Teddi Mellencamp (Pt 2) How to Reconcile Your Life’s Meaning, Summon Strength & Hold Onto Hope During Setbacks!

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🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Get your tissues out, and get ready to feel overwhelming gratitude and perspective for the blessings in your life right now, that can be so easy to take for granted when we have them. And of course we have a little fun too and get the inside scoop on what really happens behind the scenes of your favorite reality TV shows, and so much more. Welcome to the INCREDIBLE Part 2 conversation with Teddi Mellencamp sharing stories she’s never shared before on life’s hardest set-backs, marriage, infidelity, cancer, parenting during hardship, reconciling faith and summoning strength, hope and courage during bad-breaks and life’s setbacks! You might know Teddi as a TV personality who rose to fame on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, she’s also co-host of the wildly popular podcasts called Two T’s in a Pod with Tamra Judge & Diamonds in the Rough with Erika Jayne, she’s daughter of musician John Mellencamp, a mom to her beloved little ones, Slate, Cruz, and Dove. She is also stepmother to Isabella and I’m so grateful to call her, friend. As her impact and following continues to explode, She’s also going through the unimaginable and the fight of her life, in this very moment, right now. Teddi was recently diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma, which she shared has metastasized to her brain and lungs. Are You Ready to believe in YOU?🙌⁠⁠⁠jamiekernlima.com⁠👈 Sign up for my FREE Inspirational Newsletter and get ready for your self-worth to soar!🩷 ✨ Want to learn more about Teddi’s work? Check out her coaching program: https://allinbyteddi.com/ 🎧 Don’t miss her hit podcast with Tamra Judge, Two Ts in a Pod: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-two-ts-in-a-pod-with-tedd-49447273/ The American Academy of Dermatology offers a simple guide on what to look for and how to do a self-exam of your skin: ⁠aad.org/public/diseases/skin-cancer/find/know-how⁠. If you notice anything suspicious or just want a professional check, you can find a board-certified dermatologist near you at ⁠find-a-derm.aad.org⁠. Chapters: 0:00 Welcome to The Jamie Kern Lima Show 14:57 Why Do Bad Things Happen To Us? 9:35 Don’t Make the Person Suffering Do The Work 17:54 Searching for Peace, Feeling Lost 30:10 When Faith Feels Far Away 34:20 Letting Go Of Social Pressure Also, please make sure to take 2 seconds and click the “Follow” button right here on this page to follow me and the podcast, I’m so grateful and thank you SO much! ____ It’s such an honor to share this podcast together with you. And please note: I am not a licensed therapist, and this podcast is NOT intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or other qualified professional. Click ⁠⁠Here⁠⁠⁠ to Subscribe to the YouTube Channel Follow me here: ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠ — Sign up for my inspirational newsletter for YOU at:⁠⁠⁠ jamiekernlima.com⁠⁠⁠ — Looking for my books on Amazon? Here they are! ⁠⁠⁠WORTHY⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Believe IT⁠

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0:00.0	Coming up in this incredible part two episode with Teddy Mellencamp.
0:04.0	What I can say is, did I do things that hurt other people?
0:12.0	Yes.
0:13.0	To this day, does it still hurt my heart?
0:16.0	And I wonder if that's why I got cancer?
0:19.0	Yes.
0:20.0	Like it was my payback. That's why I got cancer? Yes.
0:25.6	Like it was my payback.
0:31.6	So it...
0:35.6	Nothing goes without payment, I guess. It was all over the press. It was everywhere.
0:39.4	And, you know, you're trying to...
0:43.3	You're trying to minimize everybody's pain.
0:46.2	You end up maximizing it.
0:48.5	I kind of know how our marriage works.
0:51.8	And do you think it could change?
0:54.1	I think if I was willing to change,
0:56.8	but I don't think I am anymore.
0:59.4	What do you mean?
1:01.8	When you say, too, that you had resentment,
1:04.3	he had cheated?
1:06.5	I think it wasn't necessarily the act.
1:11.6	It was... I'm not saying that I didn't make huge mistakes
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