The Midlife Reinvention: How to Find Your Ikigai, Deal with Imposter Syndrome & Build Your Confidence in Career & Life Transi
Published by Kavita Ahuja, Founder of It's My Time Now Coaching, Inspired By Mel Robbins, Oprah Winfrey, Brene Brown, Deepak Chopra, Vishen Lakhiani, Cathy Heller
Business
Careers
Entrepreneurship
Are you experiencing a Career or Life Transition, and are asking yourself "What's Next"? Join Kavita Ahuja, Certified Career and Life Transitions Coach, and founder of It's My Time Now Coaching https://itsmytimenowcoaching.com/ as she gives her own wonderful insights and interviews incredible women across the globe will give you inspiration to rediscover who you really are, what you really want, and how to get there! You will learn how to overcome obstacles, find your true calling, and make your next chapter in life your best chapter ever. Reinvention doesn't mean giving up everything; it means rediscovering what has always been inside of you and bringing that out into the world. If not now, when? If would like to dive deeper into how Kavita can help you make your vision for yourself a reality, book a complimentary consultation with Kavita here: https://imtncoach.com/bu-pc-bc-ka
#326: Why Your Ikigai Keeps Evolving Through Every Midlife Career and Life Transition
Have you been taught to think of a milestone birthday as the top of the mountain, when it may actually be the ground you build your next climb from? Turning 60 this weekend, Kavita shares one of the most personal episodes she has ever recorded. In it, she walks you through her own evolving ikigai, dimension by dimension, so you can see for yourself how a reason for being keeps unfolding at every stage of a midlife career and life transition. This is not a look back at what is finished. It is an honest, live look at what is still becoming, and a gentle invitation for you to do the same in your own life. In this episode, you'll discover: Why milestone birthdays are not summits but foundations, and what that reframe changes about every transition How the four ikigai overlaps of flow, mission, calling, and expression quietly reveal your reason for being when you name them honestly What Kavita's own evolving ikigai has taught her about writing books, building community, and stepping into the next expansion of a purpose-driven life Press play to walk alongside Kavita through her own reason for being, and begin uncovering the one that is quietly waiting inside your own overlaps. Ready to see where your own reason for being is asking to be uncovered? Take the Ikigai Clarity Assessment to discover which of your four ikigai dimensions is thriving right now and which one has gone quiet, so you know exactly where to begin. If you are ready to talk through what your next chapter is asking of you, book a Complimentary Clarity Call with Kavita to map your own overlaps together. Kavita would also love to hear from you on what a community for women in career and life transitions could look like. Write to her directly at Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.com and help shape what she is building next. View the Ikigai Diagram here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OShXl4--54PyrqsS1j-KODYVdO9FIss5/view?usp=sharing _________________________ Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence. Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com New episodes every Monday and Thursday. This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.
#325: What Is Your Real Reason to Get Up in the Morning?
If someone asked you today what your real reason to get up in the morning is, could you answer without hesitating? When researchers went to Okinawa and asked the oldest people on earth that same question, almost every one of them answered instantly, without pausing to think. Most of us cannot, because what we have ready is a list of obligations. The children. The meeting. The dog. The groceries. Every one of those things is real, and every one of them matters, but not one of them is yours . In this Thursday check-in, Kavita follows up on Monday's episode with the one question every woman in a midlife career and life transition needs to sit with this week, and shows you why the answer is likely to be far smaller and quieter than you have been telling yourself it has to be. In this episode, you'll discover: The difference between the reasons you have to get up and your real reason to get up, and why confusing the two is what keeps so many women stuck in a midlife life transition Why the truest reasons for being are almost always small and ordinary, and how a garden, a book, or an hour with your hands in the soil can begin to point you toward your purpose The gentle question to sit with this week, and what the silence is telling you if no clear answer comes right away Press play to ask yourself the one question that separates a life full of obligations from a life that is honestly your own. If you want a clearer picture of where each of your four dimensions is alive right now and where one has quietly gone silent, take the free Ikigai Clarity Assessment . For many women it is the first time they see an honest picture of themselves, and it is the perfect companion to this week's question. View the Ikigai Diagram here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OShXl4--54PyrqsS1j-KODYVdO9FIss5/view?usp=sharing _________________________ Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence. Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com New episodes every Monday and Thursday. This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.
