Turning 30 Podcast

By Emma WilsonSociety & Culture Relationships

Turning 30 Podcast episodes

June 02, 2023 Turning 30 and Owning Your Timelines Ft Laura Behnke
This week's podcast episode is a replay of one of the most popular Turning 30 episodes from 2022.
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When we are growing up, many of us are told that we are capable of achieving anything in life that we want.
A good career? You go and get it! Move to a new city? Go for it! A great social life? All yours. A committed, long-term relationship? Of course it will happen for you!
But what happens when you get to 35 and you haven’t ticked off everything on the list? What happens when a relationship not only hasn’t happened up until now, but seems like it never will?
That is the story of this week’s podcast guest, Laura Behnke. Living in the city of her dreams (New York) and in a high achieving career (as a successful tv anchor) her life was panning out as she had wanted, apart from the fact that at the age of 35 she had never been in a long-term relationship.
She spent her early thirties focused on her romantic life and believed that because she hadn’t yet met someone, that there was something wrong with her.

SPOILER ALERT: There was absolutely nothing wrong with her! Shortly after making some big mindset shifts following her 35th birthday, she met her husband.

In this episode Laura shares with us her story, of how she went from panicking and not enjoying her thirties, to feeling calm and accepting of her timelines, and eventually meeting her partner and having a child in her 40s.

If you are looking for some inspiration and expansion- Laura’s story and this is the episode for you!

Laura:
IG: @laurabbehnke

Emma:
IG: @turning30coach
1:1 coaching spots open for June: www.turning30coach.com/coaching
The Align Retreat details: www.turning30coach.com/retreat
1 hr
May 18, 2023 Turning 30 and Creating Financial Freedom by Learning How to Invest ft Dr Anna Emily
In this week’s guest episode I sit down with Dr Anna Emily to talk all about investing and how to get started in creating wealth and building financial freedom.
Anna is the founder of She’s So Money, a financial literacy and investing education company for women. She helps women learn how to keep, manage and grow their money and reach financial freedom more quickly and without the overwhelm.
This is a topic that so many women shy away from learning about, and in our conversation Anna shares the reasons that we don’t feel comfortable to invest in the stock market and how we can overcome that fear so that we can educate ourselves, shift our money mindsets and start to invest.
As well as sharing her own personal journey from spending all of her earnings to saving her first $100k, we discuss the reasons that many of us avoid this topic, the benefits of learning to control our money, why buying property and having a mortgage isn’t always the best option for creating wealth, and how to get started with saving if you are living paycheck to paycheck.
Dr Anna Emily
IG: @shes_somoney
Emma
Turning 30:
IG: @turning30coach
Website: https://www.turning30coach.com/
Work with me:
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The Align Retreat
I invite you to join us for a four day retreat which is going to combine Coaching, Human Design, Workshops, Yoga, Meditation and many other activities. An opportunity to ‘jumpstart’ your next chapter and get into alignment with a group of like-minded women.
Here are the retreat details: https://www.turning30coach.com/retreat
1 hr 7 min
May 11, 2023 Turning 30 and a Wake Up Call To Your Dreams ft Jamie Varon
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EPISODE
Do you ever feel like you have something that you really wanted to achieve by a certain age, yet it still hasn’t happened yet?
Are you sitting on a deep desire to create something in the world, yet you’re not actually taking any action?
This is what happened to this week’s guest is the author and my personal thirties role model, Jamie Varon, who I invited onto the podcast to share her turning 30 story and her journey to becoming a published author.
When Jamie turned 30 she realized that her life’s dream to write a book hadn’t yet come to fruition, and so she got to work and set out to make it happen. Her story is such a testament to how we can use our birthdays as wake up calls to get clear on what we really want and
As well as sharing her turning 30 story, we dive into so many important topics about bringing a dream into reality, including facing fear, the importance of journaling, consistency, resilience, belief and magic.
This episode is for you if you know that your thirties are destined to be better than your twenties, and you want to be inspired to make it happen.
Jamie Varon:
IG: https://www.instagram.com/jamievaron/
Website: https://www.jamievaron.com/about
Turning 30:
IG: https://www.instagram.com/turning30coach/
Website: https://www.turning30coach.com/
1 hr
May 04, 2023 Turning 30 and lessons learnt from over 1000 hours of Turning 30 Coaching Sessions
To celebrate the 80th episode of the Turning 30 Podcast I have recorded a special episode sharing some of the findings and interesting things I have learnt from my thousands of hours spent in coaching session with thirty-something women.
As well as being a coach, I feel as though I am also running a social experiment. I get front row seats to my client’s lives, their thoughts, their emotions and their behaviour.
Day in, day out, we talk about all of the topics that are relevant to our age group. I get the privilege of seeing the inner workings of people’s minds and understanding how the affects their actions.
I hear stories unfolding and get to be a witness to the process that my clients go through when dealing with big life changes, from career shifts, to break-ups and dating adventures, friendships and more.
Almost two years ago I released an episode sharing what I have learnt from 500 hours of coaching sessions, and since then I have logged many more than that. To celebrate this milestone of 80 podcast episodes and the fact the doors are open to my Next Chapter program, I thought it was a good idea to add some near interesting insights and share them on the Podcast.

