Celebrating Midlife & Menopause Transitions: Rediscovering Self Through Women’s Empowerment Ceremonies with Angie Litvinoff

Episode Summary

What if you could redefine midlife as a time of empowerment, authenticity, and purpose? This episode promises to inspire and enlighten as we explore the transformative potential of menopause and midlife reinvention. 

Join us as we welcome the wise and spirited Angie Litvinoff, an expert in mind-body-spirit medicine, who shares her profound journey of discovering joy and intention amidst life's challenges. Her story of transformation at 50, catalyzed by a health scare, is a testament to the power of aligning with one's true desires and speaking one's truth.

Discover the tools and narratives that empower women to step out of societal expectations and embrace who they truly are:

• the importance of self-discovery, shedding survival mode, and cultivating inner wisdom through community. 
• how embracing vulnerability can lead to profound personal growth and how ceremonies and rituals can honor these significant life transitions. 
• why we need supportive communities where women can share experiences, wisdom, and inspiration across generations.
• actionable steps for self-discovery and personal growth, including how to learn to trust ourselves. 

Ready to embrace reinvention and empowerment with courage and optimism? Learn how creating space for stillness and reflection can nurture self-empowerment. 

Thank you for joining us on this inspiring journey with Angie Litvinoff! We hope her story empowers you to own your awesome and embrace your own path of reinvention. If you found this episode enlightening, please share it with a friend who could use some inspiration.

Connect with Angie:

Website: angielitvinoff.com
Instagram: @angie_the_medicine_woman

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Transcript

00:00 - Angie Litvinoff (Guest)
There is something that happens which makes it urgent to speak your truth more, and not only speak your truth, but speak your truth in a new way, in a way which is relevant to one's own changes through menopause. That was important to me to let go of expectation. 

00:35 - Wendy Battles (Host)
Welcome to Reinvention Rebels. Stories of brave and unapologetic women, 50 to 90 years young, who have boldly reinvented life on their own terms to find new purpose and possibilities. I'm your host, wendy Battles. I need to kick your fears to the curb, do it scared and step into who you are meant to be in midlife and beyond. These amazing women, these reinvention rebels, can help light your reinvention path. Come join us and let's get inspired together. Hey, hey, rebels. Welcome to another episode of the Reinvention Rebels Podcast. I'm your host, wendy, and I'm so excited that you're here joining me today. 

01:31
I am loving the conversation we've been having all month long. In October, among many other awareness months, it is also menopause awareness month and I've been so focused on this whole conversation about how we can shine in midlife and during and after menopause to feel our best and literally live our best life. And it's been so awesome because I kicked off the month speaking at the Life in the Pause Festival in New York City city, talking about reinvention, menopause and midlife. I invited on the amazing kate wells from parlor games, who talked about this idea of reinventing our sexual lives during menopause in ways that light us up. I did a great episode a couple weeks ago about finding joy in menopause and rewriting this narrative about what society says it is versus what we know. It can be that we can step into it with joy, even amid the challenges. And today I'm so excited to wrap up October and Menopause Awareness Month with my guest, angie Litvinoff, who has such an inspiring story to tell about how she is helping women reinvent in spiritual ways that get to the core of who they are, because really, all of these things point to how we can live with more ease and grace, how we can pull together our menopausal toolkit, and one thing that I think is the coolest that's in my toolkit is the new film that just came out, the documentary called the m factor. It's all about menopause. These amazing filmmakers have put together this 56 minute documentary which, by the way, is available on pbs.org, so pbs.org, you can find it there and stream it. But it's impactful, it's moving's relatable, it's maddening to see, honestly, how women have been treated, and I know that right now, menopause is having its moment Like so many. People are talking about menopause like never before, and celebrities are totally getting into menopause. They're investing in products to help us. They're talking about their stories. And then there's the rest of us that have our own story, so it's all about how we can move forward in really juicy, amazing ways. 

