Her Turn

Dani Hanlon
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Her Turn is the podcast for women navigating life after divorce, who know there's more to this chapter than simply healing, rebuilding and getting through. Hosted by life coach and mentor, Dani Hanlon, each episode explores the conversations that too often get overlooked after divorce: identity, confidence and mindset, recognising what fits in your life now – and what doesn’t, saying ‘yes’ to all the right things, and intentionally creating a future that feels exciting to wake up to. If your divorce is behind you, life is finally feeling stable again, and you've caught yourself wondering, ‘What do I want more of now?’ – you’re absolutely in the right place. Because moving on isn’t where your journey ends. It's where everything starts to get interesting again. New episodes each week. Connect with Dani Follow Dani on Instagram @coached.by.dani here: Explore more of Dani’s work here

  1. 2d ago

    What if you don't need to know how it all works out?

    What if the thing holding you back from your next chapter isn't a lack of confidence, but the need to know exactly how it's all going to work out?   When you've spent years building a life, taking another chance on yourself can feel like a big ask. But what if you already have more evidence, experience and capability than you're giving yourself credit for?   This Her Turn conversation is about self-trust, navigating uncertainty and learning to move towards what you want without needing every answer first.   In the episode, Dani explores: Why the need for certainty might be keeping you playing safe. The difference between genuine warning signs and the discomfort of doing something unfamiliar. How your past experiences can help you navigate an uncertain future. A different way to think about taking risks, changing direction and trusting yourself. What it means to create a next chapter you're genuinely excited about.   Work with Dani Ready to stop settling for fine and start thinking about what you really want from your next chapter?   Explore coaching with Dani here   Find out more about Dani, free resources to get your started and how to connect on socials here   Follow Her Turn for more conversations about life after divorce, personal growth, mindset and creating a bigger, better next chapter.   Keywords: Life after divorce, rebuilding life after divorce, creating your next chapter after divorce, self-trust for women, overcoming fear of failure, dealing with uncertainty, confidence after divorce, personal growth for women over 40, life coaching for women, midlife reinvention, making life changes, investing in yourself, finding purpose after divorce, mindset coaching, women's empowerment, Her Turn podcast, Dani Hanlon.

  2. Oct 5

    How much of your life did you actually, consciously choose?

    What if some of the choices you've made throughout your life were never really choices at all?   Not because you made bad decisions or because there's anything wrong with the life you've built. But because you followed the next logical step without ever stopping to ask whether it was actually what you wanted.   Marriage. Career. Motherhood. Where you live. How you spend your money. What you prioritise. Even what you believe you're supposed to want at this stage of your life.   In this episode, Dani explores what happens when we stop living on autopilot and start looking at our lives through the lens of agency - the ability to consciously choose what stays, what changes and what comes next.   Dani shares her own reflections on the ‘linear life’ she followed when she was younger, what she understands differently now, and why getting older can give us something incredibly valuable: the perspective to question choices we once simply accepted.   We’ll talk about: The invisible life script many of us inherit without realising it Why a good life can still contain choices you never consciously made The difference between rejecting the conventional path and consciously choosing it How to recognise the subtle signs that you've started drifting The little words - should, ought to, at my age, people would think... - that can reveal inherited choices The question I think every woman should ask herself about the life she's living now   You don't need to blow up the life you've built and you don't need to decide everything you've ever done was wrong.   But you do get a say in what happens next.   Work with Dani  If you've rebuilt your life and you're ready to get really honest about what you want next, my 1:1 coaching is designed to help you work through the parts of your life that have question marks over them - and turn them into clearer decisions and intentional action.   Join my 1:1 waitlist here. Find out more about working with me, free resources and my downloadable meditations here.       Episode keywords: conscious life choices, consciously choosing your life, intentional living, designing your life, living by default, personal agency, changing your life after 40, life after 40, reinventing your life after 40, midlife reinvention, how to figure out what you really want in life, how to change your life in your 40s, changing your life when nothing is wrong, life coaching for women, life coach for women over 40, personal growth for women over 40, life after divorce, personal growth after divorce, inherited life script, creating your next chapter.

  3. Sep 27

    The reason you’re still waiting to change your life

    In this episode of Her Turn, Dani explores why women can stay with people, in places and careers, routines and versions of their lives long after they know they want something different - particularly when life feels 'good'.   What if you didn’t have to be unhappy to want more and you didn’t need a crisis to make a change? And what if ‘I want something different’ is reason enough?   Drawing on her own experience of rebuilding after divorce and the choices she made once the crisis was firmly behind her, Dani looks at the difference between making a decision that is right for you and making one you can defend to everyone else.   You don’t have to prove your life is bad enough before you’re allowed to want something different. You don’t need a crisis, you don’t need everyone to agree, and you don’t need a perfectly defensible reason.   And once you trust yourself enough to take that desire seriously, you can start making decisions from a very different place.   Work with Dani Dani works 1:1 with women who have rebuilt after divorce, heartbreak and difficult life transitions - but know they’re nowhere near finished creating an amazing life.   Through private coaching and mentoring, the work is about getting honest about what you actually want, building deeper self-trust, making the decisions you’ve been circling around and turning those decisions into real action.   Work with Dani 1:1 here Explore Dani's story, her coaching, free resources and meditation downloads here   Search keywords: life after divorce, changing your life after 40, starting over after divorce, life coaching for women, life coach for women over 40,  midlife reinvention, rebuilding after divorce, personal growth after divorce, next chapter after divorce, reinventing yourself after 40, self-trust, making big life decisions, changing your life when nothing is wrong, creating your next chapter, intentional living, women's personal development, life transitions, midlife life coaching, finding yourself after divorce, creating a life you want.

