The Midlife Plot Twist Podcast

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What if the life you built no longer fits? Join Jennifer — academic, coach, and woman in her 40s — as she shares her real-time journey from burnout to breakthrough. Honest, insightful, and a little messy, each episode explores what it really takes to let go of old identities and create a midlife that feels true, purposeful, and free.

Episodes

  1. 6D AGO

    Episode 12: I'm Fine

    Episode 12 explores the quiet question many women carry through midlife: “Is this it?” As she reflects on burnout, career change, and the habit of saying she’s “fine,” host Jennifer invites listeners to look beneath low-grade exhaustion and emotional flatness. This episode offers a thoughtful year-end reflection on midlife awakening and self-honesty, and includes a reminder about her free workshop, Taking Stock of 2025, available only until December 31, 2025. A timely listen for women in midlife navigating burnout, new purpose, and personal plot twists.

    17 min

  2. 2025-12-22

    Episode 11: Midlife Acceptance

    In this episode, Jennifer explores midlife acceptance and what it means to embrace aging as a woman in her forties without shame, fear, or the pressure to stay young. She reflects on the identities and beliefs that delayed her connection to midlife, including career transitions, body image, menopause, aging, and living out of sync with peers. Drawing from personal experiences with loss, health challenges, and self-reflection, she shares five practices that have supported her journey toward self-acceptance and emotional well-being in midlife. This episode offers an honest, compassionate conversation for women navigating midlife transitions, identity, self-worth, and personal growth.

    20 min

  3. 2025-12-15

    Episode 10: Trusting Your Intuition in Midlife

    The podcast hits a milestone with episode ten. In this episode, Jennifer shares a personal midlife update and explores why trusting your intuition is essential during times of transition. From career uncertainty and identity shifts to perimenopause, restlessness, and the desire for something more, we talk about the subtle inner voice that signals a midlife plot twist. This episode is for women in their 40s who are craving clarity, freedom, and a deeper connection to themselves—and who are ready to step into midlife with intention rather than urgency. Includes a reminder to access the free Taking Stock of 2025 workshop, available for a limited time.

    38 min

  4. 2025-12-08

    Episode 9: Taking Stock of 2025

    In Episode 9 of The Midlife Plot Twist Podcast, Jennifer explores one of her favourite December rituals: taking stock of who we are, what we’ve moved through, and what we want as we head into a new year. This reflective conversation is perfect for women in their 40s navigating identity shifts, changing energy, career transitions, evolving relationships, and the search for deeper purpose in midlife. Jennifer also shares a special gift: a free Year-End “Taking Stock of 2025” Workshop, available until December 31st. It’s designed to help you gain clarity, honour your quiet victories, and prepare intentionally for 2026. Find it through her Instagram bio or email her directly. Inside the episode, you’ll hear Jennifer reflect on her own unconventional upcoming milestones—marriage, becoming a grandmother, and going back to school—and she invites you to pause and ask: What am I bringing into 2026? Where did I surprise myself this year? What quiet victories have I never acknowledged? If you’re craving reflection, direction, and self-awareness in midlife, this episode is for you. Connect on Instagram @midlifeplottwistpodcast or email midlifeplottwistpodcast@gmail.com and don’t forget to follow and rate the show to support its growth.

    16 min

  5. 2025-12-01

    Episode 8: Acceptance vs. Embracing

    In Episode 8 of The Midlife Plot Twist Podcast, Jennifer shares a major milestone in her midlife transition! After months of navigating uncertainty and contemplating her midlife career change, she opens up about where she stands now and why embracing her next chapter matters more than waiting for perfect clarity. This episode explores acceptance as an act of embracing, which is a powerful reframe for anyone experiencing a midlife reinvention. Jennifer reflects on the fears and excitement of starting over in her forties, the inner clarity that’s been building through journaling, and the themes she wants to carry into the second half of life: joy, abundance, creativity, stability, and community. As 2025 comes to an end, she invites women in midlife to consider what they’re ready to embrace in 2026 and how they want to shape their own midlife plot twist. Request the FREE Midlife Plot Twist Starter Guide via Instagram @midlifeplottwistpodcast or email midlifeplottwistpodcast@gmail.com.

