Aging With Purpose and Passion | Women Over 50

Beverley Glazer, MA, CCC, ICF | Work and Life Transition Coach for Women Over 50
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Aging With Purpose and Passion is the award winning podcast for women over 50 who know they're not finished yet. They're navigating reinvention, career change, retirement, relationships, caregiving, and the deeper question of what they want now. Hosted by Beverley Glazer, MA, CCC, a work and life transition coach for women over 50 and midlife reinvention strategist, Aging With Purpose and Passion features stories from women over 50 who have faced change, challenged expectations, rebuilt confidence, and refused to let age — or anything else — define what is still possible. Each week, Beverley and her resilient guests explore reinvention after 50, career change, retirement transitions, menopause, empty nest, caregiving for aging parents, divorce, grief, health challenges, business transitions, entrepreneurship, relationships, ageism, leadership shifts, ambition, resilience, mindset, purpose, and self-trust. These are not polished success stories or generic conversations about starting over. They are real, practical, emotionally intelligent conversations about what happens when the life you built no longer aligns with who you are today. Aging With Purpose and Passion is not about chasing youth, forcing positivity, or pretending change is easy. It is women over 50 and far beyond, telling the truth about what they feel, what they've been through, and what becomes possible when they stop talking themselves out of settling for less. You may come for someone else’s story. You may leave ready to change your own. New conversations released weekly. Learn more at ReinventImpossible.com/podcast. 🔗 Resources Beverley Glazer, MA, CCCMidlife Transition Expert, Reinvention Strategist, and Host of Aging With Purpose and Passion Learn more about the podcast, coaching, and Beverley’s work:https://reinventimpossible.com/podcast

  1. 20h ago

    Betrayal After 50: When You Stop Trusting Yourself | Lora Cheadle

    Infidelity, self-blame, empty nest, reconciliation, and rebuilding self-trust when the life you believed in suddenly changes. What happens when someone else’s betrayal makes you question yourself? For women over 50, infidelity can hit at a time when so much is already changing. Children are leaving home. Your body may be changing. The roles that defined you for years are shifting. And suddenly, one discovery can make you question not only your relationship—but your own judgment. In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer talks with Lora Cheadle, JD, CHt, betrayal recovery expert, attorney, somatic attachment therapist, clinical hypnotherapist, TEDx speaker, and author of It’s Not Burnout, It’s Betrayal. Just as her youngest was preparing to leave for college, Lora discovered that her husband had been unfaithful for 15 years. What followed wasn't simply anger or heartbreak. There was shock. Evidence to piece together. Self-blame. And the devastating question so many women ask after betrayal: “How could I not have known?” We talk about why betrayal trauma can make even the most capable woman doubt herself, why high-achieving women are so good at performing “I’ve got this” when they’re falling apart, and what happens when you can no longer trust the story you believed about your life. Lora also speaks openly about separation and her eventual decision to reconcile—a choice that brought its own questions and judgment. Without excusing the harm caused by infidelity, she explains how unresolved trauma can contribute to destructive coping, what her husband had to confront in himself, and why reconciliation required them to build something different rather than return to the marriage they had before. But perhaps the most important question wasn't: “Can I trust him again?” It was: “Can I trust myself again?” Because after betrayal, everyone may have an opinion about what you should do. Stay. Leave. Forgive. Don't forgive. But you're the one who has to live with the decision. This conversation is really about what happens after trust breaks—when you have to decide what you believe, what you want, and whether you're willing to trust yourself again. Stay until the end, when Beverley shares key takeaways and practical actions you can begin using immediately. IN THIS EPISODE How betrayal trauma can make you stop trusting yourselfRecovering from infidelity after 50Why women blame themselves after discovering an affairEmpty nest, menopause, and identity changes after betrayalWhy high-achieving women hide pain behind “I’ve got this”How to rebuild self-trust after betrayalSeparation and reconciliation after infidelityWhat accountability looks like when rebuilding a relationshipHow unresolved trauma can affect relationshipsSetting boundaries and making your own decisions after betrayalFor similar episodes on rebuilding from loss, check out episode 178, When Life Breaks You Open, and Episode 180, Divorce, Self-Worth, and Everyday Peace on Aging with Purpose and Passion. And if you're looking for podcasts for older women, Women Over 70 Aging Reimagined is an award-winning podcast and community that celebrates wisdom, resilience and vitality of women over 70. Resources:  Lora Cheadle, JD, CHt – Betrayal Recovery Expert | Attorney | Author 🌐 Website: www.loracheadle.com 📘 Facebook: www.facebook.com/LifeChoreographer/ 💼 LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/lora-cheadle-lifechoreographer/ 📸 Instagram: www.instagram.com/loracheadle/ Beverley Glazer, MA, CCC – Work and Life Transition Coach | Host of Aging With Purpose and Passion 🌐 Website: reinventimpossible.com 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/beverleyglazer/ 📘 Facebook: facebook.com/beverley.glazer 👩‍💼 Women Over 50 Rock! Community: facebook.com/groups/womenover50rock 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/beverleyglazer_reinvention/ Send us Fan Mail  🎁 The Gift of a Safe Space: A private, non-judgmental zone away from work and family to focus entirely on your needs, your journey and what's next for you. If you are feeling stuck in your transition, this is your space to exhale. Have feedback or a powerful story that's worth telling? Contact us at info@Reinventimpossible.com

