This will be a first in a series of solo episodes about our midlife journey.  I am starting with a talk about defining midlife.

I ask that you set aside these 20 some odd minutes to listen without interruption and with an open mind and open heart.  Maybe make yourself a soothing cup of tea and have your journal beside you as I prompt you with questions and thoughts that will hopefully provoke your curiosity, your thoughts and inner dialogue.

If you could have one inner wisdom statement right now, what would it be?

What do you feel is your biggest midlife challenge?

Are you ready for a new opportunity?  Reframe midlife 'crisis' to midlife 'opportunity'.

Reframe your own crisis into an opportunity statement.  ie my crisis is the loss of my identity.  My reframe is this is an opportunity to create my new identity.

Use your imagination; how do you see your new life?  Choose one area of 'new'; what feeling comes up for you?

Identify a persona that you take on in order to meet the expectations of someone else.  How does that make you feel?

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Life Areas Satisfaction Worksheet

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Assessing Where you are Worksheet

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I'm thrilled to have as my guest a woman of inspiration.  I befriended Deb through our common passions and am honored that she accepted my invitation to have a conversation on Talk With Sue.

Deb Johnstone is a professional speaker, writer, transformational coach, stylist, midlife transition mentor and yoga teacher. She is the founder of Women Reinventing MidLife and Transformational Pathways Australia.

She is the creator of her signature program HER Rediscovery and the Women Reinventing Mid Life Club. She’s host of the YouTube channel, WRM TV and host of the WRM Summit Series where she supports women in the middle phase and beyond to rediscover themselves, build confidence and find new exciting direction.

Deb has been through two midlife transitions herself. The first in 2012 as her kids were flying the nest and she started her own business. And the second when her dear father passed away and she hit rock bottom.

Guided by her intuition through her grief, Deb created and took herself through a process that helped her move from feeling lost and hopeless to reclaiming her confidence, sparking her motivation and getting in touch with her real sense of identity. This ignited her passion to help other women experience this phase of life as the empowering transformational period it is.

Deb says, "I have had a number of pain points. The first was when my mum passed away. I was 29 and pregnant with my second child. The second major one was my divorce and becoming a single mum at 34. The third major one was when my kids were getting ready to fly the nest and I changed my career to life coaching at 49. The most recent major pain point was when my father passed away and I hit rock bottom, learned to listen to my intuition and acted on it."

To get to know Deb better, visit her at:

lifehack.org

HER rediscovery program

IG @johnstone.deb

womenreinventingmidlife.net

womenreinventingmidlife TV (Youtube)

debjohnstone.com.au (coaching

To find out more about me:

The Susan Krebo Coaching Experience.docx

https://www.facebook.com/groups/202113321818346

https://www.instagram.com/susankrebo/

Please DM or email me at [email protected] if you would like to connect with me. 

Author & Certified Life & Health Coach, empowering women to age audaciously in body, mind & spirit.

Lisa Levine has written a wonderful book about aging audaciously titled Mid Life, No Crisis.

We sat and talked our way through the book, chapter by chapter.  There is too much goodness in this book and we didn't want to skip over anything,

Any women who is experiencing transition in midlife will benefit from this book.  I know I did.  

"The book provides easy, actionable advice to help you let go of what's holding you back to become the best version of yourself.   The book is packed with humor, inspirational quotes and practical tools and encorages you to use this transformative time to practice self care, cultivate positive habits and overcome fear so you can start living the awesome life you deserve.  The book is meant to help you create a plan to age audaciously on whatever terms you choose."  

Lisa Levine

She is a Certified Life and Health coach living in Seattle, Washington.

Her career started in music business in NY and LA during the 80's and 90's working within the music video industry.

Her first life transtion was when she got out of that business.  

From there she started working toward a Masters in psychology before becoming pregnant and going on to raise her children.

Around the age of  49 she wanted more meaning in her life and because of her own health challenges and that ofher daughters, her interest in health and wellness peaked.  She went on to get a coaching certicate from the Martha Beck Institute and continued at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. 

By the time she finished her coaching certification, she had greater clarity of purpose in her life and had a direction she knew she wanted to go in.  Prior to that she likened her experience like being in a boat in foggy waters without oars and not seeing the shore.

