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Listening to this podcast will leave you feeling inspired and motivated as you navigate your beautiful midlife journey! The stories of other amazing women will start you on a path to finding your own courage to flourish after forty.
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Send us a text In this inspiring episode, Kim welcomes Emma Ritchie, a former TV producer turned mindset coach and hypnotherapist. Emma shares her remarkable journey from the high-stress environments of TV production in Australia to overcoming severe health challenges through holistic practices such as Ayurveda and hypnotherapy. Emma explains how she transitioned her career to help others manage stress and anxiety by addressing root causes and listening to their bodies. She encourages ...
Send us a text In this solo bonus episode Kim celebrates the holiday season, offering well-wishes for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and the New Year. Kim reflects on 2024, discussing both challenges and triumphs, and shares insights on managing stress by focusing on personal reactions rather than external events. She encourages listeners to embrace change, regardless of age, and teases new developments for 2025. Kim also highlights the importance of audience feedback and invites listeners to ...
Send us a text This week, Kim talks with Suzy Wraines, an intrepid woman who shares her journey from being a 29-year-old army veteran to becoming a full-time RV-er and eventually a business coach. Suzy's story is one of resilience and courage, as she navigates through military service, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and a passion for helping medical professionals transition into entrepreneurial roles. The discussion highlights Suzy's struggle with PTSD, the challenges of switch...
Send us a text In this episode, Kim welcomes back Carrie Adelstein, an entrepreneur from Ontario, Canada. They discuss the wisdom that comes with age, Carrie's journey of self-discovery, and her unique approach to intuitive business consulting. Carrie shares her personal story of courage, navigating her daughter’s autism diagnosis, and how it led to her embracing her intuition in both personal and professional life. They explore the balance of masculine and feminine energy in business,...
Send us a text This week, Kim talks with Caroline Rose, an author, speaker, and motivational storyteller. Caroline shares her incredible journey of battling stage four non-Hodgkin's lymphoma through three diagnoses and treatments, including a bone marrow transplant. She talks about the importance of hope, the challenge of managing anxiety related to her health, and finding grace in life's unpredictable twists. Caroline also introduces her book, 'Dear Riley Rose,' which is a heartfelt letter t...
Send us a text In this episode, Kim talks with Rose Amante Yodzio, a former elementary school teacher turned integrative nutrition and health coach. Rose made this courageous career transition after facing her own health challenges, including digestive issues and a diagnosis of celiac disease. Listen and learn more about the symptoms of peri-menopause, such as overwhelm, anxiety, and lack of motivation, which many women incorrectly attribute to aging. Along with learning the sympt...
Send us a text Ande Lyons is on a mission which can be summed up in the title of her podcast: Don't Be Caged by Your Age. Ande's background in business as a 4x business founder and global startup mentor eventually led her to her current role as a podcast creator and host of a monthly podcast gathering. She saw many examples of ageism in the business world and found a way at age 66 to nervously proclaim her age. She wanted to show the world that you can still be a vibrant, connected and ...
Send us a text Debbie Weiss is a speaker, author and course creator who found herself placed in a caregiving role at 17 years old when her father had a massive stroke. That wasn't the end of her caregiver roles however, as she also experienced a special needs child and her husband who needed care until he passed away. Eventually she figured out that she had lost herself. She speaks with Kim about her feelings of being burdened but having an "aha" moment when she turned 50 that set her...
Send us a text Ahna Mikl shares her story of her own awakening to the realization that our bodies can heal naturally by healing the soul too. She talks with Kim about having the courage to look inside of ourselves to fully and completely heal. This is not easy but so necessary if we want to move forward at any age. While Ahna is not what we would consider a "midlife" woman, she shares wisdom beyond her young age that we can all benefit from. As a regenerative health practitioner, Ahna helps...
