Before the guests. Before the conversations. Before all of it — you deserve to know who’s behind this podcast.

In this first episode, Vanessa Bright sits down with you and tells the whole story. Not the resumé version. The real one.

From the classroom with locked doors inside a Maryland women’s correctional facility, to founding the Maryland Reentry Resource Center and GreenLift, to building Reentragent inside the Johns Hopkins Innovation Lab — and why all of it led to ReBloom.

Vanessa also talks about what it means to build as a Black woman founder, the Michael Jordan no one invested in, her son’s asthma and the quote that changed how she sees the earth, dating after fifty, line dancing in cowboy boots, and why she built a podcast called ReBloom.

Because blooming isn’t always linear. Sometimes you have to go dormant before you can come back deeper and more yourself than before.

This episode is for every woman who has been through something hard and is still showing up.

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60+ pages · Guided workbook · Delivered by May 30

You know something needs to change. Now let's build the plan.

Something has shifted. A marriage. A career. A season of caregiving. A quiet but persistent sense that the chapter you've been living has closed and a new one is waiting to be written. You can feel the change. What you need now is a plan — not a vague intention, but a real, grounded, written roadmap that connects where you are to where you want to be.

That's exactly what this workbook gives you.

The ReBloom Life Plan is a guided workbook developed by Vanessa Bright, LMSW — educator, social entrepreneur, and host of the ReBloom Podcast. Drawing on two decades of work helping individuals navigate the most significant transitions of their lives, this framework has been adapted for women over 50 who are done drifting and ready to design their next chapter with clarity and intention.

Inside you will work through:

✦ A values clarification process that reveals what actually matters to you now — not what mattered twenty years ago ✦ A life assessment that shows you honestly where you stand across every dimension ✦ A vision-building exercise that gives your next chapter a real shape ✦ A goal-setting framework tied to 30-, 60-, and 90-day actions ✦ An obstacle inventory that names what has been in your way ✦ An accountability structure that keeps the plan alive after the workbook closes

This is not about starting over. It is about starting from everything you have already learned — which is a far more powerful place.

⭐ PRE-ORDER PRICING — $29 (regular price $39) Your PDF workbook will be delivered to your inbox by May 30, 2025.

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Hosted by Vanessa Bright, LMSW — social entrepreneur, educator, founder of MDRRC and GreenLift, and host of the ReBloom Podcast.