Midlife Schmidlife

Going After Your Own Happiness with Jane Porter

My guest in this episode of Midlife Schmidlife is New York Times and USA Today's best-selling author, Jane Porter. She's written over 70 romances and women's fiction novels has had 3 of her books turned into Movies of the Week, started a publishing company at forty-in to give writers more opportunities, and now at 58 works placing Tule Publishing stories with film producers. In our conversation, some highlights we spoke about: Jane shares her journey of becoming a writer, including the m...

Feeling Capable & Worthy Through Solo Travel with Yolanda DeLoach

I feel quite jealous whenever I hear tales of women striking out on their own and having incredible solo travel adventures. I wonder who I would be without the thoughts of not being courageous enough or hurting someone else's feelings for a desire to travel alone.  Today's guest encourages other women to embark on their solo travel journeys. Yolanda DeLoach finds empowerment and peace in solo travel, camping, and hiking. Her schedule as a hospice/palliative care nurse enables her to have l...

Finding Peace & Power in our Bodies with Cheryl Whitelaw

Ready to reclaim the meaning of fitness in midlife?   Let me intorduce you to Cheryl Whitelaw a Move More Without Regrets coach, teacher, and CEO of Peace and Power Movement Services. She supports her clients to learn through their movement through body-based coaching, Mindful Movement classes, and hands-on work to support the functional activity. Her clients share a desire to live with vitality, keep going as they age, and often recover from life-changing conditions like MS, Fibromya...

Being Phenomenal with Kim Romain

We are continuing with the series “Reclaiming Midlife.” This episode’s question before we join today’s conversation…how would your life be different if you accepted and celebrated all of who you are?  Think about that for a minute.  All the “flaws” you feel you have and are magnified in how you see yourself. While all of your gifts are downplayed. All the areas where you have been successful or are proud of that you brush away. Everything you’ve gone through that has led you to where you...

Brave, Bold, and Badass with Grace Howes

We are kicking off a new series, "Reclaiming Midlife." The concept was inspired by a meme I saw on Facebook - It's of the Golden Girls side by side with the characters of the Sex in the City reboot, And Just Like That. The meme lets us know that both shows' characters are the same age. Head to the show notes to see the meme. My mind started swirling around when I saw this. First, there was disbelief. Then, there was shock and horror. Then, finally, there was an acceptance that we've come a...

Preseason Reclaiming Midlife

I'm blaming it on my midlife brain, but I forgot that I promised myself a 1-week break between seasons!  So I'm holding to the boundary I promised myself, and I hope you'll do the same. Remember, it's okay to change your mind. It's okay to say no, and it's more than okay to hold a boundary.  Join me next week, April 19, 2022, for the new season, Reclaiming Midlife, with my guest Grace Howes. 

Living by Trial & Error with Kerstin Martin

Today’s conversation is with my guest Kerstin Martin, a leading SquareSpace Expert and Calm Business Educator who helps entrepreneurs simplify their business tech with the all-in-one SquareSpace platform. Kerstin also publishes the popular Eule Planner®, an analog business planner specifically designed for digital entrepreneurs. As an HSP and empath Kerstin’s approach to teaching and running an online business is calm and gentle, with a focus on delivering high quality content, service and...

Learning New Things with Diane Diaz

When was the last time you learned something new?  Something for the very first time? Like taking a class learning a new skill or hobby. Something that takes you out of your comfort zone and puts you back in the beginner's mindset. I have a theory that our confidence plummets when we quit actively learning. And this week's guest, Diane Diaz, feels the same.  Diane is a speaking coach and personal brand strategist. She loves working with women to help them find their unique voice and buil...

Following Your Intuition with Marianne de Kleer

Hey Schmidlifers. I have a question for you: when was the last time you listened to your Inner Wise Woman, aka your Inner Knowing, in other words, your intuition?   She is the one who whispers to take a new route home, and you later find out there was a bad car accident on your usual route. Or she whispers that a particular person gives you the creeps, so you steer clear. She is also gut-feeling when a new opportunity feels right (even if it's a bit scary). If we listen hard enough, w...

