The Joyful Rebel Podcast
The Joyful Rebel Podcast — for women who are done ghosting themselves.
If your life looks fine from the outside but feels strangely unrecognizable on the inside — if you’ve spent years being good, needed, faithful, striving to be enough, and somewhere along the way slowly lost yourself — you’re in the right place.
Hosted by New York Times bestselling author Rachel Harris, this is a space for women who have been quietly disappearing inside their own lives… and are ready to come home to themselves.
Here, we name a pattern most women live but few have language for: Good Girl Ghosting — the socially rewarded ways women betray themselves through people-pleasing, overexplaining, shrinking, and calling fear wisdom. We question the beliefs that made self-erasure look holy. And we practice the tiny pinkie-toe steps of courage that help women stop disappearing and start living fully seen.
Through personal storytelling, faith without performance, and practical tools rooted in identity and embodied wisdom, each episode explores:
•Reclaiming your voice, your joy, and the desires you buried to be acceptable
•Faith that doesn’t require self-erasure
•Mirror talk, integrity gaps, and the cost of breaking small promises to yourself
•Embodied courage — what it actually looks like to choose yourself in real life
•The legacy you build when you stop abandoning yourself
This isn’t a podcast about fixing yourself. You aren’t broken. This is about remembering, reclaiming, and embodying who you were created to be.
Because maybe your truest self isn’t gone.
Maybe she’s been buried.
And maybe it’s time to come home.
If you’re a midlife woman who woke up wondering where she went — or a woman still in the trenches trying not to disappear — welcome. You belong here.
The Joyful Rebel Podcast
Latest Episodes
Your Weirdness Is Your Magic: A Midlife Woman’s Guide to Writing Her Own Creed
You can recite everyone else's beliefs — their rules, their idea of a good woman. But your own? This week we go underneath the rules, down to the bedrock they've been standing on: your credo. What you actually believe.Because your quirks...
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Reclaim Your Joy: The Favorite Things List That Brings You Back in Midlife and Beyond
You can name everyone else's favorites — your kid's, your husband's, your bestfriend's. But when someone asks you? You go blank. This week we fix that.If you've been feeling lost in midlife — foggy about who you even ar...
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Who Told You That? — How to Catch the Silent Rules Running Your Life
In this episode, I get honest about the rules we’re all living by — the ones nobody ever said out loud, that we never agreed to, that somehow still run our whole lives.I take you into my closet (the skirt-and-makeup rule I obeyed for thi...
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The Values You Never Actually Chose — How to Find the Ones That Are Really Yours (and Not the Vision-Board Ones)
Identifying your core values at midlife is one of the first steps toward creating a life that is YOURS -- not someone else's. Stop chasing goals that don't fit your life!In this episode, I get honest about something a little embarrassing...
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The Half-Second Where You Disappear — and the One Sentence That Brings You Back
There's that moment. You know the one — and your body knows it even better. Someone asks, and before you've decided anything, you feel it: the drop in your stomach, your shoulders tightening a half-inch. Your body tells the truth… and your mout...
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