Midlife Unlimited

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We talk a lot about self-care here on Midlife Unlimited, and it goes way deeper than bubble baths and long lunches with loved ones.

But while we explore the “doing” that is self-care, it can be all to easy to overlook the “being” part of self-compassion – self-kindness.

So I’m delighted to be joined by my guest founder of Kindness for Success coaching and consulting Kim Stokes to examine the difference between self-care and self-kindness.

Kim shares her metamorphosis story from anxiety and corporate burnout to discovering that “we can’t be kind to others sustainably if we’re not kind to ourselves”.

We explore how being unkind to ourselves manifests itself – from our inner critic’s harsh words to not identifying and nurturing our needs. 

Tune in too for insights and Kim’s top tips for how we can start being kinder to ourselves.

And Kim gives details of how she is marking Mental Health Awareness Week with her #24forKindness 24-hour broadcast in aid of Mind on May 11th and 12th.

Connect with Kim

https://www.kindnessforsuccess.co.uk/

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Find out about my award-winning 1-2-1 and MORE! group coaching program for Midlife women and join the book waitlist for Your Empty Nest Epiphany on my website : Kate Porter Website • Support the show: Buy Me a Coffee • LinkedIn: Kate Porter Official • Instagram: @kate_porter_official • YouTube: @MidlifeUnlimited • Explore my personally designed range of digital planners for intentional living and Zodiac interiors prints: The Curated Day Company Etsy Shop

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I don't often "do" days, but there's a day allotted to April 30th - the day this episode airs - that piqued my interest. It's National Honesty Day.

Which made me think of the seeming battle cry flooding my socials - that Midlife is our time to start giving zero f..ks!

No more bubble-wrapping how we're really feeling. No sugar-coating. No holding back...

But does telling the truth come at a price? And does the odd white lie have its uses?

To explore this conundrum, I'm delighted to be joined by my guest Authority Architect and founder of Framework Thinking®  Susanna Reay. 

We discuss how honesty is two-fold - how we are with others, and (more importantly) with ourselves. And we explore the difference between being honest and not lying.

Susanna explains how she is benefiting from being more honest with herself and others, and we share our insights and top tips for how to be honest in our second chapter.

Connect with Susanna

https://susannareay.com/links/

https://susannareay.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/susannareay/

 https://www.instagram.com/susannareay
 

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I'd love to hear from you - because Midlife Unlimited® is all about YOU! 

Find out about my award-winning 1-2-1 and MORE! group coaching program for Midlife women and join the book waitlist for Your Empty Nest Epiphany on my website : Kate Porter Website • Support the show: Buy Me a Coffee • LinkedIn: Kate Porter Official • Instagram: @kate_porter_official • YouTube: @MidlifeUnlimited • Explore my personally designed range of digital planners for intentional living and Zodiac interiors prints: The Curated Day Company Etsy Shop

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I love podcasting - Midlife Unlimited is like my second child!

So, as well as welcoming a plethora of fabulous guests on the show, I genuinely love it when it's their first foray into the wonderful world of podcasting. 

I thrive helping them pop their podcast cherry.

So this episode is me answering some of the questions I get regularly asked about podcasting, how I find guests for Midlife Unlimited, and my top tips for how to pop your podcast cherry.

And I've a special offer on a 90 minute 1-2-1 Pop Your Podcast Cheery Zoom with me - listen now for more details, and email me via the link in the shownotes.

Excited to hear from you, Kate x

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I'd love to hear from you - because Midlife Unlimited® is all about YOU! 

Find out about my award-winning 1-2-1 and MORE! group coaching program for Midlife women and join the book waitlist for Your Empty Nest Epiphany on my website : Kate Porter Website • Support the show: Buy Me a Coffee • LinkedIn: Kate Porter Official • Instagram: @kate_porter_official • YouTube: @MidlifeUnlimited • Explore my personally designed range of digital planners for intentional living and Zodiac interiors prints: The Curated Day Company Etsy Shop

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Retreats. Whether it's a business brainstorm at a Yorkshire farmhouse, or a blissful Bali soul cleanse, more and more of us are discovering the delights of going on a retreat... taking time out to refocus, refuel and recharge.

And more and more of the women I speak to have enjoyed the experience so much they are toying with the idea of running one themselves.

So, in true Midlife Unlimited® style, this episode will help you stop dreaming and start doing as my guest Intuitive coach and holistic therapist Joanna Tocher shares insights and inspiration from her years of running fabulous retreats for women celebrating Midlife and beyond. 

