Family secrets, forgiveness, retirement, and what changes when you see your past with new eyes after 50.

What if something you learned after 50 changed the way you understood your family—and yourself?

For decades, Yvonne F. Conte believed she knew the story of her childhood. Then one photograph and two documents revealed information she had never known.

Nothing about the past changed.

But the meaning of it did.

In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer sits down with the nationally recognized keynote speaker and bestselling author of Beneath Her Smile for a conversation about family secrets, memory, forgiveness, reinvention, and the perspective that can come later in life.

Yvonne takes us back to childhood, where humor first became a way to get attention, connect, and feel seen. That instinct would follow her through rebellious teenage years, marriage, divorce, single motherhood, sales, job loss, and an unexpected career reinvention that eventually put her on stages across the country.

Then came another transition.

After decades of speaking, retirement left Yvonne with more time—but not enough purpose. Writing her memoir brought her back to old memories and forced her to reconsider assumptions she had carried about her parents for most of her life.

This conversation is not about pretending painful experiences didn’t matter. It is about what can happen when you finally have enough distance, experience, and information to understand them differently.

Beverley and Yvonne explore what it means to revisit the past without becoming trapped in it, how family stories shape identity, why forgiveness is not the same as excusing what happened, and how purpose after 50 can emerge in ways you never expected.

For women over 50, there is a deeper question underneath Yvonne’s story:

What have you believed about your past simply because it was the only version you knew?

Sometimes the facts remain exactly the same.

What changes is the way you carry them.

Stay until the end, when Beverley shares key takeaways and practical actions you can begin using immediately.

In This Episode

• How childhood experiences shape the stories we carry into adulthood
• Why humor can become a way to cope, connect, and feel seen
• How job loss can lead to an unexpected career reinvention
• What retirement can reveal about identity and purpose after 50
• How family secrets can change the way you understand your parents
• Revisiting childhood memories with the perspective of later life
• Why forgiveness does not mean excusing what happened
• How writing your life story can uncover patterns you never recognized
• Finding purpose after retirement when you still want to contribute
• How new information can change the meaning of an old story

For similar episodes check out retirement after 50, Your Best work is Not Done Episode 185 and Who are You Without the Career, Episode 181 of Aging with Purpose and Passion and if you're looking for a podcast that goes beyond money and traditional retirement advice, Beyond retirement with Jacquie Doucette explores how to build a retirement that feels meaningful, intentional, and truly your own. That's beyondretirement.ca/reset

Resources:

Yvonne F. Conte – Nationally Recognized Keynote Speaker | Bestselling Author of Beneath Her Smile
🌐 Website: www.yvonne-conte.com
📘 Facebook: facebook.com/vonnie.conte
💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/yvonne-f-conte-9508b1374
📸 Instagram: instagram.com/besillybefairbekind
▶️ YouTube: youtube.com/@HumorAdvantage

Beverley Glazer, MA, CCC – Life & Work Transition Coach | Reinvention Strategist | Host of Aging With Purpose and Passion
🌐 Website: reinventimpossible.com
💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/beverleyglazer
📘 Facebook: facebook.com/beverley.glazer
👩‍💼 Women Over 50 Rock! Community: facebook.com/groups/womenover50rock
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Kim Boudreau Smith on confidence, self-worth, career reinvention, visibility, leadership, and using decades of experience without constantly proving yourself.

What if you’ve spent years proving your value—and no longer need to?

You’ve built experience, solved difficult problems, taken risks, and learned things no résumé can fully capture. Yet even highly capable women can find their confidence rising and falling with income, recognition, job titles, or whether other people approve of what they’re doing.

In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer speaks with Kim Boudreau Smith, founder of Her Bold Voice and a Business Growth Strategist, about what changes when women stop measuring their worth by how much they produce—and start trusting the value of what they already know.

Kim’s path has never been conventional. She moved from corporate sales and marketing into entrepreneurship, built a successful fitness business, pioneered internet radio before podcasting was mainstream, published three Amazon bestselling anthologies, and has spent decades helping women become more visible and influential in their work.

But beneath those accomplishments is a more personal story about confidence, risk, comparison, and the pressure to keep proving yourself.

Kim talks candidly about growing up in a working-class family where hard work and security mattered, the peaks and valleys of entrepreneurship, and what happens when business results begin affecting how you feel about yourself.

Beverley and Kim also explore the critical inner voice Kim calls “the hag in the attic,” why experienced women still underestimate their value, and the difference between running everything yourself and actually leading.