Making it Happen with Valerie Albarda

This week's podcast guest is Valerie Albarta. Valerie is an author, a blogger and podcaster at Midlife-a-Go-Go, a speaker, a TedX Charlotte presenter, and is working on another novel. She is a kick-ass woman. Despite her diagnosis in 2020, Valerie continues to show up and inspire us to do the same. A little over a year ago, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at age 57. "It's been a difficult journey filled with unexpected dips and turns, but I continue to navigate life as best as I ...

Figuring it out with Moira Cleary

We are diving into our series, "How they got started." In this week's conversation with me, Moira Cleary shares how being inquisitive opened one possibility after another. From Googling what she loves to do and learning about coaching, to seeing a need she wanted and creating it. Moira Cleary is a professional life coach and mindfulness practitioner as well as a big geek when it comes to online technology. She created Surviving the Waiting Room and coaches moms of kids with chronic illness...

Getting over yourself with Clarissa Casitillo-Ramsey

Hey Scmidlifers! We are kicking off 2022 with the series "How they got started." I love hearing about a person's journey - where they began with the twists and turns that led them to where they are now. But, here's a hint - where we all end up isn't always where we had planned. And thank goodness for that! I mean, I would have never thought I'd be a podcaster! My first guest of the series is Clarissa Castillo-Ramsey, a multi-passion entrepreneur: abstract artist, leadership & life coach,...

New Midlife Schmidlife season launches January 12, 2022

The Midlife Schmidlife podcast returns on January 12, 2022! Join in and listen to the new series, How They Got Started. Liz Applegate interviews guests and learns about their journeys: the ups and downs, lessons learned leading them to where they are now. Be inspired to take your first step, continue along your journey while being open to possibilities.

What You Need to Know About Your Job Search with Staci Witten

These are some crazy-ass times, y'all. I'm excited to have this conversation on this episode because even though mostly I speak to and talk to women entrepreneurs. But I know that many of you are working and building a business on the side or are not interested in being in business for themselves. So today's topic is making the most of your job search. My guest, Staci Witten, is a career and leadership coach, and we have been friends for over 20 years - what?!? 20 years? It's hard to bel...

What You Need to Nnow About Your Job Search with Staci Witten

These are some crazy-ass times, y'all. I'm excited to have this conversation on this episode because even though mostly I speak to and talk to women entrepreneurs. But I know that many of you are working and building a business on the side or are not interested in being in business for themselves. So today's topic is making the most of your job search. My guest, Staci Witten, is a career and leadership coach, and we have been friends for over 20 years - what?!? 20 years? It's hard to bel...

Speaking Up and Giving Yourself Permission with Nariah Broadus

When I started this series that I’m calling “Now More than Ever” the global pandemic of the Corona Virus was the backdrop. And now on June 4, 2020 when I am publishing this recording, we still have the pandemic and now in the US, we also have a lot of hurt and anger from displays of racism and social injustice with the murder of George Floyd. As a white woman, I am very aware that I have work I need to do against systemic racism and my own color blindness. I have taken to educating mysel...

What You Need to Know About Choosing Joy with Paula Jenkins

Today, I’m welcoming a returning guest, Paula Jenkins. Paula is the host of of the podcast Jump Start Your Joy, a podcast producer, consultant and mentor who helps others start their own podcasts. She hosts workshops and classes that will help you get the idea that you have for a show and get it launched. And, I want to add that she is also a coach and can help you with the emotional things that most others who have podcast classes do - like being vulnerable and putting your voice out there...

What to Know About Health and Wellness with Valerie Tookes

My guest in this episode of the podcast is Valerie Tookes. Valerie is a health and wellness coach and is my personal health & wellness coach plus an amazing friend of mine. She has helping me shift from measuring my worth from the #'s on the scale to learning to love my body. I wanted to have this conversation becasue of the many memes and jokes about gaining the “Quarantine 15” and non-stop happy hours. And I get it (and hey, have been there!) but I wanted to invite Valerie into having...

