Interrupted: Act 2 Reinventing Your Legacy

Have you ever caught yourself thinking, “Why do I keep doing this?” Maybe you overthink every decision, struggle to set boundaries, people-please, second-guess yourself, or find yourself repeating patterns you swore you’d never repeat.
What if some of those patterns didn’t start with you?
In this episode of Interrupted: Act 2 – Reinventing Your Legacy, Laurie talks with Heidi Carlson, Certified Master Life Coach specializing in generational trauma, the mother wound, and the emotional patterns that can shape the way women see themselves, build relationships, parent, lead, and move through life.
Heidi shares how experiences and patterns can be passed from one generation to the next—and why understanding where they came from can be an important part of breaking the cycle.
They talk about generational trauma, childhood emotional patterns, the mother wound, people-pleasing, boundaries, self-doubt, and the powerful moment when you begin asking a different question:
Is this really who I am…or is this something I learned to carry?
Because changing your legacy isn’t only about what you leave behind. Sometimes it begins with deciding what you’re no longer willing to pass forward.
Learn more about Heidi Carlson and her work:
Heidi Carlson Coaching
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What happens when someone you love is still alive—but no longer part of your life?
Family estrangement can bring a complicated kind of grief filled with unanswered questions, hurt, anger, guilt, and sometimes hope for reconciliation.
In this episode of Interrupted: Act 2 – Reinventing Your Legacy, Laurie talks with Roberta Wasserman, LCSW-C, licensed clinical social worker, family estrangement expert, Certified Grief Educator, and author of Living in the Land of Estrangement: 12 Step Workbook for Estranged Parents and Grandparents.
Together, Laurie and Roberta look at family estrangement from all angles—the parent, the adult child, the grandparent, and the family members caught somewhere in between.
They talk about the grief that comes when a relationship ends without closure, taking responsibility without living in shame, letting go of what you cannot control, and why healing doesn't always have to mean reconciliation.
Roberta also shares the thinking behind her 12-step approach to estrangement and how parents and grandparents can begin moving from constant searching for answers toward greater peace, dignity, and emotional stability.
If you've experienced estrangement from an adult child, parent, grandchild, sibling, or other family member, this conversation offers something often missing from discussions about estrangement: space for complexity, compassion, accountability, and hope.
Because sometimes the relationship may not be repaired—but you can still heal.
Connect with Roberta Wasserman, LCSW-C:Roberta Wasserman's website
Get the book:Living in the Land of Estrangement: 12 Step Workbook for Estranged Parents and GrandparentsFind Roberta's book on Amazon
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In this episode, Laurie sits down with internationally touring jazz singer, songwriter and producer Lizzie Thomas for a powerful conversation about music, creativity, reinvention and the courage to follow where your voice is leading you.
Lizzie built her career interpreting the Great American Songbook and has performed and recorded with some of jazz’s most celebrated musicians, including Ron Carter, Russell Malone, Wayne Escoffery and the Grammy Award-winning Harlem String Quartet. But her creative journey eventually called her beyond interpreting the music of others and into writing and producing music of her own.
That evolution led to original projects including Awakening and This Is FREEDOM and to founding GODDESS Legacy Records, a label created with a commitment to empowering female artists and producers.
Lizzie shares what it means to trust your creativity, let go of expectations, reinvent yourself and give yourself permission to become the person—and artist—you know you’re meant to be.
It’s a conversation about more than jazz. It’s about finding your authentic voice, embracing change, creative freedom, women in music, starting over and having the courage to listen when something inside you says there’s more.
Connect with Lizzie Thomas:
Website & music:https://www.lizziethejazzsinger.com/
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/lizziethejazzsinger
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/LizzieTheJazzSinger/
YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/user/lizziethejazzsinger
 
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What if running a successful business didn’t have to mean giving up your time, your energy, or your life?
Lisa Conway knows the hair and beauty industry from the inside out. With more than 30 years of experience as a hairdresser and salon owner, Lisa has gone on to become a business coach, mentor, speaker, and author helping salon, spa, and beauty professionals build profitable businesses that don’t depend on them doing everything themselves.
In this powerful and refreshingly candid conversation, Lisa shares her own struggles with ADHD and how understanding the way her brain works has shaped the way she approaches business, leadership, time management, and success.
