Elder Power: Claiming your voice, visibility and power.

In this deeply inspiring episode of The Elegant Shift, host Helen Valleau welcomes Pamela Sylvan—author, founder, speaker, and a powerful voice for women stepping into elder power with authenticity, confidence, and purpose.

After decades as a professor, writer, and PR visionary, Pamela made the courageous decision to walk away from the version of success that no longer aligned with who she was becoming. Instead of settling for a life that looked successful from the outside, she chose a path rooted in truth, freedom, self-trust, and deeper meaning.

Today, Pamela helps accomplished women navigate change as they age and move through midlife transitions with greater clarity, confidence, visibility, and personal power. Through her work, she supports women who have done everything “right” yet feel called toward something more meaningful, soulful, and authentic in the next chapter of life.

Pamela is also the host of the podcast Not My Mama’s Midlife, where she shares honest conversations with women redefining aging, identity, purpose, and reinvention on their own terms.

Her groundbreaking new book, Elder Power: 38 Laws and 10 Spiritual Aspects for Women Claiming Their Later-Life Authority and Presence, offers a transformative vision of aging—not as a decline, but as a rising into wisdom, voice, leadership, and authentic presence.

In this heartfelt conversation, Helen and Pamela explore elder wisdom, conscious aging, women’s empowerment after 50, navigating life transitions, spiritual growth, reclaiming visibility, and what happens when the life you’ve built no longer feels like the whole story—and something deeper begins to emerge.

If you are seeking inspiration for navigating change as you age, redefining your purpose, reclaiming your voice, or stepping more fully into your next chapter, this episode is for you.

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SPEAKER_01 0:02

Welcome to the Elegant Shift, a podcast for women who know aging isn't a decline, it's a becoming. You've lived, learned, and gathered wisdom. Now it's time to embody your inner being and live from that truth. I'm Helen Bellow, and here we explore conscious aging, soulful practices, and the art of living beautifully at every age. If you're ready to age with intention, confidence, and grace, you are in the right place. Welcome back to the Elegant Shift, everyone. Today's guest is someone who really lives what she teaches. I'm joined by Pamela Sylvan, author, founder, and a powerful voice in what it means to step into elder power. After decades as a professor, writer, and PR visionary, she made a pretty bold move. She walked away from the version of success that no longer fit and chose a life that felt more authentic. Now she works with accomplished women who've done everything right, but knows there's something more calling them, and she helps them step into that next chapter with clarity, confidence, and real self-trust. She also hosts the podcast, Not My Mama's Midlife, where she's having honest conversations with women who are redefining aging in their own terms, and her new book, Elder Power, 38 Laws and 10 Spiritual Aspects for Women Claiming Their Later Life Authority and Presence is such a powerful invitation into this stage of life, not as a winding down, but as a rising. This conversation is really about that moment when the life you've built no longer feels like the whole story and something deeper begins to emerge. So let's dive in. Welcome, Pamela.

SPEAKER_00 1:59

Thank you, Helen. That was a fabulous, warm intro. Thank you for having me here.

SPEAKER_01 2:03

Oh, you're so welcome. Okay, I just have to say everybody loves my intros. Maybe that's my calling is introducing people.

SPEAKER_00 2:12

Well, you haven't. It's wonderful. I'm thinking, who is she talking about?

SPEAKER_01 2:20

Well, I so appreciate you taking time out of your travels. I know you're traveling back from Victoria, heading all the way eventually to Nova Scotia.

SPEAKER_00 2:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:30

So thank you for taking the time to be with me today. And I wanted to start out with a little bit of a conversation about the fact that you've had a few wake-up calls in your life. And at the age of 50, you started over. So tell us about your journey and how you became this authentic voice of truth and inspiration for women. And I will say, if you don't follow Pamela on Instagram or Facebook, she is truly a voice of inspiration amongst a whole lot of crap on social media.

