What’s Your Ex? | Marilie Daniels
What’s Your Ex? is a weekly podcast for women 40+ navigating the chapters, identities, relationships, dreams, roles, and versions of themselves they’ve outgrown—or are ready to leave behind. Your “ex” isn’t always a person. It might be a career, a business, a friendship, a dream, a title, a role, or a version of yourself that no longer fits who you are now. Hosted by Marilie Daniels, What’s Your Ex? explores starting over after 40, midlife reinvention, confidence, self-trust, relationships, boundaries, career change, identity, purpose, and what comes next. We talk about what ended, what it left behind, what may still be holding us back, and what we want to carry forward. Because starting over doesn’t mean starting from scratch. The chapter ended. What it gave you didn’t. New episodes every week. So—What’s Your Ex?
Episodes
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Why Friendships Change After 40 — and how to know if one deserves a second chance.
You didn't fight. Nobody betrayed anybody. You just… drifted — and never figured out when. In this episode, Marilie talks about why friendships fade in midlife, why making and keeping friends after 40 feels harder than it used to, and how to tell whether a friendship should be accepted, revived, or...
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Have you been telling yourself you’re just tired, still adjusting, or that you’ll feel like yourself again soon?
In this episode, I’m talking about what happens when a hard season quietly becomes the way you live—and the question that finally moved me:
How long am I willing to live like this?
We’ll talk about why it can be so hard to recognize when you’re stuck, wh...
What’s Your Ex? Tell me here.
At 46, I found myself asking a question I thought I was done asking:
Am I too late to start over?
In this episode, I’m talking about becoming a beginner again in midlife, the trap of wishing you had started sooner, and why your experience still comes with you.
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What’s Your Ex? Tell me here.
What happens when the people around you don't understand the career change, dream, business, or life you're trying to build?
This episode is about separating other people's opinions from your own decisions, trusting yourself during a transition, and moving forward without needing everyone else's approval.
Not everyone has to understand your next chapter. They're not the ones who have to live it.
What’s Your Ex? Tell me here.
You don't have to wait until fear disappears before making a career change, starting something new, or taking the next step in your life.
This episode looks at what courage actually feels like during uncertainty—and why being afraid doesn't necessarily mean you're making the wrong decision.
Sometimes courage is simply moving while fear comes with you.
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When you've spent years being known by your career, business, or role, losing that title can feel strangely personal.
This episode explores identity after a career change, business pivot, or major life transition—and how to separate who you are from what you do for a living.
Because the title may change. The person and experience underneath it don't disappear.
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Ever look at someone else's career, business, relationship, or life and suddenly feel like you're behind?
This episode is about comparison, timelines, and three practical ways to stop measuring your life against someone else's progress—especially when you're navigating a career change or starting over in midlife.
You don't need to catch up. You need to figure out what your next step is.
What’s Your Ex? is a weekly podcast for women 40+ navigating career change, midlife reinvention, starting over, and the question of what comes next.
We talk about the careers, dreams, identities, businesses, roles, and versions of ourselves we’ve outgrown—or had to leave behind—and how those experiences can become part of what we build next.
Because starting over doesn’t mean starting from scratch.
If you...
What’s Your Ex? Tell me here.
Starting over in midlife can make you question everything that came before it. But the career, relationships, responsibilities, mistakes, and experiences behind you didn't disappear when that chapter ended—they became part of what you know now.
In this episode, we talk about how to stop seeing your past as wasted time and start recognizing the skills, resilience, and experience you're carryin...
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