36 Best Starting Over Podcasts (2026)

The starting over space keeps producing fresh voices and long-running favorites. This list rounds up 36 of the best, including Pivot, How To Fail With Elizabeth Day, and Good Life Project.

Pivot
With great power, comes great scrutiny. Every Tuesday and Friday, journalist Kara Swisher and NYU Professor Scott Galloway offer sharp, unfiltered ...

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Artificial Intelligence Business Business Mastery Career Change Career Growth StrategiesStarting Over
+21

Audience:
Aspiring Entrepreneurs Career Changers CEOs Developers Empty Nesters
+6

Goal:
Discovering New Ideas Getting Expert Insights Professional Development Starting a Business Staying Informed
+1

Style:
News Briefing Panel Discussion

When:
Commute Listening Commuting
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Every success story you've ever been told is incomplete. How To Fail with Elizabeth Day is the part they leave out. Each week, Sunday Times #1 best...

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Creative Life Mentoring Creative Process Daily Motivational Experience of Life Holistic WellnessStarting Over
+19

Audience:
Ambitious Women Careers College Students Couples Entrepreneurs Female Entrepreneurs
+14

Goal:
Artist Financial Literacy Discovering New Ideas Emotional Regulation Emotional Resilience Emotional Wellness
+12

Style:
Interview

When:
At Work Commuting Focused Learning
Good Life Project
Good Life Project is a podcast and video series for people navigating midlife with intention. Hosted by Jonathan Fields, each episode is a deep, ho...

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Aging Positively Authentic Living Authentic Self Authenticity Career ChangeStarting Over
+45

Audience:
Career Changers Highly Sensitive People Motivated Listeners New Managers Real Estate Agents
+5

Goal:
Building a Business Burnout Prevention Burnout Recovery Emotional Regulation Emotional Resilience
+9

Style:
Interview

When:
At Work Focused Learning
The Jordan Harbinger Show
(Apple's Best of 2018) In-depth conversations with people at the top of their game. Jordan Harbinger unpacks guests' wisdom into practical nuggets ...

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Business Career Growth Strategies Empowerment Coaching Inspirational Interviews Inspirational VoicesStarting Over
+14

Audience:
Motivated Listeners Salespeople Young Adults

Goal:
Building a Business Discovering New Ideas Getting Expert Insights Getting Motivated Learning New Skills
+3

Style:
Documentary In-Depth Interviews Interview Live Interviews Solo Commentary

When:
At Work
A Slight Change of Plans
What happens when life doesn’t go according to plan? In this award-winning podcast, cognitive scientist Dr. Maya Shankar explores how we expe...

Content:
Behavioral Psychology Career Change Culture Human Behavior Human StoriesStarting Over
+7

Audience:
Career Changers Underserved Women Leaders

Goal:
Discovering New Ideas Following a Story Post Traumatic Growth Solving Problems

Style:
Narrative Storytelling
Second Life
Hosted by Who What Wear co-founder Hillary Kerr, Second Life spotlights successful women who have made major career changes. Guests share...

Content:
Career Change Career Growth Strategies Executive Leadership Life Transitions Mature ThemesStarting Over
+6

Audience:
Ambitious Women Careers Career Changers Career Driven Mothers Creators Female Entrepreneurs
+8

Goal:
Burnout Recovery Professional Development Starting a Business World Changers
The Next Right Thing
For the second-guessers, the chronically hesitant, or anyone who suffers from decision fatigue, best-selling author and host Emily P. Freeman helps...

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Christian Discipleship Christian Living Christian Perspective Christian Reflection Decision MakingStarting Over
+9

Audience:
Christian Women Empty Nesters Women Over 40
Reinvent Yourself with Dr. Tara
Reinvent Yourself with Dr. Tara follows Dr. Tara Swart Bieber, an expert on neuroplasticity, as she spreads her message of self-care and transforma...

Content:
Midlife Reinvention Neuroscience-Based Leadership Tattoo CultureStarting Over

Audience:
Career Changers
Life Shift™ | Pivotal Moments & Life Change
The Life Shift shares real and honest conversations about the moments that change us. Host Matt Gilhooly sits with guests as they tell true stories...

Content:
Empowerment Storytelling Life Transitions Lived Experience Midlife Reinvention Personal FinanceStarting Over
+1

Goal:
Emotional Wellness Post Traumatic Growth

When:
Focused Learning
GOD-LED BUSINESS - Make Money Online, Work From Home, Passive Income, Online Business, Start a Podcast
I built a multi-seven-figure business starting with nothing but a podcast. No social media. No ads. Just God, a microphone, and a strategy that wor...

Content:
Podcast Growth Women in BusinessStarting Over

Audience:
Christian Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurs Small Business Owners

Goal:
Building a Business Podcast Monetization
Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris | 5 minute podcast summaries
5 minute summaries of Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris's podcast episodes. Get the best insights and ideas in much less time, more at owltail.co...

Content:
Authentic Self Authenticity Coping Skills Daily Motivational Dharma TeachingsStarting Over
+56

Audience:
College Students Motivated Listeners New Managers People with Anxiety Stress Management Women
+3

Goal:
Burnout Prevention Burnout Recovery Emotional Intelligence Tools Emotional Regulation Emotional Resilience
+8

Style:
Educational

When:
At the Gym At Work Focused Learning
Bent Not Broken: Starting Over After Divorce | Post Divorce Life
Divorce changes everything and starting over is hard — but it doesn’t have to break you. Bent Not Broken: Life After Divorce, hosted by Deborah Gri...

