Flourishing After Adversity
If you've experienced grief, illness, loss, or life-altering setbacks—and you're ready to reclaim your joy—this podcast is for you. Hosted by Laura Mangum Broome, Resilience Coach and author of Flourishing After Adversity, this weekly show is your go-to resource for overcoming life’s toughest challenges with hope, courage, and clarity. Each episode dives into real-life strategies for emotional healing, building resilience, managing mindset, navigating unexpected change, and rediscovering your strength after adversity. Whether you're facing the aftermath of divorce, struggling to move forward after loss, or starting over later in life, you’ll find practical tools and encouragement to help you grow—not just go—through what you’ve been through. If you're searching for inspiration, resilience coaching tips, or mental health support for difficult seasons, hit play and start flourishing after adversity. You've got this!
Episodes
S1:E32 Finding Hope in the Holidays: Navigating Grief and Growth
In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome offers guidance for those facing the holidays with a heavy heart due to grief, loss, or changes. Laura shares personal anecdotes and practical advice on how to find balance and hope during this emotionally challenging season.
Key topics include practicing micro-gratitude, evo...
Rebuilding After Divorce: Five Mindset Shifts for Healing and Growth
In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome, a resilience coach, author, and survivor, discusses how to rebuild your life after divorce through five transformative mindset shifts. Laura shares her personal journey and practical strategies to help listeners move from feeling lost and broken to discovering a new sens...
Building Resilience Before Life Gets Messy
In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome discusses the importance of building resilience before life throws unexpected challenges your way. Laura explains the concept of preventive resilience and debunks the myths that keep people from preparing for adversity. She shares three powerful truths about why it's crucial to build resilien...
Navigating Lifequakes: Steps to Flourish After Major Life Disruptions
In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, resilience coach and author Laura Mangum Broome discusses 'lifequakes'—major life disruptions that shake your world. Drawing from Bruce Feiler’s research, Laura explains why transitions feel overwhelming, common mistakes to avoid, and introduces five simple steps to make transitions ea...
Overcoming Self-Sabotage: Aligning Values, Setting Boundaries, and Embracing Necessary Endings
In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome explores the concept of self-sabotage and provides insights on how to recognize and break free from this harmful pattern.
Laura emphasizes the importance of aligning with core values, setting boundaries, and embracing necessary endings to foster ...
Flourishing After Adversity: The Power of Small Steps
In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome discusses the importance of taking small, consistent steps to rebuild strength and resilience after facing adversity. Laura explains how the gradual process of change is more effective than attempting drastic overhauls, which can trigger fear and stall progress.
Listeners will learn how...
Building Everyday Resilience: Turn Pain into Purpose and Develop Lifelong Grit
In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome explores the concept of everyday resilience and how small daily choices build lifelong grit. Learn to recognize everyday resilience, avoid common pitfalls, and apply the iCope2Hope Resilience Framework to transform adversity into strength.
Broome shares practica...
Finding Purpose After Adversity: Your Second Mountain Awaits
In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, hosted by Laura Mangum Broome, the focus is on discovering purpose after life-changing setbacks such as loss, illness, or unexpected changes. Laura introduces listeners to the concept of David Brooks' 'Two Mountains of Life,' emphasizing the shift from achievement to meaningful connection....
Finding the Third Alternative: Moving from Surviving to Thriving
In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome discusses how to navigate difficult choices and find a third, creative alternative when faced with two bad options.
Through the story of Karrie, who faced a tough decision between a promising job opportunity and awaiting cancer biopsy results, Laura explains the importance of...
Transforming Setbacks into Strength: Embrace Your Gains
In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome discusses the transformative mindset shift from focusing on what's missing to recognizing personal progress. Emphasizing the principles from Benjamin Hardy and Dan Sullivan’s book 'The Gap and The Gain', Laura explains how measuring backward to see how far you've c...
S1:E22 How Expressive Writing Helps You Move Beyond Setbacks 10-Minutes a Day
In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity Podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome explores the transformative effects of expressive writing for emotional healing. Learn how just 10 minutes a day of writing can help process emotional pain, integrate into Laura's iCope2Hope resilience framework, and start your own practice to clear the fog ...
S1:E21 Stop Giving Away Your Power and Losing Your Joy
In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome discusses how to regain control of your happiness by identifying and reclaiming the power you've given away. Laura shares practical steps to develop a growth mindset, discover your inner strengths, and think creatively to move forward. She introduces her iCope2Hope resilience fram...
Wisdom or Fear: Understanding the Power of 'No' After Adversity
In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome explores the complexity of saying 'no' and how to discern whether it's rooted in wisdom or fear.
Listeners will learn tools to make clearer decisions, using the iCope2Hope resilience framework and the iCOPE problem-solving method. Practical scenarios a...
Flourishing After Adversity: Transforming Regret into Action
In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome, a Resilience Coach and author, discusses how to minimize regrets and embrace change. She provides three actionable strategies: radical acceptance, using the iCOPE decision method, and living by your priorities.
Laura emphasizes starting from where you are, focusing on what'...
Radical Acceptance: Healing Through Life's Injustices
In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome discusses how to overcome feelings of betrayal, rejection, and unfairness. She introduces the concept of radical acceptance to help listeners move forward and reclaim their peace.
The episode outlines why injustice feels doubly painful and provides strategies for releasing bitterne...
S1:E17 Rediscovering Joy After Adversity
In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome explores the profound question: 'Will I ever feel joy again after loss or setbacks?'
Laura shares her insights on how grief reshapes our identity but doesn't erase it, and how rediscovering our inner strengths can lead to new, unexpected forms of joy. She discusses common traps that k...
Conquering the Fear of Change: Steps to Embrace Transformation
In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome discusses overcoming the fear of change and its commonality. She outlines five actionable steps to move forward with courage: radical acceptance, identifying strengths from past challenges, reframing uncertainty as a blank canvas, focusing on controllable factors, and defining ...
Four Resilience Tools to Stop a 'What-If' Spiral
In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome shares four resilience tools to stop a 'what-if' spiral that hijacks peace of mind. Laura introduces tools from her iCope2Hope Resilience Framework and iCOPE Problem Solving Method to help listeners shift from anxiety to present-focused action. The tools include: Catch an...
S1:E14 Simplifying Decisions During Setbacks: One Step at a Time
In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome offers crucial guidance for those feeling overwhelmed by decision-making in the face of adversity.
Laura explains why decision-making becomes difficult after setbacks and provides a step-by-step method to simplify it. Listeners will learn how to identify what’s within their c...
S1:E13 Heartbreak and Hope: A Conversation That Can Change Everything
In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome shares a poignant story of Heartbreak and Hope meeting at a crossroads, symbolizing the choice between remaining stuck in pain and moving forward with resilience.
Through the tale, Laura introduces the iCope2Hope Resilience Framework, a 3-step process to help individuals...
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