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 as she gives her own wonderful insights and interviews incredible women across the globe that will give you inspiration to rediscover who you really are, what you really want, and how to get there. You'll 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 you want a place to start, take the Ikigai Clarity Assessment. It takes about five minutes, and it isn't a personality quiz that boxes you into a type. It's a real diagnostic, built on the same four dimensions I coach with, your passions, your strengths, your values, and your contribution, and it will show you which one has been getting the least of you lately. Identifying that is the first step toward finding your way back to it. You can take it here. If you 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.

  1. 14h ago

    #331: How to Use Your Energy as a Guide to Alignment in Midlife Transitions

    Have you spent so many years pushing through, being grateful, and not making a fuss that you have lost track of which parts of your day are actually fueling you and which are  wearing you down? For most women in a midlife career and life transition, the mind can talk you into or out of almost anything. But your energy tells the truth. The parts of your life that are aligned with who you truly are will lift you up, and the parts that are misaligned will leave you heavier than the task alone should ever make you feel. In this Thursday check-in, Kavita builds on Monday's Episode 330 conversation about alignment and gives you one simple, honest exercise you can run this week to finally see, on paper, where your alignment lives and where it is missing. In this episode, you'll discover: Why your energy, not your thoughts, is the most honest guide to where your life is aligned and where it is misaligned in a midlife life transitionHow the green and red activity exercise works, and how to run it over a few days without changing a single thing yetWhat often surprises women who do this practice, including the real culprits behind daily depletion that have nothing to do with the work they thought was draining themPress play to learn a simple practice that turns what you have been vaguely feeling into a clear picture of what is fueling you and what needs to change in your midlife career and life transition. If this landed for you, take the free Ikigai Clarity Assessment to see which of the four dimensions of your reason for being is thriving right now and which one is quietly asking for your attention. It turns what you feel into a clear place to begin. _________________________ Take the Ikigai Clarity Assessment and find out which of your four Ikigai dimensions may be out of alignment. Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita 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. itsmytimenowcoaching.com | LinkedIn | Instagram | YouTube

  2. 3d ago

    #330: The Real Reason Some People Seem to Have It All in a Midlife Transition.

    Have you ever looked at someone who seems to have it all and wondered why life feels so much easier for them than it does for you? It is easy to assume they were born lucky, born special, or given something the rest of us were not. What is actually happening is far more available to you than it looks. In this episode, Kavita shares why alignment with who you are and what you truly want is the one thing that steadies you, moves your energy up the spectrum, and begins to attract the people, circumstances, and next chapter you have been quietly waiting for. She also brings in the anabolic and catabolic energy framework, and the two questions human beings have been asking for generations, to help you find your own starting place. In this episode, you'll discover: What alignment actually is, why it is not luck, and how it becomes the force that begins to draw the right people and circumstances toward you during a career and life transitionHow the energy spectrum from catabolic to anabolic quietly shapes your days, and the kinder question to ask yourself instead of comparing yourself to women who seem to have it allThe two ancient questions, “who am I” and “what do I really want”, and simple ways to begin answering them through stillness, small aha moments, and your ikigaiPress play to find your own starting place, take one small step toward alignment this week, and open the door to the next chapter that is truly yours. If this episode is speaking to you, take the brand new Ikigai Clarity Assessment to see where your alignment is already strong and where it may be asking for your attention, then book a Complimentary Clarity Call with Kavita to make sense of your results together and name your very next step. _________________________ Take the Ikigai Clarity Assessment and find out which of your four Ikigai dimensions may be out of alignment. Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita 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. itsmytimenowcoaching.com | LinkedIn | Instagram | YouTube

  3. Aug 13

    #329: The One Question That Turns a Hard Feeling Into Clarity in a Midlife Transition

    Have you been naming the loudest feeling of your day and moving on, without ever stopping to ask what is really going on underneath it? For most women navigating a midlife career and life transition, the anger, the stress, the flatness you cannot quite explain are not the whole story. They are the tip of the iceberg. The truer feeling, the one that is actually asking to be heard, is sitting quietly underneath, and it often has something important to say about a part of your life that is waiting for change. In this Thursday check-in, Kavita builds on her Monday conversation with Dr. Lorea Martinez in Episode 328 and hands you a simple, honest exercise you can use this week to get to the bottom of your own iceberg. In this episode, you'll discover: Why the first feeling you name is almost never the real one, and what your surface emotions are quietly protecting A five minute paper and pen exercise built around one question you can ask yourself over and over until you land on what is truly thereWhat often waits for you at the bottom of the iceberg, and why it is so often a value, a passion, or a whole dimension of yourself that has quietly gone unheardPress play to learn how to read beneath the surface of your emotions and let them show you where your life is asking for change. If a feeling you touched this week is pointing to a part of you that has been waiting to be heard, take the free Ikigai Clarity Assessment to see which of your four dimensions is thriving right now and which one has been asking for your attention. It turns what you feel into a clear place to begin. _________________________ Take the Ikigai Clarity Assessment and find out which of your four Ikigai dimensions may be out of alignment. Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita 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. itsmytimenowcoaching.com | LinkedIn | Instagram | YouTube