  4. Sep 13

    Stop making your life make sense to everybody else

    In this episode of Her Turn, Dani explores what happens when we stop needing our choices to be understood by everyone around us - and start backing ourselves to make them anyway.   It's a conversation about self-trust, people pleasing, the invisible ‘shoulds’ that shape women's lives, and the freedom that comes from no longer needing consensus before you make your move.   If you're a woman after divorce who knows your life is good but also knows there is more you're capable of experiencing, creating and enjoying, this episode is for you.   You don't need everyone to understand your next move. You need to be able to stand behind it.   Work with Dani If you're ready to deliberately create what's next after divorce, this is the work I do with women through private 1:1 coaching and mentorship.   Join the 1:1 waitlist here for places opening later in September 2026 and make 2027 the year you step into the life you want to live now.   Find out more about Dani's work here and come say hi on Instagram @Coached.By.Dani

  5. Sep 7

    Expanders: What are they, why you need one, and how to find them

    Have you ever looked at another woman and thought, 'If she can do that, maybe I can too'?   That's an expander.   In this episode of Her Turn, Dani explores the idea of expanders - people who expand your perception of what's possible simply by living it themselves. They don't necessarily teach you how to create the life you want; they give you evidence that it can be done.   For women who have rebuilt their lives after divorce and know they have more they want to experience, create and become, expanders can be incredibly powerful.   Sometimes you don't need more motivation or another strategy - you need to see what's possible for a woman like you.   Today’s conversation covers: What an expander actually is and why having them in your life matters. The difference between expansion and comparison - and how one very common emotion can surprisingly reveal something you may not have realised. Why your environment can influence the size of the life you believe is available to you. How to find your own expanders and get into the kind of rooms where you'll meet more people who expand your vision. Why your past relationship shouldn't become the evidence you use to decide what your future relationships can look like.   Finish the episode with a simple but transformational exercise to help you find more expanders in your own life, because chances are, they're closer than you think!   If you've rebuilt your life after divorce, you're doing well, and yet there's a part of you thinking there has to be more than this, this conversation is for you.   Because the goal isn't to find women who have a better life than yours. It's to find women who make your idea of what's possible, bigger.   Work with Dani If you've built a good life after divorce and you're ready to deliberately create what's next, this is the work I do with women through private 1:1 coaching and mentorship.   Make 2027 your best, most confident and exciting year yet, join the 1:1 waitlist here for places opening later in September 2026. Find out more about the work Dani does coaching and mentoring women after divorce here

  6. Aug 30

    No-one's coming to make your life more interesting

    What if one of the secrets to loving your life isn't waiting for something exciting to happen - but deliberately creating things to look forward to?   In this episode of Her Turn, Dani explores the role of anticipation and desire in creating a life you genuinely love after divorce and why waiting for the perfect circumstances - or the right person - to arrive is rarely ever the answer you might think it is.   For women who have rebuilt their lives after divorce and are ready to stop living on autopilot, this is a conversation about creating more experiences, adventure, pleasure and possibility in the life you've already built.   You'll also get a simple exercise to help you turn something you've been saying "one day" about into a first step you can actually take.   Work with Dani If you've built a good life after divorce and you're ready to deliberately create what's next, this is the work I do with women through private 1:1 coaching and mentorship.   Join the 1:1 waitlist here for places opening in September 2026. Find out more about Dani and the work she does here

  7. Aug 23

    The trap costing you the good life you've built

    You can build a really good life after divorce - and still end up resenting it.   In this episode of Her Turn, Dani explores the less obvious side of creating a great life after divorce: what happens when you're so busy keeping everything running that there's very little of you left to actually enjoy it.   She unpacks the connection between overgiving, resentment and energy, why capable women can become the ones who carry everything, and why the next level of your life may not require adding more - but becoming much more intentional about what - and who - gets your energy.   Because the goal after divorce isn't simply to build a good life.  It's having enough of yourself left to enjoy it.   Work with Dani If your life is good, but you know there's a next level available to you, this is the work Dani does with women through private coaching and mentorship. Instagram: @coached.by.dani Work with me / apply to join my 1:1 waitlist here

  8. Aug 14

    The work I had to do, to do the work I was born for

    This week's episode of Her Turn is a little different.   It's more personal, vulnerable and, if I'm honest, a conversation about things I’ve been sitting with for a while now.   I've spent a lot of time this year questioning the work I do coaching and mentoring women after divorce and what it really means to step fully into this work I feel called to do.   And getting to the other side of that questioning required me to look at some things I hadn't really wanted to look at.   What I thought people saw when they looked at me, what I thought my own story said about me.   And what I was willing - or not, as the case may be, to let other people see.   This episode is about that work and the powerful realisation I had on the other side of it - it's probably one of the most honest conversations I've ever shared with you on Her Turn.   If you’d like to go all in on creating a beautiful life for yourself after divorce too, or just want to dive deeper into my world and the work we do over here, everything you need is in this link.

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Her Turn is the podcast for women navigating life after divorce, who know there's more to this chapter than simply healing, rebuilding and getting through. Hosted by life coach and mentor, Dani Hanlon, each episode explores the conversations that too often get overlooked after divorce: identity, confidence and mindset, recognising what fits in your life now – and what doesn’t, saying ‘yes’ to all the right things, and intentionally creating a future that feels exciting to wake up to. If your divorce is behind you, life is finally feeling stable again, and you've caught yourself wondering, ‘What do I want more of now?’ – you’re absolutely in the right place. Because moving on isn’t where your journey ends. It's where everything starts to get interesting again. New episodes each week. Connect with Dani Follow Dani on Instagram @coached.by.dani here: Explore more of Dani’s work here

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  • Creator
    Dani Hanlon
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    39
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    Her Turn