SPEAKER_00 3:09

Well, I thank you for that. Thank you. How did I begin? I think all the women have had this call on them. It's either, it comes in various ways. It's either a whisper, a tap, a nudge, or the big throwdown and all things in between. And when I re-arrived at a certain place in my life, I started feeling this. I remember waking up next to my then husband, and I looked at this person. I thought, who is this? And how did he get in my bed? Now, it it seemed somewhat ridiculous, but it was an overall feeling that a part of me came online for the first time. And I looked around and I didn't recognize my circumstances or even who I was. So it was very discombobulating at the time. Now, of course, I didn't do anything at the time. I didn't run out of the house screaming or anything like that. But at the same time, I knew something had shifted in me. Life carried on as per usual. At that point, I noticed even work was starting to feel off. Everything around me was starting to feel off. I would, I had this beautiful dressing room in my home. And, you know, I was a bit of a clotheshorse and all of that. And I, but I started going in there and taking a bottle of sherry with me. And I would spend copious amounts of time closed up in this beautiful space drinking. And I'm not a drinker per se, especially sweet sherry, but it was the thing that I needed to self-soothe what I was walking through and didn't have a name for it. It was a problem without a name. By all circumstances, I had it all going on the house, the beautiful pool in the backyard, everything one needs to say you had arrived, you had made it and all that. But inside, the the identity was shifting and dissolving. And we aren't equipped for these things. We aren't equipped for the language. We aren't equipped for the process. So I drank sherry in this beautiful dressing room. And then one day I packed it all up and gave it all away. And to this day, I still miss my leopard print boots, but that's another story.

SPEAKER_01 5:25

Well, there are some things that just one should never give away.

SPEAKER_00 5:53

So this started before I was 50. So around 50, I remember going, I was always in the hospital. The ambulance would continually pick me up, did all the tests, found nothing. Thank goodness sent me not some wood here. And but there had to be a reason that I was always sick.

SPEAKER_01 6:13

Sure. And the body doesn't lie.

SPEAKER_00 6:15

The body can't lie, the body knows the score, as as as Bessel says. So the last day, last time that the ambulance came and it picked me up and took me into emergency, and everyone's flurrying around, and I'm trying to figure out why everybody is on me, type of thing. And it dawned on me, oh, they they think that I'm going into a stroke. My numbers indicated that I was going to go have a massive stroke. And as that was going on, doctors and nurses are trying to do what they do. I had this realization that if I didn't change what was going on in my life, I wasn't going to walk out of here. So I made a vow. It wasn't as, you know, I didn't die and come back and all that that people talk about. But I knew, I knew to my bones and myself that I needed to make a change in my life. So this is life knocking. It happens differently for everybody. This was for me. So I left with the resolve to leave the marriage that I felt abandoned in. Got out there and I started to backtrack. I'm thinking, oh, you're being so dramatic. Everything's fine. What are you doing? What are you going to break up all this stuff for? Went home and there was this fish on my on my refrigerator that I had named Blue. And blue was a sort of a miracle fish because these fish, they don't really last very long. And this was going, this fish was alive for months. So it would sit on top the fridge and would be sort of my company as I did what I did in the kitchen. Walked in the door and the fish was gone. The fishbowl was gone. And I asked him what happened to the fish. And he said, Oh, without even looking away from the TV set, said to me, Oh, it's dead. And I knew instantly that if I didn't make the change that I needed to make and I vowed to make, I too would end up in like manner. So without even taking off my coat, I said, I can't do this anymore. And I packed up my little bag of clothes, just a little overnight bag, and off I went, never to return. And I remember my mother saying to me, because I went to her house as my first place of refuge. I went to her place, excuse me. And her first question to me, well, what about the silverware? And I said to her, You can babysit that silverware if you'd like. I just want to get all of me back from top to bottom, and I will find my way in the world. I just needed me back. And that was the start of my unfolding, my disillusion, identity disillusion, if you will, and my tumbling through uncertainty and what we call the liminal space. And I didn't care. As long as I had me, I knew I'd be okay.

SPEAKER_01 9:07

Oh, wow. That is quite the story. And thank goodness you had the wherewithal to really listen to yourself. Because it sounds like there were so many signs.

SPEAKER_00 9:22

Oh, oh, many signs, and we ignore them. We, we, we soothe, we numb, we distract, we do so many things to not look at the thing because it, I won't lie, it is a frightening thing. Like, what are you gonna do now? What are you gonna do next? And when I made the decision to leave, I wasn't even gainfully employed at the time. I had my mother, I went to her place for two weeks until I found the next place I was going to be. I found a little apartment downtown. And it didn't matter the outside trappings and of status, it didn't matter. I had the inward trappings of status. I had me, I had space, I had my my mind, I could breathe. Uh the it it was a rebirth in that respect.

