Interrupted: Act 2 Reinventing Your Legacy

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

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Oct 2026

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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 22, 202636 min

217|The Patterns You Didn’t Choose: How Generational Trauma Shapes Your Life

Have you ever caught yourself thinking, “Why do I keep doing this?” Maybe you overthink every decision, struggle to set boundaries, people-please, second-guess yourself, or find yourself repeating patterns you swore you’d never repeat. What if some of those patterns didn’t start with you? In this episode of Interrupted: Act 2 – Reinventing Your Legacy, Laurie talks with Heidi Carlson, Certified Master Life Coach specializing in generational trauma, the mother wound, and the emotional patterns that can shape the way women see themselves, build relationships, parent, lead, and move through life. Heidi shares how experiences and patterns can be passed from one generation to the next—and why understanding where they came from can be an important part of breaking the cycle. They talk about generational trauma, childhood emotional patterns, the mother wound, people-pleasing, boundaries, self-doubt, and the powerful moment when you begin asking a different question: Is this really who I am…or is this something I learned to carry? Because changing your legacy isn’t only about what you leave behind. Sometimes it begins with deciding what you’re no longer willing to pass forward. Learn more about Heidi Carlson and her work: Heidi Carlson Coaching lacoach@comcast.net Ready to start your podcast? https://podcrafter.net/podcrafter-landing-page-page https://podcrafter.net/podcrafter-quiz-page

October 19, 202631 min

218|When Family Stops Talking: Understanding Estrangement, Grief & Healing

What happens when someone you love is still alive—but no longer part of your life? Family estrangement can bring a complicated kind of grief filled with unanswered questions, hurt, anger, guilt, and sometimes hope for reconciliation. In this episode of Interrupted: Act 2 – Reinventing Your Legacy, Laurie talks with Roberta Wasserman, LCSW-C, licensed clinical social worker, family estrangement expert, Certified Grief Educator, and author of Living in the Land of Estrangement: 12 Step Workbook for Estranged Parents and Grandparents. Together, Laurie and Roberta look at family estrangement from all angles—the parent, the adult child, the grandparent, and the family members caught somewhere in between. They talk about the grief that comes when a relationship ends without closure, taking responsibility without living in shame, letting go of what you cannot control, and why healing doesn't always have to mean reconciliation. Roberta also shares the thinking behind her 12-step approach to estrangement and how parents and grandparents can begin moving from constant searching for answers toward greater peace, dignity, and emotional stability. If you've experienced estrangement from an adult child, parent, grandchild, sibling, or other family member, this conversation offers something often missing from discussions about estrangement: space for complexity, compassion, accountability, and hope. Because sometimes the relationship may not be repaired—but you can still heal. Connect with Roberta Wasserman, LCSW-C: Roberta Wasserman's website Get the book: Living in the Land of Estrangement: 12 Step Workbook for Estranged Parents and Grandparents Find Roberta's book on Amazon lacoach@comcast.net Start your podcast today: https://podcrafter.net/podcrafter-landing-page-page What is your podcast voice? https://podcrafter.net/podcrafter-quiz-page

October 15, 202626 min

216|Lizzie Thomas on Reinvention, Finding Your Voice & Creating Music on Your Own Terms

In this episode, Laurie sits down with internationally touring jazz singer, songwriter and producer Lizzie Thomas for a powerful conversation about music, creativity, reinvention and the courage to follow where your voice is leading you. Lizzie built her career interpreting the Great American Songbook and has performed and recorded with some of jazz’s most celebrated musicians, including Ron Carter, Russell Malone, Wayne Escoffery and the Grammy Award-winning Harlem String Quartet. But her creative journey eventually called her beyond interpreting the music of others and into writing and producing music of her own. That evolution led to original projects including Awakening and This Is FREEDOM and to founding GODDESS Legacy Records, a label created with a commitment to empowering female artists and producers. Lizzie shares what it means to trust your creativity, let go of expectations, reinvent yourself and give yourself permission to become the person—and artist—you know you’re meant to be. It’s a conversation about more than jazz. It’s about finding your authentic voice, embracing change, creative freedom, women in music, starting over and having the courage to listen when something inside you says there’s more. Connect with Lizzie Thomas: Website & music: https://www.lizziethejazzsinger.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lizziethejazzsinger Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LizzieTheJazzSinger/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/lizziethejazzsinger lacoach@comcast.net