We talk about the trap so many entrepreneurs fall into—believing that working harder is the answer—and why better systems, stronger teams, and learning to let go can create something far more valuable: time freedom.
Lisa also shares lessons from her books, including The Naked Salon, Your Salon Team, and Your Salon Retail, and what she has learned from decades of helping business owners move from overwhelmed and overworked to confident and in control.
Whether you’re a hairstylist, salon owner, beauty professional, entrepreneur, or simply someone trying to build a successful business while navigating ADHD and an always-busy brain, this conversation is a reminder that your business is supposed to support your life—not consume it.
In this episode: ADHD and entrepreneurship, salon business coaching, time management, business systems, salon leadership, building a strong team, work-life balance, profitability, avoiding burnout, and creating more freedom as a business owner.
Lisa Conway / Salon MENTOR website: Salon MENTOR
Lisa’s books: The Naked Salon, Your Salon Team & Your Salon Retail — Lisa lists all three as available in paperback and audio.
Salon Conversation with Lisa Conway — Podcast: Podcast Website
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Grant funding can do much more than support a program—it can help a nonprofit expand its reach, strengthen its mission and change lives.
In this episode, Vasheti Quiros shares how she helps nonprofit organizations navigate the grant process and find funding for the important work they are already doing. She explains why grants can be essential to nonprofit growth, what organizations need to understand before seeking funding and why this work matters so deeply to her.
Vasheti also opens up about the personal passion behind her work and her commitment to helping mission-driven leaders turn their vision into sustainable community impact.
If you lead a nonprofit, support a charitable organization or want to better understand nonprofit grants, fundraising and mission-based leadership, this conversation offers encouragement, insight and hope.
Learn more about Vasheti Quiros:https://boldjourney.com/meet-vasheti-quiros/
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What happens when the person who has always known how to fix things faces something she can’t simply fix?
Farla Efros spent decades as a retail turnaround specialist, stepping into struggling companies, creating strategies, and leading through chaos. Then she was diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer—and suddenly, the biggest turnaround of her life was her own.
In this powerful and refreshingly candid conversation, Farla shares her cancer journey and what she wishes more people knew about navigating a life-changing diagnosis. We talk about patient advocacy, asking better questions, building the right medical team, trusting your instincts, and why you don’t have to become a passive participant in your own healthcare.
Farla also opens up about the emotional side of cancer—the fear, grief, loss of control, changing identity, and the complicated reality of figuring out how to live while going through treatment and recovery.
Her book, F*ck Cancer: Commanding a Comeback When Your Body Has Turned On You*, is part memoir and part practical playbook for anyone facing a health crisis.
This conversation isn’t only about surviving cancer. It’s about finding your voice when life turns upside down, advocating for what you need, and choosing how you want to move forward.
Connect with Farla Efros:Visit Farla Efros’ website
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Our thoughts become words. Our words carry energy. And the words we repeat can shape the way we see ourselves, our circumstances, and our possibilities.
In this episode, Mary Ann Robbat and I explore the surprising power of what we think and say—and how those words can either encourage us or become the very thing that keeps us stuck.
Mary Ann also opens up about one of her biggest life interruptions: becoming a mother to triplets. Her story reminds us that sometimes the moments we never planned for can completely change the direction of our lives.
Come listen, reflect, and consider: What are you speaking into your life?
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I get to chat with Bitsy Hamilton, transition coach, speaker, and author of Own It, about learning to trust yourself, embrace who you are, and create a life that actually fits YOU.
Bitsy shares the influence of her wonderfully extravagant mother and the lessons she learned about showing up fully as yourself. We also dive into the Own It Framework, Bitsy’s flexible approach to navigating life transitions with authenticity, vulnerability, accountability, and self-trust.
Because there isn’t one perfect formula for reinvention—and there shouldn’t be.
Bitsy explains how women can begin letting go of people-pleasing, perfectionism, old expectations, and the pressure to follow someone else’s definition of success. Instead, we can get clear about what matters to us, trust our own decisions, and move forward with confidence—even when we don’t have the entire path figured out.
If you’re in a season of change, questioning what comes next, or realizing it might finally be time to choose yourself, this conversation is your invitation to stop second-guessing and OWN IT.
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https://www.coachbitsy.com/
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