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The Midlife Reinvention: How to Find Your Ikigai, Deal with Imposter Syndrome & Build Your Confidence in Career & Life Transitions
by Kavita Ahuja, Founder of It's My Time Now Coaching, Inspired By Mel Robbins, Oprah Winfrey, Brene Brown, Deepak Chopra, Vishen Lakhiani, Cathy Heller
Are you experiencing a Career or Life Transition, and are asking yourself "What's Next"? Join Kavita Ahuja, Certified Career and Life Transitions Coach, and founder of It's My Time Now Coaching as she gives her own wonderful insights and interviews incredible women across the globe that will give you inspiration to rediscover who you really are, what you really want, and how to get there. You'll learn how to overcome obstacles, find your true calling, and make your next chapter in life your best chapter ever. Reinvention doesn't mean giving up everything; it means rediscovering what has always been inside of you and bringing that out into the world. If not now, when? If you want a place to start, take the Ikigai Clarity Assessment. It takes about five minutes, and it isn't a personality quiz that boxes you into a type. It's a real diagnostic, built on the same four dimensions I coach with, your
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#338: The Real Reason the Money Fear Keeps You Stuck in a Midlife Transition
Have you convinced yourself that the work you truly want to do is a luxury you simply cannot afford right now? For so many accomplished women in a midlife transition, the money fear arrives in almost the same breath as the dream itself. You know the work you are doing no longer fits, and you want...
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#337: Why Your Future Self Already Knows Your Next Steps in a Midlife Transition
Have you finally admitted to yourself what you want next, and immediately found that a wall of fear and doubt stands between you and actually reaching for it? On Monday, in episode 336, Kristy Halvorsen left us with one question that silenced every fear long enough for us to see what we actually...
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#336: How to Follow the Tickles of Your Soul and Trust Your Intuition in Midlife Transitions, with Kristy Halvorsen
Is there a steady pull inside you toward something different, something you keep talking yourself out of because it makes no sense on paper? For so many women in a midlife transition, the hardest part is not the lack of a plan. It's learning to trust the inner knowing that keeps calling to you...
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#335: Why Your Inner Critic Gets Loudest the Moment You Are Ready for a Transition
Is there a voice in your head that keeps telling you you're not qualified, not ready, or not the kind of woman who gets to want something more? That voice has a name. In coaching, it's called the gremlin, and you probably know it better as your inner critic. It was built a long time ago to keep…
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#334: What to Do When Your Career No Longer Fits in a Midlife Transition
Have you built a career that looks successful from the outside, and still carry an honest knowing on the inside that it no longer fits the woman you have become? Nothing may be obviously wrong. The title is still there, the paycheck is still there, and everyone around you assumes you should be...
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#333: What to Do When Your Life Looks Fine but Something Feels Off in a Midlife Transition
Have you been carrying around a low, humming sense that something in your life is off, but you cannot quite point to where? On paper, much of your life looks fine. And yet underneath your days there is a low feeling of being out of balance, of moving from a good stretch to a hard one and back…
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#332: How to Use the September Reset to Reconnect With Your Purpose in Midlife
Have you found yourself standing at the turn of the season, wondering if this is really the life you meant to be living? For most of your life, September was a reset that belonged to everyone else. This year, with the house stiller and the old work no longer lighting you up, that familiar thrill...
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#331: How to Use Your Energy as a Guide to Alignment in Midlife Transitions
Have you spent so many years pushing through, being grateful, and not making a fuss that you have lost track of which parts of your day are actually fueling you and which are wearing you down? For most women in a midlife career and life transition, the mind can talk you into or out of almost...
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#330: The Real Reason Some People Seem to Have It All in a Midlife Transition.
Have you ever looked at someone who seems to have it all and wondered why life feels so much easier for them than it does for you? It is easy to assume they were born lucky, born special, or given something the rest of us were not. What is actually happening is far more available to you than it...
