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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
168. The Missing Link to Your Best Life: Why You Must Claim What You Only Dared to Want
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Claiming what you want in midlife
Have you ever felt like you’re an "Olympic level performer" at checking boxes and meeting everyone else’s expectations, yet still feel deeply restless? In this episode, Laurie Reynoldson explores a powerful "intuitive nudge" that changed the trajectory of her week: the necessity of claiming what you want in midlife.
Laurie unpacks why high-achieving women often feel guilty or "selfish" for wanting more than the successful lives they’ve already built. She argues that midlife isn't the time to burn your life to the ground, but rather the time to stop outsourcing your happiness to other people's expectations and start making micro-moves toward a life that actually feels like you.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- Claiming vs. Wanting: Why "wanting" is passive, while "claiming" is an intentional act of ownership that plants a flag for your future.
- The Permission Slip: Why you are allowed to change your mind and desire different things in your 40s, 50s, or 60s than you did in your 20s.
- The Power of the "Morning 5-10-5": How writing down your dreams as if they’ve already happened can trigger your subconscious to start creating a new reality.
- Three Steps to Build Your "Claim It" Muscle: Practical strategies for getting still, speaking your desires out loud, and stopping the endless wait for external validation.
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