The Midlife Reinvention: How to Find Your Ikigai, Deal with Imposter Syndrome & Build Your Confidence in Career & Life Transitions

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#346: How to Know Where to Start When You’re Ready for a Career Change or Life Transition

2026-10-1214:45

Do you know something in your life needs to change, but have no idea where to begin? It might be loud, like a layoff, a divorce, or a house that feels too still after the kids have gone. Or it might be so subtle you cannot name the day it started. Either way, the pull is to do something fast, and those changes rarely last. The answers live in the in-between, in a deliberate pause before you act, and this episode gives that pause a clear path through your career change or life transition. In t...

#345: How to Borrow Courage When You Don't Feel Brave Enough for Your Next Step

2026-10-0807:18

Have you been circling the same brave step for weeks, maybe years, waiting for a surge of courage that never quite arrives? Most people in a life transition think the problem is that they are not brave enough yet. The truth is kinder, and far more useful. You do not have to generate all of your courage on your own. You can borrow some from the people around you until you have built up enough of your own. In this Thursday check-in, a companion to Monday's conversation with Andrea Maizes in epi...

#344: What to Do When You Can't Tell If You're Burned Out or Ready to Leave Your Career, with Andrea Maizes

2026-10-0541:01

Are you exhausted at work and already picturing the day you walk away, without really knowing what you would be walking toward? That one moment, when burnout and being truly ready for something new feel exactly the same, is where many smart, accomplished people make a decision they later wish they had taken more time with. In a midlife career and life transition, the stakes are high. The title, the structure, the social network, and the built-in sense of purpose all go when the work goes, and...

#343: How to Rediscover the Gifts You Have Lost Sight Of in Midlife

2026-10-0108:14

If someone asked you right now what is truly remarkable about you, what you are genuinely good at, and what lights you up, would you go silent? Most of us would, and not because those things are not there. It is because we stopped looking at them a long time ago, somewhere underneath decades of pouring ourselves into everyone else. In this Thursday check-in, a companion to Monday's conversation in episode 342, Kavita picks up the line that reinvention is not about becoming someone new, it is ...

#342: Why the Belief That You Are Too Old Is Keeping You Stuck in Midlife

2026-09-2818:11

Have you started imagining what could be next for you, only to hear a familiar voice say some version of "It is too late for me, I am too old to start now"? If you are in a midlife career and life transition, there is a good chance that one belief, more than any other, is the thing standing between you and the life you actually want. It is one of the most common beliefs people carry into this season, and it is not a fact. It is a story absorbed somewhere along the way from family, culture, an...

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The Midlife Reinvention: How to Find Your Ikigai, Deal with Imposter Syndrome & Build Your Confidence in Career & Life Transitions