03:55
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04:35
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05:55
Angie Litvinoff is a much-loved, experienced teacher and guide. Her extensive knowledge and expertise come from a long career in mind body spirit medicine. This includes many years of practice as a shamanic practitioner, homeopathic consultant, reiki teacher, metaphysical counselor and earth-based celebrant ceremonialist. She is qualified and has received in-depth formal training in all of her disciplines from deeply experienced wisdom keepers. She also holds a social science university diploma in women's studies and third world development studies. From a young age, angie has had powerful and life-changing encounters with shamanism and shamanic practices, which brought her home to herself. At 18, she experienced her first Native American sweat lodge ceremony in the US as part of a small, intimate community gathering and began to embark on a journey of self and soul. She also connects deeply to a profound calling from her own indigenous heritage. Plus, she's an amazing artist and she brings people together, creates community and helps women tune into their true selves for exponential personal growth and she builds community through her beautiful podcast. You Are the Creatrix. I can't wait to have this conversation. Angie Litvinoff, welcome to the Reinvention Rebels. Guest chair. 

07:28 - Angie Litvinoff (Guest)
Thank you so much, Wendy. It's an absolute pleasure to be here. 

07:32 - Wendy Battles (Host)
I love that we're doing this today, angie, because I had the pleasure of being on your podcast last year and it was such a wonderful experience, and I'm so happy to have you joining me to talk about your reinvention journey. Angie, we each have our own unique journey to becoming a reinvention rebel, to recognize that our goals and dreams matter and that we're going to bravely pursue them, even when we're scared or we don't know how. I'd love for you to tell me about your reinvention awakening. What ignited this journey for you at 50? 

08:12 - Angie Litvinoff (Guest)
First of all, I really want to get to the idea of intention behind all that we do, because as we get older and wiser in our wisdom, we can see that if we apply intention, we can really connect to what we truly deserve, what we truly need, what we truly want. And so for me, the intention very much changed over time and created a reinvention, because I had been of service to others, I had been for others, I had been there in a capacity as a therapist for a very long time, pursued a career that was for over 20 years, and it was very much about others, but also others as a mother, as a partner. So this sense of being there for others, whilst it really did sort of satisfy me, I got very burnt out. I had burnt out four times, you know, had various tragedies happen, there were a lot of things in my journey and just before I was 50, I was hospitalized with pneumonia, was 50, I was hospitalized with pneumonia and I was on oxygen for three days, and during that time it was a close call and during that time I wasn't afraid at the idea of dying. 

09:36
But what I did do was I took stock and I thought, well, if this is my time I really do surrender and I have. If this is my time I really do surrender and I have. You know, I have an amazing life and a lot of love around me. But if I'm going to get through this, I want to do this on my terms and I want to now go forward in life with the things that bring me the most joy. And so, just before I was 50, I started to change the focus of my own intention. I started to connect more fully to the things that I felt were naturally in my heart. 

10:16
At this moment in time, which was really about honing my own wisdom, I changed the direction of my life so that it brought in more art, more creativity, more time with the people that I love and more time to create ceremony and teach, to help women empower themselves. So that was a real departure from the clinical work that I had been doing up until that point, because, although all those things had been happening alongside, they hadn't taken a priority. And so my identity began to be much more fully formed, if you like, because the reinvention that was. You know it was happening, it had its own energy, was in full flow and I couldn't really do anything to stop it, wendy. 

11:06 - Wendy Battles (Host)
It just happened by itself in a lot of ways, because I surrendered to it, you know you just said, first of all, andy, so many powerful things in just that couple of moments and I'll just start by deconstructing a little bit this idea of intention that sometimes things happen to us that give us that moment where we reassess our life, and it is that spark that perhaps we need to move us forward and to make that shift. 

