Life Fulfilled Podcast — Where leadership, self awareness and workplace performance actually connect.

This episode is sponsored by InsideTracker. On this episode, Tamara Schenk shares her BF (before fulfillment) to AF (after fulfillment) story. Her story highlights three key affirmations that created transformation in her midlife career transition journey. She realized where she was experiencing fulfillment and wanted more of that. Her understanding of what was a waste of her time, skills, and ene...

This episode is sponsored by InsideTracker. This week’s guest is Lou Blaser. On this episode, Lou shares her BF (before fulfillment) to AF (after fulfillment) story. It’s a story of a journey that she didn’t even know she would be on. She thought she was just fine in her then-current situation. She didn’t know what she didn’t know about her own fulfillment. Until an event happened that changed eve...

This episode is sponsored by InsideTracker. This week’s guest is Camille Burns. Camille is the CEO of Women Presidents Organization. On this episode, Camille shares her 22-year journey to becoming the CEO at WPO. She reveals her early career interests and the path that led her to the CEO role, where she finds great fulfillment in helping women in business thrive as leaders. Camille shares key less...

This episode is sponsored by InsideTracker. This week’s guest is Nausheen Saumtally. Nausheen is the youngest guest (so far) to be featured on the Midlife Fulfilled podcast.  Her BF (before fulfillment) to AF (after fulfillment) story is a testament to the fact that most of us begin our first midlife season in our 30s.  On this episode, Nausheen shares how she found work-life harmony and how she d...

This week’s guest is Deborah Albers. Deb's BF (before fulfillment) to AF (after fulfillment) is a story that you're going to want to share with others.  On this episode, Deb tells her story of how she and her husband decided to go forward with brain surgery to deal with her debilitating condition. The procedure she agreed to undergo has a certain mortality rate. She didn't know if she would make i...

This week’s guest is A. Lee Judge. Lee's BF (before fulfillment) to AF (after fulfillment) is the story of his first identity that he let "die" to realize the potential and fulfillment of his current identity.  On this episode, Lee tells the story of his dream of being a famous DJ. Actually, he was a very successful DJ for many years under the brand name DJ Judge Mental. He started DJing in high s...

This week’s guest is Bernadette McClelland. Bernadette's BF (before fulfillment) to AF (after fulfillment) revolves around a long journey she accomplished on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage.  On this episode, Bernadette reveals the impact of this pilgrimage starting with her "why" and then "how" she did it. The power in her story is "what" fulfillment she experienced which extends far beyond com...

This week’s guest is Stacy Sherman.  Stacy's BF (before fulfillment) to AF (after fulfillment) story is about what she learned from her mom in midlife. She admits that she didn't fully realize the lessons available from her mom in her younger years but now she is blown away by the lessons she has learned from her. Stacy featured her mom as a guest on her own podcast, the Doing CX Right podcast (se...

This week’s guest is Debra Eckerling.  Debra's BF (before fulfillment) to AF (after fulfillment) story starts with a job where she discovered her gift. Fortunately, Debra has taken the action to use her gift to help others discover what's next for them. Specifically, Debra loves to help people who love to write but haven't found their path as a writer. As the author of Your Goal Guide, A Roadmap f...

This week’s guest is Diane Diaz.  This is the first episode published after hurricane Ian.  Both Diane and I are Floridians and we are safe. I comment on this in the introduction of this episode.  Diane's BF (before fulfillment) to AF (after fulfillment) story spans about 20 years in her career where after about 10 years in a corporate role earning a good income and having many perks, she wasn't f...

This week’s guest is Tom Petty.  Tom is no relation to the deceased musician by the same name. Tom shares his BF (before fulfillment) to AF (after fulfillment) story about how he and his wife Joanne have survived a difficult midlife season during which Joanne battled a life-threatening illness that stumped the medical community. Tom and Joanne completely changed their diet by only eating meat, fis...

This week’s guest is Daniel H. Pink.  Dan is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, including his latest, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward.  This episode is devoted to a conversation about the true power of regret and how we can benefit from understanding our regrets. Dan's other books include the New York Times bestseller When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect T...

