Forward After Fifty

The Midlife Mistress Manifesto includes how to live without regrets, eliminate twats out of your life and redefine the word selfish so you can live a positive and well-lived life. I'm in conversation with Carolyn Hobdey, AKA The Midlife Mistress who spent 25 years building a successful corporate career working for some of the world's largest employers. However, her life imploded in 2018 of not one...

I had the privilege to hear the stories of ten inspiring women while researching my book Forward after 50. We discussed many of the aspects positive and negative of being a woman over fifty. However, fear of the changes that age can bring creates negativity and feed into ageism. In this episode, I talk to Dr. Maxine Daniels, whose been continually reinventing herself and breaking barriers along th...

In my book Forward After 50 I interviewed ten women, and unanimously they mentioned a fear of ageing is loneliness and isolation from the community.  Environment, culture and circumstances impact communities, sometimes bringing unwelcome loneliness at any age. Disconnection can lead to depression and fear, which crushes your confidence and is hardly conducive to ageing positively. On the other han...

In this episode, I'm talking to Christine Catoggio. She is an Internationally Recognized Life Transition Strategist, speaker, and author. We met some months ago in a zoom room organised by What's neXT a community dedicated to informing transitioners of the opportunities after retirement and much more. Christine and I found that we shared many of the same views on retirement, a word that might seem...

My guest today Julie Kennedy, is the host of the Podcast Fabulous After Fifty. Julie and I both come from the mindset that life after fifty is one full of new opportunities if you want them. We discuss that this time in our lives is one where we can use our experience to the optimum to make choices that serve us all fabulously. Julie is a coach specialising in anxiety and a translator, among many...

We know that brain exercise is essential for health forward after fifty, but have you ever considered how playing a musical instrument could benefit your brain? I admit I had the ageist view that learning an instrument was for the under-fifties, even under twenty! I've been proven wrong by established musician and teacher Rachel Halliwell whose venture Music on the Mind encourages adults over fift...

Today's show is about Intergeneration, a subject that caught my attention whilst researching my book 'Forward After FIfty'. It seemed that an answer to the segregation of people over a certain age, let's say over-50, could be solved if the generations integrated; therefore a win, win for all. Moreover, bringing together of all ages could bring mutual respect and an evolvement of new dynamic ideas....

Carrie Farmer is an Intuition Encouragement Coach who is as passionate as I am on the topic of reinvention and all the opportunities life has to offer over fifty. Carrie has created the Soul LIfe Treasure Hunt, a board game. It's a tool to aid your reinvention journey and upgrade your life after fifty. If you'd like to know more about Carrie, her coaching board game and happiness/self-balance asse...

We're changing the conversation about ageing with mindset coach Janine Kathleen Shapiro and business coach Carol Evans. Why do we want to change after fifty? Why are so many women creating new businesses? Does ageism hold us back from sharing our worth? Are we using, sharing and even recognising our wisdom? These are some of the questions we discuss in this episode. If you'd like to know more and...

Do you have a story to tell? All of us do, but for most of us, the thought of putting pen to paper is not an option. It took Julie Scolnik over forty years to write, publish and share her story 'Paris Blue', a memoir of love.  This episode discusses the role of memory in our lives and how important it is to let the world hear your story as it might make a meaningful difference to someone. Jul...

 In this episode, I interview Gail Gibson and Ruby McGuire, the writers of "The Working Women's Guide to Menopause When the Heat is on Don't Sweat It". At last, a book on dealing with your mindset during perimenopause and menopause written in the language you can understand. Women going through menopause in the workforce have not been addressed sufficiently in the past. This book is going to...

According to statistics half of all women over forty-five will be a carer. You may have dedicated eighteen years plus to your children and just when you thought it was time for you an elderly relative needs attention. In fact, many of us will spend an average of seventeen years being a carer of our parents, partners, or friends. We all want everyone to remain in their own homes and be independent...

 Sonja Kuikstra naturopath and creator of Nature4You https://nature4you.fr/ shares tons of tips on how to have healthy skin at any age and what's fantastic is that you can start right now to make improvements that last.  Sonja mentions a recipe for soft exfoliation for mature skin which consists of one teaspoon Bicarbonate of Soda, three drops of an Omega 9 oil such as avocado, three dro...

 Business mentor Carol Evans believes passionately that the world needs more feminine energy, as women are not just good but great at what they do. We discuss the importance of women turning their ideas into businesses and using age as an asset. How getting visible, taking the risk and creating your dream benefits you as well as others. Carol works with Entrepreneurs and small-medium business owne...

 We've all been faced with challenging moments in our lives that can easily pull us down a dark hole of despair. Shirley Kennett's been there big time, but her journey out of that period is one of inspiration to us all. A roller-coaster of health issues led to overnight menopause, and the realisation that she had to leave her long successful career in the police force to regain her health. Shirley...

In this episode, I'm delving deep into the subject of guilt with Ruby McGuire Business, Mastery and Mindset Queen. Do you feel guilty for wanting to live your life differently over fifty? Are you thinking about doing your own thing instead of everybody else's yet that's when the guilt kicks in and you hit the brakes hard? It's an emotion often experienced by women over fifty who want to embrace ch...

In a changing working world, work/life balance has become even more important particularly as so many of us work from home. Patti Oskvarek after many years as a supervisor and business leader became a work/life and leadership coach. The need and how to achieve that balance at any age is Patti's passion and the message which she shares in this episode. If you'd like to connect with her and learn mo...

I talk to Rachel Weiss creator of the successful Menopause Cafe about one of the subjects explored in this year's 2021 Flushfest Festival starting online April 30 'The Menopause in the Work Place'. If you'd like to book a ticket head over to https://www.menopausecafe.net/  and find out more about The Menopause Cafe events on and offline.

In 2015 Core Values came into my life in my Life-Coaching studies which was a life-changing moment. In this episode Mind Alchemist Janine Kathleen Shapiro and I discover why both of us are in awe of Core Values, the empowerment they give you when it comes to understanding yourself and why everyone should be discovering their own top five. Janine is Mindset Alchemist and Healer, she will help you d...

 Lisa Plutoni, is a Nutrition, LIfeStyle and WildFit Coach whose passion and focus is making healthy food choices. We discuss the importance of this for women who want to enjoy a healthy lifestyle after fifty.

When a friend randomly asked Ana Onatah if she could live anywhere in the world where would she go, she responded Italy! Not long after this Ana decided at the age of sixty to leave her secure life behind and take a leap into the unknown, and off she went on an adventure of not only living in Italy, but France too. Now into her seventies established as a writer she's about to create change once mo...

Meet Cynthia Spillman Relationship Coach and author of Dinner Date to Soulmate and founder of the International Dating Academy. Here we discuss why finding love after fifty is absolutely possible and some of best ways to do it.

I started to reinvent my life at fifty-eight and someone who was part of that venture  was Carole Ann Rice.  Carole Ann is a celebrated Life Coach, published author, journalist and creator as well as director of the Pure Coaching Academy which is where my reinvention began to lift off.  In this episode I talk to Carole Ann about her own reinvention and why women are the perfect reinventors.