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 for their lives today. 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 and far beyond, 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. 10h ago

    Reinvention After 50: When Your Success Defines You

    What happens when the role that made you successful becomes the very thing you can't escape? For nine years, Judy Norton was Mary Ellen Walton on the Emmy Award-winning television series The Waltons. Millions of viewers welcomed her into their homes. But when the series ended, the character people loved didn't simply disappear. And neither did their expectations of who Judy should be. In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer, MA, CCC, ICF, a work and life transition coach for accomplished women over 50, talks with Judy Norton about life after The Waltons, Hollywood typecasting, career reinvention, and what happens to your sense of identity when the world keeps defining you by your past. How do you move forward when people refuse to see you differently? Judy shares the uncertainty of building a career beyond a defining role, the challenge of rebuilding confidence when opportunities are limited, and how she continued creating through theater, music, writing, and directing. She also talks about the personal work she did to understand herself beyond Mary Ellen Walton, including her experience with Dianetics. And when COVID disrupted familiar ways of working, Judy found herself learning something she hadn't expected: digital marketing. That led to building a YouTube channel and connecting with an audience in a different way. But this conversation reaches far beyond Hollywood. Because what Judy experienced is something many accomplished women over 50 recognize. You leave a career, but people still see your former title. Your children grow up, but everyone still expects you to be the person who takes care of everything. You change what you want from life, but the people around you are more comfortable with who you've always been. Sometimes the hardest part of reinvention isn't changing your life. It's allowing yourself to change when everyone else expects you to stay the same. Whether you're navigating a career transition after 50, questioning your professional identity, or wondering who you are beyond the roles that once defined you, Judy's story raises a question that deserves more than an easy answer. Are you holding on to who you used to be—or are you afraid of disappointing the people who still need you to be that person? Stay until the end for Beverley's key takeaways and practical actions to help you recognize what's changing in your own life and decide what comes next. For similar episodes on Aging with Purpose and Passion, check out Who Are You Without the Career. That's episode 181. And episode 200, Life After Loss, Who Are You Now? And if you like podcasts for older women, Reinvention Rebels shares stories of unapologetic women from 50 to 90 who have reimagined life on their own terms. That's reinventionrebels.com. Resources Judy Norton – Actress, Singer, Writer & Director | Mary Ellen Walton on The Waltons 🌐 Website: https://www.judynorton.com ✉️ Email: judynorton@mac.com 📸 Instagram: @officialjudynorton Beverley Glazer, MA, CCC – Work and Life Transition Coach | Host of Aging With Purpose and Passion 🌐 Website: https://reinventimpossible.com 💼 LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/beverleyglazer 📘 Facebook: https://facebook.com/beverley.glazer 👩‍💼 Women Over 50 Rock! Community: https://facebook.com/groups/womenover50rock 📸 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

    Reinvention After 50: When Your Success Defines You

  2. Oct 7

    Reinvention After 50: What Comes After the Career?

