Women in the Middle®: Loving Life After 50 - Midlife Coach Podcast

Today's episode takes a look at what it's like to be an introvert in business in midlife.   It turns out that introversion is a thing in midlife.  My guest today is Caroline Wood;  Caroline is an introvert supporting other introverts to build a successful businesses that honours their introversion, rather than feeling like they have to pretend to be an extravert to get ahead.  Caroline teaches tha...

The year 2020 is the perfect time of year to create a vision board.  This episode is about how to avoid the top three common mistakes that get in the way when it comes to making a vision board that really works.  Vision boards can be exceptionally helpful and fun tools to increase clarity about what you want to create in the future. However, it's easy for many people to make mistakes that will mak...

Today's episode takes a bit of a different twist on New Year's Resolutions. Not everyone embraces the idea of a New Year's Resolution. Resolutions can throw you for a loop and bring up all kinds of negative thoughts and feelings. So many of us have had a disappointing experience with them. Like everything else, however, the way you think ABOUT resolutions is directly related to their success. Lear...

Holiday time with family in midlife can be a blast but can also be quite stressful. Thinking about self-care is probably the last thing on your giant list. This week's episode is all about three simple steps to help you put YOU back on your list. When you learn to invite mindfulness into your life, you also take a giant step toward taking care of yourself. In midlife, this can mean being more inte...

My guest today has a unique approach for Alzheimer's and Dementia treatment. As a Speech Language Pathologist, Heather Negin unknowingly had a special set of skills and insights to bring to her personal situation with her parents. This insight has shaped her career and she's never looked back. As you know, we're inundated with negative messages about adult onset cognitive decline, Alzheimer's and...

Today we're taking a look at midlife resistance and midlife regret and asking which is worse. Each one causes pain but in a different way. There are three common areas where resistance will show up in midlife: career, relationships and self-care. You may not know how much you're resisting a goal until you're really honest with yourself about the results you're creating. Learn more: https://suzyros...

Today we're talking about the secret to finding your midlife passion project, as well a new midlife coaching program, the Finally First Midlife Membership. Many think that hobbies and passion projects are the same. However, there are subtle differences. Passion projects feel "bigger" than hobbies. You might actually feel compelled to do your passion project where you might simply choose your hobby...

Today we're talking about my top 10 reasons for feeling grateful for midlife. Notice the word "for." We're taking a look at feeling gratitude for midlife itself rather than feeling more grateful while you're in midlife. This is a subtle but important nuance in today's episode.  Gratitude is really about feeling thankful. You can express gratitude and you can notice that you feel grateful. Either w...

Today we're talking about why you need to actually create community in midlife. That may come as a bit of a surprise to you. But, just like everything else in midlife, it's important to be intentionally as you do midlife on purpose. Community is, by its most basic definition, a group of people who are connected in some way. There's a feeling of fellowship. There are shared commonalities. Learn mor...

Today we're getting to the bottom of what triggers your resistance. Even resistance for things you really want. This can be super frustrating and confusing. You think you know what you want. Perhaps it's a change; maybe it's going after a goal. But you're not seeing the results that are in alignment with what you want. Learn more: https://suzyrosenstein.com/podcast/ep-124-what-triggers-your-resist...

Without careful attention, your midlife might not be what you had hoped. Today we're talking about how to avoid what I'm calling an accidental midlife. Why should you avoid having an accidental midlife, you might be wondering? So you can do midlife on purpose instead of just winging it and responding to life.  Learn More:  https://suzyrosenstein.com/podcast/ep-123-how-to-avoid-and-accidental-midli...

A midlife funk might find you ahead of schedule. Being in the military can have an interesting effect on your life. My guest today explains how her military experience and her midlife funk led her to create a fulfilling career that incorporates all of her gifts and interests. Kalvina 'Kali' Shelton is a Business Strategist & Launch Coach partnering with multi-passionate, service-based women entrep...

