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Create Your Best Empty Nest
Your kids are almost gone, or already gone, and nobody told you it would feel like this. Create Your Best Empty Nest is where women figure out who they are now and what comes next. Certified life coach Marianne Iverson helps you move from lost and uncertain to clear, grounded, and genuinely excited about your next chapter.
Episodes
- Create Your Best Empty Nest
Empty Nest? How to Find Your Purpose When You Don't Know What You Want: A in the CREATE Method-
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How to Make Friends as an Empty Nester: (E in the CREATE method)
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Who Am I Now That the Kids Are Grown? (Reclaim, Part 2 of the CREATE Method)
Who Am I Now That My Kids Are Grown? (Reclaim, Part 2 of the CREATE Method) You're standing in the same bleachers you've sat in for years, surrounded by people…
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The Truth About the Thoughts We Believe In the Empty Nest (C in the CREATE Method)
It's Christmas morning. Recipe books I'd spent months putting together are open on everyone's lap. Matching pajamas everywhere. Presents scattered across the…
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How to Get Unstuck
Wide awake at 2am asking "now what?" You're not alone, and you're not broken. If empty nest syndrome has you feeling stuck, lost, or like you don't recognize…
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Advice for Empty Nest Syndrome (That Actually Helps)
You've googled "is empty nest syndrome real" at 11pm, sitting outside her closed bedroom door, half hoping the answer was yes. Because if it's a diagnosis, at…
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Nobody Talks About How Lonely the Empty Nest Really Is
You dropped your kids off, drove home, and sat in a driveway that suddenly felt too quiet. Nobody warned you it would feel this lonely. If you're in the empty…
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No...Is a Complete Sentence. (A Recovering People Pleaser's Guide)
You just said no to something and then spent the next four sentences apologizing for it. If that sounds familiar, you're not alone, and it's not a personality…
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4 Simple Strategies to Connect With Your Adult Child
Your kid used to need you for everything. Now they need you for almost nothing, on their schedule, in ways you don't control. If that whiplash has you lying…
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4 Secrets to Survival When Your Kids Leave For College
The car pulls out of the driveway and the silence hits different this time. If you're staring down the season where your kids leave for college, or you're…
Create Your Best Empty NestGod Doesn't Whisper 'You're Not Enough,' Now with Hilary Weeks (Part 2)
Every time Hilary Weeks sat down to write music, the same thought showed up. "You're not good enough. Nobody wants to hear this." It happened so often she…
Create Your Best Empty NestYou Don't Have to Disappear to Be a Good Mom: The 30 Minute Secret with Hilary Weeks
You Don't Have to Disappear to Be a Good Mom: The 30 Minute Secret with Hilary Weeks She released fourteen albums. Raised four daughters. And never had to…
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The Cost of Waiting
There's a version of you standing at the edge of something right now - still deciding whether to jump. If you've been telling yourself you'll start that thing…
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How to Feel Your Feelings (Before They Explode)
My shoulders were up around my ears for I don't even know how long before I noticed. My neck was so stiff I could barely move. I'd been stuffing down my…
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Your Brain Needs a Summer Job (Before It Finds a Bad One)
You're not sad exactly. You're just on edge. Irritated at people who didn't do anything wrong. Worried about things that honestly aren't yours to worry about…
Create Your Best Empty NestLooking for the Light, She Quit True Crime Now- Part 2
At 4:00 in the morning, she grabbed her bear spray, barricaded her bedroom door, and sat alone in the dark for two hours, convinced someone had broken into her…
Create Your Best Empty NestLooking For The Light, She Quit True Crime Now- Part 1
She used to sit in the bathtub every night listening to true crime, just to fill the silence in a house that had gone quiet way too fast. She'd moved to a…
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How to Know What You REALLY Want
Everyone says the empty nest is "your time." But when someone actually asks you what you want -- you go blank. Or something comes out that sounds right but…
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How to Break Free From "Should"
Have you been walking around with an invisible weight on your shoulders... and you don't even know it has a name? It sounds like responsibility. It feels like…
Create Your Best Empty NestThis Is the Only Thing Stopping You: Joy Crawford on Empty Nest Reinvention- Part 2
You've been taking care of everyone else for so long that somewhere along the way you forgot to take care of you. Today Joy Crawford is back to remind you that…
Create Your Best Empty NestThis Is the Only Thing Stopping You: Joy Crawford on Empty Nest Reinvention- Part 1
You know that quiet voice that keeps asking "is this really all there is?" This episode is for her. If you're in the empty nest season and you've been feeling…
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Desire Isn't Selfish. It's Sacred Direction
