Too Late to Reinvent? Sheila Agnew Proves You Wrong at 74!

What if your boldest chapter begins after 65?

At a time when many people are winding down, Sheila Agnew chose to bet on herself and step into an entirely new path — becoming a personal trainer at 65 and inspiring older adults to embrace strength, confidence, and possibility.

Now, at 74, Sheila is thriving! She's living proof that it’s never too late to dream bigger, start fresh, and shine brighter. But her story isn’t just about fitness. It’s about faith, resilience, and the quiet power of small steps that lead to extraordinary transformation.

In this conversation, Sheila shares how a chance encounter at a local gym led her to uncover a passion for helping older adults reach their fitness goals, why she believes in starting small, and how even life’s hardest moments — including a battle with early-stage breast cancer — became opportunities for growth, purpose, and deeper joy.

If you’ve ever thought it’s “too late” to make a change, this episode will challenge that belief and ignite your own possibilities.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✨ Reinvention at Any Age – How Sheila reinvented herself at 65 and became a thriving personal trainer
💡 A Spark of Opportunity – The surprising moment that led her to this bold new path
🌱 Start Small, Grow Big – Why starting small can lead to big, lasting change
🙏 Faith & Resilience – How self-belief and community fueled her strength during breast cancer
💖 Serving Through Your Gifts – The power of inspiring and uplifting others
🌟 Thriving at 74 – Why Sheila proves that 74 can be just the beginning

Connect with Sheila:

Instagram: @sheilafitfiftyplus
YouTube: @sheilafitfiftyplus
TikTok: @sheilafit50plus

Resources & Links Mentioned in This Episode

🎧 Start Your Own Reinvention Journey – My audio course, Midlife Reinvention from the Inside Out: 8 Essentials to Greenlight Your Life, will guide you step by step to create a life you love.
👉 Learn more here

🌐 Listen to More Episodes – Get inspired by other incredible midlife reinvention stories at ReinventionRebels.com

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.

Chapters

• 0:00 Reinvention Rebels Podcast
• 5:52 The Power of Self-Belief and Reinvention
• 22:45 Overcoming Adversity With Faith and Mindset
• 29:23 Freedom in Reinvention at Any Age
• 42:06 Empathy & Support for Dementia Caregivers

Transcript

00:00 - Sheila Agnew (Guest)
Reinvention, to me, is something that I believe in. I believe that everyone should keep turning those wheels. As long as wheels keep going, you stay on your path and do the things. Eventually, when you get to my age, you do the things that you enjoy and the things that make you happy. 

00:30 - 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. Welcome back to the Reinvention Rebels podcast, where we celebrate bold women who are reinventing themselves in the most unapologetic ways, especially in midlife and beyond. This season, we're diving into stories of women who have bet on themselves despite the doubts, the detours and the. Am I too old for this moments? And today's guest is living proof that reinvention doesn't come with an expiration date. And speaking of bold women and stepping into your own, I've created something to help guide your reinvention journey my audio course Midlife Reinvention from the Inside Out Eight Essentials to Greenlight your Life. It's a transformational tool for moving from stuck to purposeful, and I'll share more details about it at the end, so stay tuned. It's so aligned with our conversation today. 

02:19
Before I officially welcome Sheila on and share her bio, let me just say this. If you've ever thought is it too late for me, you're going to want to lean in. Sheila Agnew didn't just shift gears in midlife. She completely rewrote the playbook. At 65, she chose a path many would shy away from becoming a personal trainer and motivator for older adults. Now, as she approaches 74, she is still going strong and inspiring others to uncover their untapped potential. She is also a content creator, a motivator and a speaker. Sheila Agnew, welcome to the Re-Invention Rebels guest chair. 

03:23 - Sheila Agnew (Guest)
Thank you. Thank you, I'm glad to be here and I'm already 74. 

03:29 - Wendy Battles (Host)
I love it. I love it. I'm so excited you're here. You know, I'm going to just tell you, sheila, I have been admiring you from a distance, kind of fangirling you, for quite some time. I don't know how it is. I found you on Instagram, but I started following you and I just love what you share. I love your content, I love what you're up to. 

