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Becoming Her with Melissa Thompson

Melissa Thompson

15 episodes

Becoming Her is a podcast about lifelong evolution, hosted by Melissa Thompson — a believer, Latina CEO, and founder of a multimillion-dollar beauty brand navigating leadership, resilience, and reinvention.

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For women who know they haven't arrived and don't need to...

You're not late. You're not behind. You're not finished.

You are in the making.

Stay becoming.

Episodes

  1. 014. How to Stop Caring What People Think (It Gets Easier With Age)

    · 16 min · S1 E14

    Send me a text 💌 Learning how to stop caring what people think is one of the hardest things women do — and one of the most liberating. In your 30s it takes up the whole house. Approaching 56? It lives in the attic in…

  2. 013. What to Do When Mean Girls Become Mean Women

    · 6:26 · S1 E13

    Send me a text 💌 We all know one. Some of us have been one. And decades later, we can still name every mean girl from our school days — because that kind of thing stays with you. The problem? Some didn't grow out of…

  3. 012. Why Some Women Walk Into a Room and Own It

    · 11 min · S1 E12

    Send me a text 💌 I formulate beauty and personal care products for a living. So you might expect me to come on here and talk about the best collagen, the best foundation, the best skincare routine. But in all my…

  4. 011. The #1 Thing Nobody Told You About Aging Well

    · 15 min · S1 E11

    Send me a text 💌 93% of Americans are metabolically unwell. Not sick enough to be treated — but not well either. And most of us have no idea it's happening until it's already gone too far. I didn't either. Until my…

  5. 010. From Garbage to Beauty: How I Found My Calling

    · 16 min · S1 E10

    Send me a text 💌 I started my career doing accounting for the biggest garbage company in North America. Then I had my daughter — and everything changed overnight. What followed was resume writing for broke college…

  6. 009. I Apologized For My Own Success (Why Do Women Feel Guilty?)

    · 15 min · S1 E9

    Send me a text 💌 One of the most ridiculous things I've ever apologized for is my own success. I moved into a big house — a really big house — and I felt so guilty that I didn't want anyone to see it. I worked hard…

  7. 008. How Women Lead by Serving, Seeing, and Lifting Others

    · 19 min · S1 E8

    Send me a text 💌 Real leadership isn't about positional power or fear-based tactics. It's about serving the people you lead. Seeing them. Mentoring them. And building them up until they're strong enough to do the same…

  8. 007. Nobody Made a Seat for Me, So I Built My Own Table

    · 21 min · S1 E7

    Send me a text 💌 I grew up wanting straight hair, green contacts, and a different nose. I wanted to be somebody else entirely. Then a boy in ninth grade told me he couldn't date a Mexican girl—and I carried that into…

  9. 006. The Boardroom Moment That Changed Everything (Building Differently, Part 2)

    · 13 min · S1 E6

    Send me a text 💌 I was in a boardroom presenting a compensation plan when I said we needed something for the people who just needed to pay the light bill, buy soccer shoes for their kids, or simply put milk on the…

  10. 005. When Success Doesn't Equal Happiness (Building Differently, Part 1)

    · 15 min · S1 E5

    Send me a text 💌 My son hit his first home run. He knocked it out of the park. And I wasn't there to see it. I was in a hotel room in Manhattan, in my pajamas, eating room service chicken. I had the title. I had the…

  11. 004. How Discipline Leads to Freedom

    · 14 min · S1 E4

    Send me a text 💌 Back when my little babies were small, I was a size 18. I didn't take care of myself because there were no checkoff sheets—and even if there were, I would have been last on that list. I didn't even…

  12. 003. When Life Breaks You Open

    · 16 min · S1 E3

    Send me a text 💌 To see divorce through the eyes of your children in a way that affects them when it shouldn't—that'll break you as a mama. That'll break you. And it almost did. Till I realized what was trying to…

  13. 002. The Myth of Arrival

    · 16 min · S1 E2

    Send me a text 💌 This episode is about the myth of arrival: the belief that there's a finish line where you'll finally be happy, finally rest, finally be enough. Marriage. Weight loss. Paying off debt. Building a…

  14. 001. You Are Not Behind

    · 7:56 · S1 E1

    Send me a text 💌 I used to think there would be a moment when I arrived. Marriage. Motherhood. Building a multimillion-dollar business. A lupus diagnosis at 55. Each season, I thought: this is it. But I was always…

  15. A Lifetime in the Making | Becoming Her Trailer

    · 1:52 · Trailer

    Send me a text 💌 I used to think there would be a moment when I arrived. But here's what I've learned: we don't arrive here. We grow, we grieve, we build, and we become. I'm Melissa Thompson — a believer, wife,…

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