    Betrayal After 50: When You Stop Trusting Yourself | Lora Cheadle

  2. Sep 9

    Reinvention After 50: When You Can’t Keep Pushing | Dana Hilmer

    Rethinking success, retirement, identity, and what happens when life forces you to change the pace. You can be very good at the life you’ve built and still know you don’t want to keep living it the same way. For many high-achieving women over 50, the hardest transition isn’t leaving a career or approaching retirement. It’s realizing that the drive, productivity, and determination that got you this far may not be what you need now. In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer talks with Dana Hilmer, happiness and midlife transitions expert, unretirement coach, and founder of Wiser and Free, about what happens when your old definition of success no longer works. Dana spent years believing that if she worked hard enough, achieved enough, and kept pushing, she would eventually arrive at the life she was supposed to want. But reaching that version of success brought an unexpected realization: it wasn’t enough to look successful from the outside. Her life had to feel right to her. We talk about perfectionism, people pleasing, the persistent feeling of “not good enough,” and why accomplished women can become so identified with what they do that it becomes difficult to ask a much simpler question: How do I actually want to live? Dana shares her “compass point” approach—using how you want to feel about your life as a filter for decisions about work, relationships, purpose, and pace. We also explore unretirement and why leaving a full-time career doesn’t have to mean leaving meaningful work behind. For some women, what comes next may include part-time work, entrepreneurship, creative projects, volunteering, or simply more freedom to decide where their energy goes. Then Dana’s own life forced these ideas off the page. While caring for her father as his Alzheimer’s progressed, a frightening incident was followed by serious physical symptoms and a diagnosis of functional neurological disorder (FND). Dana had always been someone who pushed through. Now she was learning that sometimes the work isn’t to push through at all. It’s to be with what is—and decide from there. This is a conversation about ambition, identity, retirement, caregiving, health, and redefining success when life doesn’t go according to plan. Because the question after 50 isn’t simply, “What am I going to do next?” It’s “How do I want to experience the life I have now?” Stay until the end, when Beverley shares key takeaways and practical actions you can begin using immediately. IN THIS EPISODE Why high-achieving women can struggle with identity after 50When pushing through stops workingHow perfectionism and people pleasing shape our definition of successWhat to do when achievement no longer feels fulfillingHow to figure out what you really want after 50Why retirement can change how you see yourselfWhat unretirement can look like for women over 50Caring for a parent with Alzheimer’sAdapting when your body requires a different paceHow to redefine success on your own termsFor similar episodes check out You've Built a Life Now What that's episode 190 and Retirement After 50 Your Best Work is Not Over that's episode number 185 of Aging with Purpose and Passion. And if you're looking for podcasts for older women, Women Over 70 Aging Reimagined is an award-winning podcast and community that celebrates wisdom, resilience and vitality of women over 70. Resources: Dana Hilmer – Happiness & Midlife Transitions Expert | Unretirement Transition Coach | Founder of Wiser and Free ✉️ Email: dana@danahilmer.com 🌐 Website: wiserandfree.com 📘 Happy After 50 Community: facebook.com/groups/happyafter50 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/danahilmer 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/dana.hilmer Beverley Glazer, MA, CCC – Work and Life Transition Coach | Host of Aging With Purpose and Passion 🌐 Website: reinventimpossible.com 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/beverleyglazer 📘 Facebook: facebook.com/beverley.glazer 👩‍💼 Women Over 50 Rock! Community: facebook.com/groups/womenover50rock 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/beverleyglazer_reinvention Send us Fan Mail  🎁 The Gift of a Safe Space: A private, non-judgmental zone away from work and family to focus entirely on your needs, your journey and what's next for you. If you are feeling stuck in your transition, this is your space to exhale. Have feedback or a powerful story that's worth telling? Contact us at info@Reinventimpossible.com