03:48
I love that you're someone who's older, doing amazing things where age just isn't an issue. You're just doing what you do and you know this season is all about what we all are doing to bet on ourselves and I know that looks a little different for each of us, but right learning how to trust that inner voice and to take action, to reinvent with purpose, and I feel like your story reflects that in such powerful ways. So I want to dive in and start by asking you a little bit about your reinvention journey. I know that at a time when many people are sometimes quote unquote winding down, they retire, they're like I'm going to take it easy for a while, you really took a different path. You have bet on yourself and really stepped into something new, this new path as a personal trainer. So I'm curious about even though I know that was a while ago, but what gave you the courage to believe you could do it at 65? 

04:53 - Sheila Agnew (Guest)
Well, I never stopped believing in myself and I never decided, okay, I'm going to let age slow me down. So when I do things, I think about age after I do them. I don't necessarily think about age like, okay, I'm too old, so it's not that I don't say sometimes I'm really too old for this, but usually I do it first and then I think about the age. But one of the things that motivates me is believing that you can. And if you believe in yourself, then that's the first step and then you can't be fearful. You have to have confidence. You have to have confidence and you have to have patience, because sometimes it takes a while to get to that step. But you do have to have that confidence and then you have to have faith. So, together with all of those things, that's the right mixture for whatever it is that you want to do. 

05:52
I did not think that I wanted to be a personal trainer at all. Never thought about it, never considered it. I just always felt good about working out for myself and I would encourage people, and some people would write me and some people would send me emails that I encouraged them. But mostly in the gym I always find a place that I want to work out at. And I did found a place and that place really was close to my home and I introduced a couple of my church members to the gym and one of the young trainers there saw me showing them a few things and me working out on my own and said you know, you would be good as a senior fitness trainer. And I'm like really, and he said yeah, and I'm like, oh, okay, but it wasn't just like that. 

06:42
It was that my life, some of the things that I was doing at that time I had just finished a project with over 40 females and then I had written also a book a few years prior to that about women over decided I looked it up and then the next thing, you know, I was getting certified as a personal trainer and I didn't think about at that time I was 65, 66 when I got certified I didn't think about anything like that, I just thought okay, well, and I went back to the gym where the guys suggested he was no longer there but they hired me to be their senior fitness specialist. 

07:26
So that's how I got into that and what I found is that there's a gap in training for older adults and a lot of people younger than some trainers were training, just training like they train everyone else, and really it is different unless you are a person who has really been working out and never stopped working out. You do need to enter into that arena a little different than other people, and I found out that my clients quickly gravitated to me because they felt that I understood them, because I've been going through some of the same things, I've had the same type of life experiences and things of that sort. And then I found out that people felt motivated and inspired enough to tell me all of their business and I motivated them to do things that were positive. 

08:18
So that's how I got into it, and now I'm in a different path because I'm a caregiver and I'm not able to be in the gym and train people like before, so I still do motivational and do fitness workouts online, along with all the other stuff I do. 

08:35 - Wendy Battles (Host)
I love it and it says so much to me, shayla, about the ability for us to pivot that, first of all, how it even started, that you happen to be going to the gym and it was nearby, so it was convenient. It was something that you just did. Someone said, oh my gosh, you'd be great at this. You considered it. So sometimes reinvention happens when we're living our lives and opportunities open up, but we don't always see them coming. But sometimes it's something significant that helps us make a shift. That helps not only ourselves, but also. 

09:09
So much of what you're saying is about being of service to others through this through not only just the physical part of training people, but like just the listening. 

09:20 - Sheila Agnew (Guest)
Right, right, and you know what, Throughout my life I've done things that I didn't think that I would do, but mostly in terms of my profession, I got into things that, ok, I didn't want to be a well, I always wanted to be an entrepreneur, but I never knew that I would go into the same the business that I would go into. So things happen in your life. Sometimes they're adversities and you have to be able to work through those adversities, and sometimes you could see your purpose in those adversities. So you don't always have to know, and sometimes we don't know our purpose. Everyone doesn't know their purpose. At the same time, some people I read one time Oprah says she knew hers at four years old. I didn't know anything. 

10:07 - Wendy Battles (Host)
Okay, I mean, she's an exceptional person. Right To know that I'm with you, girl. 

10:16 - Sheila Agnew (Guest)
Yeah, so reinvention to me is something that I believe in. I believe that everyone should keep turning those wheels. As long as wheels keep going, you stay on your path and do the things. Eventually, when you get to my age, you do the things that you enjoy and the things that make you happy. 

