Message in the Middle: Midlife Women, Reinvention & Personal Growth

Marianne DeMello-Smith

Message in the Middle is a podcast for women navigating the challenges, transitions, and reinventions that often come with midlife. Hosted by Marianne DeMello-Smith, each episode explores the messy, meaningful moments that shape who we become. Through honest conversations with experts, authors, thought leaders, and everyday women, you'll discover practical insights, inspiring stories, and new perspectives on what it means to grow through life's most difficult seasons.Whether you're facing a career change, caregiving responsibilities, health challenges, grief, relationship shifts, menopause, identity changes, or simply wondering what's next, Message in the Middle offers encouragement, wisdom, and real-world strategies to help y...

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Message in the Middle: Midlife Women, Reinvention & Personal Growth

Episodes (221)

Saturday One Cup of Coffee Changed Everything: Jody Zarn on Homelessness, Empathy, and the Power of Truly Seeing People
Sat Jul 11th Retirement, Reinvention, and the Search for Purpose with George Jerjian
Sat Jul 4th Why Your Gut Isn’t Healing (And the Truth About Parasite Cleanses)

Message in the Middle: Midlife Women, Reinvention & Personal Growth

Jul 18, 2026
48 minutes
33 MB

What happens when we slow down long enough to truly see another human being? In this deeply thoughtful episode of Message in the Middle, Marianne sits down with Jody Zarn, an author, corporate trainer, and TEDx speaker whose life changed after buying a cup of coffee for a man named Leroy who was experiencing homelessness. What began as one small act of kindness became a life-changing friendship that challenged everything Jody thought she understood about trauma, mental illness, dignity, and human connection. As she slowly earned Leroy’s trust, she discovered a man whose story, in...

Message in the Middle: Midlife Women, Reinvention & Personal Growth

One Cup of Coffee Changed Everything: Jody Zarn on Homelessness, Empathy, and the Power of Truly Seeing People

Marianne DeMello-Smith

00:00 -48:06