    Reinvention After 50: When You Can’t Keep Pushing | Dana Hilmer

  3. Sep 2

    When the Story You Believed Isn’t the Whole Story | Yvonne F. Conte

    Family secrets, forgiveness, retirement, and what changes when you see your past with new eyes after 50. What if something you learned after 50 changed the way you understood your family—and yourself? For decades, Yvonne F. Conte believed she knew the story of her childhood. Then one photograph and two documents revealed information she had never known. Nothing about the past changed. But the meaning of it did. In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer sits down with the nationally recognized keynote speaker and bestselling author of Beneath Her Smile for a conversation about family secrets, memory, forgiveness, reinvention, and the perspective that can come later in life. Yvonne takes us back to childhood, where humor first became a way to get attention, connect, and feel seen. That instinct would follow her through rebellious teenage years, marriage, divorce, single motherhood, sales, job loss, and an unexpected career reinvention that eventually put her on stages across the country. Then came another transition. After decades of speaking, retirement left Yvonne with more time—but not enough purpose. Writing her memoir brought her back to old memories and forced her to reconsider assumptions she had carried about her parents for most of her life. This conversation is not about pretending painful experiences didn’t matter. It is about what can happen when you finally have enough distance, experience, and information to understand them differently. Beverley and Yvonne explore what it means to revisit the past without becoming trapped in it, how family stories shape identity, why forgiveness is not the same as excusing what happened, and how purpose after 50 can emerge in ways you never expected. For women over 50, there is a deeper question underneath Yvonne’s story: What have you believed about your past simply because it was the only version you knew? Sometimes the facts remain exactly the same. What changes is the way you carry them. Stay until the end, when Beverley shares key takeaways and practical actions you can begin using immediately. In This Episode How childhood experiences shape the stories we carry into adulthoodWhy humor can become a way to cope, connect, and feel seenHow job loss can lead to an unexpected career reinventionWhat retirement can reveal about identity and purpose after 50How family secrets can change the way you understand your parentsRevisiting childhood memories with the perspective of later lifeWhy forgiveness does not mean excusing what happenedHow writing your life story can uncover patterns you never recognizedFinding purpose after retirement when you still want to contributeHow new information can change the meaning of an old storyFor similar episodes check out retirement after 50, Your Best work is Not Done Episode 185 and Who are You Without the Career, Episode 181 of Aging with Purpose and Passion and if you're looking for a podcast that goes beyond money and traditional retirement advice, Beyond retirement with Jacquie Doucette explores how to build a retirement that feels meaningful, intentional, and truly your own. That's beyondretirement.ca/reset Resources: Yvonne F. Conte – Nationally Recognized Keynote Speaker | Bestselling Author of Beneath Her Smile 🌐 Website: www.yvonne-conte.com 📘 Facebook: facebook.com/vonnie.conte 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/yvonne-f-conte-9508b1374 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/besillybefairbekind ▶️ YouTube: youtube.com/@HumorAdvantage Beverley Glazer, MA, CCC – Life & Work Transition Coach | Reinvention Strategist | Host of Aging With Purpose and Passion 🌐 Website: reinventimpossible.com 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/beverleyglazer 📘 Facebook: facebook.com/beverley.glazer 👩‍💼 Women Over 50 Rock! Community: facebook.com/groups/womenover50rock 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/beverleyglazer_reinvention Send us Fan Mail  🎁 The Gift of a Safe Space: A private, non-judgmental zone away from work and family to focus entirely on your needs, your journey and what's next for you. If you are feeling stuck in your transition, this is your space to exhale. Have feedback or a powerful story that's worth telling? Contact us at info@Reinventimpossible.com

