175. Fewer Years Ahead Than Behind: A Radical Wake-Up Call for High-Achieving Women

Time to do something just for you.

When is the last time you made a decision, chose a direction, or said "yes" to something that was entirely, completely just for you? Not for your family, not for your career advancement, and not because it fulfilled a decades-old obligation—but purely for yourself? 

In this powerful episode, host Laurie Reynoldson challenges high-achieving women to step off the hamster wheel of external validation and confront a heavy midlife reality. If your life looks completely perfect on paper, yet you are still quietly asking, "Is this it?", Laurie reframes this unsettling question not as a crisis, but as a sign that you are finally paying attention. 

This episode marks the official opening of applications for the Best Life Mastermind, a carefully crafted nine-month experience designed to help you stop performing, start living as one unified woman, and figure out what's next for you.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• The High-Achiever’s Blindspot: How we unconsciously tie our self-worth to childhood patterns of performance and external approval. 
• The "One Identity" Philosophy: Why trying to shape-shift into different people for your career, family, and community leads to bone-deep burnout. 
• The Nine-Month Metaphor: Why real personal transformation cannot happen in a 30-day sprint or a 90-day quarter, and why it takes nine months to "birth" a completely new version of yourself. 
• The Power of Group Hot Seats: Why listening to other accomplished women untangle their roadblocks serves as your ultimate personal board of directors. 
• Bypassing the No. 1 Deathbed Regret: Confronting the reality that there are fewer years ahead than behind, and how to find the courage to live a life true to yourself right now. 

The Big Takeaway: Stop waiting for a "perfect time" or postponing your life until retirement or an empty nest. We are no longer relegating the most important work of our lives to left-over weekend hours or late nights after everyone else is asleep. 

Inside the Best Life Mastermind Container

Applications are officially open for the founding cohort launching this September. This premium, intimate nine-month personal leadership experience is capped at just 10 women. 

• Two Mid-Week Luxury Retreats: Immersive, all-inclusive, high-end intensives running Tuesday through Friday so you don't sacrifice your weekends. 
  • Sun Valley, Idaho (September): Focused on identity and core vision casting. 
  • Civana Wellness Resort & Spa, Arizona (February): Diving into boundaries, limiting beliefs, and roadblocks. 
• Monthly Personal Leadership Calls: Two hours of real-time Q&A, group alignment, and dedicated deep-dive hot-seat coaching. 
• A Private, Off-Social-Media Hub: A distraction-free, algorithm-free community platform built for genuine support and connection away from the digital noise. 

Ready to claim your spot? Founding cohort members receive the highest level of direct access to Laurie at the lowest investment level the program will ever offer. 

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Welcome to the School of Midlife podcast. I'm your host, Laurie Reynoldson. This is the podcast for the midlife woman who starting to ask herself big life 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, we're learning all of the life lessons they didn't teach us in school and we're figuring out finally what it is we want to be when we grow up. Let's make midlife your best life.

