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Let’s Get UnStuck Podcast🎙️Let's Get Unstuck Live x Ellen Scherr- I Almost Lost My Daughter Before I Realized I Was the Problem. **Note this can be triggering as it talks about attempted suicide. Ellen Scherr has completed our Motherhood Series, All the Ways a Mother is Born. Ellen’s story I Almost Lost My Daughter Before I Realized I Was the Problem is one of the heaviest stories I have read about Motherhood, self realization, self-reflection, accountability and it is pure honesty.She read her story and walked us through the moment everything changes because of a 2:47am phone call no parent every wants to receive.A 20-year-old daughter.A bottle of pills.An...
2026-02-191h 00
Let’s Get UnStuck Podcast🎙️Let's Get Unstuck x Erin Gregory - How I Lost Myself in Motherhood and Found Myself AgainErin Gregory writes, How I Lost MySelf in Motherhood and Found Myself Again , is a deeply honest reflection on what happens after the baby arrives… when the expectations fade, the exhaustion sets in, and the version of yourself you once knew feels harder to reach.This isn’t a story about not loving your child.It’s a story about loving your child and struggling with the quiet loss of identity that can follow.In our live conversation, Erin opens up about postpartum mental health, colic, medical uncertainty, isolation, and the emotional weight of feeling respon...
2026-02-121h 00
Let’s Get UnStuck Podcast🎙️ Let’s Get UnStuck x Lynn J Broderick - Motherhood through AdoptionSome love stories don’t begin with certainty.They begin with waiting. With fear. With the quiet understanding that everything could still fall apart.Tonight we went live with writer Lynn J. Broderick to talk about A Story that Could Have Gone Either Way — a deeply honest adoption story that explores infertility, choice, grief, hope, and the love that almost wasn’t hers to keep.Lynn shares what it means to hold joy and loss at the same time, to love a child before knowing if that love will be returned, and to live with gratit...
2026-02-051h 09
Let’s Get UnStuck Podcast🎙️Let’s Get Unstuck Solo - Why Motherhood Wasn't Meant for MeWe grow up thinking motherhood has a clear outline. The one with neat edges, one version, one path.Then real life steps in and redraws everything.Not with illness or trauma or choice alone, but with the things we witnessed, the moments that marked us, and the parts of life we had to make sense of on our own.It’s not the picture-perfect version we grew up imagining.It’s the one we lived our way into.Motherhood doesn’t have one story!This 4 part series tells the ones we don’t hear enough of.
2026-01-2944 min
Rock the Damn BoatThe End of Sugarcoating: Midlife Clarity with Ellen ScherrIn this episode of Rock the Damn Boat, I’m joined by Ellen Scherr—licensed therapist, midlife coach, and Substack writer whose work on midlife and people-pleasing has resonated with women around the world.Ellen shares her midlife pivot from a successful career in sales to becoming a therapist, and how that transition reflects the deeper shifts many women experience in midlife. We explore how changes in neurochemistry and hormones affect emotional regulation, tolerance, and boundaries—and why people-pleasing often becomes unsustainable during this stage of life.We also break...
2026-01-2148 min
Online Writing Club ShowWOW! How Ellen & Jerry Went From Invisible to Thriving Online WritersIt’s already past 9pm in Germany.And they say nothing good happens after 9pm.Still, I think some of the best things can happen then.The house is quiet.The kids are asleep.Outside, it’s dark.Only in my new studio, you can hear the steady clicking of keyboards.I’m writing this letter to you.There’s still confetti on my desk from earlier. Balloons on the floor. I’m in my pajamas, notebook open, filled with presentation ideas for the coming...
2026-01-1805 min
Judaism for the Thinking PersonJacob's Blessings and Aging Out of People PleasingDrawing on the book "(Un)kind: How 'Be Kind' Entrenches Sexism" by Victoria Smith and Ellen Scherr's essay "The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can’t Pretend Anymore," I examine Jacob's deathbed blessings to his sons, which are impartial statements of fact with neither personal commentary nor people-pleasing softening. I see in my own life the draw of middle age to convey factual statements without personal judgment, but the societal messages that everything has to be couched in uplifting, taking-care-of-others'-feelings language or you're a bad person or a bad supervisor.