    When the Story You Believed Isn’t the Whole Story | Yvonne F. Conte

  4. Aug 26

    Reinvention After 50: Stop Proving Your Worth

    Kim Boudreau Smith on confidence, self-worth, career reinvention, visibility, leadership, and using decades of experience without constantly proving yourself. What if you’ve spent years proving your value—and no longer need to? You’ve built experience, solved difficult problems, taken risks, and learned things no résumé can fully capture. Yet even highly capable women can find their confidence rising and falling with income, recognition, job titles, or whether other people approve of what they’re doing. In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer speaks with Kim Boudreau Smith, founder of Her Bold Voice and a Business Growth Strategist, about what changes when women stop measuring their worth by how much they produce—and start trusting the value of what they already know. Kim’s path has never been conventional. She moved from corporate sales and marketing into entrepreneurship, built a successful fitness business, pioneered internet radio before podcasting was mainstream, published three Amazon bestselling anthologies, and has spent decades helping women become more visible and influential in their work. But beneath those accomplishments is a more personal story about confidence, risk, comparison, and the pressure to keep proving yourself. Kim talks candidly about growing up in a working-class family where hard work and security mattered, the peaks and valleys of entrepreneurship, and what happens when business results begin affecting how you feel about yourself. Beverley and Kim also explore the critical inner voice Kim calls “the hag in the attic,” why experienced women still underestimate their value, and the difference between running everything yourself and actually leading. For women building businesses or continuing meaningful careers after 50, they discuss delegation, visibility, thought leadership, comparison with younger women, ageism, and why experience becomes more powerful when you stop trying to be everything to everyone. But this conversation goes beyond business. If you’ve spent years achieving, producing, and proving what you can do, this conversation raises a different question: After everything you’ve already accomplished, what would change if you stopped needing to prove your worth? Stay until the end, when Beverley shares key takeaways and practical actions you can begin using immediately. In this episode:How to stop tying your self-worth to income and achievementWhy successful women still struggle with confidence after 50Making the transition from corporate career to entrepreneurshipHow to stop playing small when you have decades of experienceMoving from running everything yourself to becoming a stronger leaderHow delegation protects your time, energy, and business growthBuilding visibility and thought leadership after 50Dealing with comparison and the critical voice in your headHow women over 50 can use experience as a professional advantageDeciding what you really want from work at this stage of lifeFor similar episodes on owning your power, check out When Success No Longer Fits. 182 and Success, Burnout, and What Really Matters Episode 184 of Aging with Purpose and Passion. And if you're looking for a podcast about retirement that goes beyond money and traditional retirement advice, Beyond retirement with Jacquie Doucette explores how to build a retirement that feels meaningful, intentional, and truly your own. That's beyondretirement.ca/reset 🔗 Resources Kim Boudreau Smith – Founder of Her Bold Voice | Business Growth Strategist 📧 Email: kim@kimboudreausmith.com 🌐 Website: https://www.kimbsmith.com 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimboudreausmith/ Beverley Glazer, MA, CCC – Life & Work Transition Coach | Reinvention Strategist | Host of Aging With Purpose and Passion 🌐 Website: https://reinventimpossible.com 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beverleyglazer/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beverley.glazer 👩‍💼 Women Over 50 Rock! Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/womenover50rock 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beverleyglazer_reinvention/ Send us Fan Mail  🎁 The Gift of a Safe Space: A private, non-judgmental zone away from work and family to focus entirely on your needs, your journey and what's next for you. If you are feeling stuck in your transition, this is your space to exhale. Have feedback or a powerful story that's worth telling? Contact us at info@Reinventimpossible.com