I think it’s safe to say I’m an expert in all things Turning 30! I have learnt SO much from my clients about turning 30 and growing up and in this special episode I share the findings of my social experiment of 1000 hours plus of conversations with all of you, so you can also get a true insight into turning 30 and most importantly, realizing that you are not alone.
This episode is dedicated to my amazing clients.
The Next Chapter group still has spots left!!
It is an immersive group of women (it will likely be less than 10 of us) coming together weekly to learn coaching methods/tools that will help you to reach whatever goal/thing you are currently stuck on. This can be in relation to any area in your life- from careers/relationships/friendships/lifestyle.
Register here:
www.turning30coach.com/thenextchapter2023
Instagram: @turning30coach
54 min
April 27, 2023 Turning 30 and 3 steps to get more clarity and start taking action Ft. Jelena Holdkova
Grab a pen and paper (or your phone notes) as in this second episode of our two-part special series, my guest Jelena Holodkova and I are outlining our three step process to take you from feeling ‘off’ and confused, to getting more clarity and kickstarting into action.
This episode is for you if you have been feeling that something isn’t quite right, have been stuck and procrastinating making changes or you have a decision that you want clarity with.
This three-step process is going to be the basis of the content in our summer retreat THE ALIGN RETREAT, where we will take you on a personal journey of coming back into alignment.
It is a four day retreat which is going to combine Coaching, Human Design, Workshops, Yoga, Meditation and many other activities. An opportunity to ‘jumpstart’ your next chapter and get into alignment with a group of like-minded women.
Jelena and I have put together a transformative program and we want to invite you to take part.
To register: https://www.turning30coach.com/retreat
Or reach out to Emma @turning30coach or Jelena at @hello.jel.
Spots are still available for the Turning 30 group program: THE NEXT CHAPTER starting on May 16th. Register here.
46 min
April 20, 2023 Turning 30 and How To Build Your Next Chapter
On the verge of some big changes happening in my personal life, I decided to record a special solo episode reflecting on next chapters: how to create them and how seeing your life as a series of ‘next chapters’ can help you to build an intentional life that you love.
Contrary to popular belief, something I have learnt is that creating a life that looks totally different to what you currently have doesn’t take time, it takes intention. Whilst my clients provide so much evidence of how big changes don’t have to take a lot of time, I am sharing my own story of going from a period of dating despair this time last year, to now making room in my apartment as my boyfriend moves in.
Over the past three years I have been intentionally created my own series of new chapters by identifying what is missing in my life, what I want to focus on, and then consciously and proactively setting out to create it.
I hope that by reflecting back on these chapters of my thirties and sharing the details of the process that I went through to in order to make these changes, I will inspire you to know that your next chapters are ready and waiting for you- you just need to unlock them.
I unlocked mine by using my coaching methods and a specific process that I have packaged into a refreshed and updated version of my Next Chapter coaching group which is now live and enrolling.
Details of the group and how to register are here.
IG: @turning30coach
34 min
April 13, 2023 Turning 30 and Realizing that Something Feels ’Off’ ft Jelena Holodkova
This episode is the first in a two-part special series with my previous podcast guest, friend, colleague and retreat co-host, Jelena Holodkova, and we are diving into a topic that I know so many of you struggle with: that feeling that you get that something isn’t quite right. You could say that you feel that something is ‘off’.
This is what we call not being in Alignment.
In this episode we dive into how to spot when something feels off and we share all of the different ‘symptoms’ and ways this may be showing up in your life, using personal examples and stories from times when we have experienced feeling off ourselves.
By the end of this episode, you should have a deeper understanding of the ways that this feeling off is probably showing up in your behaviour. In the second part of this series we are going to be sharing practical tools that you can use to
This episode is in celebration of the release of our brand new retreat The Align retreat that is taking place THIS SUMMER in the UK. The coaching program on the retreat is specifically designed to help you to step into alignment.
It is a four day retreat which is going to combine Coaching, Human Design, Workshops, Yoga, Meditation and many other activities. An opportunity to ‘jumpstart’ your next chapter and get into alignment with a group of like-minded women. Jelena and I have put together a transformative program and we want to invite you to take part.
Here are the retreat details: https://www.turning30coach.com/retreat
Or reach out to Emma @turning30coach or Jelena at @hello.jel
Sign up to the FREE Turning 30 workshop taking place this Sunday (April 16th) where I will be talking about comparison, timelines how to create your own path in your thirties.
Register here to save your spot.
1 hr 1 min
April 05, 2023 Turning 30 and let’s talk about Relationship Anxiety ft. Sarah Yudkin
We’ve all heard those familiar phrases when it comes to starting a new relationship: ‘when you know you know’, but what if you start a new relationship or you’re already in a partnership and you don’t instantly know that this person is ‘the one’?
For some reason, we’ve been tricked into believing that once we meet someone and get into a relationship, that we will live ‘happily ever after’ and things will just nicely slot into place. Add to this the fact we are bombarded with an array of different opinions on relationships such as ‘when you know you know’, it’s no wonder that when people start to have any doubts or questions in their relationship, they don’t know where to turn.
In this week’s guest episode, I have invited life coach Sarah Yudkin on to talk about a topic that I don’t think gets nearly enough airtime: relationship anxiety.
We dive into so many interesting topics, including:
how to know if it’s anxiety or incompatibility?
what to do (and what not to do) if you experience doubts in your relationship
how relationship anxiety shows up and how it can affect you
whether age affects anxious feelings in a relationship
the topic of settling and what it means to ‘settle’ in a relationship
‘the grass is greener’ syndrome that we can experience when we are single or in a partnership
Sarah is such a source of wisdom on this topic, based on her own personal journey of feeling anxious, doubtful, and uncertain in her own relationship to feeling a deeper sense of commitment, fulfillment, and optimism than she dreamed was possible.
Since then, she has helped over 750 people from 35 countries through online coaching, courses, and webinars.The You Love and You Learn online community consists of over 220,000 people on a journey to show up more intentionally in their relationships.
Sarah:
IG: @youloveandyoulearn
Website: https://www.youloveandyoulearn.com/
Emma:
Website: www.turning30coach.com
IG: @turning30coach
You are invited to The Align summer retreat, taking place this August (3-7th) in Kent, UK. For more details and to grab your spot: https://www.turning30coach.com/retreat
1 hr 1 min
March 30, 2023 Turning 30 and Letting Go of Financial Expectations Ft. Ellie Austin-Williams
What did you think you would have achieved financially by your thirties?
Owning your own property?
Being able to afford to rent and live alone?
Buying designer handbags?
Taking as many holidays as you wanted?
For most of us, our thirties were a distant time in the future where we would have the pleasure of being able to afford what we wanted, when we wanted. After all, our parents did all of those things in their twenties- why should we expect any different!
On this week’s episode, I have invited back money expert Ellie Austin-Williams to have an open and honest conversation all about the financial expectations most of us have in our thirties.
The truth is, being in our thirties and not where we want to be when it comes to our finances is very confronting. And that’s why in this episode, Ellie and I are giving a voice to these important and sometimes ‘taboo’ topics.

