Flourishing After Adversity
If you've experienced grief, illness, loss, or life-altering setbacks—and you're ready to reclaim your joy—this podcast is for you.
Hosted by Laura Mangum Broome, Resilience Coach and author of Flourishing After Adversity, this weekly show is your go-to resource for overcoming life’s toughest challenges with hope, courage, and clarity.
Each episode dives into real-life strategies for emotional healing, building resilience, managing mindset, navigating unexpected change, and rediscovering your strength after adversity.
Whether you're facing the aftermath of divorce, struggling to move forward after loss, or starting over later in life, you’ll find practical tools and encouragement to help you grow—not just go—through what you’ve been through.
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Flourishing After Adversity
S1:E19 Live Without Regrets: 3 Ways to Change Course Today
Flourishing After Adversity: Transforming Regret into Action
In this episode of the Flourishing After Adversity podcast, host Laura Mangum Broome, a Resilience Coach and author, discusses how to minimize regrets and embrace change. She provides three actionable strategies: radical acceptance, using the iCOPE decision method, and living by your priorities.
Laura emphasizes starting from where you are, focusing on what's within your control, and taking small, meaningful steps. She introduces a five-day no-regret sprint challenge to help listeners make progressive changes in their lives. Practical examples and motivational tips are provided to inspire listeners to choose better over bitter and to act now for a regret-free future.
00:00 Introduction to Flourishing After Adversity
01:47 The Power of Radical Acceptance
04:00 The iCOPE Decision Method
05:49 Living Your Priorities
06:59 Handling Roadblocks and the No Regret Sprint
08:37 Recap and Final Thoughts
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The only thing scarier than change is regret. Let's change that today. Welcome to the Flourishing After Adversity podcast. I'm your host, Laura Mangum Broome, Resilience Coach and author of Flourishing After Adversity. If life knocked you sideways and part of you keeps asking, is this it? You're in good company and in the right place. Today's promise is simple. Fewer regrets starting now. By the end, you'll have three moves you can use this week, plus a short challenge to keep your momentum. Picture a fresh cup of coffee sitting on a round table in a sunny room. On a napkin, one line reads,"The only thing scarier than change is regret." It resonates with you because it's true. Regret drains, time steals sleep, and makes your world feel smaller than it is. A life without regrets isn't a perfect life. It's an honest one. You still make mistakes, but you grow from them. You learn to take low risk steps outside of your comfort zone and from new possibilities you find hope Near the end of life, people often wish they'd spoken their hearts, kept close to their friends, and allowed themselves to be happy sooner. Use those regrets as life lessons and choose to change your path today. Most of a stall in smart sounding ways. We wait for the perfect plan, chase approval that fades, work harder to outrun the ache or try to overhaul everything in a weekend. It's a lot of motion, but not much movement. There's a kinder way forward. Let me share three moves to help you live in no regrets Life. Move. Number one, radical acceptance. Start where you are. Radical acceptance is a cornerstone of my resilience framework. It isn't about giving up. It's the moment you stop wrestling with reality. So you can use your power and energy where it counts. I'll explain with a simple reset exercise, draw two columns in my control and not in my control. Sometimes it's easier at first to start with what's not in your control with your situation. this can be what others think and say about you, their actions, how others take care of themselves, the outcomes of your efforts, the past and the future. Once you've completed this column, make a big X on top of it. This list can now be called stressful time wasters, so ignore it. Let's move onto that first column in my control. These are your thoughts, your words, and your actions. They're always in your control. Also your boundaries, your goals, how you respond to challenges and what you give your energy to. Circle one thing you can influence in your situation and give it 10 focused minutes in the next 24 hours. Say I start from here and mean it. Let me ground that with a few quick examples. If the tension in your relationship has been building, what's in your control might be a calm message, a clear boundary, or a direct ask. If work feels stale, what's in your control? Might be updating your resume, sending a single outreach note, or taking a class to improve your skills. If your energy's low, it might be scheduling a checkup. Walking after lunch or turning the lights out on time tonight. small, simple steps have a way of opening bigger doors. Acceptance. frees energy. Energy fuels choice and choice. Reshapes your story. Move number two, pick one step with the iCOPE decision method. You don't have to fix your whole life. You only have to choose your next move. The I COPE decision method keeps it clear and doable. Look at your in my control list and apply. I cope. I stands for Identify. Identify the single problem that takes priority. Write it out in one sentence. No drama, just facts. C stands for control. Name the parts of that problem that are in your control to change. O stands for outcomes. Consider the best, the worst, and the most likely outcomes for solving that problem. P stands for plan. Make an action plan for the most likely outcome. This includes small action steps with deadlines. E stands for evaluate. Take action and evaluate along the way. Keep what worked and adjust what didn't. Here's how that sounds like in real life. I'm unhappy at work. What's in your control? Update the resume. Ask for feedback. Schedule three short calls. Learn one. New skill. Best outcome. You land a role you love. Worst outcome, no change yet. Most likely outcome. A couple of interviews and better clarity. Plan the next 30 days, resume by Friday. Outreach next week, one course this month. Evaluate you, check back, and choose the next step. Confidence doesn't arrive first, it follows action. Move number three, live your priorities. When life is vague, regret wins. Name what matters, and let your calendar prove it for relationships. Keep it simple. One, gratitude. Text each week, one friend date each month and one memory maker. Each quarter, adjust it and make it your own. That rhythm keeps the important people close without adding pressure for joy, write a short bucket list. 15 items is plenty. Mix quick wins with longer dreams and group them by themes like adventure learning, family service, or home. Pick one for this month. Put it on the calendar and invite someone you love to join you for legacy. Think small and present tense. Legacy isn't a statue, it's what people carry because you lived. Share one story about a challenge and what helped you grow. Start a tiny tradition. Choose one way to serve this year. Purpose today shapes what remains tomorrow. How do you handle roadblocks? A few common snags show up for almost everyone. If you're afraid to fail, aim to learn. If you learned, you move forward. If time feels tight, borrow 10 minutes and attach it to something you already do. After coffee, after lunch, after the kids are in bed, if you worry you're too old, remember this, you're alive and your experience is an edge. If you don't know where to start, choose the smallest next step and do it today. Clarity tends to meet you once you move the five day no regret sprint. let's make this week count without making it heavy. Day one, make the in my control and not in my control list and take one 10 minute action. day two. Release a regret with acceptance or repair. A regret with one thing, an apology, a boundary, or a simple action you've put off. Day three. Put one value on your calendar to do for 30 minutes. Health, family Service, or Learning day four. Use the I COPE decision method on one decision and act on the plan. Day five, do a small, brave celebration. Celebrate small wins and choose one low risk action to take if it helps, repeat it next week and see what shifts repeat as needed. Let's recap what we learned. We kept it simple today. Practical, radical acceptance so you can move forward from regret. Use the iCOPE decision method to choose the next step. You'll actually take And let your calendar reflect your real priorities, relationships, joy, and the legacy you're already building. You don't need a new life to live without regrets. You need new choices made one at a time. On hard days, thoughts can spiral fast. Grab my free guide. Reframe the spiral. Five quick tools to quiet the noise and take your next step. You'll find the link in the show notes. Thanks for listening. If this helped follow the show and leave a rating so others can find it better yet, please share this episode with three friends in need of hope. Until next time, adversity can make you bitter or better. Choose better. You've got this.