In today's episode, I'm wrapping up This Midlife in Bold podcast with a life update and sharing with you my word of the year. Listen, share, and tag me on Instagram @midlifeinbold and let me know what your word of the year is for 2022 and your thoughts on this episode. Thank you for being a loyal listener. I wish you a very, very BOLD new year!

I'd love to connect with you! Follow me on Instagram and Facebook @midlifeinbold, or join my free Facebook community, Midlife Women Making Change Without Fear and join me for my weekly live trainings. To download my free guide, "The 3 Step Formula to Break Out of Your Midlife Slump and Take Action", click here. Finally, if you'd like to take advantage of a FREE breakthrough and clarity session with me, schedule your call with me today by clicking here.

Midlife women are all too familiar with this story on today's episode. You wake up one day at 45 (or, insert your age here) and you realize you have no idea who you are, what you value, or how to put yourself first. Purpose? What's that. You're just trying to get from day to day. Floating on the lazy river of life, cruising on autopilot. Whether you want to call it survival mode or denial mode, you wake up one day, curled up in a ball of your own tears after life has knocked you down and you say, "Who am I? and "I guess this is it." This is the story that my guest, Tandy Reagan, shares on today's episode.  She shares how she went from heartbreak, loss, despair and rampant negative thinking to being grounded in who she is, what she wants and believing she is on her path to creating a 'second act' with purpose.  Tandy is a nurse, single mother, graduate student and woman in the middle of life who wants more. Her journey began to unfold when Tandy decided that putting herself first was the key to finding her voice, owning her value and using her strengths to overcome her fears.  It's a conversation that's all too relatable with a very good ending!  

I'd love to connect with you! Follow me on Instagram and Facebook @midlifeinbold, or join my free Facebook community, Midlife Women Making Change Without Fear and join me for my weekly live trainings. To download my free guide, "The 3 Step Formula to Break Out of Your Midlife Slump and Take Action", click here. Finally, if you'd like to take advantage of a FREE breakthrough and clarity session with me, schedule your call with me today by clicking here.

I'm fired up in this episode about the damaging and harmful messaging to women about aging. Can we please stop buying into the myth that youth is good and getting older is bad? Please? I'm so annoyed that the anti-aging "fixes" pushed on women so that they can take "years off" is a thing. Please. Can we just stop? By it's definition 'anti' means against. So, am I supposed to be against living? Against growing older or living a long time? I don't know about you, but I'm not against living a long time. Nope. I'm just getting started. I'm just becoming me with each wrinkle, extra pound, and aching body part. So, f*$k anti-aging. I'm pro-aging. I built my entire business and brand for the sole purpose of encouraging women to embrace all the possibilities for life by living their midlife years and beyond as BOLD as they want. My mission is to change the narrative around aging. Aging is not something to be hidden, avoided at all costs, and masked. Age is something to celebrate. Aging is a privilege. So yeah, you bet I'm pro-aging.

Connection and Community: I'd love to connect with you! Follow me on Instagram and Facebook @midlifeinbold, or join my free Facebook community, Midlife Women Making Change Without Fear and join me for my weekly live trainings. To download my free guide, "The 3 Step Formula to Break Out of Your Midlife Slump and Take Action", click here. Finally, if you'd like to take advantage of a FREE breakthrough and clarity session with me, schedule your call with me today by clicking here.

In today's episode, I have a conversation with midlife entrepreneur, Jennifer Greenwood. Jennifer is a solo mom of two kids, a Life & Wellness Coach, a yoga teacher, the creator and founder of The Real Life Reset System and owner of Breeze Wellness. Jennifer works with busy moms around the world who are doing everything on their own by helping them lose the endless exhaustion, gain more control over their days, and level up their overall energy without having to completely tear their lives apart. Jennifer shares her story of courage and risking it all to be brave despite all the uncertainty so that she could do more than just exist on this earth. You will find Jennifer's act of bravery inspiring and encouraging as she shares her personal account of being in an abusive relationship, starting over from scratch, and being a solo mom well before she even left her relationship so that she and her kids could thrive.

Jennifer can be found on Instagram at @healthyjenbreezewellness on Facebook at Breeze Wellness or you can visit her website at https://breezewellnessbc.com/.

Connection and Community: I'd love to connect with you! You can send me an email me at [email protected], follow me on Instagram and Facebook @midlifeinbold, or join my free Facebook community, Midlife Women Making Change Without Fear. To download my free guide, "The 3 Step Formula to Break Out of Your Midlife Slump and Take Action", click here. Finally, if you'd like to take advantage of a FREE breakthrough and clarity session with me, schedule your call with me today by clicking here.

In today’s episode, I interview a client of mine, Ms. Celine Matthiessen. Celine enrolled in my signature program, The Midlife Without Regrets Method, just four months ago and has kicked fear to the curb by committing to the process and doing the work so she can live a BOLD midlife. In just four months, Celine has gained clarity, confidence, leaned into using her strengths, created an exciting vision and is taking a lot of decisive action to live the life she wants instead of the autopilot life she was living.

