Age Boldly: How Rachel Lankester Is Flipping the Script on Midlife and Menopause

Age Boldly: Rachel Lancaster on Midlife, Menopause & Magnificence

What if a midlife diagnosis could change your life for the better?

At 41, Rachel Lankester was told she was in early menopause—and it rocked her world. But instead of letting it define her, Rachel turned this life-altering news into fuel for transformation. Her journey became the spark for Magnificent Midlife, a global movement empowering women over 40 to challenge ageism, rewrite the menopause narrative, and step boldly into their next chapter.

In this inspiring episode, Rachel shares how curiosity and self-belief helped her flip the script—from shattered dreams to powerful purpose. We explore the myths that hold women back, the beauty of embracing our unique midlife strengths, and why menopause can be a gateway to deeper confidence, leadership, and authenticity.

If you’ve ever felt stuck, overlooked, or unsure of what’s next, Rachel’s story will reignite your belief in what’s possible—no matter your age.

🎧 Tune in for:

 💥 How early menopause launched Rachel’s reinvention journey
 🧠 Why curiosity and self-belief are midlife superpowers
 🔥 Reframing menopause as a portal to empowerment
 🌟 How to age boldly and live magnificently 

Rachel Lancaster embodies what it means to be a Reinvention Rebel—bold, curious, and unapologetically magnificent in midlife and beyond. If this episode inspired you, share it with a friend who’s ready to embrace her own reinvention journey.

Connect with Rachel:

• 💻 Website: magnificentmidlife.com
• 📸 Instagram: @rachel_lankester

💡 Resources & Links

🎁 Ready to take your next bold step? Grab my free gifts to fuel your reinvention:

💫 100 Ways to Reinvent Yourself in Midlife — a fun, inspiring guide packed with doable ideas to spark your next chapter

Kick your midlife fears and uncertainty to the curb and start your Reinvention Rebels journey today. Learn about my audio program, Midlife Reinvention From The Inside Out: 8 Essentials to Greenlight Your Life.

Transcript

00:00 - Rachel Lankester (Guest)
I often talk about how the end of my fertility has actually become the most fertile time of my life, and that is really true. You know, I do things now that I would never have done before. 

00:23 - 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, hey, rebels. Welcome to another episode of the Reinvention Rebels podcast. I'm so excited that you are here and you are joining me today. You know this season is all about betting on ourselves, self-belief, we can do anything, and I'm really excited because my guest today, rachel Lancaster, is all about that. It's all about her journey, her story, how she has built these skills to bet on herself and what the result has been, how she has emerged in midlife in new, beautiful and powerful ways. She's got that true reinvention rebel flavor going on and you're gonna love her story. But before we get to that, I do want to remind you that at the end of this episode I'm going to share more details about my free gift for you 100 ways to reinvent yourself in midlife, because sometimes we need a little boost, we need a push, we need some help to get started into the rhythm and a reminder that we can do anything, that we can bet on ourselves and that almost anything. All right, I'm not gonna be an Olympic athlete, but almost anything is possible. More details at the end of the episode. But now let me introduce you to the extraordinary Rachel Lancaster. 

02:54
Rachel Lancaster is an author, podcast host, midlife mentor and founder of Magnificent Midlife, an online hub helping women over 40 thrive through the often messy midlife of life so they can ditch negative narratives about aging, feel great and create the next chapter of their dreams. She's the author of Magnificent Midlife Transform your Middle Years, menopause and Beyond, recommended in the New York Times as one of seven top books about menopause. She's also the host of the Magnificent Midlife Podcast, the editor of the Mutton Club online magazine for women 40 plus and the founder of Menoclarity, an educational forum for menopause. This woman has been busy, given an initially devastating early menopause diagnosis at 41, which ended her dreams of a second child, but when she was able, for a short while, to reverse. Rachel uses her experience to help women thrive through the menopause transition and feel better about getting older. Her mission is to challenge overwhelmingly negative narratives about midlife menopause and aging in general and give women more control over their hormones. She wants women to be prepared, not scared. Rachel Lancaster, welcome to the Reinvention Rebels. Guest chair. 

