Permission to Want More: One Woman's Fascinating Story of Waking Up After the Kids Left- Part 1

Create Your Best Empty Nest · May 19, 2026 · 30m

What happens when the kids leave and you realize you've been living everyone else's life but your own?

If you're in the empty nest season and you've been sitting with that quiet, uncomfortable question of "who am I now?" -- you are not alone. And you are not too late.

In this episode, I sit down with my neighbor and friend Maureen Mehr, president of the nonprofit Who I Really Am, singer-songwriter, and woman who spent decades quietly putting her own life up on a shelf while she raised her family. She didn't even realize she'd done it until the kids were gone and the house got quiet.

What…