This week’s guest is Jon Ferrara.  Jon shares his BF (before fulfillment) to AF (after fulfillment) story about how he came to realize his purpose in life after surviving a life-threatening illness.  Jon was on the top of the world. He had just sold his company Goldmine for enough money that set him up for the rest of his life and he was only in his 40s.  He was feeling great until he began losing...

This week’s guest is Reneta Jenik.  Reneta's BF (before fulfillment) to AF (after fulfillment) entrepreneurial story began 11 years ago when she went through a divorce. After picking up the pieces post-divorce she began competing in triathlons.  This motivated her to uplevel her nutrition strategy and she lost 80 pounds. She regained her confidence and eventually remarried. She was so enthralled w...

This week’s guest is Robert Rose.  Robert is a global marketing influencer. He runs a successful consultancy called The Content Advisory. He’s authored 3 books. His latest book Killing Marketing will challenge your conventional thinking about marketing and possibly turn it upside down. Robert describes how his most current BF to AF journey began with his aspiration to be a rock star. He grew up be...

This week’s guest is Shannon Russell.  Shannon achieved her dream job while she was in college as a producer at MTV. Her television and film-producing career took her to Hollywood where she continued to progress as an executive producer on many shows. She married a producer and after their first son was born they returned to New Jersey to be near family. She continued her producing career with a g...

This week’s guest is Michelle Brigman.  Michelle has had a successful career in corporate positions with global brands.  One day she realized that she wasn't fulfilled. She liked her job but she realized that her happiness tank was empty. After a doctor's examination concluded that she was "healthy" (in the traditional sense) she explored an alternative medicine professional. She adopt a new lifes...

This week’s guest is Paul Epstein.  Paul had a life-changing experience when he attended an offsite meeting in 2016 while he was in a sales leadership role at the San Francisco 49ers. During this meeting, he discovered his "why."  When he returned to the office, he shared this revelation with his team. One by one, people began asking him to help them discover their why. What began as a passion pro...

This week’s guest is Pamela Slim.  Pamela has worked with many people as a coach, who express fear and hesitation in sharing their voice on social topics.  On this episode, Pamela explains why some people fear using their voice for change because they're concerned they may be no different than anyone else or they're concerned about angering friends, their family, or their boss, or they may be forc...

This week’s guest is Kurt Shaver.  Kurt had a Covid-inspired, midlife, life-balance assessment reset that resulted in him recently starting his third career. He summarizes his career as having three stages: 3 decades in corporate tech sales  10 years as an entrepreneur Business Development at Sonoma County Tourism Bureau since mid-2021 On this episode, Kurt reveals that he let go of his ego to rec...

This week’s guest is Michelle Peterson Clark. Michelle is located in England. We had a lovely conversation about her BF to AF journey which she characterizes as “before 50” and “after 50.” You’ll hear all about the decisions that she and her husband made to achieve their fulfillment. It was a globe-trotting venture with many sacrifices made along the way. Michelle achieved a life-long dream to stu...

This week you'll meet Joe Pulizzi.  Joe is the founder of the Content Marketing Institute (CMI) and TheTilt. He is widely recognized as the GodFather of Content Marketing. He and his wife Pam sold CMI in 2016, realizing their goal of selling the business. Joe realized that his greatest fulfillment has been on the journey in each of his BF to AF seasons. Joe acknowledges that his midlife BF to AF s...

This week you'll meet Marlo Lyons.  In this episode, Marlo shares her BF to AF story that began when she was fired from a job she held early in her career. Soon after that she and her then-fiance broke up and she found herself unemployed and unengaged. She wasn't happy. Marlo continued her career path in an industry she didn't love. When she married, her husband was self-employed and she provided...

This week you'll meet Andrew May.  Andrew lives in the Chicago area with his wife and two teenage children.  In this episode, Andrew shares his deeply personal BF to AF story. About ten years ago he lost who he was. He became uncertain about many things. His connection with his wife and family became strained. He lost fulfillment in his corporate executive position.  He even became less interested...

This week you'll meet Adam Schaeuble.  Adam is a 10-year-over-night entrepreneurial success! He had a 3-year-over-night success, and now he's in his 7-year-over-night success midlife season.  In this episode, Adam describes his midlife journey including the twists and turns that got him to his current AF season. He even admits that what he thought was an AF season turned out to be a BF season. Tha...