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EPISODE · Mar 4, 2026 · 13 MIN

Perfectionism After 50: Why Strong Women Struggle to Let Go and Delegate

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If you've ever watched someone do something perfectly well and still found yourself stepping in anyway — this one's for you.In this episode, Beverley gets honest about being a control freak. Not in a cute, self-deprecating way, but in the real way — the way where you genuinely think you're helping, right up until you catch the look on someone's face.We talk about how the habits that made us reliable and dependable in our thirties and forties can quietly become a trap by the time we hit fifty. Why handing things over feels so uncomfortable. And what's really underneath that discomfort — because it's usually not about the task at all.No four-step frameworks here. Just an honest conversation about something a lot of us do but don't often talk about — and what it's slowly been taking to do it a little bit differently.

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