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#329: The One Question That Turns a Hard Feeling Into Clarity in a Midlife Transition
Have you been naming the loudest feeling of your day and moving on, without ever stopping to ask what is really going on underneath it? For most women navigating a midlife career and life transition, the anger, the stress, the flatness you cannot quite explain are not the whole story. They are…
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#328: What Your Emotions Are Trying to Tell You in a Midlife Career and Life Transition, with Dr. Lorea Martinez
Have you been doing work you once loved, in a life you actually chose, and still find yourself waking up depleted and quietly unsure of who you are anymore? That feeling is not a character flaw, and it is not proof that you built the wrong life. It is a signal, and like most of the feelings we…
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#327: How to Stop Living for Everyone Else's Approval in Midlife Transitions
Have you spent most of your life proving yourself to everyone else, and are only now beginning to wonder what it would feel like to do it for you? For decades, so much of what you chased was pointed outward, at parents, employers, families, and a whole world that seemed to be keeping score. That...
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#326: Why Your Ikigai Keeps Evolving Through Every Midlife Career and Life Transition
Have you been taught to think of a milestone birthday as the top of the mountain, when it may actually be the ground you build your next climb from? Turning 60 this weekend, Kavita shares one of the most personal episodes she has ever recorded. In it, she walks you through her own evolving…
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#325: What Is Your Real Reason to Get Up in the Morning?
If someone asked you today what your real reason to get up in the morning is, could you answer without hesitating? When researchers went to Okinawa and asked the oldest people on earth that same question, almost every one of them answered instantly, without pausing to think. Most of us cannot,...
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#324: How to Rediscover Your Purpose in Career and Life Transitions
Have you been looking for your purpose as though it were out there somewhere waiting to be found, when the whole time it has been quietly living inside you? For so many women in a career and life transitions, the search for what is next feels like hunting for something outside themselves, a job…
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#323: Say It Out Loud and Let Your Midlife Transition Come Into Focus
Have you been quietly turning the biggest question of your life over in your own head for months, hoping the answer will finally appear if you just think hard enough? For years, capable women in a midlife career and life transitions carry the most important questions of their lives privately,...
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#322: Can AI Find Your Ikigai or Reason for Being in Life's Transitions?
Have you ever sat up late, typed "what should I do with my life" into a chat window, and walked away feeling more empty than when you started? You are not alone, and you did nothing foolish. It is the most natural thing in the world to reach for a screen when the questions get big. But there is a...
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#321: What If the First Step of Your Midlife Career Transition Only Takes One Hour?
Have you been telling yourself that the way back to the part of you that you buried has to be huge, dramatic, and terrifying? For so many accomplished women in a midlife career and life transition, the reason a buried passion stays buried is not laziness or a lack of courage. It is the quiet…
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#320: The Passion You Buried That Holds the Key to Your Midlife Career and Life Transition
Is there a part of you that you buried a long time ago, a love or a talent that once made you feel most alive? Somewhere along the way, life needed you to be practical, responsible, and the person everyone expected you to be, and so you folded that part of yourself away and got on with your life....
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#319: When Your Ikigai Clicks Into Place and You Finally See the Path Forward
Have you ever had a moment where something inside you quietly lit up, and for the first time in a long time you could actually see a way forward? It often arrives as goosebumps, or tears of recognition, and it changes everything, because you cannot build toward something you cannot yet see. In…
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#318: Why a Successful Career Can Feel Empty and How to Start Your Midlife Career Transition
Have you built a life that looks right on paper, yet quietly wonder why it no longer feels like yours? That feeling of emptiness sitting on top of everything you worked so hard to earn is not a sign that something is wrong with you. It is one of the most important signals you will ever receive in…
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#317: How to Find Your Purpose in Midlife When You Think You Have None.
Have you ever listened to someone describe their purpose or reason for being and quietly wondered if you will ever find your own? If you are in the middle of a midlife career or life transition, that question can feel heavier than it should. The good news is that your ikigai is not something you...
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#316: When Everything You Have Lived Through Becomes Your Reason for Being
What if everything you have survived was quietly preparing you for the very thing you were put here to do? In the finale of the My Story series, Kavita shares what happened after she took the leap, when the relief gave way to quiet panic and the only thing left to do was take one small step, and...
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#315: The Fourth Circle of Ikigai That Reveals Where the World Needs You in Midlife Transitions
Have you been told that finding your purpose means solving some big, world-changing problem, and quietly decided it must not be for you? That belief is one of the biggest reasons women in midlife stop short of finding their Ikigai. The fourth circle, what the world needs, is not about the whole...
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#314: How to Work With the Inner Critic That Keeps You Stuck in a Career or Life Transition
Have you been waiting for a dramatic sign before you let yourself admit something needs to change? For most women, the moment that begins a career transition does not arrive as a crisis. It builds quietly, over months or years, in the form of a question you cannot stop turning over, a Monday...