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Hey friends. Welcome back to another episode of the School of Midlife podcast. I'm your host, Laurie Reynoldson. Thank you so much for being here today. I wanna start today's episode a little differently than normal. I'm not going to open with a framework or a concept or idea that has been floating around in my mind or something I read or, or binge-watched on TV this week. Instead, I wanna ask you something. And when I ask you this question, I actually want you to sit with the answer a little bit, not just let it wash over you while you're doing the dishes or driving to work. I- listen, I understand that we all listen to podcasts in different places at different times of our day, so yeah, this might not be the best time to actually think about this question, but when you do have a moment, a spare couple minutes to just sit and think, I want you to think about this question. Here it is. When is the last time you did something, whether that's make a decision or choose a direction, maybe say yes to something, maybe say no to something, and you, you did that thing, you did something that was entirely, completely Just for you. Hmm, right? Something completely just for you. Not for your family, not for your career, not because it made sense on paper or because someone expected it of you or because you'd been working towards it for 20 or 30 years, But something just for you I'm guessing it's been a while, right? I think most of the women listening to this podcast right now are living some version of the same experience, where you've built something very impressive, something real. You worked hard for it, you're proud of it, and you should be. And I'm talking family, career. You've built an entire life that is impressive. And also, because two things can be true, somewhere along the way, and it may be hard to pinpoint exactly when, but you stopped asking what you wanted. You started optimizing, managing, producing, showing up for everyone else in your life, doing the thing that you should do or that was expected of you the next duty, obligation, responsibility, the next job, the next, whatever it You did that because you should do it, or it was expected of you, or someone else needed your help And so you did it. And then somewhere along the line, when, who knows You took a step back and looked at your perfect-on-paper life And started asking, Is this it? Is this really what I want the next 20 to 30 years of my life to look like?" Not because your life is bad. Not because your life doesn't look good to other people, not because you're not doing what you should be doing in life. But is this what you signed up for? Is this what you wanted in life? Is this what you expected to feel like at this point in your life? I'm asking because this is a question that I ask every coaching client at the beginning of our relationship. And invariably, across the board, when I ask, "When is the last time you did something for yourself?" There's this kind of pause, sort of a, a knowing laugh that they don't know when it was, and maybe it hasn't ever happened. Which leads me to what I wanna talk about today. When we start asking questions like, "Is this it? Is this what I want for the next 20 or 30 years of my life? Why do I feel like something's missing? Why can't I figure this out? Why can't I just be happy with everything I have?" That's not a sign that something is wrong with you They're a sign actually that something is finally right. And what I mean by that is you're finally paying attention. You're finally starting to ask, "Is the life I'm living actually working for me in the way that I need it to? Or is it just working for me because it's supposed to, that I'm just supposed to be happy with everything I have? I'm just gonna resign myself to the fact that I have a great life. I feel like something's missing, but I've got a great life, and why would I ever want to mess that up? I'm gonna settle for what I've got." That's what I wanna talk to you about today. Because when you're finally paying attention, probably for the first time in a long, long time, maybe for the first time ever, that's exactly when we realize that if we want to wake up 10 or 20 years from now and feel differently about the way that we've been living, we need to make some changes. And why would we wait 10 or 20 years to make that happen? We've only got so much time. Why would we spend our precious time waiting to feel differently? Doing exactly the same thing, but feeling differently about it. Okay, so with all of that background and this idea that maybe it has been a little while since you've done something just for yourself, I wanna talk to you about the Best Life Mastermind. And I know I have teased it a little bit on the podcast over the past probably three or four weeks. If you follow me on social, I've been talking a little bit about it there. But what is the Best Life Mastermind? Why does it matter to you? Why are we talking about it today? Because if it's been so long that you've done something in your life just for you, this is coming at a perfect time. I want you to really listen to what I'm talking about, and I want you to get yourself in the room. The Best Life Mastermind is something that has been years in the making. It is something I have wanted to do for a really long time now, but to be perfectly honest with you, I, I was really dragging my feet with it because most coaches in the online space, so in the virtual space where I've been hanging out for the past six years, they say that you have to have a digital product. You have to have something where Essentially, you can make money when, when you sleep. A course with prerecorded videos that your clients, your customers can just watch while you are sleeping and move through your programs that way. And I have tried that. I've tried that for five or six years to a modicum of success, a little bit. Honestly, I think I wasn't terribly successful at it because my heart wasn't in it. Like, you could tell from my energy. I I would get really excited about