Is it ever "too late" to heal? Linda Landon reveals how she transformed a childhood of "shame and shutdown" into a life of vibrant pleasure after 50. We explore how to rewrite negative stories about sex, use Human Design to find your rhythm, and why menopause is actually a portal to your most "juicy" years yet. 

Restoring Intimacy & Desire After 50

In this episode, we tackle the reality of intimacy after 50, offering a roadmap to restore low libido and reclaim sexual wellness. Linda shares her journey from shut down to a vibrant, embodied sexuality that blossomed after menopause.

In this conversation, we dive into:

• Menopause and Libido: Why this phase is a portal to freedom.
• Somatic Healing: Moving the nervous system from pressure to safety.
• Practical Solutions: Managing dryness and using breathwork for arousal.
• Human Design: Using your "Projector" nature to transform intimacy.

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Linda Landon – Coach, Creator of the Ignite Method

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💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/linda-landon-pcc-95b9011
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Beverley Glazer, MA – Transition Coach, Psychotherapist & Host

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Cat Greenleaf: Life after Talk Stoop. When your identity vanishes, how do you find sober purpose? Job loss, reinvention, & restorative housing.

What happens when the job that defined your life vanishes overnight? We sit down with Cat Greenleaf—the former host of NYC’s beloved Talk Stoop—to explore the unvarnished truth of losing status, facing depression, and finding reinvention through hard, humane work.

Cat shares the scrappy birth of Talk Stoop on her Brooklyn steps, the wild ride of success, and the unexpected career cut-off without a clean reason. Instead of chasing a new network, Cat designed two acts of repair, focusing on recovery and service:

1. Soberness Podcast: A candid show where artists speak plainly about addiction recovery and sobriety.
2. Restorative Housing Organization: A model that renovates undervalued waterfront homes using teams of formerly incarcerated residents, creating dignified affordable housing and reentry solutions.

This conversation is a direct, humane playbook for those rebuilding after job loss, divorce, or a stalled dream. You’ll hear practical steps to reclaim purpose: ask for help, volunteer to feel useful, and practice the concept of chop wood and carry water. Your identity crisis is a chance for a truer, better next chapter.

Key Topics for Search: Cat Greenleaf, Talk Stoop, Soberness podcast, Restorative Housing Organization, job loss identity crisis, career reinvention, sober recovery journey, losing status, affordable housing, rebuilding after job loss, facing depression, midlife pivot, staying sober, addiction recovery, NYC TV host, second chances.

Resources: For similar episodes on rebuilding your life from the ground up, check out episodes 98 and 123 of Aging with Purpose and Passion

Cat Greenleaf – Journalist, Creator & Host of Soberness

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🌐 https://www.soberness.com
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💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/cat-greenleaf-52900279
🤍 https://www.restorativehousing.org

Beverley Glazer, MA – Transition Coach, Psychotherapist & Host
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Scent isn’t just beauty—it’s memory, mood, and identity. And Sue Phillips has turned it into a science.

Internationally renowned fragrance expert Sue Phillips joins us to share how scent can elevate confidence, trigger healing, and reconnect you with the parts of yourself you’ve forgotten. From her beginnings in South Africa to creating fragrances for Tiffany, Burberry, and celebrities around the world, Sue’s journey is a masterclass in reinvention.

We explore how fragrance taps directly into the brain’s emotional center, why bespoke scents are rising, and how Sue helped hundreds of people regain their sense of smell after COVID. She breaks down fragrance families—fresh, floral, woodsy, ambery—and explains how to choose a scent that reflects your personality, lifestyle, and mood.

Sue also shares how she rebuilt her career multiple times: from global beauty executive to founder of Scenterprises and The Scentarium, to pioneering smell-retraining therapy during the pandemic. Her story is a reminder that your senses can guide transformation at any age.

You’ll leave with practical tools: how to pick a signature scent, how to use perfume for grounding and energy, and how a simple scent ritual can shift your emotional state in minutes.

