ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Get a Life is a podcast for women who have spent years meeting expectations, caring for others, and holding everything together—and who are ready to build a life that feels rich, interesting, and fully their own.
Hosted by well-being coach and researcher, Jackie Oña Cascarano, the show explores what actually helps women flourish in mid-life, from reclaiming curiosity and adventure to questioning the cultural scripts that equate productivity with a life well lived.
Blending positive psychology, cultural insight, and real-life experimentation (including Jackie’s own “Adventure Year”), Get a Life examines what actually makes a life feel rich and fulfilling. From the science of well-being and psychological richness to the role of hobbies, creativity, and everyday exploration, each episode offers ideas and inspiration for building a life that is not just productive—but interesting, adventurous, and authentically your own.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
biweekly
Average audio length:
27 minutes
English
United States
10 episodes
since April 6, 2026
episodic
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Why do some people move through setbacks with resilience while others find themselves stuck? In this last episode of Season 1, Jackie explores the science of resilience and the protective factors that help us navigate adversity, from relationships and optimism to self-efficacy, perspective, and pur…
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What if the adventure you're craving doesn't require six months in Italy or a triathlon-training plan? In this episode, Jackie introduces the concept of the "everyday adventure" — micro-moments of discomfort, woven into ordinary life, that deliver the same psychological payoff a…
Bestselling author, journalist, and podcaster Jo Piazza joins Jackie for a conversation about adventure, creativity, travel, and badass women. The conversation dives into Jo's new novel, The Parisian Heist, the remarkable true story of Jo Van Gogh— the woman largely responsible for Vincent van…
Somewhere along the way, we started believing hobbies were frivolous, self-indulgent, or reserved for people with more free time than we have. But the science tells a very different story. In this episode, Jackie unpacks the surprising research behind hobbies and why they're linked to greater …
What would you do if you had one hour of genuinely free, discretionary time? Not a lunch break spent half-checking email. Not a bath interrupted by small humans asking for snacks. One hour that was actually, completely yours. If your thoughts immediately go to your to-do list... that's what t…
You're not unhappy. You're not unfulfilled. But something is missing — and you can't quite name it.
In this episode of Get a Life, Jackie Oña Cascarano chats with Dr. Shigehiro Oishi, Marshall Field Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago and author of Life in Three Dim…
On this episode of Get a Life, Jackie Oña Cascarano chats with Jodi Wellman, former corporate executive, popular TED speaker, and author of You Only Die Once: How to Make It to the End with No Regrets, about why remembering you're going to die might be the single most powerful tool you have f…
In this episode of Get a Life, Jackie Oña Cascarano explores one of the most influential frameworks in positive psychology, the PERMA model of well-being, and how it can bring more vibrancy and richness to mid-life for high-achieving women looking to expand beyond productivity and caretaking.
Marti…
In this episode of Get a Life, Jackie Oña Cascarano introduces Adventure Year: her personal experiment in building a more interesting life through hobbies, curiosity, and everyday adventures.
After realizing that her life had become highly productive but not particularly interesting, Jackie began e…
Why do so many high-achieving women feel like their lives are full… yet somehow small?
In the first episode of Get a Life, Jackie Oña Cascarano explores why high-achieving women in mid-life often find themselves trapped in cycles of productivity, caregiving, and responsibility that leave little roo…
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