    Leaving a 17-year career, losing an identity, and finding an unexpected way forward. You can spend years becoming very good at what you do—and be completely unprepared for the day you stop doing it. That’s what happened to Annette Mashi. After 17 years at Intel, leaving wasn’t simply a career change. Her work had become part of how she knew herself. So what happens when it’s gone? In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer talks with Annette Mashi, founder of Write Wizards, about career reinvention after 50, identity, starting over, and the uncomfortable period when you don’t yet know what comes next. Annette already knew something about starting over. Years earlier, she had moved from suburban Philadelphia to Israel with her husband and young daughter. She had to find her footing in a different country, culture, and language, far from the people and places that had always felt like home. Then came another kind of starting over. She left Intel. She thought she’d teach English. Six days later, that idea was over. And that’s where Annette’s story gets interesting. Because we tend to tell reinvention stories backwards. Once we know where someone ended up, every earlier decision looks like a step toward it. It wasn’t. Annette didn’t know she would eventually build a writing business. She didn’t know the architecture degree she’d earned years earlier would matter again. And she didn’t know that skills she had accumulated almost without noticing—explaining, simplifying, documenting, writing—would eventually come together in a completely different way. She discovered that by doing things. Including things that didn’t work. Today, Annette is the founder of Write Wizards, where she helps female architects, interior designers, and women in construction become more visible for their expertise and attract the clients and projects they want. But this conversation isn’t really about building a business. It’s about what happens before you know where you’re going. When the career has ended—or you know it’s time to leave—and everyone wants to know what you’re going to do next. And you don’t know yet. IN THIS EPISODE What happens to your identity when a long career endsHow to navigate career change after 50 when you don’t know what’s nextWhy leaving a successful career can affect confidence and sense of selfStarting over after 50 without having a new career planHow to recognize transferable skills you may be overlookingWhy your first attempt at reinvention doesn’t have to workHow past experience can become useful in unexpected waysMoving from a corporate career to entrepreneurship after 50Rebuilding belonging after moving to a new countryHow experimentation can help you find direction during a major life transitionStay until the end, when Beverley shares key takeaways and practical actions you can begin using immediately. For similar episodes on Aging with Purpose and Passion, check out Who Are You Without the Career. That's episode 181. And You've Built a Life, Now What? That's episode 190. And if you're looking for podcasts for older women, Women Over 70 Aging Reimagined is an award-winning podcast community that celebrates wisdom, resilience, and women over 70. That's womenover70.com. Resources Annette Mashi – Founder of Write Wizards 🌐 Website: writewizards.com ✉️ Email: annette@writewizards.com 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/annettemashi 📘 Facebook: facebook.com/annette.mashi 📸 Instagram: @annettemashi  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: @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: What Comes After the Career?

  3. Sep 30

    Life After Loss: Who Are You Now? | Rosemary Vaswani

    Landman actress Rosemary Dominguez (Rosemary Vaswani) on widowhood, sudden loss, identity, grief, and finding a way to want something from life again. What happens when the future you were counting on suddenly disappears—and you’re still here? For women over 50, a devastating loss can take more than someone you love. It can take the future you expected to share, the roles that made life feel familiar, and even your confidence in who you are without them. In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer talks with actress, writer, and storyteller Rosemary Vaswani, known professionally as Rosemary Dominguez, who appears in the Paramount+ series Landman. Rosemary and her husband, Eric, had been together for 26 years when vague symptoms became something neither of them could have imagined. Within weeks, Rosemary went from wife and mother to caregiver, and then widow, after Eric was diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare and rapidly progressive neurological disease. There was no time to prepare for what came next. Rosemary was grieving while raising their teenage daughter, managing responsibilities that had once belonged to two people, and trying to function in a world that continued as though hers hadn't just changed completely. We talk about the parts of widowhood people rarely see: the paperwork and practical decisions, but also the anger, fear, loneliness, loss of confidence, and those ordinary moments when the absence of the person you love becomes startlingly real. And then life asks something else of you. Not simply: How do I survive this? But: Who am I now? Rosemary talks candidly about grief, caregiving, motherhood, empty nest, acting, and the unexpected role writing played when words became a place to put what she couldn't carry quietly anymore. That writing eventually became When I Press Stop: A Memoir of Loss, her memoir told through poetry. But this conversation isn't about “moving on.” It's about living after the life you expected is no longer possible. It's about what happens when resilience isn't inspirational or heroic. Sometimes it's paying the bill, showing up for your child, going back to work, asking for help—or simply doing the next thing because there is no one else to do it. And eventually, another question emerges: How do you keep wanting things from life after life has taken something irreplaceable from you? Stay until the end, when Beverley shares key takeaways and practical actions you can begin using immediately. IN THIS EPISODE  How to rebuild your life after the sudden death of a spouseCoping with widowhood and grief after 50What happens to your identity when the future you planned disappearsParenting a teenager while grieving your partnerThe practical realities nobody prepares you for after a spouse diesHow sudden loss can affect confidence, independence, and sense of selfFinding support through grief counseling and spousal-loss groupsNavigating empty nest after losing your spouseHow writing and creative expression can give grief somewhere to goLearning to want something from life again after profound lossFor similar episodes on aging with purpose and passion, check out Starting Over After 50, that's episode 180. And When Life Asks More Than You Can Give, that's episode 194. And if you love podcasts of older women, Women Over 70, Aging Reimagined is an award-winning podcast and community that celebrates wisdom, resilience, and vitality for women over 70. And that's womenover70.com. Resources Rosemary Vaswani – Actress, Writer & Storyteller 🌐 Website: rosemaryvaswani.com 📘 Facebook: facebook.com/rosemary.vaswani 📸 Instagram – Poetry: @rosepoemsthebitterandthesweet 🎬 Instagram – Acting: @rosemarydominguez1 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: @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

