40 Is Coming

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Less Youth, More Life. "40 Is Coming" is a series of reflections and rants about turning 40, and what - if anything - it means. This is a podcast about the lives we wanted, the lives we have, and the gaps between them. Join us as we explore the dreams & desires, distractions & delays, detours & diversions, dedication & destinies that all come with the big 4-0.

  1. 1d ago

    Turned Out Okay

    Many of us grew up hearing from parents, aunties, uncles, grandparents, teachers, and coaches that whatever childhood rearing methods they used were beyond critique because, "that's how we were raised, and we turned out okay." As kids, we had a sense that they were far from okay. As adults, many of us have done enough internal work to reveal and deal with the ways that we did not turn out okay either. And now, our generation enters the stage of life where who we have been, what we have stood for, and how we have lived has graduated from being the voice of the restless future, to being the sounds of a rattled present, we're beginning to face the feedback from the next generation, our own children. Inspired by Nikole Hannah Jones' New York Times Op-Ed, In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? Follow us on social media: @40iscoming_ on IG and @40iscoming everywhere else. Intro Theme Music: Stressed by artbybigvee Beats Provided By https://freebeats.io, Produced By White Hot Beats Provided By Pond5, Produced by gladly  Find all 40 Is Coming past episodes, along with the new book,  40 Is Coming: Musings on Making It to Midlife, at our website: 40iscoming.com

  2. Oct 10

    Meet Me Halfway

    Watching a stream of people from all walks of life stroll past the window of a local coffee shop where I was spending a warm weekend afternoon on their way to pick up their half marathon race badges and shirts, it became clear that the half marathon is a wonderful metaphor for arriving at the halfway stage of life. Follow us on social media: @40iscoming_ on IG and @40iscoming everywhere else. Intro Theme Music: Stressed by artbybigvee Beats Provided By https://freebeats.io, Produced By White Hot Beats Provided By Pond5, Produced by gladly  Find all 40 Is Coming past episodes, along with the new book,  40 Is Coming: Musings on Making It to Midlife, at our website: 40iscoming.com

  3. May 17

    Everybody Is Nobody

    How much of our lives, from the smallest everyday choices to the biggest life decisions, are impacted by our sense of what everybody is doing, or what nobody is doing? Many of us first encountered the everybody-to-nobody spectrum at school, especially during our pre-teen and teenage years, when knowing who was included in the word "everybody", who was being referred to by the word "nobody", and maintaining (or moving) our position on that status spectrum was of life-critical importance. Whether online or offline, how do you tend to react when you find yourself in an environment where everybody thinks or acts a certain way, or when nobody in the space thinks or acts the way you do? For some of us, the idea of everyone is aspirational. A signal of the kind of people you want be associated with. The kind of people you want your kids and family to be surrounded by. The kind of person you're working to become. Others of us find the idea of being in an environment where most people talk and dress and behave in similar ways to be uninviting and/or uninteresting, and would rather be in a place where nobody like that is around. . Follow us on social media: @40iscoming_ on IG and @40iscoming everywhere else. Intro Theme Music: Stressed by artbybigvee Beats Provided By https://freebeats.io, Produced By White Hot Beats Provided By Pond5, Produced by gladly  Find all 40 Is Coming past episodes, along with the new book,  40 Is Coming: Musings on Making It to Midlife, at our website: 40iscoming.com

  4. Apr 26

    Off White Lies

    How much of our lives are lived in the gray, somewhere between telling the full truth at all times, an "innocent" white lie when it's convenient, and outright deception to get what we want? Do you find that your relationship with speaking the truth, about a situation or about yourself, changes based on the power/status/authority of the coworker you're interacting with? Have you found that your willingness or ability to be your "full self" at work depends on the type of work you do and the part of the country where you do it?   Even at our big age, many of us arrive at 40 telling - and being told - off white lies within our families. Do you tend to justify more off white lies when speaking to the elder members of your family who raised you, or the youngest members of your family who you are raising or helping to raise? How many people in our generation are arriving at this stage of life having constructed an adult identity online built on a  few off white lies? Do you find it easier or harder to acknowledge the truth in moments of solitude? Can you still find the truth when you look at yourself in the mirror? Follow us on social media: @40iscoming_ on IG and @40iscoming everywhere else. Intro Theme Music: Stressed by artbybigvee Beats Provided By https://freebeats.io, Produced By White Hot Beats Provided By Pond5, Produced by gladly  Find all 40 Is Coming past episodes, along with the new book,  40 Is Coming: Musings on Making It to Midlife, at our website: 40iscoming.com

