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Interrupted: Act 2 Reinventing Your Legacy

Interrupted: Act 2 Reinventing Your Legacy

Hosted by Laurie Hardie Seattle Radio Personality Author Podcaster/Podprenuer Certified Life/Recovery Coach

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100

Latest episode

Aug 2026

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EN

About the show

Welcome to Interrupted: Act 2 Reinventing Your Legacy — the podcast where real stories of reinvention, resilience, healing, and personal growth take center stage. Each week, host Laurie Hardie talks with inspiring guests who have faced life’s unexpected interruptions — grief, trauma, addiction, career changes, loss, reinvention, midlife transitions, and starting over — and turned those experiences into purpose, impact, and powerful new beginnings. If you’ve ever wondered whether your story matters, this podcast will remind you that your voice has value. Through honest conversations about healing, mindset, courage, entrepreneurship, podcasting, and legacy, you’ll discover how sharing your story can create connection, inspire others, and even open the door to building your own platform or podcast. Interrupted is for women over 40, entrepreneurs, creators, survivors, and anyone navigating a major life transition who wants to feel seen, heard, and less alone. Because what you’ve lived through isn’t the end of your story — it may be the very thing that helps someone else heal. www.coachlaurie.com lacoach@comcast.net Insta: @didnotseethatcoming https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=coach%20laurie www.didnotseethatcoming.com

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October 1, 202631 min

210|Your Words Are Powerful: Are They Helping You or Hurting You?

Our thoughts become words. Our words carry energy. And the words we repeat can shape the way we see ourselves, our circumstances, and our possibilities. In this episode, Mary Ann Robbat and I explore the surprising power of what we think and say—and how those words can either encourage us or become the very thing that keeps us stuck. Mary Ann also opens up about one of her biggest life interruptions: becoming a mother to triplets. Her story reminds us that sometimes the moments we never planned for can completely change the direction of our lives. Come listen, reflect, and consider: What are you speaking into your life? Connect with Mary Ann Robbat: Quiz Findyouroriginpattern.com maryannrobbat.com lacoach@comcast.net Podcrafter A membership to get your podcast up and going

September 28, 202637 min

211|OWN IT: Stop Living by Everyone Else’s Rules & Start Trusting Yourself | Bitsy Hamilton

I get to chat with Bitsy Hamilton, transition coach, speaker, and author of Own It, about learning to trust yourself, embrace who you are, and create a life that actually fits YOU. Bitsy shares the influence of her wonderfully extravagant mother and the lessons she learned about showing up fully as yourself. We also dive into the Own It Framework, Bitsy’s flexible approach to navigating life transitions with authenticity, vulnerability, accountability, and self-trust. Because there isn’t one perfect formula for reinvention—and there shouldn’t be. Bitsy explains how women can begin letting go of people-pleasing, perfectionism, old expectations, and the pressure to follow someone else’s definition of success. Instead, we can get clear about what matters to us, trust our own decisions, and move forward with confidence—even when we don’t have the entire path figured out. If you’re in a season of change, questioning what comes next, or realizing it might finally be time to choose yourself, this conversation is your invitation to stop second-guessing and OWN IT. Bitsy Hamilton https://www.coachbitsy.com/ lacoach@comcast.net What is your podcast voice? Are you READY to start that podcast?

September 21, 202634 min

214|Kidnapped Baby, Mistaken Identity & the Search for Family With Jack Fronczak & Tracy Hastings

Imagine discovering that the story you’ve been told about your identity your entire life isn’t true. Paul Jack Fronczak grew up believing he was Paul Fronczak—the baby kidnapped from a Chicago hospital in 1964 and later believed to have been found and returned to his family. But after becoming a father himself, lingering questions about his past eventually led him to DNA testing. The results changed everything. The man raised as Paul Fronczak was not biologically related to the Fronczak family. His search for answers would eventually reveal his true identity as Jack Rosenthal—and another stunning discovery: he had a twin sister, Jill, whose disappearance remains a mystery. In this episode of Interrupted: Act 2 – Reinventing Your Legacy, Paul Jack Fronczak and his co-host Tracey Hastings share the extraordinary twists and turns of this decades-long search for identity, biological family and the truth about what happened to him. But his story has become about much more than solving his own mystery. We also talk about his work helping foundlings and others with unknown origins search for their roots, reconnect with biological family and find answers to one of our most fundamental questions: Where did I come from? This is an unforgettable conversation about kidnapping, DNA, genetic genealogy, missing children, family secrets, foundlings, identity and the deep human need to know our own story. Resources & Learn More 🎙️ The Fronczak Files Podcast: Listen on Apple Podcasts 🌐 The Fronczak Files: TheFronczakFiles.com 📖 The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me: The Foundling — Simon & Schuster 📖 True Identity: Cracking the Oldest Kidnapping Cold Case and Finding My Missing Twin: Learn more about True Identity 🎬 The Lost Sons documentary: The Lost Sons — CNN Films 🔎 The Search for Jill Rosenthal: Help Find Jill Jack & Jill Rosenthal Foundation for Missing and Unidentified Children lacoach@comcast.net Podcast Creation Membership https://podcrafter.net/podcrafter-landing-page-page Quiz https://podcrafter.net/podcrafter-quiz-page

