Hey there, it’s Zeva Bellel—career and leadership coach for women—and I’m thrilled to welcome you to Season 4 of On Becoming.

This season, we’re diving headfirst into a topic that’s been stirring in my heart, in my coaching work, and in nearly every honest conversation I’ve had with women lately:

Midlife and the Creative Reckoning.

If Season 3 was about how women lead, Season 4 is about what fuels that leadership—and for many of us, it’s creativity.

But I’m not talking about creativity in the narrow, elite, paint-in-a-studio sense. I’m talking about creativity as life force. As inner knowing. As rebellion. As a return to the wildest, most vital parts of who we are.

In this season, I’m exploring what happens when women at midlife feel the creative urge rising, and how many of us have lost the map to our own expression.

Here’s what you can expect this season:

• Intimate conversations with extraordinary women—artists, coaches, storytellers, culture-makers—who are reimagining what it means to live, lead, and create in midlife.
• Juicy solo episodes where I’ll dig into topics like creative shame, desire, fantasy, self-trust, and the cultural conditioning that keeps women small.
• A peek behind the curtain of my own creative reckoning—and what I’ve learned from coaching women through theirs.

We’ll wrestle with questions like:

🎨 What happens when we stop expressing ourselves creatively?

🌀 Why do so many women feel a quiet ache for “more”—but have no idea where to start?

🔥 How do we move through the fear, shame, and perfectionism that block our creative power?

🌿 What’s the link between creativity, vitality, and personal agency in midlife?

And we’ll hold tight to this truth from Clarissa Pinkola Estés:

“A woman’s creative ability is her most valuable asset, for it gives outwardly and it feeds her inwardly at every level—psychic, spiritual, mental, emotive, and economic.”

If you’ve ever felt the hum of something inside you asking to be heard, expressed, made real—this season is for you.

Midlife isn’t a dead end. It’s your next masterpiece in motion.

So subscribe, follow the show, and share this episode with someone who needs a creative jolt. You’ll want to be part of what’s coming: powerful conversations, creative experiments (yes, a creative camp is happening!), and a collective reclaiming of the parts of ourselves we’re finally ready to honor.

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Connect with Me:

•Book a discovery call at www.zevabellel.com

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•Email me: [email protected]

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