Flourishing After Adversity

By Laura Mangum Broome

If you've experienced grief, illness, loss, or life-altering setbacks—and you're ready to reclaim your joy—this podcast is for you.

Hosted by Laura Mangum Broome, Resilience Coach

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August 12, 2026 S2:E32 When Life Falls Apart, Your Values Can Lead You Back
Find Yourself Again: Reconnecting With Your Core Values After Life Changes

Laura Mangum Broome welcomes listeners to Flourishing After Adversity and explains that feeling lost after grief, illness, loss, or unexpected change often comes from identity disruption when central roles end. Drawing from her own experiences (losing her son, cancer, heart transplant, her father’s death, and divorce), she shares how reconnecting with core values—not goals or external roles—restores an internal compass for decisions and boundaries.
She defines values as principles shaping how you want to live and introduces the Values Compass™ from Phase 1 (Radical Acceptance) of the iCope2Hope System™, along with a guiding question about whether choices move you closer to the life you want. She offers four ways to rediscover values (pain, what brings life, resentment, and what life should stand for) and six questions to make values-led decisions, plus a five-minute journaling action step, a free guide, and invitations to a workshop and iCope2Hope.com.

00:00 Feeling Lost Again
00:24 Welcome and Free Guide
01:15 My Identity Disruption
02:40 Why Values Matter
05:36 What Values Are
07:11 Build Your Values Compass
09:27 Four Ways to Rediscover
11:47 Six Decision Questions
14:26 Two Daily Anchors
15:04 Recap and Next Steps
16:13 Closing Encouragement
16:41 Share and Workshop Invite
Free Resource: Reframe the Spiral: 5 Quick Coping Strategies to Shift Negative Thoughts and Reclaim Your Day https://www.icope2hope.com/reframe
Begin Again™ Workshop — https://www.icope2hope.com/the-begin-again-workshop
Move Beyond AdversityBlog — https://www.icope2hope.com/blog
Free Newsletter — Wednesday’s Resilient Recharge: https://www.icope2hope.com/newsletter
Schedule a free 15-minute Clarity Call with Laura: https://bit.ly/15mincallLMB
Website — iCope2Hope: From Hardship to Hope: https://www.icope2hope.com

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18min
August 05, 2026 S2:E31 Stop Waiting for Hope: Here's How to Create It
Hope Doesn’t Find You—You Build It: The iCope2Hope System™

Laura Mangum Broome shares that hope isn’t something you wait for but a skill you can build, grounded in research by Casey Gwinn and Chan Hellman defining hope as goals, willpower, and pathways. Drawing on her own experience of five major losses in five years (losing her teenage son by suicide, bilateral breast cancer, chemotherapy-related congestive heart failure and a heart transplant, her father’s death, and an unexpected divorce), she explains that time alone didn’t rebuild her—intentional reinvention did.
She outlines her iCope2Hope System™: Phase 1 Radical Acceptance (face the truth, focus on what you can control, redefine what matters now, using a Radical Acceptance Reset Method™), Phase 2 Clear Direction™ (rediscover passions, rebuild identity and vision), and Phase 3 New Path™ (small consistent steps, sustainable momentum, obstacle planning). She offers reflection questions, a 48-hour action step, and resources including a free “Reframe the Spiral” guide and a live Zoom Begin Again™ Workshop.

00:00 Build Hope Not Wait
01:10 Laura Story And Losses
02:44 Science Of Hope
04:34 Phase One Acceptance
06:24 Phase Two Direction
08:40 Phase Three Action
11:05 Support And Self Talk
12:14 Recap And Next Steps
13:55 Closing And Resources
Free Resource: Reframe the Spiral: 5 Quick Coping Strategies to Shift Negative Thoughts and Reclaim Your Day https://www.icope2hope.com/reframe
Begin Again™ Workshop — Sign Up: https://www.icope2hope.com/the-begin-again-workshop
Book referenced:_Hope Rising: How the Science of HOPE Can Change Your Life_ — Casey Gwinn & Chan Hellman
Move Beyond Adversity Blog — https://www.icope2hope.com/blog
Free Newsletter — Wednesday’s Resilient Recharge: https://www.icope2hope.com/newsletter
Schedule a free 15-minute Clarity Call with Laura: https://bit.ly/15mincallLMB
Website — iCope2Hope: From Hardship to Hope: https://www.icope2hope.com
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July 29, 2026S2:E30 How to Close Regret And Act on What Matters
Regret as a Signal: 3 Moves to Stop Circling the Unopened Door

