The Intentional Midlife Mom Podcast | Simple, Practical Life, Home & Mindset Solutions for Moms Over 40

Jennifer Roskamp, CLC
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Welcome to The Intentional Mom™ Podcast, where we provide simple, practical solutions for women over 40 and over 50 who are feeling lost in their lives as their kids are getting older & leaving the nest. Hosted by Certified Intentional Living Coach, Jennifer Roskamp, this empowering show is brought to you by Accomplished Lifestyle, dedicated to helping women and moms over 40 and 50  craft the life they truly desire within their homes & families. Our mission is to help you find your purpose, your confidence, and yourself as a person since your kids are more independent & maybe even off on their own. Each week, join us as we candidly discuss common pitfalls, challenges, and stumbling blocks that often leave us feeling overwhelmed, confused, and lost about what our purpose is when our kids aren't needing us like they did before. With Jennifer’s guidance, we’ll explore how to uncover & rediscover who YOU are and what YOU actually want. You’ll discover that you’re not alone in the emotions, challenges, and trials of everyday life. Instead, you’ll feel seen, understood, and inspired to move forward just one step at a time, stepping into the you you've always wanted to be!

  1. 2h ago

    Ep. 253: Why You Keep Calling Yourself Lazy (And Why You're Wrong)

    Send us Fan Mail Have you ever said any of these things to yourself? "I just need more discipline." "I can't seem to follow through." "I always start things and never finish them." "I know what I need to do. I just don't do it." And then…after enough failed attempts, enough Monday restarts, enough half-filled planners sitting on the shelf you land on the only conclusion that seems to make sense. "I must just be lazy." Friend, I want to lovingly challenge that today. Because I don't think you're lazy. I think you've been calling yourself lazy for so long that you've completely stopped questioning whether it's even true. And that matters more than you might realize. Because if you're solving for laziness when laziness isn't actually the problem, you will stay stuck. Permanently. Trying to fix the wrong thing. So that's what we're doing today. We're going to talk about why so many women believe they're lazy, undisciplined, or just fundamentally incapable…and why that label might be the very thing keeping them from moving forward. By the end of this episode, you're going to understand what's actually happening beneath the struggle. And you're going to walk away with a completely different way of looking at yourself. Let's get into it. Resources mentioned in this episode: https://www.jenniferroskamp.com/1-this-is-why-midlife-feels-so-much-harder-than-you-expected Get some powerful mantras to inspire, encourage, and life you up when you need as little something intentional to focus on.  We have a beautiful pdf download of the 6 Mantras For Intentional Moms you can keep or print. Request them right HERE. Visit The Intentional Mom Follow us on Instagram HERE Visit our YouTube Channel HERE Rate & Review The Intentional Mom Podcast on Apple . We'd love to hear your thoughts on the podcast. If you listen on Spotify, you can rate & review us there, too.

    31 min

  2. 1d ago

    Ep. 252: Why Decluttering Feels So Hard (And Why Forcing Yourself Through It Isn't Working

    Send us Fan Mail I want you to do something with me right now. Close your eyes for a second. Actually, don't close your eyes, you're probably driving or folding laundry. But picture this. Imagine every single item in your home got dumped into one giant pile. Everything. The expired coupons shoved in the junk drawer. The junk mail you keep meaning to deal with. The stained kitchen towels you're not sure why you're still keeping. The tangle of broken charger cords that you have no idea what they even go to anymore. Your grandmother's wedding ring. Your child's first baby blanket. Now imagine I looked at you and said: every single item in that pile is equally difficult to deal with. Every decision requires the same emotional energy. Every object deserves the same amount of your time and attention. You'd look at me like I had lost my mind. Because that's ridiculous. Of course it isn't. But here's the thing…that's exactly how most women walk into a room when they're trying to declutter. If you’ve got any amount of clutter, this is a conversation you’ll want to listen to.  Get some powerful mantras to inspire, encourage, and life you up when you need as little something intentional to focus on.  We have a beautiful pdf download of the 6 Mantras For Intentional Moms you can keep or print. Request them right HERE. Visit The Intentional Mom Follow us on Instagram HERE Visit our YouTube Channel HERE Rate & Review The Intentional Mom Podcast on Apple . We'd love to hear your thoughts on the podcast. If you listen on Spotify, you can rate & review us there, too.

