Midlife Reframed
Midlife Reframed is a podcast for people who are done accepting the narrow, outdated story about what midlife is supposed to look like at work and in life.
We host honest, unscripted conversations about careers, ambition, identity, reinvention, money, power, health, and the messy middle that rarely gets named out loud. This is a space where lived experience matters. Where we challenge research, headlines, and cultural narratives that quietly limit opportunity, especially for women and others navigating systemic bias as they age.
Some episodes feature personal stories and real-time reflection. Others bring in guests who are building, leading, pivoting, and questioning the systems they operate in. All of them are grounded in one shared belief. Midlife is not a decline. It is data. It is wisdom. It is leverage.
Midlife Reframed is not about fixing yourself. It is about reclaiming the frame.
Midlife Reframed
Rewriting the Rules on 50
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Turning 50 is often treated like a professional milestone you are supposed to manage quietly. A number that comes with unspoken assumptions about relevance, energy, and ambition. In this episode, we push back on that framing.
We talk candidly about the perception of being "golden girls" and the truth of what actually changes at 50, and what does not. How experience compounds even as external expectations narrow. Why confidence can increase at the same time opportunity contracts. And how many of the so called rules around aging at work were never designed with longevity, equity, or reality in mind.
Rewriting the rules on 50 is not about reinvention for reinvention’s sake. It is about choosing what to carry forward, what to discard, and how to define success on your own terms.
If you are approaching 50, already there, or questioning the narratives attached to it, this episode offers language for what many people feel but rarely say out loud.
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