Throw Away Your Bucket List: Teri M. Brown on Adventure, Love & Finding Yourself Again

What do you do when life falls apart at 54 and you're convinced there's nothing left for you? If you're Teri M. Brown, you climb onto a tandem bicycle and ride 3,102 miles across America.In this episode of Become Empowered, author and speaker Teri M. Brown joins Sabine to trace an extraordinary arc — from an emotionally abusive marriage that left her doubting her own worth, to a cross-country tandem ride from Astoria, Oregon to Washington, DC with her husband Bruce, to the grief of losing him to glioblastoma, and finally to the slow, brave work of finding herself again.Teri shares why worth is intrinsic and never has to be earned, what a tandem bike teaches you about real partnership (you can't go faster than each other), how she rediscovered her humor writing Peg, Unhinged, and why joy and sorrow can live inside the very same moment. It's tender, funny, and deeply human — and it ends with a piece of advice that might change how you look at your own life.In this conversation:Why "you already have value" is the belief everything else is built onWhat riding a tandem across the country reveals about partnership and trustLoving and losing Bruce — and what caregiving taught her about herselfHow writing brought her voice, and her laughter, back after lossWhy happiness and grief don't cancel each other outThe one piece of advice: get rid of the bucket list and start todayGet in touch with Teri: https://www.terimbrown.com/Get your copy of Gumption on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HCW45FXJApply to become a contributing author for Sabine's next book: Become Empowered Entrepreneur.SabineKvenberg.com