Connect with Joanna 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jotocher/

https://jotocher.com/

https://www.instagram.com/jo_tocher_wellbeing/

https://www.facebook.com/joy.holistics.9

Support the show

I'd love to hear from you - because Midlife Unlimited® is all about YOU! 

Find out about my award-winning 1-2-1 and MORE! group coaching program for Midlife women and join the book waitlist for Your Empty Nest Epiphany on my website : Kate Porter Website • Support the show: Buy Me a Coffee • LinkedIn: Kate Porter Official • Instagram: @kate_porter_official • YouTube: @MidlifeUnlimited • Explore my personally designed range of digital planners for intentional living and Zodiac interiors prints: The Curated Day Company Etsy Shop

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We talk a lot about the physical symptoms of perimenopause and menopause here on Midlife Unlimited®, but the changes we're experiencing go far wider and deeper than this.

The impact on our mental health is huge, as is navigating the potential minefield of getting the right help... and avoiding misdiagnosis of how we are feeling as depression rather than menopause-related.

Midlife Unlimited® is all about having those conversations and ensuring there's no embarrassment in letting others know what we are going through and asking for help.

I've been there, and so has my guest Liz Maughn, mental health trainer and founder of Empower Mental Health Training.

Connect with Liz

https://empowermht.co.uk/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/empowermht/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizmaughn

http://www.instagram.com/empowermht

Support the show

I'd love to hear from you - because Midlife Unlimited® is all about YOU! 

Find out about my award-winning 1-2-1 and MORE! group coaching program for Midlife women and join the book waitlist for Your Empty Nest Epiphany on my website : Kate Porter Website • Support the show: Buy Me a Coffee • LinkedIn: Kate Porter Official • Instagram: @kate_porter_official • YouTube: @MidlifeUnlimited • Explore my personally designed range of digital planners for intentional living and Zodiac interiors prints: The Curated Day Company Etsy Shop

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What colours epitomise your Midlife? How do they make you feel? I don't just mean the tones and hues you wear, I mean those you immerse yourself in... in your home... your business.

If you feel like you're living in black and white, while yearning for technicolour, then this episode is for you as I'm joined by designer and brand strategist and founder and creative director at Well Designed UK Hazel Turner.

We delve into the psychology of colour and emotional coding, and Hazel shares insights and inspiration for evolving our Midlife colour palette so that it resonates with this new chapter of our lives.

Connect with Hazel

https://www.welldesigned.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/well.designed.uk/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hazel-turner-9655a735
 
Book an Emotion Insight Check

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Support the show

I'd love to hear from you - because Midlife Unlimited® is all about YOU! 

Find out about my award-winning 1-2-1 and MORE! group coaching program for Midlife women and join the book waitlist for Your Empty Nest Epiphany on my website : Kate Porter Website • Support the show: Buy Me a Coffee • LinkedIn: Kate Porter Official • Instagram: @kate_porter_official • YouTube: @MidlifeUnlimited • Explore my personally designed range of digital planners for intentional living and Zodiac interiors prints: The Curated Day Company Etsy Shop

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How many mornings is your first thought “Really?” when you recall your seemingly endless list of tasks that await you. It can seem relentless. That constant pull on your energy.

How are we meant to plan ahead when we feel we are constantly chasing our tails?

How can we take control of our Midlife admin?

And how can we learn to recognise when we are trying to control things that are BEYOND our control… or no longer in our realm of responsibility – purely to satisfy our need to feel useful and needed?

All while keeping at bay that bubbling resentment that our time is being wasted?

If this resonates, join me and my guest founder of OurLives Vicky Jones as we talk about How to Future-proof. 

From the art of positive catastrophising, to the sandwich generation struggle, we discuss how it’s not the actual tasks we take on that’s exhausting – it’s being the one that always remembers them.

Vicky and I question why as Midlife women we tend to fall into this trap of wanting to be the person that everyone turns to as the life admin legend, and debate how we can adjust our realm of responsibility as our matriarch role shifts at this pivotal time? 

And Vicky shares her top tips and practical insights for how we can take steps today to start future-proofing and ensure we are in control of our life admin… and not let it control us.

Connect with Vicky

https://ourlivesapp.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-jones-2906ab83/

https://www.instagram.com/ourlivesapp/

Support the show

I'd love to hear from you - because Midlife Unlimited® is all about YOU! 

