EP 244: Fresh Starts in All of Life’s Transitions with Olivia Dreizen Howe

This week has been a lot. Sunday morning, I found myself unexpectedly crying for three hours trying to figure out why I felt so overwhelmed even though everyone in my family was doing so much invisible work. Things I discovered included that I had extroverted way too hard, that all things on a to-do list do not carry the same emotional weight, and that my hate of 90+ degree weather was still very much felt. Monday couldn’t come soon enough.

Thankfully, I was able to connect with a kindred spirit to talk all about fresh starts. I definitely needed one. I love a do-over more than most people because do-overs are how I keep going in life.

Olivia Dreizen Howell and her sister Jenny started a divorce registry three years ago when they were both in the midst of life-changing breakups. When I first heard this concept, I couldn’t believe someone hadn’t thought of it before. It makes so much sense! We shower brides and babies with gifts marking a new life transition, but what about all of the other life transitions: divorce, death, graduation, and job loss?

In today’s world of marrying later and cohabitating before marriage, it seems like a lot of people go from one toaster as a single person to two toasters as a couple to one toaster during cohabitation or marriage to NO toaster when they split up. I’m just saying that the time we need a new toaster is likely not at the beginning of a marriage but rather at the end.

I knew I had to interview the brains behind this brilliant idea and the woman who started that national conversation about women having privacy in the voting booth. If you’ve spent any time online where people are talking about post-it notes in the bathroom encouraging Republican women to cross party lines to vote for Kamala Harris because that vote is public, but who you vote for is private. You’ve seen Olivia’s viral idea in the wild.

In this week’s episode, I share my conversation with Olivia about Fresh Starts, Voting Without Fear, and how self-care is often the first thing to go when you are changing the world.

In case you haven’t yet met… Olivia Dreizen Howell is the Co-Founder and CEO of Fresh Starts Registry, a clinical hypnotherapist, neuro-linguistic practitioner, certified life coach, and single mom.

After her 2019 divorce, Olivia noticed that while society celebrates weddings and babies with registries, there’s little support for moments when people truly need to rebuild their lives, like divorce or job loss. This realization led her and her sister Jenny Dreizen to create Fresh Starts Registry, the first and only platform that helps people through life transitions by offering expert guidance and essential home items. She is also the co-founder of the Vote Without Fear Platform, dedicated to empowering Americans to vote safely.

With a strong background in marketing and communications, Olivia has worked on global campaigns and TV shows, founded March Lion Media, and led social media efforts for brands, celebrities and TV shows. Since founding Fresh Starts, she co-hosts and produces A Fresh Story podcast and has written over 250 scripts to support people through life changes.

Olivia has been featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and more. She’s also the founder of YentaList, a job-posting site, and uses her platform to support single parents, empower women, and advocate for mental health and emotional resilience.

Please connect with Olivia online:

• IG: https://www.instagram.com/freshstartsregistry
• IG: https://www.instagram.com/thedigitalyenta
• FB: https://www.facebook.com/FreshStartsRegistry
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/FreshStartsHere
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fresh-starts-registry

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