The Comeback Show

About This Episode We talk endlessly about the fight to get pregnant. We almost never talk about what happens after. What life actually looks like when the thing you prayed for finally arrives, and it is beautiful, and it is also nothing like the picture in your head. That is the part Dr. Marline C. Duroseau has rarely told in public, and it is where this conversation goes. Dr. Mar started in payr...

About This Episode What do you do when all the wheels fall off at once? In a couple of short years, Claire Rainford lost her father, then lost her mother to terminal cancer, moved back into her childhood home, and on the very first day of lockdown was handed a melanoma diagnosis of her own. She has said it felt like drowning in life. Before any of that, Claire had built the kind of career that loo...

About This Episode Have you ever stood inside a life that looked completely fine on paper — good job, relationship, friends, travel — and still felt a hollow ache you couldn't explain? That's exactly where Giulia Girelli was. Living in Milan's fashion world, modeling agency, luxury brand design office, and a persistent, quiet sense that something was deeply wrong. With her. What she eventually dis...

About This Episode My guest today told me that for as long as she can remember, she has known things without knowing how she knew them. As a kid she thought everyone had it. It took her years to realize they did not. She also told me that her father was an alcoholic. And that she got pregnant with someone who was also an alcoholic. And that it took a full year of working on her own self-worth befo...

NOTE: This episode goes live for upgraded subscribers on Substack on Wednesday 8/12/26, and then 48 hours later for everyone else. You look fine on paper. Maybe better than fine. Your calendar is full, your team relies on you, your family is fed, the emails are answered. And underneath all of it, something essential is quietly slipping away and you cannot say it out loud because who complains abou...

For years you have been told the same thing: if you cannot stop reaching for sugar, you just need more willpower. More discipline. A little more white-knuckling. This episode takes that whole story apart. The voice in your head that says you should not eat that, then twenty minutes later is begging you to, is not weakness. It is biology, and it gets loudest at the exact moment you have the least l...

THE COMEBACK SHOW  •  EPISODE 15 The Truth About Leaving a Toxic Career (I Was the Other Frog) With Jen Fieldman on Quitting Without a Plan, Perimenopause, and the AI Tools That Brought Her Back About This Episode Somewhere in the middle of a career you built with everything you had, your body starts breaking down. The stress you used to push through will not push anymore. And you catch yourself t...

About This Episode You have read the attachment books. You can name your style at a dinner party. You can spot anxious-avoidant dynamics in your friends, your colleagues, your last three relationships. And you are still living the pattern. If that sounds familiar, this episode was made for you. Miriam Brait is a licensed psychologist in Romania and an attachment-focused, trauma-informed coach who...

About This Episode What if the thing keeping you stuck in the second half of your life is not your circumstances, your hormones, or your effort, but the fact that you have not actually let yourself stop? Two women walked away from corporate careers within a few years of each other. Amanda Ingram quit her television industry job after her second daughter and pushed straight into building something...

About This Episode What does reinvention look like when life has not gone in a straight line? When the path between who you were and who you are now includes a chapter you barely survived? In this week's episode, Jenn sits down with Jacob Allen, the owner of Salty Starfish Travel and a high school classmate she had not spoken to in 35 years. Jacob spent 20 years battling addiction. He did six reha...

About This Episode There is a particular kind of professional grief that does not get named enough. The version where you survive a layoff, take the severance, take the deep breath, try the next contract, and discover the next contract is also the wrong fit. Your nervous system already knows. You just have not said the thing out loud yet. Bri Broadwater knows that grief intimately. She was laid of...

About This Episode You know how to grind. You have probably been doing it for years, checking boxes, meeting deadlines, running on obligation and calling it ambition. But somewhere in the middle of all that output, the person doing all of it quietly stopped being okay. If that sounds familiar, this episode was made for you. Natalie Beard is the founder of Soul Wealth Rebirth, the voice behind 83 c...

About This Episode Have you ever poured your professional energy into creating something for others that you quietly didn't have yourself? Maybe it was flexibility. Maybe it was confidence. For Jenn Fast, for the last three years of her 30-year corporate career, that word was belonging . She was the architect of belonging programs, the person responsible for making sure hundreds of colleagues felt...

Why Your ADHD Teen Can't Start Homework (It's Not What You Think) About This Episode If you've ever watched your teen sit in front of an open assignment and do absolutely nothing — and felt yourself cycling through frustration, guilt, and confusion — this episode is for you. Because what looks like avoidance, defiance, or not caring is very often something else entirely: a skill gap. And skill gap...

Episode 7 Show Notes — Tracey Willingham (That Hormone Girl) Episode Title: When Your Body Changes the Rules: Hormones, Self-Trust, and Speaking Up in Midlife --- About This Episode Have you ever walked out of a doctor's appointment feeling more dismissed than when you walked in? Or spent months second-guessing yourself, wondering if you were making it all up — only to realize that the second-gues...

What happens when your life looks full on paper—but no longer feels like yours? In this episode of The Comeback Show , I’m joined by my longtime friend Melissa Whitaker for a deeply honest conversation about midlife reinvention, identity shifts, burnout, body wisdom, and what it looks like to begin again without blowing up your whole life. Melissa and I have known each other since the 3rd grade. W...

This week, we’re diving deep into holistic health as the cornerstone of true reinvention. Progress Isn’t Linear I’ll be honest: since retiring early and moving back in September, I’ve hit a plateau on my health journey. At a recent check-in, my weight loss doctor reminded me that progress is about more than numbers—my muscle mass was up, and I hadn’t regained significant weight. Why Holistic Healt...

Timestamps: * 00:00 Three Brands Merge * 01:14 New Podcast Home * 01:59 Sunday Reset Reality * 02:54 White Space Matters * 03:32 Rest And Tiny Proofs * 04:38 Capacity Honoring Mission * 05:12 March Events Lineup * 07:05 Tools And Weekly Reflection * 07:54 Closing Encouragement If you're catching this on a platform that doesn't provide all the notes or links, please find us at comebackletter.substa...

Welcome to the Comeback Letter—a curated digest of the biggest lessons, stories, and real-life wins from the content cycle these past two weeks. (Including my birthday week!) Each edition brings together the posts, frameworks, and community highlights that shaped my own journey and (hopefully) offer some clarity, encouragement, and practical tools for yours. This edition’s focus: What it really lo...

The sentence that broke the spell There’s a moment that lives in my body like a bruise you can’t quite forget. I’m at my desk on the last day before a long weekend. The company just wrapped a successful fundraising season. People are celebrating. I’m plugging away, doing what I always did—keeping the machine moving. And I overhear a conversation that changes everything. The CEO asks my boss how th...