Processessing Your Emotions Through Writing - Even If You Aren't A Writer

Join me on this episode with my guest Deb Cooperman - workshop leader, coach while we talk about processing our emotions through writing - even if you aren't a writer! During this roller coaster of a ride through this global pandemic, many of us are experiencing a wide range of emotions - stress, anxiety, anger, fear, sadness and even guilt. Often these emotions can be all in one day and sometimes they can seem overwhelming. Mental health professionals are recognizing how this time will h...

What You need to Know About Connection with Lara Heacock and Jo Casey

Hey, hey, hey! This is episode #2 of the series that I’m that I’m running over at the Midlife Schmidlife podcast called “Now More Than Ever” where I’m holding Facebook Lives on topics that I feel are important during this time of shelter in place and in turn turning them into a podcast. This week, I’m introducing you to two of my favorite humans - Lara Heacock and Jo Casey. We are in a business mastermind together and have been meeting for over two years. But this conversation isn’t just ...

What You Need to Know About Boundaires

It’s been quiet here on the Midlife Schmidlife podcast but as I’m putting together this episode it's April 16, 2020 and we are in the midst of the Coronavirus Pandemic. Most of the world is in “shelter in place” mode and that has brought up new ways to have to manage our daily activities. Like a big spotlight, this pandemic is showing us what’s important, how we show and our loved ones show up under stress and places that need a little “tweaking.” Because I firmly believe that what is show...

No Regrets with Mollie Macarthy-Openshaw of Mood Swing Wines

Mollie Macarthy-Openshaw is an inspiration. After a conversation with a friend who was grieving getting older, Mollie realized she wanted to help women embrace life at any age. Her answer? Create Mood Swing Wines. The journey of Mood Swing Wines has been about poking fun at menopause through delightfully tasting wines while providing a platform to inspire and encourage women to embrace this time in their lives. Think Covers Off Chardonnay, Memory Lapse Merlot, and Zin-o-Pause. I've had ...

How tragedy awakened a novel life with Marieke Bosch Larose

Liz Applegate sits down with Marieke Bosch Larose. a Certified Martha Beck Life Coach. She is the founder of Your Novel Life, the coaching practice she founded in 2014. This episode is another segment of "How She Got Started". Marieke's story is one that tragedy showed her her mortality and caused an awakening to help others. She reminds us that time is short and that life is a continuous wake-up call...if we allow it. Show notes and ways to connect with Marieke can be found at: : http:/...

Recognizing Our Connections Through Hard Conversations with Jen Vertanen

Jen Vertanen is a loneliness expert, mentor, speaker, and writer encouraging people to wade through their emotional baggage and stop being so damn lonely. On this episode Liz and Jen share a lot of laughs in their conversation and joke about the experiences of getting older. But they also dive into the need to have hard conversations and what it's like to realize that our parents aren't always who we need them to be. Show notes can be found at: http://midlifeschmidlife.com/episode31/ A...

Celebrating Life and Active Aging with Kyle Case and Marianne Hamilton of the Huntsman World Senior Games

In this episode, I have the pleasure of having two guests and we dish on active aging and the Huntsman World Senior Games.   Kyle M Case is the CEO of the Huntsman World Senior Games. He has manged sporting events for over 15 years and loves the life-changing impact that these events have on individuals. He is married to his best friend, Mindy, and the couple have two amazing children, McKinley and Christian, who bring them joy. Kyle is very active in his church and community and he love...

From Pharmacist to Gut-Healing Coach with Inna Lukyanovsky

Inna Lukyanovsky is a doctor of pharmacy, a functional medicine practitioner, a best-selling author, a gut-healing coach, a mom of three sons and someone who once, suffered the symptoms of Chron's disease. Originally, in the year 2000, she was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. After the birth of her second son the symptoms came back with a vengeance and the new diagnosis was Crohn's disease and the symptoms were so severe they felt completely debilitated. The initial diagnosis of Crohn’...

Reclaiming Confidence with Paula Jenkins & Julie Houghton

Liz Applegate, Paula Jenkins and Julie Houghton have a continued conversation around confidence. As life coaches, they've noticed that in their own lives and in working with clients, a lack self-confidence is something that constantly comes up during times of transition. Confidence just seems to be the bottom layer of so many places where we can get stuck. What’s also special about this episode is it’s actually part 2 of a conversation that we started yesterday over on the Jumpstart Your J...