04:17 - Rachel Lankester (Guest)
It's so lovely to be here, Wendy. Thank you so much. 

04:21 - Wendy Battles (Host)
I am so excited for our conversation today, rachel. I've been following you for a while. I'm not exactly sure how I found you or when, but I really love that we are doing similar things. We are inspiring midlife women, and it's such a pleasure, I think, to turn the tables and get to be interviewed as a host. We're so used to talking to people and asking them questions that I always love when the tables are turned and I get to be a guest, and I hope you do too. 

04:54 - Rachel Lankester (Guest)
Yeah, it's really fun, it's very nice and I have a lot to say. I know you do. 

04:59 - Wendy Battles (Host)
Oh my gosh, and we have so much to talk about. I want to start by talking a little bit about your background. You went from a corporate communications specialist to becoming a midlife badass doing such incredible things, and along the way, you became an anti-ageism activist, a midlife mentor as we talked about an author and a podcast host so many things. That is a huge change, rachel, and it didn't happen overnight. How did your reinvention journey? 

05:35 - Rachel Lankester (Guest)
unfold. Well, it all started way back in when I was 41. I'm now 58, so it was a long time ago. But when I was 41, I was given this diagnosis of early menopause and it was devastating. It really was. 

05:48
But I am a resource investigator and I don't accept things that people tell me. I want to challenge them and explore. And so I went off and I found out all sorts of things and the main thing was that I talked to a nutritionist and I completely changed my diet and then I got my periods back. So I realized that this diagnosis I'd been given just wasn't was either wrong or it was just not the right time that it was given to me, I don't know. But I got my periods back and I learned that we have so much more agency over our menopause experience and I learned that doctors certainly then really didn't know very much about it because I was told I'd categorically gone through menopause, which was rubbish, because now I know that if you're over 50, you have to have gone for one year without a period to be through menopause and if you're under 50, you have to have gone for two years. They didn't ask me. The doctor didn't say when did you last have a period, you know. So it was. It was really silly and this sort of sent me down this route of just discovering what was going on. And when I had found out all of this stuff, I just thought women need to know this, because I didn't know it, I was completely ignorant. The doctor was pretty ignorant. You know, I needed to make sure that women understood what was going on. 

07:15
And all these years later, women still don't know what's going on. They still think if they've got brain fog, they've got early onset Alzheimer's and we need to stop that. So I need to keep doing what I'm doing. But you know, at least we're having the conversations. Now we are talking about menopause, we're talking about what's going on. But so many women are still blindsided when it happens because they're not informed or they think, you know they're 49 and the doctor's saying, well, I think you might be perimenopausal, and they go oh no, I'm too young. No, you're not too young. You're not too young at 49. You know, I wasn't too young to be in perimenopause at 41, which was what I think was actually happening. It wasn't that I'd gone through. I mean, it's fantastic now that we're having these conversations, but now I can't escape menopause because people are talking about it in such negative ways, especially here in the UK. 

08:11
So I'm now jumping up and down, even though I didn't have a very good experience of it did ruin my dreams of having another child, but I feel like I'm the world's biggest supporter of menopause. Now I'm like I'm menopause cheerleader, you know, because I think that it happens for us, not to us. And that's what I want to encourage women that actually it can be an opportunity, even though it may seem like something really awful, or we're told that it's something really awful, so that's kind of like. That's why I started and why I do what I do. 

08:49 - Wendy Battles (Host)
It's really amazing how our experiences can be such a spark for us to reinvent ourselves. Not that we start out that way and I think, oh, ok, I'm going to go to the doctor, figure out this whole menopause thing and then create this whole movement right, it felt like it was very organic the way you talked about it, and when you said agency and self-discovery, that's what I really heard that those two things were really present for you as you navigated this, and you use that as motivation to help other women be able to navigate this with more ease. At what point did you decide? Well, you know, I've got this whole thing. I really want to help educate women, and then it, though, has continued to grow. So it started out. I want to inspire women. 

