The After Chapter Podcast

Michele Lamarre and Cecilia Nelson-Hurt
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The After Chapter Podcast is the only podcast that treats the in-between as the destination, not the obstacle. We focus on the space between what was and what's next, where people who look like they have it together on the outside are expected to have answers they don't yet have. Instead of pushing for clarity, we stay with the questions. Reflective, grounded conversations exploring identity through career shifts, leadership evolution, and personal change. Hosted by Michele Lamarre and Cecilia Nelson-Hurt.

  1. 5d ago

    What You Actually Built It For | After Chapter Podcast 32

    Contact Us at info@afterchapterpodcast.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At some point, someone told you that if you love it enough, you should make money from it. Ruschelle Khanna, LCSW, built an anthology for 22 women and had to learn to let it give something back to her. Ruschelle is the CEO and co-founder of Memoir Me, the author of Inherited Trauma and Family Wealth, and the editor of From Echo to Athena. In this conversation she gets honest about what happens when you're better at showing up for everyone else than for yourself. 5 things you'll hear in this episode: 1.The panel in South Africa that sent her home with no plan, and a book she didn't know she was about to write 2. Why a move back to West Virginia during COVID turned out to matter more than she expected 3. The sentence one of her authors said that no one in her helping profession had ever said to her 4. The two things she won't turn into a business, even though she'll monetize almost everything else 5. What she's holding on to right now, and the expectation she's loosening her grip on 💡 1-minute takeaway: Not everything you love needs a business plan, and not everything you build for others is only for them. The reconstruction question isn't what would make a good pivot story. It's what you actually built this for, and whether you've let it give anything back to you. Ruschelle doesn't wrap it up neatly. She gives the honest version. Join the community hub: the-after-chapter-newsletter.beehiiv.com Tell us what landed for you in the comments. We read every one. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The views and opinions expressed on The After Chapter Podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not reflect the views, positions, or policies of any employer, organization, or affiliated entity. Any data or research shared on the podcast is not proprietary to any employer. All podcast content, including audio, video, transcripts, and likeness, may not be reproduced or used to train artificial intelligence systems without prior written permission.

  2. Sep 29

    The Clock You Can't See | After Chapter Podcast 31

    Contact Us at info@afterchapterpodcast.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There's a kind of urgency that has nothing to do with a deadline and everything to do with a birthday. A few episodes back, Michele and Cecilia put a price on the pivot. This time they look at the cost of waiting: the trip, the class, the call you keep saying you'll get to. No guest, just the two of them, an Irish coffee with a clock in it, and honest answers about what they've stopped putting off. Your turn: what have you been waiting on? Leave us a comment or send your feedback on any platform where you follow us. Subscribe to The Pour, our newsletter: https://the-after-chapter-newsletter.beehiiv.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The views and opinions expressed on The After Chapter Podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not reflect the views, positions, or policies of any employer, organization, or affiliated entity. Any data or research shared on the podcast is not proprietary to any employer. All podcast content, including audio, video, transcripts, and likeness, may not be reproduced or used to train artificial intelligence systems without prior written permission.

  3. Sep 22

    The One Everyone Calls | After Chapter Podcast 30

    Contact Us at info@afterchapterpodcast.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Everyone has a person who calls first when something goes wrong. This episode is for the person who is that call. Amanda Johnson is in the middle of it now, a mother who needs her, a sister who depends on her, and a business she's still building in whatever's left of the day. Not a caregiving expert with a system to sell. A woman doing the math on her own life in real time, and finding herself missing from the equation. The love isn't in question. What she's allowed to need is. Subscribe to the newsletter: the-after-chapter-newsletter.beehiiv.com #TheAfterChapterPodcast #TheReconstruction #Season2 #IdentityWork #WomenWhoLead #SandwichGeneration #Caregiving ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The views and opinions expressed on The After Chapter Podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not reflect the views, positions, or policies of any employer, organization, or affiliated entity. Any data or research shared on the podcast is not proprietary to any employer. All podcast content, including audio, video, transcripts, and likeness, may not be reproduced or used to train artificial intelligence systems without prior written permission.

