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School of Midlife
This is the podcast for high-achieving women in midlife who want to make midlife their best life.
Women who have worked their entire lives, whether that’s in a traditional career or as the CEO of their household, or for many women, both. And they look around at their life in midlife, and think “I’ve worked my ass off for this?”
They have everything they always thought they ever wanted, but for some reason, it feels like something is missing.
This is the podcast for midlife women who are experiencing all sorts of physical changes in their bodies, while navigating changes in every other part of their lives, too: friendships, family life, work life.
This is the podcast for midlife women who find themselves wide-awake at 2.00am, asking themselves big questions like “what do I want?” “is it too late for me?”, and “what’s my legacy beyond my family and my work?”
Each week, we’re answering these questions and more at the School of Midlife.
When it comes to midlife, there are a lot of people talking about menopause and having a midlife crisis. This isn’t one of those podcasts. While we may occasionally talk about the menopausal transition, but that’s not our focus. Because we believe that midlife is so much more than menopause. And it’s certainly not a crisis.
At the School of Midlife, we’re looking to make midlife our best life.
School of Midlife
160. The Life You Have vs. The Life You Want
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The moment midlife asks more of you, and the trust and fear issues that may be holding you back.
Midlife doesn’t usually announce itself with a crisis.
More often, it shows up quietly — as restlessness, hesitation, or the sense that the life you’ve built no longer fits the way it used to.
In this special episode of the School of Midlife Podcast, host Laurie Reynoldson is sharing a live recording from the final day of a recent masterclass — a conversation about trust, fear, and the moment midlife asks us to choose differently.
Not because something is wrong.
But because something more is possible.
In this episode, we explore:
- Why hesitation in midlife is often a trust issue, not a clarity issue
- The three fears that keep high-achieving women stuck:
- fear of judgment (What will they think of me?)
- fear of failure (What if I’m not good enough?)
- fear of success (What if I actually do the thing?)
- Why waiting is still a decision — and how default choices quietly shape our lives
- How identity shifts in midlife impact our decisions, relationships, and sense of self
- The ripple effects of choosing yourself — in your marriage, your family, and the legacy you’re modeling for your children
- Why regret doesn’t come from trying and failing — but from never trying at all
This is not a conversation about blowing up your life or starting over.
It’s about learning how to stop overthinking, trust yourself again, and make intentional choices aligned with who you are now — not who you were ten or twenty years ago.
If you’ve been feeling stuck between the life you have and the life you want, this episode is an invitation to pause, reflect, and ask an honest question:
What would it look like to choose differently — on purpose?
Want to Go Deeper?
The BEST LIFE Lab is a guided coaching experience for high-achieving midlife women who are ready to stop waiting and start choosing their lives intentionally — with clarity, support, and self-trust.
You can learn more here.
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