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. 4d ago ·  Video

    #323: Say It Out Loud and Let Your Midlife Transition Come Into Focus

    Have you been quietly turning the biggest question of your life over in your own head for months, hoping the answer will finally appear if you just think hard enough? For years, capable women in a midlife career and life transitions carry the most important questions of their lives privately, researching, journaling, and lately, typing them into a screen at midnight. It is not a weakness. It is a very old habit of trying to solve the deepest things alone. But the moment your reason for being finally comes into focus almost never arrives while you are alone with your own thoughts. It arrives in conversation, when someone asks you the question underneath your first answer and waits. In this Thursday check-in, Kavita builds on Monday's episode 322 and shows why the clarity you have been searching for is waiting on the other side of one honest conversation. In this episode, you'll discover: Why trying to work out the biggest questions of your midlife career and life transition on your own is the very thing keeping the answer just out of reachWhat anabolic energy actually feels like the moment you say something true out loud to another human being, and why thinking it in your head will never give you the same releaseA small, brave invitation for this week that turns one honest conversation into the beginning of real career clarityPress play to understand why your reason for being lives on the other side of one honest conversation, and to receive the small invitation that can begin to change everything this week. If this episode resonated, download the free 28-Day Confidence Guide to build the quiet daily confidence that makes it easier to speak your truth out loud, one simple practice 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.

  2. Jul 20 ·  Video

    #322: Can AI Find Your Ikigai or Reason for Being in Life's Transitions?

    Have you ever sat up late, typed "what should I do with my life" into a chat window, and walked away feeling more empty than when you started? You are not alone, and you did nothing foolish. It is the most natural thing in the world to reach for a screen when the questions get big. But there is a reason those beautifully written answers rarely move you forward, and it has nothing to do with the quality of the technology. It has everything to do with the kind of work that finding your reason for being actually requires. This episode is an honest look at where AI genuinely helps in career and life transitions, exactly where it stops, and what only another human being can offer you when your purpose finally comes into focus. In this episode, you'll discover: What AI can genuinely do to help you gather the raw material of your ikigai, from naming your strengths to prompting your passions and valuesThe precise point where AI stops being useful in a career and life transition, and why the overlap of the four circles of your Ikigai diagram cannot be interpreted by a machineWhat actually happens the moment your reason for being comes into focus, and why that moment requires another human in the roomPress play to hear an honest conversation about how to use AI as a tool without outsourcing the deepest questions of your life to it. Have a question about using AI in your own career transition, finding your purpose in midlife, or anything else on your own journey? Ask Me Anything! Send it to me for a future episode: Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.com If you are ready to move from gathering data to actually finding the overlap where your reason for being lives, start with the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see honestly where you feel most alive and where the gaps are, then book a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita to do the human work of filling them in. _________________________ 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.

  3. Jul 16 ·  Video

    #321: What If the First Step of Your Midlife Career Transition Only Takes One Hour?

    Have you been telling yourself that the way back to the part of you that you buried has to be huge, dramatic, and terrifying? For so many accomplished women in a midlife career and life transition, the reason a buried passion stays buried is not laziness or a lack of courage. It is the quiet belief that reclaiming it requires quitting the job, upending the family, and gambling the whole house on a dream. When the only way out looks that big, the most human response is to do nothing. In this Thursday check-in, Kavita takes the weight off that fear and shows you what the first step actually looks like, and why it is so much smaller than you think. In this episode, you'll discover: Why the belief that reclaiming your purpose requires a grand gesture is exactly what keeps women stuck in a career and life transition, and what to do insteadHow one honest hour spent on the thing you have buried releases the anabolic energy that fuels the next hour, and the next step after thatA simple invitation to give yourself one hour this week, and the inner critic to expect when you sit down to take itPress play to see how the way back to yourself was never a cliff to leap off, but a single step you can take today. If this episode resonated, download the free 28-Day Confidence Guide to turn that one brave hour into a quiet, growing certainty, one simple daily practice 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.

  4. Jul 13 ·  Video

    #320: The Passion You Buried That Holds the Key to Your Midlife Career and Life Transition

    Is there a part of you that you buried a long time ago, a love or a talent that once made you feel most alive? Somewhere along the way, life needed you to be practical, responsible, and the person everyone expected you to be, and so you folded that part of yourself away and got on with your life. It did not go anywhere. It is still in there, quiet and patient, and every year you leave it in the dark, it costs you a little more of your energy, your aliveness, and your years. In this episode of the Midlife Reinvention Podcast, Kavita shares the true stories of two very different clients who climbed the same path back to themselves, and walks you through exactly how to do the same. In this episode, you'll discover: Why so many capable, accomplished women bury the one part of themselves that lights them up, and the real reasons behind itWhat a buried passion quietly costs you in your body, your energy, and your years, and how it shows up as that Sunday evening dreadThe four circles Kavita uses to walk a woman back to herself, so a buried passion becomes the very thing that reveals your purpose and fuels your next chapterPress play and give yourself permission to name what you buried, so you can begin the climb back to a life that feels fully, honestly yours. If something in this episode is asking to be heard, book a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita and start naming what you have buried, or take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see where your four circles are asking to come back into focus. _________________________ 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.

