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The Midlife Ripening PodcastThe Five Dances of Anxiety—and How to Step Into Something More AliveWhat 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—and how each one began as a strategy for safety and belonging. The invitation isn’t to shame yourself out of them, but to recognize the muscle memory—and choose a new move.This...2025-07-3016 minThe Midlife Ripening PodcastWhy Relaxed Women Are So Rare (and So Revolutionary)2025-07-2220 minThe Midlife Ripening PodcastBonus episode! 3 Soulful Steps to Go from Overdoing to a Life That BreathesIf 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 own life.To begin listening to what’s been whispering beneath the swirl.In this workshop, Brooke shares:🫖 A vision of confi...2025-07-141h 05The Midlife Ripening PodcastInitiated by Life: A Conversation with Lianne Raymond on Midlife, Mentoring, and the Maturation of WomenFrom Self-Help to Rhythm, Agency & Confidence in MidlifeIn 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, mentorship, and the cultural hunger for mature presence. We explore how women can move from self-help toward rhythm, agency, and confidence.Whether you’re navigating perimenopause, questi...2025-07-0838 minThe Midlife Ripening PodcastFrom Proving to Inhabiting All of Who You Are: A conversation with Joanna Lindenbaum on True Self-Acceptance.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. Together, we explore how midlife can be a sacred threshold where women reclaim their brilliance, reimagine their relationship with power, and begin to create from pleasure.If you’re ready to lead, love, and create from your wholen...2025-07-0332 minThe Midlife Ripening PodcastHow to Name—and Nourish—What You Really WantDesire 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 about your desires without shame or pressure.Whether your longings are whispering or roaring right now, this episod...2025-06-2017 minThe Midlife Ripening PodcastWhy I Stopped Measuring My Worth by Being UsefulIn 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.This episode is for anyone who’s built a beautiful life on paper—but is waking up inside it thinking: This isn’t quite it.What You’ll LearnThe co...2025-06-2010 minThe Midlife Ripening PodcastThe Midlife Ripening: Begin Again from the Inside OutIn this inaugural episode, I share why I created The Midlife Ripening Podcast 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 episode offers relief.We’ll talk about what it means to stand in the sacred fog between the first and second halves of life—between wh...2025-06-1908 min
The Good Enough ProfessorExpansive Leadership with Brooke HofsessAn honest and hopeful conversation with Brooke Hofsess, artist, scholar, and leadership coach. We talk, laugh, and dream about re-making academia, the deep power of choice, the fun of chairing (really!), and finding our brilliance amid the scarcity and burnout of higher education. And I get a mini-coaching session from Brooke
on my own leadership challenges! Bonus: count how many times we say “beautiful”—spoiler, it’s 12.
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Business as Activism with Elijah SelbyDisruptive Leadership for Women with Brooke HofsessThe way we lead makes a difference. Leadership can be Activism, just as Business can be Activism! Brooke Hofsess takes us on her own journey to leadership. In this episode, she shares five leadership paradoxes that invite you into your fullest expression (while also disrupting the status quo): Insecurity and trust; Competition and community; Self-reliance and sharing the load; Fear of chaos and flow; Gatekeeping and generatively. You're going to leave feeling empowered and inspired. LINKS: Brooke's website: https://www.brookehofsesscoaching.com/ 2023-10-031h 03
Context Matters with Amanda BellEpisode 10: Self-Expressed Leadership as a Workplace LensToday, Brooke Hofsess and I talk about self-expressed leadership as a lens for understanding how folks can show up as leaders. We talk about the five qualities of self expressed leadership: presence, congruence, reverence, interdependence, and divergence and how self-expressed leadership invites other people into their fullest expression, and how that creates a sense of connection and belonging. Brooke’s framework is a great example of the alignment between content and methods, where leadership is the connective tissue that grows as you practice and live into these expressions of yourself. What has your experience of self...2023-09-1334 min