what I was doing when we were doing master classes because I was live with people, and I could have conversations with them, and I could answer questions in the chat. It was a two-way conversation. I love one-on-one coaching for the same reasons. It is a, it's a two-way conversation. It's not just me speaking into a camera that is recorded and then rolled out for you to watch whenever. I mean, don't get me wrong. There are very good things about digital products. I just don't think they're for me. And then of course, the retreats. I mean, the retreats, the Best Life Retreats that I've been hosting for six years, those are my most favorite part of what I get to do. Because I love the one-on-one aspect, but it's also I think that there's this misconception that one-on-one coaching is more valuable than group coaching. I think it's completely the opposite. My experience has been I get the biggest breakthroughs when I am in a group setting listening to other people be coached. Because while what they are experiencing isn't exactly what I am going through, I can relate it back to my life almost every single time. You're with other people. It's not just you and the coach. It's you and a collective I love it so much We're six years in to the School of Midlife business, and this is the first offer that I am finally doing my way. My way. I want to have an experience for women that is essentially an experience that I have always wanted to have. I have gone to a number of retreats myself. I've been in, uh, I, I'm not even gonna tell you how much money I've spent on coaching programs because it is, it's like a mortgage amount is how much I've spent on group programs. And every time I do them, every time I sign up for them, I'm like, "Oh, I would do this differently," or, "This works for a little bit, but it doesn't keep working." With that experience, I was like, "This is what I wanna do. This is how I would make it better." If you've ever gone to a Best Life Retreat, you know that I've taken every experience that I've had and was like, "Well, if I was gonna do it, I would do it this way." And women that come to the Best Life Retreats, they're like, That retreat changed my life. I am a different person leaving that retreat. I had an incredible experience. I didn't know anybody, but I I'll never forget my time with the women that I met there. They're very impactful, and it's because I created a space and experience that I wanted to have myself. And that's what we're doing with the Best Life Mastermind. It's a nine-month personal leadership experience For accomplished midlife women who are done waiting for the right time, they're ready to figure out what's next for them. That's what it is. I'm gonna go high level on what is included, what the experience looks like, and then we're gonna dive, we're gonna do a deeper dive into why I created it this way. There are two in-person luxury retreats. Remember how I said that I created the Best Life Retreats in a way that I was creating something that I would want to attend? Well, we're gonna have two of them. The first retreat is in Sun Valley, Idaho. It's one of my favorite places in the world. We're gonna do that in early September. And this is... This'll be the opening intensive. Four days of identity and vision work, answering questions like, who are you in this season of life? What do you actually want? This is where we do the foundational work that's gonna make everything else possible. The second retreat is at Civana Wellness Resort Spa in Carefree, Arizona, award-winning wellness resort. Beautiful. We're gonna do that in February. So that'll be our midyear intensive. And at that retreat, we're gonna focus on limiting beliefs, and boundaries, and roadblocks, and triggers, and the things that might get in your way of living your best life and becoming the person who you want to be, who lives a life that she actually wants. But w- we're gonna focus on the harder edges of transformation in that second intensive. And that's I will say that both of the retreats are great. The biggest, real, authentic breakthroughs really happen when we're talking about limiting beliefs and boundaries. So retreat two, I think, is gonna be an incredible, incredible experience. Both retreats are in the same model of the Best Life Retreats that I've been hosting for six years. So that means everything is included. Think about grown-up, all-inclusive, but not the kind that you go and there's watered-down drinks, and there's, like, buffet dinners. That's not it at all. We're talking gourmet food. We're talking beautiful accommodations. We're gonna go to the spa in the afternoon, so you get free spa treatments because self-care shouldn't be an afterthought. You shouldn't try and fit it in when everything else Like, after you've done your work. So by making that a part of each of the retreats, I'm hoping to underscore to you how important taking care of yourself is. So all the meals, all the drinks, the spa appointments, the accommodations, everything's included. The only thing that's not included is your travel to and from the retreats. Everything else taken care of. You want an extra glass of wine at dinner? No problem. You order an extra glass of wine. You want two desserts because you're not sure which one you want? Order two desserts, take a bite out of each. It's all included. Okay? So we've got two in-person retreats, and then we're gonna do monthly personal leadership coaching calls. I'm gonna talk a little bit more about personal leadership. I know I did an entire episode on that probably three weeks ago. I am totally on my soapbox about personal leadership development right now. I think that that is the one way in which the coaching industry has failed high-achieving women because They've required us to choose between executive coaching and life coaching as if we are two different people. As if we can compartmentalize our lives in that way, and we just can't. So we're gonna spend two hours every month on a coaching call. There will be Q&As. There's gonna be hot seat coaching. Every woman in the group