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Have you been circling the same brave step for weeks, maybe years, waiting for a surge of courage that never quite arrives? Most people in a life transition think the problem is that they are not brave enough yet. The truth is kinder, and far more useful. You do not have to generate all of your courage on your own. You can borrow some from the people around you until you have built up enough of your own. In this Thursday check-in, a companion to Monday's conversation with Andrea Maizes in episode 344, Kavita picks up on one idea from that episode and turns it into a small, doable invitation for the week ahead. In this episode, you'll discover: What borrowed courage actually is, and why watching another person be brave becomes real proof that your next step is possible for you tooWhy the judgment you are bracing for is almost always a story you are telling yourself, and what tends to happen when you finally let people in on what you are working towardHow to choose one small act of rebellion this week, something that stretches you a little rather than terrifies you, and why that one honest act teaches you something fear never willPress play to borrow a little courage, choose your one small act, and take the step you have been circling in your midlife career and life transition. If the idea of borrowing courage from a circle of other professional people in the same season of life speaks to you, Kavita is considering creating a small group program for people navigating career and life transitions together, uncovering their ikigai, your reason for being, and lifting each other up through each next brave step. Add your name to the waitlist here. There is no commitment, only a way to let Kavita know you are interested, and she will share details as they take shape. _________________________ 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

Are you exhausted at work and already picturing the day you walk away, without really knowing what you would be walking toward? That one moment, when burnout and being truly ready for something new feel exactly the same, is where many smart, accomplished people make a decision they later wish they had taken more time with. In a midlife career and life transition, the stakes are high. The title, the structure, the social network, and the built-in sense of purpose all go when the work goes, and most of us plan our finances for years without giving a single thought to how we actually want to live. Today's conversation with Andrea Maizes, a former senior HR executive who left her 35-year career believing she was ready and quickly learned she was burned out, is an honest look at how to tell the difference before you leap, and how to design a next chapter that actually fits you. In this episode, you'll discover: How to tell the difference between burnout and being truly ready to leave your career, before you make a decision you cannot easily undoWhy planning the life you want matters as much as planning your finances and the questions no financial planner is asking youWhat "borrowed courage" is, and how watching one other person be brave can be the thing that moves you forward in your own midlife transitionPress play and give yourself the honest pause this season of your life deserves, so your next chapter is one you choose on purpose. If Andrea's story resonates and you want to discover your Ikigai, your reason for being, and design your next chapter alongside other professional women doing the same work, add your name to the waiting list for Kavita's new group program. And if you are wondering whether your career still fits the life you want, take the free Career and Life Fulfillment Quiz as a starting point.  Resources mentioned in this episode: Andrea's book, Your Next Edit, available on AmazonAndrea's Substack newsletter, The Next Edit  About the Guest After 35 years as a senior HR executive, Andrea Maizes walked away from her corporate career and quickly learned that exhaustion is not the same thing as being ready for what's next. Today, Andrea is a certified executive and retirement coach who works with founders, CEOs, and senior leaders navigating major transitions. She is the author of Your Next Edit and the creator of The Next Edit newsletter, where she focuses on the emotional, psychological, and social side of life after success. Website: https://www.andreamaizes.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreamaizes/ _________________________ 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

If someone asked you right now what is truly remarkable about you, what you are genuinely good at, and what lights you up, would you go silent? Most of us would, and not because those things are not there. It is because we stopped looking at them a long time ago, somewhere underneath decades of pouring ourselves into everyone else. In this Thursday check-in, a companion to Monday's conversation in episode 342, Kavita picks up the line that reinvention is not about becoming someone new, it is about remembering every beautiful bit of who you already are, and she walks you through the honest questions that begin to lead you home to yourself in a midlife career and life transition. In this episode, you'll discover: The one question about your younger self that reveals the earliest clues to what you are still drawn toward in midlifeWhy the things you are truly gifted at feel so easy that you dismiss them, and the simple ask that helps other people show you what you cannot seeHow the moments you feel most like yourself point straight at your values, your ikigai (your reason for being), and what actually matters in a midlife transitionPress play to begin remembering the self you have been overlooking for years, one honest answer at a time. Kavita would love to hear what you rediscover this week. Email her directly at [email protected] and share one beautiful bit of yourself you had forgotten. And if the idea of doing this remembering alongside other women stayed with you, add your name to the waiting list here for the new group program, to be first to hear the details as they take shape and to help shape what the community becomes. _________________________ 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