09:39 - Rachel Lankester (Guest)
It was about eight years ago that I sort of really got serious about it and sort of tried to create a business out of it and that that has been challenging. I have to say and it's interesting when we talk about, you know, reinventions I still do a little bit of my corporate communications work. It still happens. I have a wonderful client who brings me back every year and has done for 17 years, which is incredible. So I still do that. So I think that's an important point to make about reinvention is that it's not all or nothing. It doesn't have to be say goodbye to that and start something else, doing elements of what I did before, even though my public persona and what excites me, what drives me, is completely different. So you know, I do the other stuff because it's still there and it helps to pay the bills, but it's not what excites me. 

10:40 - Wendy Battles (Host)
That's such a good insight because we have what we're passionate about Just like you, I'm so passionate about midlife, women and reinvention but that we could still continue on doing those other things we still enjoy or that we're really good at that people want to pay us to do and they recognize that they're good at. So I like that idea that it's not all or nothing, that it can be many things on this path, and I think we uncover those things as we go. I know that making such big changes that morph into reimagining ourselves in midlife is definitely no small task, as you have indicated, and I also know from personal experience and I think so often, rachel, we can begin to doubt ourselves when we're on this path or second guess ourselves. Can I really do that? Is this really a good idea? What have you learned about staying the course and trusting your gut that you are on the right path? 

11:41 - Rachel Lankester (Guest)
Well, I actually think that that's one of the gifts of menopause. I really really do. I have this theory about estrogen. I call estrogen the biddable hormone and I think it keeps us compliant. It's designed to make us reproduce. Whether or not we reproduce doesn't matter, but it is designed to make us reproduce and nurture. So it's designed for us to put other people first instead of ourselves. And when we have less of it, it doesn't go away completely. The body still produces as much estrogen as we need as a post reproductive woman. 

12:16
So there's none of that deficiency narrative, which I get very annoyed about. When it goes away to a certain extent, when it's reduced. When it goes away to a certain extent, when it's reduced, we can then start putting ourselves first, and I find that there's an awful lot of clarity that comes with that. There's a self-belief that comes with it as well. We but we have to choose that because there are so many negative narratives around menopause. And you know, when I got that at 41, I thought I was a washed up old prune. Nobody had actually said that to me, but that was what I felt, and it took me a long time to realize that that wasn't me. I allowed a doctor's appointment that lasted for like 15 minutes tops to completely change my perception of myself as a woman, and that was ridiculous. I eventually realized how ridiculous that was and how I was being ageist towards myself. So I think that if we can embrace that and if we can take advantage of our different hormonal profile, then we can find the strength and the motivation and the willpower that actually comes. 

13:29
You know, I often talk about how the end of my fertility has actually become the most fertile time of my life, and that is really true. You know, I do things now that I would never have done before, and I think often we just think that this is a stage of life, but actually I think it's very related to this transition that we go through in life, which is menopause, and I find that a lot of people don't want to talk about that, but actually I think it's a really powerful thing. It's just that in Western Anglo-Saxon societies, which I talk about in my book, the ageism is terrible, and the gendered ageism is even worse. So if you're an older person, it's awful. If you're an older woman, you know, just get you into the corner and disappear because you don't have a role in life, and that is what society tells us. 

14:24
You know, in the anti-aging products on the market, in the people that we see on television who don't look like older women because we're A they get siphoned off to somewhere else or, b they are, as I say, nipped and tucked within an inch of their lives because we're not supposed to show what it looks like to be an older woman. Men are allowed to age, but women aren't. 

