It’s been a few months of Messy Middle. Alicia and Nicole take time to pause for an important, uncomfortable question: What are we proud of so far? And why is it so hard to own that?

From corporate ladders to wellbeing to something harder to name - in this episode Alicia and Nicole reflect on how our definitions of success have evolved over time, and what we’re still resolving about it.

It sounds so simple. “Set a boundary.” Yet it’s often more complicated. And what actually is a boundary? This episode goes deep on the messier reality and what we’re learning as we navigate the grey.  

This week we're talking about those moments when the ground feels shaky, and you're not sure how to find your footing again. We dig into what resilience can look like when you're in the middle of it, and we share our ongoing journeys to feeling steady again.

This week we're talking about the plans that just... didn't happen. Nicole and Alicia swap stories on career curveballs, calendar chaos, and the honest question of how you know when it's time to change course.

Both the messy middle and entrepreneurship are a feeling of a rollercoaster AND a feeling of steadying. We are finding that paradox both comforting and discomforting. In this episode, we discuss how to own these waves and explore finding rhythms to manage the rocky parts.

Nicole and Alicia dig into the blurry line between 'work' and 'job', paid and unpaid, and who actually gets to define it. This episode explores what work actually means when you're in the middle of redefining it, who shaped those definitions in the first place, and why unpaid doesn't have to mean unvaluable.

How do I trust myself AND change my mind? Turns out sometimes these might be the same thing. Nicole and Alicia get into what this tension actually feels like in a career, knowing when a pivot is the right call, why the brain and body don't always agree, and learning to listen to what your body is telling you is the next right thing, right now.

Life has a way of lifing and it doesn't wait for a convenient moment. In this episode, we're sitting with all of it: the left turns, the overlapping tensions, the feelings that show up uninvited in the middle of work, ambition, and everything else you're trying to hold together. This one is a reminder that you don't have to resolve it all - sometimes you just need permission to feel it.

Being in a liminal transition phase can be wonderful… until someone says, “So what do you do?” In this episode, Nicole and Alicia share a work-in-progress approach to defining this stage based on what can be, not what has been (or what a “younger me” might have expected).