  5. Apr 16

    Tiny Homes

    Do you have enough space for your stuff? A recent look around my kitchen after watching the latest episode of my favorite home design YouTube channel got me thinking about how our relationship between our living spaces and our stuff is a helpful metaphor for thinking about the space we have, or lack, for all the stuff that comes with entering this stage of life. Is your life at 40 defined by the creative ways you have found to Tetris-fit the stuff of your life into the limited resources and space you have?  Are you arriving at 40 with more than enough space for the stuff of your life?, with ample physical strength, quality relationships, stable mental health, emotional capacity, and a financial situation that gives you freedom and flexibility to take on and/or give away more stuff? Follow us on social media: @40iscoming_ on IG and @40iscoming everywhere else. Intro Theme Music: Stressed by artbybigvee Beats Provided By https://freebeats.io, Produced By White Hot Beats Provided By Pond5, Produced by gladly Find all 40 Is Coming past episodes, along with the new book,  40 Is Coming: Musings on Making It to Midlife, at our website: 40iscoming.com

  6. Feb 11

    Survivor's Song

    Survival is an interesting word to associate with turning 40.  Some of us arrive at this season of life having suffered, endured, overcome, recovered, fallen, struggled, and battled to make it. Others of us have built, earned, discovered, acquired, protected, and preserved the pieces of lives that we are proud of, and pleased with. Inspired by a good book I remember reading when I turned 30, and a frustratingly unpleasant recent battle addressing a pest issue in my home, I've been thinking a lot lately about survival. What has enabled you to survive to 40?   Follow us on social media: @40iscoming_ on IG and @40iscoming everywhere else. Intro Theme Music: Stressed by artbybigvee Beats Provided By https://freebeats.io, Produced By White Hot Beats Provided By Pond5, Produced by MarcBeasley Find all 40 Is Coming past episodes, along with the new book,  40 Is Coming: Musings on Making It to Midlife, at our website: 40iscoming.com

  7. 12/27/2025

    The Bridge Is Here

    Recently, I've been thinking about the saying "we'll cross that bridge when we get to it". And if turning 40 is about anything, it is about getting to a lot of life's bridges. family bridgeshealth bridgesrelationship bridgescareer bridges Are you arriving at 40 feeling hopeful and more free to build bridges, as many of the gates and gatekeepers that controlled access to bridges of opportunity are losing power and control? Do you arrive at this stage of your life with a deep sense of betrayal and abandonment, after making life choices based on the advice of elders who promised that bridges of safety and security would be guaranteed if you followed a certain life path, only to find that those bridges are nowhere to be found anymore? How are the bridges in your life? Do you have what you need to cross them? Follow us on social media: @40iscoming_ on IG and @40iscoming everywhere else. Intro Theme Music: Stressed by artbybigvee Beats Provided By https://freebeats.io, Produced By White Hot Beats Provided By Pond5, Produced by MarcBeasley Find all 40 Is Coming past episodes, along with the new book,  40 Is Coming: Musings on Making It to Midlife, at our website: 40iscoming.com

  8. 12/14/2025

    Help Yourself

    By 40, for every feel-good story of the sacrificially kind, altruistic, good samaritan, whose generosity helped someone else get back on their feet and rebuild their lives; we've heard a cautionary tale of a person who also tried to be kind, and tried to help someone in need. Often a friend, a family member, a neighbor, a romantic partner, or a co-worker. Only to have their entire life turned upside down - or worse - by the very person who desperately needed and accepted their assistance. This stage of life is a good time to ask some questions about how we've come to think about helping others. Who do you help? When do you help? What prompts you to help? How do you help? In what ways will you not help? Has the range of moments - and/or people - you're open to help changed over the years? What crosses the line from help to enabling/weakening? When do you ask for help? How often do you allow yourself to receive help? Follow us on social media: @40iscoming_ on IG and @40iscoming everywhere else. Intro Theme Music: Stressed by artbybigvee Beats Provided By https://freebeats.io, Produced By White Hot Beats Provided By Pond5, Produced by MarcBeasley Find all 40 Is Coming past episodes, along with the new book,  40 Is Coming: Musings on Making It to Midlife, at our website: 40iscoming.com

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Less Youth, More Life. "40 Is Coming" is a series of reflections and rants about turning 40, and what - if anything - it means. This is a podcast about the lives we wanted, the lives we have, and the gaps between them. Join us as we explore the dreams & desires, distractions & delays, detours & diversions, dedication & destinies that all come with the big 4-0.

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    OverPond Media
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    56
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