In our latest podcast episode, we sat down to talk about midlife, not as a crisis, but as a moment of reckoning, reflection, and possibility.

We spoke to Kenny Mammarella-D’Cruz, best-selling author and men’s wellbeing coach, and Sonya Rose, ICF-accredited coach for women in business, about the shared emotional landscape of this stage of life, even when it shows up differently for men and women. What unfolded was a conversation that surprised us. Not because men and women experience midlife in the same way — they don’t — but because beneath those differences, the emotional questions were strikingly similar.

We explored how midlife often brings similar emotional questions for women and men, even when they’re expressed differently. Doubt, hesitation, and the sense of being overlooked can sit alongside a loosening of identity, as emotions such as anger, grief, and sadness surface, not as problems to fix, but as signals asking to be felt.

We discussed aging and value, perimenopause, masculinity, and the stories society tells us about who we’re allowed to be as we get older. And again and again, the conversation came back to the same questions: Do I still matter? Can I trust myself? Who am I now?

What stayed with us most was the sense that midlife, though experienced differently by men and women, is ultimately a shared transition, one that calls for honesty, self-acceptance, and the courage to feel what we may not have allowed ourselves to before.

If you’re in midlife, or approaching it, we hope this episode helps you feel less alone, and perhaps sparks a little curiosity about what this stage of life is inviting you into — and what you might make of it!

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