Episode 6

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20th Oct 2025

Living Her Beautiful Plan B: Kinga Jakab on Redefining Recovery, Healing & Self-Discovery

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This episode includes open conversations about alcohol use, mental-health challenges, and suicidality. Please take care while listening and reach out for professional support if you need it. If you are in crisis, you can call or text 988 in Canada and the U.S., or visit findahelpline.com for international options.

In this deeply moving episode, I sit down with Kinga Jakab — Recovery Coach, speaker, and fierce advocate for women reclaiming their power — to talk about what it really means to build a beautiful Plan B.

Kinga opens up about her own journey with subtances, the pressure to appear “perfect,” and the breaking point that led her to redefine success, sobriety, and self-love. Through vulnerability, healing, and radical honesty, she transformed her pain into purpose — and now helps women do the same.

We dive into:

  • The truth about recovery and why it’s not just about quitting, but about coming home to yourself
  • How to release perfection and find peace in authenticity
  • Reframing rock bottom as the beginning of your Plan B life
  • The mindset shifts that turn struggle into self-discovery
  • Creating a beautiful and loving modern family

Kinga’s story is a powerful reminder that your Plan B can be more beautiful, fulfilling, and real than anything you planned for — if you’re willing to choose yourself.


Connect with Tara Resnick:

Instagram: @tararesnick

TikTok: @tararesnick1

www.tararesnick.com

Connect with Kinga Jakab:

Instagram: @recoveringfromevertyhing_kinga

Podcast: Recovering from Everything

www.recoveringfromeverything.com


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About the Podcast

This Wasn't the Plan with Tara Resnick
Where 'Plan B' becomes the path to resilience and reinvention
This Wasn’t the Plan is a personal growth podcast for anyone ready to evolve — blending self-help, mindset, and real stories of resilience. Whether you’re rebuilding after change, navigating a transition, or simply working on becoming your best self, this is the podcast for you.

Hosted by Tara Resnick (@tararesnick), each episode explores resilience, reinvention, and self-development through real-life stories and expert conversations that help you build confidence, clarity, and direction in any season of life.

Guests include people who have faced career pivots, relationship shifts, wellness journeys, infertility journeys, and unexpected detours - alongside professionals, coaches, and wellness experts sharing mindset tools, coping strategies, and practical steps for growth.

If you’re seeking inspiration, motivation, or guidance to create a more aligned, empowered life, this podcast is for you. Because sometimes the detour becomes the path - and that’s where the real growth begins.

For more tools and inspiration on resilience, mindset, and personal growth, visit www.tararesnick.com or follow Tara on Instagram (@tararesnick) and TikTok (@tararesnick1).

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Tara Resnick

Tara Resnick is a healthcare professional, solution focused coach, fitness instructor and the creator and host of This Wasn’t the Plan: When Plan B Becomes the Path to Resilience and Reinvention. After facing her own journey of unexpected detours—including the heartbreak of infertility and the challenge of rewriting her dreams—Tara discovered the power of resilience, reinvention, and telling the truth about life when it doesn’t go the way you imagined.

Through her podcast, Tara creates a space for honest conversations about navigating Plan B—whether that means fertility struggles, career pivots, personal growth, or starting over. With a mix of storytelling, inspiration, and expert insights, she helps listeners feel less alone and more empowered to create a meaningful life on the other side of disappointment.

Passionate about authenticity and connection, Tara’s mission is to remind people that just because it wasn’t the plan doesn’t mean it can’t be beautiful.