For years I’ve been saying that midlife is the same as adolescence—but in reverse. Your body is doing strange things, you can’t stop crying, you notice all your relationships are changing, you no longer know who you are or what you want, and you don’t know why. Life-stage expert, gerontologist and author, Barbara Waxman, decided to make that observation official with her book “The Middlescence Manifesto: Igniting the Passion of Midlife” [https://amzn.to/3fOeZbb]. “In 1900 life expectancy was 47,” she tells me. “Now, it’s in your 80s. The [extra] years are not at the end of life, the decrepit years, but are showing up in the middle markers. It starts at 45.” Waxman says, “women gain power in Middlescence…[have] more agency. They want to do what [they] care about and care less about what others think.” Waxman believes now is the “time to discern what you care about…so you can show up with a powerful ‘yes!’”
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#219 90% of Entrepreneurs Fail: Why You Should Reinvent Through a Franchise (Kim Daly)
#217 Reinventing from a Stable Career to Fill a Need Gap (Sharon Linder)
#216 From Stay-at-Home Mom to Addiction Recovery Maven (Felicia Montiforte Kleinpeter)
#215 Her Health Crisis Led her to Start a Nonprofit at 27 (Donna Cryer)
#214 When Covid Forces You to Pivot – and You Thrive (Sarah LaFleur)
#213 Reinventing How Women 50+ Are Seen in the Fashion Industry (Stephanie O’Dell)
#212 She Wrote the Guidebook for Midlife Reinvention (Joanne Lipman)
#211 The Secret to a Successful Reinvention (Katie Fogarty)
#210 What to Do When You’re Bored With Your Job (Shilpa Kulshrestha)
#209: He Decided to Start a New Business – Every Year! (Sean Castrina)
#208 Taking Her Reinvention Story to the Stage (LeeAnn Marie Webster)
#208 Reinventing Your Relationship to Uncertainty (Jill Griffin)
#207 My Reinvention Took Me from Poverty to the White House (Rebecca Contreras)
#207 From Bartender to Social Media Maven (Stacey Birch)
#205 Reinvent Your Approach to Self Promotion In The Digital Age (Alice Draper)
#204 The Near-Death Experience That Forced My Reinvention (Geralyn Ritter)
#203 When a Health Crisis Becomes a Transformative Journey (Elena Sonnino)
#202 When Your Personal Reinvention Leads to Groundbreaking Change for Autism (Dr. Joan Fallon)
#201 Reinventing Your Mindset About Aging (Judy Katz)
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