11:36
And I hear you say that you started to really lean into this idea of I want something more, I want something different, I want to shift my life. So that was part of what I heard. But then you just said something that I thought was really interesting this idea of surrender, because I think that myself included, so many of us are go, go, go, go go. I feel like I need to do X, y and Z to move forward, and we sometimes have a very, this very clear idea of what that looks like. But you took a really different tact with this in saying I surrender, because you said that things started to just happen and you almost couldn't control it. Can you tell me more about what that meant? Like, what does that actually mean? You surrendered and then it just kind of happened, like, yeah, how? 

12:21 - Angie Litvinoff (Guest)
does it feel so. It's like it's. It's that sense of well. What happens, for example? You know, I'll start with the art. What happens if I stop caring about what people think? What happens if I just communicate what's in my heart and deal with it? You know, deal with the fact that I and I think this happens to a lot of women over 50, and I'm sure there'll be people listening, nodding their heads vigorously. 

12:49
There is something that happens which makes it urgent to speak your truth more, and not only speak your truth, but speak your truth in a new way, in a way which is relevant to one's own changes through menopause. That was important to me, to one's own changes through menopause. That was important to me. To let go of expectation. So, with the art, I let go of expectation. I let go of seeking approval or, you know, wanting to paint pretty pictures. It was really about wisdom, wild woman wisdom coming through and communicating something that was very deep, that was urgent for me to you know, it was like right at the tip of my tongue, so that became a way of expressing that. 

13:31
The other thing that happened was that I became a lot more vocal around the needs of women, as I saw it. So I began to speak to a specific group of women, as opposed to have a reach to all women, and this specific group of women were women who are on a catalyst, visionary journey of their own, who are in perimenopause or menopause and beyond, so who are experiencing change and reinvention. So I became more specific about my message and how I expressed myself in my life as well as in my private life. That was my work life. My private life just became a lot more open about the journey of reinvention and communicated that, whether I was waiting for a bus or picking up my son from school or having a cup of tea with a friend, just being able to be much more open about days when what I call duvet days, when you really don't feel like you want to be around anyone, and then days when the opposite might happen, when you feel like just hugely into surrounding oneself with lots of people and everything in between, and feelings that come up which challenge the way we feel about ourselves and about the world around us, as we question what's happening with the changes we experience in our bodies and with age and what aging means and what positive aging means, as well as a sense of urgency about the things that I seem to not forget about for a while. 

15:13
But because I was so busy, immersed in work and bringing up a family, that my sort of activism, the activism side of my life, kind of did take a backseat. So being more vocal about representation, you know, and identity, and coming from being an immigrant, having escaped dictatorship in Latin America as a child which I did with a single parent, my mother we literally had little more than a suitcase each and we came to the UK with no money, no certainty, you know, didn't speak English. You know all of those things and what it means to have that experience and transcend the challenges or work with the challenges and identify as somebody who has really embodied, you know, their heritage. So all of those things then became more urgent to express in daily life. 

16:06 - Wendy Battles (Host)
A therapist, being a spouse, as you said. 

16:08
I mean, there are many different identities that you've had, and part of what I hear in your reinvention journey is that it's been an awakening, it's been an unfolding, to step into who you are, to integrate those different things and move into the space of now. 

16:44
It's my time. Now it's my time to speak my truth, and I think that that is so key when we're reinventing ourselves, because I think, for women in midlife, we have different situations. Right, not every situation is just like your situation, but every woman has her story. Every woman has her struggles. Every woman has this path to try to uncover her true self, and I believe that she's in there for all of us. And what I really liked about what you said is that as you started to excavate and uncover the Angie that you wanted to be, you started speaking really openly about it. I heard you say that and it feels like Angie, all those things led to you finding your people that when we can step into who we're meant to be and it goes back to that idea of surrender you talked about then we can find those people that we connect with in this deep way. They can help us or we can help them on their journeys. 

