Create Your Best Empty Nest

About Create Your Best Empty Nest

Your kids are almost gone, or already gone, and nobody told you it would feel like this. Create Your Best Empty Nest is where women figure out who they are now and what comes next. Certified life coach Marianne Iverson helps you move from lost and uncertain to clear, grounded, and genuinely excited about your next chapter.

Publisher

Marianne Iverson

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Jan 2026

Latest episode

20 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

41 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Oct 2026

   Who Am I Now That the Kids Are Grown? (Reclaim, Part 2 of the CREATE Method)

   Who Am I Now That My Kids Are Grown? (Reclaim, Part 2 of the CREATE Method) You're standing in the same bleachers you've sat in for years, surrounded by people who still recognize your face but not your reason for being there anymore. If that quiet "who am I now" has been following you around lately, in the carpool line, at a game, in a suddenly empty kitchen, this episode is for you. This week on Create Your Best Empty Nest, Marianne shares the moment at a high school soccer game that cracked open everything she thought she knew about empty nest identity loss, and walks through Reclaim, the second letter of the CREATE Method, the framework helping women move from "my best years are behind me" to "it's my turn now." In this episode, you'll learn: Why being needed and being whole are not the same thing, and how to stop confusing the two How to recognize when wanting more for yourself isn't selfish, it's sacred direction Why the end of a season (a team, a role, a business, a chapter of motherhood) is a hand off, not a failure How the skills you built as a mom are leadership skills, and exactly how to start pointing them toward your own next chapter A simple, practical way to reclaim your identity after the kids leave home, one small shift at a time If you've been circling the question "who am I now that my kids are grown," this episode will help you find her again. 🌿 READY TO STOP CIRCLING AND ACTUALLY START? If the kids have left and you're sitting with that quiet "now what," you've probably thought about this call more than once already. On a free Next Chapter Jumpstart Call, we'll find the one place the empty nest has you feeling stuck, and you'll walk away with one small shift you can start today. Not someday. Today. You don't need to have it figured out first. That's what the call is for. 👉 marianneiverson.com/call (https://marianneiverson.com/call)

2. 

   13 Oct 2026

   The Truth About the Thoughts We Believe In the Empty Nest (C in the CREATE Method)

   It's Christmas morning. Recipe books I'd spent months putting together are open on everyone's lap. Matching pajamas everywhere. Presents scattered across the floor. Everyone's talking over each other, laughing, and it's exactly the morning I'd hoped for. I'm also completely exhausted, the kind of tired that comes from carrying every detail of a holiday for weeks without anyone knowing it. A few nights later at dinner, I'm watching my grown kids laugh with each other at the same table, and nobody's looked my way in ten minutes. One thought hit me so fast I never even questioned it: "I'm just the one who planned this whole trip. Nobody needs me for anything else." If you've ever poured everything into a moment and then felt completely invisible right in the middle of it, this one's for you. This week I'm introducing the CREATE Method for the first time, starting with the letter that changes everything else: Clarity. If you're in that season of empty nest anxiety, identity loss after your kids leave home, or you've whispered "who am I now" to yourself in a quiet kitchen, I'm handing you the exact tool that helped me catch a painful thought before it ran my whole night. In this episode I cover: Why doing everything for my family, seamlessly, for years actually made my effort invisible, and what I do about it now How painful thoughts move in fast and convince you they're true before you've even noticed them arrive The difference between gratitude and clarity, and why I was using gratitude as a lid instead of a lens The simple two-column exercise I use (the facts vs. the story I told myself) to catch which thoughts are actually running my life Why clarity has to come first before you can reclaim your identity, trust yourself again, or build anything new in this next chapter If any part of that dinner felt familiar tonight, that's not a coincidence. 🌿 READY TO STOP CIRCLING AND ACTUALLY START? If your kids have left and you're sitting with that quiet "now what," you've probably thought about this call more than once already. On a free Next Chapter Jumpstart Call, we'll find the one place the empty nest has you feeling stuck, and you'll walk away with one small shift you can start today. Not someday. Today. You don't need to have it figured out first. That's what the call is for. 👉 Book your call: marianneiverson.com/call (https://marianneiverson.com/call)

3. 

   6 Oct 2026

   How to Get Unstuck

   Wide awake at 2am asking "now what?" You're not alone, and you're not broken. If empty nest syndrome has you feeling stuck, lost, or like you don't recognize your own life anymore, this episode is for you. Everyone told you the empty nest would mean freedom. Free mornings, free time, finally free to do whatever you want. So why does it feel like the opposite? In this episode, certified life coach Marianne Iverson breaks down the four thoughts secretly keeping so many midlife women stuck instead of free, thoughts that feel like facts but aren't. Using real stories from her own empty nest journey, from a quiet drive home after college drop off to the silence of a phone that doesn't buzz anymore, Marianne shows you exactly why "who am I now" feels so disorienting, and exactly what finally getting free actually looks like. This episode covers: Why "my best years are behind me" is a thought, not a fact, and how to stop letting it run your next chapter The real difference between not being needed anymore and not mattering anymore Where purpose actually comes from after motherhood (it was never handed to you in the first place) Why "who am I now?" isn't a question you're meant to figure out alone How to finally move from feeling stuck to feeling free, not just in your schedule, but in your identity If any part of this episode felt like it was describing your own 2am thoughts, that's your sign. You don't have to figure this next chapter out by yourself. Join Marianne for the Get Unstuck Challenge, three days, live, together, completely free. Save your spot at marianneiverson.com/challenge

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