SPEAKER_01 10:10

Yeah, and I can totally relate as I left my marriage of 30 years last August, and I have felt the most space and freedom and recalibrating of my nervous system. The most important You know, I said, well, I can feel the walls of my home, but everything else disappeared. Every idea, thought, goal that I had as I'm aging and moving forward, and what I thought was going to be in my relationship completely disintegrated. And it left me in such a place of presence and surrender. So thank God you weren't attached to the silverware.

SPEAKER_00 11:00

Oh no. I mean, you see, we there's a generation before us, our mothers and our grandmothers and our aunties and such, where your status, your address, who you were married to, what kind of vehicle you drove, all of that was the mainstay of your identity. And you clawed hard to get these things. You were Mrs. You belonged to some man somewhere, you were Mrs. So-and-so. I know women that stay in egregious relationships because it was more important to them to be seen as that than to feel fulfilled, safe, respected. Their spouses were out there doing whatever with other women, but it was important for them to be known as this thing. And I thought, wow, we really have. Now I understand it, I'm not here to make judgments about people because my mother put up with some things that a lot of women these days would not put up with. And I asked her one day, why didn't you leave sooner? Because really, you didn't do us any favors by staying and allowed us to see and be part of all that. And to her, her her answer to me was, and I still didn't understand it, but her answer to me was she needed to provide for her children. So her trade-off, the price she paid to be able to do that, was to stay in a situation that was debilitating to her as a woman and as a human.

SPEAKER_01 12:32

Sure. And I think there is that commitment when we become mothers to be everything we can be and do everything we can for our children. And yet what we don't understand is by giving ourselves away, we're teaching our children to do the same thing.

SPEAKER_00 12:53

Absolutely. I said to her when she told me that, I said, you didn't do me any favors by allowing me, and I'm sure my brothers as well, to witness this because it wasn't good. Now, I hold a lot of respect and love for her as my mother for having put me first, because there are other women that would have chosen differently and all kinds of things would have gone on as well. But at the same time, we live in a time where there are many safeguards and guardrails for women that have to make another choice. And I implore them to please do that because your children are unknowingly absorbing this. And especially as females, what we will put up with. And then we spend copious amounts of time and money to fix it later down the road.

SPEAKER_01 13:46

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we do. And so, you know, I think that you are a beautiful example for women to turn inward to really take a look at okay, who do I become as I start to move into this next chapter of my life? Whether you're in a healthy marriage or an unhealthy marriage or wherever you are, but asking those questions and having the curiosity to ask those questions is so vital.

SPEAKER_00 14:21

Yes, and listen for the responses. Again, we know we carry those responses, and they're and they sometimes can be buried quite deeply within. And it's a frightening thing sometimes to to go through this process that feels like you're alone and and so forth and so on. That's why community is so important to see that you, in fact, are traveling along with many others. And there's a saying that says we're all walking each other home. So finding the that tribe of women that have that journey, that changing up their lives and becoming. The word becoming is an interesting word to unpack at this point, but it's it's at least taking the step towards that space of uncertainty and to ask those questions. Nothing has to specifically change and fall apart. I, you know, when I work with women, one of the things that I'm doing with them is holding the scaffolding for them and putting together the process with them that they don't have to burn everything down. I mean, I burned everything down, that was me. But I think it was important as a leader to burn it down so I can tell you that or or anybody, any woman asking or inquiring that, you know what? Even when you burn it down, you will still come back. So imagine, so imagine if you had the scaffolding to do it, right? Just because there's no house, there's no car, there's no foreseeable vision of income coming, you can stand there. And I don't mean, you know, literally, literally bare naked, I mean without all the trappings, you can stand there and it will still be okay. It's a belief about self. It's a belief about the next thing coming. I had a very strong belief in myself that if I got this far and I'm still walking, I'm still talking, and I'm still able to think, the rest of it is just a matter of knowing what I want to do next, asking for it, and walking as if it's happening.

