Reinventing Your Life After Divorce as a Female Founder

Reinventing your life after divorce as a female founder isn’t reckless — it’s radical self-trust. It’s choosing alignment over comfort, identity over conditioning, and courage over staying small. In this episode, Melinda sits down with Jackie Smythe to talk about what it actually looks like to leave a 13-year marriage, sell everything you own, move to Tulum, and rebuild your life and business from scratch at 41.

Jackie shares her journey from building a successful fitness brand in New York and Philadelphia to burning out, discovering human design, and stepping fully into a new chapter as a transformational entrepreneur. They talk about people-pleasing, emotional regulation, self-worth, money mindset, starting over after 40, and why so many women in business stay in situations long after they’ve outgrown them.

They also get into identity shifts, nervous system regulation, trusting your intuition, moving abroad, building community as a female founder, and what happens when you finally stop modifying yourself to make everyone else comfortable.

Unhinged Founder Ep. 14 Links:

Connect:

— Jackie Smythe’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/iamjackiesmythe

— Melinda Jackson Public Relations: https://melindajacksonpr.com

— MJPR’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/melindajacksonpr

— Melinda Jackson’s LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/melindajacksonpr

— Airwave Arcade (Podcast Production): www.airwavearcade.com

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