What does it really mean to let go of your old life and fully step into the person you’re becoming?

Letting go of who you were can sound freeing, especially when you know it’s no longer who you want to be. But as so many of us learn, wanting to become someone new is much easier than actually letting go of who we’ve been.

Even when you know you’re ready for something new, there may still be parts of your old identity, familiar patterns, relationships, and the life you once imagined that you aren’t quite ready to release. But you can’t create a new life while keeping one foot in your old one.

In Replay 2 of the six-part Starting Over Series, we explore why starting over after divorce, heartbreak, loss, or a major life transition requires more than physically walking away. Sometimes, we also have to release the familiar patterns, identities, relationships, and fears that keep us emotionally tied to the life we’ve known.

This episode is about choosing yourself—not out of selfishness, but because you can’t build a new life while still living in alignment with the old one.

It’s about facing change, trusting what’s ahead, and making choices that reflect the future you say you want.

If you’ve been caught between who you were and who you’re becoming, this is your sign to stop straddling both lives and go all in.

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What happens when the life you knew has fallen apart, and you’re left looking at the pieces, wondering, “Where do I go from here?”

This is the first episode of a six-week Starting Over Series. Every rebuilding journey begins with something ending: a divorce, heartbreak, loss, career change, move, or a life that no longer looks the way you planned. Before you can rebuild, you have to acknowledge what was lost, look at what remains, and decide what comes next.

Inspired by Stoic philosopher Zeno, whose literal shipwreck redirected him toward an entirely new purpose, this episode explores how adversity can become a turning point. Sometimes the experience that wrecks your plans also creates the opportunity to build a life more aligned with who you are becoming.

In this episode:

• Starting over when life doesn’t go according to plan
• Turning adversity into growth and purpose
• Accepting what you cannot control
• Responding intentionally instead of reacting emotionally
• Walking away from what no longer serves you
• Finding inner peace during uncertain seasons

Starting over doesn’t begin once everything is fixed, and you finally have a plan. It begins in the wreckage, when you look at the pieces of the life you once knew and ask, “What can I build from here?”

Follow Wandering the Wild Mess and join me each week as we revisit six episodes that tell the honest, emotional journey of starting over.

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What does it look like when you stop trying to control everything on your own and finally let go and let God?

If you know me, it's a little wild to be sharing this story, as I spent years trying to figure out the formula for a meaningful, fulfilling life. I turned to personal growth, mindset, manifestation, neuroscience, self-help... anything that could help me understand how to become the person I wanted to be, create the life I wanted, and trust where my life was going.

But after years of searching for answers, the deepest peace I found came when I finally stopped believing I had to figure everything out on my own.

I found God.

In this episode, I’m sharing the very personal evolution of my faith.. from growing up Mormon, to questioning religion, identifying as agnostic and spiritual, and eventually finding my way back to God and building a relationship with Jesus that has profoundly changed my life.

I talk about what trusting God’s plan actually looks like for me: surrendering the need to know exactly what comes next, taking the next right step without demanding to see steps two through forty-five, and learning that trusting your path feels different when you trust the One leading it.

Because sometimes trusting God means moving when you feel called to move.

And sometimes trusting God means leaving the space open long enough for Him to show you what’s next.

If you’re starting over, searching for purpose, questioning what comes next, or exhausted from trying to figure out your entire life on your own, this episode is for you.

You don’t need to see the whole path to take the next step.

Sometimes you just need enough faith to take it.

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In the 100th episode of Wandering the Wild Mess, Heather sits down with her friend Sydney Smith for a full-circle conversation about starting over, divorce, identity, faith, friendship, and everything that has changed since the podcast began.

Sydney was there before Wandering the Wild Mess was even a real podcast — including the night Heather finally bought the domain after years of talking about starting one. Together, they look back at the messy years after divorce, the fear of being seen, learning to sit with uncomfortable emotions instead of escaping them, and the unexpected ways starting over can completely change who you become.

Heather also reflects on what listeners have taught her throughout 100 episodes, why helping even one person feel less alone has always been enough, how her faith has changed the way she carries difficult seasons, and why growth sometimes requires letting go of people, identities, and versions of life that no longer fit.

Most importantly, episode 100 isn’t about having everything figured out. It’s about looking back at how far you’ve come while still trusting that there is more ahead.