17:47 - Angie Litvinoff (Guest)
Yeah, and I, you know, I love what you said and I think that a lot of the journey of women is about that sense of uncovering the truth about themselves, so really stepping out of the dominant paradigm and really seeing us ourselves in how can I put it sort of in a different light entirely incredible person, each and every one of us, and this incredible uniqueness and inner strength and power and inner confidence, yes, and we do meet ourselves and that is such a unique experience that very often in society, how to be uniform is celebrated. 

18:43
Being like other people is, you know very often, and also sometimes we need to do that to play the game to survive, and especially for people who are marginalized, sometimes it is a sense of, well, I've got to do certain things in order to get by, in order to overcome, you know the situations that I'm in, and then that is a survival mode, and then you have to remember that that is not your natural state. You need to step out of that survival mode at some point in order to be healthy and find your own rhythm, and I'm not suggesting for a minute that it comes you know somebody waves a magic wand and it happens but that you can actually navigate and drive that process through by really tuning into who you are, through the processes of meeting yourself and surrendering. 

19:37 - Wendy Battles (Host)
Meeting yourself and surrendering. I know that in talking about it and hearing your story and also thinking about my own story and how it continues to evolve and I'm always amazed because it feels like every time you feel like, oh, I think I'm really getting in there and I'm like exposing the layer, like, oh my gosh, but look at this whole other dynamic, just seeing even the things I haven't want to see. There's so many things it's so easy to avoid or work around and I grew up in a family where we didn't really talk about things and it's really interesting to find the courage to start to address some of those things because it's freeing to find our true self. So, as you're talking about this whole process of peeling back the layers and saying, well, just because society says this, it doesn't mean it's true that I can find my own path as I reinvent myself. 

20:30
I know, as we're having this conversation, some women might be saying I am so inspired by what Angie did, but I don't know that I could do that for myself. I don't know that I have the strength or the will or the desire yet. Or maybe I have the desire, but I don't know how, because of course, you've evolved over time, it wasn't just this instant thing, right, it's been many years of peeling back these layers to find the essence of Angie. What advice do you have, angie, for a woman who's listening and is identifying with this feeling inside, this desire that I believe that there's something more, even though I can't even put my finger on it yet, I'm not sure what that is. What's one step that he or she could take to dip their toe in in a way that feels kind of safe? It's not like I'm going to just go full bore and be like, yes, I'm going to go to one of Angie's ceremonies, but what can people do to just kind of ease into this idea of discovering our true selves? 

21:26 - Angie Litvinoff (Guest)
So, first of all, if you are listening and you're feeling this, a huge congratulations to you, sister, because I celebrate you and I champion you and you have this and it's not going away. This passion that you have, that you have ignited within you, is not going away. It is going to get bigger and it's going to get more urgent. So I'm excited for you and the way to begin, because of all the things that I personally have overcome and I have been witness to other women who have overcome things in their lives is that it has to feel, it has to feel possible, possible. Yeah, hope is something which is one of the biggest, biggest things in my own life, and it has to feel possible, so that the first step would be if it's too much to look at the week, you look at the month, but look at your diary. 

22:20
Look at your diary and you have to Put in your diary time for you and it's not time doing chores or time doing things that you need to catch up with, or even reading a book. It is time for you and to create that gap so that you fill it with nothing. And how does that feel? And as you adjust to that sense that you owe it to yourself to create this opportunity, then you will find the new things to put in that time which nourish you. 

22:56
So what is it that is going to nourish you? What is that is going to? If you find your joy and you first of all create that time of nothing, and it will feel a level of. There will be a level of resistance around it. There will be maybe a temptation to sabotage it with leaving your mobile, your cell phone on or filling it with social things or doing you know that involves speaking to others. So it's time for you alone and, as you get used to being in that space, you create the opportunity to allow your mind to clear so that you connect to feelings and thoughts that are within you that are going to help your empowerment. 

