Flourishing After Adversity
If you've experienced grief, illness, loss, or life-altering setbacks—and you're ready to reclaim your joy—this podcast is for you.
Hosted by Laura Mangum Broome, Resilience Coach and author of Flourishing After Adversity, this weekly show is your go-to resource for overcoming life’s toughest challenges with hope, courage, and clarity.
Each episode dives into real-life strategies for emotional healing, building resilience, managing mindset, navigating unexpected change, and rediscovering your strength after adversity.
Whether you're facing the aftermath of divorce, struggling to move forward after loss, or starting over later in life, you’ll find practical tools and encouragement to help you grow—not just go—through what you’ve been through.
If you're searching for inspiration, resilience coaching tips, or mental health support for difficult seasons, hit play and start flourishing after adversity. You've got this!
Episodes
56 episodes
S2:E23 The Three Letter Word That Can Change Your Life and It's Not Yes
The Power of “Yet”: Shifting from Fixed to Growth Mindset After AdversityHost Laura Mangum Broome explains how adding one word—“yet”—can shift limiting beliefs from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset, drawing on Carol Dweck’s research ...
S2:E22 The Hardship Autopsy: How to Identify Necessary Endings and Move Forward
Necessary Endings: Use a Hardship Autopsy to Move ForwardLaura Mangum Broome explains that after surviving hardship, people can stay stuck by carrying forward people, habits, environments, or patterns that no longer fit, calling ...
S2:E21 How to Know You're Truly Healing
Toxic Positivity vs. Post-Traumatic Growth: Are You Healing or Performing?Host Laura Mangum Broome opens with a wound metaphor to explain how forced optimism can cover unresolved pain, then introduces the Flourishing After Adversity pod...
S2:E20 Victor, Not Victim: How to Reclaim Your Power in the Middle of Hard Times
From Victim to Victor: Reclaiming Agency After AdversityHost Laura Mangum Broome welcomes listeners to the Flourishing After Adversity podcast and shares a free guide, “Reframe the Spiral,” for coping with negative thoughts after setbac...
S2:E19 You Don't Have to Feel Hopeful to Choose Hope
Choose Hope Before You Feel It: Taking Action After AdversityHost Laura Mangum Broome welcomes listeners to the Flourishing After Adversity podcast and offers a free guide, “Reframe the Spiral,” for managing negative thought loops after...
S2:E18 Fear vs. Anxiety: Why Knowing the Difference Changes Everything
Fear vs. Anxiety: How to Tell the Difference and Take the Next Right StepHost Laura Mangum Broome explains that fear and anxiety are different experiences requiring different strategies, using her own experiences with bilateral breast c...
S2:E17 How to Reinvent Yourself After Life-Changing Events
Reinventing Yourself After Adversity: Three Steps to Your Next ChapterLaura Mangum Broome welcomes listeners to the Flourishing After Adversity podcast and offers a free guide, “Reframe the Spiral,” for coping with negative thought loop...
S2:E16 Roots, Disruption, and the Tiny Experiment That Got Me Unstuck
Tiny Experiments: Turning Disruptions Into Forward MotionLaura Mangum Broome hosts the Flourishing After Adversity podcast and explains how unexpected disruptions can become opportunities to move forward faithfully and intentionally. Sh...
S2:E15 Stop Overthinking: Move Forward with a Life Experiment
Tiny Experiments: One Brave Step Without the Perfect PlanHost Laura Mangum Broome welcomes listeners to Flourishing After Adversity and encourages those facing grief, illness, loss, heartbreak, or unexpected change to keep moving forwar...
S2:E14 Can Two Truths Exist at Once? (How to Hold Sorrow and Joy at the Same Time)
Holding Two Truths: How to Process Mixed Emotions After AdversityHost Laura Mangum Broome welcomes listeners to the Flourishing After Adversity Podcast and shares a free guide, “Reframe the Spiral: 5 Quick Coping Strategies to Shift Neg...
S2:E13 Stop Letting People's Opinions Make Your Life Decisions
Stop Letting Other People’s Opinions Decide Your LifeHost Laura Mangum Broome discusses how fear of others’ opinions can keep people from pursuing dreams and making aligned decisions, sharing a friend’s example of starting a women’s gar...
S2:E12 Decision Triage: Don't Make Every Decision at Once
Decision Triage: How to Stop Overthinking After Unexpected SetbacksHost Laura Mangum Broome discusses how unexpected updates—like a diagnosis, financial setback, or sudden change—can trigger worst-case thinking and decision fatigue by m...
S2:E11 How to Move Through Overwhelm One Step at a Time
Overwhelmed? Find Your Next StepHost Laura Mangum Broome welcomes listeners to the Flourishing After Adversity podcast and offers a free guide, “Reframe the Spiral,” for shifting negative thoughts. She explains how overwhelm makes every...
S2:E10 Your Misogi Moment: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Strength
Misogi: Choosing a 50/50 Challenge to Grow After AdversityHost Laura Mangum Broome invites listeners of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast to consider a “misogi,” a deliberately chosen challenge that reveals latent potential, inspi...
S2:E9 What Do You Want? (Choosing Change Over Expectations)
3 Questions to Stop Living for Approval and Take Your Next Right StepLaura Mangum Broome welcomes listeners to the Flourishing After Adversity podcast and introduces a free guide, “Reframe the Spiral,” for coping with negative th...
S2:E8 Throw Off the Comfort Blanket
Throw Off the Comfort Blanket: One Brave Step After AdversityLaura Mangum Broome opens the Flourishing After Adversity podcast by reframing “I’m not ready” as a form of avoidance, explaining that comfort can support recovery but can als...
S2:E7 If It's So Bad, Why Do We Stay Miserable in Our Comfort Zone
S2:E7 If It's So Bad, Why Do We Stay Miserable in Our Comfort ZoneLaura Mangum Broome welcomes listeners to the Flourishing After Adversity podcast and introduces a free guide, “Reframe the Spiral: 5 Quick Coping Strategies to Sh...
S2:E6 Identities Change, Values Stay (How to Stay Grounded Through Life Shifts)
S2:E6 Identities Change, Values Stay (How to Stay Grounded Through Life Shifts)In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome discusses the disorienting feeling of not recognizing yourself du...
S2:E5 How to Calm Your Mind During Chaos
S2:E5 Radical Acceptance: Navigating Chaos with Practical StepsIn this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome addresses the chaos that often follows life’s challenging seasons, such as loss, uncerta...
S2:E4 When You've Decided It Won't Work (How to Reset and Take the Next Step Anyway)
Overcoming the 'Why Bother' Loop: Practical Steps to Move ForwardIn this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome addresses the mental barriers that prevent people from taking necessary steps toward c...
S2:E3 Finding the Good in Adversity (Even When It's Hard)
Finding Strength and Gratitude in AdversityIn this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome shares her personal journey through the challenges of bilateral breast cancer and congestive heart failure. ...
S2:E2 Reclaiming Your Resilience with a Digital Detox
Reclaiming Resilience Through Digital DetoxIn this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome discusses the significance of a digital detox to reclaim resilience and mental peace amidst the noise of ema...
S2:E1 The Power of Intentional Goals: Grow Forward, Not Just Bounce Back
Embracing Intentional Goals: Progress Over PerfectionIn this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, Laura Mangum Broome discusses the benefits of setting intentional goals versus traditional goals. She shares her personal j...