From Reality TV Villain to Mayor Run: Spencer Pratt, Reinvention, and Rising for LA
This is a special crossover episode of The Big Ask podcast with Tara Renze from Be Who You Came to Be and we are bringing both worlds together for a very real and very unexpected conversation.
We are talking about Spencer Pratt, yes, the same Spencer from The Hills who once played the villain role in reality TV history, and what it looks like when someone completely rewrites their own narrative. After losing his home in the Palisades wildfires, he has stepped into a new chapter focused on advocacy, visibility, and now even a run for mayor of Los Angeles.
This episode is about reinvention, resilience, and what happens when life strips everything back and you decide to rebuild louder, braver, and more aligned than before. It is part humor, part shock, and part real conversation about leadership showing up in the most unexpected ways.
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2 May 2026
Midlife Friendships: Why We Choose Peace Over Drama
Something shifts in midlife… and it’s not just us. It’s our friendships too.
In this episode of The Big Ask, Tara and Brooke get real about how friendships evolve as we grow and why we’re no longer available for relationships that feel heavy, complicated, or filled with drama.
We talk about the quiet but powerful transition from quantity to quality. The moment you realize you don’t need a big circle; you need the right one. The kind of friendships that feel easy. Safe. Supportive. The ones where you can show up fully as yourself and feel met, not managed.
Because in this season, we’re not chasing connection, we’re choosing alignment.
This conversation is about raising your standards, protecting your peace, and surrounding yourself with women who genuinely love, support, and celebrate you without competition, without chaos, and without conditions.
If you’ve been feeling the shift in your friendships or craving deeper, more grounded connection, this episode will feel like a breath of fresh air.
If this resonated, share it with a friend who gets it.
Be sure to follow us on Instagram to stay connected and continue the conversation.
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And if you’re loving The Big Ask, we would be so grateful for a review, it helps us reach more women who are navigating this same season.
27 Apr 2026
The Transition No One Prepares You For: Watching Your Kids Grow Up
In this episode, we’re opening up about a season that so many moms quietly find themselves in but do not always talk about.
Tara is preparing to send her son Ben off to college. Brooke is watching her daughter step into high school while her son begins to pull away into his pre-teen independence. And in all of it, we are both feeling the weight of what it means to love deeply and still learn to let go.
This conversation is about the mixed emotions that come with these transitions. The pride. The grief. The confusion. The beauty. It is about realizing that our children are not ours to keep. They are ours to guide, to nurture, and to release into becoming who they are meant to be.
We talk about what it looks like to navigate this shift with emotional intelligence, to resist the urge to hold on too tightly, and to instead create space for growth while staying deeply connected.
If you are in a season where your kids are changing, growing, or pulling away, this episode will remind you that nothing has gone wrong. This is the process. This is the purpose. And you are not alone in it.
If this episode spoke to you, we would love for you to share it with another mom who needs to hear it. Be sure to follow us on Instagram to stay connected and continue the conversation.
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Brooke Runn (https://www.instagram.com/brookerunn/)
Leave us a review and let us know what resonated most with you. Your voice helps us reach more women walking through the same season.
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