What You’ll Learn from this Episode: What it’s like to question your happiness in your career when you have a stable teaching job. What it’s like to be a widow in your 40s. What dating in your 40s is like as a widow. How working with children helped me cope after my husband died....
Continue readingCareer Change: Why I Said Goodbye to my Medical Practice, Interview with Katrina Ubell, MD, Ep 45
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about Career Change: The Decision to Leave a Medical Practice with Katrina Ubell, MD: What it’s like to think about a career change and question your happiness in your career, especially as a physician. How having aging parents helped focus my priorities and realize my career wasn’t a...
Continue readingEP #43: Empty Nest from the Inside Out, Interview with a Kid who Flew Away
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about Empty Nest from the Inside Out: What it’s like to experience empty nest from the inside out, your kids’ perspective What it’s like for your kid to to leave home and go away to university. Why living with other students is an awesome intermediary stage of life....
Continue readingEP #42: When you Get a Midlife Wake Up Call
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: What a midlife wake-up call looks like. What a wake-up call feels like. How to take the important next steps when you get a wake-up call. How wake-up calls can seem obvious but still be surprising. Why milestone birthdays, like turning 50, can really shake you up. The...
Continue readingEP #41: How to Build an Adventurous Attitude, Interview with Stacey Newman Weldon
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about How to Build an Adventurous Attitude with Stacey Newman Weldon: Why it’s important to build an adventurous attitude in midlife. Why it’s important to take baby steps when it comes to trying new things. How you never know where you’re going to get insight that will change...
Continue readingWhy you should do something scary
We spend most of our lives trying to feel better, be more comfortable and avoid scary things. Most of us don’t go out of our way to do something that creates fear. Wouldn’t you agree? The older we get and more control we have over our lives, the more this seems to be so....
Continue readingThe art of practice
When’s the last time you practiced something new? Everything in life is practice even though you may not think of it that way. You practice what you want, and you also practice what you don’t want. And what you practice becomes a habit. I’ve recently had an amazing opportunity to be in a small...
Continue readingTennis and Exercise: 3 Steps to Love More and Resist Less
I have always loved tennis. I never had lessons when I was a kid though. I just used to goof around and play with friends every now and again. Tennis wasn’t part of my childhood in any big way. Well…there was this guy in high school that I used to flirt with while we...
Continue readingAre you hiding from change?
You’ve been thinking about making a change. So much so that the change itself has become noisy chatter in your mind. It comes and goes, but it’s there. You hear it even though you’re hiding. It’s not constant, but you hear it. You try to ignore it when you notice it. Sometimes you can....
Continue readingWorking Moms: Do You Need Regret Proofing 101?
Are you starting to have regrets about what you haven’t done yet in your life? Working moms tend to think they can do it all. Does this sound like you? I felt this way for sure. As a group, we are accomplished in so many areas. We do a lot, that’s for sure. I...
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