Host Laura Mangum Broome frames regret not as punishment but as a signal pointing to what still matters, warning that unaddressed regret drains energy, presence, and peace. She describes two unhelpful responses—suppression and rumination—and argues that only action “closes the door.”
The episode offers three practical moves: name the regret clearly to turn it into specific data, separate the past from the present by exploring whether a different version is still possible (using radical acceptance from the iCope2Hope System™), and act before feeling ready because clarity and confidence build through movement. Listeners are guided to spend ten minutes identifying the regret, assessing what’s still within reach, choosing one micro-step within 24 hours, and taking it today, and are invited to download the free guide “Reframe the Spiral.”

00:00 The Door of Regret
00:54 Welcome and Why It Matters
01:40 The Cost of Unspoken Wants
03:40 Regret as a Signal
04:29 Two Traps Suppression and Rumination
05:38 Move One Name It
06:43 Move Two Past vs Present
07:53 Move Three Act Now
09:06 10 Minute Action Plan
09:58 Recap and Closing Encouragement
11:19 Outro and Resources
Free Resource: Reframe the Spiral: 5 Quick Coping Strategies to Shift Negative Thoughts and Reclaim Your Day: https://www.icope2hope.com/reframe
iCope2Hope 3-Step Resilience Framework: https://bit.ly/FrameworkRoadmap
Website: iCope2Hope: From Hardship to Hope: https://www.icope2hope.com
Move Beyond Adversity Blog: https://www.icope2hope.com/blog
Free Newsletter: Wednesday’s Resilient Recharge: https://www.icope2hope.com/newsletter
Schedule a free 15-minute Clarity Call with Laura: https://bit.ly/15mincallLMB
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July 22, 2026S2:E29 Stop Waiting to Be Saved - Create the Life You Want
Three Red Flags Keeping You Stuck in Hard Seasons (and How to Flip the Script)

Laura Mangum Broome welcomes listeners to Flourishing After Adversity and shares how, after her 27-year marriage ended suddenly following earlier losses and serious illness, she realized her “waiting” wasn’t healing but hiding. She names three common “red flags” that keep women stuck when gratitude feels impossible: making the drama the identity, spending energy on what can’t be controlled, and waiting to be saved by someone or something external.
She explains how these patterns block presence, hope, and change, then offers three practical shifts: get outside yourself by giving one small act of care to someone else, practice real gratitude by naming one specific true thing you noticed each day, and build hope through action by taking one micro step within 24 hours toward the life you want while asking what this season might be making possible.

00:00 When Gratitude Feels Cruel
00:51 Welcome and Free Resource
01:38 My Hard Season Story
02:39 The Question That Shifted Me
03:32 Red Flag One Drama Identity
05:45 Red Flag Two Control Trap
07:41 Red Flag Three Waiting Rescue
09:43 Flip the Script Three Steps
09:54 Step One Give to Others
11:30 Step Two One True Gratitude
13:13 Step Three Micro Steps Hope
15:24 Recap and Encouragement
17:11 Closing and Next Steps
Free Resource: Reframe the Spiral: 5 Quick Coping Strategies to Shift Negative Thoughts and Reclaim Your Day: https://www.icope2hope.com/reframe
iCope2Hope 3-Step Resilience Framework: https://bit.ly/FrameworkRoadmap
Website: iCope2Hope: From Hardship to Hope: https://www.icope2hope.com
Move Beyond Adversity Blog: https://www.icope2hope.com/blog
Free Newsletter: Wednesday’s Resilient Recharge: https://www.icope2hope.com/newsletter
Schedule a free 15-minute Clarity Call with Laura: https://bit.ly/15mincallLMB
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18min
July 15, 2026S2:E28 How Empty of Me to Be So Full of You
How to Find Yourself After a Relationship Ends: Grieving the Roles, Rituals, and Identity You Lost

