EP #219: Midlife Memories of Funny Little Lies from Childhood What you will learn about midlife memories and exploring funny little lies from childhood. What you’ll learn about midlife memories and exploring funny little lies from childhood. Why it’s fun to remember little lies from childhood now in midlife. Why it is interesting to...
Continue readingEP #98: Inner Circle Relationships in Midlife
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about your Inner Circle Relationships in Midlife: Why inner circle relationships in midlife are important to happiness. Why it’s important to be intentional about your relationships in midlife. Why it’s common to take your most important relationships for granted. How changing your concept of relationships can change your...
Continue readingEP #93: My Unique Midlife Perspective from Losing my Parents as a Kid
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about Losing Parents as a Kid: What losing my parents as a kid was like. How your life experience of parental death creates a unique lens from which to view your world. Why sharing a personal life story is important . How knowing that “life is short” can...
Continue readingEP #48: Gray Divorce in Midlife, Interview with Eva Sachs
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about Gray Divorce in Midlife with Eva Sachs: What it’s like to have a gray divorce in midlife after a long marriage. Why gray divorce is a current trend with boomers. How online dating is feeding into the trend of gray divorce. How there’s more freedom for women...
Continue readingEP #46: Why I Left Teaching & Moved Home after my Husband Died, Interview with Jen Mowrer
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 readingWhen parents die young and how I coped
Outliving your parents isn’t normal for most people my age. It’s one thing if everyone lives to a ripe old age, but quite another with when your parents die young. Sometimes life just doesn’t go the way it’s supposed to go. I got the “life’s not fair” memo long ago. Loud and clear. When it...
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