10:37 - Wendy Battles (Host)
I think that's so important doing things that light us up, whatever they are, and we each have those things, those things that get us excited and motivate us. It's different for each of us, but I think you're so right that our purpose can unfold at any age, and it doesn't matter whether you're in your 30s or 40s, et cetera. Retired people in their 80s and 90s are reinventing themselves and going back to school, etc. So the only limit is sometimes the limit we put on ourselves, because one of the things you said at the beginning is like it's all about self-belief. You have to believe you can do whatever it is, and also, I always think it doesn't have to be something huge like reinventing ourselves could be reinventing our bodies in some ways, like working out it could be moving somewhere, but it doesn't have to be this thing that feels like it's so big, right, yeah. 

11:31 - Sheila Agnew (Guest)
This huge thing. No, it could be just something small. And that's what we get confused about is that we think that we have to do something big, Even with working out. I tell people to start small. What you see online and social media is not that's a lot. Some of that is entertainment, and those are people who may have been doing that all their lives, or they're training two, three, four hours a day and things of that sort. But look at your own self. Look at your body. There's something about your body that you like. You may not have seen it in a long time. Go back to where you start, start and then you keep moving up in levels and you'd be surprised at how successful you will be if you start smart. 

12:23 - Wendy Battles (Host)
Yeah, and I really think that is so spot on. I know that one of the challenges for some of us, because you are all about self-belief. You are very motivated, you can see possibilities, you're open to trying things, even though you don't always know how they're going to work out. So you're curious. But of course, not everyone necessarily feels that way. Sometimes they feel like they're kind of held back because they're not sure if their gifts even matter or if they can even identify what some of those things are. What helped you recognize that your talents weren't just something for you, but something of value that could help others thrive? So this idea of self belief that you talked about, you have such a strong feeling of that. But how did you develop that self belief muscle? 

13:12 - Sheila Agnew (Guest)
Probably came naturally because of my personality. But I tell you, I have this thing where everyone doesn't have to know that you're going through things or everyone doesn't have to know that you're not having a good day. And yesterday I thought you know, I'm really tired of social media because you try to get this place, you try to go that place, you don't work that place, you work that place. And I walked in this grocery store and the cashier at that area kept looking at me and she smiled and I smiled and we nodded at each other. So when I went up to the counter, she said I know, I know you from somewhere. She said is it TV? And I'm like, thank you, but probably not, even though I do do some things in that area. But I said oh no, probably not. So we thought it was church, we thought it was a fitness jam. Then I finally said I said do you do social media? And she said yeah. I said well, maybe that might. And I told her what my hashtag was. She was 50 plus. She said that's it. That's where I know you from. She said I am so motivated by you, I am so inspired by you and I followed you in that and that really, when I left out that store, she even walked me actually to the door and I walked out the store and I had a different perspective of what I was thinking before I went in the store. 

14:44
And I say that to say that people have always motivated me. If I see that people are happy with something that I'm doing for them, or happy about something I did or motivated or inspired me, that inspired me, that inspires me to move to a different level, to move up, to change my mind, to change my perspective. So I'm really inspired by people and part of that is the spiritual part of myself. People can see your light, you know, and I always tell people, always let your light shine. And so I think it's the fact that I'm motivated because people are motivated and inspired by me, that I'm motivated because people are motivated and inspired by me. That's the thing that helps me the most, because I am that kind of leader. I'm a leader that inspires and motivates people. 

15:35 - Wendy Battles (Host)
Yes, you do. As someone who's watched you, yes, you do. I really believe that. And I think it's really helpful to hear this kind of thing sometimes, because, to your point, we can sometimes wonder, like, does this even matter? Like am I even making a difference? Right, we do, we put in a lot of effort, but just hearing something like that, when you meet someone who's watched you and said, I follow you and you inspire me and you encourage me to go to the gym and to be my best self, to me that makes all of it worth it, all the effort we put in, when sometimes we're like, you know, sometimes we can believe in ourselves, but sometimes we have those days where, like, self-doubt slips in, and I love those little reminders that I think are so impactful. 

