The After Chapter Podcast

Contact Us at info@afterchapterpodcast.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What do you actually want? Not what you're working toward. Not what makes sense on a five-year plan. What do you want, with no deadline attached? This episode sits with that question. Not to answer it, but to ask it honestly. Join our community: https:/...

Contact Us at info@afterchapterpodcast.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Who are you when you're not producing, proving, or performing for anyone else? Cecilia sits alone with the question she's been carrying longer than she expected. This one is for anyone whose sense of self is quietly dependent on what's getting don...

Contact Us at info@afterchapterpodcast.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What does it mean to ease off without losing your footing? Momentum has a pull. And for women who've built their identity around staying in motion, slowing down can feel like disappearing. It isn't. This episode is about the difference. Join our com...

Contact Us at info@afterchapterpodcast.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What do you do when you can't name where you are yet? This is the episode for the in-between, the gap that resists language. Michele and Cecilia talk about presence, trust, the difference between human being and human doing, and why the gap itself is doing...

Contact Us at info@afterchapterpodcast.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What are you still carrying that was never really yours? Before the season closes and the next chapter opens, Michele and Cecilia name the one thing they're each releasing from Season 1 and what they're choosing to carry forward. Unhurried, aged, no...

Contact Us at info@afterchapterpodcast.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- What are you still carrying? Not everything from a season resolves when the episode ends. Some things settle slowly. Michele and Cecilia sit with what hasn't resolved yet, sharing listener reflections, naming what's still unfinished for them personally, and leaving you with the one...

What do you do when you cross the finish line and it feels nothing like you expected? Season one is done. "The Unraveling" is behind us, and what we're sitting with now isn't triumph or momentum. It's something quieter. In this first episode of The Pour Series, Michele and Cecilia pour a glass of Oban 14, slow down, and name what actually happened when the season ended. No gu...

Contact Us at info@afterchapterpodcast.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Twelve conversations. One season. One question we refused to rush: Who are you when the roles fall away? We still don't have a clean answer. But something shifted and things got named that most of us had been carrying without language for. That's enough to raise a glass. This is our...

Contact Us at info@afterchapterpodcast.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Who surrounds you when your identity begins to shift? In this episode of The After Chapter Podcast, we explore how friendships evolve during major life transitions. As careers change, marriages shift, or reinvention unfolds, our relational ecosystem often l...

Contact Us at info@afterchapterpodcast.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Before the titles. Before the résumé. Before practicality won. Who were you? In this episode, Michele and Cecilia sit down with communications entrepreneur Kere Thomas for a conversation about childhood creativity, the dreams that got talked out of us, and...

Contact Us at https://linktr.ee/afterchapterpodcast --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christopher Strattner has been a paramedic, a cop, a law student, a divorced dad, and an Ironman triathlete. Today he is Chief of Police. None of it followed a plan. Most of it followed a breaking point. In this conversation, Chris talks honestly a...

Contact Us at https://linktr.ee/afterchapterpodcast --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why does rest feel like something you have to earn? After Episode 2, listeners didn't just relate, they confessed. Shame about stillness. Guilt about a quiet afternoon. We sit down with Sylvia Goldman, Licensed Master Social Worker and Certifie...

Contact Us at https://linktr.ee/afterchapterpodcast --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is loving something enough to build a life around it? In this episode, we sit down with Melissa Finney to examine the tension between passion and sustainability. Together, we unpack the cultural myth of “do what you love” and the identity reckoning...

Contact Us at https://linktr.ee/afterchapterpodcast --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How much of your life is built on expectations you never chose? In this episode of The After Chapter Podcast, we sit down with Allison Barnes to examine the tension between inherited ambition and internal alignment. Together, we explore the cost of...

Contact Us at https://linktr.ee/afterchapterpodcast --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What happens when nothing is wrong, but something no longer fits? In this episode, we sit down with Shawntee Reed to explore what it means to choose differently even when your life appears stable. From corporate leadership to intentional space-maki...

When a title disappears: a job title, a marriage, a caregiving role, the loss goes deeper than structure. This episode explores the disorientation that follows when the roles that once organized your identity fall away, and the quiet work of separating who you are from what you’ve been called. Rather than rushing toward reinvention, the conversation stays with the uncertainty, asking what it takes...

Contact Us at info@afterchapterpodcast.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- What if waiting isn’t passive? In recognition of Women’s History Month and this year’s theme, Leading the Change, we sit down with Rose Staram to explore leadership through a quieter lens. In seasons where the life you built no longer fits, the instinct is often to fix, force, or move. B...

Contact Us at info@afterchapterpodcast.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What happens when the structure disappears? An empty calendar can feel liberating — until it doesn’t. When meetings, deadlines, caregiving routines, or daily obligations fall away, time becomes a mirror. This episode explores the discomfort of unclaimed day...

Contact Us at info@afterchapterpodcast.com -------------------------------------------------------------- Why does the question “What do you do?” feel destabilizing when a role shifts? Many of us spend years planning careers, finances, and milestones. But we rarely plan for the identity underneath them. When a title changes or a chapter ends, what remains can feel unexpectedly unclear. This openin...