Refire Don't Retire Podcast Dr. Cynthia Barnett

Meet Lana Hall: psychologist, author, and woman on a mission to empower other women to live a meaningful, authentic and joyous life with full confidence.
Lana has taken the best of the best of what she’s found works to promote confidence, resilience and a passion for your own life and has put these tools and strategies into a guide book that you can use to navigate your world so that you maximize the amount satisfaction you can get from your life – all while showing up as your authentic self and having fun doing so. These tools and strategies are The Slow Life Project.

When grieving a loss, you may move from one stage to the next and then back again. This is a normal part of the process. So when experiencing a change, do not resist the grieving process. Although at first it may not feel like grief is good, it does help you to close one chapter of your life so you can move on to the next.

Karen Cassidy, executive director of Hildegard house, created Kentucky’s first and only comfort care home. She, along with a group of volunteers, provide a home and compassionate care for individuals at the end of life who have no home or loved ones to care for them so that they may die with dignity.

It’s a simple fact that we want the things in our lives to remain familiar and stable. We strive to create routine in our lives, and make our world as predictable as possible. Routine and predictability make us feel safe, secure and in control.

Because of our desire for predictability, we can often be resistant to change. The status quo feels more comfortable and we are reluctant to stretch ourselves, try new things and take risks.

Amy McLaren is this episode's guest, speaking with Dr. Cynthia about how you can move from passion to purpose at any stage of your life and what you can do to help you identify your passion and purpose. Amy leads LadyStrength, a growing community of driven, entrepreneurial women who aspire to make a positive difference in the world. She understands it's common to struggle with identifying passion and purpose, especially in midlife, being a busy mom of two. She also knows that putting yourself first makes passion and purpose possible, as evidenced by her LadyStrength community, growing an Airbnb business and being a hands-on CEO of Village Impact, the charity she and her husband, Stu, founded more than a decade ago, and she wants to let you know how you can incorporate more passion and purpose into your life.

We all experience change whether we want to or not.  Regardless of our age or life experience, change is difficult.  It’s not that we don’t like change or want it, it’s that we would prefer for it to happen more easily and on our terms. Unfortunately, change often requires us to give up what’s old and familiar in order for something new and better to take its place.