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In Episode 4 of What’s Your EX?, Marilie explores what courage actually looks like when you’re facing change, uncertainty, or a new chapter. Courage isn’t about getting rid of fear first. It’s about deciding that fear doesn’t get to make the decision for you.

Whether you’re thinking about leaving a career, starting something new, pursuing a dream you’ve put off, or simply taking one uncomfortable step forward, fear doesn’t necessarily mean you’re making the wrong choice.

Sometimes it means you’re doing something that matters.

This episode is a reminder that you don’t have to become fearless to move forward. You can be uncertain. You can be nervous. You can wonder whether it will work.

And you can still take the next step.

Because courage isn’t the absence of fear.

It’s moving while fear comes along for the ride.

Follow What’s Your EX? for weekly conversations about the chapters we left behind, what they taught us, and who we are becoming next.

For many of us, what we do slowly becomes how we define who we are. So when a career ends, a business changes, the children grow up, or a familiar role no longer fits, it can feel like we’ve lost more than a title. It can feel like we’ve lost ourselves.

In Episode 3 of What’s Your EX?, Marilie explores what remains when the label falls away—and why losing a title may actually help you reconnect with the person underneath it.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• Why titles can become deeply connected to identity and belonging
• Why changing roles can leave you feeling lost or invisible
• How to separate who you are from what you do
• A simple exercise to help you describe yourself without mentioning your job
• Why knowing who you are underneath the label can make endings and pivots less frightening

Marilie also shares what she discovered during her own business pivot: the title was never the whole person. Her persistence, love, courage, responsibility, and ability to show up for others were there long before the role—and remained after it changed.

Try finishing this sentence:

“I am someone who…”

But don’t use your career, title, or what you do for money.

Because you are not your title. You are the whole person underneath it—and that person goes with you into every chapter.

Follow What’s Your EX? for weekly conversations about the chapters we leave behind, what they taught us, and who we are becoming next.

They bought the house. Got the promotion. Changed careers. Built the business. Figured out their next move.

And you’re still trying to figure out yours.

In Episode 2 of What’s Your EX?, Marilie talks about why feeling “behind” may have less to do with where you actually are—and more to do with whose timeline you’re using to measure your life.

Because there isn’t one road. There isn’t one timeline. And the person you’re comparing yourself to isn’t living your life.

In this episode, you’ll learn three practical things to do the next time that “I’m behind” feeling shows up:

1. Name the race—and quit it.
Whose timeline are you actually trying to keep up with?

2. Look backward before you look sideways.
Instead of measuring yourself against someone else, look at how far you’ve come.

3. Pick the next right step.
You don’t need to catch up. You need to move.

Marilie also shares what she’s learning while navigating her own pivot—and why getting absorbed in building what comes next has changed the way she thinks about being “behind.”

Because maybe those years weren’t wasted.

Maybe they were preparation.

You’re not behind. You’re on your own road. Compare yourself to who you were—not to who they are.

Follow What’s Your EX? for a new episode each week, and share this one with someone who needs the reminder that their timeline doesn’t have to look like anyone else’s.

We all have an ex—and I’m not talking about a person.

It might be the career that ended, the dream you buried, the business you walked away from, or an entire version of yourself you thought you left behind.

In this trailer for What’s Your EX?, Marilie introduces a different way of looking at the chapters we’ve outgrown, lost, or walked away from: none of it was wasted.

What’s Your EX? is a podcast about who we used to be and how those experiences may have been preparing us for who we’re becoming.

Every week, expect one honest conversation and one idea that might change the way you see a chapter you once considered a failure.

Maybe the detour was the path all along.

Who were you being prepared to be—this whole time?

Follow What’s Your EX? and let’s go find out.

In this first episode of What's Your EX?, Marilie takes that fear apart.

Here's the idea that changes everything: you cannot live a whole season of your life and come out with nothing. Every chapter — even the ones that ended badly, even the ones you're a little embarrassed about — left something in you. Skills. Instincts. Grit. And when the chapter closed, that didn't leave. It stayed. Because sometimes the pivot isn't about starting over. It's about finally seeing that everything you've lived has been preparing you for what's next.

Marilie gets honest about her own story — the string of jobs that felt like "just getting by," two decades as her family's breadwinner, more than ten years as a caregiver — and the moment she realized she was never collecting paychecks. She was collecting tools. Every one of them walked with her into what came next.

In this episode:

• Why "I wasted that time" is the most damaging story we tell ourselves
• The reason we give friends grace we refuse to give our own past
• How to look at a closed chapter and find what it was actually preparing you for
• The simple question that turns regret into preparation: what did it teach me?
• Why you're not starting from scratch — you're starting from experience

If you've ever felt behind, second-guessed a career change, or wondered whether a season of your life was a detour or a dead end, this one's for you.

🎧 Grab the free one-page action plan HERE — and if it hits you, share it with someone who needs to hear it.

So — What's Your Ex?

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