    Reinvention After 50: Stop Proving Your Worth

  5. Aug 19

    When Life Asks More Than You Ever Thought You Could Give

    What happens when life asks more of you than you ever imagined you could give? You’ve spent years being capable, solving problems, and being there when people need you. But some things can’t be fixed, planned for, or powered through. Sometimes life changes in an instant—and you become the person everyone is counting on. That’s what happened to Diane Filato. Just weeks after the birth of Diane’s grandson, her daughter began experiencing unexplained symptoms. Then came the diagnosis no family was prepared for: ALS. Suddenly, Diane was facing the unimaginable—watching her daughter’s health decline while preparing to take on a role she never expected: raising her young grandson. In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Diane shares what happens when grief and responsibility arrive at the same time. She talks candidly about the physical and emotional realities of caregiving, becoming a parent again later in life, helping a child feel safe after losing his mother, and carrying your own grief while trying to be strong for someone else. For women who are accustomed to being the capable one—the person everyone relies on—Diane’s story raises a difficult question: What do you do when life asks more of you than you believe you can give? We talk about the comments grieving families wish people wouldn’t make, why there is no timetable for “moving on,” and how memory, humour, boundaries, and ordinary routines can help create stability when a family’s world has been changed forever. Diane also shares the difference Good Grief made for her family. This community-based grief support program brings grieving children and adults together with people who understand their experience. Diane explains why peer grief support can feel very different from therapy, how children process the death of a parent, and why having a place to speak honestly—without judgment or unsolicited advice—can be so powerful. Whether you are caring for someone you love, grieving a loss, supporting a child through bereavement, taking on an unexpected family responsibility, or simply facing circumstances you never thought would be yours, Diane’s story is about something much larger than tragedy. It is about how you keep showing up when there is no way to make everything okay. Stay until the end, when Beverley shares key takeaways and practical actions you can begin using immediately. In This EpisodeLosing an adult child and coping with profound griefRaising a grandchild after the death of a parentBecoming a parent again later in lifeCaring for a loved one with ALSManaging caregiving responsibilities while grieving yourselfHelping a child cope with the death of a parentWhat not to say to someone who is grievingHow peer grief support differs from traditional therapyFinding grief support for children and families through Good Grief Resources: DONATION LINK: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/acpfgg/ Text "agewise" to 50155 Beverley Glazer, MA, CCC – Life & Work Transition Coach | Reinvention Strategist | Host of Aging With Purpose and Passion 🌐 Website: ReinventImpossible.com 💼 LinkedIn: Beverley Glazer 📘 Facebook: Beverley Glazer 👩‍💼 Women Over 50 Rock! Community: Women Over 50 Rock! 📸 Instagram: @beverleyglazer_reinvention Send us Fan Mail  🎁 The Gift of a Safe Space: A private, non-judgmental zone away from work and family to focus entirely on your needs, your journey and what's next for you. If you are feeling stuck in your transition, this is your space to exhale. Have feedback or a powerful story that's worth telling? Contact us at info@Reinventimpossible.com

    When Life Asks More Than You Ever Thought You Could Give

  6. Aug 12

    Dementia Caregiving: When Is It Time for Memory Care?

