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50 Challenges. 6 Continents. One Divorce: How Lisa Niver Found Herself — and Fearlessness — After 50 with Lisa Niver
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- Divorce Happens
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- Jun 5, 2026
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- 884
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Summary
She was lying on the ground in Thailand, her husband having just shoved her in public, not knowing if her neck was broken, her arm was broken — knowing only that her heart was. In that moment, journalist, traveler, and diver Lisa Niver could not have imagined that the next chapter of her life would take her skydiving, mountain biking down a ski run in Lake Tahoe, and scuba diving with bull sharks in Mexico. She could not have imagined that she would turn 50 on the other side of all that pain — freer, braver, and more herself than she had ever been. But that is exactly what happened. Lisa is the author of Brave-ish: One Breakup, Six Continents, and Feeling Fearless After 50 — a memoir that begins on the worst day of her life and traces the extraordinary journey that followed. After returning to Los Angeles alone from Asia, Lisa threw herself into the unknown: therapy, a gym with pole dancing and burlesque classes, an undiagnosed eye condition finally identified and corrected, and eventually, 50 challenges she set for herself before turning 50. Along the way, she discovered something that quietly changed everything — that bravery isn't a trait you're born with or without. It's not a light switch that's either on or off. It's exposure. It's support. It's showing up to shark school in the morning so you can go into the water in the afternoon. Lisa had spent years believing she was the kind of person who wasn't brave. Divorce, and everything that came after it, proved her wrong. This episode is for anyone who has ever stood at the wreckage of something they thought would last forever and wondered if they would ever laugh again, travel again, feel like themselves again. Lisa's answer — generous, funny, and hard-won — is yes. It gets better. And sometimes the path through is…