Host Laura Mangum Broome explores how major relationship losses can leave women grieving not only the person but also the roles, routines, future, and identity built around that connection, quoting “How empty of me to be so full of you” from Louise Hay and David Kessler.
Drawing from five major losses in five years (her teenage son, breast cancer, a heart transplant, her father’s death, and a sudden divorce after 27 years), she explains how women gradually “disappear” through over-giving and lack of boundaries across marriages, friendships, family dynamics, death, and even workplaces, noting that “grief is grief” regardless of the source. She introduces Radical Acceptance, the first phase of her iCope2Hope System, beginning with “face the truth,” and offers three starting points: grieve without a deadline, ask who you were before, and don’t refill the empty space too quickly.

00:00 When You Lose Yourself
01:00 Welcome and Free Resource
01:46 How Empty of Me
03:23 Grief Is Grief
04:04 The Layers You Lose
05:07 How We Disappear
08:00 Grieving the Old You
09:33 Radical Acceptance
10:34 Three Places to Start
13:32 Recap and Closing
Free Resource: Reframe the Spiral: 5 Quick Coping Strategies to Shift Negative Thoughts and Reclaim Your Day: https://www.icope2hope.com/reframe
iCope2Hope 3-Step Resilience Framework: https://bit.ly/FrameworkRoadmap
Website: iCope2Hope: From Hardship to Hope: https://www.icope2hope.com
Move Beyond Adversity Blog: https://www.icope2hope.com/blog
Free Newsletter: Wednesday’s Resilient Recharge: https://www.icope2hope.com/newsletter
Schedule a free 15-minute Clarity Call with Laura: https://bit.ly/15mincallLMB
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July 08, 2026S2:E27 What You Value Most Will Lead You Forward
Rebuilding After a Storm: Reconnect with Your Core Values and Passions

Host Laura Mangum Broome explains how, after major setbacks, people can keep functioning yet feel hollow because they rebuild from fear and stay stuck in survival mode, mistaking coping for living. Using the metaphor of a storm-damaged tree with intact roots, she shares her own five-year stretch of breast cancer, losing her teenage son and father, a heart transplant, and an unexpected divorce, describing how she lost touch with who she was.
She teaches that core values are descriptive (not aspirational) and misalignment can show up as numbness, over-busyness, and saying yes to draining commitments. She distinguishes purpose from passion and says passion often hides rather than disappears. She introduces values-led decision-making questions and a 20-minute “Values + Passion Excavation” exercise to identify three anchor words and take one small step within 24 hours, emphasizing radical acceptance as the first phase of her iCope2Hope System(TM).

00:00 Feeling Lost After Loss
01:09 Welcome and Free Resource
02:04 Tree Roots Metaphor
02:49 My Story of Upheaval
05:09 Survival Mode Trap
06:34 Core Values Explained
08:28 Radical Acceptance and Roots
09:21 Passion Goes Into Hiding
13:03 Values as a Compass
17:14 20 Minute Excavation Exercise
22:04 Recap and Next Step
24:42 Closing and Call to Action
Free Resource: Reframe the Spiral: 5 Quick Coping Strategies to Shift Negative Thoughts and Reclaim Your Day: https://www.icope2hope.com/reframe
iCope2Hope 3-Step Resilience Framework: https://bit.ly/FrameworkRoadmap
Website: iCope2Hope: From Hardship to Hope: https://www.icope2hope.com
Move Beyond Adversity Blog: https://www.icope2hope.com/blog
Free Newsletter: Wednesday’s Resilient Recharge: https://www.icope2hope.com/newsletter
Schedule a free 15-minute Clarity Call with Laura: https://bit.ly/15mincallLMB
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26min
July 01, 2026S2:E26 How to Turn Your Greatest Loss Into Your Strongest Chapter
Flourishing After Adversity: The 3 Conditions for Post-Traumatic Growth

