234: Less About Proving, More About Impact: An Ages & Stages Reflection

234: Less About Proving, More About Impact: An Ages & Stages Reflection

As we step into a brand new year, this episode opens the Ages & Stages series with a personal reflection from me, Molly.

In this solo episode, I looks back across my own life — from childhood curiosity and creativity, to achievement-driven adolescence, to motherhood, entrepreneurship, burnout, and a more grounded, intentional season of leadership.

Rather than rushing toward what's next, this episode invites listeners to slow down, reflect on what each age and stage has already taught them, and consider how those lessons shape who you are becoming.

This conversation sets the tone for the weeks ahead, where I will sit down with women at different ages and stages of life to explore leadership, identity, ambition, legacy, and meaning.

If you're entering 2026 feeling reflective, hopeful, or ready to lead from a steadier place — this episode is for you.

What You'll Hear in This Episode
  • Why this season of life feels less about proving and more about impact

  • How childhood curiosity and creativity shape adult leadership

  • The hidden lessons in ambition, achievement, and burnout

  • What motherhood taught me about presence, rhythm, and partnership

  • Why there are no true "dividing lines" between life stages

  • How skills from earlier seasons still serve us today

  • The intention behind the new Ages & Stages podcast series

  • My word of the year — and how it's already shifting my mindset

  • An invitation to reflect on your own age, stage, and season

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266: Better Every Day:  Dr. Dan Butler on Building a School District Rooted in People

266: Better Every Day: Dr. Dan Butler on Building a School District Rooted in People

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265: Wear the Name Badge: What Ed Raber Knows About Showing Up

265: Wear the Name Badge: What Ed Raber Knows About Showing Up

This month on The Found Podcast, we're doing something a little different. We're bringing the boys in for a few episodes (don't worry, we'll be back to our women founders soon), and first up is somebo...

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264: The Messy Middle: What Rebuilding My Business Has Actually Looked Like

264: The Messy Middle: What Rebuilding My Business Has Actually Looked Like

Back in May, I was on a Zoom with my friend Jill Carr, mapping out where this podcast is headed in 2026 and 2027, when something clicked. Not a big dramatic moment. Just that quiet click where somebod...

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263: The Midyear Check-In Founders Never Put on Their Calendar

263: The Midyear Check-In Founders Never Put on Their Calendar

We're over halfway through the year, which means I'm having two feelings at once: "how did we get here already?!?!" and "okay, let's actually get moving on the goals I set back in January." If you're ...

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262: Six Reasons 2026 Is Your Year to Finally Start That Business

262: Six Reasons 2026 Is Your Year to Finally Start That Business

If you've been sitting on an idea for your small town, a business, a side hustle, a project you keep circling back to, and something keeps stopping you every time you get close to pulling the trigger....

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261: 7 Truths About Rural America They Don't Want You to Hear

261: 7 Truths About Rural America They Don't Want You to Hear

I'm angry this week. Not flip-a-table angry. The kind of angry that makes you sit up and say: this is wrong, and I want to be part of the solution. Rural America has been talked about, talked at, and ...

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260: What Table Were You Actually Built For? A Self-Leadership Framework for Small Town Business Owners

260: What Table Were You Actually Built For? A Self-Leadership Framework for Small Town Business Owners

This one is personal. Episode 260 is a solo cast, and it's the episode I've been sitting with for a while. I'm sharing what's been happening in real time in my career this year, not as a pivot story o...

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259: 28% Is Not Enough: Sarah Jakle on DemocraShe, Civic Engagement, and Why High School Girls Are the Future of Government

259: 28% Is Not Enough: Sarah Jakle on DemocraShe, Civic Engagement, and Why High School Girls Are the Future of Government

I get pitches in my inbox every day. Most of them I can't fit into the schedule, no matter how great they are. This one stopped me cold. Sarah Jakle is the founder and executive director of DemocraShe...

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