What if the problem in your marriage… isn’t your marriage? What if it’s what you’re choosing to notice?

In this Valentine’s-season episode, Laurie shares a simple but powerful mindset shift that can transform your relationships — without therapy, ultimatums, or blowing up your life.

Midlife has a way of making everything feel louder. The identity shifts. The resentment you didn’t realize was building. The small irritations that start to feel bigger. The question of “Is this it?”

But before you make any dramatic moves, Laurie invites you to try something deceptively simple:

Change your focus.

Because what you focus on grows.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why midlife can intensify dissatisfaction in long-term relationships
• How your brain is wired to look for evidence that confirms your story
• The subtle difference between healthy awareness and chronic scorekeeping
• A 7-day experiment that can shift the emotional tone of your relationship
• Why this practice isn’t about settling — it’s about strengthening your mindset

This conversation isn’t about ignoring real problems. It’s about reclaiming your power in the dynamic. Because midlife isn’t just about redefining success.

It’s about redefining what you pay attention to. And that choice changes everything.

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The moment midlife asks more of you, and the trust and fear issues that may be holding you back.

Midlife doesn’t usually announce itself with a crisis.

More often, it shows up quietly — as restlessness, hesitation, or the sense that the life you’ve built no longer fits the way it used to.

In this special episode of the School of Midlife Podcast, host Laurie Reynoldson is sharing a live recording from the final day of a recent masterclass — a conversation about trust, fear, and the moment midlife asks us to choose differently.

Not because something is wrong.
But because something more is possible.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why hesitation in midlife is often a trust issue, not a clarity issue
• The three fears that keep high-achieving women stuck:
  • fear of judgment (What will they think of me?)
  • fear of failure (What if I’m not good enough?)
  • fear of success (What if I actually do the thing?)
• Why waiting is still a decision — and how default choices quietly shape our lives
• How identity shifts in midlife impact our decisions, relationships, and sense of self
• The ripple effects of choosing yourself — in your marriage, your family, and the legacy you’re modeling for your children
• Why regret doesn’t come from trying and failing — but from never trying at all

This is not a conversation about blowing up your life or starting over.

It’s about learning how to stop overthinking, trust yourself again, and make intentional choices aligned with who you are now — not who you were ten or twenty years ago.

If you’ve been feeling stuck between the life you have and the life you want, this episode is an invitation to pause, reflect, and ask an honest question:

What would it look like to choose differently — on purpose?

Want to Go Deeper?

The BEST LIFE Lab is a guided coaching experience for high-achieving midlife women who are ready to stop waiting and start choosing their lives intentionally — with clarity, support, and self-trust.

You can learn more here.

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The real reason you don't feel like yourself in midlife...after "fixing" your midlife body.

You’ve done the work to address the physical symptoms of midlife: balanced your hormones, changed your eating, added strength training. And you still don't feel like yourself in midlife.

And there's a reason for that. The real work of midlife? That's an inside job.

In this bonus episode of the School of Midlife podcast, Laurie is dropping us into a recent masterclass to encourage midlife women stop waiting and start living. Laurie shares her own story of rising out of a moment of deep personal and professional frustration to create what became The School of Midlife. And she names the real reason we get stuck again after the first breakthrough: we need structure, support, and community to keep going.

If you’ve taken a few big steps but don’t know what’s next—or you’re afraid you’ll lose the progress you’ve made—this one’s for you.

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What it really means to move through midlife with faith instead of fear. From an aerial yoga face-off with my own trust issues to the hard-earned wisdom of the dying, we’re getting brutally honest about how fear creeps into everything—from our bodies to our beliefs—and what to do about it.

Midlife is full of transitions—but for many high-achieving women, it’s not just the physical symptoms (hello, hormones, sleep, and body changes) that throw us off course. It’s the emotional weight of fear that creeps in, slows us down, and convinces us to play small.

In this powerful episode of The School of Midlife podcast, Laurie returns from her weekend at the magical Civana Wellness Resort with a renewed perspective—after a brush with fear in an aerial yoga class forced her to confront some very old, very real limiting beliefs. She shares how fear often masquerades as “being responsible,” “being prepared,” or even “being informed”—but underneath it all, it’s keeping us stuck.

