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
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...
Reinventing Yourself After a Major Setback
In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome guides midlife women through the journey of reinvention after life's significant setbacks, such as grief, illness, and unexpected changes. Laura shares her own story of overcoming multiple life-changing events and introduces her iCope2Hope 3-Step Resilience Framework. She emphasizes the impor...
Radical Acceptance: Why It's the Key to Peace After Pain
In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome delves into the concept of radical acceptance. She explains how accepting reality, even when it's painful, can lead to healing, growth, and joy. Laura outlines the four benefits of radical acceptance—relief from emotional suffering, a clearer mind for better decisions, free...
S1:E10 Necessary Endings: Identifying and Letting Go of Toxic Relationships
In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, Resilience Coach and author Laura Mangum Broome discusses the concept of necessary endings in relationships. She explains how to recognize low quality connections that drain your energy and stunt personal growth. Laura shares personal experiences and introduces her iCope2Hope 3-Step Resili...
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Flexible Resilience: Bouncing Back Without Breaking
In this episode of the Flourishing...
Turning Bad Days into Resilience: Practical Tools and Insights
In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome explores how to transform challenging days into opportunities for growth. She introduces the concept that bad days are not failures but valuable feedback, and provides three practical tools to reflect and build resilience.
Laura also shares her free guide, 'Reframe the Spi...
S1:E7 When Life Clears the Slate, What Comes Next?
Rebuilding After Loss: A Practical Guide to Flourishing
In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome offers a framework for individuals experiencing significant life disruptions such as divorce, illness, or job loss.
She shares an eight-step plan to help listeners rebuild their lives with clarity, courage, and attention. Lau...
Transforming Wet Cement Days: Practical Tools for Everyday Resilience
In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome addresses the 'wet cement' feeling of overwhelming fatigue and offers practical tools to manage it. She validates the common yet often unnoticed emotional weight carried, especially by women in midlife, and discusses how to navigate through heavy days without f...
00:00 Introduction to Flourishing After Adversity
00:35 The Power of Mindset Shifts
00:43 Free Guide: Reframe the Spiral
01:25 Challenging the Concept of Permission
02:42 Understanding the Real Barriers
04:18 Fear and Self-Protection
05:20 The iCope2Hope Resilience Framework
05:49 Case Study: Renee's Transformation
06:30 Embracing Your Inner Rebel
07:29 Practical Steps to Move Forward
08...
S1:E4 The Power of Expectations: Tools for Turning Setbacks into Stepping Stones
In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome explores the significant role expectations play in our emotional well-being. She discusses how setting, managing, and adjusting expectations can bring clarity, improve relationships, and enhance performance.
Laura introduces a three-step process for defining, ...
In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome shares five transformative lessons she learned after enduring a series of life-changing events, including breast cancer, the loss of her teenage son to suicide, a heart transplant, and a divorce.
These practical steps include processing emotions, adopting a victor mindset, focusing on controllable aspects, taking small steps forward, and practicing...
Embracing Change: How a Growth Mindset Can Transform Your Life
In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome discusses the power of adopting a growth mindset in the face of life's challenges. She explains the difference between a fixed and growth mindset and shares personal stories of resilience following major life setbacks such as breast cancer, a heart transplant, and divorce....
From Victim to Victor: 7 Mindset Shifts to Overcome Adversity
In this episode of Flourishing After Adversity, host Laura Mangum Broome discusses transforming setbacks into stepping stones and moving from victimhood to victory. She shares seven crucial mindset shifts: practicing gratitude, being proactive, seeking win-win solutions, celebrating others, accepting life's unfairness, embracing positivity, and stepping out...
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