#324: How to Rediscover Your Purpose in Career and Life Transitions
Have you been looking for your purpose as though it were out there somewhere waiting to be found, when the whole time it has been quietly living inside you? For so many women in a career and life transitions, the search for what is next feels like hunting for something outside themselves, a job to discover, a course to take, a version of themselves to become. In this episode, Kavita gathers up the whole recent series and lands on the one idea underneath all of it. Your reason for being was never out there. It has been inside you all along, in four dimensions you already have, and the work is not invention but rediscovery. She also shares what the research is now showing about women, purpose, and longevity, and introduces a brand new tool she has built to help you see, honestly, where you are standing right now. In this episode, you'll discover: Why your reason for being was never a job to find or a version of yourself to become, and the four dimensions already inside you that reveal it What actually changes in your energy, meaning, and joy when you live from your ikigai, and what a landmark study is now showing about purpose and longevity in women How the brand new Ikigai Clarity Assessment gives you an honest picture of which of your four dimensions is thriving right now, and which one has been quietly waiting for you Press play to bring the whole journey home, take the first real step into your own starting place, and see what becomes possible when you stop searching outside and begin from within. If this episode is speaking to you, take the brand new Ikigai Clarity Assessment to see which of your four dimensions is alive right now and which one is waiting for your attention, then book a Complimentary Clarity Call with Kavita and bring your results so you can make sense of them together and name your very next step. View the Ikigai Diagram here : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OShXl4--54PyrqsS1j-KODYVdO9FIss5/view?usp=sharing _________________________ Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence. Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com New episodes every Monday and Thursday. This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.
#323: Say It Out Loud and Let Your Midlife Transition Come Into Focus
Have you been quietly turning the biggest question of your life over in your own head for months, hoping the answer will finally appear if you just think hard enough? For years, capable women in a midlife career and life transitions carry the most important questions of their lives privately, researching, journaling, and lately, typing them into a screen at midnight. It is not a weakness. It is a very old habit of trying to solve the deepest things alone. But the moment your reason for being finally comes into focus almost never arrives while you are alone with your own thoughts. It arrives in conversation, when someone asks you the question underneath your first answer and waits. In this Thursday check-in, Kavita builds on Monday's episode 322 and shows why the clarity you have been searching for is waiting on the other side of one honest conversation. In this episode, you'll discover: Why trying to work out the biggest questions of your midlife career and life transition on your own is the very thing keeping the answer just out of reach What anabolic energy actually feels like the moment you say something true out loud to another human being, and why thinking it in your head will never give you the same release A small, brave invitation for this week that turns one honest conversation into the beginning of real career clarity Press play to understand why your reason for being lives on the other side of one honest conversation, and to receive the small invitation that can begin to change everything this week. If this episode resonated, download the free 28-Day Confidence Guide to build the quiet daily confidence that makes it easier to speak your truth out loud, one simple practice at a time. _________________________ Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence. Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com New episodes every Monday and Thursday. This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.
#322: Can AI Find Your Ikigai or Reason for Being in Life's Transitions?