Intentional Living with Staci Witten

There are so many exciting things coming up to share with you - ways we can work together, ways you can hear more from me - it’s a super exciting time in the life of my business and I am loving how 2018 is just taking off. So much better than 2017 - which just didn't feel like my year at all. How about you? If we look back to the start of the year, are you feeling how you wanted to feel by now, 4 months into the year? I’m hoping that today’s show will be able to help whether you are feel...

Unlearning Our Feminine Conditioning with Jo Casey

In today's episode, meaningful business coach Jo Casey and podcast host Liz Applegate talk a little about what it means to be a woman, what it means to be a woman who is getting older, how society views women and aging and why we need to unlearn our “feminine conditioning" to live a happy and fulfilled life. Jo Casey is a certified coach, speaker, trainer and podcaster.  In addition to being British, slightly nerdy and allergic to the marketing bullsh*t in the personal development industry...

From Burnout to Self-Kindess with Lara Heacock

How many of us view self-care as selfish? And how many of us are suffering from burnout from putting our careers and other relationships before our own self-care? Notice how these questions go hand-in-hand? That’s where my guest Lara Heacock found herself in her mid-30’s and what led to her becoming a life & leadership coach with a focus on kindness. In our conversation, Lara shares her journey as a high-achieving woman and what led to her realization that self-kindness needed to be brou...

Choosing to be Merry & Light with Kim Acedo

Liz Applegate interviews Kim Acedo of Transformation Wellness for Women to share her philosophy on making small shifts in sustained ways to move toward living a long and healthy life even during the holidays. Liz & Kim have an inspiring conversation filled with laughter and a revelation of looking at health through the eyes of loving of our bodies and not in hating it.   You can find links to Kim's Merry & Bright Checklist at http://midlifeschmidlife.com/episode24/

023: Rewriting Your Inner Script with Tracie Nichols

I love when I get recommendations for podcast guests from my friends. I feel they know me enough to know who I will click with and who will be great for the show. So when my friend Lara Heacock of Kind Over Matter introduced today’s guest to me, I knew immediately that Tracie and I would have a wonderful conversation. Tracie Nichols is a nature-loving poet, mother of three adult children, amateur photographer, speaker, facilitator and career and leadership coach. She has an incredibly ecle...

022: Creating Space for Healing with Sherry Trentini

I know you are going to love today’s conversation with Sherry Trentini. Sherry is a mom of two daughters, one who just graduated from high school. she is from Canada and has lived in Europe and Australia. In mid-40’s she finished a Spartan Race but most important, she is a woman who follows her instinct for the better of her family. Sherry helps clients find space with a mixture of Law of Attraction Life Coaching, Feng Shui and Grief Recovery. Not only is she multi-passionate, which I can to...

021: Choosing To Be Happy with Mark Jaffe

Today's episode is an interview with former Walt Disney Records executive and now author, Mark Jaffe. Mark's book, Suitcase of Happyness, shares his life experiences mixed with a a blueprint on how we all can choose to live in happiness. Mark was my first guest for Season 2 of the podcast and I can't think of a better topic for the start of 2017. Show notes can found at http://midlifeschmidlife.com/episode21/

020: Building a Biz You Alone Were Born to Create with Hélène Scott

Liz Applegate interviews Business and Brand Alignment Coach, Hélène Scott who guides multi-passionate, soulful women to help them build a business that they alone were born to create. The conversation with Hélène dives right into the middle and looks at places where new entrepreneurs get stuck and how to avoid FOMO Syndrome (Fear Of Missing Out Syndrome). Hélène also shares her core message of building a business along side your life not in spite of it. This episode is great for wantrep...

019: Talking with Your Doctor About Peri-Menopause with Shirley Weir

Liz Applegate interviews Shirley Weir of Menopause Chicks about positive ways to talk to your doctor about peri-menopause and menopause. Shirley shares steps to take and actual scripts you can use. This is a much-needed interview for women of all ages to bring menopause into the light instead of keeping it hidden in shame. Tune in to learn more on getting the results you are wanting and ways to partner with your healthcare provider.

