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Untangling Me: The Podcast
by Untangling Me
Untangling Me helps women loosen the knots of expectations. With laughter and truth Colleen & Tracey quiet the noise and help you remember YOU. Authentic living through meaningful conversations, personal growth, healing, and connection, this podcast is your invitation to join a conversation between two friends — the kind that helps you think more clearly, feel more grounded, and remember who you are. So grab a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, pull up a seat, and untangle with us. You don’t have to do it alone.
Episodes
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038: Untangling Shapewear, Pockets, Wedding Attire, and More on Thursday Thoughts #1
In our new series of BONUS EPISODES, Tracey and Colleen muse on the challenges of finding the right attire for a wedding, how to dress for comfort and fashion, and the challenges of shape wear! Shout out to IG: authentic_nursenoah and his brave October challenge - check him out!
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037: Untangling Midlife Adventures and Exploring What Scares You with Wendy Valentine (part 2)
There can never be enough WENDY! If you missed last week's episode where Colleen and Tracey were joined by the incomparable Wendy Valentine, go catch up and come back...we'll wait (she's worth it!) If you enjoyed Wendy's big laugh and words of wisdom, you are really going to love this week's…
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036: Untangling the "Cornell 7"
We interrupt our 2-part series with Wendy Valentine to share our thoughts on the atrocities we are hearing about with Jane Doe and the allegations at Cornell. As a podcast by, for, and about women, we can't stay silent about this case or the light it shines on sexual assault in America. In…
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035: Untangling Midlife Adventures and Exploring What Scares You with Wendy Valentine (part 1)
Meet Wendy! We are so excited to introduce you to Wendy Valentine! Wendy is an internationally published author of Women Waking Up: The Midlife Manifesto for Passion, Purpose, and Play, an inspiring book that became a #1 Amazon New Release, Founder of Midlifology™, and Keynote Speaker. She’s also...
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034: Untangling Being Fabulous 50
All are welcome here at Untangling Me, but our girl, the girl who we represent there out in the world, is a midlife woman. This episode is a conversation about the challenges, funny moments, and ups and downs of being a woman in midlife. Come along for the ride and hop onto our socials or leave a...
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033: Untangling Scenes from the Closet Floor
More than one woman has shared that she's hidden in her closet, shower, or back deck to hide from her kids or just get a breath of uninterrupted air with toddlers, but somehow the need to have a nook of our own reappears again and again, even when the nest starts to get empty. Today Colleen and...
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032: Untangling All the Stuff with Mindy Godding (pt. 2)
Colleen and Tracey welcome back professional organizer, Mindy Godding, to get "down and dirty" with specific techniques, examples, and shared stories to help our listeners tackle all the mess! Midlife is a unique time where women are often asked to juggle their own stuff, their kids' stuff, their...
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031: Untangling All the Stuff with Mindy Godding (pt. 1)
We had a ball "Untangling the Stuff" with founder of Abundance Organizing, Mindy Godding this week and just know you're going to love her too! Mindy is a 22 year veteran of professional organizing and in this episode she takes on all the crazy questions and scenarios Tracey and Colleen throw at…
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030: Untangling the "Mess" Caused By Self Care
Colleen and Tracey spend this episode chatting about untangling the mess that’s caused by self-care, specifically how women caring for themselves impacts those around them. In a loose three-episode series (ep 28, 29, and 30), we discuss the little time women have during this season, the...
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029: Untangling Making Space for Yourself
Do you ever struggle to find space for YOU in all the chaos of your own life? On this week's episode Colleen and Tracey dig into their own experience of "personal development" and how, over time, they have figured out ways to insert some healthy self care into the nooks and crannies of a busy…
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028: Untangling Your Back to School Era (in all of life's stages)
Don't be mistaken, just because you aren't sending a little one off to kindergarten doesn't mean the end of summer isn't still "Back to School Season." Once your life is divided into school calendars and semesters, it's hard to break the pattern! The rhythm that comes with going 'back to school'...
