Midlifing

Send us Fan Mail Lee and Simon talk about friends, families and forgiveness. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . --- The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I.T: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29311691@N05/8571921679 (CC BY 2.0)

Send us Fan Mail In this two-parter Simon and Lee talk about feeling self-righteous, being taken for granted, anger, asking for what one wants and talking about feelings at work.  Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . --- The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I.T: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29311691@N05/8571921679 (CC BY 2.0)

Send us Fan Mail In this two-parter Simon and Lee talk about feeling self-righteous, being taken for granted, anger, asking for what one wants and talking about feelings at work. --- Related links (and necessary corrections): Slavoj Zizek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavoj_Žižek Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . --- The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H...

Send us Fan Mail Simon and Lee talk about risk, watching skilled people, how we humans spend our time, and the relative values of different types of work. Oh, and Simon gives a wee update on his 'bakery' and they both get into their changing relationship to beauty.  Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . --- The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I.T...

Send us Fan Mail Lee and Simon head deep into midlife territory with a conversation about money for now or money for the future. --- Related links (and necessary corrections): Merton Bakery: https://www.mertonbakery.com warez: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez COGs of Coventry: https://sites.google.com/view/cogsofcoventry/ Un amico vecchio oppure un vecchio amico: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Send us Fan Mail Lee and Simon mark the coronation by talking about stratification and invisibility in society and those moments in which events or people puncture that invisibility. They then shift gears into a conversation about events out of their hands that have most strongly shaped them. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . --- The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original...

Send us Fan Mail Simon and Lee talk about being busy, being appraised, being in meetings, what one's real job is, the word 'quite', figuring out what Midlifing is about ... and Lee makes an offer that some listeners probably will not want to refuse (an offer that might sound like they are running out of ideas when that couldn't be further from the truth). Get in touch with Lee...

Send us Fan Mail Lee had a late night partying and then after a difficult week in the news Simon and Lee talk about the US constitution's 1st and 2nd amendments. Definitely NOT their wheelhouse. Episode includes some Ted Lasso spoilers. --- Related links (and necessary corrections): Post-Vietnam addictions: https://jamesclear.com/heroin-habits Going troppo: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trop...

Send us Fan Mail Lee recalls a 1970s street party that involved candy floss and an aspirational neighbour, and Simon gets gazumped and is forced into an alternative business idea. They end up talking about unfinished things, poverty, noticing change and taking care of one another. --- Related links (and necessary corrections): Simon's conversation with Lucy Suchman about AI: https://youtu.be/...

Send us Fan Mail Simon mentions something he mentioned last week and Lee doesn't edit it out. The shame of repeating one's self! He and Lee then get into a conversation about inspiring (or not) teachers while trying to remember if they've had the conversation before on Midlifing.  Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . --- The Midlifing logo is adapted from an origi...

Send us Fan Mail Lee and Simon have a fantastic idea for a new business. You can invest anytime you like. They also talk about being listened to, not being tricked, holding power in interviews, Microsoft Lists and huncles, funcles, shuncles and duncles. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . --- The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I.T: https://www.flickr.co...

Send us Fan Mail Simon and Lee discuss what some people might consider to be a shocking piece of performance art and whether it would get made post #MeToo.  Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . --- The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I.T: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29311691@N05/8571921679 (CC BY 2.0)

Send us Fan Mail This is part 2 of an accidental two-parter. The first episode (Episode 118) was aired two weeks ago on 8 March 2023 before Gary Linneker got in the way on 15 March. You might have to re-listen to 118 to remember what the hell we were talking about. But, frankly, if we were you we would not bother doing this. This part of the conversation is about what middle-aged people think of y...

Send us Fan Mail This is not part two of Episode 118. That will be published next week. Apparently Lee doesn't think this will be confusing because our listeners are very intelligent. Instead, Lee and Simon have a conversation that is specific to the day: Gary Linneker and how the situation serves as a massive distraction from the real news. But before they get to that they discuss travelling...

Send us Fan Mail In this accidental two-parter Simon dances to some 80s music and Lee clarifies something from Episode 117 before they both shuffle through Yorkshire puddings, planting trees, and baking futures. They end up rambling on so much that the heart of the conversation doesn't happen until part 2 next week. Stay. Tuned.  Show notes? Where we're going we don't need show note...

Send us Fan Mail Simon and Lee start with the limits of Government regulation but it turns into a conversation about remembering (and not remembering) people from their past. --- Related links (and necessary corrections): Christchurch mosque shootings (2019): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_mosque_shootings Jacinda Ardern resigns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacinda_Ardern Billy Joel...

Send us Fan Mail Lee and Simon admit to a serious podcasting mistake and try to course correct. But they go off-track (again), talk about making scones, writing narrative CVs, reflective learning, playing the game of academia, boffins, and how we human beings end up doing the things we do. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . --- The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original im...

Send us Fan Mail Simon entered a competition and won ... which meant having to collect the prize, and Lee falls into the trap of having an opinion. This episode is really just a recording of two friends having a conversation (unlike the other 114 episodes). They talk about bucket lists, War and Peace, and women falling for the worst guys.  Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . --...

Send us Fan Mail I've listened to this episode several times now but I am still not sure what it is about. It starts off wacky that's for sure but then perhaps it becomes about letting go of things, identity, mortality (that old chestnut) and the flexibility of love. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . --- The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I....

Send us Fan Mail A conversation about pride and getting out of situations that need to be got out of. (It would probably help if you listened to Episode 112 first). --- Related links (and necessary corrections): fast twitch and slow twitch muscle fibres: https://www.health.com/fitness/fast-twitch-muscle-fibers Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . --- The Midlifing logo is adapte...

Send us Fan Mail Lee and Simon talk about the absurdity and mess of inheritance. --- Related links (and necessary corrections): How rich are you? https://howrichami.givingwhatwecan.org/how-rich-am-i mātāmua https://maoridictionary.co.nz/word/3782 Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . --- The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I.T: https://www.flickr.com/photo...

Send us Fan Mail Simon and Lee talk about moments of change in life (and whether we notice them or not). Hot tip: One of them auditioned for RADA (but might not have got in). --- Related links (and necessary corrections): ResDance podcast: https://anchor.fm/gemma-harman RADA: https://www.rada.ac.uk Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . --- The Midlifing logo is adapted from an or...

Send us Fan Mail Lee and Simon talk about their inner voices and whether they think in words or not. Sounds boring but it ain't. Bonus hint for our Patreon subscribers: when you ask someone a question, do not start telling them what they are thinking. --- Related links (and necessary corrections) : Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's flow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi#Flow...

Send us Fan Mail Lee and Simon discuss their rather different approaches to organising their lives (hint: one of them does, the other doesn't). The conversation touches on productivity, discipline, freedom and condensation. --- Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . --- The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I.T: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29311691@N05...

Send us Fan Mail Simon and Lee discuss gratitute and the things they are grateful for in 2022. They also want to let you know that the film director Peter Weir is not on Lee's mother's spreadsheet. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . --- The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I.T: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29311691@N05/8571921679 (CC BY 2.0)