14:48 - Wendy Battles (Host)
That's a very long answer to your question but it's so true, though, what what you just said is so spot on this idea that we're really awakening to ourselves, yes, as we being authentic. 

15:04
Right, I think we become more authentic, and that's what really excites me and I think there's such freedom in awakening to oh my gosh, I can speak my mind, I can do what I want, I can choose me after choosing my job, my family, my kids, I mean all important things to your point about the nurturing that we do, just naturally. But to step into this new space with boldness, with possibility, is such a different feel. It's such a different feel and I think that you know, as we do, that we do gain this confidence. Well shoot, if I can do this, I can do anything. You know, that kind of feeling that I clearly did not have in my 20s, or even in my 30s, when I still felt like I was pretty clueless about life, you know. So there's definitely something empowering about this idea of more clarity, more certainty, more confidence that helps fuel our reinvention journey in new ways. 

16:11
And speaking about your reinvention journey that you're telling us about, rachel, I love this idea of a reinvention superpower, that there is one quality as you think about how you reinvented. You've been on this journey for many years, from when you went to that doctor's visit for 15 minutes and started this talk in your head about your body and where you were, to where you are now where you've completely evolved in such beautiful and powerful ways and not only changed yourself but are helping other women change. So, as you kind of step back and think about all that you have done over these many years, as you've reinvented what would you say is the most important quality, aka your reinvention superpower that has contributed to your success, I think there's two. 

17:06 - Rachel Lankester (Guest)
I'm sorry. 

17:07 - Wendy Battles (Host)
Oh, go on, Do it, do it, let's go, let's do a girl two. 

17:13 - Rachel Lankester (Guest)
There's probably half a dozen, but I can't narrow it down to one because the two go hand in hand. It started with that initial diagnosis and that journey and I I know a lot of your guests talk about this it's curiosity, it's staying open and curious so that you don't accept narratives, so that you question things and you question what's possible for yourself. So I would say curiosity. And then what I didn't have as a younger woman self-belief. 

17:44
That is what has become bigger and bigger the older I have got, and that is what I thank age for is that idea of self-belief know, and now, as well as the other things I'm doing, I've started doing a master's in gerontology because I wanted to move on from menopause into aging, the next stage, you know, and I'm loving this, but I'm curious about that, but I also have to believe I can do a master's degree at the age of 58. So I've started doing that and I don't know where that's going to take me, but it's just very exciting. I just find it really exciting. So, yeah, curiosity and self-belief. 

18:25 - Wendy Battles (Host)
I love how those two go hand in hand and I agree that you know, as we get more confident, we believe in ourselves. It's so much easier to navigate something brand new, like this idea of I'm going to get a master's in gerontology just because I'm curious about this, because I feel moved by this, because I'm excited about this, and I think when we see ourselves drawn to certain things that spark something in us, that's always my cue to like I should explore more about this, I should find out more about this when I get that feeling like, well, that's really cool. Or look at what so-and-so is doing with that and what could my spin on that be if I did a little exploration. So I really love this idea and that is such a great segue into this question about the fact that you have this deep self-belief. You have this curiosity muscle that you continue to build and lean into, and I know that some women who are listening don't feel the kind of confidence that you have. 

19:30
Maybe they're earlier in their journey or they've had experiences in life that have left them feeling less than confident when they arrived in midlife, or they're older and they're still trying to figure it out, because the idea is we're all evolving on our own timetable in different ways, and I always think about how there's some things that I am so good at and there are other things I'm like I feel like I'm clueless, even at 59, I'm like I just don't know why I can't figure that out. So what is the one suggestion you have for someone who's starting out about shifting their mindset in this direction of curiosity and self-belief? What's something that a woman listening could do to begin to build those muscles? 

20:19 - Rachel Lankester (Guest)
a woman listening could do to begin to build those muscles. Well, I have a gratitude practice and you could always have a curiosity practice. You could just start the day and say what are three things that I'm curious about, that I want to know more about, and you could write that list daily. It's not something I need to do because I just I'm interested in everything, but that would be some that. That would be the way I would recommend to do it. That would be to to express that you know and think about. You know, what am I curious about today? 