16:22 - Sheila Agnew (Guest)
People are watching you. Even though you may not know, people are watching you. So I always encourage people. Don't give up. You know I wasn't going to give up. It's just sometimes that you just feel you have, I'm overwhelmed. I'm doing this, yes, and you're overwhelmed and you try to. There are some things that I probably will step back on, but the thing is is that you have to know when to say when for yourself, when to move forward, when to step back and when to stop. There are times when you have to do all three and you have to take that deep breath. And for me, I may not do as much workout on social media as I've done before, but it's a lot of people doing workouts, right, but it's not a lot of 74-year-olds that do a variety of things, even though people are coming out, and when I first got on social media, it wasn't as many, but COVID brought people out. 

17:20
I love it. You know, I love it. People are talking about gray hair. They weren't really talking about gray hair before that, but it's a conversation I just told a group of seniors presentation I did last week. I'm like we're hot now. We have to take advantage. People are seeing us and seeing us and other things besides medical commercials, which I've done my fair share. But we're in movies and TVs and even your actresses are coming out with the great and actors and actresses coming out with the great. So you're hot now, so take advantage of that and do things your passion, live your passion. What have you wanted to do and you've never done before? 

18:06 - Wendy Battles (Host)
You're hot now. You know, girl, that's like a line. I love it and it's so true. 

18:14 - Sheila Agnew (Guest)
Keep that fire going, because we do need that attention, not just from a physical perspective, but we need that attention because, for a lifestyle, we want to live a quality of life, and you can't do that without your health, and you can't do that without your housing, and you can't do that without your finance. So there's a whole spectrum of things that we need to be able to deal with. But if some things get you to move to that level, then okay, because it's not just about our health and our fitness, it's about our health. 

18:50 - Wendy Battles (Host)
We still want to look good, but you also want to feel good, exactly, and I mean we can all look good but be broken down inside or not as healthy as we could be. And, just like you, I'm very, very focused on this idea of longevity, living my best life, truly being healthy, because these days we live longer and have access to often excellent healthcare that can help us. But we have to do our part too, and that's so key because if I'm by myself when I'm 85, I want to be able to be independent. 

19:29 - Sheila Agnew (Guest)
Right, and that is the one thing that most older people want to be independent. But we have to look at the. With the present system, the health care may not be available for everyone. It's not available for everyone now, and so those are some of the things we have socially. We have a social responsibility to help other people as well. So there are so many things that we could do as we age within our community, within ourselves, within the world. You look at the world, look at older women and men are out doing things, but there's so many things that we can do as we age. That's why it's important that we stay out here, we stay visible and you keep living your passion 100%. 

20:17 - Wendy Battles (Host)
We need to just keep shining the way that we are, or start, if you feel like if people are listening, they're thinking. You know, I'm so inspired by Sheila and what she's doing. I want to find a way to have my own unique path, whatever that is, as I reinvent myself. But it also brings up for me something that you kind of alluded to before, which is that sometimes we have setbacks or we have detours, and sometimes those things can throw us off track. We feel like we're making such good progress in whatever that thing is that we're doing, and sometimes those things can throw us off track. We feel like we're making such good progress in whatever that thing is that we're doing, and then something happens, and you know how it is these days. 

20:52
It could be anything from we become caregivers and we didn't see that. You know, something happens or something shifts in our work life and we don't have a job anymore. I mean, it could be. You know any of those things. So I'm really interested in your mindset about overcoming obstacles. What have you done in the past when you've been faced with a difficult situation, whether it was about reinvention or something else and you had to quote unquote course correct? How did you sort of find that inside to be able to do that successfully? 

21:27 - Sheila Agnew (Guest)
did you sort of find that inside to be able to do that successfully? Well, that's a great question, and thank you for asking. About a year after I became certified as a personal trainer, I was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer and I can say that no one wants to hear the word cancer. Say that no one wants to hear the word cancer. But cancer does not have a zip code and cancer does not have a celebrity status. They will go anywhere, they don't care. Cancer just rolls around, and so you think that you're healthy, you think that everything you're doing is right, but along comes cancer. So how did I handle that? How did I handle that? 