    Jeannie Duckworth on caregiver guilt, dementia warning signs, memory care, senior living, and making difficult decisions before a crisis forces them. How do you know when keeping an aging parent at home is no longer the safest—or most loving—choice? For many high achieving women, that question comes with enormous guilt. You promised you'd be there. You want your parent to remain independent. And every new problem can seem manageable—until wandering, falls, medication mistakes, dementia, or caregiver exhaustion changes everything. In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer speaks with Jeannie Duckworth, founder and CEO of Blue Magnolia Senior Living Advisors, about one of the most difficult transitions families face: recognizing when an aging parent needs more care than the family can safely provide. Jeannie has guided thousands of families through senior living decisions, but her understanding of caregiving also comes from personal experience with caregiving, loss, and rebuilding her own life. Together, Beverley and Jeannie explore the early signs of dementia families often explain away, what can signal that living at home is becoming unsafe, and why moving someone into memory care does not necessarily mean you've abandoned them. Sometimes a specialized setting can provide attention, structure, safety, and support that even the most devoted family cannot provide around the clock. They also discuss caregiver burnout and guilt, the differences between independent living, assisted living, board-and-care homes, and memory care, and why families are better served when these conversations happen before an emergency. Jeannie shares practical areas to address early, including advance directives, medication lists, finances, CPR preferences, and—most importantly—what good care means to the person you love. You'll also hear about caregiver support groups, Alzheimer's resources, and financial assistance that some families may qualify for, including Veterans Aid and Attendance depending on eligibility. If you're caring for an aging parent while also managing your career, family, health, and your own future, this conversation is a reminder that needing help does not mean you stopped caring. The goal isn't to prove how much you can carry. It's to make the best decision you can for everyone involved. Stay until the end, when Beverley shares key takeaways and practical actions you can begin using immediately. In This Episode How to know when an aging parent may no longer be safe at homeEarly dementia signs families often overlook or explain awayWhen it may be time to consider memory careHow to manage caregiver guilt when a parent needs more helpThe difference between independent living, assisted living, and memory careHow caregiver burnout affects families and decision-makingConversations to have with aging parents before a health crisisAdvance directives, medications, finances, and end-of-life preferencesFinding caregiver support and dementia resourcesHow to plan a senior living transition before an emergency forces the decision.🔗 Resources For similar episodes on caregiving, check out this incredible story, Driving Miss Norma. That's episode 139. And from CEO to Caregiver, episode 152 of Aging with Purpose and Passion. And if you're going through difficult times with a loved one, the Dementia Decoded Podcast with Jennifer Fink is a masterclass for the working family caregiver. That's podcast.show/fading memories.  Jeannie Duckworth, CDP – Founder & CEO, Blue Magnolia Senior Living Advisors Inc. 🌐 Website: Blue Magnolia Senior Living Advisors 💼 LinkedIn: Jeannie Duckworth 📸 Instagram: @jeanniebluemagnolia Beverley Glazer, MA, CCC – Life & Work Transition Coach | Reinvention Strategist | Host of Aging With Purpose and Passion 🌐 Website: ReinventImpossible.com 💼 LinkedIn: Beverley Glazer 📘 Facebook: Beverley Glazer 👩‍💼 Women Over 50 Rock! Community: Women Over 50 Rock! 📸 Instagram: @beverleyglazer_reinvention Send us Fan Mail  🎁 The Gift of a Safe Space: A private, non-judgmental zone away from work and family to focus entirely on your needs, your journey and what's next for you. If you are feeling stuck in your transition, this is your space to exhale. Have feedback or a powerful story that's worth telling? Contact us at info@Reinventimpossible.com

    Dementia Caregiving: When Is It Time for Memory Care?