You've spent decades making sure everyone else had what they needed. And somewhere along the way, you stopped asking yourself what YOU wanted. Not because you…
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How to Solve Any Problem
You've been trying to fix the wrong thing. If you're in the empty nest season and you feel stuck, lost, disconnected from your adult kids, or like you don't…
Create Your Best Empty NestPermission to Want More: One Woman’s Fascinating Story of Waking Up After the Kids Left- Part 2
What if the thing standing between you and your next chapter isn't laziness or fear or even not knowing what you want? What if it's just that nobody ever gave…
Create Your Best Empty NestPermission to Want More: One Woman's Fascinating Story of Waking Up After the Kids Left- Part 1
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…
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Eye-opening Advice about "Firsts and Lasts"
The last school lunch you packed. The last time you're the first number they call. The last time someone's practice schedule tells you what the week looks…
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The Truth About Losing Your Purpose
The house is quiet… but no one talks about what happens inside of you. You thought you’d feel relief when the kids moved out. More time. More freedom. Maybe…
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How to Ignite Your Spark After Years of Feeding Everyone's Fire
You spent years being everything for everyone. The one who remembered, planned, fixed, showed up, and held it all together. And now… the house is quieter. The…
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Getting Off Autopilot: How to Wake Up Your Own Life
You waved goodbye, walked back into a quiet house, and felt something you weren't expecting. Not just sadness. Something deeper. A hollow feeling that…
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Why you feel lost (and one useful truth that changes it)
If you’ve been thinking, “I should feel happy… so why do I feel a little lost?”- this episode is for you. The kids are leaving (or already gone), and suddenly…
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Why Midlife Friendships Feel Hard -and Easier Than You Think
Why does everyone else seem to have their group… and you don’t? If you’re an LDS empty nest mom staring at a quieter house and wondering, “Who am I now?” -…
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How to Make Peace with Your Past and Create Your Best Future
What if the problem isn’t the empty nest… but the quiet war you’ve been having with yourself? If you’re an empty nest mom replaying motherhood in your head…
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Facts vs. Thoughts: This will make Your Next Chapter
Are you lying awake wondering, “Who am I now that my kids don’t need me the same way?” The hardest part of the empty nest isn’t always the quiet house. It’s…
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When you feel stuck and the one powerful tool to use now.
Do you feel stuck in your empty nest… even though you’re grateful for your life? If your kids have left home and you’re wondering, “Who am I now?” - but you…
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Your Brain Is Brilliant. It Just Needs a Better Problem to Solve.
If your kids have left home and your brain won’t slow down, this episode is for you. You’re not doing anything wrong. Your brain is just busy solving the wrong…
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Empty Nest Growth: Why Two Opposites Can Be True at Once
You don’t need to fix yourself to move forward. If the empty nest has you feeling pulled in opposite directions - missing your kids deeply and enjoying the…
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5 Surprising and Simple Perks of an Empty Nest
The empty nest isn’t just quiet. It’s confusing. If you’re an empty nest mom adjusting to life after kids, this episode is for you. In this conversation, I…
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Empty Nest Makeover: How to Make Kid's Room into My Space
Standing in your child’s empty bedroom can stir up more emotion than you ever expected. In this episode, Empty Nest Makeover: Turning My Kid’s Room into My…
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Empty Nest to Opportunity | It’s Finally Your Hopeful New Beginning
The empty nest can feel emotional, confusing, and quieter than you expected. In this episode, Marianne Iverson shares a hopeful message for moms navigating…
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The Important Truth About Relationships After Kids Leave (Marriage, Friends, and You)
When kids leave home, most women expect to miss their kids. What they don’t expect is how many relationships start to feel different at the same time. Marriage…
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It’s Not Too Late: The Truth About the Empty Nest
When the kids leave, the house gets quieter. But what no one prepares you for is how you can go quiet too. Suddenly everyone’s asking, “So what are you going…
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Who Am I Now? Rediscovering Yourself After the Kids Leave
When your kids leave home, the house gets quiet—and a lot of women quietly wonder, “Who am I now?” In this episode, we talk about why feeling lost doesn’t mean…
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Empty Nest Syndrome: Reclaim Your Life After the Quiet
When the kids leave home, no one really prepares you for how quiet it feels — or how unsettling that quiet can be. In this episode, Marianne Iverson talks…