Messy Midlife: It’s Not A Crisis, It’s A Calling to Connect
Messy Midlife: It's Not A Crisis, It's A Calling To Connect. The podcast for men and women 35 to 65 navigating the messy middle years.
Hosted by Jody Brooks, a UK-based Jay Shetty Certified Life Coach and midlife transition specialist, Messy Midlife is where the complicated, courageous, and sometimes chaotic middle of life gets talked about honestly. Through candid conversations and practical coaching insights, Jody explores identity and reinvention, self-trust, core values, morning awareness practice, midlife habits, burnout recovery, and what to do when the version of you that got you here no longer fits.
This is a midlife podcast for grown ups asking bigger questions. Who am I now. What matters next. How do I rebuild without burning everything down. If you are feeling loss of identity, fear of the future, overwhelm, anxiety, or a quiet sense that you have lost yourself somewhere along the way, you are in the right place.
Each week you get two solo coaching episodes and one guest conversation.
Expect real stories about burnout, addiction recovery, perimenopause, menopause, career pivots, empty nest, divorce, grief, and finding purpose after 40. Alongside experts on positive psychology, resilience, workplace wellbeing, mental health, and authentic living. No clinical language. No perfect answers. Just honest conversations for anyone in the messy middle of life.
Jody's work is rooted in his Nine Principles of Authentic Living: Awareness, Understanding, Trust, Honesty, Empowerment, Nurture, Transformation, Integrity, and Compassion. Each season of the podcast explores one principle in depth, so you can follow the show as a full personal development journey or drop in for the episodes that speak to where you are right now.
If you love Mel Robbins, Brené Brown, Simon Sinek, Jay Shetty, Brendon Burchard, Johann Hari, Dan Harris, Louise Hay, or James Clear, this podcast belongs in your library. Warm, non-judgmental, and grounded in lived experience, Messy Midlife sits at the intersection of life coaching, midlife reinvention, and self-discovery.
New episodes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Follow the show for honest stories, useful tools, and a reminder that what feels like a crisis is actually a call to reconnect with yourself.
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Website: www.messymidlifepodcast.world
Messy Midlife is hosted by Jody Arran Brooks, Jay Shetty Certified Life Coach, midlife transition specialist, and school governor based in St Leonards-on-Sea, England.
Messy Midlife: It’s Not A Crisis, It’s A Calling to Connect
Episodes
Midlife Honesty: How to Be Honest with Yourself (Season 4 • Ep 1)
The Smallest True Sentence. Just one, in your own head, once this week.Season 4, Ep 1 — Midlife honesty with Jody Brooks: learn to speak your "smallest true sentence" and begin identity work. Practical coaching steps to stop talki...
Something's Missing But My Life Looks Fine - Kirana Sidin, S4 EP2
I already had all the evidence. I just did not permit myself to name it.Something is missing, but my life looks fine. If that sentence has ever crossed your mind on an ordinary Tuesday, this conversation is for you.My g...
Self-Deception in Midlife: The Small Lies We Tell Ourselves (S4 • Ep 3)
Not the dramatic ones. The ordinary ones, running quietly under Tuesday.Learn to spot everyday self-deception and rebuild self-trust in midlife. Jody Brooks explores the ordinary, quiet lies we tell ourselves small habits and thou...
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Midlife Self-belief: How to Tell a Belief From a Fact About Yourself (S4 EP4)
Water boils at 100. That is a fact. Most of what you say about yourself is not.How to tell a belief from a fact is the single most useful move I know for midlife honesty. Because most of the sentences you say about yourself sound ...
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MIdlife Honesty: Questioning the Beliefs You Were Raised With (S4 EP5)
Twenty-four years FBI. Twelve years in the pulpit. What honesty looks like when the belief was your job.Questioning the beliefs you were raised with is one of the hardest kinds of honesty there is, because the beliefs were not jus...
