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Message in the Middle: Midlife Women, Reinvention & Personal Growth
Message in the Middle is a podcast for women navigating the challenges, transitions, and reinventions that often come with midlife.
Hosted by Marianne DeMello-Smith, each episode explores the messy, meaningful moments that shape who we become. Through honest conversations with experts, authors, thought leaders, and everyday women, you'll discover practical insights, inspiring stories, and new perspectives on what it means to grow through life's most difficult seasons.
Whether you're facing a career change, caregiving responsibilities, health challenges, grief, relationship shifts, menopause, identity changes, or simply wondering what's next, Message in the Middle offers encouragement, wisdom, and real-world strategies to help you move forward with greater confidence and purpose.
Together, we'll explore resilience, personal growth, self-discovery, emotional well-being, and the power of turning life's messes into meaningful midlife messages.
Because midlife isn't the end of your story. It may just be the beginning of your next chapter.
Message in the Middle: Midlife Women, Reinvention & Personal Growth
Retirement, Reinvention, and the Search for Purpose with George Jerjian
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Retirement is something many of us prepare for financially, but few of us prepare for emotionally. What happens when the career that shaped your identity, routines, and sense of purpose suddenly disappears? And how do you rediscover yourself when the role you carried for decades is no longer there?
In this episode, Marianne sits down with George Jerjian, an Emmy Award-winning producer, author, and retirement mindset mentor who helps people navigate the emotional and psychological side of retirement and reinvention. After a life-threatening diagnosis at 52 forced him to confront the fragility of life and the possibility of stepping away from his career, George began exploring the deeper identity shifts that often come with retirement.
Together, they talk about grief, purpose, aging, societal expectations, and the outdated beliefs that can keep people stuck in later life. George also shares insights from studying more than 21,000 retirees around the world and explains why retirement is not about slowing down, but about creating meaning, clarity, and possibility in a new season of life.
If you’ve been questioning what comes next, feeling the pull toward reinvention, or wondering who you are beyond productivity and achievement, this conversation will resonate deeply.
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