For women building businesses or continuing meaningful careers after 50, they discuss delegation, visibility, thought leadership, comparison with younger women, ageism, and why experience becomes more powerful when you stop trying to be everything to everyone.

But this conversation goes beyond business.

If you’ve spent years achieving, producing, and proving what you can do, this conversation raises a different question: After everything you’ve already accomplished, what would change if you stopped needing to prove your worth?

Stay until the end, when Beverley shares key takeaways and practical actions you can begin using immediately.

• How to stop tying your self-worth to income and achievement
• Why successful women still struggle with confidence after 50
• Making the transition from corporate career to entrepreneurship
• How to stop playing small when you have decades of experience
• Moving from running everything yourself to becoming a stronger leader
• How delegation protects your time, energy, and business growth
• Building visibility and thought leadership after 50
• Dealing with comparison and the critical voice in your head
• How women over 50 can use experience as a professional advantage
• Deciding what you really want from work at this stage of life

For similar episodes on owning your power, check out When Success No Longer Fits. 182 and Success, Burnout, and What Really Matters Episode 184 of Aging with Purpose and Passion. And if you're looking for a podcast about retirement that goes beyond money and traditional retirement advice, Beyond retirement with Jacquie Doucette explores how to build a retirement that feels meaningful, intentional, and truly your own. That's beyondretirement.ca/reset

🔗 Resources

Kim Boudreau Smith – Founder of Her Bold Voice | Business Growth Strategist
📧 Email: [email protected]
🌐 Website: https://www.kimbsmith.com
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimboudreausmith/

Beverley Glazer, MA, CCC – Life & Work Transition Coach | Reinvention Strategist | Host of Aging With Purpose and Passion
🌐 Website: https://reinventimpossible.com
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beverleyglazer/
📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beverley.glazer
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What happens when life asks more of you than you ever imagined you could give?

You’ve spent years being capable, solving problems, and being there when people need you. But some things can’t be fixed, planned for, or powered through. Sometimes life changes in an instant—and you become the person everyone is counting on.

That’s what happened to Diane Filato.

Just weeks after the birth of Diane’s grandson, her daughter began experiencing unexplained symptoms. Then came the diagnosis no family was prepared for: ALS.

Suddenly, Diane was facing the unimaginable—watching her daughter’s health decline while preparing to take on a role she never expected: raising her young grandson.

In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Diane shares what happens when grief and responsibility arrive at the same time. She talks candidly about the physical and emotional realities of caregiving, becoming a parent again later in life, helping a child feel safe after losing his mother, and carrying your own grief while trying to be strong for someone else.

For women who are accustomed to being the capable one—the person everyone relies on—Diane’s story raises a difficult question: What do you do when life asks more of you than you believe you can give?

We talk about the comments grieving families wish people wouldn’t make, why there is no timetable for “moving on,” and how memory, humour, boundaries, and ordinary routines can help create stability when a family’s world has been changed forever.

Diane also shares the difference Good Grief made for her family. This community-based grief support program brings grieving children and adults together with people who understand their experience. Diane explains why peer grief support can feel very different from therapy, how children process the death of a parent, and why having a place to speak honestly—without judgment or unsolicited advice—can be so powerful.

Whether you are caring for someone you love, grieving a loss, supporting a child through bereavement, taking on an unexpected family responsibility, or simply facing circumstances you never thought would be yours, Diane’s story is about something much larger than tragedy.

It is about how you keep showing up when there is no way to make everything okay.

Stay until the end, when Beverley shares key takeaways and practical actions you can begin using immediately.

• Losing an adult child and coping with profound grief
• Raising a grandchild after the death of a parent
• Becoming a parent again later in life
• Caring for a loved one with ALS
• Managing caregiving responsibilities while grieving yourself
• Helping a child cope with the death of a parent
• What not to say to someone who is grieving
• How peer grief support differs from traditional therapy
• Finding grief support for children and families through Good Grief

Resources:

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Beverley Glazer, MA, CCC – Life & Work Transition Coach | Reinvention Strategist | Host of Aging With Purpose and Passion
🌐 Website: ReinventImpossible.com
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👩‍💼 Women Over 50 Rock! Community: Women Over 50 Rock!
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Jeannie Duckworth on caregiver guilt, dementia warning signs, memory care, senior living, and making difficult decisions before a crisis forces them.

How do you know when keeping an aging parent at home is no longer the safest—or most loving—choice?

For many high achieving women, that question comes with enormous guilt.