SPEAKER_01 16:27

Well, and that's called thriving as well. And I think that there's such a strong belief that if we just survive, just get by with what is, then I'm okay. But we're not thriving, we're not creating, we're not expanding into the fullness of who we are. And this is something that I so appreciate about your voice out in the world because you are really inspiring women to do that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:58

You know, that's one of the reasons that I I wrote the book. I wanted women to understand when I use the word elder power, for instance. I I the first part of my teachings was signified threshold crossings, meaning you're moving through spaces. One ends, another one's coming, and you spend some time in that in-between space. So a little space to that great uncertainty, tumbling through, and then the next portal is crossed. And for the women at this stage of life, the midlife plus stage, moving into their elderhood. Now I say to people, everyone will get old. It's a biological fact. Not everybody will pick up the mantle of elder. And I don't mean in the way of older or elderly. Elder is a stance, it's an inward stance of life, of using all that you have become an act of service, in an act of empowered gathering of wisdom and then turning it over. We have in this society, we have not had that conversation in the way that we could have it. We have no idea what that word means. All right.

SPEAKER_01 18:14

We go as elder, I also I I feel so much grace and dignity in the word.

SPEAKER_00 18:24

Yep, exactly. Exactly. And yet a lot of women bec I mean, excuse me, it's getting better. I think the conversation is such that more and more women are being attuned to it in this in this well-being space. But again, what does that actually mean? What does it look like? Who who's talking about this? I take it through an initiatory process. You are here one moment, and then you've done a crossing, a physical crossing, and you are here on the other side of that. And what is the responsibility on the other side of that as an elder? In indigenous societies, being an elder means that you are seen as someone that knows. You are seen as someone that is able to bring what is necessary, the good word, the healing, the energy, all of that. To me, excuse me, before I even started this work, I so wanted to be that. I would tell people I was older than I actually was. I mean, I was trying everything to be elder. Because to me, when I see women that have accepted that assignment, you feel it. It's a it's an energy that precedes them. You they have something. You have no idea what that is, but they're the it girl at this stage of the game. And I wanted that for myself. I wanted my energy to be to to to to emanate from me so it was inclusive for people. They felt that they can come, they can, they can talk, they can, they, because of what I was permitting myself or allowing myself, they then it then transmitted to them. This is what I'm working toward and hoping for other people as well. So at this stage, we walk with an energy that we don't talk about. At this stage in this society, when you get to a certain point in your life, it's about the decline. That's what we're talking about. It's either you have two things to do: stay as young and young looking as you possibly can, or thank you for your service, thank you for coming out, and you're shelved.

SPEAKER_01 20:35

Basically shelved, invisible.

SPEAKER_00 20:38

Yes, exactly. And in our society where we're living longer and longer lives, while at this stage of my life, I can't, I mean, I could have 30, 40 years ahead of me. What am I doing? There has to be another conversation. So I excavated that conversation, looked at other societies, how they were looking at things and dealing with things, and recognized the huge gap here in our Western culture. We are missing out with the power of what women bring. And I I will even include men in this conversation too, at some point, but I'm speaking particularly to women because we've been dealt a certain way in our culture. And it's not about, it's not over, ladies. We have much to bring. First, learn about yourself, get connected to that power, tap in, turn on, tune in, and learn how to co-create from that center. This is what I'm all over.

SPEAKER_01 21:37

Beautiful. Before we continue, I want to take a moment to share something close to my heart. As we age, life calls us to slow down, reflect more deeply, and reconnect with who we truly are. But how often do we give ourselves that sacred pause? That is why I love my dear friend Barbara Burke's creation of the I Am. I use them daily as part of my own morning practice. Each card offers a gentle affirmation and soulful reflection, reminding me that I'm not just aging, I'm evolving. They have been such a meaningful part of my life that I've gifted them to friends, clients, and women I love. Because I believe every woman deserves a moment each day to feel centered, seen, and spiritually nourished. Whether you're beginning your day, ending it, or simply needing a moment of stillness. These cards are a beautiful way to reconnect with your essence. Because aging isn't about fading, it's about becoming more fully you. Visit iamdivine.com to order your own set of cards. There's also a journal, the app, and even a set of children's I Am Divine cards. Honor your journey, nourish your spirit. You are divine. I love it. And your book, Elder Power, gives you the language or gives people the language and the laws for what's next. Um, what about some of the laws?