will have at least two hot seats. Hot seats are when you have a question or an opportunity or an issue that you've been grappling with, and that can be career-related, it can be personal, life-related, it can be relationship-related. Uh, maybe you're struggling with having a conversation with your kid. Whatever it is, You bring the question to the group You give us a little bit of background, and then you sit back and you watch the group, which becomes your, essentially your personal board of directors. These are the women that you met at the retreat. They're your personal cheerleaders. They wanna see you succeed as well as, uh, probably more than you want to yourself. They're super invested in who you are and what you want because you told them at the retreat. But you just sit back and, and they give you all of the advice that you need, and it's, so, so good. So those calls will be recorded if you wanna go back and listen to them again, but the attendance is expected on them. Camera on. This is not a spectator sport. This is not we're gonna, you know, listen to a replay of a call that we didn't make time to attend. That's not what this is at all. This is camera on, you come ready to participate, you support the person who is bringing the hot seat issue. We're gonna do coaching. It's It will probably I mean, the retreats are pretty good, so I hate to say it'll become your most treasured part of the experience, but you will get to the point where you really look forward to having these monthly coaching calls. And then we're gonna have a private community which will be hosted off of social media because I don't know about you, but any time I have to log on to social media, oh, it's a lot, right? I mean, there's just so much noise and, and then you've got o- other people's perfectly curated lives, and then there's politics and the algorithm. And whoof, it's, it's a lot. So instead of having to get on Facebook and go to a group page or something like that, we're gonna have a private community which is hosted off of social media. Real conversations, real support, real accountability. Again, you've got a question, you bring it to the group, you pose it, you get your answer, you're on to your life without getting stuck in the social media rabbit hole. I am so excited about how this is coming together. It just, it makes such good sense to me. We're gonna dive into the why it is nine months, why I have planned it the way that it is planned, but I wanted to give you high level idea of what's Best Life Mastermind and why should you care. Quick pause here because I wanna make sure you know the applications for The Best Life Mastermind are open right now, like today. If anything you've heard so far is resonating, if you're the woman I've been describing, I don't want you to wait until the episode to take action. The link to apply is in the show notes. The application takes about 5 to 10 minutes. No polish is required, just honesty. There are only 10 spots in this first cohort, and as the founding cohort, you're getting this at the lowest investment it will ever be. If you have any questions before you apply, there's a link to book a quick 15-minute call with me. I'd love to talk to you. Let's get back to the episode. Okay, so with that overview, I wanna answer just some questions that have come in, and these questions mostly came from the women on the wait list. I'm grateful that they submitted the questions, because then that gives me the opportunity to answer them for everyone else. Biggest question is why, why nine months? You know, most, most of these coaching programs you see, they are 30 days. Some of them are a quarter. I get that. Here's why we're not doing something for 30 days. Here's why we're not doing something for a quarter. Here's why we're not just doing one retreat. A weekend, 30 days, even an entire 90-day quarter, it's not enough to undo decades of habits and beliefs and ways that we have been showing up in our life for the last four or five decades, right? I mean, we can have a pretty impactful experience one weekend at a Best Life Retreat, but you need time and support to practice when you get back home, when life starts life-ing, when you are heading in a direction that you wanna be going and you stumble, or you need a course correction. Nine months is how long real transformation takes. Think about it. Nine months is literally long enough to birth something completely new. Some of us have literally birthed children in nine months. Think about this as bringing to life you 3.0. That's what you can do in nine months. Why do we do two retreats? Well, you cannot do this work from your kitchen table or between meetings. Your regular environment is full of the same triggers, the same responsibilities, the same voices telling you what to do and who to be. Which means I have to get you out of your life for you to be able to focus on your life. I need to get you away from the what's for dinner tonight, or did you make this call, or when is the air conditioning guy gonna be here to fix the air conditioning unit? I need you out of your life to be able to focus on your life. It's just the way it is. And we're gonna not just do that once, we're gonna do that twice. Because again, we're gonna lay a foundation on who are you in this season of life? What do you actually want? What does your best life look like? What are you working towards? What matters most to you in this season of life? We're gonna lay that foundation, and then in retreat two, you're gonna get all of the tools and the practical solutions to help you actually create the life that you are wanting when life starts lifing and life gets in the way, when there are limiting beliefs, and boundaries, and obstacles to creating the life that you have only dreamt about That's why we go away, and we do it in, in beautiful places. I mean, this is not we're gonna go away and we're gonna do some camping wilderness camping for three days. I don't know about you, but I am at an age where I like running water. I like a mattress on my bed. I really like a certain thread