You promised you'd be there. You want your parent to remain independent. And every new problem can seem manageable—until wandering, falls, medication mistakes, dementia, or caregiver exhaustion changes everything.

In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer speaks with Jeannie Duckworth, founder and CEO of Blue Magnolia Senior Living Advisors, about one of the most difficult transitions families face: recognizing when an aging parent needs more care than the family can safely provide.

Jeannie has guided thousands of families through senior living decisions, but her understanding of caregiving also comes from personal experience with caregiving, loss, and rebuilding her own life.

Together, Beverley and Jeannie explore the early signs of dementia families often explain away, what can signal that living at home is becoming unsafe, and why moving someone into memory care does not necessarily mean you've abandoned them. Sometimes a specialized setting can provide attention, structure, safety, and support that even the most devoted family cannot provide around the clock.

They also discuss caregiver burnout and guilt, the differences between independent living, assisted living, board-and-care homes, and memory care, and why families are better served when these conversations happen before an emergency.

Jeannie shares practical areas to address early, including advance directives, medication lists, finances, CPR preferences, and—most importantly—what good care means to the person you love.

You'll also hear about caregiver support groups, Alzheimer's resources, and financial assistance that some families may qualify for, including Veterans Aid and Attendance depending on eligibility.

If you're caring for an aging parent while also managing your career, family, health, and your own future, this conversation is a reminder that needing help does not mean you stopped caring. The goal isn't to prove how much you can carry. It's to make the best decision you can for everyone involved.

Stay until the end, when Beverley shares key takeaways and practical actions you can begin using immediately.

In This Episode

• How to know when an aging parent may no longer be safe at home
• Early dementia signs families often overlook or explain away
• When it may be time to consider memory care
• How to manage caregiver guilt when a parent needs more help
• The difference between independent living, assisted living, and memory care
• How caregiver burnout affects families and decision-making
• Conversations to have with aging parents before a health crisis
• Advance directives, medications, finances, and end-of-life preferences
• Finding caregiver support and dementia resources
• How to plan a senior living transition before an emergency forces the decision.

🔗 Resources

For similar episodes on caregiving, check out this incredible story, Driving Miss Norma. That's episode 139. And from CEO to Caregiver, episode 152 of Aging with Purpose and Passion. And if you're going through difficult times with a loved one, the Dementia Decoded Podcast with Jennifer Fink is a masterclass for the working family caregiver. That's podcast.show/fading memories. 

Jeannie Duckworth, CDP – Founder & CEO, Blue Magnolia Senior Living Advisors Inc.
🌐 Website: Blue Magnolia Senior Living Advisors
💼 LinkedIn: Jeannie Duckworth
📸 Instagram: @jeanniebluemagnolia

Beverley Glazer, MA, CCC – Life & Work Transition Coach | Reinvention Strategist | Host of Aging With Purpose and Passion
🌐 Website: ReinventImpossible.com
💼 LinkedIn: Beverley Glazer
📘 Facebook: Beverley Glazer
👩‍💼 Women Over 50 Rock! Community: Women Over 50 Rock!
📸 Instagram: @beverleyglazer_reinvention

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Barb Scala on burnout, people-pleasing, identity, golden handcuffs, and redefining success without blowing up your life.

What happens when the successful life everyone admires no longer feels like your own?

You followed the rules. Earned the credentials. Built the career. Took care of the people who depended on you.

From the outside, everything looks right.

Inside, you may be exhausted from performing a version of success that was shaped by someone else’s expectations.

In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer speaks with Barb Scala, an attorney, mediator, entrepreneur, author, and creator of the Seeds for Success™ framework, about what happens when achievement no longer brings fulfillment—and how to make meaningful changes without dismantling your entire life.

Barb shares the mixed messages about success that shaped her early choices, why she remained in law school even when she wanted to leave, and how divorce forced her to confront an identity built around being capable, positive, and pleasing to others.

Her story will resonate with high-achieving women over 50 who have done everything “right” but still feel burned out, disconnected, or uncertain about who they are beyond their professional and personal roles.

Beverley and Barb explore the pull of the golden handcuffs—the income, status, and security that can make an unfulfilling life difficult to leave. They also discuss why financial well-being cannot be separated from emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being, and how thoughtful planning, a safety net, and small deliberate steps can make change possible without an impulsive leap.

Barb also introduces her BLOOM framework: Believe, Let Go, Own Your Value, Optimize Your Energy, and Manifest. Here, manifesting is not wishful thinking. It is aligned, intentional action grounded in self-worth, clarity, and personal responsibility.

