She Jumped Anyway

Today’s guest shares her experience of leaving a relationship involving domestic and family violence, the gap between knowing she needed to go and being able to, what held her there, and what the jump actually felt like. This episode is an honest account of the guest’s experience. If her story lands close to home for you, please know that support is available: 1800RESPECT · 1800 737 732 · 24/7 sup...

Some mornings you wake up feeling like you're on another level of alive. Some mornings the ceiling feels low. Often both happen before lunch. This episode isn't a sad one. It's a disorienting one, because the fear and the euphoria aren't taking turns...they're simultaneous. That's the vertigo. And it turns out the vertigo is where the interesting stuff lives. Episode...

Four episodes in and I am more scared than I was before I started. I didn't expect that. Episode five is about what happens when the jump gets bigger than you. When you can see something clearly, something that matters, something real, and you have no idea if you're the person who can build it. I'm recording this from the middle of my second jump. No resolution. No landing. Just the...

This episode almost didn't exist three times over. I recorded it on a day when everything went wrong technically. Then I sat on it for weeks because releasing it meant you'd know what I'm thinking about building, and knowing that meant I couldn't quietly back away. Then today happened. It's out anyway. Because the resistance is usually the sign. In this episode: the real d...

Same woman. Same fear. Same jump into the unknown. So what changed? I've done this before. The last time I feel apart. This time I feel free. In this episode I try to answer the question that's been sitting with me since day one of this second leap - why does the same person jump so differently the second time round? What is it that makes the difference between surviving a decision and f...

Nobody tells you that when you leave, you don't just lose the relationship. You lose the life that was built around it. In this episode I go back to the first time I jumped, leaving my marriage with three children, no qualifications, an uncertain future, and no roadmap for what came next. This isn't a story about what was wrong. It's a story about what it costs a woman to leave. The...

Fifteen years ago I left my first husband with three kids and no qualifications. Now I've left my job with no safety net, and my husband has recently been made redundant. This is day three. I'm sharing the unfiltered feelings and the moment I decided for a second time, to jump anyway. She Jumped Anyway is a podcast for women standing at the edge of something they need to leave. New episo...

Episode 1 coming July 1st... Send us Fan Mail She Jumped Anyway is a podcast for all women in all the ways women exist - however you came to yourself. If you've ever stood at the edge of a life that no longer fits, this is for you. New episodes weekly. Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you listen.