YOUR EX ISN’T ALWAYS A PERSON.
It might be a career. A business. A dream. A title. A friendship. A role. Or a version of yourself you’ve outgrown.
What’s Your Ex? is for women 40+ navigating the chapters they’ve left behind—and figuring out what they want to carry forward into what comes next.
Starting over doesn’t mean starting from scratch.
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SO, WHAT’S YOUR EX?
Your ex isn’t always a person.
It might be the career you spent twenty years building.
The business you thought you’d retire from.
A friendship you quietly outgrew.
A dream you stopped pursuing.
A title that once defined you.
Or a version of yourself that no longer fits who you are now.
What’s Your Ex? is about recognizing what ended, understanding what it left you with, and deciding what belongs in your next chapter.
THE EX → THE + → THE NEXT
THE EX
What ended or changed?
THE +
What did it leave you with?
THE NEXT
What can you build from it now?
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I’M WRITING WHAT’S YOUR EX?
What’s Your Ex? began as a question I found myself asking during my own life transition.
What happens to everything we’ve learned when a chapter ends?
The experience. The mistakes. The relationships. The skills. The hard lessons. The parts of ourselves we developed along the way.
I’m writing a book about that question—and about how the chapters we’ve outgrown can still become part of what we build next.
Follow along as I write it.
MEET MARILIE
Marilie Daniels is a creator, entrepreneur, writer, and host of What’s Your Ex?
After a pivot in the business she once thought she would retire from, she began asking a different question: What happens to everything we’ve learned when a chapter ends?
Today, she shares honest conversations and practical ideas about midlife reinvention, identity, starting over, building new income from experience, and using AI as a tool to create what comes next.
She’s also writing What’s Your Ex?, a book about the chapters, identities and versions of ourselves we’ve outgrown—and what they may still have to give us.
She’s also a proud fur mom to Chase and Barkley.
EXPLORE WHAT’S YOUR EX?
THE EX
Podcast conversations about identity, relationships, old chapters and what we're leaving behind.
THE +
Project 180, reinvention and the messy space between what ended and what comes next.
THE NEXT
Experience, income, digital products and using AI to build new opportunities.
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