What You’ll Learn from this Episode about How to Make a Midlife Career Change: Why it’s common to no longer feel content in your midlife career and want to make a change. Why the fear about a midlife career change can keep you confused about what to do next. Why it’s important to understand...
Continue readingEP #141: Why your Midlife Crisis is Not the One your Momma Had
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about Why Your Midlife Crisis is Not the One your Momma Had: Why it’s important to be aware of the use of the phrase “midlife crisis”. Why you many not want to use the phrase “midlife crisis.” Why your experience of a midlife crisis may differ from your...
Continue readingEP #140: The Cost of Staying Stuck & Playing the Waiting Game in Midlife
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about the Cost of Staying Stuck & the Waiting Game in Midlife: Why staying stuck and waiting in midlife in is a real problem. Why the fear about change can keep you stuck in midlife. What the main costs are to staying stuck in midlife. Why knowing the...
Continue readingEP #139: 5 Ways to Use Envy for Good in Midlife
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about How to Use Envy for Good in Midlife: Why the feeling of envy can be used for good in midlife. Why envy is an important emotion to be aware of in midlife. Why the emotion of envy can surprise you. How you can use envy to help...
Continue readingEP #138: Following your Passion to Create, Recycle & Educate with Joanne Jones
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about Following your Passion to Create, Recycle & Educate: How to follow your passion to create, recycle & educate. How it’s almost impossible to ignore your passion. Why it’s important to embrace discomfort when your doing something new. Why you should focus on finding your “why,” your bigger...
Continue readingEP #137: 6 Steps to Make your Midlife Plans More Fun
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about how to make Midlife Plans more Fun: Why it’s common to just plan for adequacy when you try to make midlife plans more fun. How being untethered at this age and stage of life can be advantageous when you make midlife plans. Why you should consider amplifying...
Continue readingPimples at 50 and other midlife surprises
Pimples look pretty cool under a nice magnification mirror in midlife, don’t they? I’m not sure exactly how old I was when I discovered how much fun and also how scary a magnification mirror could be. It was decades ago! I think it must have been when I was about 12 or 13 years...
Continue readingEP #136: Mahjong as a Mother & Daughter Tradition with Cheryl Zeldin & Ruth Zimelman
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about Mahjong in Midlife as a Family Tradition: How games like Mahjong can be an important family tradition. How the game of Mahjong can be a beautiful way to spend valuable time with your mom. How older women are teaching their younger 50 year old daughters to play...
Continue readingFeeling EMPTY without a NEST
Kids aren’t required for your nest to feel empty in midlife. Like retirement, many parents don’t even think about the whole empty nest thing until it happens to them. The term “Empty Nest Syndrome” is pretty familiar. It refers to parents’ feelings of sadness and even grief after children move out of the home....
Continue readingEP #135: Weight Loss & Wake Up Calls in Midlife with Cookie Rosenblum, MA.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about Weight Loss & Wake Up Calls in Midlife with Cookie Rosenblum: Why there are common weight loss related myths in midlife. How midlife women can connect more with the practice of mindful eating. Why developing a grown-up definition of what a “food treat” should be is important....
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