If everyone thinks you have it all together—but privately you wonder whether the life you are living is truly yours—this conversation will help you examine what still belongs, what no longer serves you, and how to redefine success on your own terms.

Stay until the end, when Beverley shares key takeaways and practical actions you can begin using immediately.

In this episode:

• How to recognize when outward success no longer feels fulfilling
• Why high-achieving women remain in careers they have outgrown
• Recovering your identity after divorce and major life transitions
• How people-pleasing quietly contributes to burnout
• Understanding the golden handcuffs of income, status, and security
• Redefining success without abandoning financial stability
• Making a career change after 50 without blowing up your life
• Rebuilding self-worth after years of performing for approval
• Using Barb Scala’s BLOOM framework to create aligned change
• Taking small, intentional steps toward a life that feels like your own

Resources: 

For similar episodes on aging with purpose and passion, please check out Success, Burnout, and What Really Matters, that's episode 184. And when success no longer fits, that's episode 182. And if you're going through some difficult times right now, the Dementia Decoded Podcast with Jennifer Fink is a masterclass for the working family caregiver. That's dementiadecoded/podcast.show

Barb Scala – Attorney, Mediator, Entrepreneur & Creator of Seeds for Success™

🌐 Website: https://www.bloomwithbarb.com
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbscala/
📘 Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/105652459526062
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloomwithbarb

Beverley Glazer – Life & Work Transition Coach | Reinvention Strategist | Host of Aging With Purpose and Passion

🌐 Website: https://reinventimpossible.com
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beverleyglazer/
📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beverley.glazer
👩‍💼 Women Over 50 Rock! Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/womenover50rock
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Deb Krier shares how high-achieving women can navigate a breast cancer diagnosis, treatment, work, relationships, and life when everything changes in an instant.

What happens when a breast cancer diagnosis changes everything overnight?

How do you continue leading your career, supporting your family, and making important decisions while navigating chemotherapy, surgery, uncertainty, and fear?

In this powerful episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer sits down with Deb Krier, executive advisor, cancer strategist, and founder of Trying Not to Die, to discuss what it really takes to navigate a Stage III breast cancer diagnosis while continuing to lead a demanding life.

Deb shares her journey from "We're just watching it" to an aggressive cancer diagnosis almost overnight, followed by chemotherapy, septic shock, emergency surgery, weeks in the hospital, and the long road to recovery. She also opens up about the challenges many people don't expect—brain fog, scan anxiety, changing relationships, and the emotional toll cancer takes on partners and caregivers.

Together, Beverley and Deb explore why high-achieving women often struggle to ask for help, what meaningful support actually looks like, and how planning, delegation, and honest communication can help protect both your health and your career during a personal crisis.

Whether you're living with breast cancer, supporting someone you love, or facing another unexpected life transition, this conversation offers practical strategies, honest insights, and hope for moving forward—one decision at a time.

Stay until the end, when Beverley shares key takeaways and simple actions you can begin using today.

In This Episode

• Breast cancer after 50
• Navigating a Stage III breast cancer diagnosis
• Working during chemotherapy
• Leadership during a personal health crisis
• Scan anxiety and fear of recurrence
• Brain fog and the lasting effects of treatment
• Supporting caregivers and partners
• Asking for—and accepting—the right kind of help
• Delegation and business continuity during illness
• Building resilience when life changes overnight

Resources:

For similar episodes on cancer empowerment, check out Finding Your Voice, episode 178, and How to Take Back Your Control with Dr. Tiffany Trosso, episode 186 of Aging with Purpose and Passion. And if you're overwhelmed as a caregiver, Dementia Decoded is a podcast with Jennifer Fink, a masterclass in working with the family caregiver. And that podcast is podcast.show fading memories.

Deb Krier

Executive Advisor | Cancer Strategist | Founder, Your Cancer Warrior & Trying Not to Die

🌐 Website: www.yourcancerwarrior.com

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborahkrier/

📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Deb.Krier/

Beverley Glazer

Life & Work Transition Coach | Reinvention Strategist | Host of Aging With Purpose and Passion

🌐 Website: https://reinventimpossible.com

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beverleyglazer/

📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beverley.glazer

👩‍💼 Women Over 50 Rock! Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/womenover50rock

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Laura Rotter on financial confidence, purpose, career transitions, and building a life that reflects who you've become.

What happens when you've built a successful life—but quietly wonder if it still fits who you are today?

