Episode 23: When Starting Over Isn’t Your Choice

What happens when the life you thought you were building suddenly falls apart—and you weren't the one who chose it?

In Episode 23 of Lay Low Pod, Erin sits down with Julie Jeppson, formally Julie Boyé, a single mom of eight who spent years sharing her family publicly before finding herself navigating a painful and very public divorce.

Julie gets real about:

• Raising eight kids while rebuilding her own life
• Going through a four-year legal battle
• Having your marriage end publicly when thousands of people are watching
• Mormon culture, marriage and the expectations placed on women
• Holding onto faith while questioning the people and systems around you
• Financial survival and learning how to provide for a family on your own
• Anger, grief and why healing doesn't happen on anyone else's timeline
• Finding your voice after feeling silenced
• The pressure to “give yourself grace” when you're still in survival mode
• Letting go of the life you thought you were supposed to have
• Reinventing yourself when you don't even know what comes next
• Figuring out who you are outside of being a wife and mom

This isn't just a conversation about divorce. It's about what happens when change chooses YOU—and how you begin putting yourself back together when the life you planned is no longer the life you're living.

Julie is still in the messy middle of it, and that's exactly what makes this conversation so real.

Submit listener questions or share your story as a possible pod guest at www.laylowpod.com

Thanks for laying low with me. ❤️