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027: Untangling the Invisible Load of Providing
We've talked about Mental Load and the huge toll it takes on many women (Tracey and Colleen included!) but in this episode we talk about a possible counterpoint to mental load...provider anxiety. We break down some of the challenges we see in our own lives related to juggling which roles partners...
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026: Untangling Hair
Today we're untangling - of all things - our hair! - well, all of the conversation around it actually...Should older women only wear certain styles? How do we feel about going gray? Are bangs back (and do we even care)?! Is midlife the perfect time for a big "transition" chop? We decided to have…
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025: Untangling Isolation, Community, and Creating a Village with Erin Provencher
In this episode we focus more on the idea of women in community and have a fantastic conversation with Erin Frye Provencher centering on her lifelong experience with building community and specifically the grassroots organization Gals for a Cause RVA that she started back in 2018. She's an…
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024: Untangling Women's Second Shift; Managing Mental Load
Even with involved partners and intentional steps towards equity, the best relationships feel one-sided sometimes in terms of physical, emotional, and mental attention families need. Join us as we continue our conversation about the challenges women face with the concept of "second shift" and...
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023: Untangling Asking for Help
UPDATE: Episode re-uploaded on 7/19/26 after technical issues cut off the end of the previous version. Whew! This is a tough one. Tune in and join the conversation as Tracey and Colleen open some listener mail and give their thoughts on an important question for so many women: how do I ask for...
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022: Untangling the Life You Put on Pause
Today's episode finds Tracey and Colleen exploring the big midlife question of "What's Next?" Career trajectories and parenting took center stage for a long time and now we're wondering...how can we address the knots that have formed over the years, untangle the life we put on pause, and…
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021: Untangling The Stories We Tell Ourselves (Shoutout to Brené Brown!)
Join us as we utilize a tool introduced by Dr. Brené Brown to untangle some of our complicated feelings about communicating with loved ones. Dr. Brown has so many incredible phrases, suggestions, and research that we love but the phrase "the story I'm telling myself" is probably our most beloved!...
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020: Untangling Our Bodies
It's officially summer so the conversations have begun about "summer bodies" and all the weight loss trends are hot topics of conversation! Today Tracey and Colleen peel at the edges of that conversation by chatting about being GenX women who were children of the 70s/80s, why it doesn't matter if...
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019: Untangling Why Women Are All Out of F*$%cks
Explicit Language Warning Today Tracey and Colleen get curious about the well-known concept that women of a certain age, are very clearly fed up! Did our mothers feel this way? Is it related to age? Menopause? Politics? Join us as we begin to untangle why we're feeling less like we care what…
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018: Untangling Pride
In this special Pride Month episode, Colleen's daughter Theresa joins the podcast as our very first "Coffee with Our Girls" guest! Theresa shares her own coming out story, what Pride Month means to her, and schools us on vocabulary, intersectionality, and the ups and downs of being queer in…
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017:Untangling Caregiving
On today's episode Colleen and Tracey share how their roles as caregivers in recent months have been both beautiful and brutal - "brutiful" as Glennon Doyle often says. While this episode is rich in poignant moments, it might bring up some difficult feelings for listeners who have served in a...
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016: Untangling Change
Love it or hate it, change is a part of life and today Tracey and Colleen start to untangle how they approach it...for good and bad. How do the people around you respond to change and does that impact your approach? How does your life story inform how you view change? And with all of the things...
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015: Untangling How Women Always Manage to Add One More Thing to Their Plates
How in the world do women do it? This time of year can be particularly harried for women as they try to balance the spinning plates of family, work, school, partnerships, and so much more! Colleen and Tracey share an analogy that they've adopted over the years and chat about their thoughts behind...
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014: Untangling Mid Life Health
Join Colleen and Tracey as we untangle our health as women in our fifties...I mean sure, no problem we can absolutely "untangle" this ridiculously complex issue for midlife women in one episode...nah. Instead maybe just come walk alongside us as we start to peel the first layer back on this very...