Laura Mangum Broome introduces the Flourishing After Adversity podcast and explains that the difference between growing through grief and staying stuck is a learnable framework, not willpower, strength, or faith. Sharing her experience of five major losses in five years—including losing her son, surviving bilateral breast cancer and a heart transplant, losing her father, and a sudden divorce—she outlines post-traumatic growth research (Tedeschi and Calhoun) and its five outcomes: greater appreciation for life, deeper relationships, expanded personal strength, new possibilities, and spiritual deepening.
She challenges the cultural push to “move on,” emphasizing “move through,” and describes three groups who struggle: genuinely stuck, avoiding, or resilient but without a method. She teaches three conditions for growth—radical acceptance, identity work, and tiny consistent action—plus a 20-minute exercise with five prompts to identify resistance, control, identity shifts, and one small next step.

00:00 Why Some Grow
00:48 Welcome and Free Guide
01:42 My Five Losses
03:24 What Is Growth
04:36 Move Through Not On
05:39 Three Ways We Get Stuck
07:55 Radical Acceptance
09:17 Identity Reset
10:44 Tiny Steps Forward
12:00 Time Does Not Heal
13:39 Five Prompts This Week
15:04 Recap and Encouragement
16:49 Closing and Next Steps
Free Resource: Reframe the Spiral: 5 Quick Coping Strategies to Shift Negative Thoughts and Reclaim Your Day: https://www.icope2hope.com/reframe
iCope2Hope 3-Step Resilience Framework: https://bit.ly/FrameworkRoadmap
Website: iCope2Hope: From Hardship to Hope: https://www.icope2hope.com
Move Beyond Adversity Blog: https://www.icope2hope.com/blog
Free Newsletter: Wednesday’s Resilient Recharge: https://www.icope2hope.com/newsletter
Schedule a free 15-minute Clarity Call with Laura: https://bit.ly/15mincallLMB
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June 24, 2026S2:E25 How to Finally Move When Uncertainty Has You Frozen
The Outcome Guardrail Map: Break Fear of the Unknown and Take the Next 200 Feet

Laura Mangum Broome introduces the Flourishing After Adversity podcast episode on decision paralysis caused by fear of the unknown, explaining it as a neurological survival response when the brain cannot predict.
Drawing from her experiences with cancer, the loss of her son and father, a heart transplant, and an unexpected divorce, she shares the Outcome Guardrail Map(TM), a tool to reduce catastrophizing without relying on willpower. The process defines best-case, worst-case, and most-likely outcomes: naming the fear specifically, detailing the best and worst scenarios to create “guardrails,” and identifying the realistic middle ground where action becomes possible. She offers a 20-minute exercise with prompts, connects the approach to radical acceptance in her iCope2Hope System(TM), and encourages listeners to take one small step within their control.

00:00 Frozen by Uncertainty
00:51 Welcome and Free Resource
01:45 My Story of Fear
03:48 Why Fear Freezes You
06:27 Outcome Guardrail Map
07:01 Step 1 Name the Fear
08:18 Step 2 Best Case
09:51 Step 3 Worst Case
11:35 Step 4 Most Likely
13:04 Why This Tool Works
15:57 20 Minute Exercise Prompts
17:54 Recap and Encouragement
19:38 Closing and Call to Action
Free Resource: Reframe the Spiral: 5 Quick Coping Strategies to Shift Negative Thoughts and Reclaim Your Day: https://www.icope2hope.com/reframe
iCope2Hope 3-Step Resilience Framework: https://bit.ly/FrameworkRoadmap
Website: iCope2Hope: From Hardship to Hope: https://www.icope2hope.com
Move Beyond Adversity Blog: https://www.icope2hope.com/blog
Free Newsletter: Wednesday’s Resilient Recharge: https://www.icope2hope.com/newsletter
Schedule a free 15-minute Clarity Call with Laura: https://bit.ly/15mincallLMB
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21min
June 17, 2026S2:E24 The Grief Map: How Naming What You're Feeling Moves You From Stuck to Moving Forward
The 6 Stages of Grief: Name What You’re Feeling and Move Through It

