Gen X Women in Business

What's the cost of staying where you are? Not just financially. The real cost. The energy cost. The quiet toll of holding onto something that no longer fits. In this episode, Bel gets into something that comes up again and again in conversations with women in business - that niggling sense that things have shifted, but the reluctance to actually do anything about it. Whether it's a job,...

What does choir camp have to do with business strategy? More than you'd think. In this episode, Bel shares what happened when she stepped well outside her comfort zone and joined Soul Song Choirs earlier this year. As a self-described non-singer who didn't even make it through high school musical auditions, spending a weekend at choir camp was, by her own admission, an experience times t...

I'm a chatterbox. Always have been. So when I lost my voice for almost two weeks, it threw my whole world (and business) into a bit of chaos. In this episode I'm sharing the five things this experience taught me, told countdown-style. In this episode: Why being quiet is harder than it sounds when your voice is your main business tool The podcast banking lesson I should have learnt the fi...

Community. Tribe. Circle. Whatever you call it, belonging matters. And in midlife, especially as a female founder, it hits differently. In this episode, Bel unpacks why connection shifts so significantly across our lives. From school friendships and the great post-education scatter, to the sideline communities of parenting years, to the particular kind of loneliness that can creep in when you&apos...

We talk a lot about self-compassion like it's a nice idea -- something to aspire to on a good day. This conversation with Dr. Hayley D. Quinn goes a lot deeper than that. Hayley is a mindset and wellbeing coach, speaker, author, and former clinical psychologist with nearly two decades of clinical experience. She's also a late-diagnosed autistic woman with ADHD who's spent years figu...

Gratitude shows up everywhere online - but is it actually doing anything for you, or is it just a nice idea you scroll past? In this episode, Bel gets into what makes gratitude genuinely useful - and it has everything to do with how you train your brain to notice things. (There's a story about a sports car in traffic that explains it better than any neuroscience lecture.) She also unpacks wha...

This episode follows on from our conversation about the invisible load that midlife women carry, and this time we're getting practical. If you're a woman in business navigating perimenopause or the menopause transition, this one is for you. Bel walks through five real-life shifts that can help you manage the invisible load without a new system, a new app, or another thing on your to-do l...

We talk a lot about the invisible load for younger women, but what happens to it as we age?  In this episode, Belinda explores how the invisible load shifts for women in midlife from the sandwich generation caring responsibilities to the very real cognitive and physical load that comes with the perimenopause and menopause transition. And for women in business, where there's no HR department,...

Does this sound familiar? Just one more course, one more webinar, one more credential... it just needs one more edit, and then everything will be ready to go. And then you watch people moving ahead while you continue to plan, perfect... maybe avoid? In this episode, Belinda gets honest about patterns she's noticed in her own business journey, the gap between knowing what she wants and actuall...

This week I'm joined by Michelle McMahon - Founder and CEO of Flourish Mama and someone who learned the hard way what happens when you consistently put yourself last. Michelle spent years pouring everything into her kids, her family, and her home - quietly dropping all the things that were hers along the way. She didn't notice it happening until her physical health collapsed completely....

Welcome to the very first official episode of Gen X Women in Business. This is the show for women in their 40s and 50s, or even 60s,  who are building, running, or reimagining a business in the messy, meaningful middle of midlife.  In this launch episode, host Belinda Bayliss shares who she is, what brought her to this work, and why doing business as a midlife woman is genuinely different. Not wor...

Have you ever caught yourself acting in a way you don't quite recognise, and felt  unsettled by it? In this episode, Belinda explores the identity shift that many women in midlife and the menopause transition experience, and what it means for those of us running a business.  She talks about the hormonal science behind why this happens, the situational pressures that compound it, and the diffe...

Recorded on the eve of her birthday, Belinda explores two ideas that are deeply connected: nostalgia and positive aging.  She unpacks what the psychology research actually tells us about nostalgia, why music is such a powerful trigger for it, and how it links to meaning, gratitude, and belonging. She also takes an honest look at the cultural story around aging, why it skews so heavily towards loss...

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This episode looks at International Women's Day - looking at is it still relevant, why we have 3 themes and what we make of it all.