  7. Aug 5

    Reinvention After 50: When Success Doesn’t Feel Like Yours

    Barb Scala on burnout, people-pleasing, identity, golden handcuffs, and redefining success without blowing up your life. What happens when the successful life everyone admires no longer feels like your own? You followed the rules. Earned the credentials. Built the career. Took care of the people who depended on you. From the outside, everything looks right. Inside, you may be exhausted from performing a version of success that was shaped by someone else’s expectations. In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer speaks with Barb Scala, an attorney, mediator, entrepreneur, author, and creator of the Seeds for Success™ framework, about what happens when achievement no longer brings fulfillment—and how to make meaningful changes without dismantling your entire life. Barb shares the mixed messages about success that shaped her early choices, why she remained in law school even when she wanted to leave, and how divorce forced her to confront an identity built around being capable, positive, and pleasing to others. Her story will resonate with high-achieving women over 50 who have done everything “right” but still feel burned out, disconnected, or uncertain about who they are beyond their professional and personal roles. Beverley and Barb explore the pull of the golden handcuffs—the income, status, and security that can make an unfulfilling life difficult to leave. They also discuss why financial well-being cannot be separated from emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being, and how thoughtful planning, a safety net, and small deliberate steps can make change possible without an impulsive leap. Barb also introduces her BLOOM framework: Believe, Let Go, Own Your Value, Optimize Your Energy, and Manifest. Here, manifesting is not wishful thinking. It is aligned, intentional action grounded in self-worth, clarity, and personal responsibility. If everyone thinks you have it all together—but privately you wonder whether the life you are living is truly yours—this conversation will help you examine what still belongs, what no longer serves you, and how to redefine success on your own terms. Stay until the end, when Beverley shares key takeaways and practical actions you can begin using immediately. In this episode: How to recognize when outward success no longer feels fulfillingWhy high-achieving women remain in careers they have outgrownRecovering your identity after divorce and major life transitionsHow people-pleasing quietly contributes to burnoutUnderstanding the golden handcuffs of income, status, and securityRedefining success without abandoning financial stabilityMaking a career change after 50 without blowing up your lifeRebuilding self-worth after years of performing for approvalUsing Barb Scala’s BLOOM framework to create aligned changeTaking small, intentional steps toward a life that feels like your ownResources:  For similar episodes on aging with purpose and passion, please check out Success, Burnout, and What Really Matters, that's episode 184. And when success no longer fits, that's episode 182. And if you're going through some difficult times right now, the Dementia Decoded Podcast with Jennifer Fink is a masterclass for the working family caregiver. That's dementiadecoded/podcast.show Barb Scala – Attorney, Mediator, Entrepreneur & Creator of Seeds for Success™ 🌐 Website: https://www.bloomwithbarb.com 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbscala/ 📘 Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/105652459526062 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloomwithbarb Beverley Glazer – Life & Work Transition Coach | Reinvention Strategist | Host of Aging With Purpose and Passion 🌐 Website: https://reinventimpossible.com 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beverleyglazer/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beverley.glazer 👩‍💼 Women Over 50 Rock! Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/womenover50rock 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beverleyglazer_reinvention/ Send us Fan Mail  🎁 The Gift of a Safe Space: A private, non-judgmental zone away from work and family to focus entirely on your needs, your journey and what's next for you. If you are feeling stuck in your transition, this is your space to exhale. Have feedback or a powerful story that's worth telling? Contact us at info@Reinventimpossible.com

