About the Show

A chrysalis looks still from the outside. Everything is happening inside. This is a show about that space.

The Room Between is a video podcast for women navigating the long, uncertain middle of transformation — where identity shifts, purpose deepens, and becoming happens one honest choice at a time.

The Room Between is a video podcast about the space where transformation actually happens — not the breakthrough moment, but the long, uncertain middle.

It is a space dedicated to women navigating life's transitions — the personal ones, the professional ones, the ones we seek, and the ones thrust upon us. Because transitions don't just change our circumstances. They reshape our identity, our purpose, our relationships, our work, and the way we move through the world.

Hosted by Dr. Nicole Yeldell Butts — organizational culture strategist, executive coach, author, and creator of the SHIFT Framework — this show explores what happens in the space between who we've been and who we're becoming.

Through honest conversation, reflection, and practical tools, episodes dig into identity, reinvention, career changes, menopause, illness, relationships and more.

Most of what's changing doesn't show up anywhere obvious — not on a resume, not in a conversation with a friend, not in anything you could point to and explain. It's quieter than that. This isn't a space about having it all figured out. It's a space about moving through change with consciousness, courage, alignment, and self-trust — because the room between who you were and who you're becoming isn't a waiting room. It's your Chrysalis Season. It's where Boldly Becoming happens. And it's where you move, honestly and one choice at a time, toward Unapologetically Thriving.

Each episode is another woman's room between -- a real conversation about what it takes to move through change with consciousness and courage. Explore the full library, find where your story begins, and keep going.

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Latest Episode

Season 1 · Episode 9 · November 3, 2026

All the Seasons at Once | Dr. Sommer Jabber-Pearson

with Dr. Sommer Jabber-Pearson

On LinkedIn, Dr. Sommer Jabber Pearson’s life looked like a highlight reel. Off it, she was returning pop cans for grocery money and wondering how to make the mortgage. In two and a half years, nearly everything in her life changed at once: a doctorate, a marriage, a new job and a layoff without warning, a business started out of necessity, and illness and loss in her family. As a first-generation Palestinian American, she carried all of it alongside the daily news from her family’s homeland. And very little of it showed from the outside. Dr. Nicole, talks with her about the distance between the public story and the private one, and why the title "Dr." still doesn't sit easily with her. Sommer also shares something her mother taught her: that joy and grief must coexist. It's a perspective that unsettled Dr. Nicole's belief that life's seasons arrive one at a time, and it may change how you understand your own. Because sometimes our seasons arrive together, celebration and loss at once, and we have to make room for both.

Part of Something Larger

This podcast is one room in a larger house.

The Room Between podcast is part of the InsideTheRoomBetween ecosystem — a growing community of women, conversations, resources, and experiences for the chrysalis season.

The Room Between Podcast

A video podcast about the space where transformation lives — between who you were and who you're becoming.

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