2026-01-0414 min
Online Writing Club ShowFrom Crickets to 15,000 Subscribers: What Happened When Ellen Finally Said It AnywayHey online writing friend,I’ve got a confession.I’ve been so busy the past weeks that I couldn’t write long form posts.Boxes everywhere. Life everywhere. Kids everywhere. Brain nowhere.But today I’m back at my laptop.And this feels huge.For the first time in my life, I’ve got my own creativity hub. My own studio. My own space. Never ever before.At our old place, my “office” was the attic. Suuuuuuuper hot in summer. And my hubby and I shared one r...
2025-12-3127 min
We Ain't Dead YetPost-Pie Reflections on Aging Out of FucksConstance and Lori catch up after the Thanksgiving holiday break. We cover everything from no longer giving a fuck, to spiritual connections with our deceased parents, to Mel Robbins’ "Let Them" Theory, to aging pubic hair 🤣 And we preview a few of our upcoming shows. Please join us for this quick, warm check-in.SHOW NOTESAging Out of Fucks: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can’t Pretend Anymore, Ellen ScherrWhat We Gain When We Stop Caring, Anna HolmesMelani Sanders’s “We Do Not Care” Club (Instagram and Facebook)We would...
2025-12-1719 min
The Fresh Start PodcastEp 22 - All Out Of "Forks" - Holiday self-care tips w/Marcia, Stacey and AmieWe had so much fun taping this episode! If you need some giggles, along with some great information about getting through the holidays, be sure and tune in today for this conversation. (.. and yes, "forks" is exactly what you think it is! Ha!)Stacey and Amie really brought some great insight on holiday self-care, and lord knows we all need some of that! Also, make sure you don't miss our holiday version of "yays or nays" as we present to you our "Ho Ho Hos or Ho Ho NOS" segment. I have a feeling this will become...
2025-12-1549 min
Let’s Get UnStuck Podcast🎙️ Let’s Get Unstuck & Life Branches w/ Ellen Scherr to Talk Midlife & the Moment You Can’t Pretend AnymoreI’m joined by someone who blends science, emotional truth, and lived experience in a way that women in midlife desperately need to hear.Her story tonight has gone viral and I can’t wait to share it with you.Ellen Scherr is a licensed clinical therapist, a certified life and business coach, and a woman who has personally walked through the emotional turbulence of midlife. She has tackled divorce, career reinvention, identity shifts, menopause, and the mental load that women are expected to carry without collapsing.Her piece, ‘Aging Out of F***s: The...
2025-12-041h 08
Life with Liza: Lessons from the Messy MiddleEpisode 12: The Great UnfilteringInspired by this substack written by Ellen Scherr, Liza explores the messy middle years and the great unfiltering, or the "I No Longer Give a F*ck" stage. Read the full article here: https://www.blog.lifebranches.com/p/aging-out-of-fucks-the-neuroscience
2025-11-2929 min
Life UncutThe Great Unf*ckening - Your Brain's Middle Finger To People-PleasingLaura has reached a milestone - her sex life has returned after having her 3rd baby but her hip flexors aren’t on board. If you or your partner has had a baby how did you go getting back ‘into’ it?Britt was in a dilemma with her Uber driver and it resulted in her inviting a complete stranger into Keeshia’s house for a rather awkward reason. Britt has also tried to get in touch with her ‘natural’ side and she has learnt the very real dangers of leaving your crocs behind. Ageing Out of Fucks: The...
2025-11-2554 min
Let’s Get UnStuck PodcastLive w/Let’s Get UnStuck - Imposter SyndromeI always have so much fun doing these Lives. My biggest fear is public speaking and even speaking on Live, but I do it! Practice will never make perfect but it will make greatness. Each time I feel better and better. Next Weds I go Live with interviews. I am excited and breaking down these walls shows growth and I am proud of myself! Thank you Mark Willis, Elijah Westin, Ellen Scherr, and many others for tuning into my live video! Get full access to Let’s Get UnStuck at tr...
2025-10-3020 min
Business Minds Coffee ChatDr. Ellen Langer | Exploiting the Power in UncertaintyIn this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Ellen Langer, Harvard professor, renowned psychologist, and bestselling author of The Mindful Body and 12 other books. Known as the "mother of mindfulness" and the "mother of positive psychology," Dr. Langer was the first woman to earn tenure in psychology at Harvard. A Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and celebrated social psychologist, her groundbreaking research has been featured in The New York Times Magazine's Year in Ideas issue. Beyond academia, she is also an accomplished gallery-exhibiting painter. 🎙️ What We Discuss: ✅ The art of becoming more mindful ✅ Unlocking the poten...
2025-03-2052 min