Find out about my award-winning 1-2-1 and MORE! group coaching program for Midlife women and join the book waitlist for Your Empty Nest Epiphany on my website : Kate Porter Website • Support the show: Buy Me a Coffee • LinkedIn: Kate Porter Official • Instagram: @kate_porter_official • YouTube: @MidlifeUnlimited • Explore my personally designed range of digital planners for intentional living and Zodiac interiors prints: The Curated Day Company Etsy Shop

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I'm delighted that Midlife Unlimited is taking part in Podcasthon for the second year. A huge thank you to my guest Emma Hine who joins me for Episode 74 to shine the spotlight on a charity very close to her heart - Windmills. 

Thanks too to everyone at Podcasthon for this global celebration of the power of podcasting for good. I am proud to be part of it.
 
 Connect with Emma

https://www.emmahine.co.uk

https://www.instagram.com/iamemmahine

 https://www.linkedin.com/in/emma-hine

https://www.facebook.com/emma.hine.52

 Contact Windmills

https://windmillscharity.org/

More details about Podcasthon 

https://podcasthon.org/

Support the show

I'd love to hear from you - because Midlife Unlimited® is all about YOU! 

Find out about my award-winning 1-2-1 and MORE! group coaching program for Midlife women and join the book waitlist for Your Empty Nest Epiphany on my website : Kate Porter Website • Support the show: Buy Me a Coffee • LinkedIn: Kate Porter Official • Instagram: @kate_porter_official • YouTube: @MidlifeUnlimited • Explore my personally designed range of digital planners for intentional living and Zodiac interiors prints: The Curated Day Company Etsy Shop

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We talk a lot about our own health on Midlife Unlimited. But, just as our health and wellbeing have an impact on those around us, so too we're affected by how the men in our lives are feeling.

So in the interests of cultivating healthy relationships and nurturing positive communication, this episode is a bit different. 

Because I'm joined by my first ever male guest Louis Bezich, men's health advocate, author and speaker, to discuss why men over 50 are their own worst enemies, why so many men resist the very habits that could make them healthier, happier and even improve their relationships. 

Louis shares how defining the end game is literally a game changer, and gives tips and advice on how we can help the men in our lives make small changes that have a big impact on both them - and us. 

Connect with Louis

https://louisbezich.com/ 

linkedin.com/in/louisbezich/  

https://facebook.com/louisbezich

instagram.com/louis.bezich 

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Support the show

I'd love to hear from you - because Midlife Unlimited® is all about YOU! 

Find out about my award-winning 1-2-1 and MORE! group coaching program for Midlife women and join the book waitlist for Your Empty Nest Epiphany on my website : Kate Porter Website • Support the show: Buy Me a Coffee • LinkedIn: Kate Porter Official • Instagram: @kate_porter_official • YouTube: @MidlifeUnlimited • Explore my personally designed range of digital planners for intentional living and Zodiac interiors prints: The Curated Day Company Etsy Shop

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The 3pm slump... That frustration of trying to find the right word as you wade through the treacle that seems to have replaced your brain. Going up and down stairs not just to get your steps in, but because you've forgotten what you went up for in the first place.

If you're tired of trying to be "good" with what you eat, as your energy levels decline while your meno belly expands, then join me and my guest Life Alchemist Nikola Howard for advice, insights and anecdotes to help you get off the blood glucose roller coaster.

Connect with Nikola

https://nikolahoward.uk 

https://lowcarbinthe.uk 

https://www.youtube.com/c/NikolaHoward

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikola-howard/
https://www.facebook.com/NikolaHoward.LifeAlchemist/
https://www.instagram.com/nikolahoward/
https://bsky.app/profile/nikolahoward.bsky.social
https://www.threads.com/@nikolahoward

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Support the show

I'd love to hear from you - because Midlife Unlimited® is all about YOU! 

Find out about my award-winning 1-2-1 and MORE! group coaching program for Midlife women and join the book waitlist for Your Empty Nest Epiphany on my website : Kate Porter Website • Support the show: Buy Me a Coffee • LinkedIn: Kate Porter Official • Instagram: @kate_porter_official • YouTube: @MidlifeUnlimited • Explore my personally designed range of digital planners for intentional living and Zodiac interiors prints: The Curated Day Company Etsy Shop

Here's to living Midlife Unlimited®

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