23:38 - Wendy Battles (Host)
You are speaking my language, angie. You are this idea that all of the answers we seek are within and that we tune into them. When we do nothing, when we get quiet, when we just are being instead of doing. We're such doers. We live in a world of doing and not in a world of being, so it feels often really out of sync, I think, to sometimes do that, and I also think that as we age you know, in my 20s I was all about being with other people all the time and taking up all the time I could and filling my calendar with all these things, and it's interesting how we shift as we age, and I think midlife is such a nexus for us to come home to ourselves. 

24:25
When we've been so busy outwardly supporting other people whether it's at work or our families or raising kids it could be anything that takes us away from ourselves. So I love this idea of the simplicity that this is. It doesn't have to be this whole huge thing, like I have to pay someone thousands of dollars. All we're doing is tuning into that inner wisdom that's always been there, that we've all used at different times, right to guide us about things we can say, we can think about times where we trusted our gut feeling, or maybe we didn't, and then afterward we're like I should have trusted my gut, right, so that we've had this knowing. But I think it's a muscle and I like what you just said about how we can develop this muscle. 

25:08
I think that's a muscle and I like what you just said about how we can develop this muscle. I think that's really interesting. I mentioned in your intro that you do all these metaphysical things, and one of the things is being a ceremonialist and a celebrant, so you have to tell us what does that actually mean? Like what is it okay? What do you do now that you've reinvented yourself and you're attracting these women that are ready? What, what do you actually? What happens? 

25:38 - Angie Litvinoff (Guest)
my background is as a practitioner of natural medicine and as a homeopath. So I bring in because of my years and years of training and experience, I bring in therapeutic aspects to my work. So, for example, one of the things that I do a lot is practice the art of listening listening to others to see what they're saying about themselves and then just mirror that back so that that's really affirms their message to them. And during ceremonial process I do rites of passage for women, ceremonies that help women anchor their sense of belief and identity as a process and as a way of marking a very significant chapter in their lives. So I have, you know, sort of earth based celebrant background. So it's a lot around the seasons, the moon, the female archetypes, with ritual and ceremony which is very immersive and requires participation from them as well. So they get to do things too. So that is a mentoring process that is also got a sort of a big ceremony. So it's like getting you know, it's like a self-marriage, if you like, self-marriage ceremony as a rite of passage. So this is wonderful for women in midlife and beyond, because by this point many of us would have experienced challenges, you know, around relationships or divorce. You know that we want to honor moving forwards. You know that we want to honor moving forwards. You know it could be to do with children or loss, whether we have children or chose to have children or couldn't have children, or whether we had children and things happened or you know, whatever. Also to do with grief, because at this point in our lives we would have come across and experienced grief and also rebirth, where we are reinventing ourselves. So there's a lot to process and celebrate and it's very rich. Our experience is very rich. So there are ways, you know, in our culture. We know this doesn't exist, this honoring, unless we always love a wedding, don't we? Or, you know, at any funeral, you know, if it's a family thing, there's always somebody says why do we wait until now to get together in a meaningful context or have a phone call? You know, when one of my aunts died and I was speaking to my cousin, who I don't speak to very much and we're actually quite close, and you know they said to me you know why have we waited so long to have this phone call? We can care about each other and other people and have connection without a tragedy happening before we pick up the phone. So it's that sense of people do actually want this. They want to come together, but also they want to honor something deep and meaningful in themselves, which marks a rite of passage or a significant time in their lives. 

28:20
And with that I bring aspects of ceremony and circle work into a lot of what I do. I bring ritual and ceremony into my women's circles. I do those online. Bring ritual and ceremony into my women's circles. I do those online and in person, and there are moments of silence and there are moments of space and just honoring. A lot of it is based around the idea that we can hold the room and be uninterrupted while we speak. 

