She Jumped Anyway Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:00:03 -0400 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2621830 en-au © 2026 She Jumped Anyway yes 05fef4d5-b851-5699-8891-b7452578197f belinda.byp@gmail.com Belinda Hendrickson episodic false In May 2026 I left my secure job with no safety net. Fifteen years earlier I left my marriage with three kids and no qualifications. She Jumped Anyway is for women who have left, or are standing on the edge wondering if they can.

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Belinda Hendrickson belinda.byp@gmail.com https://storage.buzzsprout.com/q02ludvaba6ztky83gq9a9khbpfa?.jpg She Jumped Anyway https://www.buzzsprout.com/2621830 Everything at Once Everything at Once Some mornings you wake up feeling like you're on another level of alive. Some mornings the ceiling feels low. Often both happen before lunch.

This episode isn't a sad one. It's a disorienting one, because the fear and the euphoria aren't taking turns...they're simultaneous. That's the vertigo. And it turns out the vertigo is where the interesting stuff lives.

Episode five is about what it actually feels like to be at the beginning of something real. The specific joys that have surprised you. The pattern you've noticed between belief and fear. The people who've gone quiet, and the ones who show up differently than you expected. The grief that's still there...just not the loudest thing anymore.

Everything at once. Mid-air.

I want to hear from you. The highs and the lows and the bizarre thing that made you inexplicably happy this week. Find me on Instagram @shejumpedanyway or send an email to shejumpedanyway@gmail.com. With your permission, I'd love to bring your voice into this show. Because this was never meant to be just my story. And this podcast was never meant to be just mine...I made it for you.

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]]> Some mornings you wake up feeling like you're on another level of alive. Some mornings the ceiling feels low. Often both happen before lunch.

This episode isn't a sad one. It's a disorienting one, because the fear and the euphoria aren't taking turns...they're simultaneous. That's the vertigo. And it turns out the vertigo is where the interesting stuff lives.

Episode five is about what it actually feels like to be at the beginning of something real. The specific joys that have surprised you. The pattern you've noticed between belief and fear. The people who've gone quiet, and the ones who show up differently than you expected. The grief that's still there...just not the loudest thing anymore.

Everything at once. Mid-air.

I want to hear from you. The highs and the lows and the bizarre thing that made you inexplicably happy this week. Find me on Instagram @shejumpedanyway or send an email to shejumpedanyway@gmail.com. With your permission, I'd love to bring your voice into this show. Because this was never meant to be just my story. And this podcast was never meant to be just mine...I made it for you.

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She Jumped Anyway is a podcast for all women in all the ways women exist - however you came to yourself. If you've ever stood at the edge of a life that no longer fits, this is for you. New episodes weekly. Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you listen.

]]> Belinda Hendrickson Buzzsprout-19342095 Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +1000 1022 1 6 full false The Weight of What I Could See The Weight of What I Could See Four episodes in and I am more scared than I was before I started. I didn't expect that.

Episode five is about what happens when the jump gets bigger than you. When you can see something clearly, something that matters, something real, and you have no idea if you're the person who can build it.

I'm recording this from the middle of my second jump. No resolution. No landing. Just the weight of what I can see, and the exposure of saying it out loud.

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]]> Four episodes in and I am more scared than I was before I started. I didn't expect that.

Episode five is about what happens when the jump gets bigger than you. When you can see something clearly, something that matters, something real, and you have no idea if you're the person who can build it.

I'm recording this from the middle of my second jump. No resolution. No landing. Just the weight of what I can see, and the exposure of saying it out loud.

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She Jumped Anyway is a podcast for all women in all the ways women exist - however you came to yourself. If you've ever stood at the edge of a life that no longer fits, this is for you. New episodes weekly. Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you listen.

]]> Belinda Hendrickson Buzzsprout-19310124 Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +1000 1068 1 5 full false The Episode I Wasn't Going to Release The Episode I Wasn't Going to Release This episode almost didn't exist three times over.

I recorded it on a day when everything went wrong technically. Then I sat on it for weeks because releasing it meant you'd know what I'm thinking about building, and knowing that meant I couldn't quietly back away.

Then today happened.

It's out anyway. Because the resistance is usually the sign.

In this episode: the real difference between my two jumps, why survival and sustainability feel nothing alike, and the first hint of something I'm building for women who are standing where I was standing.

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]]> This episode almost didn't exist three times over.

I recorded it on a day when everything went wrong technically. Then I sat on it for weeks because releasing it meant you'd know what I'm thinking about building, and knowing that meant I couldn't quietly back away.

Then today happened.

