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EPISODE · Jan 20, 2026 · 25 MIN

🎙️ Life After News (Special Episode): Midlife Awakening with Marianne Williamson 🌅✨

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Send us Fan MailThis week’s episode is a little different. Instead of a traditional “journalism pivot” story, Dorothy Lucey and I sit down with Marianne Williamson, presidential candidate, author, spiritual teacher, and longtime activist, to talk about what happens after the title, the role, and the identity fall away.Her newest book, Midlife Awakening, reframes what we’ve long called a “midlife crisis” as something else entirely: not a breakdown… but an invitation. not an ending… but a shift from me to we. 🤝We talk candidly about: 🔥 Why midlife can be a beginning, not a collapse 💡 Letting go of fear-based and survival-driven identities 🧠 How to interrupt the treadmill of anxiety with purpose and service ❤️ Why “love is active” and showing up matters now more than ever 🕊️ Forgiveness—especially after political disappointment and betrayal ⏳ That moment when you realize: “We were out… and now we’re in.”One of the most powerful moments comes when Marianne opens up about the aftermath of her presidential campaign—the resentment, grief, and anger she carried, and the deliberate work it took to forgive. Not to excuse what happened. Not to forget it. But to refuse becoming “a bitter, angry old woman” trapped by grievance.It’s an honest, unsparing conversation about choosing inner freedom over righteous fury—and why that choice is essential if we’re going to stay engaged, awake, and useful in this moment.If you’ve ever walked away from a career, questioned who you are without the role, or felt the pull to become something deeper—this episode will land. 🎧🌵👉 WATCH the full interview playlist on YouTube (Life After News) 👉 LISTEN wherever you get your podcasts ✅ SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss what’s next 📲 SHARE with someone navigating their own “what now?”#LifeAfterNews #MarianneWilliamson #MidlifeAwakening #DorothyLucey #ChasingFaith #Forgiveness #SecondAct #Reinvention #Purpose #FaithInAction #Identity #MidlifeShift #Activism #Podcast #YouTubePodcast #WatchListenSubscribe Let Life After News inspire your next chapter. Because leaving the news doesn’t mean the story’s over—it means a new one’s just beginning.

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