186: Becoming the Captain of Your Own Ship (with Molly Goodhart)
Vibrant Happy Women
Jen Riday
4.8 • 671 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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About this Episode:
Experiencing stressors is par for the course in life. No one is immune. Loss of employment, death, wayward children, financial struggle, illness, divorce — the list is vast. How do you cope when you are being weighed down by stressful times? You can't always choose what happens to you, but you can choose how to handle it. And for Molly Goodheart, she chose to be the captain of her own ship.
What You'll Learn:
- How Molly's motto "I don't need to know everything, I just need to know someone who knows" can lighten burdens
- What it means to be captain of your own ship
- How to deal with the illness of a child
- How to move on after divorce
- Why it's important to be the kind of person you want to attract
- Why it's crucial to get to know yourself
- And many more inspiring stories from Molly
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- Shadow and Bone Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo
- The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
- Milwaukee Children's Hospital
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Vibrant Happy Women podcast, episode number 186. We're talking about |
| 0:08.2 | being responsible for our happiness and being the captain of our ships. Stay tuned. |
| 0:16.2 | Hi, I'm Dr. Jen Ryday, former burned out mom of six turned happiness whisperer. |
| 0:23.2 | And I'm here to help you get off that hamster wheel and make time for yourself without the guilt. |
| 0:30.7 | So you can live a balanced, calm, heart-centered life. |
| 0:34.9 | With over 2.5 million downloads, this is the Vibrant Happy Women |
| 0:41.3 | podcast. Jen here and welcome back to another episode of Vibrant Happy Women. We have an amazing |
| 0:49.1 | vibrant happy woman for you today on the interview and that is with Molly Goodhart. She endured some trauma and a |
| 0:57.6 | divorce, and it's going to tell us the secret to how she chose to reframe all of it and stand up |
| 1:04.6 | and become the captain of her own ship. And she has so many inspiring things. You're going to love |
| 1:09.7 | this one, whether you've dealt with |
| 1:11.4 | trauma or divorce or not. I think we all have struggles and they can cause us grief over a period of |
| 1:18.4 | time and we can sometimes feel like lying down in our boat and not doing anything at all and letting |
| 1:23.9 | our boat just float us along. But Molly explains how she was able to stand up |
| 1:28.4 | and be the captain of her ship and steer it where she wants to go, even amidst grief and |
| 1:34.7 | struggle and hardship in relationships and life. We all have so much to learn from her. |
| 1:40.7 | Well, I can't wait for you to listen. So let's go ahead and jump in. My guest today is Molly |
| 1:46.1 | Goodhart, and she is reinventing herself in her late 40s after many years of raising kids |
| 1:52.8 | and supporting her former husband's career. She blogs about transitions and trauma at |
| 1:58.5 | the good Molly.com. I love that. And she lives in Oshkosh, |
| 2:02.7 | Wisconsin, my neighbor, with her sons, her college-aged daughter, and her golden retriever, |
| 2:08.9 | Charlie. Welcome to Vibor Happy Women, Molly. Hi, Jen. Thanks for having me. I'm super excited. And the |
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