Aging With Purpose and Passion | Women Over 50

What happens when the relationships that feel most familiar are the very ones hurting you? Randi Fine grew up believing that chaos, conflict, and love belonged together. Those early experiences followed her into adulthood, shaping the relationships she chose and the behavior she accepted. In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion , Beverley Glazer talks with Randi, an author and narcissist...

What if the safest decision you could make is also the one keeping you stuck? You've worked hard to build a career, earn respect, and make smart decisions. So why, when something no longer feels right, is it so difficult to change? For accomplished women over 50, changing direction can mean risking more than a pay-check. It can mean questioning the identity you've spent decades building....

What happens when the role that made you successful becomes the very thing you can't escape? For nine years, Judy Norton was Mary Ellen Walton on the Emmy Award-winning television series The Waltons . Millions of viewers welcomed her into their homes. But when the series ended, the character people loved didn't simply disappear. And neither did their expectations of who Judy should be. I...

Leaving a 17-year career, losing an identity, and finding an unexpected way forward. You can spend years becoming very good at what you do—and be completely unprepared for the day you stop doing it. That’s what happened to Annette Mashi. After 17 years at Intel, leaving wasn’t simply a career change. Her work had become part of how she knew herself. So what happens when it’s gone? In this episode...

Landman actress Rosemary Dominguez (Rosemary Vaswani) on widowhood, sudden loss, identity, grief, and finding a way to want something from life again. What happens when the future you were counting on suddenly disappears—and you’re still here? For women over 50, a devastating loss can take more than someone you love. It can take the future you expected to share, the roles that made life feel famil...

People pleasing, burnout, somatic leadership, nervous system regulation, and what changes when high-achieving women stop performing for approval. You can spend years becoming the woman everyone admires—and quietly wonder how much of her is actually you. For high-achieving women over 50, success can hide something uncomfortable: the habits that helped you achieve, belong, and earn approval may also...

Infidelity, self-blame, empty nest, reconciliation, and rebuilding self-trust when the life you believed in suddenly changes. What happens when someone else’s betrayal makes you question yourself? For women over 50, infidelity can hit at a time when so much is already changing. Children are leaving home. Your body may be changing. The roles that defined you for years are shifting. And suddenly, on...

Rethinking success, retirement, identity, and what happens when life forces you to change the pace. You can be very good at the life you’ve built and still know you don’t want to keep living it the same way. For many high-achieving women over 50, the hardest transition isn’t leaving a career or approaching retirement. It’s realizing that the drive, productivity, and determination that got you this...

Family secrets, forgiveness, retirement, and what changes when you see your past with new eyes after 50. What if something you learned after 50 changed the way you understood your family—and yourself? For decades, Yvonne F. Conte believed she knew the story of her childhood. Then one photograph and two documents revealed information she had never known. Nothing about the past changed. But the mean...

Kim Boudreau Smith on confidence, self-worth, career reinvention, visibility, leadership, and using decades of experience without constantly proving yourself. What if you’ve spent years proving your value—and no longer need to? You’ve built experience, solved difficult problems, taken risks, and learned things no résumé can fully capture. Yet even highly capable women can find their confidence ris...

What happens when life asks more of you than you ever imagined you could give? You’ve spent years being capable, solving problems, and being there when people need you. But some things can’t be fixed, planned for, or powered through. Sometimes life changes in an instant—and you become the person everyone is counting on. That’s what happened to Diane Filato. Just weeks after the birth of Diane’s gr...

Jeannie Duckworth on caregiver guilt, dementia warning signs, memory care, senior living, and making difficult decisions before a crisis forces them. How do you know when keeping an aging parent at home is no longer the safest—or most loving—choice? For many high achieving women, that question comes with enormous guilt. You promised you'd be there. You want your parent to remain independent....

Barb Scala on burnout, people-pleasing, identity, golden handcuffs, and redefining success without blowing up your life. What happens when the successful life everyone admires no longer feels like your own? You followed the rules. Earned the credentials. Built the career. Took care of the people who depended on you. From the outside, everything looks right. Inside, you may be exhausted from perfor...

