The Midlife Reinvention: How to Find Your Ikigai, Deal with Imposter Syndrome & Build Your Confidence in Career & Life Transitions
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
Episodes
325 episodes
#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...
#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 f...
#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...
#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 re...
#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...
#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 f...
#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 ...
#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...
#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 shou...
#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 ...
#315: The Fourth Circle of Ikigai That Reveals Where the World Needs You in Midlife Transitions
Have you been told that finding your purpose means solving some big, world-changing problem, and quietly decided it must not be for you?That belief is one of the biggest reasons women in midlife stop short of finding their Ikigai. The fo...
#314: How to Work With the Inner Critic That Keeps You Stuck in a Career or Life Transition
Have you been waiting for a dramatic sign before you let yourself admit something needs to change?For most women, the moment that begins a career transition does not arrive as a crisis. It builds quietly, over months or years, in the for...
#313: The Hidden Strengths That Can Reshape Your Midlife Career and Life Transitions
What if the greatest strength you have is one you can no longer see, or one you set down years ago?In this Thursday companion to Monday's conversation with Deborah Knight (episode 312), Kavita continues the My Story series with a closer ...
#312: How to Reinvent Yourself After 50 When Everything You Built Falls Apart, with Deborah Knight
Have you ever wondered if it is too late to start over after the ground has shifted beneath you?If you are in the middle of a midlife career or life transition, where a layoff, a relationship ending, a diagnosis, or simply a quiet sense ...
#311: How Your Buried Passions Reveal Your Ikigai in Midlife Transitions
What did you love doing as a girl, before life told you to be practical?If you have spent decades inside the playbook of career, family, and what you were supposed to want, there is a good chance you have left someone important ...
#310: The Playbook You Did Not Know You Were Following in Your Career and Life Transition
From the outside, your life looks right. The career, the marriage, the achievements that everyone around you agrees count. From the inside, something has started to whisper a question you have been dismissing as exhaustion or burnout or just a ...
#309: The Values That Built You May Not Be the Ones Leading You Forward in a Midlife Career or Life Transition
Have you ever looked at the life you've built and quietly wondered why it no longer feels like yours, even though nothing on the outside looks wrong?Every career and life transition is, underneath everything, a conversation with your val...
#308: The Inheritance You've Forgotten About in Your Career and Life Transition
Have you ever felt like the woman you are today is missing something the woman you used to be already knew?This week marks the start of a brand new series called My Story, where Kavita finally answers a question one of her clien...
#307: How to Tell the Difference Between Your Inner Critic and Your Inner Wisdom in a Midlife Career or Life Transition
What if the voice that has been telling you you are not ready, not qualified, or not allowed to want something different is not your wisdom at all, but the part of you that has the most to lose if you actually move forward?In midlife, wh...
#306: What to Do When the Identity That Got You Here No Longer Fits in a Career or Life Transition, with Kathleen Perry
What if the identity that has defined you for decades - the career, the titles, the roles you have spent a lifetime building - is not actually who you are?For so many women navigating a career or life transition, the most disorienting pa...
#305: The One Ikigai Question to Ask Yourself in Every Career or Life Transition
What if the questions you have been asking about your career or life transition are the very reason the answers keep slipping away from you?Most women in midlife spend years asking what they want, what is missing, and what is wrong with ...
#304: 3 Ikigai Lessons From My Own Midlife Transition (And My Son's Wedding)
Three Ikigai lessons. One unexpected midlife transition. And a son's wedding in Cartagena that taught Kavita more about purpose, identity, and reinvention than any framework ever has.Most of us in midlife are exhausted because we're aski...
#303: 3 Shifts to Move from Burnout to Clarity in a Career or Life Transition
Have you built a successful career, cared for everyone around you, and checked every box - and still find yourself running on fumes?That exhaustion is not a sign that something is wrong with you. For so many accomplished women in a caree...
#302: Why Burnout at Midlife Is the Beginning of Your Career Transition Not the End
What if the exhaustion you cannot shake is not a sign that something has gone wrong - but the most honest signal your life has sent you in years?So many accomplished women reach a point in their midlife career or life transition where th...
#301: The One Question to Ask Before Any Hard Decision in a Career or Life Transition
What if the reason you keep going in circles on a decision is not that you lack clarity - but that you have not yet stopped long enough to hear the one voice that actually knows?When you are in a career or life transition, the noise gets...