Have you started imagining what could be next for you, only to hear a familiar voice say some version of "It is too late for me, I am too old to start now"? If you are in a midlife career and life transition, there is a good chance that one belief, more than any other, is the thing standing between you and the life you actually want. It is one of the most common beliefs people carry into this season, and it is not a fact. It is a story absorbed somewhere along the way from family, culture, and a world that keeps telling anyone past 50 to fade into the background. The good news is that a belief you were handed is a belief you are allowed to hand right back, and there is a clear, honest way to do it. In this episode, you'll discover: Why "I am too old" is a learned limiting belief, not a truth, and where beliefs like this usually come from in the first placeThe four questions that dismantle any belief keeping you stuck in your midlife transitions walked through in real time using "I am too old" as the exampleWhy reinvention is not about becoming someone new, but about taking every skill, every hard thing, and every buried passion you already carry and putting them together in a way you never have beforePress play to hand back the belief you were handed, and start walking toward the next chapter that has been waiting for you all along. If a circle of like-minded people in the same season of life, doing this exact work together, sounds like something you would want, add your name to the waitlist here and share what you would want most from a community like that. There is no commitment, just an indication that this speaks to you, and your honest thoughts will help shape whether and how this program comes to life. _________________________ 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

Have you spent so many years pouring yourself into everyone else that you are no longer quite sure who you are underneath all the roles you carry? Somewhere along the way, most of us slid to the very bottom of our own lists, and the well we were giving from slowly ran dry. And when the idea of taking real time for yourself finally comes up, the first thing that arrives is guilt. In this Thursday check-in, a companion to Monday's conversation with Monica Packer in episode 340, Kavita picks up one line worth sitting with, and turns it into a small, doable first step back toward the person you have been waiting to meet again in your midlife career and life transition. In this episode, you'll discover: Why the belief that you have to keep pouring yourself out for everyone in your life is slowly emptying the self you were meant to be giving fromThe simple "do something list" practice you can start this week, and why it works so well for anyone who has spent decades getting it right for everyone elseHow giving yourself permission to try small, ordinary things purely for the joy of them begins to lead you back toward what actually lights you up in your midlife life transitionPress play to give yourself permission to take up space in your own life again, one small, imperfect, entirely yours thing at a time. Kavita would love to hear what ends up on your do something list this week. Email her directly at [email protected] and share the one thing you used to love and are ready to pick back up. If this episode has stirred something deeper and you feel ready to do the real work of rediscovering who you are and what you actually want next, book a Complimentary Clarity Call with Kavita and take the first step in your midlife career and life transition. _________________________ 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

