"Surviving is not the same as settling. And rebuilding is not the same as starting from nothing."

What do you do when everything falls apart at once — your marriage, your business, and the identity you spent a decade building?

You pick through the wreckage. You find what's worth keeping. And if you're lucky, you find a way to make something new.

Welcome to Thrifting Sparks — the podcast about rebuilding your life one piece at a time. Hosted by Cara Kapler, luxury makeup and lash artist based in Edmonton, Alberta. This show is for anyone who's ever had to start over, grieve something they didn't expect to lose, or wondered if there's still something left of themselves under all the rubble. Cheaper than therapy. Warmer than a cardigan.

In this episode, Cara shares the story she's never fully told: a decade of marriage, burnout, and a business betrayal that changed everything. She gets into what it actually feels like to lose your partner and your business partner at the same time — and how thrifting, of all things, became a form of emotional survival.

In this episode:
→ Why Thrifting Sparks exists — and what it's really about
→ The decade that changed everything: marriage, burnout, and a business betrayal
→ Navigating divorce, grief, and losing your entire support system at once
→ How thrifting became emotional survival — and why it inspired this podcast
→ Thrift or Trash: unsolicited ex updates and why the digital age makes breakups so much harder
→ The one thing most people forget to do when someone they love is hurting
→ This week's Spark: what it means to rebuild without starting from nothing

This week's Spark:
"Surviving is not the same as settling. And rebuilding is not the same as starting from nothing. Everything you've lost, every version of yourself you've had to let go of — that's not a gap in your story. That IS the story."

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New episodes drop bimonthly. Follow along and share this with someone who's in the middle of their own rebuild — they need to hear this.

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