SPEAKER_00 23:14

Some of the tools and the biggest the biggest what I want women to know is that this stage of life is not about trying to stay as young as long as possible. There's a reason we go through menopause. One thing is one part of the energy is is shutting down, so another opening is allowed, right? So you it it it it's like um air pipes in an organ when you're when you have that pedal down there and you're pressing the compression on and off. One compression is coming down along with the constraints that we were brought up with, right? Another one is opening. So I call it it can be called the grandmother energy, but I think it's bigger than that. It's not about, again, taking care of another set of people. This is now self-care in a deeper way. So it's not about trying to stay as young as you possibly can. It's trying to connect to a bigger and greater truth. It's about how to be truer. We go through uh the book takes you through a set of what I call experiments to help you do that. So one of the one of the things I get from people is, well, isn't it kind of selfish to just be thinking about yourself like this? Well, if I am not connected to the power, how am I going to teach it to you? For one thing, how am I going to transmit this power to you? How how if I'm flailing about all the time, what am I showing you? If I'm in crisis all the time, how are you coming to me for help? How can I be of service to you? We have to be on purpose and intentional uh intention about the becoming. We keep talking about this, but what is the becoming for people? What does it look like? So the book is what I call the field guide about how that unfolds. And everybody can go into that book and take what they need in where the book will find you. Beautiful.

SPEAKER_01 25:26

Oh, you know what? It just popped off there, Pamela. So I will make note just to make sure that my lady cuts that out a bit. But what I was saying is that our our authority, our power is this this energy of vitality and creativity. It is never old, it's always expanding, always growing, always that intuitive knowing of what is in highest and best service to ourselves and then to others, which allows us to show up in a completely different way, first of all, to our own self and to really say, yes, this is who I am, and this is who I am becoming.

SPEAKER_00 26:13

Yes. And and to put down the that reinvention model to the point where we continue to reinvent the old thing over and over. We just make it shinier. Nevermind, where expansion lives, right? Again, my thing was when I said I I was telling people I was older than I was, and and I then I wanted to get the really shocking gray hair, silver hair. Because to me, then now I know that's just an outward trapping of it. So I don't want people to think, well, you have to look a certain way. This is not a status role. For me, it meant that my becoming was on its way. My daughter yesterday told me, oh, she's got a silver hair. I'm getting that thing that you have in the front of your hair now, too. You know, okay, well, we're you know, we're three decades apart. You can slow that down a bit. But but the point, the point being is there is an inner co-creative energy. We we are made to look away from this. We we've always had it. We came into this existence with it. We've been busy, we've had other things to do as we have in this world in which we live, other people to make nurture and nature and all of these things that we have signed up for. Now is our time. Now is our turn. We have no concept of who we are until we have the time and the space to do that. We have the time and the space. Most women have not had that piece put in front of them. Okay, now here you are. That's why I have elder school. You're not going back to the classroom, you're going back to self in a in a in a pre-appointed way that says, okay, let's take care of some things so you can continue the journey in this particular way now. Now you're you're you're you're now on track with something. So you're tracking in a certain way. So this is the conversation I want to have with as many women as I can possibly have, because when they understand how to move that energy and direct it and form it and shape it and work with it and ask the questions and the answers come. One of the things they're going to say, well, how come they didn't know this before? Well, one, you probably weren't ready to hear it because it's always talking. And two, you probably didn't have the time.

SPEAKER_01 28:41

Yeah, I would also say there in some ways, culturally, we we do not accept embrace this part of us as the most important part. Because there's so much emphasis put on doing and how we look and what we accomplished as opposed to our being us.

SPEAKER_00 29:05

Well, of course. Of course. It's the society we live in. It it we we have traded things off for other things. It was a price we paid, and sometimes it was the role and identity we were given the moment we showed up here. Okay, you're a girl, and this is what you do. This is your set of expectations. Be be ambitious, but not too much, be be pretty, but not be vain. Be that we have all these B's, but do this, but so those are the constraints that went off, right? I'm saying here is the time to start dissolving those constraints.