We covered all the chapters and this is a snippet of just a few:

Letting Go of Who You Used to Be

Silencing Your LIzard Brain 

Dream Audaciously

Watch Your Language

Other People and Their Opinions

Nourishing Yourself

Tired of Being Tired

Midlife, No Crisis: An Audacious Guide to Embracing 50 and Beyond: Levine, Lisa: 9781736159408: Amazon.com: Books

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Lisa Levine : Midlife Coach (@thelisalevine) • Instagram photos and videos

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I'm excited to share this opportunity to work with me in a group coaching setting.  This is an introduction to my offer and more detailed information will follow.  I hope you join in and catch the excitement that I am feeling in my own journey.

There is so much we discussed that it's impossible to 'summarize' all that we spoke of.

The greatest take away for me, in the most powerful sense, is when Misha shared her experience of looking at herself in the mirror, realized she didn't like what she saw or felt.  That was only the beginning of her new journey.  A journey that started with questions.  Internal questions she asked herself.  She began hearing her internal answers through breaking away from her life of expectations to a place of silence and new spiritual practices.

It took great courage, in her own words, to wite her book, Gateway to the Soul.  How often are we too afraid to corageously step forward and listen to our still inner voice that is trying to direct us to become our best selves.  Misha shares about her courage to change her life.  A life she knew needed change.

My conversation with Misha was so special for me.  What she spoke of resonated with my own journey. 

(20+) Misha Frankel | Facebook

GATEWAY TO THE SOUL: Exploring our Hidden Potentials - Kindle edition by Frankel, Misha . Religion & Spirituality Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

For Misha's podcast:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3BdU9Wsh1FVhSkJf3fW0hs?si=9d68f01e1da74516

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Gina has a Bachelor of Science degree from Memorial University and  Master’s degrees in both Developmental and Applied Social Psychology.  

She spent time working in the pharmaceutical field as well as Mental Health and Addictions before she decided to pursue a career in Health  Coaching. 

Her journey down the path of holistic health and healing began many years ago with the health of her infant daughter and  her own personal health scare in her late 30s. 

She is a  Certified Health Coach with a passion for nutrition, disease prevention  and essential oils. She loves to help women who are sick and tired of  feeling sick and tired make small changes for massive impact on their  mind, body and soul.

She enjoys hiking, yoga and spending time with family and is a lifelong learner.

Where can you find Gina and how she can help you in your health and wellness journey.

Gina Rideout

Certified Health Coach

Certified Essential Oils Coach

709-689-1153

[email protected]

https://www.facebook.com/ginarideouthealthcoach/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/GinaRideoutEOMembers

Instagram: @ginarideout

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Brenda has so much to offer anyone seeking a spiritual path to create a fully inspired life.

Listen to her story of her path from an early childhood diagnosis that greatly impacted her body image creating a negative belief system, to an energy healer for her own healing journey and others healing journeys.

"We are far more powerful creators than we give ourselves credit for."  Brenda

"We are our own inner healer and inner guide." Brenda

Listen as she guides me through a short energy practice connecting to earth element and breath creating centeredness and calm.

Remember, I/We do not need to be fixed.  I/We are enough just as we are.

I am a lover of spiritual wisdom and a recovering perfectionist.  Most importantly, I get to explore the beauty in this life and remind myself and others that…

I am passionate about helping people Energetically align with their heart’s deepest desire.  I am a Holistic Lifestyle Coach using the wisdom of Ayurveda, mindful yoga, meditation, Reiki and Energy Healing to co-create wholeness in the body, mind, and soul.

With over 25 years of experience in holistic health modalities, I am a self-healing guide to connect people to their innate capacity to clear limiting beliefs that keep them stuck in chronic dis-ease (physical pain, mental/emotional struggle, inflammatory conditions).

I am the creator of the Inspired Living Holistic Lifestyle Program, an online conscious health program for women who want whole body and mind transformation to live with meaning and purpose.

I have the privilege of being a co-host on Be The Love podcast where I get to interview amazing individuals impacting our world in dynamic ways!

Check out my free guided meditations on Insight Timer.

When I’m not on my yoga mat, you can find me hiking in the mountains with my family and rock climbing with friends.

