Gen X Women in Business
A podcast for Gen X and Millenial women, who want to know, do and be more aligned in their businesses.
Episodes
16 episodes
Episode 14: Aligned or Just Exhausted? What Your Business Is Trying to Tell You
Something feeling off in your business? Not dramatically broken, just... ick? That feeling might be misalignment doing its thing. In this episode, Belinda unpacks what alignment and misalignment actually look like in practice, walking through f...
Episode 13: The Jacket That No Longer Fits: On Holding On and Letting Go in Business
What's the cost of staying where you are?Not just financially. The real cost. The energy cost. The quiet toll of holding onto something that no longer fits.In this episode, Bel gets into something that comes up again and again in ...
Episode 12: From Choir Camp to Business Strategy: Not the Tale You Expected
What does choir camp have to do with business strategy? More than you'd think.In this episode, Bel shares what happened when she stepped well outside her comfort zone and joined Soul Song Choirs earlier this year. As a self-described non...
Episode 11: Lessons from Losing My Voice: Gratitude and Growth
I'm a chatterbox. Always have been. So when I lost my voice for almost two weeks, it threw my whole world (and business) into a bit of chaos. In this episode I'm sharing the five things this experience taught me, told countdown-style....
Episode 10 - Finding Your Tribe — Community, Connection and Belonging in Midlife and Business
Community. Tribe. Circle. Whatever you call it, belonging matters. And in midlife, especially as a female founder, it hits differently.In this episode, Bel unpacks why connection shifts so significantly across our lives. From school frie...
Episode 9: Doing Business on Your Own Terms: A Conversation with Dr. Hayley D. Quinn
We talk a lot about self-compassion like it's a nice idea -- something to aspire to on a good day. This conversation with Dr. Hayley D. Quinn goes a lot deeper than that.Hayley is a mindset and wellbeing coach, speaker, author, and forme...
Episode 8 - The Gratitude Habit - Why Noticing Changes Everything
Gratitude shows up everywhere online - but is it actually doing anything for you, or is it just a nice idea you scroll past?In this episode, Bel gets into what makes gratitude genuinely useful - and it has everything to do with how you t...
Episode 7: Name It to Tame It, Part 2: Five Shifts to Move the Invisible Load for Gen X Women in Business
This episode follows on from our conversation about the invisible load that midlife women carry, and this time we're getting practical. If you're a woman in business navigating perimenopause or the menopause transition, this one is for you....
Epidode 6: Name It to Tame It: The Invisible Load of the Menopause Transition and How It Shows Up in Business
We talk a lot about the invisible load for younger women, but what happens to it as we age? In this episode, Belinda explores how the invisible load shifts for women in midlife from the sandwich generation caring responsibilities to...
Episode 5: Ready, Set.... Wait - the Knowing-Doing Gap that might just feel a little too familiar.
Does this sound familiar? Just one more course, one more webinar, one more credential... it just needs one more edit, and then everything will be ready to go. And then you watch people moving ahead while you continue to plan, perfect... maybe a...
Episode 4: The Cost of Putting Yourself Last: Michelle McMahon of Flourish Mama on Self-Care, Burnout and Building a Business From Her Own Story
This week I'm joined by Michelle McMahon - Founder and CEO of Flourish Mama and someone who learned the hard way what happens when you consistently put yourself last.Michelle spent years pouring everything into her kids, her family, and ...
Episode 3: Another Lap of the Sun: Nostalgia, Music and What it Means to Age Well
Recorded on the eve of her birthday, Belinda explores two ideas that are deeply connected: nostalgia and positive aging. She unpacks what the psychology research actually tells us about nostalgia, why music is such a powerful trigge...
Episode 2: When the Rules Change: Hormones, Identity and Showing Up in Business.
Have you ever caught yourself acting in a way you don't quite recognise, and felt unsettled by it? In this episode, Belinda explores the identity shift that many women in midlife and the menopause transition experience, and what it means ...
Episode 1: Same Woman, Different Rules: A new way of doing business in midlife.
Welcome to the very first official episode of Gen X Women in Business. This is the show for women in their 40s and 50s, or even 60s, who are building, running, or reimagining a business in the messy, meaningful middle of midlife.&n...