The Stage

The Stage is a podcast for curious humans who refuse to sleepwalk through midlife.Hosted by Rita Hausken and Torild Boe – two global thinkers shaped by real-life upheaval and reinvention – these conversations span the whole spectrum of being human: health, relationships, loss, leadership, purpose, ageing, identity, travel, reinvention, and the stories we rarely say out loud.Rita lived through the unimaginable as she walked alongside her son Benjamin through a life doctors said would be short and later through the heartbreak of losing him, finding her way into a new reality.Torild redefined herself through perimenopause whilst navigating divorce with young children.Together, we bring honesty, depth, humour, and a refusal to accept outdated rulebooks about how life “should” look after 40.Some episodes will make you think. Some will make you laugh. Some might hit a nerve. All of them offer real, unfiltered conversations for