Tap play to rediscover your senses—and maybe yourself.

Resources  

For a similar stories on changing your mood quickly, check out episodes 145 and 154  of Aging with Purpose and Passion and sign up for alerts

Sue Phillips – Fragrance Expert & Scentrepreneur™

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🌐 https://www.suephillips.com
📸 Instagram: @scentfullysue | @scenterprises | @suephillipsfragrance | @therealsuephillips
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Beverley Glazer MA– Transition Coach, Psychotherapist & Host

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When was the last time you did something that made you feel truly alive?

Patti Shales Lefkos was 68 when she set out alone for Nepal—and eventually trekked to Everest Base Camp at 79. Adventurer, writer, and humanitarian, Patti shows how purpose can grow with age when you follow curiosity one small step at a time.

From childhood summers on a remote island without electricity to leading outdoor programs for inner-city students, her life has been shaped by resilience and the wild. A post-retirement shift into journalism led to 200+ published features and, ultimately, to Nepal—where trekking turned into service and her nonprofit Nepal One Day at a Time rebuilt schools and futures after the 2015 earthquake.

In this conversation, Patti shares the real playbook for late-life adventure: how to acclimatize safely at altitude, choose ethical guides, buy travel insurance that actually protects you, and write “fear plans” that turn imagined disasters into manageable steps. We explore what travel reveals about shared humanity—and why courage at any age begins with one tiny yes.

If you're craving more meaning, movement, or momentum after 50, you’ll leave with practical ways to start today: a five-minute nature reset, a new trail to explore, or a choice that nudges you toward the life you’ve been postponing.

Subscribe for more conversations on aging with purpose and passion—and share this episode with someone who needs a reminder that it’s never too late to go farther than you imagined.

Resources  

For a similar stories on fulfillment in later life check out after episode 151 and 154  of Aging with Purpose and Passion and The "Women in the Middle®" hosted by life coach Suzy Rosenstein and focuses on helping women in midlife, navigate life changes, set goals, and find happiness. 

Patti Shales Lefkos – Journalist, Author, Adventure Traveler & Humanitarian

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🌐 https://pattishaleslefkos.com

Beverley Glazer – Transition Coach & Host

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What if life after 50 isn’t decline—but your most powerful reboot?

What if life after 50 isn’t decline, but a biological awakening? In this conversation, OBGYN and Hall Center founder Dr. Prudence Hall reframes menopause, midlife and women's health through a root-cause, functional medicine lens.

Dr. Hall explains how hormones act like the body’s software—and what happens when estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone drop in midlife. She breaks down biodentical hormones in clear language, separating them from older synthetic options, and explores how hormones impact brain health, heart health, bone strength, metabolism and mood. 

We touch on myths, safety, labs, inflammation, and the lifestyle factors—sleep, stress, movement, nutrition—that make treatment more effective. You’ll also hear practical steps to advocate for your care and approach aging as a second act of strength, purpose, and energy.

If you’re tired of feeling dismissed, exhausted, or confused by conflicting advice, this episode offers a clearer path forward for women over 50 and healthy aging.

Resources  

For a similar stories on reclaiming entergy after 50 check episode 141 and 145 of Aging with Purpose and Passion and The "Women in the Middle®" hosted by life coach Suzy Rosenstein and focuses on helping women in midlife, navigate life changes, set goals, and find happiness. 

Dr. Prudence Hall – OBGYN, Founder of The Hall Center

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🌐 https://thehallcenter.com
💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/drprudencehall
📘 https://www.facebook.com/thehallcenter
📸 https://www.instagram.com/thehallcenter

Beverley Glazer – Transition Coach & Host

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If your past still decides who you get to be, this conversation will break the spell! 

