Get a Life with Jackie Cascarano
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.
Episodes
10 episodes
Resilience, Reinvention, and the Dreams We Outgrow
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 relationsh...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone: The Science of "Everyday Adventure"
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, th...
The Woman Behind Van Gogh: Jo Piazza on Travel, Art Heists, and not-so Solitary Male Genius
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...
It's Time to Rebrand Hobbies
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...
The Myth of the Productive Woman: Why We Can't Have Nice Things
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 thou...
What Makes a Life Rich? Shige Oishi on Life in Three Dimensions
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 Un...
4,000 Mondays: Jodi Wellman on How to Be Astonishingly Alive
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 remember...
The Five Things You Need to Actually Thrive
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-achi...
Adventure Year: You Can’t Be an Interesting Person If You Don’t Do Interesting Things
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 ...