    33 min

  3. May 28

    Ep. 251: The conversations midlife besties are having behind closed doors

    Send us Fan Mail I want to start today with a question. When was the last time someone asked you how you were doing…and you actually told them the truth? Not the "I'm good, just busy" version. Not the polished, capable, holding-it-together version. The real answer. The one you maybe said out loud in your car on the way home, or typed into a voice memo at 11pm, or almost said before you caught yourself and changed the subject. Because here's what I know about midlife women: we are incredibly good at pretending we are fine. We have perfected it. We can be in the middle of the hardest season of our lives and walk into a room and smile and say, "Things are good, how are you?" and mean it just enough that no one asks a follow-up question. We are the queens of gaslighting when it comes to hiding what’s really going on underneath the lump in our throat. But some of the realest conversations midlife women have never happen in public. They happen in parked cars. Over coffee after everyone else leaves. In voice memos we send to our one safe person and we preface it by saying…listen to this when no one else is around.  In texts that start with, "Can I say something honest?" On late-night walks where the dark makes honesty feel easier. That's where the mask comes off. That's where women say the things they've been carrying all week…or all year. This conversation is not about gossip. It's not about complaining. It's about honesty. It's about naming what so many women are quietly living inside: the exhaustion, the loneliness, the identity confusion, the grief they can't quite explain and giving it language so it feels less like a personal failure and more like a shared human experience. Because here's what I've come to believe after years of coaching women: Women, especially midlife women, are carrying conversations inside themselves that rarely get said out loud. And the cost of keeping them inside is real. I remember a moment…sitting across from a friend over coffee, the kind of friend I've known long enough that we've stopped performing for each other and she said something I'll never forget. She said, "Can I just say something without you trying to fix it?"  And I said yes.  And what came out was this quiet, honest admission that she was lonely. Not friendless. Not in a crisis. Just lonely in a way she couldn't fully explain. Lonely inside her marriage. Lonely in her friendships. Lonely inside a life she had worked very hard to build. And I remember thinking: how many of us are walking around with that same feeling, dressed up in productivity and capability, hoping no one looks too closely? A lot. The answer is a lot. So today we're pulling back the curtain. We're going into the conversations. The real ones. Let's get into it. Resources mentioned in this episode: https://www.jenniferroskamp.com/1-this-is-why-midlife-feels-so-much-harder-than-you-expected Get some powerful mantras to inspire, encourage, and life you up when you need as little something intentional to focus on.  We have a beautiful pdf download of the 6 Mantras For Intentional Moms you can keep or print. Request them right HERE. Visit The Intentional Mom Follow us on Instagram HERE Visit our YouTube Channel HERE Rate & Review The Intentional Mom Podcast on Apple . We'd love to hear your thoughts on the podcast. If you listen on Spotify, you can rate & review us there, too.

    33 min

  4. May 26

    Ep. 250: The Stuff You're Saving for Someday Is Costing You Today

    Send us Fan Mail I want to start today with something that happened to me not too long ago. I opened a closet — not even the big one, just a hall closet… and I stood there for a solid minute just staring. It was full. Packed. And almost none of it was stuff I actually use. There was a box of craft supplies I bought during COVID with plans of working on some fun art projects with my homeschooled kids.. Unopened. Still in the bag from Hobby Lobby. There was a stack of books I bought with every intention of reading. There was a workout program — the physical DVDs, which tells you how long ago I bought them…anyone remember Billy Blanks? And I just stood there thinking: who did I think I was going to become? Because that closet wasn't full of stuff. It was full of a version of me I kept meaning to become. The creative me. The disciplined me. The organized, inspired, finally-has-time-for-herself me. And the weight of it…I'm not talking about the physical weight, I'm talking about the emotional weight hit me harder than I expected. So today we're going there. The stuff you're saving for someday is costing you today. This is going to be a hard conversation, but it’s an important one that we’re having here. So let’s get started. Resources mentioned in this episode: https://substack.com/@jenniferroskamp If you’d like to chat about what texting with me, getting the help you need looks like, just send an email with “texting” in the subject line to: jenniferroskamp@theintentionalmom.com - I’ll explain more and we can see if it’s the right fit for you.  Get some powerful mantras to inspire, encourage, and life you up when you need as little something intentional to focus on.  We have a beautiful pdf download of the 6 Mantras For Intentional Moms you can keep or print. Request them right HERE. Visit The Intentional Mom Follow us on Instagram HERE Visit our YouTube Channel HERE Rate & Review The Intentional Mom Podcast on Apple . We'd love to hear your thoughts on the podcast. If you listen on Spotify, you can rate & review us there, too.