count of sheets. So no, we're not gonna go camping. We're gonna go to luxury hotels. We're gonna let them make dinner for us. It's all gonna be taken care of, okay? That's why we go on retreats. One thing that I haven't done before is the retreats are going to run Tuesday through Friday, and before you say, "I don't have time to do that. That won't fit into my schedule," listen to why we are doing that. For years, for decades, we as high achieving women have been relegating the most important work of our life to the weekends or to after everyone else has gone to bed. Essentially, we wait, we accept whatever is left over after everyone and everything else is taken care of. Does that sound familiar? It should. We're not doing that anymore. No, no. That, that ship has sailed. We've done that for too many years. We'll get started at about 6:00 on Tuesdays. That gives you time to travel to the venue during the day. Maybe even work in the morning, depending on how that works. So work half a day, get to the venue. We'll go Tuesday night, Wednesday, Thursday, and we'll be done by noon on Friday. So you can travel home if you want to. Another great thing about doing this midweek is if you have a spouse or a bestie or if you just want to extend your stay over the weekend, do some decompressing before you have to head back to real life, there's time for you to do that. Even if you don't extend your stay, it's so much better for you to be able to go home on a Friday and have an entire weekend before you have to hit the ground running and go back to work and back to your regular routine and back to your regular schedule on Monday. Think about when you have gone to business or other conferences before, and you're very fired up while you're there. You take all these notes. You have an entire workbook or a notebook or a laptop full of notes that you've taken, initiatives that you're going to put forth when you get back home. And then almost as soon as you get back home, you're, you're back into your normal life. And all of those ideas that you were excited about, they just live on your laptop, or they get shut in that notebook that gets put on a shelf and never to be seen again. Well, if you don't have to rush right back to work, back to your schedule, the work that you've done at the retreat actually has some time to breathe, to marinate. You have some time to decompress. And when you have that luxury of taking a little bit of time, you are way more likely to continue the work that was started at the retreat. So we're not putting off the most important work of our lives to the weekends anymore. We're not putting off the most important work of our lives to after everybody goes to bed. We're going to do it like our life depended on it, like it is our life's work. We're going to do it during the work week, Tuesday through Friday. Uh, what is personal leadership? Okay, For years I have been caught in the, this conundrum, which is what I do is not exactly executive coaching because there is a life component that factors very heavily into it, but it's also not life coaching. Because the women that I work with, wildly successful in their careers. They run companies. They understand ROI. They understand spreadsheets. They manage people. So when you say life coaching, that feels a little soft to them. That's not what they're looking for. What I do, and I, it, I... It took me about five or six years to figure this out. It's really somewhere in between. It's not executive coaching. It's not life coaching. I call it personal leadership development. Here's what I mean by that. Executive coaching and life coaching both require you to compartmentalize your life, to divide it into at least two parts: work life and life life. Here's the thing. We are one woman. And yes, maybe we are better at performing a certain way when we are in the office than we are at home. Maybe we wear different hats when we're at home. You know, we've got the wife hat and the mom hat and the daughter hat for our aging and ailing parents, and then we've got, um, the hats that we wear at work, manager, owner, employee. We've got the best friend hat. We have the community leader hat. We've got the philanthropy hat. We've got the volunteer hat. We've got the girl at the gym hat, right? We wear a lot of hats. And for most of our lives, we have been showing up in our life like we are a different person at every single one of those places. It's like we feel as though every role that we are playing demands us to be a different person, and that's just not how it is. That's how we end up burned out or stressed out or overwhelmed or just exhausted because we are trying to be too many different people when we were only ever meant to be one person Think about it. If you are having a tough time at home with your spouse or your child or you got a diagnosis or something's happening with your parents, you have a hard time concentrating at work, right? When things are going tough at home, your people at work, I don't care how good you are at powering through, about putting on a brave face, they can tell. And similarly, when you have had a bad day at work, your family can tell, right? Like, you walk in the kitchen, you know. If you've had a great day, you show up differently at home. We can't keep compartmentalizing our lives feeling like that we are two different women, that we are four different women. We have a different woman for every role we have to play. That's not how it works. We're gonna figure out how to lead ourselves in every part of our lives. We're gonna talk about clarity, confidence, decision-making, discernment, leadership, all skills that- you can use at work, at home, in the community, in your relationships. All of it works for you as the woman that you are in this season of life, regardless of what role you're playing. We're gonna stop performing. We're gonna get very clear on who we are and what matters most to us, and we're gonna build a life around that. Oh, let's see, what else? Um, I know this is running long. Okay, um, let's talk about why a group, and I talked