Topics that we dive into include:
Expectations at thirty and why we feel so much pressure at this age
Comparison of financial status and how privilege shows up
The current economy and cost of living crisis and how it is impacting our generation and the choices we make, from where we live to whether we want children
Why millennials are so obsessed with owning a property, and other ways to look at this expected milestone
Redundancy and how to make the most of big life changes and transitions

Ellie has appeared as an expert panelist for brands including Glamour and Monzo as well as providing insight and comment for Refinery29, Stylist, BBC News and more. Ellie is also the co-host of the podcast Money Unfiltered- and in this episode she shares so much knowledge and interesting insights.

Ellie:
IG: @thisgirltalksmoney
Website: https://www.thisgirltalksmoney.co.uk/

Emma:
IG: @turning30coach

You are invited to join us for The Align Retreat taking place this August (3-7th) in Kent, UK. For more details and to grab your spot: https://www.turning30coach.com/retreat
50 min
March 02, 2023 Turning 30 and Thriving in Love + Dating ft Caitlin Bedford the Compatibility Coach
In this week’s special format guest episode I am sitting down with love and dating expert Caitlin aka The Compatibility Coach and we are answering the questions I most get asked by my community.
The questions we are answering are:
Is there such thing as ‘manifesting love’ - is this even possible and if so, HOW?!
How can you stay hopeful in love when you’ve been single and dating for years on end?
How can you actually meet people apart from going on the dating apps?
How to get back into dating if you’ve been out of the game for years and the thought of it is terrifying?
We also get personal and share our own stories of how and where we met our partners, and delve into our own dating and love journeys up until now.

If you like this episode and have more questions for us on the topic of love and dating, please send them to Emma @turning30coach or [email protected].
1 hr 10 min

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