Have you ever sat up late, typed "what should I do with my life" into a chat window, and walked away feeling more empty than when you started? You are not alone, and you did nothing foolish. It is the most natural thing in the world to reach for a screen when the questions get big. But there is a reason those beautifully written answers rarely move you forward, and it has nothing to do with the quality of the technology. It has everything to do with the kind of work that finding your reason for being actually requires. This episode is an honest look at where AI genuinely helps in career and life transitions, exactly where it stops, and what only another human being can offer you when your purpose finally comes into focus. In this episode, you'll discover: What AI can genuinely do to help you gather the raw material of your ikigai, from naming your strengths to prompting your passions and values The precise point where AI stops being useful in a career and life transition, and why the overlap of the four circles of your Ikigai diagram cannot be interpreted by a machine What actually happens the moment your reason for being comes into focus, and why that moment requires another human in the room Press play to hear an honest conversation about how to use AI as a tool without outsourcing the deepest questions of your life to it. Have a question about using AI in your own career transition, finding your purpose in midlife, or anything else on your own journey? Ask Me Anything! Send it to me for a future episode: Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.com If you are ready to move from gathering data to actually finding the overlap where your reason for being lives, start with the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see honestly where you feel most alive and where the gaps are, then book a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita to do the human work of filling them in. _________________________ Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence. Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com New episodes every Monday and Thursday. This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.
#321: What If the First Step of Your Midlife Career Transition Only Takes One Hour?
Have you been telling yourself that the way back to the part of you that you buried has to be huge, dramatic, and terrifying? For so many accomplished women in a midlife career and life transition, the reason a buried passion stays buried is not laziness or a lack of courage. It is the quiet belief that reclaiming it requires quitting the job, upending the family, and gambling the whole house on a dream. When the only way out looks that big, the most human response is to do nothing. In this Thursday check-in, Kavita takes the weight off that fear and shows you what the first step actually looks like, and why it is so much smaller than you think. In this episode, you'll discover: Why the belief that reclaiming your purpose requires a grand gesture is exactly what keeps women stuck in a career and life transition, and what to do instead How one honest hour spent on the thing you have buried releases the anabolic energy that fuels the next hour, and the next step after that A simple invitation to give yourself one hour this week, and the inner critic to expect when you sit down to take it Press play to see how the way back to yourself was never a cliff to leap off, but a single step you can take today. If this episode resonated, download the free 28-Day Confidence Guide to turn that one brave hour into a quiet, growing certainty, one simple daily practice at a time. _________________________ Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence. Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com New episodes every Monday and Thursday. This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.
#320: The Passion You Buried That Holds the Key to Your Midlife Career and Life Transition
Is there a part of you that you buried a long time ago, a love or a talent that once made you feel most alive? Somewhere along the way, life needed you to be practical, responsible, and the person everyone expected you to be, and so you folded that part of yourself away and got on with your life. It did not go anywhere. It is still in there, quiet and patient, and every year you leave it in the dark, it costs you a little more of your energy, your aliveness, and your years. In this episode of the Midlife Reinvention Podcast, Kavita shares the true stories of two very different clients who climbed the same path back to themselves, and walks you through exactly how to do the same. In this episode, you'll discover: Why so many capable, accomplished women bury the one part of themselves that lights them up, and the real reasons behind it What a buried passion quietly costs you in your body, your energy, and your years, and how it shows up as that Sunday evening dread The four circles Kavita uses to walk a woman back to herself, so a buried passion becomes the very thing that reveals your purpose and fuels your next chapter Press play and give yourself permission to name what you buried, so you can begin the climb back to a life that feels fully, honestly yours. If something in this episode is asking to be heard, book a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita and start naming what you have buried, or take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see where your four circles are asking to come back into focus. _________________________ Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence. Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com New episodes every Monday and Thursday. This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.
#319: When Your Ikigai Clicks Into Place and You Finally See the Path Forward
Have you ever had a moment where something inside you quietly lit up, and for the first time in a long time you could actually see a way forward? It often arrives as goosebumps, or tears of recognition, and it changes everything, because you cannot build toward something you cannot yet see. In this Thursday check-in, Kavita slows down on that one turning point from Monday's episode and unpacks why it matters so much in a midlife career and life transition. In this episode, you'll discover: Why the goosebumps or tears you feel when something clicks are a truth signal you should never rush past How anabolic energy shows up the instant you see your path, and becomes the fuel that helps you walk it A gentle invitation to notice the small flickers this week that point toward your reason for being Press play to learn how to recognize the moment your path lights up, and let that quiet certainty guide your next step. If this episode resonated, download the free 28-Day Confidence Guide to build that quiet certainty one simple daily practice at a time, so the spark you feel this week has somewhere to grow. _________________________ Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence. Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com New episodes every Monday and Thursday. This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.