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013: Untangling the Complexities (and Beauty) of Raising Young Adult Children
Parenting isn't for the weak, everyone knows that, but rarely do people talk about the beauty and complexities of raising kids when they are teens and twenties. Knowing when to support from a distance and when to get in the mess with them can be challenging. Join Colleen and Tracey as we untangle...
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012: Untangling Our Faith (part 2)
Pope Leo is a rockstar and he's inspiring millions of active Catholics, lapsed Catholics, Christians of other denominations, and even agnostics and atheists...what do you Tracey and Colleen think? In this episode we pick back up with our conversation about where we are now as kids who grew up...
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011: Untangling Our Faith as Catholics Today (part 1)
Whew this one is a hot take! Being raised Catholic and spending formative years in the Catholic Church takes on a new meaning with all that's happening with the Pope and the President. Come along for the ride this week while Colleen & Tracey untangle their faith through the lens of being (lapsed?...
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010: Untangling the "Work" in Relationships
Are friendships supposed to take work? Is marriage supposed to be hard? Join us as Tracey and Colleen pose those questions and offer their take on these tough issues on today's episode of Untangling Me: The Podcast.
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009: Untangling the Holidays
With the addition of grief, empty nesting, transitions, and the state of the world, "celebrating" holidays can feel different and new this year. Today, Tracey and Colleen chat today about untangling complicated feelings around the holidays, specifically Easter. Grab a chocolate bunny or a bag of...
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008: Untangling Anger
In today's episode Tracey and Colleen start to scratch the surface of a doozy of a topic...anger. There's a lot to this one so we can't promise there won't be more episodes to come, but for now, hang out with us as we start to untangle anger.
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007: Untangling Timothee Chalamet, Women in the Arts, and Just A Sprinkle Of Feminism for Good Measure
Another day, another round of celebrities putting their foot in their mouths! On today's episode, Colleen and Tracey follow up the locker room conversation with one about the arts. (The similarities between the sidelines and the green rooms are remarkable sometimes!)
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006: Untangling the Locker Room (Bonus Episode)
Colleen and Tracey throw their hats into the rink (see what we did there) to offer their two cents on the USA Men's Hockey debacle and the way it was handled, how it felt to be a woman in that moment, and what we saw happening on a greater scale.
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005: Untangling Your Voice
Do you ever find yourself afraid to speak up? Concerned you're too much? Tracey and Colleen break open the idea of finding your voice and being a woman who advocates for herself and her needs. **Program note: we had some audio issues this week, thank you for bearing with us! We should be back…
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004: Untangling How We Celebrate Love
With Valentine's Day in the rear view mirror, Tracey explains to Colleen why it's her favorite holiday and why she thinks it's important we celebrate it (and love) in all forms!
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003: Untangling The New Year (part 2)
Tracey and Colleen pick back up where they left off, with a conversation about curiosity, intentionality, consistency, and showing up for yourself in the new year.
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002: Untangling the New Year (part 1)
As 2026 kicks off with a bang, Colleen and Tracey lean into the way the new year feels for them: the expectations, the conversations, the traditions, and even the superstitions. Join us as we untangle the start of another new year together. Part 2 airs on 3/2/26
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001: Untangling "Untangling Me"
Best friends since 4th grade, Tracey and Colleen didn't realize until midlife how rare and important their friendship was. Sometimes life got in the way, but the roots of a friendship that began at age 9 don't wither easily. As we navigate new stages of life including aging parents, struggling...
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Untangling Me helps women loosen the knots of expectations. With laughter and truth Colleen & Tracey quiet the noise and help you remember YOU. Authentic living through meaningful conversations, personal growth, healing, and connection, this podcast is your invitation to join a conversation between two friends — the kind that helps you think more clearly, feel more grounded, and remember who you are. So grab a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, pull up a seat, and untangle with us. You don’t have to do it alone.
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