Episode 23: When Starting Over Isn’t Your Choice

<p>What happens when the life you thought you were building suddenly falls apart—and you weren't the one who chose it?</p><p>In Episode 23 of Lay Low Pod, Erin sits down with Julie Jeppson, formally Julie Boyé, a single mom of eight who spent years sharing her family publicly before finding herself navigating a painful and very public divorce.</p><p>Julie gets real about:</p><p>• Raising eight kids while rebuilding her own life<br />• Going through a four-year legal battle<br />• Having your marriage end publicly when thousands of people are watching<br />• Mormon culture, marriage and the expectations placed on women<br />• Holding onto faith while questioning the people and systems around you<br />• Financial survival and learning how to provide for a family on your own<br />• Anger, grief and why healing doesn't happen on anyone else's timeline<br />• Finding your voice after feeling silenced<br />• The pressure to “give yourself grace” when you're still in survival mode<br />• Letting go of the life you thought you were supposed to have<br />• Reinventing yourself when you don't even know what comes next<br />• Figuring out who you are outside of being a wife and mom</p><p>This isn't just a conversation about divorce. It's about what happens when change chooses YOU—and how you begin putting yourself back together when the life you planned is no longer the life you're living.</p><p>Julie is still in the messy middle of it, and that's exactly what makes this conversation so real.</p><p>Submit listener questions or share your story as a possible pod guest at<a href="https://www.laylowpod.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"><b><strong> </strong></b></a><a href="http://www.laylowpod.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"><b><strong>www.laylowpod.com</strong></b></a></p><p><br />Thanks for laying low with me. ❤️</p>