Hollywood therapist and author Dr. Nicki Monti shares how early abandonment, addiction, and lifelong relationship patterns shaped her identity—and how she rewrote her story from the inside out. In this powerful conversation, she explains how childhood survival strategies become adult barriers, why sobriety uncovers what we’ve been running from, and how real healing begins when you stop protecting the wound and start telling the truth.

Dr. Nicki opens up about decades of emotional recovery, caregiving her husband through cancer, rebuilding life after loss, and finally finding healthy, mature love with clarity and boundaries. Her Stuck No More method helps you understand the beliefs that keep you repeating old dynamics—and how to choose self-worth, emotional safety, and connection at any age.

If you’ve ever felt stuck in your story, this episode offers the mindset shifts, recovery tools, and self-understanding needed to change the meaning of your past and reclaim your life.

Resources  

For a similar stories on changing your story, check episode 144 and 149 of Aging with Purpose and Passion and The "Women in the Middle®" hosted by life coach Suzy Rosenstein and focuses on helping women in midlife, navigate life changes, set goals, and find happiness. 

Dr. Nicki Monti – Psychotherapist, Author & Founder of Stuck No More

📧 d r n i c k i @ s t u c k n o m o r e . c o m
🌐 https://www.stucknomore.com
📘 https://www.facebook.com/stucknomore
📸 @drnickimonti
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Beverley Glazer – Transformation Coach & Host📧 [email protected]
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What if confidence comes from play, not perfection? Therapist, storyteller, and improv coach Jude Treder-Wolff shares how creativity can rebuild courage, calm anxiety, and spark transformation at any age.

What if the fastest way to feel confident isn’t control, but creativity? In this episode, therapist, storyteller, and improv coach Jude Treder-Wolff reveals how improv therapy, expressive arts therapy and playful daily habits help people break free from perfectionism, quiet fear, and navigate major life transitions with resilience.

Jude takes us from discovering the magic of New York as a kid to her early work in psychiatric hospitals, where she saw how small, consistent creatve actions create real emotional healing. We explore the origins of improv in Chicago settlement houses with Viola Spolin, and how those same structures still teach presence, trust, and courage today.

She shares powerful tools you can use right now: playful storytelling exercises, curiosity-based choices that calm the nervous system, and creativity practices that restore energy during grief, illness, or reinvention in midlife. Jude’s stories, including her “miracle on 57th Street,” show how creativity rewires self-belief and opens new possibilities.

This episode is a guide to aging with purpose and passion: use structure to feel safe, play to feel alive, and small creative steps to create change that lasts.

If this conversation inspires you, follow the show, share it with a friend who needs a creative reset, and leave a review with the smallest “yes” you’ll try this week. Your next scene starts the moment you choose it. 

Resources  

For a similar stories on aging and creativity, check episode  127 and 154 and The "Women in the Middle®" hosted by life coach Suzy Rosenstein and focuses on helping women in midlife, navigate life changes, set goals, and find happiness. 

Jude Treder-Wolff – Therapist, Storyteller & Improv Coach
📧 [email protected]
🌐 https://www.lifestage.me
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📘 https://www.facebook.com/jude.trederwolff.9
📸 @lifestage_inc
💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/jude-treder-wolff-294436221/
🎙️ Improv In Real Life (Apple, Spotify, all platforms)

Beverley Glazer – Transformation Coach & Host
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What if the dream you set aside is still waiting patiently for you? In this inspiring episode of Aging with Purpose and Passion, we explore reinvention after 50 with singer, songwriter, and vocal coach Barbara Lewis, whose story is a masterclass in resilience, creativity and healing. From early acclaim to life’s toughest pauses, Barbara shows how women over 50 can reignite passion, rediscover purpose, and reclaim joy through the power of music and midlife transformation. Whether you’re seeking growth, self-discovery or a nudge to finally find your voice again, this conversation reminds you—it’s never too late to rise.

Barbara traces her journey from rigorous opera training and early success to a bold choice: walking away from roles that didn’t fit and creating her own truth through original music. That decision—equal parts courage and conviction—sparked a lifelong mission to help others uncover their voices. Her story weaves through 9/11 in New York, losing her husband, and finding her way back to song through teaching, mindfulness, and daily creative rituals.

