When I began this podcast, my deepest intention was to share with you the extraordinary stories of ordinary women like myself and you as I've always thought that fact was always stranger and more interesting than fiction.

This episode is the first of a series of interviews with women who mean a lot to me. The stories are both interesting and intriguing and they are shared by midlifers with a tale to tell.

To kick things off, I’m joined by a wonderful soul, Charli Wall to tell the tale of her midlife transition. Charli is a life coach, counsellor and addictions and anxiety specialist who helps women to feel secure, confident and happy in their body.

Charli Wall is someone I’ve only met a handful of times but who makes my heart feel good. Some years ago I ran into Charli in the airport, at the start of her massive midlife transformation. After a series of traumatic events, Charli reached a defining moment in her life and sold her business, her house, all her belongings, and decided to travel to India and around Europe for several months, with her intuition as her guide.

Charli’s journey from that point to embracing her authentic self, doing radical deep work, and becoming a physical and mental health coach helping other women is what she’s here to share. I know you’ll get so much from her story of midlife transformation.

Highlights

Events surrounding Charli’s defining moment

The miracle of the healing spirit

How Charli found the Three Principles

Charli’s life-changing revelation

Charli’s lessons from her trip to India and back home

How Charli has transformed her life

The power of showing up authentically

Finding a place of deeper understanding

Charli’s message for midlife women in deep discomfort

Find out more at https://ThePowerYearsProject.com/e6

“If you want a new outcome, you will have to break the habit of being yourself and reinvent a new self.”

That’s the main message in Dr. Joe Dispenza’s groundbreaking text, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One.

Every few months, I dive back into this book and each time I find a new depth of wisdom and understanding. My latest foray prompted this podcast and I’d love to share with you the goodness and wisdom I found this time.

Every single person I work with wants to rid themselves of self-defeating habits and thoughts. But what has to be explained and impressed upon nearly everyone I work with, is that THE MAGIC IS IN THE MICRO.

Attention to the micro, getting still, self-observation and getting to the origins of long-held beliefs eventually brings those long-desired MACRO SHIFTS and continuing that ‘work’ will make those shifts stick.

In this episode, we’re talking about moving past understanding these principles simply on an intellectual level to actually embodying them. As always, I want to help you dive deeper so I’m sharing three simple, yet powerful, transformational tools I’ve been using with clients recently to assist them in their journey to creating a new reality for themselves.

Highlights

Why I keep returning to Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

The gradual birthing of your next manifestation

How to achieve long-lasting macro shifts

Benefits of learning to remain in the present moment

The stacking power of incremental changes

Savouring The Moment

Gratitude Notes and Visits

How these transformational tools can help you

Widening Your Lens

Find out more at https://ThePowerYearsProject.com/5

Why are we afraid to say no? This is the short question with a long, deep and wide answer that we’ll be diving into.

For me, the reason you say yes when you want to say no all boils down to a FEAR OF BOUNDARY SETTING. But the problem with boundaries is that we have to be TAUGHT how to do boundaries well.

That means that you learned early on from your caregivers’ actions what boundaries in action look like but after months and months of listening to clients AND MYSELF, I’m not sure that ANYBODY has been modelled ‘good boundaries’. That’s left many of us in a pickle, unable to clearly express our wants and needs without fearing the feedback of the person being ‘boundaried’.

In this episode, we’ll be unpacking the constructs of Fawning, People-Pleasing, Boundary Setting, Authenticity and Authenticity vs Attachment theory in order to get to the bottom of this problem so we can start getting ourselves out of that pickle.

To help you delve deeper, there’s also a mini-workshop within this episode to get you started on your path to knowing yourself and voicing your boundaries. Make sure you have a pen and paper handy before we dive in for the best results!

Highlights

The core reason we’re afraid to say no

What it looks like when we go into “fawning” mode

When we start to develop the tendency to fawn

The steep price of fawning

What our early caregivers teach us about boundaries

Why you need to voice your boundaries

Learning how to communicate your boundaries well

Why authenticity matters

How authentic are you?

The connection between authenticity and happiness

How to get out of the fawning and the self-abandonment ‘yes’ trap

Find out more at https://ThePowerYearsProject.com/4

So many women come to coaching because they have a dream for their life and their work but they’re then surprised to learn that that's NOT EVER where we start.

S.M.A.R.T. goals presuppose that all we need is to know WHAT TO DO. But where most people stumble is in the initiation or consistent execution, eventually reverting back to the habit they were trying to kick.

That’s because this ‘thing’ of changing our deeply rooted habits, thoughts and perceptions is an INSIDE FIRST, OUTSIDE SECOND job so any coaching modality that goes straight to S.M.A.R.T. goals is probably not going to have long-lasting results.

This episode is a sample of part of the Therapeutic Coaching process that I journey through with clients. Here I’m going to introduce you to the inner work that creates the foundation for achieving your outside goals.

