Listen Again: Big Change. Now What?

The Gathering Room Podcast

Martha Beck

Courses, Education, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Business

4.9 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this special “Listen Again” episode of The Gathering Room, I explore the disorienting, identity-dissolving place we enter after major life changes...what I call “Square One” in my Change Cycle methodology. I walk you through all four stages of the Change Cycle, answer listener questions about navigating change, and lead a calming meditation to help you surrender the wheel and trust what comes next. If you’re in Square One and want to get through it with more grace and ease, this episode is for you.

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0:00.0	People are always asking me, how did you get into training life coaches? And the answer is backwards.
0:06.6	I did it backwards. That is, I didn't set up a program and then look for people to fill it.
0:13.1	It's just that so many people were coming to me for coaching that I realized in order to serve the market,
0:19.4	I was going to have to train other people in my methods.
0:22.2	That was decades ago.
0:23.5	And now the Wayfinder program contains all my very best wisdom and tools for living boiled down to their savory essence.
0:33.3	Now, if that sounds interesting to you, head on over to Martha Beck.com and find your way.
0:42.9	Welcome to the Gathering Room podcast, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast.
0:48.8	I'm Martha Beck. Everybody is in everybody's house. And it takes, it's only been three minutes since I pressed the button.
0:56.9	And now all these countries are connected.
0:59.5	So I wrote a bit about that in the book I just finished.
1:04.2	Today, today is the due date for my most recent book, which is now called Beyond Anxiety,
1:13.3	curiosity, creativity, and finding Your Life's Purpose. Yes. And today is the due date. So according to my, you know,
1:19.4	code of integrity, it had to be done. So it is. I sent it in. And in September,
1:26.2	when I came back from Australia, Roe and I came back from Australia with our
1:29.9	youngen, I realized I hadn't really written anything worth reading. And it was September. It was
1:36.2	mid-September and my book was due in January. So I said to my beloveds, I am going into a hermit-like existence. I went and I got a whole bunch of bottles
1:47.8	of iced tea. I will not say what brand. This is not to advertise. But I got exactly enough
1:54.5	bottles to last me from that day till today, if I drank one bottle a day. And then every morning I would get up early,
2:03.5	slug my tea back, gong, and then just stay in my bedroom, right, often until mid-afternoon.
2:11.2	And I did that for, I think, 105 straight days. And it changed a lot of things. I grew flabbier and weaker. My eyesight got
2:25.1	really bad. Like all I can see anymore is a screen exactly a certain distance from my face.
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