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This One is Personal. What I Want You to Know
Four hundred episodes. I still can’t quite believe it. I’m Susie Pettit, a life coach for women, and I want to use this one to tell you why this podcast exists at all, because I don’t think I’ve ever said it this plainly.
The Promise I Made on a Basement Floor
When I started the Love Your Life Show, I was five years out from a devastating divorce that ended my 25-year marriage. I wasn’t in contact with my biological family. I had recently been close to bankruptcy, living in an unfinished basement in Arlington, Virginia, waiting for the legal process to move so I could get my kids and get out. My dad was helping fund my ex’s divorce lawyer. I had nowhere to go and no one to turn to.
Those were dark days. I had 32 stress-related seizures in a single weekend. My body was falling apart. My biological family chose to side with my ex rather than face the stigma of a divorced daughter.
What saved me were podcasts. My husband controlled the finances, so I couldn’t buy books. But I had a little Apple device he thought was just for music, and that’s how I found Wayne Dyer, Lewis Howes, Pema Chodron, Marianne Williamson, and Brooke Castillo. My life slowly began to change.
One night, after a particularly hard crying session on that basement floor, I made myself a promise. If I ever got out, I would make a podcast. I would share the things that helped me survive. I wanted to teach small, doable steps so that you, my listener, would not stay stuck the way I had been for so long.
That is why this podcast exists. And that’s why, 400 episodes later, I’m still here.
The Story Behind My Logo
There is a story I love about a little girl on a beach after a big storm. Starfish have washed up everywhere, hundreds of them. She walks along, bending down, picking one up, throwing it back. A woman passes by and says, honey, you can’t make a difference here. Look at all of them. The little girl picks up another starfish, throws it in the water, and says, I helped that one.
That is what I am doing here. If I can be in your ear after a hard parenting day and remind you that acting unskilled does not make you awful, that you have not ruined your kids. If I can be with you when you finish the whole bag of chips and tell you that you are not broken. On the days you are lying on the floor crying, wondering if it is ever going to get easier, I want to be the voice that tells you it will. Then I will keep showing up.
You are my starfish. You matter to me.
What I Cover in This Episode:
- The real story behind why I started this podcast
- What life looked like when I made that promise to myself in that basement
- The starfish story and why it lives at the heart of everything I do here
- Why I give so much away for free, and why I am not stopping
- What I want to be for you on your hardest days
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