We’ll start with tapping into your INFINITE POT OF GOLD so you can root out unhelpful core beliefs that hold you back. I’m also sharing the exact grounding exercise that’s the FIRST STEP for doing anything and everything in your life that you want to do well. Then we’re going to go through the key questions you need to ask yourself before diving into the work on building your dreams.

When you’re ready, grab your pen and paper and head somewhere quiet. Let’s get into it!

Highlights

What my soul-centred, rooted-in-science process looks like

Why starting with S.M.A.R.T. goals is probably a bad idea

How you can find the unhelpful core beliefs holding you back

What compassionate inquiry looks like in action

Where the concept of S.M.A.R.T. goals was developed

The clash between corporate-based S.M.A.R.T. goals and your woman essence

The POTENT SURGE of feminine energy created at Midlife

Why your core values must be at the heart of any business you create

The actual grounding exercise I use with my clients as a critical first step

Key questions to help you start the process of understanding who you are and what you want

My seven core values

Where the real work lies

Why I’m so passionate about Midlife Transition Coaching®

Find out more at https://ThePowerYearsProject.com/3

It goes by a lot of names, ‘mood change’ in Midlife, MenoRage, Angry Woman Syndrome or as I like to call it, Midlife Rage. But the fact that you’ve clicked on this episode tells me you’re already familiar with the concept.

Whether you’ve found that you’re not the ‘fun-dolly’ you used to be or you’re going from 0 to 100 in the blink of an eye, this episode is for you. We’re getting to the bottom of the question “Why are midlife women angry?” by splitting it into two parts: the science and the soul.

In the first segment, I’m breaking down the science behind what’s happening in your body in midlife. We’re looking at the interconnected ways that serotonin, your hormones, gut health, stress, diet and lifestyle contribute to your mood change.

For the second segment, I’m going to be joined by my dear friend and colleague, Thea Baker, and we’ll discuss the socio-psycho-spiritual aspects of this phenomenon and offer some practical solutions that we can all take heart from.

Thea is a counsellor and body-based (somatic) psychotherapist with special interests in all aspects of women’s health, trauma and couples/relationship therapy. In her therapeutic work, she works collaboratively with her clients to find a place of healing and recovery.

I’m so excited to share this information with you!  Researching this has been TOTALLY FASCINATING and I know that if you’re going through this right now you’ll truly gain some insight and hopefully food for thought for your own situation.

Highlights
The Science
The major role serotonin plays in your mood
How declining estradiol impacts your serotonin levels
The connection between gut bacteria and mental health
Why chronic stress is considered a risk factor for mood pathologies
Vitamin D as a key player in the production of serotonin
The deep impact of a chronic lack of quality sleep
Key considerations for going vegan
Why being touched in the right way, at the right time produces serotonin

The Soul
How Thea’s lived experiences led to the work she does now
Where many years’ worth of accumulated resentment goes
The compounding problem with trading your authenticity for fitting in
Getting to the edge of the cliff around 50
Our opportunities to reinvent ourselves
Why Midlife women need a radically different approach to nutrition and fitness
Coming out of fear and dropping into your body
How we’re impacted by slow progress in gender roles at home
The cumulative effect of our 24/7/365 role in the home
Unlearning the manipulative storybook narrative
Feeling trapped because of a lack of financial power
How many women minimize issues with their pelvic health
Why I feel that suppression of authentic expression is the origin of so much disease
Simple practices you can use to start to work out these issues
Why it’s essential to create a plan and a new map for this territory

Find out more at https://ThePowerYearsProject.com/2

The title of this episode probably has you a bit puzzled. Obviously, the words beautiful and cancer and COVID don't usually co-exist, but in the spirit of The Power Years Project being dedicated to the extraordinary stories of ordinary women like myself and you, I thought I'd start with my own story of what happened to me and my family in 2020.

In this episode, I’m talking about post-traumatic growth and the life-changing lessons I learned from the worst year of my life. I’m sharing this story because I need you to know that there is hope and there will be joy and smiles again. I hope my journey and the lessons I’ve learned will be of comfort to you!

Highlights
What is post-traumatic growth?
The massive, multi-layered trauma I experienced starting in the first COVID lockdown
How I started to shift my perspective on my pain
My belief that death is the ultimate reminder to live fully
The most confronting realization throughout this journey
My message to someone deep in grief, confusion and pain right now
What the worst year of my life taught me
Key factors associated with post-traumatic growth
My revolutionary post-traumatic growth

Find out more at ThePowerYearsProject.com/1

Welcome to the Power Years Project Podcast with Jenny Burrell, a virtual healing space for all women ready to embark on their Radical Midlife Redesign. This podcast is ode to all the amazing possibilities still to come, all the life yet to be lived and how we journey to a truly self-authored life.

In this episode, I’m sharing a bit about who I am and what you can expect from your time spent with me and my very special guests.

Highlights

• My radical midlife redesign
• The undeniable discomfort I felt in my early 40s
• The Power Years Project mission
• Your divine opportunity to create a life of your deepest design without compromise

Find out more at www.ThePowerYearsProject.com