Send us a text Arlene Cohen Miller is an attorney who now helps others through her work-life balance coaching and transformational mentoring. She shares her journey and the tools she uses to live her best life. Arlene shares her reasons for leaving her marriage and how she had to grow up very quickly in her career and life. She talks about becoming aware of the tools we already have to nurture ourselves as much as we nurture others. She became aware of this need at a young age when she saw ...
Send us a text Jen Aks has an energy that will come through to you as you listen to this conversation. Jen is on a mission to help others get into alignment with their body through the healing power of movement. As a dance educator, she has always been aware of the power of the body to guide us to enlightened living and shows us how to do that. Jen talks about making the difficult decision three years ago to leave her 20 year marriage despite the fact that it wasn't a "bad" marriage. The en...
Send us a text Mary Harries is a Core Energy Coach who found herself checking all the boxes in her life but knowing that something was off. She was a busy mom of 4, a wife and had a successful career as a mechanical engineer and she knew that she wanted something else. She talks with Kim about knowing what she wanted to do but needing someone else to say it out loud before she could fully commit to it. She was drawn to the idea of the energy within all of us that helps us find our purpose, v...
Send us a text Anne Poirier talks with Kim this week about her journey with an eating disorder, her career switch after 30 years and ways to help other women realize that self-worth lies not in how they look but for who they are. So many of us listen to that inner voice that tells us we are not good enough or beautiful enough and Anne wants us all to know we are all beautifully different and unique. She also talks with Kim about the importance of helping young girls receive these messages a...
Send us a text Shane Barnard has a passion for something that many of us do not want to talk about. She helps other people talk about their end of life estate planning and does it in a comfortable way for all involved. Her focus is on leaving a story or legacy behind when we leave this life. From starting out as an attorney in the foster care system, Shane talks with Kim this week about her experiences with career burnout, how her mom's end-of-life situation affected her life path and lesson...
Send us a text Martina Gruppo is a courageous woman. She talks with Kim this week about how she lowered her boundaries so much that she became the victim of a narcissistic abuser. For eleven years, she gave everything and received nothing in return until she started realizing what she needed to do. She also talks about literally seeing the light inside of her being switched back on and the three steps she used to bring her back to a place of healing and dancing in her own kitchen whenever sh...
Send us a text This week marks a never-before-done event on the Midlife with Courage podcast. Kim interviews Robert J. Hunt who talks with her about accountability and how he needed to find it in his own life journey. He and his wife found themselves $90k in debt in 2019 and realized it was time to "own it" and get a way out. He shares what they did and how he came to find peace in his daily life and so much more. Robert now helps others climb the accountability mountain through a bo...
Send us a text In this "extra" episode, Kim talks about her family's experience with the band REO Speedwagon and how it brought teenagers and parents together. Music is so powerful in so many ways and she shares how one band and the people she's met have influenced her in so many ways. Get your free ebook called Daily Habits for Hormonal Harmony by going to my website. This free guide will help you balance your hormones through some easy daily activities. Just add your em...
Send us a text As we navigate midlife, we learn to listen to our intuition or that "gut feeling" more than we used to. Jennifer Johnson is an ER nurse who has learned how to listen to that intuition in her career and in her life. She talks with Kim about her experiences with bullying, using her intuition, and relationships with doctors, nurses and patients. The lessons she has learned are useful for anyone even if you are not a nurse. If you would like to read more stories, Jenn has written...
Send us a text Life is full of transitions, especially in our relationships, and Sharon Costanzo experienced her fair share. She talks with Kim today about the courage she found to tell her husband she was not going to keep going the way things were. She also offers some great insight into how to work through the conflict created by transitions such as empty nest and retirement. Sharon wants us to realize that it's ok to want something different and helps navigate how to do that with your pa...
Send us a text Annie Gaudreault talks with Kim this week about how our nutritional needs change in midlife and how important it is to pay attention to what we eat. She shares some tips for eating better to support our changing bodies and health needs. She even shares a slightly different definition of the word metabolism and explains insulin resistance. If you are a woman over 40, you need to listen to this episode. You may learn something that could improve your life starting now. To learn...
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