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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Instagram: @messymidlife_podcast and @the_authenticcoach
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.

Guest

Catherine Crestani

My work sits at the intersection of human behaviour, emotional attachment, and the ways we seek connection—whether that’s through dating, digital interaction, or experiences that feel deeply real but don’t always reflect reality.

What makes my perspective different is the range of lenses I bring into the conversation. With a background in speech pathology and business, alongside my work as an intuitive and inner authority guide, I’ve spent years observing how people communicate, attach, and often override what they know to be true in order to maintain connection.

These patterns became the foundation for My Virtual Obsession, a psychological novel that explores how loneliness, emotional vulnerability, and modern connection can blur the line between what feels real and what actually is.

I’m also the host of the Willow Healing Matters podcast and an Executive Contributor for Brainz Magazine, where I continue exploring these themes through conversation and writing.

http://willowhealing.org/

Guest appearance on:

Midlife Resilience: Finding the Courage To Change & Say No To