Have you ever wondered if the reason you feel stuck in your midlife transition has nothing to do with a lack of discipline, and everything to do with a hidden form of perfectionism you didn't even know you had? Most of us think of perfectionism as the overachieving, driven, never-good-enough version. But there is another side of it that almost no one recognizes in themselves, the giving up, the waiting until you are sure you will not fail, the staying on the sidelines. It is the same rule underneath: if you cannot do it perfectly, it is not worth doing at all. This week, habits and identity coach Monica Packer joins the show to unpack the hidden perfectionism keeping so many of us stuck, why your identity has been misplaced onto your roles and outcomes, and what it looks like to finally come back home to yourself. In this episode, you'll discover: Why so many accomplished people are perfectionists without even realizing it, and what that hidden pattern is really costing youHow your identity gets tangled up in your roles as parent, partner, or professional, and the shift that helps you reclaim who you are underneath all of themThe small, surprising practice Monica calls the "do something list" that helps you rediscover your passions, prioritize your own fulfillment, and find your way back to yourselfPress play to see why the years you may have spent calling yourself lazy, undisciplined, or someone who never follows through were never really about any of that, and what to do instead so this next chapter can actually be yours. If you are navigating a midlife career or life transition and want to reconnect with your reason for being, take the Ikigai Clarity Assessment to see which of the four dimensions of your ikigai - your strengths, passions, values, and contribution - are present in your life right now and which ones need attention. And if you are ready for personalized support on your next chapter, book a Complimentary Clarity Call with Kavita. About the Guest Monica Packer is a recovering perfectionist who uncovered the truest model for lasting growth: progress made practical. As a writer, podcaster, and coach, she guides women to find sustainable growth by choosing progress over perfection. Monica's popular podcast, About Progress, is a top-rated show with millions of downloads, and she has served thousands of women online as a certified habits and identity coach. Her book, Sticky Habits: A Woman's Guide to Reclaim Happiness, Ditch Perfectionism, and Create Habits That Last, is out now. Monica is a mom of five, a former middle school teacher, a sourdough obsessor, and a beginning gardener. Website: https://www.aboutprogress.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/aboutprogress _________________________ 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

Have you tried to picture what you actually want your life to look like, and found that the dream would not fully come into focus, or that you felt a little silly even trying? Somewhere along the way, most of us stopped letting ourselves dream at all. We were told to be realistic, and slowly, without ever quite deciding to, we traded the big open dreaming for practical planning, and started asking what we can manage instead of what we truly want. In this Thursday check-in, Kavita picks up where episode 338 left off and gives you permission, and a real way, to reconnect with what you want, with the fear-driven editor kept outside the room, so that for the first time in a long while you actually know what you are walking toward. In this episode, you'll discover: The fifteen-minute practice, built around one honest question, that lets you dream with the inner critic kept out of the roomAn easier way in when the blank page feels hard, by asking what you miss instead of what you want, and why your truest desires are often old ones still waiting exactly where you left themWhy you cannot move toward a life you will not let yourself picture, and how giving yourself permission to want is where your next chapter actually beginsPress play to give yourself the honest fifteen minutes this week to see what you truly want, so that for the first time in a long while, you know where you are aiming. If you would like Kavita's guided visualization to help you dream more clearly, underneath all the noise and the shoulds, email her directly at [email protected] and she will happily send it your way. _________________________ 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

Have you convinced yourself that the work you truly want to do is a luxury you simply cannot afford right now? For so many accomplished women in a midlife transition, the money fear arrives in almost the same breath as the dream itself. You know the work you are doing no longer fits, and you want something that means more, and then reality steps in with the mortgage, the bills, the people who depend on you. The fear is real, and it deserves an honest answer. But it is also rarely the whole story, and this episode honestly turns the question around so you can see what is really underneath it. In this episode, you'll discover: The one question to ask instead of "can I afford to follow my purpose" that reframes the entire risk of staying versus leavingWhat palliative care nurse Bronnie Ware learned from people at the very end of their lives about the true cost of staying in a life that no longer fits, and why it may change how you think about your work todayWhy abundance is not the same as money, and how to recognize the other forms of wealth you may be running bankrupt in right now, no matter how full your bank account looksPress play to hear a grounded, honest conversation about money fear, real abundance, and the careful, patient way accomplished women actually move toward the work that fits them. If you are ready to see which parts of your Ikigai, your strengths, passions, values, and contribution, are present in your life right now and which are not, take the Ikigai Clarity Assessment and then book a Complimentary Clarity Call with Kavita to talk through what your results mean and what your next step could look like. _________________________ 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

