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179. (Un-Retirement) Leaving the Career You Worked Hard to Build with Paula Adler
“My coach told me, ‘Look, all you’re talking about is who you’re leaving behind and who you’re disadvantaging […]Tell me now, in 33 years, what have you given to the f...
178. (Un-Retirement) What is a Midlife Gap Year and How Can It Help with Lisette Smith
ABOUT MY GUEST:Lisette Smith is the Chief Operating Officer and a senior advisor at The Advisory Group of San Francisco, an independent financial advisory firm that ma...
177. Five Lessons for When You're Starting Something You Know Little About
Is your curiosity pushing you toward something you’ve never done before, where you don’t have a lot of relevant previous experience?Are you itching to start a project ...
176. Making Our Way Through Midlife Reinvention with Donna Bond
“Every step we take reorganizes the landscape around us.” — Donna Bond
Introducing (the New-ish) Second Breaks
A super short trailer that talks about what we cover here on the show - now that we've turned a new chapter!For the full backlist and show notes, head on over to http:...
175. Finding Love in Midlife and Making It Work with James and Claire Davis
“We tell ourselves that our personality, our beliefs, our self-identity, are fixed constraints. That we’ve been shaped by all the things that have happened to us. And ...
174. Stop Fixing Yourself, All Is Well with Don Joseph Goewey
“It ends up that we never experience true happiness because there’s always some ‘unless’ or ‘until’ that we’re imposing on our happiness.” — Don Joseph Goewey
What's Coming Up For Season 8
This is a short episode to give you a preview of what I've got cooking and the topics that we will be exploring in Season 8. The new season starts on Thursday, Februa...
173. There are no midlife police.
Forget what so-and-so said about how someone of a certain age should look or sound or act or behave. In midlife, just as in every other phase of our life, "You Do You"...
172. Can Expressing Gratitude Really Change Our Lives with Nancy Davis Kho
“I would look at the next name on the list and I would spend a whole week just thinking about what specifically have I learned from this person. What good advice have ...
171. Self-Loyalty: What it Looks and Sounds Like with Nancy Jane Smith
“One of the ways I started working on self-loyalty is by looking at myself in the mirror, really asking ‘How are you doing today?’ and pausing to hear the answer. And ...
170. Stress and Stress Relief 101 with Shulamit Ber Levtov
"It takes effort to hold that it all in. So, not only are you having a demanding experience on the inside, you're placing the extra demand on yourself to hold it in an...
169. Successful Aging: A Physician's Perspective with Dr. Mickey Barber
"If we can stay healthy, and well, and avoid those diseases associated with the aging process, then our chances of being able to participate in things that we really e...
168. Menopause: Truth Or Consequence with Lorraine Miano
"Menopause is not an ending. It is a new beginning." — Lorraine Miano
167. Midlife Pivots and Transitions: How to Tell Your Story with Hillary Rea
“There’s a way to be authentic and open while being intentional about what you want to share. It doesn’t mean you’re hiding parts of yourself. It means you’re showing ...
166. Navigating Midlife Career Transitions with Sarah Baker Andrus
“A big mistake I see experienced people make on their LinkedIn profiles or on their resumés in the summary at the top, it'll say ‘More than 20 years of experience.’ Pl...
165. Healing Our Past with Janelle Hardy
"Writing your memoir can be an incredibly healing experience. I think this because a memoir is not an autobiography. It's not a linear list of the things you've done i...
164. Powering Up Our Midlife with Sara Smeaton
"Midlife is a unique time in our life when we have the same amount of experience behind us as we have possibilities ahead of us. It can be the most powerful time of ou...
163. Fit and Fabulous in Midlife with Gail Gensler
"The more I looked around for what brands and advertisements were showing, I realized they were stereotyping people in my demographic, particularly women in midlife. W...
162. A Midlife Journey Toward Wholeness with Shawn Fink
"Self-advocacy starts with recognizing our needs, our values, and our opinions... and giving ourselves the permission to ask that others take those seriously." — Shawn...
161. Personal Contingency Plans with Mary Beth Simon
"We make a lot of assumptions about what it would be like if something goes wrong or if we get hospitalized — like, that we can talk or read, or that we will be able t...
160. Answering the Call for a Midlife Reinvention with Annie Schuessler
"There is a way that you can get stuck in doing something that you're good at and it can keep you away from doing the next thing that maybe you're even more meant to d...
159. Being at Peace With Food and Our Bodies in Midlife with Nina Manolson
"What does this body, at this age, with this amount of stress, - what does she need?" How do I care for this current body? Not an imagined future and not an idealized...
158. Limiting Beliefs: It's About Time We Do Something About Them with Lana Hernandez
"We have all this societal garbage and things that people have told us are the norm. What's normal? And so what if you're not?"
The End of a Chapter and the Beginning of a New One for Second Breaks
“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.” — Louis L’Amour
156. Changing Your Lifestyle Through Your Diet with Shara Haberman
"My husband was diagnosed with diabetes and was put on meds. I was researching for natural solutions to help him when I realized I needed help myself." — Shara Haberman
155. Stepping Out, Taking Space, and Living Loud with Mara Glatzel
"We craft these personas that fit the stories we tell ourselves. I have been undoing those pillars that supported me playing small." — Mara Glatzel
154. Living the Modern Nomadic Life with Podcast Ally's Brigitte Lyons
"We ended up buying a 21-foot fiberglass travel trailer. It's under 200 square feet. One room, one bathroom. It's very small but it has everything we need to live our ...
153. Find Your Common Thread and Lean In Further with Storyteller Yvonne Marchese
“Storytelling has been the thread all along. Everything that I’ve ever done, from theater to photography, and now to podcasting, it has always been about storytelling....
152. Business Leader Tara McMullin on The Person She Became Through Her Fitness Habit
"When my old self would assert itself, I would say to myself, 'No, that's not who I am anymore.' It took noticing it and naming it over and over to fully inhabit that ...