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The Midlife Ripening Podcast
Dr. Brooke Hofsess
11 episodes
1 week ago
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 earning tenure in academia to sensing a deeper call she couldn’t yet name — and how that deeper k...
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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 earning tenure in academia to sensing a deeper call she couldn’t yet name — and how that deeper k...
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The Midlife Ripening Podcast
Why Midlife Women Feel Stuck—and How to Finally Be Whole, Not Just Good
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 earning tenure in academia to sensing a deeper call she couldn’t yet name — and how that deeper k...
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1 week ago
21 minutes

The Midlife Ripening Podcast
The Mid-life Betrayal List
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 betrayal shows up in midlife: in the culture that rewards your competence but ignores your c...
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3 weeks ago
20 minutes

The Midlife Ripening Podcast
From Powering Through to Moving at the Pace of Trust.
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 pressure, speed, and performance. This conversation is for every woman who’s tired of powering throu...
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2 months ago
10 minutes

The Midlife Ripening Podcast
The Five Dances of Anxiety—and How to Step Into Something More Alive
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—and how each one began as a strategy for safety and belonging. The invitation isn’t to shame yoursel...
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3 months ago
16 minutes

The Midlife Ripening Podcast
Why Relaxed Women Are So Rare (and So Revolutionary)
3 months ago
20 minutes

The Midlife Ripening Podcast
Bonus episode! 3 Soulful Steps to Go from Overdoing to a Life That Breathes
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 own life. To begin listening to what’s been whispering beneath the swirl. In this workshop, Br...
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4 months ago
1 hour 5 minutes

The Midlife Ripening Podcast
Initiated by Life: A Conversation with Lianne Raymond on Midlife, Mentoring, and the Maturation of Women
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, mentorship, and the cultural hunger for mature presence. We explore how women can move from self-help...
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4 months ago
38 minutes

The Midlife Ripening Podcast
From 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, reimag...
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4 months ago
32 minutes

The Midlife Ripening Podcast
How to Name—and Nourish—What You Really Want
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 about your desires without shame or pressure. Whether your longings are whispering or roaring right ...
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4 months ago
17 minutes

The Midlife Ripening Podcast
Why I Stopped Measuring My Worth by Being Useful
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. This episode is for anyone who’s built a beautiful life on paper—but is waking up inside it thinking...
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4 months ago
10 minutes

The Midlife Ripening Podcast
The Midlife Ripening: Begin Again from the Inside Out
In 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...
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4 months ago
8 minutes

The Midlife Ripening Podcast
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 earning tenure in academia to sensing a deeper call she couldn’t yet name — and how that deeper k...