Done Playing Small: Real Talk on Fear, Reinvention & What It Means to Be a Woman in Midlife

About this episode

A live panel discussion on the challenges and realities faced by women in midlife, featuring insights from three expert guests.

What does it actually feel like to wake up in midlife and realize the life you built no longer fits who you're becoming? This episode is unlike any other on The Wellthy Healthy Life — it's a live panel conversation recorded at The Wellthy Healthy Life Live, an in-person event bringing together women ready to get real about this season of life. Whether you were in that room or this is your first time hearing about it, this conversation will meet you exactly where you are. Nicole is joined by three powerhouse women — Lauren Chesney Anderson, business strategist, Christina Lecuyer, a confidence coach, and Meg Green, a registered dietitian — for an honest, unfiltered discussion on the things women in their 40s and 50s are navigating right now but don't always say out loud. They get into overcoming self-doubt and fear, listening to your intuition when fear is louder, walking away from success that doesn't feel aligned, the hormonal and emotional shifts of perimenopause and midlife, why women struggle to claim their worth — financially and otherwise, what "having it all" actually looks like, and the power of surrounding yourself with the right women. This is the kind of…

People in this episode

Host: Nicole Johnson

Guests: Lauren Chesney Anderson, Christina Lecuyer, Meg Green

Topics covered

• Women in midlife
• Fear and self-doubt
• Intuition and alignment
• Reinvention
• Perimenopause
• Claiming worth

Keywords

• midlife
• women
• self-doubt
• fear
• perimenopause
• reinvention
• intuition
• worth
• hormonal shifts

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