Now What?
Life doesn’t come with a manual, especially for women navigating midlife and beyond.
Now What? Podcast shares real, unfiltered stories from women who have been there, who have started over, found purpose, reinvented themselves, or simply kept going.
Each episode explores the experiences that shape us: the pivots, the pain, the triumphs, and the unexpected moments that make midlife anything but a crisis.
Every woman’s story holds wisdom, and when we share them, we remind each other that we’re not alone on this journey.
It’s for every woman asking herself, “Now what?”
Now What?
Listening to Your Intuition in Midlife with Jessica Chilvers Long
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There comes a point when pushing harder stops working… and you realize the answer might actually be slowing down enough to hear yourself again.
In this episode, I sit down with Jessica Chilvers Long, holistic health coach, Pilates instructor, breathwork facilitator, and host of the Midlife Advice Podcast, for a deeply grounding conversation about intuition, nervous system healing, and what it really means to create a life that feels aligned from the inside out.
Jessica shares her journey from the corporate world into entrepreneurship, beginning with opening a successful fitness studio and eventually evolving into the work she does today supporting midlife women through perimenopause, stress, and major life transitions. What unfolds is an honest conversation about learning to trust yourself, letting go of perfectionism, and recognizing when external success no longer matches your internal truth.
We talk about the disconnect so many women feel between what they say matters and how they actually spend their time, why intuition is a skill that must be practiced, and how nervous system regulation may be one of the missing pieces for women who feel chronically overwhelmed, exhausted, or disconnected from themselves.
Jessica also opens up about the power of breathwork, the role stress plays in women’s health, and why expanding your capacity, not just your productivity, can completely change the way you experience midlife.
This episode is a reminder that your body is constantly communicating with you… and sometimes the biggest transformation begins when you finally slow down enough to listen.
In this episode, we explore:
- What it looks like to leave behind a successful career that no longer feels aligned
- How intuition can guide major life and business decisions
- Why so many women lose connection with themselves in the middle of doing “everything right”
- The importance of identifying your core values and actually living in alignment with them
- How perfectionism can quietly become a form of procrastination
- Why women often ignore their bodies until they’re forced to pay attention
- The connection between nervous system regulation, stress, and hormone health
- How breathwork can help expand your emotional capacity and resilience
- Why simple practices like breathing and slowing down are often the hardest to prioritize
- The impact of chronic stress and overstimulation on midlife women
- What it means to make decisions from your “next level self”
- How Jessica is redefining wellness and creating accessible support for women through virtual breathwork experiences
About Jessica:
Jessica Chilvers Long is on a mission to help midlife women feel informed, connected and badass through conversations, curated events, physical fitness and nervous system healing. She is a holistic health coach specializing in perimenopause, certified menopause coaching specialist, breathwork facilitator, Pilates instructor and host of the Midlife Advice podcast.
Connect with her: @belongwellness, @midlifeadvicepodcast
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