Life hasn’t been easy for Celine. In fact, she suffered one of the biggest tragedies a young woman could face early on when she lost her husband at age 37 and her daughter, Anika, was just 5 years old. Understandably, the loss of her husband when she was just 37 left her on autopilot for over a decade trying to keep it all together. Once Anika was off to college, Celine knew she had to change but she lacked the energy, tools, and support to figure out how to make the changes she wanted on her own. Through The Midlife Without Regrets Method program and 1:1 coaching with me, Celine started her journey to get unstuck in October with a goal to sell her empty nest and move to the beach, to start living BOLDly.

Celine currently lives in The Colony, TX a suburb of Dallas and is a Vice President of Insights and Analysis at a local firm where she assists clients in entering new industries and markets, launching new services, and understanding market forces and future. Celine welcomes you to connect with her on LinkedIn so please don’t hesitate to send her a request to connect with her https://www.linkedin.com/in/redleafinfo/.

Have you heard about my free 4-day workshop, The Midlife Mindset Makeover? Join me virtually for 4 days February 1-4 at 4pm PST and work with me in an interactive environment to gain clarity, confidence, courage, and more as I share with you tools and strategies to shift your mindset from stuck to unstuck so that you can live the life you want. Registration is free so click here to save your spot todayhttps://loukiam.com/freechallenge.

After a much needed winter hiatus, I'm back with a new episode this week. Today, I'm sharing my thoughts on a few things: my stance on pro-aging, how fear shows up in your life, what anniversary I'm celebrating in 2021, and how and why I chose my word of the year.  I am on a mission to normalize transformation in the middle of life...to create a BOLD movement of women over 50, 60, 70 and beyond and I can't wait to see how that movement continues to unfold in 2021.  Are you coming along with me? If you're a woman in the middle, I sure hope so!

Connection and Community: I'd love to connect with you! You can send me an email me at [email protected], follow me on Instagram and Facebook @midlifeinbold, or join my free Facebook community, Midlife Women Making Change Without Fear. To download my free guide, "The 3 Step Formula to Break Out of Your Midlife Slump and Take Action", click here. Finally, if you'd like to take advantage of a FREE session with me,  schedule your call with me today by clicking here.

I wrote permission slips for my students for years but I rarely gave myself permission. Permission to step into my authentic life is something I've only recently allowed myself. Permission is one of the benefits of getting older for me. Now, at the beginning of my next chapter, I am unapologetically granting myself permission to be, do, and have what I want in this phase of my life.  In today's episode, I share with you the ten types of permission you can give yourself if you're a woman in her 50s, 60s, 70s, and beyond.  Life is short so give yourself permission to create a life that feels good to you and allows you to walk into the fullest expression of who you are - mind, body, and soul.

Starting over (yet again) is a common experience in midlife. If you're a woman in the middle, you have probably had to start over more than once. In today's episode, I share my thoughts on starting over and it's this:  starting over never happens from the same place. The last five years of my life have been nothing but starting over, again and again. But, I really never start over from the same place because I have more knowledge, more skills, more experience, more courage, and more bravery. So, all of that gives me a huge advantage for the next change I encounter. So, while it does suck to have to start over again and again whether by choice of forced circumstance, the alternative is not having the opportunity to start over again and instead being stuck. Now, that would really suck! So, the midlife mindset switch I made is that getting to start over is a privilege not a burden. 

Connection and Community: I'd love to connect with you! You can send me an email me at [email protected], follow me on Instagram and Facebook @midlifeinbold, or join my free Facebook community of over 650 midlife women and growing called Midlife Women Making Change Without Fear. To download my free guide, "The 3 Step Formula to Break Out of Your Midlife Slump and Take Action", click here. Finally, if you'd like to take advantage of my FREE clarity call, where I will assess your current situation and give you my professional recommendation on what your next steps should be, schedule your call with me today by clicking here.

Regrets don't feel good.  The "coulda, woulda, shoulda" that many women in the middle talk about when they look back on their life adds up to one big pile of regret. The good news? There's still time to regret-proof your life! I work with women, mostly over 50, some younger and some older. Midlife is a time in your life when you often start to reevaluate your life - your choices, your career, where you live, your relationships - and think about what's next by asking the question, “Is this it?”  If the answer is NO and especially if it’s a HELL NO, it’s time to take a serious look at your life and figure out what it will take to make the changes and reinvent the parts of your life that are no longer serving you. So, in today's episode I share the ten things I needed to have in place as I embarked on the transformational journey of regret-proofing my life. 

To connect with me, send me an email me at [email protected] or follow me on Instagram and Facebook @midlifeinbold, and join my free Facebook community of over 600 midlife women and growing called Midlife Women Making Change Without Fear. To download my free guide, "The 3 Step Formula to Break Out of Your Midlife Slump and Take Action", click here. Finally, if you'd like to take advantage of my FREE clarity call, where I will assess your current situation and give you my professional recommendation on what your next steps should be, schedule your call with me today by clicking here.