Fire Up at 55 Plus
Are you ready to put yourself first in your 55+ years? Your host, Laurie Adams at 60+, successfully did that and is here now to help you discover what you want for your own, full second act in life. She lived in the people-pleasing era where young girls learned to put themselves last and how, as experienced, mature women they can rekindle dreams and realize them. A certified life and weight loss coach, Laurie, along with her variety of guests, share how they have shifted into their best years yet. If you’re stuck on the back burner and ready to fire-up at mid-life and beyond, tune in weekly to hear inspiring conversations and personal journeys with info you can apply to get going. Real self care and moving from hope to success starts here—for a new companion, or career, retirement, mastering weight loss, fitness and more. And if you’d like to work with Laurie 1-on-1, contact her at hello@laurieadamscoaching.com.
Episodes
144 episodes
143. The Reset Your Mind and Body Want Now | Stop Carrying Everything. Start Carrying Yourself
There is a particular variety of exhaustion that sleep does not remedy. You are functioning. You are showing up. And yet you feel quietly eroded — navigating your days with diminished clarity, shrinking margins, and a subdued luminosity that is...
142. Calendar Stealing Your Life? Take it Back Now! | Available For Everyone = Last to Get Your Own Life
What if your exhaustion isn’t about how much you’re doing — but about who you’re doing it all for? It’s not your age. It’s not your schedule. It’s not even your energy levels. It’s that your calendar has quietly become everyone else’s property....
141. The Energy Leaks No One Talks About | 20 Quick Fixes That Give You Back Hours of Life
What if you are not tired for the reasons you think? Not because of your age? … Not your schedule, or even your sleep? It’s not always the big reasons, but the tiny and quiet … almost invisible energy leaks. But here’s the most important part I...
140. What Not to Wear: The “Perfectly” Good | Clear Your Closet of “Shoulds” to Thrive
Let me tell you what I hear from women like you, like me, all the time: “I really should get rid of some things … old things, outdated things." And the brain's knee-jerk response? “But they’re perfectly good.” Talk about an en...
139. Take a Barbie Spring Break from Stress | She Didn’t Wait for Permission; Neither Should You
As many listeners move through spring break season, I’m revisiting one of the most joyful episodes from my Fire-Up archives. Originally released in August 2023, this episode explores the cultural phenomenon of Barbie, the blockbuster movie at t...
138. Wake Up and Ditch the Crashes | Unsteady Energy is Fixable Now
If your mornings feel slow to start and your afternoons suddenly collapse around 3 p.m, you are far from alone. Many midlife-plus women assume their energy dips mean something is wrong with them — that their motivation has faded, their discipli...
137. The “Now What?” Moment | When Progress Leaves You Gobsmacked
We’ve been talking lately about something subtle, but powerful: what happens after you begin to change. You start making progress and feeling stronger—more clear and capable. And then … doubt creeps in. Or uncertainty. Or the quiet question, “O...
136. The Stress of Becoming Someone New | Why Growth Can Feel So Unsettling
Feeling unsettled after you’ve made progress? You’re not imagining it, and nothing has gone wrong. It’s normal to expect relief once a problem is solved and then be ambushed by feelings of doubt, restlessness, or hesitation that rush-in just as...
135. Don’t Let Success Scare You Backward | Claim the Ground You’ve Earned
The most dangerous moment in change isn’t failure — it’s success. That’s when self-sabotage gets sneaky. And if you’ve felt that wobble, you’re not broken and nothing has gone wrong. In fact, that uneasy feeling is often a sign that you’re exac...
134. Calm Nights Aren’t the Finish Line | What Comes Next? The Boomerang Shows Up!
If your nights have started to calm (especially after the recent episode on fixing nighttime eating) and a little voice inside you is saying, “Don’t mess this up now. “Get stricter,” that’s the boomerang showing up. It’s the reflex many women h...
133. Fix Your Nights First | The Eat-Move-Think Reset That Calms Nighttime Eating at 55-Plus
Let me say this plainly: If nighttime eating doesn’t change, weight loss stays fragile. It doesn’t matter how motivated you feel in the morning. It doesn’t matter how “good” you think you’ve been all day. In fact, the very discipline you’re whi...
132. Dive into Deeper Energy Restoration | The Oprah Panel That Can Change Your Nights
If you’ve ever said: “I eat fine all day, but then I lose it at night,” or “Why can’t I just stop?” or even, “Something must be wrong with me,” today we offer relief. You’ll discover that nighttime eating is not a character flaw, it’s ...