#318: Why a Successful Career Can Feel Empty and How to Start Your Midlife Career Transition
Have you built a life that looks right on paper, yet quietly wonder why it no longer feels like yours? That feeling of emptiness sitting on top of everything you worked so hard to earn is not a sign that something is wrong with you. It is one of the most important signals you will ever receive in a midlife career and life transition, and it is pointing you toward something that has been inside you all along. In this episode, Kavita walks you through the story of a client who reached the top of a demanding corporate world and still felt nothing, and shares the ikigai process that helped her uncover her real reason for being. In this episode, you'll discover: Why doing everything right can still leave you feeling empty, and what that quiet emptiness is actually trying to tell you in a midlife transition The four circles of ikigai that lead you to your reason for being, and why the version you have seen online with a paycheck at the center may be steering you wrong How to spot the strengths, passions, and values you have stopped noticing because they come to you so easily, and how to use them to find your purpose Press play to uncover the four circles that already live inside you, and take the first real step back toward yourself this week. If this episode is stirring something in you, book a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita to map your own four circles, or take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see where your reason for being is quietly waiting to be uncovered. _________________________ Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence. Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com New episodes every Monday and Thursday. This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.
#317: How to Find Your Purpose in Midlife When You Think You Have None.
Have you ever listened to someone describe their purpose or reason for being and quietly wondered if you will ever find your own? If you are in the middle of a midlife career or life transition, that question can feel heavier than it should. The good news is that your ikigai is not something you have to invent. It is already living inside you, in what you are good at, in what you love, in what you value now, and in where the world quietly needs you. Your only work is to begin noticing what is already there. In this episode, you'll discover: Why your ikigai is uncovered, not invented, and what that changes about how you approach your midlife career transition The four circles to sketch this week and the simple practice that begins to reveal your purpose The one energy signal to trust above almost any other as you start finding your reason for being Press play to begin the practice that turns the page from someone else's story to your own discovery. If this resonates and you want a clearer picture of what is holding your purpose just out of reach, take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see where you stand right now and what your next step looks like. _________________________ Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence. Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com New episodes every Monday and Thursday. This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.
#316: When Everything You Have Lived Through Becomes Your Reason for Being
What if everything you have survived was quietly preparing you for the very thing you were put here to do? In the finale of the My Story series, Kavita shares what happened after she took the leap, when the relief gave way to quiet panic and the only thing left to do was take one small step, and then another. This is the story of how a wide open unknown slowly became a life she loves, and how the four circles of ikigai, your strengths, your passions, your values, and your contribution, were inside her all along, waiting to be rediscovered. If you are standing in your own now what moment, this episode is for you. In this episode, you'll discover: How a midlife career and life transition becomes a life you love by following the energy that makes time disappear Why your ikigai, your reason for being, was never a four circle diagram with a paycheck at the bottom, and what the fourth circle really is The three things to carry with you when you cannot yet see where your next step will land Press play to hear the question that changed everything for Kavita, and let it begin to change something for you. Have a question about finding your ikigai, taking the leap, or anything else on your own journey? Ask Me Anything! Send it to me for a future episode: Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.com If everything in you is saying yes right now, book a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita to discover which of your four circles you have been ignoring and the first step toward your reason for being. You can also take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see where you are in your own midlife transition right now. _________________________ Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence. Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com New episodes every Monday and Thursday. This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.