You’ll hear:

• Why midlife women are often operating in a fear frequency—even when life looks “fine”
• What an aerial yoga meltdown has to do with trusting your intuition
• How Human Design can reveal hidden fears that quietly sabotage your fulfillment
• A powerful quote that reframes the choice between fear and faith
• A breakdown of the Top 5 Regrets of the Dying—and how they are secretly shaping your midlife decisions right now

Plus, Laurie invites you to the free 5-day Midlife Masterclass on why you still don’t feel like yourself—even after fixing your body. If you’ve been focused on wellness but still feel off… this is for you.

Resources + Links:

🎓 Sign up for the FREE 5-Day Masterclass

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Reserve your spot before February 9, 2026!

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What happens when your intuition is screaming something isn’t right—but the world keeps telling you to sit down and be quiet? In today’s episode, we’re talking about midlife discernment, political gaslighting, and the rising cost of staying silent. This one’s raw, unfiltered, and unapologetically necessary.

In This Episode:

In this soul-stirring, no-holds-barred episode, Laurie dives deep into a conversation that’s long overdue: what happens when women finally start trusting their own intuition… and the world around them tries to silence it?

This episode isn’t just about politics—it’s about principles. It’s about gaslighting on every level—from government narratives to the deeply personal ways women are told not to trust their own experiences. Laurie explores how the chaos in the world mirrors what midlife women often experience when they stop people-pleasing and start speaking up.

She covers:

• The emotional toll of constantly waking up to bad news
• Why our nervous systems weren’t built for 24/7 chaos
• The terrifying rise of authoritarianism—and how it’s gaslighting the public
• How midlife women are reclaiming their voice and power, even when others try to shame them back into silence
• The gut-wrenching parallels between political manipulation and what many women experience in their personal lives

Midlife isn’t a crisis. It’s a moment of radical discernment. And if you’ve been feeling like the world’s gone off the rails, and no one’s saying the quiet part out loud? This episode is for you.

👀 Listen if you’ve ever felt:

• Gaslit by the news, your doctor, or your family
• Like you’re waking up—but everyone else wants you to stay asleep
• Pulled to speak up... but afraid to rock the boat

🎯 Midlife takeaway:
Your intuition isn’t a liability—it’s a leadership skill. And the world needs it now more than ever.

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You think you're just waiting until life gets easier...until the kid graduates, until the project wraps, until the hot flashes stop. But here's the truth: waiting is costing you your one big, wild life. And midlife? That’s your wake-up call.

🎙️ Episode Summary:

In this fiery, heart-to-heart episode, Laurie calls out one of the most common habits among high-achieving midlife women: waiting.
Waiting until your job settles down.
Waiting until the kids are grown.
Waiting until your parents are taken care of.
Waiting until you feel better in your body.

But what if waiting is exactly what’s keeping you stuck?

Drawing from raw conversations with coaching clients, her own story of midlife reinvention, and the painful realities of caregiving and aging, Laurie makes the case that you can’t keep waiting to live your life—because eventually, you’ll run out of time.

She also ties in the School of Midlife’s upcoming free masterclass about why so many women still don’t feel like themselves even after addressing their physical symptoms—because until you figure out what you really want, fulfillment will always feel just out of reach.

In this episode:

• The invisible cost of “waiting for the right time”
• Why you don’t need to quit your job or blow up your life to make a change
• What’s really stopping you from putting yourself first
• A fresh reframe on success in midlife
• How to start now—before everything is perfect

🗓️ Upcoming Event:
→ Grab your spot for Laurie’s FREE 5-Day Masterclass this February:
"Why You Still Don’t Feel Like Yourself—Even After Fixing Your Midlife Body"

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The way you've been setting personal goals is the very thing holding you back from living your biggest life. It’s time to ditch the SMART framework and finally create goals that align with the woman you’re becoming.

Episode Summary:
In this week’s fiery episode, Laurie dismantles one of the most overused—and misused—tools in personal development: the SMART goal framework. You’ve been told to make your goals specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. But when it comes to midlife transformation and building your actual BEST LIFE? That framework might be doing more harm than good.

Laurie explains why applying a corporate goal-setting system to your deeply personal hopes, dreams, and desires keeps you stuck in external validation and false deadlines. She dives into why midlife is the exact moment to let go of achievable, "relevant," and time-bound goals—and finally start designing your own definition of success.

You’ll learn:

• Why throwaway goals feel good—but don’t change your life
• How focusing on what’s “achievable” shrinks your vision
• Why setting personal goals based on relevance is total BS
• The sneaky toxicity of arbitrary deadlines
• How to shift from performance-driven goals to purpose-driven dreams

She also introduces the BEST LIFE™ framework—a game-changing, trademarked system she uses with all her coaching clients to move from burnout to breakthrough.

