Becoming Her with Melissa Thompson

011. The #1 Thing Nobody Told You About Aging Well

Send me a text 💌 93% of Americans are metabolically unwell. Not sick enough to be treated — but not well either. And most of us have no idea it's happening until it

010. From Garbage to Beauty: How I Found My Calling

Send me a text 💌 I started my career doing accounting for the biggest garbage company in North America. Then I had my daughter — and everything changed overnight. What

009. I Apologized For My Own Success (Why Do Women Feel Guilty?)

Send me a text 💌 One of the most ridiculous things I've ever apologized for is my own success. I moved into a big house — a really big house — and I felt so guilty

008. How Women Lead by Serving, Seeing, and Lifting Others

Send me a text 💌 Real leadership isn't about positional power or fear-based tactics. It's about serving the people you lead. Seeing them. Mentoring them. And b

007. Nobody Made a Seat for Me, So I Built My Own Table

Send me a text 💌 I grew up wanting straight hair, green contacts, and a different nose. I wanted to be somebody else entirely. Then a boy in ninth grade told me he could

006. The Boardroom Moment That Changed Everything (Building Differently, Part 2)

Send me a text 💌 I was in a boardroom presenting a compensation plan when I said we needed something for the people who just needed to pay the light bill, buy soccer sho

005. When Success Doesn't Equal Happiness (Building Differently, Part 1)

Send me a text 💌 My son hit his first home run. He knocked it out of the park. And I wasn't there to see it. I was in a hotel room in Manhattan, in my pajamas, eat

004. How Discipline Leads to Freedom

Send me a text 💌 Back when my little babies were small, I was a size 18. I didn't take care of myself because there were no checkoff sheets—and even if there were,

003. When Life Breaks You Open

Send me a text 💌 To see divorce through the eyes of your children in a way that affects them when it shouldn't—that'll break you as a mama. That'll break

002. The Myth of Arrival

Send me a text 💌 This episode is about the myth of arrival: the belief that there's a finish line where you'll finally be happy, finally rest, finally be enoug

001. You Are Not Behind

Send me a text 💌 I used to think there would be a moment when I arrived. Marriage. Motherhood. Building a multimillion-dollar business. A lupus diagnosis at 55. Each sea

A Lifetime in the Making | Becoming Her Trailer

Send me a text 💌 I used to think there would be a moment when I arrived. But here's what I've learned: we don't arrive here. We grow, we grieve, we build,