    40 min

  5. May 21

    Ep. 249: Why Midlife Women Are Suddenly Questioning Everything About Themselves

    Send us Fan Mail I want to start our time today by telling you about a conversation I had inside Accomplished Lifestyle recently…because honestly, it kinda surprised me. A lot. And it got me thinking. About myself. About you. About what's actually happening to so many of us in this season of life. But before I get there, I want to share something with you that I've been noticing about myself lately. And I want to be clear upfront…it's not dramatic. It's not some big identity crisis. I'm not over here spiraling. It's actually something quieter than that. Smaller. But somehow more significant. I've been catching myself in little moments lately and thinking… wait. Have I always been like this? Have I always functioned this way? Have I always needed this? And I just never noticed? Here's what I mean. I've been paying attention to the fact that I like having multiple projects going at once. Like, I actually thrive when there's more than one thing on my plate. When I'm working on just one thing for too long, I start to feel… off. Restless. Bored, almost. And it honestly doesn’t take me long to get to that place. I've noticed that I do some of my best thinking under pressure. That I actually need a little stimulation to focus. That there are moments where I hyperfocus on something so completely that hours disappear, and I didn't even plan for that to happen. And I've also noticed that overstimulation…too much noise, too many demands hitting me at once can push me right over the edge. And that’s not all…I have so many discoveries about myself…and probably about you to share, too.  Let’s get started! Resources mentioned in this conversation: https://www.jenniferroskamp.com/the-midlife-identity-shift-guide Get some powerful mantras to inspire, encourage, and life you up when you need as little something intentional to focus on.  We have a beautiful pdf download of the 6 Mantras For Intentional Moms you can keep or print. Request them right HERE. Visit The Intentional Mom Follow us on Instagram HERE Visit our YouTube Channel HERE Rate & Review The Intentional Mom Podcast on Apple . We'd love to hear your thoughts on the podcast. If you listen on Spotify, you can rate & review us there, too.

    29 min

  6. May 19

    Ep. 248: The Quiet Evolution of Midlife Women

    Send us Fan Mail Midlife doesn't usually change women loudly. It changes them quietly. One responsibility at a time. One heartbreak. One season of survival. One adjustment. One disappointment. One sacrifice. And then one day you look up and realize… Somewhere along the way, you became someone. Today's episode is one I've been sitting with for a while. Because I think it touches something that a lot of women feel but haven't quite had the words for. And here's where I want to start. I think a lot of women hit midlife and assume they've lost themselves. Like somewhere between the kids and the career and the caregiving and the constant motion she just… disappeared. But honestly, I don't know that that's fully true anymore. I think life shaped them while they were busy living it. Motherhood shaped them. Marriage shaped them. Burnout shaped them. Grief shaped them. Pressure shaped them. Responsibility shaped them. And the goal now isn't necessarily to go backward and rediscover some younger version of yourself. The goal is to become conscious of who you've become. Because here's what I see all the time with the women I coach: they're not lost. They're operating on autopilot. Running the show from old expectations, old identities, and old coping mechanisms that don't fit who they are anymore. The quiet evolution of midlife women is what we’re talking about in this conversation. We’ll cover what it is, why it happens, and most importantly, what you do with it. Let's get into it. Resources mentioned in this conversation: https://www.jenniferroskamp.com/the-midlife-identity-shift-guide Get some powerful mantras to inspire, encourage, and life you up when you need as little something intentional to focus on.  We have a beautiful pdf download of the 6 Mantras For Intentional Moms you can keep or print. Request them right HERE. Visit The Intentional Mom Follow us on Instagram HERE Visit our YouTube Channel HERE Rate & Review The Intentional Mom Podcast on Apple . We'd love to hear your thoughts on the podcast. If you listen on Spotify, you can rate & review us there, too.