September 14, 202629 min

209|The Stories We’re Afraid to Tell: Women, Porn Addiction, Infertility & Healing

What happens when the parts of our story we’re most afraid to talk about are the very parts someone else needs to hear? Crystal Renaud Day, founder of SheRecovery and author of What Drives Women to Porn?, joins Laurie for an honest conversation about women, pornography addiction, shame, recovery, infertility, and the healing that can begin when we stop hiding our difficult stories. Crystal shares her own journey and why pornography and unwanted sexual behaviors are not simply “men’s issues.” Through years of research and working with women in recovery, she has helped bring an often-hidden struggle into the conversation and created a place where women can find support without shame. We also explore Crystal’s SCARS Model™ — Surrender, Confession, Accountability, Responsibility, and Sharing — and why that final step, sharing, can be so powerful. Crystal opens up about another deeply personal part of her life: infertility, and what she learned about grief, identity, expectations, and telling the truth about experiences we might rather keep private. This conversation goes beyond pornography. It’s about shame, secrecy, addiction recovery, infertility, emotional healing, vulnerability, and the courage to tell the stories that are difficult to tell. Because sometimes sharing your story isn’t just part of your own healing. It may be the thing that helps another woman realize she isn’t alone. Learn more about Crystal Renaud Day and SheRecovery at SheRecovery.com. lacoach@comcast.net Podcast Quiz https://podcrafter.net/podcrafter-quiz-page Podcrafter Podcasting membership

September 7, 202624 min

208|Panic to Profit: How Julia Hurley Built a Career Through Risk, Reinvention & Resilience

What do you do when the clock is running out, the pressure is on, and failure feels like something you simply can’t afford? In this episode, Laurie sits down with Julia Hurley, a dynamic entrepreneur, nationally recognized real estate broker, author, speaker, media personality, and former elected official who has built a career around leadership, reinvention, and creating opportunity. As the owner of JustHomesGroup, Julia has made her mark in the real estate industry through innovative marketing, smart business strategy, and a commitment to serving her community. But her story reaches far beyond real estate. With a decade of political experience, a background in life coaching and personal development, and a sports management company helping athletes build their brands and expand their opportunities, Julia knows what it means to pivot, take risks, and keep moving forward. We also talk about her book, Panic to Profit: The Playbook Every Agent Needs When the Clock Is Running Out Because We Can’t Afford to Fail Again, and the lessons she has learned about navigating uncertainty, building a personal brand, creating multiple opportunities, and turning pressure into purposeful action. If you’re an entrepreneur, business owner, real estate professional, or a woman navigating your own season of reinvention, this conversation is a reminder that your next chapter may require courage, strategy—and a willingness to bet on yourself. Learn more about Julia Hurley, her work, and Panic to Profit at TheJuliaHurley.com. lacoach@comcast.net Podcast Quiz Podcrafter

August 31, 202624 min

207|When Your Life’s Work Disappears: How Henry Tolbert Turned an Interruption Into a New Beginning

What happens when the life and career you thought you were building suddenly disappear? Henry Tolbert was in ministry leadership, building what he believed was his life’s work, when everything seemed to collapse at once. He lost his role, lost his income, and then his family’s home flooded—forcing them to gut the kitchen and spend six weeks living out of hotels. One moment became a turning point: Henry stood in his backyard grilling hot dogs over a fire pit for his kids, looking at a house that was torn apart and a future he could no longer predict. That’s when the question changed. Instead of asking, “Why is this happening?” Henry began asking, “What am I supposed to build now?” In this episode of Interrupted: Act 2 – Reinventing Your Legacy, Henry shares how losing the path he thought he was supposed to follow led him to entrepreneurship and the creation of Simple Systems Consulting. He started with no audience, no following and no guarantee it would work. Five years later, Simple Systems has reached more than 100,000 people and helped hundreds of pastors and entrepreneurs rebuild, simplify and grow. We talk about starting over, career transitions, entrepreneurship, leadership, resilience, rebuilding after loss, finding purpose after an unexpected life change, and having the courage to build your own vision instead of chasing someone else’s. Sometimes the interruption isn't the end of the story. Sometimes it's the redirection that leads you exactly where you need to go. Connect with Henry Tolbert Founder & CEO, Simple Systems Consulting Email: henry@simplesystems.cc lacoach@comcast.net Quiz (take it) https://podcrafter.net/podcrafter-quiz-page Podcrafter Membership https://podcrafter.net/podcrafter-landing-page-page

August 24, 202628 min

206|Goals That Actually Work: Leadership, Employee Buy-In & Successful Organizational Change