It's out anyway. Because the resistance is usually the sign.

In this episode: the real difference between my two jumps, why survival and sustainability feel nothing alike, and the first hint of something I'm building for women who are standing where I was standing.

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]]> Belinda Hendrickson Buzzsprout-19346968 Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +1000 911 1 4 full false What Changed Between Jumps What Changed Between Jumps Same woman. Same fear. Same jump into the unknown. So what changed?

I've done this before. The last time I feel apart. This time I feel free.

In this episode I try to answer the question that's been sitting with me since day one of this second leap - why does the same person jump so differently the second time round? What is it that makes the difference between surviving a decision and feeling liberated by it?

I talk about the years between the two leaps. What I learned and who I became in the space between leaving my career. I talk about what it meant to finally have language for the way I move through the world, and what it cost me not to have that language during the hardest moments in my life. And I talk about the difference between isolation as something that gets imposed on you, and the solitude as something you chose. 

She Jumped Anyway is a podcast for women in all the ways women exist - however you came to yourself. If you've ever stood at the edge of a life that no longer fits, this is for you. New episodes weekly. Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you listen.

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]]> Same woman. Same fear. Same jump into the unknown. So what changed?

I've done this before. The last time I feel apart. This time I feel free.

In this episode I try to answer the question that's been sitting with me since day one of this second leap - why does the same person jump so differently the second time round? What is it that makes the difference between surviving a decision and feeling liberated by it?

I talk about the years between the two leaps. What I learned and who I became in the space between leaving my career. I talk about what it meant to finally have language for the way I move through the world, and what it cost me not to have that language during the hardest moments in my life. And I talk about the difference between isolation as something that gets imposed on you, and the solitude as something you chose. 

She Jumped Anyway is a podcast for women in all the ways women exist - however you came to yourself. If you've ever stood at the edge of a life that no longer fits, this is for you. New episodes weekly. Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you listen.

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She Jumped Anyway is a podcast for all women in all the ways women exist - however you came to yourself. If you've ever stood at the edge of a life that no longer fits, this is for you. New episodes weekly. Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you listen.

]]> Belinda Hendrickson Buzzsprout-19286107 Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +1000 1031 1 3 full false Day Three Day Three Fifteen years ago I left my first husband with three kids and no qualifications. Now I've left my job with no safety net, and my husband has recently been made redundant. This is day three. I'm sharing the unfiltered feelings and the moment I decided for a second time, to jump anyway.

She Jumped Anyway is a podcast for women standing at the edge of something they need to leave. New episodes weekly. Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you listen.

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]]> Fifteen years ago I left my first husband with three kids and no qualifications. Now I've left my job with no safety net, and my husband has recently been made redundant. This is day three. I'm sharing the unfiltered feelings and the moment I decided for a second time, to jump anyway.

She Jumped Anyway is a podcast for women standing at the edge of something they need to leave. New episodes weekly. Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you listen.

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]]> Belinda Hendrickson Buzzsprout-19286157 Sat, 06 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +1000 2265 1 1 full false The First Jump The First Jump Nobody tells you that when you leave, you don't just lose the relationship. You lose the life that was built around it.

In this episode I go back to the first time I jumped, leaving my marriage with three children, no qualifications, an uncertain future, and no roadmap for what came next.

This isn't a story about what was wrong. It's a story about what it costs a woman to leave. The friends who quietly disappeared. The narrative that gets written about you when you're the one who walked away. The loneliness of navigating the hardest decision of your life almost entirely alone...and the psychological weight of carrying it without the language or the support to make sense of it.

I also talk about what I didn't have then that I wish I had... just one person who had already been through it to sit with me and say - "You're not falling apart. You're just leaving."

That person didn't exist for me then.

That's why I'm making this show now.

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]]> Nobody tells you that when you leave, you don't just lose the relationship. You lose the life that was built around it.

In this episode I go back to the first time I jumped, leaving my marriage with three children, no qualifications, an uncertain future, and no roadmap for what came next.

This isn't a story about what was wrong. It's a story about what it costs a woman to leave. The friends who quietly disappeared. The narrative that gets written about you when you're the one who walked away. The loneliness of navigating the hardest decision of your life almost entirely alone...and the psychological weight of carrying it without the language or the support to make sense of it.

I also talk about what I didn't have then that I wish I had... just one person who had already been through it to sit with me and say - "You're not falling apart. You're just leaving."

That person didn't exist for me then.

That's why I'm making this show now.

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]]> Belinda Hendrickson Buzzsprout-19278789 Sat, 06 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +1000 1561 1 2 full false Prologue Prologue Episode 1 coming July 1st...


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