    43 min

  7. May 14

    Ep. 247: Stress & Anxiety: The Background Noise You Can't Shut Off

    Send us Fan Mail You know that feeling when your body is technically sitting still… But internally you feel braced for impact all day long? Like your brain never fully powers down. You're driving carpool. Answering texts. Trying to remember what you forgot. Dinner's half planned. Your hormones are doing whatever they want. Someone needs something from you every five minutes. And underneath all of it? There's this low hum. This constant internal static. And I think a lot of midlife women secretly believe: "What is wrong with me? Why can't I handle life anymore the way I used to?" But here's the truth: It's not a volume knob you broke. Your nervous system was never meant to carry this much for this long. Years of mental load. Overfunctioning. Emotional labor. Decision fatigue. People needing you constantly while you slowly disappear inside your own life. That catches up eventually. And if you've been feeling mentally loud lately… if your brain cannotexhale… if you are exhausted in a way that sleep doesn't even fix… This episode is for you. Get some powerful mantras to inspire, encourage, and life you up when you need as little something intentional to focus on.  We have a beautiful pdf download of the 6 Mantras For Intentional Moms you can keep or print. Request them right HERE. Visit The Intentional Mom Follow us on Instagram HERE Visit our YouTube Channel HERE Rate & Review The Intentional Mom Podcast on Apple . We'd love to hear your thoughts on the podcast. If you listen on Spotify, you can rate & review us there, too.

    47 min

  8. May 12

    Ep. 246: Your Clutter Isn't Laziness. It's Guilt and Grief.

    Send us Fan Mail On one of my Instagram Reels this weekend, I asked one question. Is your clutter driven more by guilt… or grief? That's it. One question. And the responses were surprising, but honestly not really all that surprising either.  I thought maybe I'd get a few votes, a handful of "oh, guilty!" responses. What I actually got was women pouring their hearts out in some DMs to me… Women started sharing about their kids' artwork still stuffed in bins from ten years ago. Storage units full of stuff they haven't looked at in years but can't bring themselves to sort through. Clothes that don't fit anymore…or fit just fine, but belong to a version of themselves they're not sure they recognize. Boxes from parents who passed away. Boxes from marriages that ended. Unfinished craft projects. Half-used planners. Empty bedrooms with the door left cracked because closing it fully feels like too much. Piles they avoid looking at entirely. And what became very clear, very quickly, was this: Your clutter isn't laziness. A lot of it is emotional survival. Because midlife women aren't just managing homes and possibly work expectations. They're managing identities. Memories. Pressure. Loss. Expectations. And enough emotional weight to sink a ship…usually with little support and no pause button. And eventually all of that emotional weight starts showing up physically. Midlife mess isn't random. It's a message. Let’s talk about it! Check my substack here:  https://substack.com/@jenniferroskamp Get some powerful mantras to inspire, encourage, and life you up when you need as little something intentional to focus on.  We have a beautiful pdf download of the 6 Mantras For Intentional Moms you can keep or print. Request them right HERE. Visit The Intentional Mom Follow us on Instagram HERE Visit our YouTube Channel HERE Rate & Review The Intentional Mom Podcast on Apple . We'd love to hear your thoughts on the podcast. If you listen on Spotify, you can rate & review us there, too.

    43 min
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Welcome to The Intentional Mom™ Podcast, where we provide simple, practical solutions for women over 40 and over 50 who are feeling lost in their lives as their kids are getting older & leaving the nest. Hosted by Certified Intentional Living Coach, Jennifer Roskamp, this empowering show is brought to you by Accomplished Lifestyle, dedicated to helping women and moms over 40 and 50  craft the life they truly desire within their homes & families. Our mission is to help you find your purpose, your confidence, and yourself as a person since your kids are more independent & maybe even off on their own. Each week, join us as we candidly discuss common pitfalls, challenges, and stumbling blocks that often leave us feeling overwhelmed, confused, and lost about what our purpose is when our kids aren't needing us like they did before. With Jennifer’s guidance, we’ll explore how to uncover & rediscover who YOU are and what YOU actually want. You’ll discover that you’re not alone in the emotions, challenges, and trials of everyday life. Instead, you’ll feel seen, understood, and inspired to move forward just one step at a time, stepping into the you you've always wanted to be!

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