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The empty nest plan I'm making a year early

September 13, 2025 · 13 min

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Your last kid is about to leave and you have no plan for the empty nest. Here is how to reinvent yourself first.


Next year Krissy's youngest finishes school. More time, fewer drop-offs, and one question every parent keeps asking... what now?? But this isn't only for mums and dads. A stroke overnight. A marriage that ends. A career you've outgrown. The change is coming. The only choice is whether you plan for it or get blindsided.


What you'll get:

• Why reinvention beats dreading the empty nest

• The one thing linked to longevity... purpose

• How to plan a year before the change lands

• A ritual that kept the house from going quiet


Chapters:

(00:00) Reinvention, not empty nest

(01:26) When change is sudden

(02:19) Why I hate change

(03:18) Purpose keeps you alive

(05:24) Fill the time on purpose

(09:09) The Tuesday night dinner

(11:35) Don't stay in a rut

(12:42) Who this is for


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Listen:

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/wildly-appropriate-w-krissy-marsh/id1790057838

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1TIH5sHckXXmnh8qjMb43S


Produced by Dreamers Media

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