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#313: The Hidden Strengths That Can Reshape Your Midlife Career and Life Transitions
What if the greatest strength you have is one you can no longer see, or one you set down years ago? In this Thursday companion to Monday's conversation with Deborah Knight (episode 312), Kavita continues the My Story series with a closer look at the first circle of ikigai: your strengths. The…
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#312: How to Reinvent Yourself After 50 When Everything You Built Falls Apart, with Deborah Knight
Have you ever wondered if it is too late to start over after the ground has shifted beneath you? If you are in the middle of a midlife career or life transition, where a layoff, a relationship ending, a diagnosis, or simply a quiet sense that this is no longer me has cracked open the life you…
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#311: How Your Buried Passions Reveal Your Ikigai in Midlife Transitions
What did you love doing as a girl, before life told you to be practical? If you have spent decades inside the playbook of career, family, and what you were supposed to want, there is a good chance you have left someone important behind: the girl who knew exactly what made her come alive. In this...
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#310: The Playbook You Did Not Know You Were Following in Your Career and Life Transition
From the outside, your life looks right. The career, the marriage, the achievements that everyone around you agrees count. From the inside, something has started to whisper a question you have been dismissing as exhaustion or burnout or just a hard week. Most of us follow a playbook through our...
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#309: The Values That Built You May Not Be the Ones Leading You Forward in a Midlife Career or Life Transition
Have you ever looked at the life you've built and quietly wondered why it no longer feels like yours, even though nothing on the outside looks wrong? Every career and life transition is, underneath everything, a conversation with your values. The values that carried you through your earlier...
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#308: The Inheritance You've Forgotten About in Your Career and Life Transition
Have you ever felt like the woman you are today is missing something the woman you used to be already knew? This week marks the start of a brand new series called My Story, where Kavita finally answers a question one of her clients asked that she had been quietly avoiding for five years. As you…
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#307: How to Tell the Difference Between Your Inner Critic and Your Inner Wisdom in a Midlife Career or Life Transition
What if the voice that has been telling you you are not ready, not qualified, or not allowed to want something different is not your wisdom at all, but the part of you that has the most to lose if you actually move forward? In midlife, when so much of who you were is quietly reorganizing, the…
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#306: What to Do When the Identity That Got You Here No Longer Fits in a Career or Life Transition, with Kathleen Perry
What if the identity that has defined you for decades - the career, the titles, the roles you have spent a lifetime building - is not actually who you are? For so many women navigating a career or life transition, the most disorienting part is not the change itself. It is the quiet, unsettling...
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#305: The One Ikigai Question to Ask Yourself in Every Career or Life Transition
What if the questions you have been asking about your career or life transition are the very reason the answers keep slipping away from you? Most women in midlife spend years asking what they want, what is missing, and what is wrong with them. Those questions feel productive. They feel like the...
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#304: 3 Ikigai Lessons From My Own Midlife Transition (And My Son's Wedding)
Three Ikigai lessons. One unexpected midlife transition. And a son's wedding in Cartagena that taught Kavita more about purpose, identity, and reinvention than any framework ever has. Most of us in midlife are exhausted because we're asking the wrong question. We're asking what do I want, what's...
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#303: 3 Shifts to Move from Burnout to Clarity in a Career or Life Transition
Have you built a successful career, cared for everyone around you, and checked every box - and still find yourself running on fumes? That exhaustion is not a sign that something is wrong with you. For so many accomplished women in a career or life transition, burnout is not the end of the story.…
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#302: Why Burnout at Midlife Is the Beginning of Your Career Transition Not the End
What if the exhaustion you cannot shake is not a sign that something has gone wrong - but the most honest signal your life has sent you in years? So many accomplished women reach a point in their midlife career or life transition where they have done everything right - the title, the recognition,...
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#301: The One Question to Ask Before Any Hard Decision in a Career or Life Transition
What if the reason you keep going in circles on a decision is not that you lack clarity - but that you have not yet stopped long enough to hear the one voice that actually knows? When you are in a career or life transition, the noise gets loud. The voice of fear, the voice of what other people...
