What You’ll Discover About How to Get Unstuck with your Next Best Step for Clarity: Why waiting for complete clarity or certainty can keep you feeling stuck in midlife. What your Next Best Step is and why it doesn’t have to be perfect to be valuable. How taking action gives you new data about...
Continue readingEP #480: Stop Rushing Through Your Life
What You’ll Discover About Why It’s Important to Stop Rushing Through Your Life: Why “time matters” doesn’t have to mean stepping on the gas. How rushing shows up in everyday moments like coffee, dog walks, cooking dinner, and conversations. Why we rush through things we love (and what I noticed while planting my garden.)...
Continue readingEP #479: Who’s the Favorite? Understanding Sibling Relationships in Midlife with Catherine Carr
What You’ll Discover About Understanding Sibling Relationships in Midlife With Catherine Carr Why it’s important to understand sibling relationship issues in midlife. Why sibling relationships are potentially the longest relationship of our lives (up to 90 years) and what that can mean for you. Why starting the Relatively podcast about siblings was partly a...
Continue readingEP #478: Women in Midlife: Just Because You Can, Doesn’t Mean You Want To
What You’ll Discover About Women In Midlife Noticing That Just Because You Can, Doesn’t Mean You Want To: Why being capable of doing something doesn’t automatically mean you still want to do it. Why after decades of being competent, resourceful and dependable, capability can become part of your identity. How the midlife chapter offers...
Continue readingEP #477: When a Feminist Judge Writes Her Memoir in Midlife
What You’ll Discover about What It’s Like for a Feminist Judge to Write Her Memoir in Midlife: Why Jackie says her career changes were never rational decisions, but instincts she learned to trust. How a chance encounter with poets at a writers’ conference redirected her entire creative path. Why Jackie saw poetry and public...
Continue readingEP #476: What Kind of Daughter Do You Want to Be in Midlife?
What You’ll Discover about What Kind of Daughter you want to be in Midlife: Why it’s important to become intentional about knowing what kind of daughter you want to be in midlife. Why can get very good at doing things for your parents while becoming less intentional about actually being in a relationship with...
Continue readingEP #475: Creativity and Living a Curious Life with Fredrik Härén
What You’ll Discover about Creativity and Living a Curious Life with Fredrik Härén: Why creative confidence isn’t the same as creative capacity about half the people Fredrik has interviewed across 75 countries believe they’re “not creative A simple parenting (and self-coaching) trick for building creative thinking How to reframe a “creative outlet” as a...
Continue readingEP #474: Are You Really Older & Wiser? The Reality of Wisdom
Key topics covered about being older and wiser and the reality of wisdom: Why you may not automatically get older and wiser when it comes to wisdom Why getting older doesn’t necessarily make us wiser and what research on aging and wisdom suggests instead The difference between accumulating life experience and building lived wisdom...
Continue readingEP #473: Alcohol Moderation, Midlife Reinvention & Resilience with Michele D. Perron, PhD
Key topics covered regarding alcohol moderation, midlife reinvention & resilience with Michele D. Perron, PhD: The experience of building and losing a restaurant business; bankruptcy and divorce at 40 What the path back looked like: Al-Anon, jail volunteer work, addiction counseling license, PhD at 52 Alcohol moderation coaching as an alternative to abstinence-only treatment...
Continue readingEP #472: Creative or Not Creative in Midlife
What you’ll discover in this episode about wondering if you’re creative or not creative in in midlife: A decades-long belief like you’re “creative, but not really creative,” can hide in plain sight and can feel true. Small creative projects (like making a decorative valence, staining a chessboard table, and doodling whale tails) are proof...
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