What does it really take to create meaningful change inside a company—and make sure your employees are part of the journey? In this episode, Laurie talks with Amanda Van Der Heiden, Chief Learning Solutions Consultant at Global Talent Development Solutions (GTDS), about goal setting, leadership, employee engagement, and what makes organizational change actually work. Amanda shares her experience helping organizations turn big-picture goals into practical strategies while navigating one of the most important—and sometimes overlooked—parts of corporate change: the people. They talk about setting goals that create real results, communicating change effectively, getting employees on board, and why successful business transformation requires more than a new system, initiative, or strategic plan. It requires understanding how people learn, adapt, and move forward together. Whether you're a business owner, leader, entrepreneur, or someone navigating change in your own career, this conversation offers a refreshing look at goal setting, leadership, learning and development, workplace culture, employee engagement, and successful organizational transformation. Learn more about Amanda Van Der Heiden and Global Talent Development Solutions at GTDSCorp.com. lacoach@comcast.net Podcast Quiz Podcast Membership

August 17, 202628 min

205|Retirement Isn't the End—It's Your Next Edit | Andrea Maizes on Purpose, Identity & Lifestyle

Retirement isn't just about having enough money—it's about creating a life you're excited to wake up to every day. In this inspiring episode, executive retirement coach and author Andrea Maizes shares why true retirement readiness goes far beyond finances. Together, we explore what happens when your career no longer defines you, how to rediscover purpose after work, and why your next chapter doesn't have to look like anyone else's. If you've ever assumed retirement means endless games of Mahjong, golf, or simply filling your calendar, Andrea offers a refreshing perspective: your retirement should reflect your passions, values, and lifestyle. Whether you're approaching retirement, considering a career transition, or simply wondering what comes next, this conversation will help you think differently about designing a meaningful, fulfilling future. In this episode you'll discover: Why retirement planning is about more than money How to prepare emotionally and mentally for life after work The difference between burnout and being truly ready to retire How to create purpose, identity, and fulfillment in your next chapter Why there's no "right" way to retire—and why that's good news Connect with Andrea Maizes: 🌐 AndreaMaizes.com 📖 Your Next Edit – Designing Your Retirement lacoach@comcast.net Podcrafter Quiz PodCrafter Membership

August 10, 202621 min

203|The Hidden Conditioning Keeping You Stuck: How to Reclaim Your Instinct, Creativity & Flow with Jo Kelly

Have you ever wondered if you're actually stuck—or simply conditioned to believe you are? In this thought-provoking conversation, Laurie sits down with Jo Kelly, a de-conditioning companion, filmmaker, and guide who helps people reconnect with their natural creativity, authentic expression, and instinctive wisdom. Together they explore why so many high-achieving people struggle with overthinking, perfectionism, creative blocks, and feeling disconnected from themselves. Jo shares her unique approach to de-conditioning—a process of letting go of learned patterns that keep us performing instead of truly living. They also discuss: • Why the real problem isn't a lack of talent—it's conditioning • How to move from overthinking into flow state • Reconnecting with creativity and authentic self-expression • Emotional freedom and nervous system regulation • What dancing through cancer taught Jo about being fully alive • Why our world is hungry for genuine human connection If you've ever felt like you've lost touch with yourself, your purpose, or your creativity, this conversation offers a refreshing perspective on what it means to become fully human again. Connect with Jo Kelly Website: lacoach@comcast.net Podcrafter Quiz Podcrafter Membership

August 3, 202623 min

204|From Prison to Purpose: Judy Burr's Incredible Story of Redemption, Resilience & Second Chances

What Prison Taught Me About Freedom: Judy Burr's Story of Hope and Redemption Life After Prison: Judy Burr on Finding Purpose Through the Hardest Chapter of Her Life The Truth About Federal Prison: Judy Burr's Journey from Conviction to Transformation How One Prison Sentence Changed Everything: Judy Burr on Resilience, Hope & Healing From Wire Fraud to Wisdom: Judy Burr Shares the Lessons That Changed Her Life Second Chances Are Earned: Judy Burr's Story of Prison, Perseverance and Purpose Finding Hope Behind Bars: Judy Burr on Prison, Personal Growth and Redemption Can Your Worst Mistake Become Your Greatest Teacher? Judy Burr Says Yes The Life Lessons I Never Expected to Learn in Prison | Judy Burr Apple & Spotify Description Can your darkest chapter become the beginning of your greatest purpose? In this powerful episode, Laurie sits down with author Judy Burr, whose life took an unexpected turn when she was convicted of wire fraud and entered the federal prison system. Instead of allowing prison to define her, Judy used the experience to discover resilience, accountability, hope, and a completely new perspective on life. Drawing from her memoir Lion Song, Judy shares what life behind bars was really like, the relationships that changed her, the lessons she never expected to learn, and how she rebuilt her life after prison. Together they discuss: What life inside federal prison is really like The emotional impact of incarceration Finding hope in impossible circumstances Personal responsibility and second chances Resilience through adversity Healing after life's biggest setbacks Faith, forgiveness, and moving forward Why our mistakes don't have to define our future Whether you've experienced hardship yourself or simply love stories of resilience and transformation, Judy's journey is a powerful reminder that hope can be found in the most unexpected places. Learn more about Judy Burr and her books: JudyBurr.com lacoach@comcast.net Podcrafter Quiz Podcrafter Membership

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