    Life After Loss: Who Are You Now? | Rosemary Vaswani

  4. Sep 23

    Reinvention After 50: Stop Proving Your Worth

    People pleasing, burnout, somatic leadership, nervous system regulation, and what changes when high-achieving women stop performing for approval. You can spend years becoming the woman everyone admires—and quietly wonder how much of her is actually you. For high-achieving women over 50, success can hide something uncomfortable: the habits that helped you achieve, belong, and earn approval may also have taught you to perform. In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer talks with Trina Kavanagh Thomas, award-winning leadership coach and founder of the Somatic Leadership Group, about what happens when achievement, people pleasing, and the need to belong become so familiar that you don't realize you're wearing a mask. Trina built a thriving fitness business and looked successful from the outside. Inside, she was exhausted and anxious. Beneath the achievement was an old feeling of not being chosen—and a pattern of seeking approval, attention, and belonging that followed her into adulthood. We talk about why accomplished women can become exceptionally good at saying “I'm fine” when something is clearly missing, and how the need to prove your worth can show up in business, leadership, body image, relationships, and social media. Trina also speaks candidly about sobriety and the small, steady decisions that began changing her relationship with herself. But choosing yourself isn't about walking away from your responsibilities or putting yourself ahead of everyone else. It's about noticing where you're performing instead of choosing. That's where Trina's work in somatic leadership becomes practical. She explains how old emotional patterns can continue influencing the nervous system, why the body may react before the rational mind catches up, and how awareness can create space between an automatic response and a different choice. We explore burnout recovery, nervous system regulation, imposter syndrome, people pleasing, boundaries, and what it means to stop organizing your life around other people's approval. At some point, proving yourself stops being ambition. It becomes a way of organizing your life around what other people think. And after decades of being capable, productive, and dependable, that can leave you with a surprisingly difficult question: If I stopped trying to prove who I am, what would I actually choose? 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 still struggle with self-worthHow people pleasing becomes a strategy for belongingWhat burnout can look like when you still appear successfulWhy “I'm fine” becomes a mask for capable womenHow to stop seeking approval and start trusting your own choicesWhat somatic leadership means in everyday lifeHow nervous system regulation affects stress and decision-makingWhy old emotional patterns can influence present behaviorHow sobriety changed Trina's relationship with herselfPractical ways to set boundaries and stop proving your worthFor similar episodes on reinvention after success, check out Success, Burnout, and What Really Matters, that's episode 184. And your best work isn't over. That's episode 185 of Aging with Purpose and Passion. Resources:  Trina Kavanagh Thomas – Award-Winning Leadership Coach | Founder of Somatic Leadership Group 🌐 Website: personalenergywithtrina.com 📘 Facebook: facebook.com/trina.kavanaghthomas 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/trinakavanaghthomas 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: Stop Proving Your Worth

  5. Sep 16

    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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

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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 for their lives today. 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 and far beyond, 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

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  • Creator
    Beverley Glazer, MA, CCC, ICF | Work and Life Transition Coach for Women Over 50
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    204
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Beverley Glazer. All rights reserved.
  • Show Website
    Aging With Purpose and Passion | Women Over 50

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