truly amazing life.
Episodes
83 episodes
Letting Go of What Feels Unfair
Life is full of moments that feel deeply unfair — divorce, betrayal, unexpected loss, medical diagnoses and broken dreams. When something feels unfair, it can leave us angry, hurt, resentful, stuck, or spinning in “why me?” This epi...
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Reclaiming Lost Time: Making the Most of Life’s In-Between Moments
Do you ever feel like time has slipped through your fingers? Between grief, starting over, caretaking, work, and everyday responsibilities, many women feel like they don’t have enough time — or that the time t...
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24:24
Intermittent Fasting
Intermittent fasting has become a popular health trend — but is it actually helpful, especially for women in midlife who are navigating stress, hormonal changes, grief, or starting over? In this episode, we break down what intermittent fasti...
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24:29
The 90/10 Rule
When life turns upside down — through divorce, loss, job changes, or unexpected transitions — it can feel like everything is happening to us. In today’s episode, we unpack Stephen Covey’s powerful 90/10 Rule: 10% of life is what hap...
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25:00
Financial Housekeeping for When You're Starting Over
When life changes suddenly, finances are often the last thing we feel emotionally ready to deal with - but they are one of the most important areas to tend to. In this episode we are talking about financial housekeeping: the practical, often ov...
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24:06
Looking Back - Moving Forward
As we close out 2025, it’s time to pause and reflect. What went well this year? What didn’t go as planned? What lessons did we learn along the way? In this final episode of the year, let's take an honest look back at the past twelve months—cele...
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25:37
Kindness
Sometimes the simplest things can make a biggest difference like kindness. Whether it’s Christmas or any ordinary Tuesday, random acts of kindness can shift our perspective, lift our mood, and remind us that we still have something to ...
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22:52
Light in the Darkness: Hope of the Christmas Story
If Christmas doesn't feel wonderful - if you are just ready for the whole season to be done and over with - you are not alone. Grief, heartbreak, disappointment and sadness all feel heightened in contrast to the joy and merriment around us this...
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If you Feel Broken Hearted - this one's for you
Have you ever heard the scripture that says God is close to the broken hearted? It's comforting until you actually feel that way. In the middle of our pain we rarely feel close to God. We feel lonely. How do we line up the truth of the scriptur...
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Goal Setting 2026
It's important to take a moment - to look back and reflect on this past year - what worked? What didn't? What kind of woman do you want to become? Knowing the answers to these questions help shape our goals for the new year. I'm not talki...
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30:05
Time Management for the Overwhelmed Heart
It's not easy to get things done when you are overwhelmed. We tend to put things off when we're sad or down. But the reality is life doesn't stop when we're struggling and there are some adulting tasks that have to be taken care of regardless o...
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Thanksgiving - Focusing on Enough
It's easy to remember when things were different. It doesn't take much to remember the past when the Thanksgiving table was full and laughter was in the air. In a society that celebrates more - we can feel like a failure when we have less. Let'...
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19:46
Learning to Nurture Our Bodies
Do you view your body as a project - something to be fixed? Or do you view it as something to be loved and cared for? Changing our mindset on how we view ourselves and our bodies is a major key to not only a healthier lifestyle but also to emot...
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Navigating the Holidays During a Season of Change
Christmas and Thanksgiving are such a wonderful time of year. That is unless you are in the middle of change - in the middle of loss - in the middle of a truly difficult season. Then the holidays are just a painful reminder of they way things u...
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26:05
Choosing Our Fcous
What we focus on matters. If we focus on the negative things that have happened we end up in a negative mood. If we focus on positive things like gratitude our mood shifts in a more forward direction. We have to make the conscious choice - we h...
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29:04
Turning Negative Events into Something Positive
Negative things happen. Sometimes big, horrible, traumatic things. It can be hard to move past them. How do we rebuild an amazing life when something so big and so negative is right there in our past? How do we begin to change the negative thin...
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30:22
Christmas Budget
It's time to start thinking about your Christmas budget. And not just the numbers - what about the emotional side to why we are drawn to spend more? Today we talk about giving gifts of real value - not necessarily high cost.
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30:01
The 4 Happiness Brain Chemicals
Your brain creates chemicals that help regulate your mood, your happiness and over all sense of well being. It's helpful to know not only which chemicals do what, but more importantly what we can do to help our brains produce more of these chem...
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29:51
Emotional Clutter
Have you ever caught yourself in a mental loop, replaying a negative conversation or event? Sometimes we relive harsh comments or bad experiences and the result isn't positive - as a matter of fact we feel worse for it. It's pretty common, we t...
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26:17
Where to Look for Friends as an Adult
Some times life gets tough. Bad things happen and we shift to survival mode. Once the noise and chaos has cleared and we look up often times we find that we are alone. Friendships have drifted - life has moved on. When this happens how do you m...
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28:33
Focusing on the Glimmers
A Glimmer is the opposite of a Trigger. We know what it means to be triggered - when we are flooded with negative emotions unexpectedly. So then a Glimmer is when something good happens and makes us smile. Sometimes it's really small - ti...
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A Basic Overview of Different Financial Accounts
In order to succeed with money it's important to understand the basics. What is a money market account? Is that better than a CD? What is a HELOC? Should you have one? Understanding the basics is an important step to winning with money.<...
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43:21
What's Your Identity? How You See Yourself Matters
How we see ourselves is SO important - so many of our behaviors and life choices flow from how we identify ourselves. It is a foundational element of who we are. Yet far too often we allow others carless words and negative circumstances to shap...
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32:48
What Do You Do When You Are Emotionally Triggered?
Have you ever had something happen that seemed ordinary to everyone else but it set you off emotionally? Has a single incident ever flooded you with so many emotions it was hard to breath? Maybe it was a text, an email, a song on the radio - on...
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