22:10
And that's important because, like I said, it's a word that no one wants to hear. But I was fortunate that I had a lot of background with health fairs and I produced a lot of programs regarding health and fitness and all aspects of living, and so I knew I had friends that survived as a result of cancer. I had friends that survived. I had all of those things. So I had a lot of knowledge and that was a blessing, because I was able to hear that word and know that cancer was not going to define me. So the first thing I want to know. I said, ok, god, so what do you want me to do? And that's the first person I always go to, and that adversity. So, god, what do you want me to do? And so I handled that in the way that I felt was good for me. I handled it with prayer, I did everything I was supposed to do, I had made the decisions, I went and talked to the doctor, I determined what I wanted to do, what was best for me, and I didn't really dwell on the cancer. I thought about getting better. Okay, I tried to keep my mind out for the diagnosis and keep my mind on moving forward past the diagnosis, and so that worked for me. That may not work for everyone, but that's the way I handle adversities, even with now being a caregiver for my mom. That's something that most people don't really they're not prepared for, really Most people are not, because you don't know what level. For instance, 12 years ago I was a caregiver, along with my sisters, for my dad, and it's totally different for my mom. It's two different things, because my dad was more please, you all just do help me. Thank you, and he let you along. My mom is like this is you know, and so it's a different thing. So, going back to my breast cancer, I did have a lung. I had early stage breast cancer. I did have a lungectomy. I decided to do radiation. I think I did it for 35, 36 days straight and I went into that with a positive mindset. In getting radiation I said, okay, I'm going to get this, because I heard it burned and then so I had all kinds of stuff, didn't wind up using half of that stuff. So each person is different. And in the radiology, the technicians I showed them how to help people get off the floor if they fall and everything. So they really kind of liked me coming there because they were motivated by the fact that I didn't have to go through a lot of changes, get up off the bed and all those. And I said now, this is how we got on the conversation. I said this is how you show people how to get off the floor and things of that sort. So I still had that positive attitude. So you never know, but I pray to God that I could always keep that attitude, no matter what I might have. 

25:27
So I work it every day, trying to stay healthy, and I went back to my routine and I did not. For a couple of months I did not work in the gym, but when I went back my clients were. They were super, even while I was going through it. They would call me see, I was doing everything. But I went back to it and all but one client came back to it. So you know, I started out and I never told them I was going for radiation. I just went to the gym, worked out, went to radiation, and so that's me. 

25:57
But for people who may not be there. And then, like I said, there are people I see it all the time on social media they're going for chemo and they're fighting for their lives and everything. But I see such bravery out there. I see so much of people going through a lot more than I went through, but yet they're still shining. And so the best way to handle those adversities was prayer and to treat it like it's not going to take me out of here. Don't let it define me, and as hard as that may be, it is possible. And so we don't know from day to day what we're going to do or where we're going to be or what we're going to get. It goes for high blood pressure and diabetes and all of those things. Those are things that can be controlled and, in some cases, can be reversed. So we have to think about how we care for ourselves, and that's going to be important, because you can't do anything for anything. What can you do without your health? 

27:02 - Wendy Battles (Host)
Exactly, that's everything. That's everything, and I appreciate what you said. The two key things for you are faith leaning into your faith, which we can do, whether it's a health issue or any other issue that we run into, whatever that means for you and also mindset. You gave such a great example of the mindset you had to approach cancer and your treatment. Mindset you had to approach cancer and your treatment, and I feel like that's half the battle If we believe it's possible, if we see possibilities, even if we don't always have a great mindset, if we can have go-to people right. 

27:37
Not every day is a great day for any of us, but we also have the people we trust that can be part of our tribe or our squad that can help us. So I think we can also leverage that mindset by kind of looking at other resources that can be part of our tribe or our squad that can help us. So I think we can also leverage that mindset by kind of looking at other resources that can help us when we feel stuck. So I appreciate how you think about that and overcoming obstacles, and I think that is so important to us being able to move forward with whatever challenge we might face. It does make me think. Since you are, you know you you're 74, you're doing amazing things. You're out speaking and acting and working out and doing all the many different things that you do, I'm curious about what's next for you, sheila. I don't know which, is so true, right? 

28:33 - Sheila Agnew (Guest)
That's the beauty of life. You know what? I don't have a five-year plan, I'm just living life, you know. And I, you know, even now, the part for me what's so important to me is family. You know my husband. For me, what's so important to me is family. You know my husband, daughter, I have a blended family, I have stepdaughters and sons and I have grandchildren, and those are the things that bring me joy. And so any other thing, when it comes, is great. You know, I'm just going to ride with the flow and I'm not concerned about a five year plan, I'm just concerned about living life and longevity and I'm concerned about the quality of life and as long as I can stay in that mindset. 

