The After Chapter Podcast is the only podcast that treats the in-between as the destination, not the obstacle. We focus on the space between what was and what's next, where people who look like they have it together on the outside are expected to have answers they don't yet have. Instead of pushing for clarity, we stay with the questions. Reflective, grounded conversations exploring identity through career shifts, leadership evolution, and personal change.
Hosted by Michele Lamarre and Cecilia Nelson-Hurt.
Visible Before You're Ready | After Chapter Podcast 33
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There's a specific discomfort in choosing to be seen before you feel ready for it, and doing it anyway.
Amita Mehta didn't have visibility handed to her, she kept walking toward it: leaving a corporate career on her own terms, stepping into a drag pageant on a last-minute impulse, choosing the exact moment to tell her parents the truth. What she's still sorting out isn't whether she's allowed to be seen. It's what to do with a life that no longer comes with a script.
Not a visibility framework. The real-time cost of choosing it anyway.
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6 Oct 2026
What You Actually Built It For | After Chapter Podcast 32
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At some point, someone told you that if you love it enough, you should make money from it. Ruschelle Khanna, LCSW, built an anthology for 22 women and had to learn to let it give something back to her.
Ruschelle is the CEO and co-founder of Memoir Me, the author of Inherited Trauma and Family Wealth, and the editor of From Echo to Athena. In this conversation she gets honest about what happens when you're better at showing up for everyone else than for yourself.
5 things you'll hear in this episode:
1.The panel in South Africa that sent her home with no plan, and a book she didn't know she was about to write
2. Why a move back to West Virginia during COVID turned out to matter more than she expected
3. The sentence one of her authors said that no one in her helping profession had ever said to her
4. The two things she won't turn into a business, even though she'll monetize almost everything else
5. What she's holding on to right now, and the expectation she's loosening her grip on
💡 1-minute takeaway: Not everything you love needs a business plan, and not everything you build for others is only for them. The reconstruction question isn't what would make a good pivot story. It's what you actually built this for, and whether you've let it give anything back to you. Ruschelle doesn't wrap it up neatly. She gives the honest version.
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29 Sept 2026
The Clock You Can't See | After Chapter Podcast 31
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There's a kind of urgency that has nothing to do with a deadline and everything to do with a birthday.
A few episodes back, Michele and Cecilia put a price on the pivot. This time they look at the cost of waiting: the trip, the class, the call you keep saying you'll get to. No guest, just the two of them, an Irish coffee with a clock in it, and honest answers about what they've stopped putting off.
Your turn: what have you been waiting on? Leave us a comment or send your feedback on any platform where you follow us.
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All podcast content, including audio, video, transcripts, and likeness, may not be reproduced or used to train artificial intelligence systems without prior written permission.
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