SPEAKER_01 29:44

Yes, it is definitely time. So I have a question for you. If aging is not a decline, but a becoming, who are you still becoming, Pamela?

SPEAKER_00 29:56

Who am I still becoming? I'm dropping deeper into my communion with what I call my beloved magic high-in presence. That's what I call my muse. And I'm I'm I'm lining myself up to work with her in such a way that the, even though we will always have the things like fear, rejection, all of these things in our, in our in our wheelhouse, it's no longer the thing that controls. I instead instead of the dog, the tail wagging the dog, I'm now wagging the tail, so to speak, because of the presence, because of my muse. Anything that I do, I am in compu communion with the muse first. As we're driving, my partner, my partner Gary would say, What are you thinking about? What are you doing over there? You're so quiet. The muse and I are are sorting things out. We're coming up with things, we're we're we're synthesizing, we are are projecting forward what can be shaped. We are we are working together, if you will. So so my becoming is deeper communion with. I love that.

SPEAKER_01 31:11

That is couldn't ask for anything more, because for me to have that I am and in communion with with that part of myself, like that is paramount for my life. It's what it needs to be.

SPEAKER_00 31:28

For me, exactly. And this is what I want people to understand. There is, I'm not any more special than anybody else. The only difference between me and possibly the other person is I have chosen to now walk fully with this, side by side, sometimes waiting if I don't have what I need to do. Either way, I trust fully and I ask.

SPEAKER_01 31:56

Yes. And I would say the other thing for me is I also know it's not that I have choice, I am choice. I am choice. And so, what is the most conscious, loving, healthy, benevolent, expansive choice that I can make that really supports my well-being.

SPEAKER_00 32:19

And you know, Helen, when when we talk in this way, people will look at us and wonder, well, that's easy for you to say. You have a podcast, you're doing this, you're you look fabulous. Like, yeah, easy for you to say. But but here's the thing: it's not easy for people to say. It's a choice for people to say. You start where it finds you and you go out from there. You're not waiting to be fabulous before you start doing this. You are that now, and you move out, you make the connection, and off you go. And as and you look back on your life and you will and you see, well, oh my god, how did that happen? Because of that decision and that choice and the asking and the knowing, as you say.

SPEAKER_01 33:08

And it's a choice moment by moment, you know, it's not a choice and then I've arrived. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 33:19

And you see, we have it backwards because that's how we were taught. We were poo-pooed away. We gave our self-authorship away, our power away. We're waiting for someone to come on and and and anoint us with the special power when you have it all along.

SPEAKER_01 33:36

Yes, I just need to click my heels three times and I will be home.

SPEAKER_00 33:44

Dorothy, we have this. No, Dorothy, you know, we in and they've show it shows us it's the proof of this, the evidence of this, the story of this hides right in plain sight. Yes, it does.

SPEAKER_01 33:57

Yeah. If we would just remove the veil. And it is something I truly have come to appreciate about what I've experienced with you online and our conversation today, as well as your book and your all that you are putting out into the world. So I do highly recommend that people check out your book, check out your website. All of those links will be in the show notes, along with your podcast and how to connect with you, Pamela.

SPEAKER_00 34:30

I I I love the Substack, the writing. That's where that's where the Muse and I come to life is in my. First of all, your title, Elegant Aging, it suits the moment. It really does. You bring that energy to your work. So thank you for that. And thank you for the you know, the moment to be. I I I feel as I'm sitting here in your presence and I'm sitting in the van after traveling how I don't know how many hundreds of miles today, a certain elegance, even though I I have my little my little sweater top on, and I'm, you know, not in my usual thing, it doesn't matter. What matters, the energy is here. We're having this great conversation, this back and forth that we can't have forever, by the way. And I know you have a certain cutoff time with it, so I'm not going to go on, but the understanding is there. I know you, you know me, and a third energy in presence is present.

SPEAKER_01 35:50

Yes, it is. And bless that energy. Yeah. Thank you, Sandra. You're welcome. Thank you for being here, Elegant Soul. If something in today's episode stirred you, share it with a woman who's ready to embody her inner being and step into her next chapter. To go deeper, visit elegantaging.ca for practices, programs, and inspiration. And remember, aging isn't something to endure, it's something to embody and create. Until next time, live fully and age elegantly.