Empty Nesting 2.0 | Part 1 -- When they graduate from College, what's next?

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My Daughter Graduated College... and I'm Terrified For Her Future (Autism, Empty Nesting & Reinvention) | Reinventing Rumbley She graduated with a 3.9 GPA. Her capstone film got a standing ovation. And I still don't know if she's going to be okay. 👇 This episode is the most vulnerable thing Christina has shared on this show. Her daughter Avery just graduated from SCAD — and watching her walk this stage has cracked open every emotion Christina didn't know she was holding. Avery is on the autism spectrum. Brilliant. Scholastically stellar. A perfectionist who poured a year and a half of her life into a capstone animated film so extraordinary it earned a standing ovation from an international audience of students and parents — and made her professor risk his own job just to let her exceed the assignment's limits. And yet, two days before graduation, all Avery could say was: "I'm not going to get a job." In this raw, honest episode, Christina opens up about: What it's really like watching your neurodivergent child succeed publicly while privately spiraling with anxiety about what comes next The statistic that haunts her: 85% of autistic college graduates are unemployed Why Avery can mask perfectly in the world but can't mask with her own parents The heartbreak of wanting your child to celebrate a huge win — and watching them not be able to Navigating empty nesting for the second time while going through perimenopause and her own reinvention simultaneously The fear of her daughter traveling internationally to an animation festival in Europe with no downtime and a maxed-out social battery What it means to protect your child without helicoptering — and how impossibly hard that line is to find The beautiful, devastating symbolism in Avery's award-worthy student film about two sisters, an inner flame, and growing up This is reinvention from every angle — Avery stepping into her future, and Christina learning to mother a young adult whose brain works differently than her own. If you've ever parented a neurodivergent child, or are watching your kid launch into a world that terrifies you both, this episode will hit you right in the chest. 🤍 Part 2 of this conversation is coming — this story isn't over. 📩 Email Christina: ReinventingRumbley@gmail.com ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Kalle Simpson: Discover Night Brand Owner - Part 1

This week Christina sits down with entrepreneur, founder, and fellow reinventionist, Kalle Simpson — the powerhouse behind Discover Night, a 10-year self-funded beauty and wellness brand that went from a single silk pillow to a full 360 nighttime beauty company with 35 product lines. And her story? It's one of the most raw, real, and relatable founder conversations we've ever had on this show. Kalle built something extraordinary. Seven years of hockey stick growth. Self-funded. No VC money. No safety net. Just pure grit, vision, and an insane level of dedication. And then 2022 hit. A stolen truck. Millions in uninsured inventory. The loss of her biggest customer — which represented 75% of her business. All at once. "I went from that huge peak to doing everything I possibly could." In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, Christina and Kalle dig deep into: How Discover Night went from one silk pillow to a 35-product beauty empire — all self-funded What it really takes to build a product company from scratch when nobody's backing you The difference between VC-funded startups and self-funded founders when the bottom falls out Why business partnership requires alignment in lifestyle, sacrifice, and season of life — not just vision The identity crisis that hits when a founder who has never NOT grown revenue suddenly faces contraction. How Kalle faked five different customer service email personas to look like a bigger company Why she spent a fortune on outside business advice — and what she learned the hard way The muscle she never knew she had until she was forced to build it Why the hardest years may have actually saved her company Plus — Christina gets real about her own parallel experiences running and selling her companies, the emotional toll business stress takes on your body, and why sometimes blind faith is the only thing keeping you going at 3am. This one is for every founder, entrepreneur, and woman in business who has ever felt like the floor just dropped out — and had to figure out how to keep going anyway. 💪 📩 Email Christina: ReinventingRumbley@gmail.com 🔔 Subscribe — new episodes every Wednesday ⭐ Leave us a 5-star review — it helps more than you know 👇 Drop a comment: Have you ever faced a moment that nearly took down everything you built? Tell us your story. Part 2 with Kalle drops next week — don't miss it! 🔔𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬. https://www.youtube.com/@ReinventingRumbley?sub_confirmation=1 🔗 Stay Connected With Me. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Reinventing-Rumbley/61582519707845/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/reinventingrumbley/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reinventingrumbley 📩 Got a story about reinvention? We’d love to hear it, email us at: ReinventingRumbley@gmail.com ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

3. juni 202631 min

Empty Nesting 2.0 | Part 1 -- When they graduate from College, what's next?

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