Interrupted: Act 2 Reinventing Your Legacy
Welcome to Interrupted: Act 2 Reinventing Your Legacy — the podcast where real stories of reinvention, resilience, healing, and personal growth take center stage. Each week, host Laurie Hardie talks with inspiring guests who have faced life’s unexpected interruptions — grief, trauma, addiction, career changes, loss, reinvention, midlife transitions, and starting over — and turned those experiences into purpose, impact, and powerful new beginnings. If you’ve ever wondered whether your story matters, this podcast will remind you that your voice has value. Through honest conversations about healing, mindset, courage, entrepreneurship, podcasting, and legacy, you’ll discover how sharing your story can create connection, inspire others, and even open the door to building your own platform or podcast. Interrupted is for women over 40, entrepreneurs, creators, survivors, and anyone navigating a major life transition who wants to feel seen, heard, and less alone. Because what you’ve lived through isn’t the end of your story — it may be the very thing that helps someone else heal. www.coachlaurie.com lacoach@comcast.net Insta: @didnotseethatcoming https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=coach%20laurie www.didnotseethatcoming.com
Episodes
Have you ever caught yourself thinking, “Why do I keep doing this?” Maybe you overthink every decision, struggle to set boundaries, people-please, second-guess yourself, or find yourself repeating patterns you swore you’d never repeat.
What if some of those patterns didn’t start with you?
In this episode of Interrupted: Act 2 – ...
What happens when someone you love is still alive—but no longer part of your life?
Family estrangement can bring a complicated kind of grief filled with unanswered questions, hurt, anger, guilt, and sometimes hope for reconciliation.
In this episode of Interrupted: Act 2 – Reinventing Your Legacy, Laurie talks with Roberta Wasserman, LCSW-C, lice...
In this episode, Laurie sits down with internationally touring jazz singer, songwriter and producer Lizzie Thomas for a powerful conversation about music, creativity, reinvention and the courage to follow where your voice is leading you.
Lizzie built her career interpreting the Great American Songbook and has performed and recorded with some of jazz’s most celebrated musicians...
What if running a successful business didn’t have to mean giving up your time, your energy, or your life?
Lisa Conway knows the hair and beauty industry from the inside out. With more than 30 years of experience as a hairdresser and salon owner, Lisa has gone on to become a business coach, mentor, speaker, and author helping salon, spa, and beauty professionals build profitabl...
Grant funding can do much more than support a program—it can help a nonprofit expand its reach, strengthen its mission and change lives.
In this episode, Vasheti Quiros shares how she helps nonprofit organizations navigate the grant process and find funding for the important work they are already doing. She explains why grants can be essential to nonprofit growth, what organiz...
What happens when the person who has always known how to fix things faces something she can’t simply fix?
Farla Efros spent decades as a retail turnaround specialist, stepping into struggling companies, creating strategies, and leading through chaos. Then she was diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer—and suddenly, the biggest turnaround of her life was her own.
Our thoughts become words. Our words carry energy. And the words we repeat can shape the way we see ourselves, our circumstances, and our possibilities.
In this episode, Mary Ann Robbat and I explore the surprising power of what we think and say—and how those words can either encourage us or become the very thing that keeps us stuck.
Mary Ann also open...
I get to chat with Bitsy Hamilton, transition coach, speaker, and author of Own It, about learning to trust yourself, embrace who you are, and create a life that actually fits YOU.
Bitsy shares the influence of her wonderfully extravagant mother and the lessons she learned about showing up fully as yourself. We also dive into the Own It Framework, Bitsy’s flexible approach to navigating life tran...
Imagine discovering that the story you’ve been told about your identity your entire life isn’t true.
Paul Jack Fronczak grew up believing he was Paul Fronczak—the baby kidnapped from a Chicago hospital in 1964 and later believed to have been found and returned to his family. But after becoming a father himself, lingering questions about his past eventually led him ...
What happens when the parts of our story we’re most afraid to talk about are the very parts someone else needs to hear?
Crystal Renaud Day, founder of SheRecovery and author of What Drives Women to Porn?, joins Laurie for an honest conversation about women, pornography addiction, shame, recovery, infertility, and the healing that can begin when we stop hiding our difficult stories.
Crystal shares her own journey and why porno...
What do you do when the clock is running out, the pressure is on, and failure feels like something you simply can’t afford?
In this episode, Laurie sits down with Julia Hurley, a dynamic entrepreneur, nationally recognized real estate broker, author, speaker, media personality, and former elected official who has built a career around leadership, reinvention, and creating oppo...
What happens when the life and career you thought you were building suddenly disappear?
Henry Tolbert was in ministry leadership, building what he believed was his life’s work, when everything seemed to collapse at once. He lost his role, lost his income, and then his family’s home flooded—forcing them to gut the kitchen and spend six weeks living out of hotels.
What does it really take to create meaningful change inside a company—and make sure your employees are part of the journey?
In this episode, Laurie talks with Amanda Van Der Heiden, Chief Learning Solutions Consultant at Global Talent Development Solutions (GTDS), about goal setting, leadership, employee engagement, and what makes organizational change actually work.
Retirement isn't just about having enough money—it's about creating a life you're excited to wake up to every day.
In this inspiring episode, executive retirement coach and author Andrea Maizes shares why true retirement readiness goes far beyond finances. Together, we explore what happens when your career no longer defines you, how to rediscover purpose after work, and why your next...
Have you ever wondered if you're actually stuck—or simply conditioned to believe you are?
In this thought-provoking conversation, Laurie sits down with Jo Kelly, a de-conditioning companion, filmmaker, and guide who helps people reconnect with their natural creativity, authentic expression, and instinctive wisdom.
Together they explore why so many high-achieving people struggle with ...
What Prison Taught Me About Freedom: Judy Burr's Story of Hope and Redemption
Life After Prison: Judy Burr on Finding Purpose Through the Hardest Chapter of Her Life
The Truth About Federal Prison: Judy Burr's Journey from Conviction to Transformation
How One Prison Sentence Changed Everything: Judy Burr on Resilience, Hope & Healing
From Wire Fraud to Wisdom: Judy Burr Shares the Less...
What does it take to build a successful business while staying true to your values and investing in your community?
In this inspiring episode Laurie visits with Laycee Gwyther, Mrs. Everett, entrepreneur, mentor, and owner of Executive Beauty Suites, to talk about leadership, entrepreneurship, mentoring young people, and creating a business that makes a lasting impact.
If the thought of speaking in front of a room makes your palms sweat, you're not alone—but it doesn't have to stay that way.
In this inspiring episode, Laurie sits down with Donna Riccardo, founder of Red Stiletto: Get to the Point!, speaker, trainer, coach, and best-selling author, to talk about how public speaking can transform both your confidence and your business.
What if permanent makeup was about far more than beauty?
In this inspiring episode of Interrupted: Act 2 – Reinventing Your Legacy, Laurie Hardie sits down with internationally recognized permanent makeup artist, educator, and entrepreneur Tanny Diep, founder of Sway Brows, to explore how cosmetic tattooing can restore confidence, transform lives, and create meaningful impact.
...Whether you're networking, interviewing, building a business, or simply trying to introduce yourself with confidence, your elevator speech can open doors—and few people know that better than Lorraine Howell.
In this engaging episode of Interrupted: Act 2 – Reinventing Your Legacy, Laurie Hardie sits down with author, speaker, and media professional Lorraine Howell to exp...
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