You've worked hard. Built the career. Earned the respect. Created financial security.

From the outside, everything looks successful.

Inside, something feels different.

If you're a high-performing woman over 50 navigating a career transition, retirement, divorce, or simply asking, "What's next?" this conversation is for you.

In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, I sit down with Laura Rotter, founder of True Abundance Advisors and former Wall Street investment executive, to explore what happens when external success no longer reflects your inner values—and why that realization can become the beginning of a more meaningful life.

Laura shares how growing up with financial uncertainty fueled her determination to become financially independent, why Wall Street once felt like the perfect intellectual challenge, and how the industry's changing culture slowly left her feeling disconnected from work she once loved.

What began as quiet dissatisfaction eventually became impossible to ignore.

Mindfulness, yoga, and deep self-reflection helped Laura reconnect with her own voice. Then an unexpected layoff gave her the opportunity she hadn't been willing to give herself—to build a business aligned with her values instead of someone else's definition of success.

Together we explore:

• Why success can stop feeling fulfilling—even when everything looks good on paper

• How to know when you've outgrown the life you've built

• Reinvention after 50 and navigating major life transitions

• Retirement planning that supports the life you actually want

• Divorce, financial confidence, and reclaiming your independence

• Why organizing your finances is an act of self-care—not restriction

• How financial clarity reduces anxiety and helps you make better decisions

• Why more money doesn't create self-worth—it simply magnifies what's already there

Laura also explains why she chose a fee-only financial planning model, how values-based investing creates greater peace of mind, and why true abundance isn't measured by wealth alone.

If you've ever found yourself wondering whether your success still reflects who you've become, this conversation will remind you that it's never too late to redefine what a meaningful life looks like.

Because the goal isn't simply to have more.

It's to build a life that feels as successful on the inside as it looks on the outside.

Resources

For similar episodes on Aging with Purpose and Passion, check out When Success No Longer Fits Episode 182. And Success, Burnout, and What Really Matters, Episode 184. And if you're going through difficult times right now with a loved one, the Dementia Uncoded podcast with Jennifer Fink is a masterclass for the working family caregiver. And that's podcast.show fading memories.

Laura Rotter – Founder, True Abundance Advisors | Fee-Only Financial Advisor

🌐 Website: https://trueabundanceadvisors.com/
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurarotter/
📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/laura.i.rotter/
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rotterlaura/

Beverley Glazer, MA, CCC – Work & Life Transition Coach, Reinvention Strategist & Host

🌐 Website: https://reinventimpossible.com
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beverleyglazer/
📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/reinventimpossible
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How do you keep showing up for everyone else without losing yourself?

How high-performing women can navigate caregiving, burnout, and life transitions without sacrificing themselves.

If you're caring for aging parents, supporting a spouse through illness, balancing work, family, and everyone else's needs, you know how easy it is to put yourself last.

In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer talks with Amy Lokken, founder of The Amy Factor, about caregiving, burnout, self-respect, and what happens when high-performing women quietly begin disappearing beneath the weight of responsibility.

Amy's insights come from lived experience. She cared for both of her parents until their final breath, supported her mother through dementia, and years later found herself caring for her husband through serious health challenges—all while leading a business and trying not to lose herself in the process.

Together, we explore:

• Caregiving and the sandwich generation
• Dementia and caring for aging parents
• Supporting a spouse through illness
• Burnout in high-performing women
• Self-respect versus self-sacrifice
• Leadership through life's hardest seasons
• Identity after caregiving
• Life transitions and reinvention after 50
• Resilience, boundaries, and emotional wellbeing

Amy shares why caregiving is one of the highest forms of leadership, how small daily compromises quietly erode self-respect, and what it takes to care for the people you love without abandoning yourself.

If you've ever felt exhausted, overwhelmed, invisible, or wondered where you went while taking care of everyone else, this conversation will remind you that caring for yourself isn't selfish—it's essential.

Because the people who depend on you need the healthiest, strongest version of you.

✨ What's Next for You?

If you've outgrown the life you've built and want a private space to think through what's next, let's have a conversation.

Learn more about Beverley's work and schedule a conversation at ReinventImpossible.com.

Resources

For similar episodes to help you further, check out Finding Your Voice episode number 154 and Success, Burnout, and what Really Matters, episode 184. And if you're going through difficult times, the Dementia Decoded Podcast with Jennifer Fink is a masterclass for working family caregivers. That's podcast.show Fading Memories.