29:18
Because you talked about mindset, it's important to have a healthy mindset. And and how care for ourselves? And people say self-care, absolutely. So all of that is important. Self-care, all of that is important in developing a healthy mindset. So I get people all the time that say, well, I want my mom to talk to you or whatever, I want to be like you when I get your age. No, you don't, you want to be like you, so don't wait until you get my age, start now, and that's the way you are able to have longevity and a quality of life. 

30:00 - Wendy Battles (Host)
So start now. 

30:01 - Sheila Agnew (Guest)
Don't wait till you get to my age. You could tell your mom about it, but you too. 

30:07 - Wendy Battles (Host)
Yeah, I think that that is really so key that we all have our own path and right, not everything is going to look like what you've done. You've charted this course, but I also like how you said well, I'm going to just see what unfolds, and there's a freedom in not having to have all the answers or no, but just knowing what is most important your family, your faith, being healthy, having longevity, and then everything else flows from that. 

30:35 - Sheila Agnew (Guest)
Right. And you know, for me being 74, it's easy to say that because I don't think I'll ever retire or anything. I just moved to the next level. But for someone younger I would say have a direction, have a path, know what your passion is and go for it. And, like I said, my me being 74, is a little easier to say. You know, hey, have that plan, decide that you're going to do it. 

31:06
My mom, I asked her my mom is 96 in July and I asked her one time I was writing a book and I asked my mom what made education important to you and she said that when she got an AA degree, her mom, who had not finished high school, was so excited. She was like, so excited and she said, if mom could be that excited then I could go ahead on and get something else. You know, and after we I have three sisters, after we left home my mom got two bachelor's, two master's, and the second one was at 76. And she was headed for a PhD. And then my dad got sick, you know, and my mom stopped teaching. That she had two careers. The second one was a special ed teacher. She stopped teaching at 81. 

32:03
Amazing, so you can do you know we were, we were out of the house and my mom I think she might've started school, but she's finished two degrees and two masters. After we left and and part of that was a second part of that part was her second degree she left as a postmaster for the post office and then she started teaching at special ed. But special ed wasn't initially what she was going, she was just going for education. But she got close to the kids in some of her sub classes and then wind up. That was what she did for 15 years. So you don't have to stop. Amazing. 

32:47 - Wendy Battles (Host)
I can see the legacy. I see the legacy right that she's provided for you, oh yeah. 

32:54 - Sheila Agnew (Guest)
You know, you can't, I can't deny that my mom has been a great inspiration to us, to the two grandchildren as well, you know. 

33:07 - Wendy Battles (Host)
I absolutely love this. That is a family affair, that this idea that, you know, age is just a number and we can do anything, and it's all about our mindset and why not? And we can even, you know, start from what might feel like square one at any age and make forward progress, right. 

33:29 - Sheila Agnew (Guest)
And people, my grandchildren, they're funny. They say, yeah, that's my gammy. 

33:36 - Wendy Battles (Host)
I love it. That's my gammy. I love it. 

33:39 - Sheila Agnew (Guest)
You're just doing your thing I did the waterfall in Costa Rica in January, walked across the plank with 200 feet in the air and all of that. And I don't always think that about stuff before. Like I said before, I do it. But when I got home I was showing the pictures to someone, to, as a matter of fact, a massage therapist that I was going to, and she said you know what? She said that was a little bit more than you doing. That she said that was spiritual and we started talking about it and I said you know what? I didn't think about it in that way. But when we talked about climbing and the mud baths and the stink, getting in the hot spring and all of that with no inhibitions, no, oh, I shouldn't be doing this. This is crazy. Until I got back, I was like that was really crazy. Come on, y'all, let's go. 

34:40
But she talked about the spiritual. So that spirituality part of it has a lot to do with your motivation, your inspiration, and don't be crazy, Do things that you're limited, but don't be fearful at all either. So I'm not going to jump out of the airplane, but some people may. That's a goal that I know people that that's their goal and that I know people who have done it. I have friends that one of my friends she's a bodybuilder. She said she was gone when she played second in a big Las Vegas challenge. She played second. The first person was 30 something and she's 60 something. So you know, do your thing, Do your thing, Do your thing. That that you ep. 

