Aging With Purpose and Passion | Women Over 50

By Beverley Glazer, MA, CCC, ICF | Work and Life Transition Coach for Women Over 50

Aging With Purpose and Passion is the award winning podcast for women over 50 who know they're not finished yet. They're navigating reinvention, career change, retirement, relationships, car

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Number 1: Reinvention After 50: When You Can’t Keep Pushing | Dana Hilmer
Rethinking success, retirement, identity, and what happens when life forces you to change the pace. You can be very good at the life you’ve built and still know you don’t want to keep living it the same way. For many high-achieving women over 50, the hardest transition isn’t leaving a career or approaching retirement. It’s realizing that the drive, productivity, and determination that got you this far may not be what you need now. In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer talks with Dana Hilmer, happiness and midlife transitions expert, unretirement coach, and founder of Wiser and Free, about what happens when your old definition of success no longer works. Dana spent years believing that if she worked hard enough, achieved enough, and kept pushing, she would eventually arrive at the life she was supposed to want. But reaching that version of success brought an unexpected realization: it wasn’t enough to look successful from the outside. Her life had to feel right to her. We talk about perfectionism, people pleasing, the persistent feeling of “not good enough,” and why accomplished women can become so identified with what they do that it becomes difficult to ask a much simpler question: How do I actually want to live? Dana shares her “compass point” approach—using how you want to feel about your life as a filter for decisions about work, relationships, purpose, and pace. We also explore unretirement and why leaving a full-time career doesn’t have to mean leaving meaningful work behind. For some women, what comes next may include part-time work, entrepreneurship, creative projects, volunteering, or simply more freedom to decide where their energy goes. Then Dana’s own life forced these ideas off the page. While caring for her father as his Alzheimer’s progressed, a frightening incident was followed by serious physical symptoms and a diagnosis of functional neurological disorder (FND). Dana had always been someone who pushed through. Now she was learning that sometimes the work isn’t to push through at all. It’s to be with what is—and decide from there. This is a conversation about ambition, identity, retirement, caregiving, health, and redefining success when life doesn’t go according to plan. Because the question after 50 isn’t simply, “What am I going to do next?” It’s “How do I want to experience the life I have now?” Stay until the end, when Beverley shares key takeaways and practical actions you can begin using immediately. IN THIS EPISODEWhy high-achieving women can struggle with identity after 50When pushing through stops workingHow perfectionism and people pleasing shape our definition of successWhat to do when achievement no longer feels fulfillingHow to figure out what you really want after 50Why retirement can change how you see yourselfWhat unretirement can look like for women over 50Caring for a parent with Alzheimer’sAdapting when your body requires a different paceHow to redefine success on your own termsFor similar episodes check out You've Built a Life Now What that's episode 190 and Retirement After 50 Your Best Work is Not Over that's episode number 185 of Aging with Purpose and Passion. And if you're looking for podcasts for older women, Women Over 70 Aging Reimagined is an award-winning podcast and community that celebrates wisdom, resilience and vitality of women over 70. Resources: Dana Hilmer – Happiness & Midlife Transitions Expert | Unretirement Transition Coach | Founder of Wiser and Free ✉️ Email: [email protected] 🌐 Website: wiserandfree.com 📘 Happy After 50 Community: facebook.com/groups/happyafter50 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/danahilmer 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/dana.hilmer Beverley Glazer, MA, CCC – Work and Life Transition Coach | 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 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/beverleyglazer_reinvention Send us Fan Mail 🎁 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]
September 09, 202633min
Number 2: Reinvention After 50: Stop Proving Your Worth
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.In this episode:How to stop tying your self-worth to income and achievementWhy successful women still struggle with confidence after 50Making the transition from corporate career to entrepreneurshipHow to stop playing small when you have decades of experienceMoving from running everything yourself to becoming a stronger leaderHow delegation protects your time, energy, and business growthBuilding visibility and thought leadership after 50Dealing with comparison and the critical voice in your headHow women over 50 can use experience as a professional advantageDeciding what you really want from work at this stage of lifeFor 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 👩‍💼 Women Over 50 Rock! Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/womenover50rock 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beverleyglazer_reinvention/ Send us Fan Mail 🎁 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]
August 26, 202630min
Number 3: Dementia Caregiving: When Is It Time for Memory Care?
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 EpisodeHow to know when an aging parent may no longer be safe at homeEarly dementia signs families often overlook or explain awayWhen it may be time to consider memory careHow to manage caregiver guilt when a parent needs more helpThe difference between independent living, assisted living, and memory careHow caregiver burnout affects families and decision-makingConversations to have with aging parents before a health crisisAdvance directives, medications, finances, and end-of-life preferencesFinding caregiver support and dementia resourcesHow 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 Send us Fan Mail 🎁 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]
August 12, 202629min
Number 4: Reinvention After 50: When Success Doesn’t Feel Like Yours
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 fulfillingWhy high-achieving women remain in careers they have outgrownRecovering your identity after divorce and major life transitionsHow people-pleasing quietly contributes to burnoutUnderstanding the golden handcuffs of income, status, and securityRedefining success without abandoning financial stabilityMaking a career change after 50 without blowing up your lifeRebuilding self-worth after years of performing for approvalUsing Barb Scala’s BLOOM framework to create aligned changeTaking small, intentional steps toward a life that feels like your ownResources: 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 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beverleyglazer_reinvention/ Send us Fan Mail 🎁 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]
August 05, 202626min
Number 5: Finding Your Soul's Purpose
Beverley Glazer talks to Sharon Caren Spiritual Intuitive who helps people connect to their soul's purpose. Listen to Sharon's incredible story as she inspires you to trust your soul and the great ‘beyond.’ Find out more: https://www.reinventImpossible.com Free Guide: The Ultimate Guide to Moving One https://reinventimpossible1.lpages.co/the-ultimate-guide-to-moving-on/ Weekend Wisdom Newsletter: https://forms.aweber.com/form/39/624554439.htmSend us Fan Mail 🎁 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]
May 24, 202220min