Best Beyond 50 with Ellie Hewitt

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BestBeyond50 with Ellie Hewitt You have more ahead of you than you think. BestBeyond50 is the podcast for women in their 50s, 60s and beyond who are done waiting and ready to design what comes next. Each week, economist, entrepreneur and life coach Ellie Hewitt shares honest conversations, practical frameworks and the science of living well in your second chapter. Ellie built a multimillion-pound property portfolio and launched a coaching business — after 60. She knows from her own life that the years ahead can be the most creative, free and fulfilling ones yet. Topics include identity, purpose, income, health, longevity, relationships and the art of designing a life that actually fits who you are now. Your best years aren't behind you. They're being designed right now. bestbeyond50.co.uk

  1. Aug 20

    Neuroplasticity. Never Too late to Learn!

    Best Beyond 50 with Ellie Hewitt

  2. Aug 13

    Who Are Your Really - Without the roles

    For most of your adult life, the answer to "who are you?" was easy. You were someone's wife, mother, daughter, colleague, carer. The roles were the identity. And they were enough. Until they weren't. In this final episode of the first series, Ellie asks the question that sits at the heart of everything BestBeyond50 is built around: who are you when the roles fall away? Not who you were. Not who other people need you to be. But who you actually are — underneath all of it. This is not a comfortable question. It is, for many women, the most important one they've never been asked. Ellie explores the psychology of role-based identity, what happens when those roles change or disappear, and how the women who build the most authentic second chapters are almost always the ones who were willing to sit with this question long enough to find a real answer. Not a role. Not a title. Just you. Who is she? ✦ Social hook: "For most of your life the roles told you who you were. What happens when they don't anymore?"

  3. Aug 6

    Midlife and Alcohol- The Honest Conversation

    This is the episode a lot of women have been waiting for — and the one that's hardest to have.   Alcohol use among women over 50 has risen significantly in the last two decades. The reasons are complex — stress, loneliness, habit, the cultural normalisation of wine o'clock — and the consequences are more serious for women than is widely understood.   In this episode, Ellie has the honest conversation. Not a lecture. Not a recovery narrative. A frank, warm, evidence-based discussion about what alcohol actually does to the female body after 50, why so many women find their relationship with it shifts in midlife, and what the options are for women who want to reassess.   No judgement. No agenda. Just honesty — the kind that's hard to find elsewhere. ✦  Social hook: "Nobody is talking honestly about this. So let's talk about it."

  4. Jul 30

    5 Questions Every Woman Should Ask Herself Before 60.

    Not a quiz. Not a test. A conversation — with yourself.   In this episode, Ellie works through fifty questions designed to surface what you actually think, want, value and fear — as opposed to what you've been told to think, want, value and fear.   Some of these questions are practical. Some are philosophical. Some will be easy. Some will stop you in your tracks. All of them are worth sitting with.   This episode works best with a journal open. It's an invitation to the kind of honest self-examination that most of us avoid — and that most of the women who've done it describe as one of the most valuable hours they've spent.   Have a pen ready. ✦  Social hook: "When did you last ask yourself what you actually want — not what you're supposed to want?"

  5. Jul 23

    The Daily Choice: Philosophy Meets Real Life

    Ideas don't change lives. Decisions do. And decisions happen in the ordinary moments of everyday. Key theme:  The series finale — bringing everything together into daily practice, and a warm invitation to the full BestBeyond50 world.   We've covered a lot of ground together in this series. Longevity, regret, health, agency, relationships, purpose. Big ideas — ideas I hope have shifted something in how you see this chapter of your life.   But today I want to come all the way down from the ideas to the ground. Because here is the honest truth: ideas don't change lives. Decisions do. And decisions are enacted — or not — in the small, ordinary, unremarkable moments of every single day.   In this final episode I talk about the gap between knowing and doing (it's not a character flaw — it's how human beings are built), the marriage of philosophical clarity and practical habit that actually moves people forward, and why the most durable foundation for a second chapter is not motivation but commitment.   I close with something personal — a note to you, directly — and with a warm introduction to everything BestBeyond50 has to offer: the free community, the thirteen-week programme, and the membership for women who want to stay connected and keep building.   Thank you for being here. Your best years are not behind you. They are being designed right now.     CTA:  Visit bestbeyond50.co.uk to join the free community, explore the programme, or find out about membership. And share this series with one woman who needs it.

