Message in the Middle: Midlife Women, Reinvention & Personal Growth

Dr. Brittany Clayborne is a mother that has been faced with many challenges. She was in perfect health until a heart attack during labor at 26 years of age with a condition called Peripartum Cardiomyopathy.  Most people recover from this disease within a few months to a few years, but a very small percentage do not and go on to need further medical care.  That was Brittany's case and since th...

Join me in a discussion with Elena Nicole, a wife, a mother, a certified health coach and personal trainer, and owner of Elena Nicole Health.  Elena helps busy women who want to get healthier, look and feel their best and do it in a realistic and sustainable way. She works with her clients to develop habits and routines in the areas of mindset, nutrition and movement so they can not only reach the...

Join me in a discussion with Christine O’Brien Horstman.  Christine is a life and career coach and corporate trainer. As a mother and chronic illness warrior, Christine knows how hard it can be to take care of yourself and your family when life gets tough. Coping with one health crisis after another – cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, and, most recently, long COVID – has equipped her with a toolbox th...

Katrina McGhee is a Career Break and Sabbatical Coach - a certified life coach with an MBA -  whose signature Take the Break program helps mid-career women create happier, more fulfilling lives by designing bold and transformational life breaks.   Informed by her own intrepid and successful career break, Katrina’s RSVP Framework guides her clients as they create their life-altering career break ex...

For those of you following along with our book choices in the Private Face Book Group you know that we have been reading Just a Thought by Dr. Amy Johnson.  Just a Thought is a self-help book that teaches us that our minds are like machines, like computers.  They constantly spit out repetitive stories. They love to replay the past and predict the future. They have conviction over their beliefs. Ou...

Kate McCauley is founder and CEO of Danu, LLC. She has a degree in Kinesiology, a Masters in Education, is a certified health coach and a certified woman owned business owner.  Kate helps women manage stress through building every day habits to be happier and healthier at home and at work.  She does this through 1:1 coaching, workshops and speaking engagements. Website:  Danu, LLC (danunow.com) In...

Join me for a conversation with Maria Jordan, The Wise Woman Coach.    Maria is a Midlife Transformation Coach and helps women experiencing big life transitions, who have lost sight of who they are!  She guides them through their unique journey from Lost to Found; to remember the woman they once were AND discover the woman they are becoming. So, they emerge feeling confident, empowered and with a...

Join me in learning more about Imposter Syndrome with Confidence coach and Imposter Syndrome Specialist Rachel Lounds. Rachel has over 25 years working in the advertising industry and has always had a deep interest in human behavior and positive psychology, so after quitting her job in advertising she decided to retrain to become a coach and focus on the very real but detrimental consequences of i...

This episode focuses on practical tools that can be used in your daily life to create habits that bring ease and an increased sense of wellbeing. Some areas of focus are self-compassion practice, embodied dream work, guided imagery, and finding easy ways to bring mindfulness into daily life. Join me in my discussion of these topics with Bryony Smith (she/her), LMHC, a second-generation Psychothera...

Join me in an informative and fun conversation with Dr. Mary Sanders as we discuss how an integrated approach can really make a difference in our overall health and well- being.  Dr. Mary has over 25 years of experience as a self-employed businesswoman and consultant. She has a doctorate in Chiropractic from Logan College of Chiropractic in St. Lewis, MO.  She has a Certificate in Positive Psychol...

Join me for a discussion with Matty Lansdown.  A scientist, functional nutritionist and health coach that specializes in weight loss and self- confidence for professional women and busy mothers.  Matty has a pretty interesting background, he started out in the field of nutritional epigenetics and spent many years working in hospitals as part of a disease research team. Through that work, Matty dev...

Join me in a discussion with Suzana as we discuss why creating a better relationship with yourself will lead to living a more fulfilled and joyful life.   Suzana is a certified general life coach by Kingstown College Ireland and an EMCC Accredited Coach at Master Practitioner level.   She is located in Ireland and her goal is to help as many people as possible become aware that they can change the...

Join me as I have a conversation with Fiona Modderman, a fitness/bootcamp/personal trainer and health coach who spent many years struggling with an eating disorder, body image, and weight loss.    Now, on the other side of her illness, she has become a happy and fulfilled wife, mother of 3 and a coach who works with women who want to FEEL good, start to put themselves first and in the process, lea...

Join me in a deep dive into The High Five Habit by Mel Robbins. The High 5 Habit is a self-improvement book focused on helping the reader deal with negative and self-limiting thoughts and provides strategies for taking charge of your life by establishing a morning routine, eliminating negative self-talk and transforming your life through positivity and confidence.  I’ve done a lot of work in that...

Join me as I have a conversation with life coach Janine Durso as she explains why she is a self- proclaimed unicorn slayer and why she believes the life we want depends on it.  Janine Durso is a Certified Life Coach and Unicorn Slayer who teaches women how to cultivate self-belief so they can stop chasing validation and happiness externally and create it for themselves. (Spoiler alert: your happin...

Join me as I talk to Andrea Haughey, a health and fulfillment coach who has certainly had her share of challenges to overcome.  A few years into her career as a personal trainer she hit a rock bottom which propelled her into a journey to recovery from an eating disorder that had controlled her life for over 15 years. During the process of healing her own relationship with food, her body, with move...

Join me in a discussion with Bri Campano host of Clever Conversations podcast as we delve into some of life's curve balls and hear how she chose to move through them and even grow/thrive in the face of adversity.   You can find Bri Campano: IG @thecleverbiotch Facebook- @cleverconversationspodcast website- cleverconversationspodcast.com Clever Conversations Podcast Connect with Marianne: Webs...

An extension to the deep dive into Glennon Doyle's Carry on, Warrior the Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life, Marianne DeMello-Smith and Tracy Isaacs have a very real conversation about difficult life situations, how you work through them, and the hidden gifts that can come out of them.    Connect with Marianne: Website :  Message In The Middle with Marianne Message In the Middle Fa...

Take a deep dive into Carry On Warrior The Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life by Glennon Doyle to see what Messages we can find between the pages.   Connect with Marianne: Website :  Message In The Middle with Marianne Message In the Middle Facebook Group :  https://www.facebook.com/groups/422430469323847/ YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@MessageInTheMiddle/playlists LinkedIn:  https:...

Listen as Marianne talks about her love of books and the messages they carry and the intent for Message In the Middle with Marianne Podcast. Connect with Marianne: Website :  Message In The Middle with Marianne Message In the Middle Facebook Group :  https://www.facebook.com/groups/422430469323847/ YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@MessageInTheMiddle/playlists LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/...