Deb Krier shares how high-achieving women can navigate a breast cancer diagnosis, treatment, work, relationships, and life when everything changes in an instant. What happens when a breast cancer diagnosis changes everything overnight? How do you continue leading your career, supporting your family, and making important decisions while navigating chemotherapy, surgery, uncertainty, and fear? In th...

Laura Rotter on financial confidence, purpose, career transitions, and building a life that reflects who you've become. What happens when you've built a successful life—but quietly wonder if it still fits who you are today? You've worked hard. Built the career. Earned the respect. Created financial security. From the outside, everything looks successful. Inside, something feels diff...

How do you keep showing up for everyone else without losing yourself? How high-performing women can navigate caregiving, burnout, and life transitions without sacrificing themselves. If you're caring for aging parents, supporting a spouse through illness, balancing work, family, and everyone else's needs, you know how easy it is to put yourself last. In this episode of Aging With Purpose...

Who do you turn to when everyone turns to you for answers? Success can be lonely—especially for women in leadership. Whether you're a founder, business owner, executive, board member, or a high-performing woman leading others, there are decisions you can't always share, doubts you keep to yourself, and pressures few people truly understand. In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passi...

“It is what it is” can sound wise. But sometimes it’s just the sentence that keeps you stuck. In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion , Beverley Glazer talks with author and publishing partner Lynn Miller , whose book Ahead of Their Time is based on more than 200 interviews with pioneers who challenged broken systems and created new possibilities. Together, they explore one powerful ques...

The scariest part of a diagnosis isn't always the disease. It's realizing you have to make life-changing decisions when you're scared, exhausted, overwhelmed, and unsure what questions to ask next. In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer sits down with Dr. Tiffany Troso, an oncologist with more than 25 years of experience helping women navigate breast canc...

Retirement gets sold as a reward. For many women, it quietly becomes a trap. You stop being challenged. You stop being seen. You start wondering if your best years are behind you. In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer Life and Work Transition Expert sits down with Dr. Sara Hart, leadership development expert, executive coach, and founder of Prime Spark Women and Antire...

Paige Arnof-Fenn on caregiving, entrepreneurship, boundaries, and redefining success Your calendar can be full and your life can still feel out of alignment. For many high-achieving women over 50, success becomes a habit: say yes, stay visible, work harder, keep producing, keep proving. Until life forces a different conversation. In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer s...

Dr. Prudence Hall on HRT, bioidentical hormones, brain fog, fatigue, and reclaiming vitality in midlife  You didn’t lose your ambition. Your body changed the rules. For high-performing women over 50, menopause can feel like betrayal. You’re doing what always worked — pushing harder, eating better, staying busy, holding everything together — but suddenly your energy, sleep, mood, weight, focus, and...

Mary Madeiras on intuition, reinvention, and the Akashic Records You built the life. You earned the success. So why don't you feel something is missing? Mary Madeiras won three  Emmy Awards and The Screen Director Award of America. She is also the author of The Akashic Way , and an Advanced Akashic Records practitioner. She spent years directing on major television networks and had daytime TV...

Dr. Angela Mulrooney on identity loss, forced retirement, burnout, personal branding, and rebuilding relevance after a career-ending diagnosis. When your career disappears, your ego panics. Your identity is what needs rebuilding. Dr. Angela Mulrooney was in the middle of surgery when her hands stopped working. Soon after, she was told not to touch another patient. Six months later, the diagnosis a...

A late-life divorce, a kitchen-floor breakdown, and the question that changed everything: “Are you happy? In this episode of Aging with Purpose and Passion , psychotherapist and coach Beverley Glazer sits down with Dr. Dravon James, transformation specialist, founder of the Next Step Leadership Academy, and creator of the Everyday Peace Philosophy, to talk about starting over after 50, divorce rec...