35:24 - Wendy Battles (Host)
So you know do your thing, do you think do your thing? That that you epitomize doing your thing and I absolutely love it. I know, sheila, as we're wrapping up, that people were listening, are saying work. I find Sheila. How can I follow Sheila? How can I get more of this inspiration and her ideas about the endless possibilities of reinvention? Where are you? Where are you on the socials? How can people follow you Everywhere? I love it Everywhere, okay. 

35:54 - Sheila Agnew (Guest)
I'm on Instagram at Sheila's Fit 50, f-i-f-t-y plus YouTube Sheila's Fit 50 plus with the five O. Tiktok. Sheila's Fit 50 Plus with the 5-0. Tiktok, sheila's Fit 50 Plus. And I'm on Facebook. I have a Facebook page Sheila's Fit 50, 5-0 Plus. So pretty much those are the areas. I do have a website, sheilaagnew com. You can contact me on any of that. 

36:26 - Wendy Battles (Host)
Fabulous and that is all in the show notes. If you're listening right now, you can tap or you can click if you're listening on your computer and find Sheila with ease. Instantly, you want to follow this woman. She is amazing as someone who follows her and loving her content. It's just the inspiration. We need the motivation, we need the reminder. Sometimes we need that reminder. 

36:51 - Sheila Agnew (Guest)
Yeah, and I want to encourage you, wendy, because I think what you're doing is really great, because reinvention is the same as elevation. You're elevating yourself to another level, you're elevating yourself to something different, and it's okay to be different. It's okay to go beyond your everyday routine and you're showing people that you can do it, and I appreciate it. I've seen some of your videos prior to this and I think that what you're doing is great, so I want to encourage you to keep going and move. Move with the spirit girl. 

37:31 - Wendy Battles (Host)
Thank you, thank you girl, thank you, and this was wonderful. Thank you so much for joining me, for sharing with my Reinvention Rebels audience, for really reminding us that all of these things are within us and we can tap into this wealth of purpose and possibility and use spirit as appropriate to help guide us in uncovering our own brilliance and that bigger purpose that you talk about. That can show up at any age, and I just adore what you're doing. So thank you so much for gracing us today with your beautiful presence. 

38:21 - Sheila Agnew (Guest)
Thank you so much and I appreciate you and I appreciate your audience, thank you. Thank you so much and I appreciate you and I appreciate your audience, thank you. 

38:28 - Wendy Battles (Host)
Thank you. I loved this conversation, sheila. Thank you so much for showing us what's possible when we bet on ourselves, especially when we embrace reinvention as a lifelong journey, not just a one-time event. Your story is bold, uplifting and, oh my gosh, it's a gift to be in conversation and soak up your wisdom. If this conversation inspired you, rebels, the way it did for me, and you're ready to take the next step on your own reinvention journey, be sure to check out my audio course Midlife Reinvention from the Inside Out Eight Essentials to Greenlight your Life. It's me in your earbuds and it's designed to help you build momentum, confidence and clarity around what's next, Because, can I be honest, there are so many possibilities for you to bet on yourself in midlife and beyond in new ways that maybe you haven't even imagined yet. You'll find the link in the show notes. I encourage you to check it out and if you enjoyed today's episode, I'd love it if 1 you would forward this to a friend, a colleague, a sister, an auntie, anyone in your life, any women especially that you know are ready to hear Sheila's inspiration. And if you really loved it, I invite you to leave a rating or review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, because it's the best way to help more midlife women discover these empowering stories. And one more thing as we wrap up the show for today, as you navigate your own journey of reinvention, as we are all doing, I want to recommend a resource that can be helpful, and it's a podcast about strength and compassion in the face of life's biggest challenges. 

40:51
My friend, jennifer Fink, hosts Fading Memories. It's a show dedicated to caregivers of loved ones with dementia and unfortunately, it seems like we all know too many people our friends, our colleagues whose parents or someone they love has dementia. Jennifer's own experience balancing her career and caregiving gives her a unique perspective, and she offers us timely insights on everything from managing stress to grief, to how do we communicate effectively around all of this. Jennifer's work is a powerful reminder that caring for others and caring for ourselves they go hand in hand. If you or someone you know is on this path, fading Memories is an amazing resource filled with empathy and practical advice, and, of course, you can find it anywhere you listen to podcasts. All right, rebels, I'm wrapping up this episode for good this time, and I am so thrilled you were here. Until next time, keep shining your light. The world needs you and all that you have to offer.