#315: The Fourth Circle of Ikigai That Reveals Where the World Needs You in Midlife Transitions
Have you been told that finding your purpose means solving some big, world-changing problem, and quietly decided it must not be for you? That belief is one of the biggest reasons women in midlife stop short of finding their Ikigai. The fourth circle, what the world needs, is not about the whole world. It is about your corner of it, where your gifts meet a real need in the lives around you. And the experiences you think disqualify you, including the hardest parts of your own career and life transitions, are often the very thing someone walking a few steps behind you is longing for. In this episode, you'll discover: Why "what the world needs" is misunderstood, and the smaller, truer way to think about it during a midlife transition How your hardest chapters can become the clearest signal of where you're needed A simple practice to notice where the world is already pulling at you, and where your gifts are quietly needed Press play to find the quiet pull that has been illuminating itself in your life for years, and step closer to your ikigai. Wondering how fulfilled you truly are in your career and life right now? Take my free Career and Life Fulfillment Quiz . Need a little more confidence to take your next step? Download my free 28 Days to Building Confidence Guide . Have a question about finding where you're needed in your next chapter, or anything else on your own journey? Ask Me Anything! Send it to me for a future episode: Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.com _________________________ Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence. Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com New episodes every Monday and Thursday. This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.
#314: How to Work With the Inner Critic That Keeps You Stuck in a Career or Life Transition
Have you been waiting for a dramatic sign before you let yourself admit something needs to change? For most women, the moment that begins a career transition does not arrive as a crisis. It builds quietly, over months or years, in the form of a question you cannot stop turning over, a Monday morning that feels heavier than it should, or a quiet dissatisfaction you keep explaining away as tiredness. This episode continues Kavita's My Story series and picks up in the morning everything cracked open, the gremlins that kept her stuck for two more years, and the real turning point that came later, the one almost no one talks about. In this episode, you'll discover: Why the moment that begins a career and life transition is usually quiet, and how to recognize your own version of it before it grows too loud to ignore What your inner critics are actually trying to do for you in a midlife transition, and how to work with them instead of waiting for them to go silent Why the people closest to you may understand your transition the least, and what that means for the choice in front of you Press play to hear the story of the turning point that changes everything, and to find the honest question waiting for you this week. Have a question about your own trigger moment, your gremlins, or anything else rising in you during this season? Ask Me Anything . Send it to me for a future episode: Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.com If you want to understand where you are right now and where you'd like to be heading next, take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz , or book a complimentary Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita to talk through what comes next for you. _________________________ Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence. Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com New episodes every Monday and Thursday. This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.
#313: The Hidden Strengths That Can Reshape Your Midlife Career and Life Transitions
What if the greatest strength you have is one you can no longer see, or one you set down years ago? In this Thursday companion to Monday's conversation with Deborah Knight (episode 312), Kavita continues the My Story series with a closer look at the first circle of ikigai: your strengths. The ones that can change your whole next chapter are often the ones you would never put on a resume. Some have gone invisible because they come so easily to you. Others have simply gone quiet, waiting for you to pick them back up. In midlife career and life transitions, learning to see and use these strengths again is what shifts your energy and opens unexpected doors. In this episode, you'll discover: Why the strengths most central to your ikigai are usually the ones you have stopped noticing in yourself How anabolic energy, the expansive energy you feel when you use a true strength, begins to draw opportunities and people toward you A simple practice this week to surface a forgotten strength and put it back into use on purpose Press play to reconnect with the gifts that have been with you all along and see what begins to open up when you let yourself use them again. Have a question about a strength you have set down, or anything else on your own journey? Ask Me Anything! Send it to me for a future episode: Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.com If something in this reflection stirred a strength that has been dormant for too long, book a complimentary Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita or take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see where your next chapter wants to begin. _________________________ Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence. Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com New episodes every Monday and Thursday. This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.