20:46
But I just wanted to say, also because you were talking about me being very confident well, I can come across confident. You and I were both podcast hosts, right, I can put on my podcast voice. I can come across confident. You and I we're both podcast hosts right, I can put on my podcast voice and I can be confident. I can do that. But I am probably one of the most introverted people you will meet. I can put on the face, I can put on the voice. But I am here in my garden office and if it had a shower and a loo, I would stay here. I would live here. You know, that would be my happy place. So I think that goes to curiosity again. 

21:25
You know we all have our demons. We might come across as very confident but underneath maybe we're not or maybe we are today. Everybody's always got another story and there might be all sorts of things going on in my life right now that nobody knows anything about and which are really denting my confidence. But we don't know that. You know we can make assumptions about people and we do that all the time. But I think we get to this age and we can put on the face, we can put on the confidence and we can use that to feel the confidence. 

22:04
So I'm not saying that I don't feel confident. I do, but that's in certain ways. That's in talking about midlife and menopause. You know, if you put me in another environment I would not be confident. This is my particular soapbox and I can talk about it ad lib forever, you know, and I frequently do. But you know, put me in a different context and you'll see a different version of Rachel. So I think that would be just my words to your less confident listeners. You know we're still in the same tribe, we're still together. 

22:41 - Wendy Battles (Host)
I think that's such a great insight, rachel, because I think that sometimes we can extrapolate well, I don't feel confident into all parts of our lives and, to your point, if we actually take a close look at our lives, there are areas where we all can find places where we shine, where we feel more confident, even if perhaps in something new we're exploring, we feel less confident, which I think is natural. It's something new, we're trying it out, and so I really like the idea you suggested about just start to take notes, start to notice things, because I feel like so much of this for me is coming from within the ideas I get tuning into what I feel like is my purpose. That's all come from me, getting quiet, being more reflective. I can spend a lot of time running around, but my most impactful times are with myself, which is totally different than when I was like 20, something when you know you want to be out and about, et cetera. 

23:45
But I feel like I also, as I've aged, moved into a different space that it goes back to what you said is putting more focus on ourselves and what's most important. So I love this idea of you know we could dip our toe into building our confidence by leaning into what interests us or what are the things I've always wanted to do but never had a chance to, what are the things I could write down or just notice as I'm going through my day. I think that's really great advice. We are fellow podcasters. You have this beautiful podcast, magnificent Midlife that you have, I think are you at like 165 or 66 episodes now? Something like huge like that? I love it. 

24:27 - Rachel Lankester (Guest)
Yeah, but you've got over 100. Yeah right, Come on, you're not far behind. 

24:32 - Wendy Battles (Host)
Who knew right? Who knew that, when we started these endeavors, that they would kind of create this amazing life of their own and that we would meet all these amazing women that would inspire us? 

24:43
I'm really that's curiosity isn't it we're both curious curious and we both love listening to people and hearing their stories and and telling those stories. Telling those stories is such a joy to, to spotlight these women who are stepping into their own and what I like to say like, just you know, stepping on the center stage instead of being in the wings Like, okay, exactly Right, this is my life, because the inclination is for us to step back and we need to step forward. 

25:12 - Rachel Lankester (Guest)
The world needs us to step forward. It really does. It really does need us, it really does the world is a mess and the men have made a mess and the world needs women, but especially older women, because we've got all that wisdom, we've got that experience, we've got that clarity, we've got that innate calm that comes when you're off the hormonal roller coaster. You know, I mean, I love that. That's another gift of menopause. You know, I'm not going up and down all the time. 

25:38
You know I'm much more calm and focused and I can zone in straight on. You know what the important things are. That is what comes with age. 