  4. Aug 10

    #328: What Your Emotions Are Trying to Tell You in a Midlife Career and Life Transition, with Dr. Lorea Martinez

    Have you been doing work you once loved, in a life you actually chose, and still find yourself waking up depleted and quietly unsure of who you are anymore? That feeling is not a character flaw, and it is not proof that you built the wrong life. It is a signal, and like most of the feelings we move through in midlife, it is almost always sitting on top of something quieter and truer that we have not yet let ourselves name. In this conversation, Kavita and Dr. Lorea Martinez explore what our emotions are really trying to tell us, and how learning to listen to them, rather than push past them, can change everything at this stage of life. Dr. Martinez is the founder of Heart in Mind and the author of Living With the Heart in Mind. She spent twenty years in education, burned out inside the very work that was her purpose, and came out the other side with a completely different relationship to what her feelings were trying to tell her. In this episode, you'll discover: Why your emotions are not weakness to push past but data to read, and the simple iceberg exercise that begins to reveal the quieter feelings sitting underneath the ones you are allowed to nameWhy you can be living your purpose and still feel burnt out, and why that is not a failure but a signal that your reason for being is asking to evolve with the woman you have becomeWhy the thing that comes next for you does not have to be a grand finished plan, and how one small curious step, taken with no pressure, can quietly bring you back to yourselfPress play to hear an honest conversation about listening to yourself again, and let it be the permission you may have been waiting for to stop pushing through and start paying attention. If this episode is meeting you where you are, take the free Ikigai Clarity Assessment to see honestly which of your four dimensions is alive right now and which one has quietly gone silent, then book a Complimentary Clarity Call with Kavita to look at your results together and name your very next small step toward your reason for being. About the Guest Dr. Lorea Martinez is the founder of Heart in Mind and one of the leading voices in emotional intelligence. She spent more than twenty years in education as a teacher, administrator, and board member, and is the author of an award-winning book for educators as well as her newest release, Living With the Heart in Mind: A Practical Guide to Healing From Burnout and Cultivating Purpose. Her work helps individuals treat their emotions as information worth listening to, and offers practical tools to heal from burnout, rediscover creativity, and cultivate purpose in every season of life. Website: https://www.loreamartinez.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loreamartinez/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/loreamartinezSEL/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@heartinmind_________________________ Take the Ikigai Clarity Assessment and find out which of your four Ikigai dimensions may be out of alignment. Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita 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. itsmytimenowcoaching.com | LinkedIn | Instagram | YouTube

  5. Aug 6

    #327: How to Stop Living for Everyone Else's Approval in Midlife Transitions

    Have you spent most of your life proving yourself to everyone else, and are only now beginning to wonder what it would feel like to do it for you? For decades, so much of what you chased was pointed outward, at parents, employers, families, and a whole world that seemed to be keeping score. That proving built a real life and real skills, and none of it was wasted. But in midlife, something quiet begins to shift. The ambition does not have to end. The audience does. This Thursday check-in, a companion to Monday's episode 326, slows down on the one line that stopped many of you in your tracks and shows you what actually changes when the scorecard finally moves into your own hands. In this episode, you'll discover: Why the inner critic that tells you that you are behind or not good enough in a midlife career transition was almost never your voice to begin with, and whose it actually wasThe freeing difference between proving something to others and proving something to yourself, and why the same goal can feel completely different depending on who is holding the scorecardThe one honest question to sit with this week that will show you whether your current pursuit is still for them or finally for youPress play to feel the quiet freedom that comes when your ambition, your goals, and your next chapter finally get to belong to you. If you would like to see where your own strengths, passions, values, and contribution are pointing to now at this exact stage of your life, take the free Ikigai Clarity Assessment. In just a few minutes, it will show you honestly which parts of you are thriving right now and which ones are quietly waiting for you, so you can begin answering the question of what you want to build next for you. View the Ikigai Diagram here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OShXl4--54PyrqsS1j-KODYVdO9FIss5/view?usp=sharing _________________________ Take the Ikigai Clarity Assessment and find out which of your four Ikigai dimensions may be out of alignment. Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita 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. itsmytimenowcoaching.com | LinkedIn | Instagram | YouTube

  6. Aug 3

    #326: Why Your Ikigai Keeps Evolving Through Every Midlife Career and Life Transition