#312: How to Reinvent Yourself After 50 When Everything You Built Falls Apart, with Deborah Knight
Have you ever wondered if it is too late to start over after the ground has shifted beneath you? If you are in the middle of a midlife career or life transition, where a layoff, a relationship ending, a diagnosis, or simply a quiet sense that this is no longer me has cracked open the life you spent years building, this conversation will meet you exactly where you are. My guest, Deborah Knight, has lived through layoffs, single motherhood at 42, marriage to a partner battling addiction, the loss of her home, and a cancer diagnosis that launched her into surgical menopause. What she shares is not a polished comeback story. It is an honest look at what it actually takes to rebuild, and why the possibility you are looking for is almost always hiding in the in-between. In this episode, you'll discover: Why a life quake is so often not the end of your story, but the beginning of the most honest version of it, and how to find the possibility hiding in the in-between How to let the colorful, fully expressed version of yourself back into the room after years of staying "beige" to fit in, stay safe, or meet everyone else's expectations Why you are never starting from scratch in a midlife career and life transition, and how every skill, every hard-won lesson, and every quiet strength becomes the ground you get to rebuild on Press play to hear a conversation that will remind you that you are not too old, you have not missed your window, and the most honest chapter of your life may still be ahead of you. Have a question about your own journey? Ask Me Anything! Send it to me for a future episode: Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.com If Deborah's story is sitting close to home and you are ready to stop circling and start moving, book a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita for one real conversation about where you are and where you are meant to go, or take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see what is quietly holding you back from your next chapter. About the Guest Deborah Knight is an entrepreneur and strategic communications expert with more than 25 years of experience helping leaders, public figures, and brands shape their voice and tell their stories. She is the author of the forthcoming book Menopause Speaks and serves as a patient advocate and spokesperson for Mount Sinai Hospital's Mature Women's Health Initiative. You can find Deborah here: Website - https://www.dkpr.ca Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/menopausespeaks/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborahknight/ _________________________ Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence. Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com New episodes every Monday and Thursday. This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.
#311: How Your Buried Passions Reveal Your Ikigai in Midlife Transitions
What did you love doing as a girl, before life told you to be practical? If you have spent decades inside the playbook of career, family, and what you were supposed to want, there is a good chance you have left someone important behind: the girl who knew exactly what made her come alive. In this Thursday check-in of the My Story series, Kavita continues unpacking ikigai, this time exploring how your buried passions are not nostalgia. They are signals, and they hold real information about your purpose and your next chapter. In this episode, you'll discover: Why the things you loved as a girl were never random, and what they reveal about your ikigai today The difference between anabolic and catabolic energy, and how reconnecting with a buried passion shifts the energy of your whole week A simple reflection to begin recovering one buried passion this week, without having to overhaul your career Press play to meet the girl in you who went quiet, and to start letting her energy back into your life. If a question is rising in you about Kavita's journey, your journey, or the dreams you buried along the way, send it to her at Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.com. Ask Me Anything throughout this My Story series. If this episode stirred something in you, take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see where your own ikigai is asking to be reclaimed, or book a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita to explore what your next chapter could look like. _________________________ Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence. Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com New episodes every Monday and Thursday. This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.
#310: The Playbook You Did Not Know You Were Following in Your Career and Life Transition
From the outside, your life looks right. The career, the marriage, the achievements that everyone around you agrees count. From the inside, something has started to whisper a question you have been dismissing as exhaustion or burnout or just a hard week. Most of us follow a playbook through our thirties and forties without realizing we are following one. The values our parents handed us. The script our culture wrote. The version of success we never stopped to question. It works beautifully for a long time. Until the day it doesn't. In this episode, you'll discover: The playbook many women unknowingly follow through their thirties and forties, and why it works beautifully until it doesn't The gremlins quietly whispering underneath a life that looks right, and the early signals you may be dismissing as exhaustion, hormones, or burnout The moment those whispers became impossible for Kavita to ignore, and what it cost her to dismiss them for too long Press play to hear the story behind the couch moment Kavita has never shared on the podcast before, and to recognize the inner critics or gremlins that may already be quietly asking you the question you are not yet ready to answer. If a question is rising in you about Kavita's journey, your journey, or the chapter you are quietly questioning, send it to her at Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.com. Ask Me Anything throughout this My Story series. If this episode resonated and you sense your own whispers asking for a change, take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to understand where you are right now, or schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita to start finding career clarity on what's next. _________________________ Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence. Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com New episodes every Monday and Thursday. This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.