131. Why Your Energy Was Stolen and How to Take it Back | How Diet Culture, Hormones & Survival Mode Drained Us, Plus Restoration Solutions
You got building blocks for an energy toolkit in the last episode, number 129, with your system for building it, banking it, and guarding it. And today we’re doing something just as powerful: we’re going to talk about how your energy was taken ...
130. The Energy Toolkit: Your Fresh Start at Midlife-Plus | Finally Move Forward in a Way Built to Last
If you’ve ever wondered why your goals didn’t stick, even when you were motivated, this episode delivers the missing answer. Here we move beyond inspiration and into practical, research-backed tools to help women 55+ finally restore the energy—...
129. Ditch Resolutions, Choose Energy to Reset Now | Stop Running on Empty and Start Fueling Every Goal
Welcome to 2026—a Year of essential Energy. After months of building vision, clarifying identity, and designing the life you want, there's one critical piece we haven't addressed: the fuel to make it all happen. In this transformative episode, ...
128. Your Timely Reminder about New Year's Truth | Why Resolutions Fall Flat
Why, why, oh why do we still cling to the tradition of making New Year’s Resolutions? Because, on January 1st, they promise to be so effective? Nope, nope, nope. They’re so superficial that the second Friday in January is now well known as “Qui...
127. There Are No Rules for You Now | Age Doesn't Matter Unless
What if one sentence could expose the beliefs that either limit you or accelerate you in your second act?“Age Doesn’t Matter Unless…”This isn’t a clever phrase — it’s a diagnostic tool for your identity, vitality, and future. How ...
126. Word + Morning = Your 2026 Momentum, A 2-Part Series | The Morning That Makes Your Word Work
You discovered the true value of a Word of the Year in Part 1. Now, in Part 2, it’s time to make your chosen word real. Rejecting perfection or pressure, you’ll learn how to create a grounding practice that connects directly to your word: a per...
125. Word + Morning = Your 2026 Momentum, A 2-Part Series | The Power of a Word and Why Your Mornings Shape Identity
Here’s the truth: Your Word of the Year gives your identity a direction and your morning routine makes the identity real. One is the compass and the other is the daily practice of walking toward it. Pair the two to design your days, instead of ...
124. Pass the Pie: How Seven Generations Can Share Your Table | Three keys to enjoying, not enduring, the holidays.
What if Thanksgiving didn’t have to come with side dishes of stress?In this entertaining Fire Up at 55-Plus episode, coach Laurie Adams helps you transform generational clashes into meaningful conversation. You’ll learn the art ...
123. Becoming Her: Your Vision Blueprint for Identity Reinvention | No. 7: The Vision in Motion—Living Your Identity Without Looking Back
Today we wrap up our package of seven episodes in my vision how-to series. With this finale of “Becoming Her: Your Blueprint for Identity Reinvention” you’re well-equipped now to pin down dreams into unquestionable action. We’ve woven my advanc...
122. Becoming Her: Your Vision Blueprint for Identity Reinvention | No. 6: Pin It, See It, Live It
Ever make a vision board and forget to look at it? Let’s fix that. In today’s episode I help you get your dreams out of your head and onto a vision board, more specifically your very own Identity Board, that actually works. The board we build f...
121. Becoming Her: Your Vision Blueprint for Identity Reinvention | No. 5: The Weight of a Dream
How heavy does your best-life dream weigh upon your mind? Moving Vision into Tangible Form is the subtitle of today’s episode. In this Becoming Her series, we’re exploring what it takes to reinvent your identity in your second act. And today, w...
120. Becoming Her: Your Vision Blueprint for Identity Reinvention | No. 4: A Vision Board isn’t Decoration, it’s Identity by Design
Here comes the centerpiece of our best reinvention steps! Although it’s Podcast No. 120, this is the fourth episode in our “Becoming Her” visioning series. If you’ve been with me for the past few weeks, you know we’ve been building your transfo...
119. Becoming Her: Your Vision Blueprint for Identity Reinvention | No. 3: Stop Waiting—Start Creating, Your Future Starts Now
It’s high time you had tangible proof of the transformed life you’re building. And although it’s Podcast No. 119, this is the third episode in our “Becoming Her” visioning series. Remembering our framework is “Time … Creativity … True Vision,” ...