    Have you been taught to think of a milestone birthday as the top of the mountain, when it may actually be the ground you build your next climb from? Turning 60 this weekend, Kavita shares one of the most personal episodes she has ever recorded. In it, she walks you through her own evolving ikigai, dimension by dimension, so you can see for yourself how a reason for being keeps unfolding at every stage of a midlife career and life transition. This is not a look back at what is finished. It is an honest, live look at what is still becoming, and a gentle invitation for you to do the same in your own life. In this episode, you'll discover: Why milestone birthdays are not summits but foundations, and what that reframe changes about every transitionHow the four ikigai overlaps of flow, mission, calling, and expression quietly reveal your reason for being when you name them honestlyWhat Kavita's own evolving ikigai has taught her about writing books, building community, and stepping into the next expansion of a purpose-driven lifePress play to walk alongside Kavita through her own reason for being, and begin uncovering the one that is quietly waiting inside your own overlaps. Ready to see where your own reason for being is asking to be uncovered? Take the Ikigai Clarity Assessment to discover which of your four ikigai dimensions is thriving right now and which one has gone quiet, so you know exactly where to begin. If you are ready to talk through what your next chapter is asking of you, book a Complimentary Clarity Call with Kavita to map your own overlaps together. Kavita would also love to hear from you on what a community for women in career and life transitions could look like. Write to her directly at Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.com and help shape what she is building next. View the Ikigai Diagram here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OShXl4--54PyrqsS1j-KODYVdO9FIss5/view?usp=sharing _________________________ Take the Ikigai Clarity Assessment and find out which of your four Ikigai dimensions may be out of alignment. Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita 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. itsmytimenowcoaching.com | LinkedIn | Instagram | YouTube

  7. Jul 30

    #325: What Is Your Real Reason to Get Up in the Morning?

    If someone asked you today what your real reason to get up in the morning is, could you answer without hesitating? When researchers went to Okinawa and asked the oldest people on earth that same question, almost every one of them answered instantly, without pausing to think. Most of us cannot, because what we have ready is a list of obligations. The children. The meeting. The dog. The groceries. Every one of those things is real, and every one of them matters, but not one of them is yours. In this Thursday check-in, Kavita follows up on Monday's episode with the one question every woman in a midlife career and life transition needs to sit with this week, and shows you why the answer is likely to be far smaller and quieter than you have been telling yourself it has to be. In this episode, you'll discover: The difference between the reasons you have to get up and your real reason to get up, and why confusing the two is what keeps so many women stuck in a midlife life transitionWhy the truest reasons for being are almost always small and ordinary, and how a garden, a book, or an hour with your hands in the soil can begin to point you toward your purposeThe gentle question to sit with this week, and what the silence is telling you if no clear answer comes right awayPress play to ask yourself the one question that separates a life full of obligations from a life that is honestly your own. If you want a clearer picture of where each of your four dimensions is alive right now and where one has quietly gone silent, take the free Ikigai Clarity Assessment. For many women it is the first time they see an honest picture of themselves, and it is the perfect companion to this week's question. View the Ikigai Diagram here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OShXl4--54PyrqsS1j-KODYVdO9FIss5/view?usp=sharing  _________________________ Take the Ikigai Clarity Assessment and find out which of your four Ikigai dimensions may be out of alignment. Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita 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. itsmytimenowcoaching.com | LinkedIn | Instagram | YouTube

  8. Jul 28

    #324: How to Rediscover Your Purpose in Career and Life Transitions

    Have you been looking for your purpose as though it were out there somewhere waiting to be found, when the whole time it has been quietly living inside you? For so many women in a career and life transitions, the search for what is next feels like hunting for something outside themselves, a job to discover, a course to take, a version of themselves to become. In this episode, Kavita gathers up the whole recent series and lands on the one idea underneath all of it. Your reason for being was never out there. It has been inside you all along, in four dimensions you already have, and the work is not invention but rediscovery. She also shares what the research is now showing about women, purpose, and longevity, and introduces a brand new tool she has built to help you see, honestly, where you are standing right now. In this episode, you'll discover: Why your reason for being was never a job to find or a version of yourself to become, and the four dimensions already inside you that reveal itWhat actually changes in your energy, meaning, and joy when you live from your ikigai, and what a landmark study is now showing about purpose and longevity in womenHow the brand new Ikigai Clarity Assessment gives you an honest picture of which of your four dimensions is thriving right now, and which one has been quietly waiting for youPress play to bring the whole journey home, take the first real step into your own starting place, and see what becomes possible when you stop searching outside and begin from within. If this episode is speaking to you, take the brand new Ikigai Clarity Assessment to see which of your four dimensions is alive right now and which one is waiting for your attention, then book a Complimentary Clarity Call with Kavita and bring your results so you can make sense of them together and name your very next step. View the Ikigai Diagram here :  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OShXl4--54PyrqsS1j-KODYVdO9FIss5/view?usp=sharing  _________________________ Take the Ikigai Clarity Assessment and find out which of your four Ikigai dimensions may be out of alignment. Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita 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. itsmytimenowcoaching.com | LinkedIn | Instagram | YouTube

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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 as she gives her own wonderful insights and interviews incredible women across the globe that will give you inspiration to rediscover who you really are, what you really want, and how to get there. You'll 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 you want a place to start, take the Ikigai Clarity Assessment. It takes about five minutes, and it isn't a personality quiz that boxes you into a type. It's a real diagnostic, built on the same four dimensions I coach with, your passions, your strengths, your values, and your contribution, and it will show you which one has been getting the least of you lately. Identifying that is the first step toward finding your way back to it. You can take it here. If you 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.

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