Where you can find Carey and all her offerings:

(20+) Brenda Carey | Facebook

www.sacredpathyogaandreiki.com

Does Energy Healing really help? — Sacred Path Healing Yoga & Reiki (sacredpathyogaandreiki.com)

Be the Love: Awaken Our Souls (bethelovepodcast.com)

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Brenda Carey | Insight Timer

"Who would you be today if, as a young girl, you were taught that you are powerful beyond measure?"  Melody 

Melody is a twin girl mom, an award winning author, empowerment coach, podcast  host + founder of the GiRLiFE Certification program.  She  is on a mission to introduce girls and women alike to their personal  power. She has created a purpose-lead business that trains women to run  impactful and profitable businesses centered around empowering girls. To  date, there are 180 facilitators across the globe who are changing the  world, one girl at a time — all while earning unapologetically for their valuable work. 

In her newest book: Empowered Women Empower Girls: A  Guide To Modeling Courage, Confidence + Self-Love For Our Next  Generation, Melody shares how the greatest gift we can give to our next  generation is the inner work we do on ourselves as women. Melody’s  heart-centered Business has been featured in Forbes, The Today Show,  Huffington Post, Bella Magazine and others.

Her passion is to lead girls toward discovering their unique superpowers.

"There is nothing more refreshing than showing up as you." Melody 

"Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor."  Rumi

Where can you find Melody?

https://melodypourmoradi.com/https://l.instagram.com/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/girlsempowermentbiz

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

iPEC - Graduate Success story featuring Melody:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWsgYT9mwSo

Melody's Podcast:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/empowering-her-with-melody-pourmoradi/id1525658264

Melody on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Melody-G-Pourmoradi/e/B07CZ293FT%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

Articles:

https://medium.com/authority-magazine/power-women-melody-pourmoradi-of-girlife-on-how-to-successfully-navigate-work-love-and-life-as-a-a9738b2e4baa

https://thriveglobal.com/stories/melody-pourmoradi-be-you/

Lynn Mazzoleni is a teen foster-adoptive mom, a college chemistry professor, and an artist. In her free time, she enjoys spending time in nature.

Lynn and her husband, Claudio, started their family with a then 12 year old girl who they adopted from foster care.  She is now a loved and thriving teenager.  Lynn and her daughter share a birthday.  Now that's what I call alignment!

It is very important to Lynn to get the story out there about the need within the foster care system and adoption.  That's what this is all about.  

Darwin-"It's not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives, it is the one that is the most adaptable to change."  Here, here Darwin.

This is a story of love, courage and reiliency.

For more connections with Lynn:

EMAIL: [email protected]

Learn more about Lynn and her artwork on IG @lynn.mazzoleni

(20+) Lynn Mazzoleni | Facebook

Some artwork:  (20+) Facebook

Fosterstrong Podcast - conversations with kids who've grown up in the foster care system.  An uplifting and insightful pod. 

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3KeCqy3zltXSrqn1TGNgkb?si=210e8930845f4617

Fostering Emotional Health | Unashamed Inc. | Middletown

Our Mission

Unashamed, Inc. fosters emotional health in families that have been involved with incarceration, foster care, and teen pregnancy. By discerning and addressing unhealthy patterns that repeat through generations, Unashamed Inc. helps disadvantaged families transition from surviving to thriving.

If you have a compelling story about your experience with foster care and/ or adoption, please reach out to me  We can continue the story.

[email protected]

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Fiona is an Embodiment Coach and Nervous System Educator.  The term she uses for her particular fingerprint of work is "Somatic Intelligence".

EMBODIMENT GUIDE

The world is changing at an unprecedented pace and constantly walking on shifting sands can be debilitating mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually.

Nervous Systems are being stretched to their limits and increasing your capacity to take in new stressors is critical at this time.

Embodiment Guidance sessions offer individual, unique mentorship that is grounded, gentle, creative & educated.

Fiona's background ~

• 5 years of personal Nervous System regulation practice

• 3 years of Nervous System study with my teacher Irene Lyon

• Study of Transpersonal Counselling ~ a combination of mainstream & ancient models of mental health

• Study of Transpersonal Art Therapy ~ as above using creative process

• 10 years working with the healing potential of plant essences

• 7 years practice & study of Traditional Vedic Chanting and medicinal sound

• Quaker practice of silence, deep listening and peaceful entertaining of difference

• A mother of 3 and grandmother of 7 ~ potentially my greatest qualification in trauma, grace and healing

Embodiment Guidance sessions are personalized support for making *sense* of what matters to you.

You can reach Fiona at:

[email protected]

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