We talk about how singing reconnects us to body, mind, and spirit. You’ll learn why breath is the most powerful form of emotional reguation, how sound changes your mood, and why community and conndection are essential to staying vibrant as we age. Barbara shares simple tools—gratitude, humming, morning pages, and movement—to restore confidence and joy, one note at a time.

If you’ve ever wondered whether it’s too late to begin again, this episode answers with a resounding no. The point of power is now.

✨ Listen for:

• Practical ways to rebuild confidence and creativity
• How to use music and mindfulness to heal
• Why perfection is the enemy of joy
• Daily actions to reignite your spark after 50

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Follow the show, share it with a friend who needs a nudge, and leave a quick review to help others find Aging with Purpose and Passion.

Resources  

For a similar stories on aging and creativity, check episode 120 and 127 and you might also enjoy Wellness Wednesdays hosted by gerontologist Sally Duplantier. These webinars feature topics about healthy aging. Visit MyZingLife.com to learn more.

Barbara Lewis – Singer, Songwriter & Vocal Coach
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What if a thousand-pound mirror could show you who you really are? Through the wisdom of horses, Sue Willoughby helps women over 50 move from self-doubt to grounded power. This is reinvention, leadership, and healing — all in one unforgettable story.

In this episode of Aging with Purpose and Passion, Sue shares how horses read our energy, boundaries, and truth without judgment — and how that reflection can unlock confidence after 50, emotional resilience, and real self-trust. We talk about midlife reinvention, calm leadership, and what it means to step back into your own authority when life has shaken you.

You’ll hear Sue’s path from quitting high school twice, to breaking into tech, to building a completely new chapter through equine-assisted coaching. You’ll also learn how this work helps women in major life transitions stop performing, stop people-pleasing, and start leading from presence.

✨  In this episode you'll learn how healing with horses can reconnect you to purpose, power, and who you actually are.

Resources  

For a similar story on the power of being heard check episode 144 and you might also enjoy Wellness Wednesdays hosted by gerontologist Sally Duplantier. These webinars feature topics about healthy aging. Visit MyZingLife.com to learn more.

Sue Willoughby – Coach, Speaker & Founder of Willoughby Coaching
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Beverley Glazer – Life Transition Coach & Host of Aging with Purpose and Passion
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What if losing everything was the moment you found yourself?
Renee Balcom—former dot-com CEO turned healthcare advocate—shows how reinvention, resilience, and purpose can rise from total collapse.

In this episode, we meet Renee Balcom, a former Silicon Valley CEO during the dot-com era who lost it all — company, marriage, identity — and built it back stronger than ever. Her story is a powerful example of midlife reinvention, emotional resilience, and how purpose often hides behind our hardest seasons.

Renee shares how bankruptcy led to clarity, how caregiving opened her eyes to broken healthcare systems, and how she founded Scroll Care, a trusted network that helps families navigate aging, caregiving, and complex medical decisions with dignity.

You’ll learn how to:

• Turn career collapse into career transformation, 
• Rebuild after failure with purpose and integrity
• Use your transferable skills to start again
• Find peace and direction through service, not status

If you’re a woman over 50 seeking clarity, caregiving support, or courage to reinvent yourself, this episode is your reminder: your story isn’t over — it’s just getting interesting.

✨ Subscribe, review, and share with someone ready for her next chapter.

Resources  

For a similar story on caregiving and reinvention check episode 127 and 145 and you might also enjoy Wellness Wednesdays hosted by gerontologist Sally Duplantier. These webinars feature topics about healthy aging. Visit MyZingLife.com to learn more.

Renee Balcom, CCHW, CSA – Founder @ Scroll.care
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Beverley Glazer – Life Transition Coach & Host of Aging with Purpose and Passion
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