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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 ...

Season 6: Reimagine Yourself

Like so many people, I love starting a new year. The idea of turning over a new page, starting a new chapter in my life, fills me with such excitement and drive.Many w...

151. Insights From 2020 and Plans For 2021, a Conversation With Dr. Nayla Bahri

In This Episode:Dr. Nayla Bahri and Lou Blaser chat candidly about their 2020 and how they are approaching 2021Why and how, in the year that made things so complicated...

150. A Year-In-Review and Takeaways From This Year's Guests

Well, my friend. Here we are. We made it to the end of this extraordinary, unbelievable year that was 2020.I'm not going to pretend that I can imagine what kind of yea...

149. PwC Partner Donald Christian on Drive and Staying Relevant in a Changing World

"We sometimes over-index and think a lot about the outputs that we’re trying to achieve defined by how many hours we work or how much money we make or all those differ...

148. Best-Selling Author Joanna Penn on Setting Intentions, Direction and Ensuring Career Longevity

“That discipline — of getting back to the page, or to the project you’re doing, or back to the day job when you don’t want to — that form of discipline is part of the ...

147. Self-Management for Actors' Bonnie Gillespie on Enough-ness and Managing Our Attitude Around Rejection

“The work is to find the joy in the every day. And that means the victory is in staying in. The victory is I didn’t pack it in and say it’s too hard. I may have taken ...

146. World of Books CEO Graham Bell on Balancing Priorities and Redefining Success

As we get older, many of us discover that our views about what's important, what success looks like, and how big a role our personal values play in our choices, have c...

145. Financial Behaviorist Jacquette Timmons on Bringing Perspective, Passion, and Personality in Your Work

The technical expertise you bring to the table is something but it's not everything. Your personality and the passion that you show up with are key assets that you sho...

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