28:42
So it's not counseling and it's not advice giving. It's the opportunity for women to speak their truth without being judged or interrupted or assisted in any way, so that they can get comfortable with hearing their own voice in an empowering way. And it takes courage. You know you mentioned the word courage earlier and it does. But as the more you do it, the more you like it, and the more you like it and you want to do it more, you want to do it again, you want to have these experiences again, and so it's a really powerful way, through ritual ceremony and sharing, to come into ourselves. 

29:22
And so the direction of my work, the reason why my passion of developing my own creative process, if you like, you know, and the expression of that is through my work and what was really important to me, was that it was less about waiting for something to change and holding the space in that way and managing, and much more about the individual being really accountable. You'd feel it was a much more modern concept, but actually it's a very ancient concept because when we look at our ancestors, we also look at their relationship to the fact that it was not an individual in isolation, it's an individual within a community. So actually our accountability has also got to be about the world we live in and we're not isolated and alone, you know it's. It is about reaching out and expressing it. Until you do gravitate to the, you know your tribe. 

30:12 - Wendy Battles (Host)
I think that it's such an interesting thing that you mentioned community, because I was thinking that when you were talking about this process, the first word that came to mind was community. 

30:22
I mean, it's about yourself and speaking your truth, but doing that in the space of community and getting the support. 

30:29
And I think that is so important because I know that when we're younger we often have big communities. We have our friends from university, we have friends we make when we start our careers. We have sometimes family members that are our friends or cousins that you're talking about, and this sense of community is something that sometimes we just take for granted. It's like those people are there and I know that not everybody has that, but many of us have it in some way, even if it's not some huge, like I've got, you know, 50 cousins kind of way. But I also know that as we age, of course things change and our lives get smaller, certainly as we age, and you mentioned like grief and loss, and I think we can all identify with that in midlife in many different ways. So this idea of community to me is so key. I think about that all the time when it comes to reinvention, so much more powerful to reinvent with the support of other people than by ourselves. 

31:23 - Angie Litvinoff (Guest)
Yeah, and I love that because also, what I'm deeply humbled by constantly is that once you create, once one creates the opportunity. I have women who are in their 80s and say, can I come to your circle? I was like, of course you know. And then I have women in their 40s experiences through their own reinvention and who are so willing to share, but also who feel like there is a sense of belonging and there is a space to gravitate to. And unless you create that opportunity, people will feel isolated. 

31:59
And especially for women expressing themselves and really defying what's expected or the stereotypes that we have about getting older, that actually is incredibly exciting because it's a space of real wisdom but also constantly exchanging ideas and expressing an evidence of what's possible, so that when somebody shows up for themselves, it is instantly inspiring to other women around them. And you think, actually, you know I have a version of that in me or I resonate with that and I can do my own, I can do the you know, you can do the Wendy version or I can do the Angie version, or it's that sense of like. It might not even be anything related to it, but the fact that you know a woman is expressing herself and being so herself, and I constantly get that inspiration from icons that we have, clearly people like people in music or singers or you know artists that we followed. You know Wendy, you know you and I and all the listeners you know have followed through decades right. 

33:03
And then all of these beautiful, amazing women are now like 50, 60, 70, 80 years old and they're still showing up for themselves and it's just that huge inspiration about, well, how we can progress and continue to evolve. 

33:16 - Wendy Battles (Host)
It's amazing and you so beautifully articulate what is possible for any of us, no matter where you are right now, no matter what the circumstances are. Matter. Where you are right now, no matter what the circumstances are, we all have the power to look within, to reinvent, to create a new path and, even better, when we have the support of others. Now, Angie, I have to ask you and I know you're familiar with this because we follow each other in social media you know that I'm in season six of the Reinvention Rebels podcast, and the theme for this year is Own your Awesome, which is so parallel to what we're talking about, with people or I should say with women stepping into their own. I'd love for you to tell me what you think Own your Awesome means as it relates to reinventing yourself. 