Learning to think on purpose can change your life, both now and in the future. It's a skill that you can learn how to do, but it will take practice to maximize your effort. Thinking on purpose will retrain your brain. Your brain isn't used to thinking this way. Most of us think on autopilot; this means that the thoughts we think are habitual, unplanned and unsupervised. Learn more:  https://suzyro...

Being angry in midlife can feel overwhelming and confusing. It can seem like there's no way out, and if you're not careful, you can set yourself up for regrets. Today you're going to meet Valerie Runyan.  Valerie's a writer and photographer who struggled with a lot of physical pain over the years. Her job didn't help. She was definitely in a midlife funk. As she describes, she went from being enra...

Thinking about time and running out of time can be a big deal in midlife. In fact, it can create a lot of stress and sadness.  It's pretty common to find yourself stressed about the passage of time, think that time's flying, feel like time's going so fast or even spin about the idea that you're running out of time. Thinking this way can happen even if you're typically pro-aging. Learn More:  https...

Thinking and doing things on autopilot is super common in midlife. You might even notice yourself sounding like your mother or other family members on occasion, saying things and thinking the way that they did. It only becomes a problem when you notice that the results of this type of thinking aren't what you want. You might be confused about it too, because you may not understand that it's actual...

Today is about how you can use astrology to gain important insights that could help you and your brand in midlife. My guest today is Leslie Tagorda, who calls herself a "brand navigator." She guides brands and people from unknown to unmatched by illuminating their star-charted treasure maps (astrological natal charts). Learn more: https://suzyrosenstein.com/podcast/ep-117-how-astrology-can-help-yo...

Today we're taking a look at how you can celebrate turning 49 as a beautiful way to prepare and set the stage for celebrating your 50th birthday.  My guest today is Wiona Porath, an amazing woman in the middle who is turning 50 in the near future. Wiona is rocking her 49th year ON PURPOSE.  Wiona's friend told her about her personal experience when she turned 49;  that is, her friend decided to ta...

Today we're taking a look at what it's like to use your past experience to do something new like start a digital magazine for midlife women. My guest today is Jeannie Ralston of NextTribe Digital Magazine. Like most midlife women who make a big career pivot, Jeannie's path to entrepreneurship was an interesting one. It even included some serious life on a lavender farm. Learn More: https://suzyros...

Not all women make the choice to have children. This week, we're using a midlife lens and talking about what it's like to be childfree by choice. My guest today is Therese Shechter. She's a 57 year old documentary filmmaker and writer in New York City.  She's been making documentaries about ideas about womanhood that are sacred and exploring aspects of women's lives that are rarely questioned, lik...

Midlife women often struggle with putting themselves first. It tends to become more of an issue at this stage of life; putting yourself last becomes more and more obvious and exhausting and the need to improve the situation becomes glaringly obvious. Learn what four reasons are for this to continue in many women's lives for so long and how the Thought Model Framework can help to understand the who...

There are a lot of misconceptions about what's possible career-wise for midlife women. Fortunately, times have changed and we have an opportunity to leverage this right now to our advantage and get the type of work and career we want. Learn more:  https://suzyrosenstein.com/podcast/ep-112-how-to-find-a-new-job-in-midlife-with-danielle-bradley/

It's important to figure out what you stand for, especially in midlife. It turns out that it's relevant in all parts of your life, personally and professionally. It's part of regret-proofing your life. When you really think about it, there are actually two parts to this equation. Learn more:  https://suzyrosenstein.com/podcast/ep-111-what-do-you-stand-for-in-midlife/

Turning 50 is a different experience for everyone. Talking about it is fascinating and inspirational for this reason.  My guest today is Cindy Lopez, an amazing woman in the middle who shares her experience of turning 50, what she enjoyed about planning her milestone and what her plans are now that she's on the better side. Learn more:  https://suzyrosenstein.com/podcast/ep-110-turning-50-with-cin...

Today we're talking about anniversaries and underwear! What a fun topic! This week marks an important milestone in the Women in the Middle Podcast's history. It's time to celebrate the 2nd Anniversary! And what a ride it's been! Learn more:  https://suzyrosenstein.com/podcast/ep-109-midlife-underwear-reboot-2nd-anniversary-edition/