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#300: Why Women Lose Their Inner Voice in a Career or Life Transition with Gail Harris
Are you navigating a midlife career or life transition and finding it harder than ever to trust what you actually know? When you have spent years making decisions based on responsibility, logic, and other people's expectations, the quieter voice inside you - the one that knows - can become almost...
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#299: What the In-Between Phase of a Midlife Career or Life Transition Is Actually Trying to Tell You
What if the phase of your midlife transition that feels the most uncertain and untethered is not a sign that something has gone wrong - but the place where everything important is quietly taking root? Most women navigating a career or life transition want to move through the uncomfortable...
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#298: What Letting Go of a Role That Defines You Can Teach You About Your Own Life Transition
What if the grief you feel alongside the joy of a milestone is not something to push down - but the most honest signal you have about what this season of life is really asking of you? Many women navigating midlife find themselves caught between two true things at once: profound happiness for...
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#297: 3 Small Shifts to Start Building Real Confidence in a Midlife Career or Life Transition
Are you waiting to feel confident before you take the next step in your midlife career or life transition, and wondering why that feeling never quite arrives? Most women in transition have been taught to treat confidence like a green light - something that has to show up before they are allowed…
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#296: How Your Ikigai Builds Real Confidence in Midlife Career & Life Transitions
Have you done the inner work, gained real clarity about what you want in your midlife career transition, and still can't seem to take the first step? That gap between knowing and doing is one of the most disorienting places to be - and it has nothing to do with not being ready. For so many...
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#295: 3 Ways Your Inner Critic Sounds Like Wisdom and the One Question That Exposes It
What if the thoughts keeping you stuck in your midlife career or life transition are not doubts at all - but ideas that sound completely wise and responsible? The inner critic's most powerful trick is not making you feel bad about yourself. It is giving you thoughts that sound mature, measured…
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#294: The Inner Critic Disguises That Keeps Women Stuck in Midlife Career and Life Transitions
What if the voice you have been trusting to keep you safe is actually the thing keeping you stuck in your career and life transition? Most women in midlife expect the inner critic to be loud and harsh. But for accomplished, capable women navigating a career or life transition, it almost never...
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#293: 3 Ways to Find Clarity When Midlife Transitions Have You Feeling Lost
Have you ever looked in the mirror during a midlife transition and wondered not just where you went, but how to find your way back? When career change, perimenopause, divorce, grief, or empty nesting arrive all at once, the sense of not recognizing yourself can feel permanent. But it is not. This...
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#292: She Never Left - How to Find Your Way Back to Yourself in Midlife Transitions, with Marie Crews
Have you ever sensed that the woman you truly are is still in there, but life has made her harder to hear? When you are moving through a life transition, whether it arrives through grief, divorce, perimenopause, career change, or years of putting everyone else first, finding your way back to...
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#291: 3 Ways Your Ikigai Shifts in a Midlife Career Transition
What if your Ikigai - your reason for being - is not something you find once and hold onto forever, but something that evolves as you do? You may still be good at what you do. You may still get recognition for it. But the deeper sense of meaning is not there the way it once was - and that can be...
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#290: How to Redefine Success During Midlife Transitions Using Ikigai
What if the version of success that no longer feels like enough is actually pointing you toward the one that truly fits? Many accomplished women reach a point in midlife career or life transition where the titles, the recognition, and the milestones they worked so hard for stop feeling like…
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#289: How to Find Clarity in the In-Between Phase of a Career Transition
What if the uncertainty you're feeling in your career transition is not a sign that you're lost, but a sign that you're paying attention? The in-between phase of a career or life transition is one of the most disorienting places to be. Your old identity no longer fits the way it used to, and your...
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Are you experiencing a Career or Life Transition, and are asking yourself "What's Next"? Join Kavita Ahuja, Certified Career and Life Transitions Coach, and founder of It's My Time Now Coaching as she gives her own wonderful insights and interviews incredible women across the globe that will give you inspiration to rediscover who you really are, what you really want, and how to get there.
You'll learn how to overcome obstacles, find your true calling, and make your next chapter in life your best chapter ever. Reinvention doesn't mean giving up everything; it means rediscovering what has always been inside of you and bringing that out into the world. If not now, when?
If you want a place to start, take the Ikigai Clarity Assessment. It takes about five minutes, and it isn't a personality quiz that boxes you into a type. It's a real diagnostic, built on the same four dimensions I coach with, your
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