The Midlife Reinvention: How to Find Your Ikigai, Deal with Imposter Syndrome & Build Your Confidence in Career & Life Transi

Kavita Ahuja, Founder of It's My Time Now Coaching, Inspired By Mel Robbins, Oprah Winfrey, Brene Brown, Deepak Chopra, Vishen Lakhiani, Cathy Heller
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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 https://itsmytimenowcoaching.com/ as she gives her own wonderful insights and interviews incredible women across the globe will give you inspiration to rediscover who you really are, what you really want, and how to get there! You will 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 would like to dive deeper into how Kavita can help you make your vision for yourself a reality, book a complimentary consultation with Kavita here: https://imtncoach.com/bu-pc-bc-ka

  1. 1d ago

    #309: The Values That Built You May Not Be the Ones Leading You Forward in a Midlife Career or Life Transition

    Send us Fan Mail 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 chapters are not always the same ones calling you forward into who you are becoming, and learning to tell the difference is some of the most important work of midlife. In this Thursday mini, a companion to Monday's episode 308, Kavita picks up one thread from her own story and follows it further: what happens when a new value starts knocking on the door, and what it means for your ikigai when you let yourself answer. In this episode, you'll discover: Why the values that built your earlier chapters can quietly go out of alignment during a midlife career transition, and how to notice when it's happeningHow your ikigai shifts as your strengths, passions, values, and what the world needs from you all evolve through every season of lifeA simple values exercise to help you name what is still leading you forward and what you have outgrown with love and respectPress play to begin the quiet, honest conversation with your values that every meaningful life transition is asking you to have. If you're sensing that your values are shifting and you're ready to explore what your next chapter wants to look like, schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita or take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see where your career and life are most asking for your attention right now. _________________________ Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence. Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com New episodes every Monday and Thursday. This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.

    11 min

  2. 4d ago

    #308: The Inheritance You've Forgotten About in Your Career and Life Transition

    Send us Fan Mail 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 sit in your own career or life transition, this series is an invitation to listen for yourself in someone else's story, to notice where your themes echo, and to remember the courage that has been sitting inside you all along, waiting for you to claim it. In this episode, you'll discover: The cultural roots and family story that shaped Kavita, and why your own history holds essential clues for navigating change todayHow the values that built your life in your twenties and thirties may no longer be the values calling you now, and what that signals about your next chapterThe one reflection question to sit with this week that can shift how you see your story and your capacity to move through this life transitionPress play to remember the bravery already written into your story, and to begin recognizing the version of it that is asking to lead you into what's next. Ask Me Anything:  If there is a question burning in you about Kavita’s  journey, your journey, or anything in between, send her an email at Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.com. She  will be answering your questions in the episodes ahead.. If something in this episode is stirring in you and you are ready to explore what your next chapter could look like, book a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita or take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see where you are right now and what is calling you forward.  _________________________ Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence. Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com New episodes every Monday and Thursday. This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.

    18 min

  3. May 28

    #307: How to Tell the Difference Between Your Inner Critic and Your Inner Wisdom in a Midlife Career or Life Transition

    Send us Fan Mail 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 voice in your head tends to get louder. The more you move toward something new, the more that voice works to keep you where you are. The hard part is that your inner critic and your inner wisdom can sound surprisingly alike from the inside. Until you can tell them apart, you will keep mistaking old stories for real warnings and missing the steady voice that actually knows what you want. In this episode, you'll discover: The one word that instantly tells you whether you are listening to your inner critic or your inner wisdom in any career or life transitionWhy your body knows the difference before your mind does, and the simple signal it gives you when the critic has taken overThe reason your inner critic always sounds so familiar, and how that familiarity is actually the key to seeing through itPress play to learn a small experiment you can try this week to start trusting your own wisdom in real time, beginning with the low-stakes moments and building toward the bigger decisions ahead of you. If this episode lands for you, download the free 28-Day Confidence Guide for daily practices and short video lessons to help you trust your own voice one day at a time. _________________________ Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence. Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com New episodes every Monday and Thursday. This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.

    11 min

  4. May 25

    #306: What to Do When the Identity That Got You Here No Longer Fits in a Career or Life Transition, with Kathleen Perry

    Send us Fan Mail 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 realization that when the role falls away, you are not sure who is left. This conversation with Dr. Kathleen Perry - transformational coach, former chiropractor, and host of the Identity Matters podcast - goes straight to the heart of that question. After five profound losses in five years, Kathleen discovered something that changed everything: the identity you have built is not who you are. And when life asks you to let it go, that is not the end of something. It is the beginning. In this episode, you'll discover: Why your sense of self can feel shaken during a career or life transition even when nothing dramatic has happened - and what your mind, body, and spirit are actually trying to tell you when everything feels uncertainWhy the voice in your head is not you - and why you do not have to fix it, silence it, or manage it during a life transition, only see through it - and what changes when you finally doThe one question that cuts through everything else when you are navigating career and life transitions - not what should you do, but what do you actually want - and why the answer is already closer to the surface than you thinkPress play to hear an honest, deeply personal conversation about loss, identity, and what becomes possible when you stop taking yourself to be the roles you have been playing - and begin living as who you actually are. If the voice in your head has been louder than your own knowing lately, download the free 28-Day Confidence Guide for daily practices and short video lessons to help you trust your own voice over the noise. And if you are ready to talk through what this season of your life is asking of you, schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita. You can find Dr. Kathleen Perry and the Identity Matters podcast here: Identity Matters podcast - https://www.drkathleenperry.com/podcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kathleen.g.perry.1/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/kathleen.g.perry.1 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/drkathleen/ Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa3jLew8BduIXdKXYlSs0Hw _________________________ Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence. Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com New episodes every Monday and Thursday. This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.

