The Write Your Own Story Podcast

Honest conversations with women who wrote their own rules.

Every week I sit down with an incredible woman who tells the truth about how she did it: the leap, the detour, the messy middle and what she knows now. It's real, down-to-earth and full of laughs. Think girlfriends over coffee, or a few glasses of wine.

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The Write Your Own Story Podcast with Betsy Leonidas

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Three things these women keep telling me.

The research lover in me can't help noticing what repeats. These three come up again and again, and each one has an episode to prove it.

You don't have to feel ready.

Confidence usually shows up after the leap, not before it.

Do It Scared, with Abbey Cummins →

Your path was never supposed to be a straight line.

Every twist, turn and detour becomes part of the story you're writing.

Embrace the Detours, with Michelle Hopkins →

You get to rewrite what success means.

Sometimes the life you never planned becomes the one you're most grateful to live.

What Surviving Cancer Taught Me About Life, with Kate Schroder →

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Want the story behind it first? Listen to "How I Found Peace in the Hardest Season of My Life" →