Awakening in the Second Half: Jen Hatmaker on Loss, Love, and Letting Go

S9E2 - Awakening in the Second Half: Jen Hatmaker on Loss, Love, and Letting Go

Published: December 11, 2025

Duration: 53:01

What happens when the life you built—carefully, faithfully, and publicly—splits down the middle in a single night?

On this episode of Typology, I sit down with bestselling author and beloved cultural commentator Jen Hatmaker to talk about her stunning new memoir, Awake. Jen, an Enneagram Three with a courageous streak that can look a whole lot like an Eight, opens up about the "before-and-after date" that changed everything—July 11, 2020—when her 26-year marriage ended, and her whole world cracked open.

Together, we explore what it means to wake up in midlife:

to grief...