    44 min

  5. May 21

    #305: The One Ikigai Question to Ask Yourself in Every Career or Life Transition

    Send us Fan Mail 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 right place to start. But they have a hidden cost - they keep you looking inward at what you lack, and the more you look, the deeper the stuckness grows. This Thursday mini episode builds on Episode 304 and offers the one ikigai question that quietly changes everything - not by giving you a new answer, but by shifting the energy from which you begin to look. In this episode, you'll discover: Why asking "what do I want?" during a career or life transition almost always makes the uncertainty feel worse - and what happens the moment you turn the question around and ask what the world right in front of you needs insteadHow the shift from catabolic to anabolic energy is not just a mindset change but a real, practical shift in what you can see and receive during a midlife career transition - including the opportunities and conversations that were already thereA simple two-minute daily practice to sit with this ikigai question this week - one that does not require grand answers, only honest attention to the people, moments, and small invitations already showing up in your lifePress play to discover the one question that can move you from circling to clarity in your career or life transition - and why the world is already showing you the answer if you are in the energy to receive it. If this episode is resonating, the free 28-Day Confidence Guide is the natural next step - 28 days of short video lessons from Kavita to help you build the confidence to act on what this question reveals. _________________________ Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence. Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com New episodes every Monday and Thursday. This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.

    8 min

  6. May 18

    #304: 3 Ikigai Lessons From My Own Midlife Transition (And My Son's Wedding)

    Send us Fan Mail 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 missing from my life, what's wrong with me. And the more we ask, the deeper into stuckness we sink. But there's a different question that changes everything.  In this episode, you'll discover: Why asking "what does the world need from me right now?" is one of the most powerful questions you can sit with during a midlife career or life transition - and why it opens doors that "what do I want?" never quite reachesThe real reason so many women only feel fully alive on vacation - and what it reveals about the permission we have stopped giving ourselves in our everyday livesWhy the transitions that catch us off guard are often the most important messengers we have, and the one question that every midlife transition is quietly asking you if you are willing to slow down enough to hear itPress play to hear an honest, personal reflection on what it means to truly live what you teach - and why the question that kept Kavita up one late night after the wedding is the reason this podcast is about to feel a little different. If this episode stirred something in you, download the free 28-Day Confidence Guide for daily practices and short video lessons to help you find your voice and step into your next chapter with confidence. And if you are ready to talk through where you are and what comes next, schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita. _________________________ Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence. Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com New episodes every Monday and Thursday. This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.

    15 min

  7. May 14

    #303: 3 Shifts to Move from Burnout to Clarity in a Career or Life Transition

    Send us Fan Mail 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. It is the signal that something inside is ready to evolve. This episode is a re-release of Episode 248 - one of the most listened-to mini episodes from the archive, brought back by popular demand as a companion to this week's Monday episode on burnout - and offers three grounding shifts to help you move from depletion toward clarity, purpose, and renewed energy. In this episode, you'll discover: Why burnout is not a failure or a sign of weakness, but feedback from your body that your career or life transition is asking for something different - and the one question that begins to reveal what that isHow three honest reflection questions can point you toward your ikigai - the intersection of what you love, what you are good at, and what feels meaningful - without requiring you to start over or have it all figured out firstWhy one small, aligned action is all it takes to shift from catabolic, contracting energy toward the anabolic energy that opens doors and builds real confidence during a life transitionPress play to hear why the fatigue and restlessness you feel right now may not be an ending at all - but the pause before your next beginning. If this episode resonated with you, take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to understand where you are right now and what may be holding you back. Or if you are ready to explore what your next chapter could look like, schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita. _________________________ Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence. Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com New episodes every Monday and Thursday. This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.

    8 min

  8. May 11

    #302: Why Burnout at Midlife Is the Beginning of Your Career Transition Not the End

    Send us Fan Mail 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, the security - and still wake up wondering if this is all there is. The fatigue does not lift. The things that once energized you feel flat. And underneath the quiet ache is a question you are almost afraid to ask: what now? This episode is for you if you are living in that question right now. This is a re-release of one of podcast's most resonant solo episodes - brought back because the reframe at its center is the one she returns to again and again with women who are exhausted in ways that rest cannot fix. In this episode, you'll discover: Why burnout in a career or life transition is not a character flaw or a sign that you have wasted your years - it is your body and your spirit giving you the clearest feedback you have ever received, and what to do with itThe three phases every woman moves through in a midlife transition - and why skipping the uncomfortable questioning phase is exactly what keeps so many accomplished women stuck in the wrong next stepHow reconnecting with your ikigai shifts you from catabolic, draining energy into the expansive anabolic energy where real career clarity lives - and why that shift is what makes new possibilities begin to appearPress play to understand what the exhaustion is really telling you - and why this moment, as hard as it feels, may be the beginning of the most meaningful chapter of your life. If this episode spoke to something you have been carrying for a while, schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita to talk through where you are and what aligned action could look like for you. Or take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to get clear on where you are fulfilled and where something important may be missing. _________________________ Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence. Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com New episodes every Monday and Thursday. This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.

    16 min
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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 https://itsmytimenowcoaching.com/ as she gives her own wonderful insights and interviews incredible women across the globe will give you inspiration to rediscover who you really are, what you really want, and how to get there! You will 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 would like to dive deeper into how Kavita can help you make your vision for yourself a reality, book a complimentary consultation with Kavita here: https://imtncoach.com/bu-pc-bc-ka

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