25:47 - Wendy Battles (Host)
It really is and it does feel like when we get over that hump there on the other side. I know it's hard and we can get into the narrative of brain fog and you know all the bad things about menopause and not at all focus on all of the amazing things that happen. That that's just not the narrative. It's all about the loss. 

26:07 - Rachel Lankester (Guest)
Exactly. But I really want women to move away. I want the world to move away from that narrative of loss because, yes, we lose some things, we lose our ability to reproduce but do we seriously want to be reproducing in our 50, 60? 

26:25 - Wendy Battles (Host)
I mean, I certainly don't know exactly, exactly. 

26:29 - Rachel Lankester (Guest)
It's a different, it's a different life stage, but we are taught that that's a negative transition and it's not. It's just an evolution. In the same way that, you know, puberty wasn't a negative transition, even though it felt like it. It probably felt like it to a lot of people, yeah, but also I think it's really interesting because for a lot of women, before our hormones kicked in at puberty, we were probably pretty authentic. So when I talk about menopause being puberty in Reverse, I really mean that, because I think it is a chance to go back to our authentic selves, but just with all of those years of experience and wisdom in between absolutely, absolutely, and I like that puberty in reverse. 

27:15 - Wendy Battles (Host)
That is brilliant. I'm actually curious about one of your favorite stories, and I know it's hard. This is probably an impossible question to answer, rachel, as a fellow podcaster. 

27:26 - Rachel Lankester (Guest)
When people say, well, what's your favorite episode, I'm like I don't know, like there's so many, but is there a particular story from someone that you interviewed on the podcast that really jumps out at you or was incredibly inspiring, something that you know you're like wow, there's a story that completely changed my view of menopause and of being an older woman and that was Darcy Steinke, who I interviewed very early on and she wrote a book called Flash Count Diary and she wrote about it was a memoir, basically of her menopause experience and it's a really interesting book but she got obsessed with with a whale. She got completely obsessed with the post-menopausal whale, because we know for sure that human females and whales go through menopause. The jury is out on other animals. It might be the case that elephants and tigers and lions think anywhere where there are strong females they may also be going through menopause. Primates don't, which is quite strange because they're our nearest animal. So we know for sure that the whales do. 

28:39
And Darcy became obsessed with this whale because she learned that post-menopausal whales become the leaders of their pods and it's a completely matriarchal society. The male older whales die off because they're not needed and if a pod is led by a postmenopausal whale, it does much better than a pod that isn't led by a postmenopausal whale. That you know, like whales going through menopause being more useful to their communities that we are also as post-menopausal women. We are more valuable to our communities and the world as leaders than as breeders. I love that and when I heard this story, I just literally thought heard this story, I just literally thought, wow, it completely turns around the whole negative menopause narrative. This is a transition. My role is to lead Off. We go, bring it on. 

29:44 - Wendy Battles (Host)
Oh my gosh, I love this. Rachel. I understand why you're so enamored with this. 

29:51 - Rachel Lankester (Guest)
I can tell this story many. I have told it so many times, but I just love it. It's brilliant, and when I tell it to women, it's like lights go off in their eyes and they go oh my goodness, wow, of course it all makes sense now. 

30:07 - Wendy Battles (Host)
Yes, yes, and how powerful a story is that. And then to center ourselves in that, in our own lives, to see ourselves in this bold way, is so empowering. I love that. What episode? 

30:25 - Rachel Lankester (Guest)
is that gosh? It was an early one, I'm gonna have to go, look I'll find the link and yeah and she was so obsessed she literally she tracked this whale who was called granny and she found it because she was tracking it and she got in a kayak and she had an experience with granny and whales can be identified from their dorsal fins, so they knew it was this whale and she literally had an experience with this whale in a kayak, I mean. 

30:55 - Wendy Battles (Host)
Amazing. Isn't that great that is great, and this is why y'all you need to listen to Magnificent Midlife. 