018: Life Happens with Liz Applegate

017: Redefining Success in Your Life and Career with Staci Witten

016: Is Your Home Going Through a Midlfie Crisis with Rachel Moriarty

Liz Applegate interviews Rachel Moriarty of Rachel Moriarty Interiors. Rachel gives advice on sprucing up your home in budget friendly ways. She gives tips to empty nesters on how to repurose the kid's rooms once they have gone off to college.This is a fun episode that takes the stress out of home decorating to create a space you love.

015: How to Balance Your Hormones Without Losing Your Mind

014: Jump Starting Your Joy

Paula Jenkins, joyful living coach and podcaster of Jump Start Your Joy, joins Liz Applegate for the kickoff of the Midlife Toolbox Series. Paula shares a personal story on joy joy became a "wayfaring" emotion to help her focus and heal. She and Liz discuss the misconceptions of being joyful as well as how choosing joy can often be the bravest choice there is. Paula shares Five Rules for Self-Guidance to help you find your inner balance to find joy.

013: Pure Permission for Rest and Pleasure

012: Finding and Fueling Your Passion on the Side with Vanessa Soto

Vanessa Soto realized that starting her coaching practice in addition to her full-time job created a greater sense of fulfillment throughout her job, life and family. This inspired Vanessa to begin having conversations with others and start The Side Passion Project and the podcast "Doing It On The Side" which launches September 2016. Liz Applegate interviews Vanessa who shares about her side passions and how you too, can discover yours.

011: Making Bigger, Bolder, More Beautiful Moves with Jana Martin

Jana Martin was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer at age 42. Through her journey of a double mastectomy and chemo, Jana realized a dream of providing a space for other women going through the same. Jana is on the mission now to start The Pink Ribbon House in Costa Rica, a country she fell in love with. In this interview with Midlife Schmidlife host Liz Applegate and Jana have a candid discussion about taking full advantage of every situation that comes your way and living with no ...

010 Giving Yourself Permission with Maria Allyn

Transformative life coach, Liz Applegate, interviews fellow mid-life coach Maria Allyn. Maria shares her journey through depression and anxiety in her 30’s which led to frank discussion about society’s obsession with self-medicating by two women who love a good glass of wine. Maria offers her advice on finding joy as well as her own steps on giving herself (and you) permission to go after those maybe someday dreams.

009: Cracking Open the Conversation on Menopause with Shirley Weir

Host Liz Applegate interviews the founder of MenopauseChicks.com, Shirley Weir. Shirley is passionate about having real and informative discussions about perimenopause and menopause. This interview not only shares her inspiration in starting Menopause Chicks but also valuable advice to building a healthcare team.

008: Getting Out of a Rut and Claiming Your Identity with Mary Kathryn Johnson

Host Liz Applegate interviews Mary Katherine Johnson of ParentEntrepreneurSuccess.com. Mary shares her journey from being eight months pregnant and breaking both legs and how it was the wake-up call to start her own business at age 40. Many topics are discussed including self-care, holding tightly to our identities as moms and how dangerous that can be for our children and ourselves. Mary Katherine is passionate about making changes and not staying in a rut; you will hear some powerful words...

007: Being Brave and Learning New Things with Cathy Lawdanski

Host Liz Applegate interviews Cathy Lawdanski of MySideof50.com. Cathy shares the story of how she lost her parents within 7 months of one another and took time off to heal, connect and take care of herself. This is more than a story of loss; it is also a story of gain, of being brave and learning new things.

006: You Aren't Lazy, Stupid or Too Old. That's Just Fear Talking.

Midlife Schmidlife host Liz Applegate explores how fear may be showing up in your life. Liz is a transformative life coach and shares action steps to learn to embrace fear with a cloak of courage and do the scary things anyway.

005: Living Your Truth with Gretchen McNeely

Liz Applegate interviews Gretchen McNeely, who at age 43 came out as a lesbian. The interview is an open conversation of Gretchen sharing her journey to living her truth.