Have you finally admitted to yourself what you want next, and immediately found that a wall of fear and doubt stands between you and actually reaching for it? On Monday, in episode 336, Kristy Halvorsen left us with one question that silenced every fear long enough for us to see what we actually want. This Thursday check-in picks up right there. Once you can see the life you want, the work becomes meeting the wiser future version of yourself who has already walked the path, and giving yourself the permission you have been waiting on someone else to grant. That is the shift that turns a private daydream into something you actually begin to move toward in your midlife career and life transition. In this episode, you'll discover: How to meet your inner mentor or future self, the wiser future version of you who is already on the other side of the fear and knows exactly what to tell you to do nextThe real reason belief matters in a midlife career and life transition, and how it changes what you notice, what you say yes to, and what you actually reach forWhy permission to believe your next chapter is possible is not something you have to earn, and the simple act of claiming it that begins to change what you doPress play to meet the future version of yourself who already knows the way, and let her show you the very next step in your midlife life transition. If you would like Kavita's guided visualization to meet your inner mentor and see the life you actually want, email Kavita directly at [email protected] and she will send it to you. _________________________ 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

Is there a steady pull inside you toward something different, something you keep talking yourself out of because it makes no sense on paper? For so many women in a midlife transition, the hardest part is not the lack of a plan. It's learning to trust the inner knowing that keeps calling to you underneath the noise, the responsibilities, and the voices of everyone else. In this conversation, Kavita and Kristy Halvorsen explore what it means to live by what Kristy calls the tickles of your soul, your intuition, that quiet inner compass. In 2017, Kristy sold everything, walked away from her firefighting career, and drove into the unknown in her Airstream trailer, and nearly nine years later she shares why the life you long for may be waiting on the other side of finally listening to it. In this episode, you'll discover: Why the inner pull you keep talking yourself out of, the one that makes no sense on paper, may be the truest compass you have during a midlife career or life transitionThe one question that dissolves almost every fear standing between you and the life you actually want, and how to sit with it honestly this weekWhy reinventing yourself is never about throwing away who you have been, but about bringing every skill, every role, and every hard-won lesson with you into what comes nextPress play to hear an honest, wide-open conversation about trusting yourself, letting go of the maps that no longer serve you, and remembering that you were born with permission to follow what is calling you. If this episode is meeting you where you are, take the free Ikigai Clarity Assessment to turn down the noise and see honestly where your strengths, passions, values, and contribution are aligned in your life right now, then book a Complimentary Clarity Call with Kavita to name your very next honest step in your midlife career and life transition. About the Guest Kristy Halvorsen is a nomadic world traveler, mentor, and coach, and the bestselling author of Perfect Unfolding, a tender and deeply human account of what becomes possible when you live in curiosity and wonder, trust life, and let yourself wake up to the freedom that has been available all along. In 2017, Kristy sold everything she owned, walked away from her firefighting career, and drove off into the unknown in her Airstream trailer. For nearly nine years, she has migrated with the seasons, often with no idea where she is heading next. WebsiteBook (worldwide retail link)InstagramLinkedInFacebookGoodreads_________________________ 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

Is there a voice in your head that keeps telling you you're not qualified, not ready, or not the kind of woman who gets to want something more? That voice has a name. In coaching, it's called the gremlin, and you probably know it better as your inner critic. It was built a long time ago to keep you safe, and it has been doing its job by keeping you small ever since. In this Thursday check-in, Kavita goes deeper into step two of last Monday's episode 334, facing your fears, and walks you through the exact practice she uses with clients to loosen that voice's grip so it stops running your career and life decisions. In this episode, you'll discover: What the gremlin (your inner critic) actually is, why it formed, and how to recognize it the moment it arrives during a career transitionThe simple naming and picturing practice that separates that voice from you, so you stop mistaking self-doubt for your own honest judgmentHow to give the same voice a new job and a new message, so the energy that was keeping you stuck starts working for your next chapter insteadPress play to meet your inner critic, understand what it has been trying to protect you from, and turn its voice into one that lifts you toward what you actually want next. Have a question about naming your inner critic, facing self-doubt in a career transition, or anything else on your own journey? Ask Me Anything! Send it to me for a future episode: [email protected] If you sense your gremlin is loud but you can't quite hear what it is protecting you from or write the new message on your own, book a Complimentary Clarity Call with Kavita and uncover it together. _________________________ 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

