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Welcome to Plucky Not Perfect—a podcast for women in midlife who want to build resilience, find courage, and embrace life’s messy middle with grit and grace.
Hosted by Carrie Bradley—coach, caregiver, and cancer survivor—this podcast is about showing up as you are, letting go of perfection, and discovering strength in unexpected places.
In Season 2, you’ll hear a mix of solo episodes and interviews with inspiring women who are navigating midlife transitions, health challenges, career shifts, family dynamics, and personal growth. Together, we’ll explore practical tools for resilience, self-care strategies that actually fit into busy lives, and mindset shifts that help you thrive when life doesn’t go as planned.
Whether you’re over 40, caring for others while trying to care for yourself, or simply looking for encouragement to keep going—this podcast will remind you that you don’t have to be perfect to feel worthy and live bravely.
Plucky means “determined courage.” Not perfect? That’s all of us. Join us to find hope, connection, and inspiration for one imperfect step at a time.
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Sensitivity as a Superpower with Joanna Brewster (#43)
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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Afraid of a Colonoscopy? Here’s What Helps (#42)
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May 13, 2026 |
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How to Finally Feel Worthy (Without Achieving More) (#41)
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Seeing Beyond the Darkness with Blind Storyteller Anne Mok (#40)
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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The Secret to the Journaling Routine That Helped Carry Me Through the Hardest Year of My Life (#39)
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Rewrite Your Life Without Burning It Down with Michelle Hooey (#38)
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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How to Not Quit on Yourself: Plucky Courage to Keep Going (#37)
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Reclaiming Life After Traumatic Brain Injury with Erika Brouillette (#36)
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Instead of “Let Me Know If You Need Anything,” Here’s How to Help a Struggling Friend (#35)
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Revolutionary Rest: Living Worthy with Heather Boersma (#34)
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Traveling Through Uncertainty as a Cancer Mom Turned Midlife Explorer with Jennifer Montgomery-Lay (#33)
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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How I’m Approaching Fear of Surgery (#32)
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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From “Too Shy to Speak” to Top 1% Podcaster with Teri Holland (#31)
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Rebuilding Life After Loss: A Young Widow’s Story of Courage with Lindsay Aho (#30)
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Ten Types of Courage: How to Build Your Plucky Muscles in Everyday Moments (#29)
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Mental Performance Tools for Building Confidence and Resilience with Ashley Wiles (#28)
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Don’t Let Your Candle Melt in the Closet: Stop Waiting and Start Living with Tedx Speaker Gillian Parlane (#27)
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Resilience in the Messy Middle: 3 Practices for Women Navigating Change (#26)
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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#25 Permission to pause: 4 reflection questions + journal prompts to help you make resolutions that stick
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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#24 The Secret to Change
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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#23 How rejecting self-pity and embracing self-compassion helped me reach a big goal
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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#22 If you're ill or injured; "let the cat come back"
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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#21 Two Miles to the Top: Lessons in Perseverance from Simon Marshall
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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#20 Incurable Cancer Doesn’t Define You: Stepping into Courage with Monica Rosenke
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May 07, 2024 |
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#19 My cancer diagnosis; how I’m practicing courage
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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#18 Coaching Corner: A Desire to Run Farther and Faster in Community: Alex Fales
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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#17 How being plucky like a duck will help you be a better person...whether it's running, writing, parenting, whatever...
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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#16 Slow Down to Speed Up: a Triathlete’s Journey to Self Discovery with Miranda Bush
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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#15 Three Ways to Defeat Discouragement
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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#14 Empowering strong girls: create a new identity by writing your own story with Molly Hurford
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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#13 Where to look when you don’t know what goal to pick
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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#12 Beyond Endurance: Managing Motherhood, Medicine, and Ultra Running with Lauren Puretz
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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#11 Fear is my best running friend: 5 steps to moving forward with courage
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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#10 It’s the climb: always chasing excellence, occasionally elite with Megan Williams
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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#9 5k Every Day: Run Your Life in the Body You Have with Sandra Mikulic
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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#8 Zero running to coaching with endometriosis with Gillian Macgregor-Spurr
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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#7 Run Your Own Race; That’s Just the Icing with Zarah Hofer
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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#6 Normalizing Failure: a Barefoot DNF with Rebecca Roache
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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#3: Negative Thoughts are Helping You
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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#4: Benefits of Being a Beginner Runner with Becky VanDrunen
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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#2: Being Practically Positive Despite a Running Injury with Courtney McQueen
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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#5: Doubt as Part of the Process: Reflections on my first Ironman 70.3 triathlon
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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#1: Why Plucky Not Perfect?
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Sep 26, 2023 |