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Divorce, Identity Loss, and the Clarity That Came After Rage

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In this episode, I dive deep into my kitchen floor meltdown: full-throttle, throat-burning, tears-streaming FUCK-YOU's directed right at God. What happened on the other side of that breakdown was the most unexpected peace of my life and the realization that cracked everything open.

The hardest part of the last 3 years, wasn't the marriage or the career that I ended, it was the identities that I had to let go of. I talk with brutal honesty about the grief of letting go and my stubborn, enduring resistance to it.

This episode has all of it ... why I disappeared, what the coaching industry's collapse looked like from the inside, what full-time single parenting actually costs, and what happens when you stop fighting what is.

Come find me on Facebook or Instagram and tell me what you're going through. I want to know. I'm not here to perform, I'm here because there are things that need to be said and I'm the one to say them.

00:00 Anniversary Reflections
01:02 Divorce Epiphany Setup
03:01 Why I Quit Coaching
04:03 Divorce Survival Mode
05:18 Tools That Explained Me
11:20 Cracks In Coaching Industry
12:04 Marketing For Other Coaches
15:07 Identity Loss And Aging
18:06 Single Mom Anger
19:55 Screaming At God
23:03 I Got What I Asked For
28:51 Letting Go Takes Time
31:56 Your Role In The Dynamic
32:52 Why Ive Been Quiet
34:48 Podcast Invitation
35:34 Closing Thanks

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Why I’m Podcasting Again:
Divorce, Menopause, and Rebuilding in Midlife

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In this episode, I introduce a new season of The Sacred AF Podcast and share why I'm creating this around the struggles that midlife women face.

It's been three years since stepping back from my online coaching business and I've been healing the pain that divorce brought for me and my children.

The last few years has been an intense period of survival (and surrender) from ending a marriage, losing a home, closing my business, becoming a full-time solo parent, experiencing financial instability, and going through menopause.

I can honestly say I have processed a range of emotions from fear and anger to grief and sadness and I want to speak candidly about the “messy” parts of midlife.

Things like loss of identity (wife, business owner, youth, fitness), my inevitable surrender to less-than-ideal circumstances, and to share the profound lessons I've learned through this process.

This season of The Sacred AD Podcast is for midlife women facing similar challenges. My intention is to offer comfort, empowerment, resilience, and hope, while sharing how I processed the past so I (and maybe you) can create a new future.

00:00 Why Podcasting Matters

01:53 Who I Am Now

02:15 Three Years of Upheaval

05:26 Single Mom Survival

06:26 Messy Truth and Grief

09:10 Identity Loss and Body Changes

11:08 Why This Podcast Now

13:39 Redefining Hope and Happiness

15:23 Intention for Midlife Women

17:46 Closing Thoughts and Next Steps

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My first guest episode in a while and it's with my new AMAZING friend Samantha Sanford (I LOVE HER). She's been in the online business world as an OBM for some very successful coaches and got tired being in the background when she knew she had so much to contribute herself.

Samantha decided to take on SHAME by creating a one-month long daily public monologue with shame. For every day of August 2025, she bravely recorded audios of herself confronting the things she was holding shame around. Then worked through allowing the shame to be there, inquiring what it was here to teach her and she has come full circle into her own power.

I'm so inspired by Samantha's discovery doing the Shame Monologues that I reveal something at the end of this episode that shocked even me! Here's what we dove into on this episode...

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We explored how feeling shame, especially in women, is often avoided and how reconnecting with oneself can lead to greater power and intuition. Samantha shared her journey of discovering her own intuition and passion for redefining shame as a hidden teacher for unconditional self-love.

One of Samantha's biggest discoveries happened when she learned the importance of healing in the moment rather than viewing it as a long-term process. We discussed the importance of self-love and personal connection as a path to transforming the world, emphasizing that man-made issues like war and trafficking stem from people being disconnected from themselves.

She shared her decision to take bold steps in her career, moving from being a stay-at-home mom to building her own brand and mission all of which came out of her discovery of her relationship with long-held and hidden shame. Through her brand REBEL MATRIARCH and her personal work with shame, she's ready to be a catalyst for other women to work through shame.

This is just the beginning of a divine relationship, with both of us continuing to do this work together for the greater good. Listen in to this one and let us know if you're ready to tackle shame yourself.

You can find Samantha Sanford right here.

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