    16 min

  6. 2025-11-24

    Episode 7: Ten Helpful Questions & an Update

    In this week’s episode of The Midlife Plot Twist Podcast, Jennifer shares a quick update from the middle of her own career transition, as she waits on her MSW application decision while navigating her sick leave and recovery, and rethinking the life she once built around becoming a professor. She also introduces 10 helpful questions from her free Midlife Plot Twist Starter Guide. These are some of the same questions that helped her gain clarity on what comes next. Grab the free guide via @midlifeplottwistpodcast on Instagram or by emailing midlifeplottwistpodcast@gmail.com.

    8 min

  7. 2025-11-17

    Episode 6: Midlife and Long-Held Dreams

    In this episode of The Midlife Plot Twist podcast, Jennifer shares a pivotal moment in her midlife journey as she awaits the results of her graduate school application, which is one step toward fulfilling a dream she’s carried since adolescence: becoming a therapist. She reflects on how her path through academia, coaching, and creative rediscovery led her back to the dreams that shaped her early life, and how midlife is often the perfect time to revisit what once inspired us. Jennifer explores the idea of enduring dreams, the role of intuition in life transitions, the transferable skills we accumulate without realizing it, and the deep connection between self-worth and the courage to pursue what we truly want. This episode invites listeners to reflect on their own long-held dreams, the essence behind them, and the possibility of bringing them back into their lives—no matter how much time has passed. Listeners are encouraged to share their stories or reach out at midlifeplottwistpodcast@gmail.com or on Instagram @midlifeplottwistpodcast.

    14 min

  8. 2025-11-10

    Episode 5: Plot Twists and Fear

    In this episode, Jennifer talks about what the plot twist means to her adn dives into one of the most powerful emotions we can face in midlife: fear. What happens when a life you’ve worked so hard to build suddenly stops feeling like your story?  Jennifer shares her personal experience of confronting fear during a major change in life, exploring how catastrophizing can trap us in black-and-white thinking and how reclaiming choice, which is guided by our own well-being, can free us. Through honest reflection, she reveals how fear has shown up at every major turning point in her life, and how she’s learned to see it as a companion in transformation rather than an enemy to avoid. If you’ve ever felt paralyzed by fear while facing a life change, this episode will help you reframe it as a sign of growth and possibility.

    11 min

  9. 2025-11-03

    Episode 4: Midlife

    In this episode of The Midlife Plot Twist, Jennifer opens up about what it feels like to navigate midlife as a woman in her forties, from confronting fears about leaving her academic career to redefining what aging means after major life and health changes. She shares how a hysterectomy became an unexpected doorway to self-discovery and how midlife, once associated with loss, is revealing itself as a time of clarity, courage, and liberation. Through honest reflection, Jennifer explores the myths we’ve been taught about midlife and the freedom that comes from finally meeting yourself without apology. This conversation is an invitation to see midlife not as an ending, but as the start of something powerful and new.

    13 min

  10. 2025-10-29

    Episode 3: Grieving What You're Leaving Behind

    In this episode, Jen opens up about the unexpected grief that comes with leaving academia. She reflects on the loss of identity, the hopes she once had for her career, and the process of letting go with compassion. Through an honest journaling practice, Jen explores who she is beyond her job and invites listeners to do the same.

    14 min

  11. 2025-10-28

    Episode 2: Living in Limbo

    What happens when your heart has already made the decision to leave, but your body and circumstances haven’t caught up yet? In this episode, Jennifer reflects on the uncomfortable (and necessary) space of limbo — that in-between stage where you’re not who you were, but not yet who you’re becoming. She explores the lessons of waiting, surrender, and seeing her life from a new perspective — much like the Hanged Man card in Tarot. If you’re standing in your own in-between, knowing change is coming but not yet ready to leap, this one’s for you.

    10 min
  12. Episode 1: My Midlife Plot Twist

    2025-10-27

    Episode 1: My Midlife Plot Twist

    After years of achievement in academia, Jennifer, a woman in her 40s, faces burnout, chronic illness, and the realization that she wants to start fresh. In this candid first episode, she shares the start of her journey, setting up for a podcast on the real-time process of letting go of academia, healing, and redefining her purpose for midlife and beyond.

    16 min
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What if the life you built no longer fits? Join Jennifer — academic, coach, and woman in her 40s — as she shares her real-time journey from burnout to breakthrough. Honest, insightful, and a little messy, each episode explores what it really takes to let go of old identities and create a midlife that feels true, purposeful, and free.

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