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
7 episodes
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 ...