Midlife with Courage™-Bold Women Thriving After Forty with Kim Benoy
Are you a woman in your 40s, 50s, or beyond who is wondering what happened to the woman you used to be—and what might be possible for the woman you're becoming?
Midlife with Courage™ is about more than reinvention. It's about recognizing the ways we've learned to make ourselves smaller, quieter, and less visible—and finding the courage to change that.
Each week, host Kim Benoy has honest, courageous conversations with women who have challenged the expectations, stories, and limitations that once held them back. Together, they explore confidence, identity, purpose, relationships, reinvention, and what it means to take up space in this next chapter of life.
Because midlife isn't about becoming someone new. It's about becoming more fully yourself.
You're not too old. You're not too late. And it's not just you.
Midlife with Courage™-Bold Women Thriving After Forty with Kim Benoy
Real Girls Guide to Midlife: Courage, Menopause Truths and Letting Go with Angela Burk
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In this week's Midlife with Courage Podcast™ Kim talks with Angela Burk, a retired B2B marketer who wrote Real Girls Guide to Midlife after finding a 20-year-old “red folder” of questions. They discuss divorce, grief, perimenopause rage, self-publishing, “together living apart,” and saying no.
- Midlife change, courage, and messy “middle” journeys
- Menopause symptoms, identity shifts, and reclaiming pleasure
- Practical mindset reset: let go of one thing, reclaim one thing; “I’m not available”
00:00 Feeling Alone in Midlife (and the Missing ‘Messy Middle’)
00:34 Podcast Intro: Midlife With Courage + What to Expect
00:52 Meet Angela Burk: Career, Family, and the Book That Came Back
03:23 Courage Moment #1: Ending a Marriage and Choosing Happiness
04:47 Courage Moment #2: Retiring, Finding the Folder, and Writing the Book
06:03 Stop Overplanning: Trust Yourself and Just Start
06:46 Why Women Put Everyone Else First (and How to Unlearn It)
09:11 Midlife Overload: Hormones, Kids, Parents, Career—All at Once
10:36 Reclaiming Yourself After Divorce + Menopause Run-Up in Your 40s
13:56 Strength, Grief, and Letting Go of Shame Around Change
17:10 Why Angela Wrote the ‘Real Girl’ Midlife Guide (Not a Celebrity Story)
19:04 Perimenopause Rage: When It Hits and Why It’s So Scary
21:40 The ‘Wave Three’ Surprise: Symptoms After Your Period Stops
22:45 Letters to Her Boys: Repair, Memory, and Self-Forgiveness
23:38 A Fiancé in Australia: Making Long-Distance Love Work
25:08 ‘Together Living Apart’: Rethinking Midlife Relationships
28:11 Pleasure, Sex, and Being a ‘Whole Person’ in Midlife
31:15 Where to Get the Book + The Manifesto: Let Go & Reclaim
33:14 Practice Saying No: ‘I’m Not Available’ (Final Takeaways & Goodbye)
You can read Angela's blog and buy her book on her WEBSITE.
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