Content:
Divorce Recovery Life Transitions Mental Health Relationship Communication Relationships & DatingStarting Over
+3

Goal:
Emotional Resilience Emotional Wellness Marriage Support Post Traumatic Growth
Career Change & Business Advice for Women | Second Act Success Podcast
Welcome to the Second Act Success Podcast, a top 2% globally ranked podcast for women ready to make a career change, quit their job, start a busine...

Content:
Career Change Life Transitions Midlife ReinventionStarting Over

Audience:
Career Changers Maturepreneurs
Reinvention Rebels
🔥 Bold Women. Big Dreams. Zero Apologies. 🔥Hey you — yes, you! The midlife (or better) woman wondering: Is this all there is?Spoiler alert: It’s no...

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Empowerment Coaching Empowerment Storytelling Life Transitions Life Wisdom Lived ExperienceStarting Over
+2

Audience:
Women Healers Over 50 Women Over 40
Mom To MORE® | Midlife Reinvention for Moms
You've spent years raising your family, supporting everyone around you, and building a life centered on motherhood. Now, like so many women, you're...

Content:
Midlife ReinventionStarting Over
Start Yours
Start Yours is a podcast about what it’s like to start your own thing. Whether that's a side hustle, an ecommerce store, dropshipping, or walking a...

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Starting Over
Starting Over
Welcome to Starting Over, the podcast dedicated to those navigating the transition of career setbacks or returning from career breaks and hosted by...

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Starting Over
Personal Growth & Reinvention for Women | say YES to yourself!
If you're ready to stop living by everyone else's expectations and start creating a life that feels authentic, intentional, and fully your own, you...

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Authentic Self Life and Growth Life Transitions Midlife ReinventionStarting Over
Five Fresh Tips
Five Fresh Tips is the go-to podcast for quick, expert-backed advice from the Fresh Starts Registry Experts! Each episode delivers five actionable ...

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Starting Over
Starting Over : Life 2.0 With God
For those that have had their world turned upside down.Life has a way of throwing us curveballs—divorce, job loss, unexpected heartbreak, or even j...

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Starting Over
Starting Over Stronger Podcast
The Starting Over Stronger Podcast offers tips, tricks and mindset shifts for more clarity, confidence, and a whole new outlook on life as you face...

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Starting Over
WTF Just Happened? | Midlife Podcast for Women 40+
WTF Just Happened? is a midlife podcast for women over 40 navigating the messy, funny, heartbreaking, and completely unexpected parts of this stage...

Content:
Intimacy After 40 Life Transitions Midlife Comedy Midlife ReinventionStarting Over

Audience:
Women in Their 50s Women Over 40
Career Change Conversations for Women in Leadership | Reinvention | Identity | Purpose
This show helps women in leadership & high-achieving career women plan their next pivot to escape burn out & create a life & work that ...

Content:
Life Coaching Life Transitions Midlife Reinvention Solopreneurship Women EmpowermentStarting Over

Audience:
Career Changers Women Over 40
Life in Transition Podcast
I’m Art Blanchford, and this is Life in Transition, a podcast about making the most of the changes we’re given. As a married father of three teenag...

Content:
Career Change Life Transitions Midlife ReinventionStarting Over

Audience:
Family Caregivers
Hello Prime Life
Do you feel stuck in the messiness of midlife? Unseen, unsettled, uninspired, un-everything?Good - because that’s exactly who this show is for.Hell...

Content:
Mature Themes Midlife ReinventionStarting Over
A Fresh Story
A Fresh Story Podcast is a top 2% personal journals podcast, hosted by sisters Olivia Dreizen Howell and Jenny Dreizen, that delves into courageous...

Content:
Life TransitionsStarting Over
Your Reinvention Era
Your Reinvention Era is for the woman everyone leans on — who somewhere along the way stopped leaning on herself. You're the strong one. You handle...

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Starting Over
Pivot Season: Reinvention Strategies For Millennial Women
Join Ambar Paloma on the Pivot Season, the podcast for millennial women ready to dive into self-discovery, personal growth and reinventing yourself...

Content:
Career Change Life Transitions Midlife Reinvention Self Improvement Women EmpowermentStarting Over

Audience:
Women in Leadership Working Moms
The Dating After Divorce Survival Guide™️
Eric Payne, a divorced dad and retired marriage & fatherhood blogger, tells the comedic tale of his "Chapter 2" — having to start life over brand n...

Content:
Life After DivorceStarting Over
Design Your Dream Life
You built your business for freedom. So why does it still feel so heavy? Welcome to Design Your Dream Life—the podcast for high-achieving women who...

Content:
Dream Life Coaching Empowerment Coaching Inspirational Voices Life and Growth Life CoachingStarting Over
+1

Audience:
Overwhelmed Working Women

Goal:
Living on Purpose
Reinvention Real Talk with Karen Larrea
Reinvention Real Talk with Karen Larrea Real stories. Bold reinventions. Unfiltered truth. Hosted by certified relationship and reinvention coach K...

Content:
Life TransitionsStarting Over
A More Brilliant Life: Stories of Reinvention
We share inspiring stories of personal transformation, proving that profound change is within reach. Join us as we explore the pivotal moments of l...

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Lived Experience Midlife ReinventionStarting Over
Start Somewhere
In Start Somewhere, Sara Vaughan talks to some of the inspiring people that she's lucky enough to meet in the course of her work, each with their o...

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Starting Over
Experience Over Expectation
Experience Over Expectation is a storytelling podcast for people who’ve lived long enough to know that life rarely goes to plan—and beautiful thing...

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Starting Over
Socially Divorced
Socially Divorced is a safe zone for those fed up with societal standards and social expectations. This is not your ordinary dinner table conversat...

Content:
Divorce AdviceStarting Over
The INKGENIUS Podcast
This podcast is designed to give you information that would enable you to take the lead in life, with special focus on creativity, business, relati...

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Starting Over