If you’re standing at the beginning of a new chapter, afraid to take the next step, this episode is a reminder to trust your path — even when it looks messy.

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Starting over can feel like everything has fallen apart, but sometimes, it happens because something beautiful is being built.

What if the biggest starting-over moment of your life came from saying yes to love?

In this episode of Wandering the Wild Mess, I sit down with my friend Celeste Leon to talk about the unexpected relationship that completely changed the direction of her life.

After meeting her now-fiancé while traveling in Miami, she found herself navigating long-distance, a partner going through a divorce, moving to a brand-new city, becoming a stepmom, leaving corporate life, and building an entirely new future she never could have planned.

What inspires me most about Celeste is that every time life presents a new challenge, she doesn't assume she's on the wrong path; she looks for the next step, finds people who understand what she's going through, and believes that every problem has a solution.

Today, Celeste is a speaker, confidence coach, entrepreneur, and founder of the Nashville Sip & Book Club, a growing community that has connected hundreds of women in Nashville.

Find her in instagram: @CelesteLeon.Co and www.celesteleon.co

In this conversation, you'll find more about:

• How to stop seeing challenges as signs you're on the wrong path.
• Becoming a stepmom and finding support in unexpected places.
• Building community when you're starting over in a new city.
• Why healthy relationships require two people committed to growth.
• How to stop seeing challenges as signs you're on the wrong path.

If you're walking through a season that feels uncertain, I hope this conversation reminds you that you don't need a perfect past, or a perfectly easy path, to build a beautiful life.

Sometimes the hardest chapters aren't signs to turn around.

They're invitations to grow.

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Have you ever looked back at your life and realized you didn’t have one fresh start; you had several? And most of them were a lot messier than you expected?

We often imagine starting over as one defining moment: the breakup, the divorce, the move, or the career change. But sometimes starting over happens again and again, with each new chapter taking away another piece of the life and identity you once knew.

In this episode, we reflect on the many fresh starts that shaped my life, from losing a best friendship and changing careers, to navigating divorce, moving across the country alone, stepping away from corporate life, experiencing betrayal, facing loneliness, returning to work, and finally learning to stop running from your own truth.

This is an honest conversation about losing your identity and trying to find it again, living in survival mode, rebuilding self-trust, finding faith, and realizing that starting over does not mean returning to the beginning.

If your life feels completely off-plot from the story you thought you would be living, this episode is a reminder that even the messiest chapters can still be leading somewhere.

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Divorce doesn't just end a relationship; it completely changes the way you see yourself, love, and the life you want to build.

But if we never stop to understand why our relationships ended or what role we played, it's easy to repeat the same patterns and find ourselves in familiar situations that don't serve us.

In this episode, I sit down with Brad Lowry to get a man's perspective about what really happens after divorce. From learning to set healthier boundaries and recognizing relationship patterns sooner to letting go of codependency, slowing down while dating, and building a life that doesn't depend on someone else to complete you, this conversation is about becoming someone who chooses differently the next time.

Healing isn't about finding the right person as quickly as possible. It's about becoming the person who knows who they are, what they need, and what they're no longer willing to settle for.

No matter where you are in your own starting-over journey, we hope this conversation reminds you that divorce isn't the end of your story. Sometimes it's the beginning of becoming the person you were always meant to be.

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Have you ever looked around at your life and thought, "I didn't think I'd still be here?"

Not necessarily because your life is bad, but because it's different than you imagined.

In this episode of Wandering the Wild Mess, we talk through the emotional reality of what I'm calling "the lonely gap," the season between surviving a major life change and slowly building a life that feels like home again.

Whether you're navigating divorce, heartbreak, singleness, grief, a career change, or simply a life that hasn't unfolded the way you thought it would, this conversation is for anyone who's ever felt like they're waiting for the rest of their story to arrive.

This episode explores the difference between surviving and rebuilding, why gratitude and longing can exist at the same time, and how to keep building a life you love, even while you're waiting for what's next. Through the metaphor of rebuilding a house brick by brick, we unpack what it means to create a life that feels like home, even before every room is filled.

If you've ever felt behind, wondered why waiting can feel so lonely, or questioned whether you're the only one living in this in-between season, I hope this episode reminds you that you're not alone. You'll walk away with a new perspective on waiting, practical encouragement for rebuilding your life, and hope that the season you're in isn't the end of your story.

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