{"podcast":{"title":"Emerging with Grace: Navigating Life's Transitions","slug":"emerging-with-grace-navigating-life-s-transitions-6692340","podcast_index_feed_id":6692340,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/492698/rss","website_url":"http://sites.libsyn.com/492698/site","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/5/6/9/5/5695d0e778480141d959afa2a1bf1c87/woman-logo1_2-20250106-8aepoje358.jpg","author":"Marquita Garrett Ph.D., LPC, ACS, RPT-S, NCC","episode_count":43,"summary":"Welcome to *Emerging with Grace*, the podcast that's here to help you embrace life's transformative moments and emerge stronger than ever before. In a world filled with stereotypes, stigma, and unexpected challenges, this podcast is your beacon of hope, offering insights, stories, and strategies for thriving through life's toughest transitions. Our host, Marquita Garrett Ph.D., is passionate about mental wellbeing and understands that change and trauma touch us all. Whether you're a woman navigating the journey through the stages of life or simply someone searching for inspiration and guidance, this podcast is for you. Through thought-provoking conversations, expert interviews, and real-life stories, we aim to achieve three core outcomes: 1. **Graceful Transitions:** We want women and everyone else to embark on their life journeys with grace, embracing change as an opportunity for growth and renewal. 2. **Surviving Trauma and Change:** Life can throw unexpected curveballs at us all, but we're here to remind you that you can not only survive but thrive in the face of adversity. Trauma and change are not the end of your story; they're just a chapter. 3. **Discovering Life After:** I…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-04T22:21:32.293862+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/emerging-with-grace-navigating-life-s-transitions-6692340"},"episode":{"title":"041 Brilliant, Beautiful, and Bad Ass!","slug":"041-brilliant-beautiful-and-bad-ass","published_at":"2026-03-31T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/emerging-with-grace-navigating-life-s-transitions-6692340/041-brilliant-beautiful-and-bad-ass","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/emerging-with-grace-navigating-life-s-transitions-6692340","url":"https://fb16a1ea-311f-4e93-bba2-a2445bf5d85c.libsyn.com/041-brilliant-beautiful-and-bad-ass","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/fb16a1ea-311f-4e93-bba2-a2445bf5d85c/Eos2015_Project_23_Epsiode_41_27_Mar_Audio.mp3?dest-id=4209236","summary":"What does it look like to reinvent your life after heartbreak — boldly, honestly, and on your own terms? To publish a memoir in your 70s that makes people laugh and weep? To tell the truth about love, loss, aging, and identity without flinching? In this episode of Emerging with Grace!, we sit down with the remarkable Virginia DeLuca — award-winning author and psychotherapist— for a conversation that is equal parts wisdom, warmth, and unapologetic fire. Brilliant, Beautiful, and Bad Ass Virginia's writing has graced the pages of The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Modern Love, and The Huffington Post. Her memoir, If You Must Go, I Wish You Triplets, is a sharp, funny, and deeply human portrait of marriage, divorce, aging, and the unexpected power of starting over — proving that reinvention has no expiration date. This is a conversation about courage as a creative act. About how grief can become the soil for your most luminous work. About women across every culture and generation who carry the spark of life and refuse to let circumstances extinguish it. This episode is for every woman navigating a life transition — whether you're 30, 60, or somewhere beautifully in between for anyone who needs proof that your most powerful chapter may still be ahead of you. Virginia DeLuca embodies what it means to be brilliant in mind, beautiful in spirit, and unapologetically badass in courage. Tune in. IG @virginia.deluca.author FB- virginia deluca author IN THIS EPISODE: → Reinvention after divorce → Writing as healing & self-discovery → Publishing boldly later in life → Women, identity & aging on your own terms → The power of humor in grief → Memoir craft & storytelling → Emotional resilience & personal growth → Living truthfully at any age","meta_description":"What does it look like to reinvent your life after heartbreak — boldly, honestly, and on your own terms? 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