a little bit about this early on in the episode. I am a firm believer that women who get the most out of a group coaching experience don't do it because they have the best coach, although I am a damn good coach. I'm really good at what I do. They're the ones with the best cohort. They're the ones who have nine other women who know their story, who were in the room when you said the thing out loud that maybe you haven't even confessed to your closest friends or your sister or your mom. But there, there was this trust that developed with these women who are going through the same things that you are when you finally said the thing out loud. And these are the women who are going to remember what you said when you're tempted to walk it back because it's getting hard, or the thing that you said that you wanted, there are some roadblocks in the way. So having an accountability partner or nine of them is one of the most powerful things about this experience. But they're not just there for accountability. They're also there for support. They're there to cheer you on. Because if there is one thing that I know across the board about high-achieving women is they are invariably hard on themselves. Even when things go right, they always feel like something... They, they could have done something better. They could have done one more thing, and wouldn't that have been great? More than anything, we need support from other women who get it, who understand that, yeah, that was really hard, and I wasn't sure I would get through it. But thanks to the support of everyone else, I did. I am on the other side of it. I feel great about it. You shouldn't have to do this work by yourself, and I know so many of you have spent your lives doing that because you are capable, because you are independent, because you don't ever wanna ask for help. Hear me when I say this group coaching experience is not just a benefit of the mastermind. This is one of the most powerful things about this experience. These will be relationships that you will have probably for the rest of your life. That's how deep we go. How do I know if this is for me? Good question, right? Good question Let's talk about that. Um, here are some ways that, you know, you can self-select. I will say this is for you if you are a high-performing woman who has been wildly successful in her life and is wondering what's next for you. This is for you if you want real community with other accomplished women who are navigating the same questions, who are having the same thoughts or are, you know, waking up at 2:00 in the morning ruminating on the same things. This is for you if your life looks perfect on paper, but you feel like something's missing. Maybe you feel a little guilty about wanting more because you already have so much. This is exactly for you if you are feeling that way. If you are ready to figure out who you are in this season of life, not who you were 20 or 30 years ago when you were making big life decisions about where to live or what kind of job to take or who to marry, this mastermind is for you. If you're ready to figure out what's next, then don't spend any more time waiting. We've covered a lot. We, we have covered a lot of ground today. Here's what I wanna leave you with For most of us, we have already lived more years than we have ahead of us, which I'm not saying to scare you. I say it because I want you to get serious about this work, and I want you to get serious about the life that you have ahead of you. I have talked about The Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware before. The number one most common regret is, "I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not just what everyone expected of me." I'm gonna say that again. "I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself" That's what we're gonna do in the Best Life Mastermind. You still have time in your life to not have that be a regret of yours. But also, you don't necessarily have enough time to keep telling yourself that now's not the time. I'll do that some other time. I'll worry about that in the future. We'll do that when the time is perfect or someday when the kids leave the house, after retirement, whatever you're waiting for. The Best Life Mastermind starts in September, which means you have the entire summer to be present with the people you love, to rest, to recharge. Apply now, claim your spot, then go enjoy your summer knowing that September is going to be the start of something extraordinary. There's a link to apply in the show notes. There is also a link to book a call with me there as well. If you have any questions, book the call. Let's talk about it. I'd genuinely love to talk to you. Remember, though, there are only 10 spots. This is the founding cohort. You will have the most access to me. You will have the ability to shape the program. If we need more coaching calls, If we need additional resources, this is your ability to get the most for the lowest investment because this is the lowest investment it will ever be. This is the new midlife. It starts with you deciding that now is the time. Get yourself in the mastermind. I will be waiting to see your name there. I'll talk to you next week. Thank you so much for listening to the School of Midlife podcast. It means so much to have you here each week. If you enjoyed this episode, could you do me the biggest favor and help us spread the word to other midlife women? There are a couple of easy ways for you to do that first. And most importantly, if you're not already following the show, would you please subscribe? That helps you because you'll never miss an episode. And it helps us because you'll never miss an episode. Second, if you'd be so kind to leave us a five-star rating, that would be absolutely incredible. And finally, I personally read each and every one of your reviews. So if you take a minute and say some nice things about the podcast, well, that's just good karma. Thanks again for listening. I'll see you right back here. Next week when the School of Midlife is back in session until then take good care.