October 12, 202644 min

212|From Overwhelmed to In Control: Lisa Conway on ADHD, Salon Success & Getting Your Time Back

What if running a successful business didn’t have to mean giving up your time, your energy, or your life? Lisa Conway knows the hair and beauty industry from the inside out. With more than 30 years of experience as a hairdresser and salon owner, Lisa has gone on to become a business coach, mentor, speaker, and author helping salon, spa, and beauty professionals build profitable businesses that don’t depend on them doing everything themselves. In this powerful and refreshingly candid conversation, Lisa shares her own struggles with ADHD and how understanding the way her brain works has shaped the way she approaches business, leadership, time management, and success. We talk about the trap so many entrepreneurs fall into—believing that working harder is the answer—and why better systems, stronger teams, and learning to let go can create something far more valuable: time freedom. Lisa also shares lessons from her books, including The Naked Salon, Your Salon Team, and Your Salon Retail, and what she has learned from decades of helping business owners move from overwhelmed and overworked to confident and in control. Whether you’re a hairstylist, salon owner, beauty professional, entrepreneur, or simply someone trying to build a successful business while navigating ADHD and an always-busy brain, this conversation is a reminder that your business is supposed to support your life—not consume it. In this episode: ADHD and entrepreneurship, salon business coaching, time management, business systems, salon leadership, building a strong team, work-life balance, profitability, avoiding burnout, and creating more freedom as a business owner. Lisa Conway / Salon MENTOR website: Salon MENTOR Lisa’s books: The Naked Salon, Your Salon Team & Your Salon Retail — Lisa lists all three as available in paperback and audio. Salon Conversation with Lisa Conway — Podcast: Podcast Website Apple Podcasts: Listen on Apple Podcasts Spotify: Listen on Spotify lacoach@c omcast.net Are you ready to Podcast? https://podcrafter.net/podcrafter-landing-page-page https://podcrafter.net/podcrafter-quiz-page

October 8, 202619 min

215|Funding the Mission: Vasheti Quiros on Grants, Nonprofits and Community Impact

Grant funding can do much more than support a program—it can help a nonprofit expand its reach, strengthen its mission and change lives. In this episode, Vasheti Quiros shares how she helps nonprofit organizations navigate the grant process and find funding for the important work they are already doing. She explains why grants can be essential to nonprofit growth, what organizations need to understand before seeking funding and why this work matters so deeply to her. Vasheti also opens up about the personal passion behind her work and her commitment to helping mission-driven leaders turn their vision into sustainable community impact. If you lead a nonprofit, support a charitable organization or want to better understand nonprofit grants, fundraising and mission-based leadership, this conversation offers encouragement, insight and hope. Learn more about Vasheti Quiros: https://boldjourney.com/meet-vasheti-quiros/ lacoach@comcast.net All things Podcast Membership https://podcrafter.net/podcrafter-landing-page-page Your Podcast Voice Quiz https://podcrafter.net/podcrafter-quiz-page

October 5, 202621 min

213|Navigating Cancer Without Losing Yourself: Patient Advocacy, Resilience & Taking Back Control | Farla Efros

What happens when the person who has always known how to fix things faces something she can’t simply fix? Farla Efros spent decades as a retail turnaround specialist, stepping into struggling companies, creating strategies, and leading through chaos. Then she was diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer—and suddenly, the biggest turnaround of her life was her own. In this powerful and refreshingly candid conversation, Farla shares her cancer journey and what she wishes more people knew about navigating a life-changing diagnosis. We talk about patient advocacy, asking better questions, building the right medical team, trusting your instincts, and why you don’t have to become a passive participant in your own healthcare. Farla also opens up about the emotional side of cancer—the fear, grief, loss of control, changing identity, and the complicated reality of figuring out how to live while going through treatment and recovery. Her book, F*ck Cancer: Commanding a Comeback When Your Body Has Turned On You*, is part memoir and part practical playbook for anyone facing a health crisis. This conversation isn’t only about surviving cancer. It’s about finding your voice when life turns upside down, advocating for what you need, and choosing how you want to move forward. Connect with Farla Efros: Visit Farla Efros’ website Get the book: F*ck Cancer: Commanding a Comeback When Your Body Has Turned On You on Amazon lacoach@comcast.net Quiz https://podcrafter.net/podcrafter-quiz-page Ready to Podcast? https://podcrafter.net/podcrafter-landing-page-page

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