Laura Mangum Broome explains how naming grief can reduce shame and help people move through loss, drawing from her experience of losing her son just before a scheduled double mastectomy while facing cancer. She clarifies that Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s five stages—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance—are not linear or a checklist but a map people may revisit in any order. She defines what each stage can feel like, including risks like prolonged denial, misdirected anger, exhausting “what if” bargaining, and the difference between moving through grief-related depression versus drowning and needing professional support.
She adds David Kessler’s sixth stage, finding meaning, emphasizing it isn’t toxic positivity and can’t be rushed. She offers a journaling exercise to identify one’s current stage and what it needs, and reminds listeners there is no timeline for grief.

00:00 Why Grief Feels Confusing
00:43 Welcome and Free Resource
01:37 Laura’s Personal Loss Story
03:18 What the Stages Really Are
05:07 Stage 1 Denial
06:25 Stage 2 Anger
07:48 Stage 3 Bargaining
09:05 Stage 4 Depression
10:53 Stage 5 Acceptance
12:13 Stage 6 Finding Meaning
14:18 Why Naming Helps Healing
16:11 Journal Exercise for Today
17:40 Recap and Encouragement
19:07 Closing and Next Steps
Free Resource: Reframe the Spiral: 5 Quick Coping Strategies to Shift Negative Thoughts and Reclaim Your Day: https://www.icope2hope.com/reframe
iCope2Hope 3-Step Resilience Framework: https://bit.ly/FrameworkRoadmap
Website: iCope2Hope: From Hardship to Hope: https://www.icope2hope.com
Move Beyond Adversity Blog: https://www.icope2hope.com/blog
Free Newsletter: Wednesday’s Resilient Recharge: https://www.icope2hope.com/newsletter
Schedule a free 15-minute Clarity Call with Laura: https://bit.ly/15mincallLMB
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June 10, 2026S2:E23 The Three Letter Word That Can Change Your Life and It's Not Yes
The Power of “Yet”: Shifting from Fixed to Growth Mindset After Adversity

Host Laura Mangum Broome explains how adding one word—“yet”—can shift limiting beliefs from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset, drawing on Carol Dweck’s research in Mindset. She shares how being repeatedly placed in jobs without training forced her into trial-and-error learning and later revealed she’d been using a growth mindset all along: “I don’t know how to do this yet.” She contrasts fixed mindset beliefs (abilities are set; failure proves inadequacy) with growth mindset beliefs (abilities develop; failure is feedback), and describes how “yet” keeps the brain engaged in problem-solving through neuroplasticity. She applies this to major life adversities she faced and offers three practical steps: notice “can’t” statements, add “yet,” and identify one small next step within 48 hours, plus a journaling assignment and a free coping resource.

00:00 The Power of Yet
00:35 Welcome and Free Resource
01:27 Thrown In Without Training
02:47 Discovering Growth Mindset
03:26 Fixed vs Growth Mindset
05:15 Add One Word Yet
06:30 Yet and Your Brain
08:12 Seeing Your Own Progress
09:09 Yet Through Real Adversity
10:22 Three Ways to Practice Yet
12:11 Your 48 Hour Assignment
12:58 Recap and Closing Encouragement
14:22 Outro and Call to Action
Free Resource: Reframe the Spiral: 5 Quick Coping Strategies to Shift Negative Thoughts and Reclaim Your Day: https://www.icope2hope.com/reframe
iCope2Hope 3-Step Resilience Framework: https://bit.ly/FrameworkRoadmap
Website: iCope2Hope: From Hardship to Hope: https://www.icope2hope.com
Move Beyond Adversity Blog: https://www.icope2hope.com/blog
Free Newsletter: Wednesday’s Resilient Recharge: https://www.icope2hope.com/newsletter
Schedule a free 15-minute Clarity Call with Laura: https://bit.ly/15mincallLMB
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FAQs about Flourishing After Adversity:

How many episodes does Flourishing After Adversity have?

The podcast currently has 65 episodes available.