The Good Girl's Detour with Jess Prudhomme

Jess Prudhomme had been with her high school sweetheart since she was 17. For half her life, she was a "we." She didn't know who she was as Jess alone. Then the marriage started coming apart. One day she realized there was no book she could read, no podcast she could listen to, no couples therapy session left to attend. So she stopped fighting. What came next was a beautiful launching pad for her journey of self reclamation.   Sherry and Jess talk about what happens when the only adult relationship you've ever known ends, and you have to learn who you are from scratch. From a good girl's checklist she'd built her life around, to a decade-long corporate career she eventually quit with nothing lined up, to the friendships that didn't survive the version of her that came next.   This is a Soft Power Project conversation about the messy middle, and the version of Jess that got built there. It goes somewhere unexpected.   TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Cold open 0:50 - Meet Jess Prudhomme 1:48 - The good girl and the checklist 5:41 - The marriage breaking point 7:08 - Becoming Jess again 25:31 - Quitting corporate without a plan 32:27 - When growing costs friends 45:31 - Trusting intuition again 53:12 - Soft power and the detour   MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: The Great Detour podcast: https://www.thegreatdetour.com Jess's Substack: https://jessprudhomme.substack.com @thegreatdetour on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegreatdetour/   ABOUT JESS PRUDHOMME: Jess Prudhomme is the host and creator of The Great Detour, a podcast about the unplanned paths that bring us back to ourselves. After 17 years with her high school sweetheart, a divorce at 35, her father's hospitalization, and a decade-long corporate marketing career she eventually quit with nothing lined up, she built The Great Detour from inside her own unraveling.   https://www.thegreatdetour.com | https://www.instagram.com/thegreatdetour/   #SoftPowerProject #LiminalSpace #DivorceRecovery #Reinvention Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cm5etbvm00a1i01sl6k6h99de/comments Youtube Instagram Would you like to share your life stories? Please fill out this form. See you there~