    The Daily Choice: Philosophy Meets Real Life

  6. Jul 16

    How to Find Your Purpose When the Old Answers No Longer Fit

    What is your life for? Not what it was for. What is it for now? Key theme:  Using the Ikigai framework to find or redefine purpose in the second chapter.   Of all the conversations in this series, this is the one I find myself returning to most. Not because it's the most practical — though it has profound practical implications. But because it sits at the centre of everything.   The question is: what is your life for? Not what have you achieved or survived. What is it for, right now, at this stage, with everything you know and everything you've become?   For many women, that question has never been properly asked. Or it was asked and then set aside — subsumed by the immediate demands of career and family. And now, with the roles shifting and the space opening, it is asking itself again.   In this episode I share the Ikigai framework — adapted for the second chapter — as a way of finding the intersection of what you love, what you're genuinely good at, what the world needs, and where real value exists. I also make the case that purpose is not a luxury for people with time to spare. The research is clear: it is one of the most powerful health interventions available to you.   Your purpose is not lost. It is waiting.     CTA:  Work through the Ikigai questions in the free Design Your Next Chapter guide at bestbeyond50.co.uk. And if you want structured support — explore the BestBeyond50 programme.

    How to Find Your Purpose When the Old Answers No Longer Fit

  7. Jul 9

    The Most Powerful Longevity Tool Isn't Exercise — It's This

    The Harvard Study followed people for 80 years. Here's the one thing that mattered most. Key theme:  The science of relationships and longevity — and a first invitation to join the BestBeyond50 community.   We've talked about sleep, movement, nutrition, and purpose. All important, all within your power. Today I want to talk about something that may be more powerful than any of them.   The Harvard Study of Adult Development followed people for over eighty years — one of the longest studies of human wellbeing ever conducted. Its conclusion was unambiguous: close relationships, more than money, fame, or any individual health metric, are what keep people happy and healthy throughout their lives. The people most satisfied in their relationships at fifty were the healthiest at eighty.   In this episode I look at loneliness as a genuine health risk (the data is striking), the difference between relationships that nourish and those that drain, and what it means to build new connection at a life stage where the structures that used to do that work for us have largely disappeared.   I also introduce the BestBeyond50 community — because the research on this is clear, and because I have seen firsthand what happens when women navigating the same questions find each other.     CTA:  Join the free BestBeyond50 community on Facebook — search BestBeyond50. This is exactly the kind of connection this episode is about.

    The Most Powerful Longevity Tool Isn't Exercise — It's This

  8. Jul 2

    Retiring 'Retirement': What 40 Years Actually Means

    The traditional idea of retirement was designed for a world where people lived to seventy-two. You're going to outlive it. Key theme:  Why the retirement mindset is not just limiting but actively harmful — and what a second lifetime looks like instead.   The word retirement is doing a lot of quiet damage. Not the idea of rest — rest matters. But the framework: the idea that there is a point at which the productive, purposeful, forward-moving part of life ends and something quieter begins.   That framework was designed for a world where people retired at sixty-five and died at seventy-two. It was not designed for a world where women in their sixties are, statistically, only halfway through their adult lives.   In this episode I make the case — with evidence — that purposelessness is not just uncomfortable. It is a health risk. People with a strong sense of purpose live longer, have lower rates of cardiovascular disease and dementia, and recover faster from illness. The retirement mindset, in its traditional form, threatens all of that.   I also talk about what it means to redefine success on your own terms for the first time — and I say something directly to anyone carrying an idea they haven't yet started: the window is not closed. The particular combination of experience, perspective, and self-knowledge you carry at sixty is not a disadvantage. In many respects, it is your greatest asset.     CTA:  What would you do if you fully believed you had 40 good years ahead? Join the conversation in our free community. Search BestBeyond50 on Facebook.

    Retiring 'Retirement': What 40 Years Actually Means
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BestBeyond50 with Ellie Hewitt You have more ahead of you than you think. BestBeyond50 is the podcast for women in their 50s, 60s and beyond who are done waiting and ready to design what comes next. Each week, economist, entrepreneur and life coach Ellie Hewitt shares honest conversations, practical frameworks and the science of living well in your second chapter. Ellie built a multimillion-pound property portfolio and launched a coaching business — after 60. She knows from her own life that the years ahead can be the most creative, free and fulfilling ones yet. Topics include identity, purpose, income, health, longevity, relationships and the art of designing a life that actually fits who you are now. Your best years aren't behind you. They're being designed right now. bestbeyond50.co.uk

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