  4. Sep 15

    The No You Learned Not to Say | After Chapter Podcast 29

    Contact Us at info@afterchapterpodcast.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There's a version of 'no' that costs nothing to say and a version that costs everything. Most women only learn the first. Jackee de Lagarde spent decades on the wrong side of that line, then went back and named exactly why. This conversation goes after the specific conditioning, cultural, gendered, inherited, that made refusal feel dangerous long before it ever felt like a choice. Not a framework for boundaries. An accounting of what it cost to build one. Jackee de Lagarde https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackeedelagarde/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The views and opinions expressed on The After Chapter Podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not reflect the views, positions, or policies of any employer, organization, or affiliated entity. Any data or research shared on the podcast is not proprietary to any employer. All podcast content, including audio, video, transcripts, and likeness, may not be reproduced or used to train artificial intelligence systems without prior written permission.

  5. Sep 8

    The Back to School Reset | After Chapter Podcast

    Contact Us at info@afterchapterpodcast.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Somewhere between expertise and beginner, there's a version of you willing to start over. Traci Hughes has rebuilt her sense of self more than once, through new languages, new countries, new rooms where she didn't yet know the rules. This episode opens the season with the question underneath all the others: what does it actually take to be a beginner on purpose? No syllabus. No one grading you. Just the decision to start. Subscribe to The Pour, our newsletter: https://the-after-chapter-newsletter.beehiiv.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The views and opinions expressed on The After Chapter Podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not reflect the views, positions, or policies of any employer, organization, or affiliated entity. Any data or research shared on the podcast is not proprietary to any employer. All podcast content, including audio, video, transcripts, and likeness, may not be reproduced or used to train artificial intelligence systems without prior written permission.

  6. Sep 1

    The Audit I Kept Postponing

    Contact Us at info@afterchapterpodcast.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In Episode 1, Cecilia shared she has more career years behind her than ahead of her. We've been circling that all summer. Now she turns the audit on herself. She's spent her career helping organizations figure out who belongs and how, she's good at running the audit. What she kept postponing was her own. This episode covers the four things she's been sitting with: money, time, health, and community and purpose. And the one thing none of it can plan for: who she actually is when the identity built around work is gone. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The views and opinions expressed on The After Chapter Podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not reflect the views, positions, or policies of any employer, organization, or affiliated entity. Any data or research shared on the podcast is not proprietary to any employer. All podcast content, including audio, video, transcripts, and likeness, may not be reproduced or used to train artificial intelligence systems without prior written permission.

  7. Aug 25

    Still Building Without A Blueprint

    Contact Us at info@afterchapterpodcast.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In Episode 9, Chris Strattner talked about getting to the kernel, the thing that remains when you strip away every identity you've built. Michele turns that question on herself. Two decades in financial services. A communications and culture career with a clear architecture. And now this: a podcast, a brand, a founder identity she is making up as she goes. This episode is about what it actually feels like to be the one without the blueprint, when you spent years helping others find theirs. For more reflections like this one, subscribe to The Pour, our newsletter, at the-after-chapter-newsletter.beehiiv.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The views and opinions expressed on The After Chapter Podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not reflect the views, positions, or policies of any employer, organization, or affiliated entity. Any data or research shared on the podcast is not proprietary to any employer. All podcast content, including audio, video, transcripts, and likeness, may not be reproduced or used to train artificial intelligence systems without prior written permission.

  8. Aug 18

    The Price of the Pivot | After Chapter Podcast 25

    Contact Us at info@afterchapterpodcast.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What does it actually cost to bet on yourself or to simply stop? For women in transition, the financial question is rarely just about money. It's about what the number means when it starts to move in the wrong direction, whether the sacrifice is adding up to something, and the fear that lives in the gap between what you built and what you thought it would buy you. This episode sits with the question nobody asks out loud: is this what it was supposed to cost? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The views and opinions expressed on The After Chapter Podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not reflect the views, positions, or policies of any employer, organization, or affiliated entity. Any data or research shared on the podcast is not proprietary to any employer. All podcast content, including audio, video, transcripts, and likeness, may not be reproduced or used to train artificial intelligence systems without prior written permission.

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The After Chapter Podcast is the only podcast that treats the in-between as the destination, not the obstacle. We focus on the space between what was and what's next, where people who look like they have it together on the outside are expected to have answers they don't yet have. Instead of pushing for clarity, we stay with the questions. Reflective, grounded conversations exploring identity through career shifts, leadership evolution, and personal change. Hosted by Michele Lamarre and Cecilia Nelson-Hurt.

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  • Creator
    Michele Lamarre and Cecilia Nelson-Hurt
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    32
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Michele Lamarre and Cecilia Nelson-Hurt
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    The After Chapter Podcast

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