What you’ll learn in this episode about overcoming fear and living a braver life after 50:
- What you can learn from overcoming fear and living a braver life after 50.
- Why noticing yourself coasting through life can be a sign that you may want a change.
- What you can learn from cycling and mischief from your childhood.
- How realizing you feel “flat” and joyless can indicate that you want more.
- Why acknowledging fear about change can be pivotal for a step toward courage to change.
- How committing to change can be a way for you to honor yourself and be a role model for your family.
- Why taking time to reflect on what brings you joy is critical as you age.
- Why recognizing how the power of community can be essential to your happiness.
- How asking yourself “what can I become” vs “what can I do” led to powerlifting.
- How overcoming fear in one area of your life can lead to courage in other areas as well.
- How an average woman can do something above average, like becoming the fastest woman on two wheels on sand, when you are determined and have self-belief.
- Why it feels so good to have community, love, and support around yo,u and how it can be incredibly rewarding.
Welcome to Another Episode of the Women in the Middle Podcast
Overcoming fear in midlife can be challenging. My guest, Louisa Swaden, is living proof that the second half of life can be the start of something extraordinary.
After turning 50, Louisa began saying yes to things that once felt impossible — setting land speed records on sand, racing at the legendary Bonneville Salt Flats, and riding across Namibia as part of a conservation effort with Rally for Rangers.
She became a UK Ambassador for the Global Women Riders World Relay, a movement that united thousands of women through the shared freedom of motorcycling and also earned a Welsh Powerlifting record along the way. Most recently, she’s turned author, weaving together mindset, motorcycles, and philosophy in her debut book, The Stoic Rider.
Under the name The Existential Biker, Louisa shares raw, reflective insights drawn from the road, exploring what it means to live bravely, age boldly, and lean into life’s unknowns. When she’s not writing or exploring on two wheels, she can be found reading sci-fi, musing on the universe, or laughing with her grandchildren.
Her story reminds us that life doesn’t have to shrink with age — it can expand in thrilling, unexpected directions. As she says: Where you look is where you go.
Louisa’s story has been featured on Adventure Rider Radio, BBC, Adventure Bike TV on Amazon Prime, and Under the Visor. She has written as a featured writer for Overland magazine and Motorcycle Sport and Leisure magazine, where her viral story of becoming a breast milk delivering biker for the NHS to bring life-saving milk to premature babies was told.
Please enjoy this episode!
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Featured: Passion Project 50 Worksheet
Martha Beck’s Book: Finding Your Own North Star
Contact Louisa Swaden
Buy the book, The Stoic Rider: Philosophy in Motion, by Louisa Swaden on Amazon, your favorite bookseller, or at www.existialbiker.com
https://www.facebook.com/existentialbiker
https://www.instagram.com/existentialbiker
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