The Raising Hope Podcast

The in-between isn’t a crisis. It’s a portal. 🌀

That low hum that never quite goes away. The grief that makes no sense because nothing has died — except something has.

The old version of you is being released. The self you built piece by piece through every achievement, every title, every role — she’s in the process of letting go. And that’s a loss, even when it’s the right one.

You can be grateful for your life AND feel like something important is missing. Those two things are not in conflict.

This is not depression. This is disorientation. And disorientation is a sign that you’re growing — that the next version of you is trying to emerge.

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You're not burned out. You're not broken. You're in the in-between — that disorienting threshold where the oldidentity no longer fits and the new one hasn't fully arrived yet. In this episode, Kristy goes deep on what thisstage actually is, what it feels like from the inside, and what it actually takes to move through it. Including herown story, a client story, and a five-part framework that goes way beyond "trust the process".

What we cover:

• Why the in-between is not the same as being lost• What this stage actually feels like (and why it's so disorienting)• Kristy's own years in the in-between as a single mom and nurse• Rachel's story — 18 years into a career that stopped fitting• Five things that actually help you move through it

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If you’ve ever typed something into a comment section and thought that’s the thing I couldn’t name — this episode is for you.

A few weeks ago, I left a comment on someone’s Reel. Ten seconds, totally off the cuff: “This is the weird in-between stage nobody talks about. The old identity no longer fits, but the new one hasn’t fully formed yet.” Two hundred women liked it almost immediately.

That doesn’t happen by accident. That happens when something is true and nobody’s been saying it out loud.

So that’s where Season 2 starts — right here, in the in-between. Season 1 gave it a name. Season 2 is going to help you move through it.

In this episode:

    •    What the in-between actually feels like (and why it hits high-achieving women especially hard)

    •    Why this stage is so disorienting — and why that’s not a sign something is wrong with you

    •    What Season 2 is going to give you to work with

    •    Why naming it is only the beginning

If you’ve been waiting for someone to just say it out loud — this is that episode. Welcome back.

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This is the Season 1 finale — and the episode Kristy has been building toward all season. After ten episodes of excavating the identity shift, the fear, the practical pieces, and the real cost of staying stuck, it’s time to talk about the one thing that changes everything: permission. What it is, why high-achieving women wait for it, why it never comes from the outside, and how to actually give it to yourself in a way that sticks.

We talk a lot about the risk of changing. We almost never talk about the cost of not changing. In this episode, Kristy gets honest about what staying stuck is actually costing high-achieving women right now — in their bodies, their identities, their relationships, their time, and their potential. This one might be uncomfortable. Let it be.

Key Themes:

• The physical signals your body sends when your life doesn’t fit

• What chronic dissatisfaction does to your sense of identity over time

• The relationship cost of running on empty

• The time cost of waiting for the “right moment”

• How high-achieving women stay in denial about the cost

• What the first honest decision actually looks like

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This is the episode you've been waiting for.

You've done the identity work. You've sat with the questions. You've gotten honest about what you want. And now the practical voice is showing up — the one that sounds like your most responsible friend — asking: okay but how does this actually work when you have bills and kids and a life that depends on your income?

Kristy gets completely real about the practical side of reinvention: her own contract nursing year (every unglamorous, strategic detail), the four-part financial framework she uses with every client, and the story of Rachel — a project manager who spent eight months planning for a leap she could have taken in two.

This episode also names the three mindset blocks that disguise themselves as logic and stop women cold the moment they try to get concrete. Because the money stuff and the mindset stuff are not separate conversations. They never were.

In this episode:

— Why getting practical feels impossible (and what's really going on)

— Kristy's contract year: the real version, with every unsexy detail

— The four-part financial framework: floor, audit, bridge, timeline

— Rachel's story: the spreadsheet woman and the ceramics class

— The order of operations for an actual transition

— The three mindset blocks hiding in your practical conversation

Your one action from this episode: calculate your floor. Tonight. Just that.

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This is the episode for every woman who has built her entire sense of self on what she does — and is now terrified of who she'll be if she stops doing it.

Kristy goes deep on the achievement trap: what it is, how it happens, and why the most successful women are often the most disconnected from their own sense of worth. She anchors the episode in her own experience of identity collapse during her reinvention, and shares the story of Dana — a 22-year executive who realized she had buried the most essential parts of herself in the name of building a career.

This one will hit different if you've ever frozen when someone asked what you do. If you've ever felt like the title was the only thing holding you together. If you've ever wondered who you'd be if you walked away from all of it.

In this episode:

- The achievement trap: how high-achieving women confuse what they do with who they are

- The identity collapse that happens mid-reinvention — and why it's not a sign you made the wrong choice

- Dana's story: a 22-year executive who found the person she thought she'd lost

- Three ways to start rebuilding a sense of self that doesn't depend on external validation

- The truth about worth that nobody actually believes yet

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There's a layer to reinvention that most people skip over. This episode goes straight into it.

Kristy gets real about what it actually feels like to be a mother in the middle of trying to find yourself again — the identity shift that happens when you pour everything into your kids, the guilt that shows up the moment you want something for yourself, and what it meant to do all of this as a single mom with no backup plan.

This episode also includes a client story about a woman who finally gave herself permission to want more — and what happened when she did.

In this episode:

- What the "mom layer" actually is and why it keeps so many women stuck

- The identity loss that happens when motherhood swallows everything else

- The guilt of wanting more — and why it's conditioning, not conscience

- What it's really like to reinvent yourself as a single mom

- The reframe that changes everything: what your kids actually need from you

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You know you’re stuck. You know how to move. So what are you actually moving toward?

In this episode, Kristy shows you what life feels like on the other side of reinvention. Not

motivational BS. Real, lived experience. What changes. What you didn’t expect. How you actually get there.

She also talks about how understanding your Human Design and astrology — knowing what you’re actually built for — is the key to real, sustainable joy. Not just happiness.

Alignment.

This is the episode that makes you believe it’s possible.

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You’ve done the work. You know you’re stuck. You know why. And now you’re sitting there thinking — okay, but what do I actually DO about it?

That’s this episode.

This week I’m breaking down the real, practical, no-fluff version of how you start moving when you’ve been frozen for what feels like forever. No toxic positivity. No “just take the leap.” Just the actual steps — the ones I used myself and the ones I walk my clients through.

We’re talking about:

• Why “what do I want?” is the wrong first question (and what to ask instead)

• The small experiments that build clarity faster than any amount of thinking will

• The identity wall that hits when you start actually moving — and why it’s not a sign to stop

• Why doing this alone is one of the sneakiest ways reinvention gets derailed

• How to know what “done” actually looks like for you

This is the H.O.P.E. Method in action. And it starts with one question — which I’ll give you at the end of the episode.

If you’ve been listening and thinking this is exactly what I need but I don’t know how to do it alone — DM me the word READY on Instagram @raisinghopepodcast and I’ll send you something that’ll help.

Next week: Episode 5 — Joy as a Practice. What life actually feels like on the other side. The real version, not the highlight reel.

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