people often think it's like these really grand, almost metaphysical, like, revelations and

internal conversations and self-discoverys or like an eat, pray, love journey, which would be nice

to, you know, but 99% of the time it's this step. It's these small opportunities, these moments.

Hi, this is Monica Packer, and you're listening to About Progress, where we are about

progress made practical.

Have you ever reached a point in your life where things technically look good, but something feels

off, and that something feels like you?

Perhaps the roles that wants to find you, mom, caretaker, the one everyone relied on, have shifted.

And now you're left wondering, who am I?

Over the years, I have coached a great deal of women who

are moving through this transition in their lives of being a stay-at-home mom or the primary

parent at home and their kids growing up and flying the nest. And they are left in the nest

wondering what life can look like now.

And this transition often brings up multiple layers, layers that often surprise the very woman who is in the middle of it all.

Today's episode is a coaching call with one such woman named Shelly.

She is in that season of transition.

Her kids are now grown, her life is changing,

and for the first time in decades, Shelly is finally seeing some space open up for herself,

but she's not quite sure what to do with that time, and she's also not sure how she feels about it.

What unfolds is a very honest, layered coaching session about identity, people pleasing, shoulds, and what it looks like to start listening to

yourself again. As you listen, I don't want you to just hear Shelley's story. I want you to insert

yourself into it and see how it can relate to your own life,

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