Have you built a career that looks successful from the outside, and still carry an honest knowing on the inside that it no longer fits the woman you have become? Nothing may be obviously wrong. The title is still there, the paycheck is still there, and everyone around you assumes you should be grateful. But the person who chose this path 20 or 30 years ago is not you anymore. Your values have shifted, what you want from your days has changed, and wearing a career that fits who you used to be is a very particular kind of tired. In this episode, Kavita walks you through the three honest steps that finally move you forward when your career no longer fits your midlife career transition, drawn from her own reinvention and the women she has coached through the same crossroads. In this episode, you'll discover: The one honest question you have to answer before anything in your career transition can begin to change, and why staying busy is how most women avoid itThe real fear that is keeping you exactly where you are, even though you already know you want to move, and how naming your specific fear returns your power back to youWhy fast external fixes leave you in a new version of the same unhappiness, and how getting to the root cause through your Ikigai and reason for being becomes the way forwardPress play to name what no longer fits, face the fear that has been keeping you there, and take the first honest step toward the next chapter that is truly yours. If this episode is meeting you where you are, take the free Ikigai Clarity Assessment to see which of the four dimensions of your reason for being, your strengths, passions, values, and contribution, are aligned right now and which are asking for your attention, then book a Complimentary Clarity Call with Kavita to bring your results and name your very first 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

Have you been carrying around a low, humming sense that something in your life is off, but you cannot quite point to where? On paper, much of your life looks fine. And yet underneath your days there is a low feeling of being out of balance, of moving from a good stretch to a hard one and back again without ever knowing why. Because you cannot name it, you cannot do anything about it, so you tell yourself it is nothing and you keep going. In this Thursday check-in, a companion to Monday's Episode 332 on making this season your own reset, Kavita walks you through a simple wheel of life exercise that turns that vague off feeling into a clear picture of where your life and who you are have drifted apart, and gives you one honest place to begin. In this episode, you'll discover: Why the vague sense of being off in a midlife transition is not vague at all, and how putting your life on paper as a wheel makes it visible for the first timeThe eight areas to score honestly, and the one rule that matters more than all the restHow to choose the one starting point that smooths out your whole wheel, instead of trying to fix everything at oncePress play to name what has been off in your life, and find your one place to begin your reset this week. To get the printable wheel of life exercise Kavita uses with her clients, email her directly at [email protected]. And if you want to see the bigger picture underneath your wheel, take the free Ikigai Clarity Assessment to see which dimensions of your reason for being are thriving right now and which one is asking for your attention. _________________________ 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

Have you found yourself standing at the turn of the season, wondering if this is really the life you meant to be living? For most of your life, September was a reset that belonged to everyone else. This year, with the house stiller and the old work no longer lighting you up, that familiar thrill may be replaced by a sinking feeling. That ache is not a flaw. It is a signal pointing to the gap between how you are living and the woman you have become in your midlife life transition. In this episode, you'll discover: Why the restless end-of-summer feeling is not something to push away, but the clearest sign of what needs to change nextA simple way to walk through your days and see honestly where your outer life still fits you, and where it no longer doesThe two questions, "who am I now" and "what do I really want", that begin to open the door to your reason for being and your next chapterPress play to make this the September you finally reset for yourself, and take the first honest step toward the next chapter that is truly yours. If this is meeting you where you are, take the free Ikigai Clarity Assessment to see which of your four dimensions, strengths, passions, values, and contribution, is alive right now and which has faded into the background, then book a Complimentary Clarity Call with Kavita to name your very next step in your midlife career and life transition. _________________________ 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

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