What You’ll Learn from this Episode about How to Conquer Procrastination in Midlife: Why we’re so great at procrastinating in midlife. Why your belief that you work better under pressure may not be true. What drives all of your procrastination and how you can push through it. Three solid tips to help you procrastinate...
Continue readingEp #16: Surprising Lessons from Leaving a Long-Term Job in Midlife with Wendy Goodridge
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about Leaving a Long-Term Job in Midlife: Wendy’s experience with leaving her career and the challenges she experienced along the way in midlife. What it took for Wendy to see that losing her job was something that happened for her rather than to her. The biggest epiphanies she...
Continue readingEp #15: When You Need More Women in Your Life in Midlife
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about When you Need More Women in your Life in Midlife: Why you probably need more women in your life in midlife. How your thoughts about taking time out for adventures with your friends may not be serving you. The importance of midlife women and friend-group traditions. The...
Continue readingEp #14: How to Stop Failing Ahead of Time in Midlife
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about How to Stop Failing Ahead of Time in Midlife: Why we tend to want to fail in advance in midlife. My recent experience with automatically wanting to fail in advance and how I handled it in midlife. The best question to ask yourself when your brain comes...
Continue readingEp #13: Do What You Love – Why You Need a Passion Project
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about Why You Should Do What You Love and Why You Need a Passion Project: Why you should do what you love and why you need a passion project in midlife Hear an incredible story of what can come of simply doing what you love. Why you should...
Continue readingEp #12: How Your Expectations of Others Are Making You Suffer
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: What it means to have a “manual” for someone else. The most common expectations we have of other people. The detrimental effects of giving others the power to determine how you feel or act. How you can apply The Model to coach yourself through your issues related to...
Continue readingEp #11: How to Find More Awe and Wonder in Your Life
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about How to Find More Awe and Wonder in Midlife: How to find more awe and wonder in midlife. The concept of radical amazement and why it’s important for women in the middle. Why you should consider answering, “Amazing!” to the typical “how are you today?” question. Ideas...
Continue readingEp #10: How to Adjust to your Empty Nest “Normal” after Your Kids Leave for University
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about your Empty Nest New Normal: My personal experience with empty nest and a kid leaving for university. The questions you should ask yourself about how you feel about your empty nest. How the thoughts you are thinking affect your current situation in life. My tips to help...
Continue readingEp #8: Why You’re Miserable at Work and How to Change It
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: The importance of figuring out why you’re unhappy at your job. The real reason why you’re miserable at work. The difference between the facts about your job and your thoughts about them. How your negative thoughts about your job are created. The detrimental effects of blaming people and...
Continue readingEp #6: A Look at Your Underwear Drawer & the Importance of Self-Care in Midlife
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about Underwear, Self-Care and Midlife: Why replacing underwear is self-care in midlife. Why your underwear drawer is stuffed with less-than-satisfactory undies and why that matters in midlife. Three amazing reasons to ditch your bad underwear in midlife. The thoughts that are holding you back from feeling great about...
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