34:06 - Angie Litvinoff (Guest)
There is a part of you that you really want to express and possibly not always, but possibly something stopped you in the past. Okay, now's the time to revisit that and your relationship to what that means. So it could be trying something again that didn't work before because you didn't get the result you wanted, or someone told you you weren't any good at it. It could be trying something completely new. Or it could be looking at yourself and really looking at yourself in the mirror, into your own eyes, and saying what is it that I really deserve to give myself? What is it that the younger me is asking for and the inner child is asking for right now that just really wants to play, wants to go out and feel the joy in life? 

35:05
What is it that would really make me happy right now, and even though it may take a lot of courage and you might have some fear around it, to really embrace this as an opportunity and think well, what's the worst that can happen? What's this absolute worst that can happen that hasn't happened before? You know I've dealt with so much in my life. I've dealt with. You know this is you speaking to yourself now. Look at all the things I've overcome, this I can do, and I'm going to pledge to myself that I will do this for myself. I love that. 

35:38 - Wendy Battles (Host)
I love how you articulated this idea of it's my time. It's really my time, despite the challenges and what's the worst that could happen. I love that question what's the worst that could happen? Beginning to ask ourselves those things, to push us forward into that space of speaking our truth, having courage, stepping out, trusting ourselves. That now is the time. Angie, this has been such an amazing conversation. You are so wise, so fierce, so awesome. I am so grateful for you gracing me with your beautiful presence today and sharing your wisdom. And, of course, people who are listening are saying Angie is so cool. I need to know Angie. I want to find Angie. I want to find out what she does. I want to follow her on social media and get inspired by her. Where can people find you? 

36:34 - Angie Litvinoff (Guest)
Well, first of all, thank you so much, wendy, and back at you, right back at you, woman, I just love you and thank you for this opportunity and I feel so much joy that we have connected. 

36:47
And that is the magic of social media. It has lots of downsides, but one of the most amazing things is, you know, for busy women who are across the globe from each other, we are creating an amazing network, so it's really worth persevering with social media. You can find me on Angie the Medicine Woman, on Instagram, my website is angielitvinoff.com, and also I've got a free community which enables you to join a women's circle for free if you want to, and lots of lovely resources. So you know that's a great place to connect with me, first and foremost, and I would just I'm always interested in women's stories and an opportunity to have what I call a power circle with me, which again is a free offering where we explore. It's a discovery session where we really explore where you're at in your life. So, yeah, so all those ways, please do get in touch and I would love to hear your stories. 

37:42 - Wendy Battles (Host)
Thank you so much. All of those details are in the show notes so you can tap or click and easily get connected with Angie. I encourage you to meet up with her on social and really connect, because she is so inspiring and reminds me that anything is possible for any of us, no matter where we are right now. We can reimagine, we can look within, we can face our fears and do it even when we're scared. There's nothing we can't do. So, angie, thank you so so much. 

38:18 - Angie Litvinoff (Guest)
Thank you so much, Wendy. Thank you so much for holding the space today. 

38:27 - Wendy Battles (Host)
I don't know about you, but I thought my conversation with Angie was so incredibly powerful. It is the elixir I needed. I took so many notes about some of the things she said that apply to my own life as I continue to step into my own, into uncharted territory during menopause and continue to figure it out Not always clear, but this idea of tuning into ourselves, finding ourselves, finding that powerful voice and speaking what we need into existence. I'm all in. I hope you love this as much as I did. 

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39:47
By the way, have you checked out my free gift yet 100 Ways to Reinvent Yourself in Midlife? It's the catalyst you might need to jumpstart new, fresh ideas to get you moving in the direction of your dreams, and you'll see details for it in the show notes. And y' forget about Magic Mind. If you haven't checked it out yet, go to magicmind.com. Slash rebel and check out this fabulous mental performance shot that is helping me navigate menopause. All right, y'all, I hope you enjoyed this episode as much as I did, and I can't wait to see you back here in just a couple of weeks. Until then, keep shining your light, rebels. The world needs you and all that you have to offer.