{"podcast":{"title":"Create Your Best Empty Nest","slug":"create-your-best-empty-nest-7655799","podcast_index_feed_id":7655799,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10db70cec/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://marianneiverson.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/45150675/45150675-1768243263869-f7b4605a3a0c2.jpg","author":"Marianne Iverson","episode_count":24,"summary":"Your kids are almost gone, or already gone, and nobody told you it would feel like this. Create Your Best Empty Nest is where women figure out who they are now and what comes next. Certified life coach Marianne Iverson helps you move from lost and uncertain to clear, grounded, and genuinely excited about your next chapter.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-24T00:17:14.271240+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/create-your-best-empty-nest-7655799"},"episode":{"title":"Permission to Want More: One Woman's Fascinating Story of Waking Up After the Kids Left- Part 1","slug":"permission-to-want-more-one-woman-s-fascinating-story-of-waking-up-after-the-kids-left-part-1","published_at":"2026-05-19T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/create-your-best-empty-nest-7655799/permission-to-want-more-one-woman-s-fascinating-story-of-waking-up-after-the-kids-left-part-1","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/create-your-best-empty-nest-7655799","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/marianneiverson/episodes/Permission-to-Want-More-One-Womans-Fascinating-Story-of-Waking-Up-After-the-Kids-Left--Part-1-e3ilarv","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10db70cec/podcast/play/119236927/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-3-29%2Ffa3c802e-cb18-443c-5b76-e73715f01096.mp3","summary":"What happens when the kids leave and you realize you've been living everyone else's life but your own? If you're in the empty nest season and you've been sitting with that quiet, uncomfortable question of "who am I now?" -- you are not alone. And you are not too late. In this episode, I sit down with my neighbor and friend Maureen Mehr, president of the nonprofit Who I Really Am, singer-songwriter, and woman who spent decades quietly putting her own life up on a shelf while she raised her family. She didn't even realize she'd done it until the kids were gone and the house got quiet. What finally cracked her open? A phone call from her son. He was moving to Kansas City and taking her grandkids with him. She hung up the phone and fell apart. And then she grabbed her laptop and started figuring out what was next. What followed was a graduate degree, international nonprofit work, a music career, and a life she's finally living on her own terms. In this first part of our conversation, we talk about: What the empty nest transition actually feels like when it hits you out of nowhere How women slowly disappear into motherhood one small sacrifice at a time Why so many of us can't answer the question "what do YOU want?" without referencing our kids The stories we tell ourselves that keep us stuck in the supporting role of everyone else's life What it means to finally get comfortable not having all the answers Why alignment feels completely different from pushing and forcing This episode is for the woman who loves her kids fiercely AND suspects there's more for her too. You don't have to choose. That's the whole point. This is part of our series: How to Stop Living Through Your Kids and Start Living Your Own Life. 🌿 START HEREIf the kids have left and you're s…","meta_description":"What happens when the kids leave and you realize you've been living everyone else's life but your own? If you're in the empty nest season and you've been…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1802,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/create-your-best-empty-nest-7655799/episodes/permission-to-want-more-one-woman-s-fascinating-story-of-waking-up-after-the-kids-left-part-1/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/create-your-best-empty-nest-7655799/permission-to-want-more-one-woman-s-fascinating-story-of-waking-up-after-the-kids-left-part-1.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}