Amy Lokken – Founder, The Amy Factor™

🌐 Website: https://theamyfactor.com/
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amylokken/
📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amy.lokken.3
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theamylokken/

Beverley Glazer, MA, CCC – Work and Life Transition Coach, Reinvention Strategist & Host

🌐 Website: https://reinventimpossible.com
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beverleyglazer/
📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beverley.glazer
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Who do you turn to when everyone turns to you for answers?

Success can be lonely—especially for women in leadership.

Whether you're a founder, business owner, executive, board member, or a high-performing woman leading others, there are decisions you can't always share, doubts you keep to yourself, and pressures few people truly understand.

In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer sits down with entrepreneur and KELLA founder Hannah Wrixon to explore one of leadership's least talked about challenges: loneliness at the top.

Hannah's story didn't begin in the boardroom. She shares the experiences that shaped her resilience—from surviving abuse and becoming a single mother to building and selling businesses, navigating grief and depression, and discovering that success doesn't protect you from feeling alone.

Together, we explore:

• Women in leadership
• Leadership loneliness and executive burnout
• Career transitions and reinvention after 50
• Women entrepreneurs and business leadership
• Psychological safety and trusted peer networks
• Decision-making under pressure
• Asking for help without losing confidence
• Resilience, purpose, and authentic leadership

If you've ever felt the weight of leading, struggled to make difficult decisions in silence, or believed you had to have all the answers, this conversation will remind you that the strongest leaders aren't the ones who carry everything alone.

They're the ones who know where it's safe to tell the truth.

✨ What's Next for You?

If you've outgrown the life you've built and want a private space to think through what's next, let's have a conversation.

Learn more about Beverley's work and schedule a conversation at ReinventImpossible.com.

Resources:

If you're wondering 'What's next' for me?' Let's map that out together. Schedule a Free Next Act Strategy Session. 

 For similar episodes on Aging with Purpose and Passion, check out When Success No Longer Fits. That's episode number 181 and Success, Burnout, and What Really Matters, episode 184 on Aging with Purpose and Passion. And if you like podcasts for older women, women over 70 is a powerful force. These compelling stories shatter the myth that we become irrelevant as we age, and that's womenover70.com.

Hannah Wrixon – Founder & CEO of KELLA

🌐 Website: https://www.kellaleadership.com
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Beverley Glazer, MA, CCC – Work and Life Transition Coach, Reinvention Strategist & Host

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 🎁 The Gift of a Safe Space: A private, non-judgmental zone away from work and family to focus entirely on your needs, your journey and what's next for you. If you are feeling stuck in your transition, this is your space to exhale.

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“It is what it is” can sound wise.

But sometimes it’s just the sentence that keeps you stuck.

In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer talks with author and publishing partner Lynn Miller, whose book Ahead of Their Time is based on more than 200 interviews with pioneers who challenged broken systems and created new possibilities.

Together, they explore one powerful question:

What if there’s another way?

Lynn shares how childhood challenges, opera training, caregiving, loss, advocacy, and research into pioneers shaped her understanding of reinvention, resilience, and purpose.

This conversation is for women over 50 navigating life transitions, career change, caregiving, loss, uncertainty, or the quiet feeling that the life they built no longer fully fits.

You’ll hear how to stop accepting “that’s just how it is,” ask better questions, reuse your strengths in new ways, and begin creating a meaningful next chapter.

Because reinvention after 50 doesn’t begin with having all the answers.

It begins with refusing to stop asking.

✨ What’s Next for You?
If you’ve outgrown the life you built and want a private space to think through what’s next, let’s have a conversation.

Learn more at ReinventImpossible.com.

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If you're wondering 'What's next' for me?' Let's map that out together. Schedule a Free Next Act Strategy Session. 

For similar episodes on advocating for yourself, check out Beating the 5% odds of cancer, that's episode 164, and Finding Your Voice, episode 178 of Aging with Purpose and Passion. And if you love podcasts of older women, the Late Bloomer Living Podcast helps you find joy, embrace change, and live playfully. And that's latebloomerliving.com. 

Lynn Miller – Author, Researcher & Publishing Partner

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Beverley Glazer, MA, CCC, ICF – Life and Business Transition Coach & Host

🌐 https://reinventimpossible.com
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 🎁 The Gift of a Safe Space: A private, non-judgmental zone away from work and family to focus entirely on your needs, your journey and what's next for you. If you are feeling stuck in your transition, this is your space to exhale.

Have feedback or a powerful story that's worth telling? Contact us at [email protected]