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Fifty Is A MindF*ck
by Fifty is a Mindfu*k
What happens when you hit 50 and you realize that no one's really talking about the things that we're actually going through?Welcome to 50s of Mindfuck. The good, the bad, the hairy, the ugly, and the beautiful. Let's go. When I started this social media journey at 50, there were really no people my age showing up online. At least not talking about the real stuff, at the same time, I was going through one of the hardest seasons of my life, which was losing my dad. I needed somewhere to put that grief and creativity, the grief, the confusion, the identity shift, the questions that just didn't have clean answers anywhere I was searching. I couldn't even Google these things back then. So I started talking. This show talks about everything that comes with this stage of life, the parts we don't always say out loud, aging, loss, relationships, reinvention, and even figuring out who you are when the roles you've carried start to change. I'm Wendy Ortiz. I've built a life, a business, a family
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What Happens When Healing Offends People
Erica never expected to become a widow.One day she was living the life she knew — and the next, she was forced into a version of herself she never asked for: grieving, untethered, and trying to figure out who she was without the life and love she thought she’d have much longer.In this episode of **50 Is a Mindf*ck**, Erica shares what it means to be a “surprise widow” — the shock of sudden loss, the loneliness that follows, and the complicated, messy reality of healing.But healing didn’t look like sitting still.It looked like solo travel.Saying yes to the unknown.Learning how to be alone.Being forced to find herself again — not as someone’s wife, not as someone’s partner, but as herself.And then, just six months later, life did what life does: it surprised her again.She met someone.What followed was love, guilt, judgment, and heartbreaking family fallout as her daughters struggled to accept that her moving forward didn’t mean forgetting.This is a conversation about grief, healing, reinvention, love after loss, and the brutal truth that sometimes rebuilding your life means losing people you thought would walk beside you.
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Mindful at Fifty
David joins the podcast to share his raw, honest journey of marrying later in life, suddenly becoming a father of three, and facing unexpected family health challenges. Through humor and resilience, he reflects on patience, adaptability, and finding hope in the chaos of midlife.
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What happens when you hit 50 and you realize that no one's really talking about the things that we're actually going through?Welcome to 50s of Mindfuck. The good, the bad, the hairy, the ugly, and the beautiful. Let's go. When I started this social media journey at 50, there were really no people my age showing up online. At least not talking about the real stuff, at the same time, I was going through one of the hardest seasons of my life, which was losing my dad. I needed somewhere to put that grief and creativity, the grief, the confusion, the identity shift, the questions that just didn't have clean answers anywhere I was searching. I couldn't even Google these things back then. So I started talking. This show talks about everything that comes with this stage of life, the parts we don't always say out loud, aging, loss, relationships, reinvention, and even figuring out who you are when the roles you've carried start to change. I'm Wendy Ortiz. I've built a life, a business, a family
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