The Midlife Ripening Podcast

Register for my upcoming monthly workshop, MORE OF YOU. This bonus episode is an invitation to stop. To lie down. To receive. Brooke recently completed a Yoga Nidra teacher training and is weaving this practice more deeply into her work as a Midlife Midwife — here's your first taste. In this special conversation, Brooke guides you through a yoga nidra practice for softening the overwhelm. You...

Retreat details: Join Brooke in Tuscany this October for six days of dolce far niente. What if the most radical thing you could do for your growth right now… is nothing?  In this deeply personal episode, Brooke invites you to slow down long enough to feel what's actually been simmering beneath the surface—the grief, the grayness, the soul cry that no amount of productivity can silence. This c...

In this bonus episode, I’m sharing a live workshop replay where we name—and begin to gently unhook from—the Good Woman Myth. That inherited script that urges us to work before we rest, care for everyone else before we care for ourselves, and prove our worth instead of trusting it. Through story, teaching, and guided reflection, we explore resentment as a soul-level smoke alarm, what it means to ho...

In this intimate round-table conversation, two original members of Second Bite — Ann and Tara — join me to reflect on a year of soulful transformation.  Together we trace the subtle shifts, the unexpected courage, the creative renewal, and the deep relief of being witnessed by women who are walking a similar path in midlife. We explore what first drew them to this work, what surprised them about t...

Unhooking from the Good Woman Myth Stop censoring — and finally say and be what you want. RSVP for the free workshop here. In this intimate episode, Brooke invites you to name the invisible guardrails that shape women’s lives in midlife — the internalized “Good Woman Myth” that keeps us polite, overextended, and too far from our wild knowing. She shares the story of her own turning point — from ea...

Register for my free upcoming workshop: Unhooking from the Good Woman Myth Stop censoring — and finally say and be what you want. Click here to RSVP. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - You’ve been loyal to everyone else’s needs. What happens when you turn that loyalty back toward yourself? If you’ve ever felt like you “can’t keep doing it this way” — this episode is for you. Brooke explores...

How were you taught to meet the waves—the ones in the water, and the ones in your life? In this episode of The Midlife Ripening Podcast, Brooke shares three parables from a week at the ocean’s edge—moments that reveal how we’ve been trained to meet discomfort and how midlife offers us the chance to choose differently. Each story opens a window into the cultural scripts we’ve internalized about pre...

What if your anxiety isn’t a problem to fix—but a pattern you’ve been dancing for years? In this episode of The Midlife Ripening Podcast , Brooke explores how anxiety often shows up as over-responsibility, perfectionism, or disappearing into busyness. Especially for women who lead, care, and carry it all. You’ll learn five common “dances” of anxiety—like overfunctioning, distancing, and blaming—an...

If you’ve been carrying it all—while quietly emptying your own cup—this conversation is for you. Join midlife coach and mentor, Brooke Hofsess, for An Overflowing Cup , a soul-deep workshop exploring what it means to clear the noise, unhook from proving, and protect what brings you alive. This isn’t a call to burn everything down. It’s a gentle, grounded invitation to stop disappearing inside your...

From Self-Help to Rhythm, Agency & Confidence in Midlife In this soul-nourishing episode of The Midlife Ripening Podcast, I’m joined by my longtime coach and mentor, Lianne Raymond—a life poet and a deeply wise guide for what it means to grow into our fullest potential. Lianne invites us to rethink midlife as a sacred initiation offered by life itself. We talk about menopause, matriarchy, ment...

In this powerful, intimate episode of The Midlife Ripening Podcast, I’m joined by my longtime mentor and renowned coach-trainer, Joanna Lindenbaum, for a soul-deep conversation about what it means to stop worrying—and start inhabiting the truth of who you are. Joanna shares her personal midlife transformation: from achievement and people-pleasing to power with and embodied self-acceptance. Togethe...

Desire can feel slippery in midlife. Maybe you don’t know what you want anymore. Or maybe you do —but it feels too big, too selfish, too risky to say out loud. In this episode, I share the deeper reasons why wanting can feel so fraught for midlife women—and offer a new, gentle way to begin listening again. I introduce you to the WANT Framework, a soulful tool to help you tell yourself the truth ab...

In this deeply personal episode, I share the story of how I unraveled my good-girl identity, said yes to midlife truth-telling, and began building a life that feels more like mine. I talk about burnout, overfunctioning, embracing a late-in-life neurodivergent identity, and the subtle reckoning that midlife brought into every corner of my life. What began as exhaustion became a soul invitation. Thi...

In this inaugural episode, I share why I created The Midlife Ripening Podcas t and the deeper longing that fuels it: the need for conversations that go beyond hot flashes and hormone shifts—and into the quiet ache, the inner questions, and the tender longings so many of us carry but rarely name. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, underfed, or like you’re living at the edges of your own life, this epis...