31:01
You need to listen to Rachel's podcast because this is the kind of thing that she's talking about and we all need these stories. We all need inspiration, motivation so that we can create our own journey or continue on our own journey. When we're doubting ourselves or we're unsure, that's where this is such a gift to all of us to be able to hear these stories and see what's possible to begin to focus more on ourselves and what's possible as we are wrapping up. I know that people want to know, rachel. They want to know they have heard about your podcast and your book and your journey through menopause and how you are inspiring so many women about the possibilities that exist in changing the script, about this, this idea that we are stepping into our own and we are just getting started with this clarity and confidence and self-belief and curiosity that before we're like I don't know and now we're like, yes, I am, I'm doing it. 

32:05
I know people want to know. Where can I find Rachel? How can I listen to her podcast? Where can I find her book? How can I find out about all the cool things that she's doing? Please tell us where people can find you. 

32:17 - Rachel Lankester (Guest)
Well, I'm Magnificent Midlife on all the socials. Just find Magnificent Midlife and you'll find me. Book is Magnificent Midlife and you can get that on. You can get it on Amazon or you can get the e-book or the audio book direct from me at magnificentmidlifecom. Forward slash book and the podcast. You can listen to it anywhere on Spotify or anywhere you get your podcasts, but that's a lot of fun. Yeah, there are some really cool women on there. 

32:45 - Wendy Battles (Host)
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful information, wonderful inspiration. All about possibilities. Rachel Lancaster, I cannot thank you enough for gracing me with your presence, for sharing your light and your wisdom and helping us all see the abundance of possibilities that exist when we're willing to be curious, dip our toe in, step out and try new things on for size. So thank you, rachel Lancaster. 

33:23 - Rachel Lankester (Guest)
It's been an absolute joy talking to you, so thank you very much for allowing me to come on and talk about all these things that I am very passionate about on and talk about all these things that I am very passionate about. 

33:37 - Wendy Battles (Host)
I don't know about you, but I loved this episode. I love Rachel's energy, I love Rachel's insights. I love the wisdom that the challenges of midlife have offered her. Yes, we all have challenges, but, yes, we can step up to the challenges and we can see new possibilities, as she so beautifully talked about. And, oh my gosh, the platform that she's created to inspire women in midlife, to help us navigate menopause, to feel much more empowered. Well, that's all about our theme betting on ourselves. Everything she's talking about is this idea of what can happen when we learn to bet on ourselves, and I hope that if you loved this episode, you'll do me a favor and share it with a woman or two or 10. Share it with the women in your life that are looking for this kind of inspiration, that need a little kickstart to keep going and seeing new possibilities. Rachel's story gets truly to the heart of that. And speaking of new possibilities, I mentioned on the front end of the episode that at the end, I'd share more about my free gift for you 100 Ways to Reinvent Yourself in Midlife. I've got all the details in the show notes. Tap or click and you can easily access it, but literally it is ideas to jumpstart your reinvention, because there's no reason why we have to do it all alone. We can do it together. And as a midlife reinvention architect, it is my joy to help you get a kickstart and begin thinking about reinvention for yourself. 

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And before we go, one last thing I want to tell you about a podcast that you are going to love. You know I'm all about sharing podcasts I love and I'm listening to, and one of them is my friend Yvonne Marchese's podcast, late Bloomer Living. Did you ever feel like it was too late to do something, too late to reinvent or reimagine your life or find a new path? Well, it is not. So many of us are getting started in our 40s, our 50s, our 60s, our 70s, even in our 80s. There is no limit on what we can do and you'll love the stories that Yvonne shares. You'll love the insights that Yvonne shares. You'll love the insights and the women she interviews, because it's all about those possibilities. So this podcast, late bloomer living, is so aligned with reinvention rebels, more ideas to inspire you. You'll find the details in the show notes. Let's get listening. Allbels, it was so awesome to have you join me today. Until next time, keep shining your light. The world needs you and all that you have to offer.