  5. Jul 9 ·  Video

    #319: When Your Ikigai Clicks Into Place and You Finally See the Path Forward

    Have you ever had a moment where something inside you quietly lit up, and for the first time in a long time you could actually see a way forward? It often arrives as goosebumps, or tears of recognition, and it changes everything, because you cannot build toward something you cannot yet see. In this Thursday check-in, Kavita slows down on that one turning point from Monday's episode and unpacks why it matters so much in a midlife career and life transition. In this episode, you'll discover: Why the goosebumps or tears you feel when something clicks are a truth signal you should never rush pastHow anabolic energy shows up the instant you see your path, and becomes the fuel that helps you walk itA gentle invitation to notice the small flickers this week that point toward your reason for beingPress play to learn how to recognize the moment your path lights up, and let that quiet certainty guide your next step. If this episode resonated, download the free 28-Day Confidence Guide to build that quiet certainty one simple daily practice at a time, so the spark you feel this week has somewhere to grow. _________________________ 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.

  6. Jul 6 ·  Video

    #318: Why a Successful Career Can Feel Empty and How to Start Your Midlife Career Transition

    Have you built a life that looks right on paper, yet quietly wonder why it no longer feels like yours? That feeling of emptiness sitting on top of everything you worked so hard to earn is not a sign that something is wrong with you. It is one of the most important signals you will ever receive in a midlife career and life transition, and it is pointing you toward something that has been inside you all along. In this episode, Kavita walks you through the story of a client who reached the top of a demanding corporate world and still felt nothing, and shares the ikigai process that helped her uncover her real reason for being. In this episode, you'll discover: Why doing everything right can still leave you feeling empty, and what that quiet emptiness is actually trying to tell you in a midlife transitionThe four circles of ikigai that lead you to your reason for being, and why the version you have seen online with a paycheck at the center may be steering you wrongHow to spot the strengths, passions, and values you have stopped noticing because they come to you so easily, and how to use them to find your purposePress play to uncover the four circles that already live inside you, and take the first real step back toward yourself this week. If this episode is stirring something in you, book a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita to map your own four circles, or take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see where your reason for being is quietly waiting to be uncovered. _________________________ 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.

  7. Jul 2 ·  Video

    #317: How to Find Your Purpose in Midlife When You Think You Have None.

    Have you ever listened to someone describe their purpose or reason for being and quietly wondered if you will ever find your own? If you are in the middle of a midlife career or life transition, that question can feel heavier than it should. The good news is that your ikigai is not something you have to invent. It is already living inside you, in what you are good at, in what you love, in what you value now, and in where the world quietly needs you. Your only work is to begin noticing what is already there. In this episode, you'll discover: Why your ikigai is uncovered, not invented, and what that changes about how you approach your midlife career transitionThe four circles to sketch this week and the simple practice that begins to reveal your purposeThe one energy signal to trust above almost any other as you start finding your reason for beingPress play to begin the practice that turns the page from someone else's story to your own discovery. If this resonates and you want a clearer picture of what is holding your purpose just out of reach, take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see where you stand right now and what your next step looks like. _________________________ 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. Jun 29 ·  Video

    #316: When Everything You Have Lived Through Becomes Your Reason for Being

    What if everything you have survived was quietly preparing you for the very thing you were put here to do? In the finale of the My Story series, Kavita shares what happened after she took the leap, when the relief gave way to quiet panic and the only thing left to do was take one small step, and then another. This is the story of how a wide open unknown slowly became a life she loves, and how the four circles of ikigai, your strengths, your passions, your values, and your contribution, were inside her all along, waiting to be rediscovered. If you are standing in your own now what moment, this episode is for you. In this episode, you'll discover: How a midlife career and life transition becomes a life you love by following the energy that makes time disappearWhy your ikigai, your reason for being, was never a four circle diagram with a paycheck at the bottom, and what the fourth circle really isThe three things to carry with you when you cannot yet see where your next step will landPress play to hear the question that changed everything for Kavita, and let it begin to change something for you. Have a question about finding your ikigai, taking the leap, or anything else on your own journey? Ask Me Anything! Send it to me for a future episode: Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.com If everything in you is saying yes right now, book a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita to discover which of your four circles you have been ignoring and the first step toward your reason for being. You can also take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see where you are in your own midlife transition 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.

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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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