    Reinvention After 50: When Success Doesn’t Feel Like Yours

  8. Jul 29

    When Life Changes Overnight: Leading Through Breast Cancer After 50

    Deb Krier shares how high-achieving women can navigate a breast cancer diagnosis, treatment, work, relationships, and life when everything changes in an instant. What happens when a breast cancer diagnosis changes everything overnight? How do you continue leading your career, supporting your family, and making important decisions while navigating chemotherapy, surgery, uncertainty, and fear? In this powerful episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer sits down with Deb Krier, executive advisor, cancer strategist, and founder of Trying Not to Die, to discuss what it really takes to navigate a Stage III breast cancer diagnosis while continuing to lead a demanding life. Deb shares her journey from "We're just watching it" to an aggressive cancer diagnosis almost overnight, followed by chemotherapy, septic shock, emergency surgery, weeks in the hospital, and the long road to recovery. She also opens up about the challenges many people don't expect—brain fog, scan anxiety, changing relationships, and the emotional toll cancer takes on partners and caregivers. Together, Beverley and Deb explore why high-achieving women often struggle to ask for help, what meaningful support actually looks like, and how planning, delegation, and honest communication can help protect both your health and your career during a personal crisis. Whether you're living with breast cancer, supporting someone you love, or facing another unexpected life transition, this conversation offers practical strategies, honest insights, and hope for moving forward—one decision at a time. Stay until the end, when Beverley shares key takeaways and simple actions you can begin using today. In This Episode Breast cancer after 50Navigating a Stage III breast cancer diagnosisWorking during chemotherapyLeadership during a personal health crisisScan anxiety and fear of recurrenceBrain fog and the lasting effects of treatmentSupporting caregivers and partnersAsking for—and accepting—the right kind of helpDelegation and business continuity during illnessBuilding resilience when life changes overnightResources: For similar episodes on cancer empowerment, check out Finding Your Voice, episode 178, and How to Take Back Your Control with Dr. Tiffany Trosso, episode 186 of Aging with Purpose and Passion. And if you're overwhelmed as a caregiver, Dementia Decoded is a podcast with Jennifer Fink, a masterclass in working with the family caregiver. And that podcast is podcast.show fading memories. Deb Krier Executive Advisor | Cancer Strategist | Founder, Your Cancer Warrior & Trying Not to Die 🌐 Website: www.yourcancerwarrior.com 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborahkrier/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Deb.Krier/ Beverley Glazer Life & Work Transition Coach | Reinvention Strategist | Host of Aging With Purpose and Passion 🌐 Website: https://reinventimpossible.com 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beverleyglazer/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beverley.glazer 👩‍💼 Women Over 50 Rock! Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/womenover50rock 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beverleyglazer_reinvention/ 🎙 Subscribe to Aging With Purpose and Passion for more inspiring conversations with accomplished women navigating life's biggest transitions with courage, confidence, and purpose. Send us Fan Mail  🎁 The Gift of a Safe Space: A private, non-judgmental zone away from work and family to focus entirely on your needs, your journey and what's next for you. If you are feeling stuck in your transition, this is your space to exhale. Have feedback or a powerful story that's worth telling? Contact us at info@Reinventimpossible.com

    When Life Changes Overnight: Leading Through Breast Cancer After 50
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Aging With Purpose and Passion is the award winning podcast for women over 50 who know they're not finished yet. They're navigating reinvention, career change, retirement, relationships, caregiving, and the deeper question of what they want now. Hosted by Beverley Glazer, MA, CCC, a work and life transition coach for women over 50 and midlife reinvention strategist, Aging With Purpose and Passion features stories from women over 50 who have faced change, challenged expectations, rebuilt confidence, and refused to let age — or anything else — define what is still possible. Each week, Beverley and her resilient guests explore reinvention after 50, career change, retirement transitions, menopause, empty nest, caregiving for aging parents, divorce, grief, health challenges, business transitions, entrepreneurship, relationships, ageism, leadership shifts, ambition, resilience, mindset, purpose, and self-trust. These are not polished success stories or generic conversations about starting over. They are real, practical, emotionally intelligent conversations about what happens when the life you built no longer aligns with who you are today. Aging With Purpose and Passion is not about chasing youth, forcing positivity, or pretending change is easy. It is women over 50 and far beyond, telling the truth about what they feel, what they've been through, and what becomes possible when they stop talking themselves out of settling for less. You may come for someone else’s story. You may leave ready to change your own. New conversations released weekly. Learn more at ReinventImpossible.com/podcast. 🔗 Resources Beverley Glazer, MA, CCCMidlife Transition Expert, Reinvention Strategist, and Host of Aging With Purpose and Passion Learn more about the podcast, coaching, and Beverley’s work:https://reinventimpossible.com/podcast

Information

  • Creator
    Beverley Glazer, MA, CCC, ICF | Work and Life Transition Coach for Women Over 50
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    200
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Aging With Purpose and Passion | Personal Growth for Women Over 50
  • Show Website
    Aging With Purpose and Passion | Women Over 50