#309: The Values That Built You May Not Be the Ones Leading You Forward in a Midlife Career or Life Transition
Have you ever looked at the life you've built and quietly wondered why it no longer feels like yours, even though nothing on the outside looks wrong? Every career and life transition is, underneath everything, a conversation with your values. The values that carried you through your earlier chapters are not always the same ones calling you forward into who you are becoming, and learning to tell the difference is some of the most important work of midlife. In this Thursday mini, a companion to Monday's episode 308, Kavita picks up one thread from her own story and follows it further: what happens when a new value starts knocking on the door, and what it means for your ikigai when you let yourself answer. In this episode, you'll discover: Why the values that built your earlier chapters can quietly go out of alignment during a midlife career transition, and how to notice when it's happening How your ikigai shifts as your strengths, passions, values, and what the world needs from you all evolve through every season of life A simple values exercise to help you name what is still leading you forward and what you have outgrown with love and respect Press play to begin the quiet, honest conversation with your values that every meaningful life transition is asking you to have. If you're sensing that your values are shifting and you're ready to explore what your next chapter wants to look like, schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita or take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see where your career and life are most asking for your attention right now. _________________________ Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence. Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com New episodes every Monday and Thursday. This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.
#308: The Inheritance You've Forgotten About in Your Career and Life Transition
Have you ever felt like the woman you are today is missing something the woman you used to be already knew? This week marks the start of a brand new series called My Story , where Kavita finally answers a question one of her clients asked that she had been quietly avoiding for five years. As you sit in your own career or life transition, this series is an invitation to listen for yourself in someone else's story, to notice where your themes echo, and to remember the courage that has been sitting inside you all along, waiting for you to claim it. In this episode, you'll discover: The cultural roots and family story that shaped Kavita, and why your own history holds essential clues for navigating change today How the values that built your life in your twenties and thirties may no longer be the values calling you now, and what that signals about your next chapter The one reflection question to sit with this week that can shift how you see your story and your capacity to move through this life transition Press play to remember the bravery already written into your story, and to begin recognizing the version of it that is asking to lead you into what's next. Ask Me Anything: If there is a question burning in you about Kavita’s journey, your journey, or anything in between, send her an email at Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.com. She will be answering your questions in the episodes ahead.. If something in this episode is stirring in you and you are ready to explore what your next chapter could look like, book a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita or take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see where you are right now and what is calling you forward. _________________________ Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence. Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com New episodes every Monday and Thursday. This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.
#307: How to Tell the Difference Between Your Inner Critic and Your Inner Wisdom in a Midlife Career or Life Transition
What if the voice that has been telling you you are not ready, not qualified, or not allowed to want something different is not your wisdom at all, but the part of you that has the most to lose if you actually move forward? In midlife, when so much of who you were is quietly reorganizing, the voice in your head tends to get louder. The more you move toward something new, the more that voice works to keep you where you are. The hard part is that your inner critic and your inner wisdom can sound surprisingly alike from the inside. Until you can tell them apart, you will keep mistaking old stories for real warnings and missing the steady voice that actually knows what you want. In this episode, you'll discover: The one word that instantly tells you whether you are listening to your inner critic or your inner wisdom in any career or life transition Why your body knows the difference before your mind does, and the simple signal it gives you when the critic has taken over The reason your inner critic always sounds so familiar, and how that familiarity is actually the key to seeing through it Press play to learn a small experiment you can try this week to start trusting your own wisdom in real time, beginning with the low-stakes moments and building toward the bigger decisions ahead of you. If this episode lands for you, download the free 28-Day Confidence Guide for daily practices and short video lessons to help you trust your own voice one day at a time. _________________________ Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence. Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com New episodes every Monday and Thursday. This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.