If 2026 is the year you finally start living for you, this episode is a must-listen.

Resources Mentioned:

• Click here to learn more about 1:1 or group coaching
• Follow Laurie on Instagram: @schoolofmidlife

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Why "New Year, New Me" is total BS—and what to do instead.

Welcome to 2026, friend! In this first episode of the year, Laurie Reynoldson takes a refreshingly honest approach to what the New Year really means for high-achieving midlife women. Forget the pressure to overhaul your life overnight. Instead, Laurie shares why easing into the year with intention—not hustle—is the secret to making real, lasting change.

From dissecting the toxic “New Year, New Me” narrative to sharing her own personal story as a state-level sprinter (who, spoiler alert, always started slow and still won her races), Laurie makes the case for embracing a more sustainable—and dare we say, enjoyable—approach to the New Year.

She also walks you through why the real first step isn’t a new gym membership or a 4:30am alarm. It’s doing your damn year-end review. (Don’t worry—there’s a clickable link in the show notes to help you get that done.)

In this episode, you’ll hear:

• Why fast starts fizzle—and what to do instead
• How to reset your expectations without losing momentum
• The power of planning one quarter at a time
• What “getting back to zero” actually looks like
• How to use lessons from 2025 to build a more intentional 2026
• Why midlife women need a different kind of January energy

Whether you’re feeling fired up or totally wiped out, this episode gives you the permission slip (and game plan) to do things differently this year—and make midlife your best life, one realistic step at a time.

Links & Resources:

• 📥 Download the FREE 2025 Year-End Review Workbook
• 🗓️ Check out the Best Life Planner
• 🌵 Learn more about the April 2026 Best Life Retreat at Civana
• 💬 Want to work together in 2026? Book a call with Laurie!

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The secret to a powerful 2026? Actually finishing 2025.

In this soulful, no-BS episode of The School of Midlife, Laurie dives into the real work we often skip at the end of the year: reflection. If you’ve ever found yourself rushing into goal-setting and resolutions while ignoring everything you just lived through, this episode is your permission slip to pause—and do it differently.

Laurie shares why the space between Christmas and New Year is the perfect time to slow down, take inventory, and extract the lessons, patterns, and gold from your year—before you try to plan the next one.

You’ll also hear how high-achieving women get stuck in the “next goal” dopamine loop, and what it takes to break free and find actual fulfillment.

If you’re tired of chasing and ready to live more intentionally in 2026, this episode is the one to listen to before the year ends.

💡 In This Episode:

• Why high-achieving women struggle to pause (and why we must)
• How to avoid chasing goals that don’t actually fulfill you
• What your calendar and camera roll can reveal about the life you’re really living
• The simple year-end practice that shifts your entire perspective
• Why data—not drama—is the key to making confident decisions in 2026
• A sneak peek at Laurie’s personal year-end review and what she’s releasing
• How to grab the free Closing Time Workbook to guide your reflection

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📝 Download the Closing Time Workbook (Laurie’s year-end review guide):
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🎧 Related Episode:
Why SMART Goals Are Ruining Your Personal Life

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What if you didn’t have to do it all this holiday season?
What if you could actually enjoy this time of year—without the resentment, exhaustion, or crushing mental load?

In this timely and honest episode of The School of Midlife, Laurie shares a powerful coaching conversation with a client who realized she was doing the holidays on autopilot—baking cookies no one eats, mailing cards no one remembers, and hosting a party that felt more like pressure than pleasure.

Together, they walk through how to tell the difference between a holiday obligation and a true opportunity—and how to make peace with letting go of traditions that no longer serve you.

If you’re tired of performing your way through the holidays (while secretly counting down to when it’s over), this episode is your permission slip to do things differently this year.

💡 In This Episode:

• How to create joyful, intentional holidays without losing your mind
• The pressure of family traditions—and how to stop outsourcing your peace
• A simple coaching exercise to separate holiday “to-dos” from “should-dos”
• The energy shift that happens when you drop the guilt and reclaim your time
• How one client redesigned her entire December—and actually started looking forward to it
• Why your happiness this season matters just as much as everyone else’s

🎯 Don’t Miss:

Laurie’s final free masterclasses of 2025 start this week!
→ How to Not Live the Same Year Every Year
→ Learn more about The Best Life Lab and how you can start 2026 with clarity, courage, and a plan that fits the woman you are now.
🎟️ Link to register is right here!

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