Dr. Angela Mulrooney on identity loss, forced retirement, burnout, personal branding, and rebuilding relevance after a career-ending diagnosis.

When your career disappears, your ego panics. Your identity is what needs rebuilding.

Dr. Angela Mulrooney was in the middle of surgery when her hands stopped working. Soon after, she was told not to touch another patient. Six months later, the diagnosis arrived — and the dental career she had built since childhood was over.

For high-performing women over 50, this conversation hits a nerve many quietly carry:

Who am I if I can no longer do the thing that made me successful?

In this episode of Aging with Purpose and Passion, Angela shares the emotional crash of losing her professional identity, the financial fear that followed, and the painful reality of rebuilding after forced career change, burnout, and health crisis.

But this is not a story about giving up.

It’s about reinvention.

We talk about:

• career transition after 50
• identity loss and reinvention
• burnout and health wake-up calls
• forced retirement and starting over
• LinkedIn visibility and personal branding
• turning expertise into intellectual property and influence
• and why experienced women must stop shrinking in a culture obsessed with youth

Angela also shares how losing her career unexpectedly opened the door to a completely new chapter built around freedom, visibility, impact, and authority.

If you’re navigating a layoff, illness, menopause transition, empty nest, divorce, or the quiet fear that your best years may be behind you — this episode will make you feel seen.

🎧 Press play, take notes, and choose one next step.

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Resources:

For similar episodes on rebuilding your life after 50, check out episode 175, The Retirement Puzzle, and Episode 178, When Life Breaks You Open on Aging with Purpose and Passion. And if you like podcasts for older women, Women Over 70 is a powerful force. Their compelling stories shatter the myth that we become irrelevant as we age. That's www.womenover70.com.

Dr. Angela Mulrooney – Founder of Unleashing Influence & Reinvention Expert

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A late-life divorce, a kitchen-floor breakdown, and the question that changed everything: “Are you happy?

In this episode of Aging with Purpose and Passion, psychotherapist and coach Beverley Glazer sits down with Dr. Dravon James, transformation specialist, founder of the Next Step Leadership Academy, and creator of the Everyday Peace Philosophy, to talk about starting over after 50, divorce recovery, self-worth, and finding peace when life falls apart.

Dr. Dravon shares how growing up in poverty on Chicago’s South Side built resilience, why keeping appearances can cost women their truth, and what it takes to rebuild after more than 25 years of marriage ends.

For high-performing women over 50 navigating divorce, career change, midlife reinvention, parenting pressure, or the fear that their best years are behind them, this conversation is a reminder: starting over is not failure. It is courage.

Please subscribe, share this episode, and leave a review to help more women move from stuck to unstoppable.

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For similar episodes on peace and freedom, check out Recovery from PTSD, that's episode 121. And from Healing from Betrayal, episode 177 of Aging with Purpose and Passion. And if you love stories of unapologetic older women, check out www.Reinvention Rebels.com

Dr. Dravon James – Transformation Specialist, Founder of Next Step Leadership Academy & Creator of Everyday Peace Philosophy

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Your next chapter after 50 may begin with the words you stop using.

In this episode of Aging with Purpose and Passion, Beverly Glazer speaks with Vera Milan Gervais, speaker, best-selling author, and entrepreneur, about self-talk, labels, and identity ceilings shape confidence, identity, and reinvention for women over 50 and far beyond.

Vera shares the story behind Words We Wear, shaped by childhood surgeries, a teenage marriage, life-altering car accidents, and the courage to rebuild. Together, we explore confidence after 50, self-talk, identity, reinvention, and how language influences the way high-performing women show up in work, relationships, and life transitions.

You’ll learn how to drop diminishing labels, stop minimizing your wins, and introduce yourself with more self-trust.

Please subscribe, share this episode, and leave a review to help more women rewrite their story.

Resources:

For similar episodes on changing your story, check out Sex, Money and Power - episode 171. And Midlife Reinvention # 174 on Aging With Purpose and Passion. And if you like stories of unapologetic women who have boldly reimagined life on their own terms, check out Reinvention Rebels Reinventionrebels.com.

Vera Milan Gervais – Speaker, Author & Success Mentor
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Beverley Glazer, MA – Reinvention Strategist, Mentor & Host
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Sometimes the moment that breaks your life open is the moment that brings you back to yourself.

In this powerful episode of Aging with Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer speaks with Frankie Picasso, international socialpreneur, broadcaster, author, artist, and co-founder of G Woman Media, about the motorcycle accident that changed her life overnight.

Frankie shares how she rebuilt through critical care, career loss, divorce, legal decisions, invisible pain, and the pressure to stay strong for her children. Together, we explore reinvention after 50, resilience, recovery, purpose, and what it means for women over 50 to start again after life falls apart.

For high-performing women navigating midlife transition, burnout, divorce, identity shifts, or starting over, this conversation offers real hope and hard-earned wisdom.

Subscribe, share this episode, and leave a review to help more women find these stories.

Resources:

For similar episodes on rebuilding your life, check out Episode 165, When Hollywood Says You're Done. And 170, Business Burnout, and Career Reinvention on Aging with Purpose and Passion. And if you love stories of unapologetic older women, check out Reinvention Rebels - rebels.com

Frankie Picasso – SocialPreneur, Broadcaster & Change Leader
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Your life can look “fine” on paper while your body is quietly preparing a hard stop.

I’m joined by Farla Efros—seasoned retail executive, speaker, and author of Fck Cancer*—to unpack the reality of an aggressive breast cancer diagnosis hitting in the midst of high-stakes leadership and profound family loss.

In this episode, we move beyond the "pink ribbon" narrative to discuss the visceral whiplash of a positive diagnosis after a clear mammogram. Farla opens up about the grueling reality of undergoing chemotherapy while navigating extreme caregiver stress for parents facing stroke and brain cancer. We explore what grief and cancer actually look like when you are still expected to function at a high level.

We break down the "Self-Sovereign Patient" framework, focusing on:

• Patient Advocacy: Why you must refuse to be a passive participant in your own care.
• Cancer Treatment Plan: How to prepare for oncology meetings with data and "spiky" questions.
• Cancer Survival Tips: Why pushing for mid-treatment scans can restore your sense of agency.
• The "Executive Board": How to recruit a support team—from medical experts to "truth-tellers"—to speak for you when you’re exhausted.

Stick around for the final minutes where I provide the distilled, operational actions you can take to move from "patient" to "advocate" and reclaim your sovereignty in the face of a crisis.

Subscribe, leave a review, and tell us: What is the one question you want to feel brave enough to ask your medical team next?

Resources: For simpler episodes on healing, listen to Reclaim Your Health, episode 141, and Meeting the 5% Odds of Cancer, episode 164 on Aging with Purpose and Passion. And if you have stories of unapologetic women who have boldly reimagined life on their own terms, check out www.reinventionrebels.com

Farla Efros – Author, Speaker & Retail Executive
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Why does stability feel so scary? Strategist Beverley Glazer and Dr. Melanie Sue Hicks deconstruct betrayal trauma, grief, and the ' Everest' of midlife.

Some of the strongest women are the ones quietly carrying the most pain and still showing up. I’m Beverley Glazer, and in this episode, I talk to Dr. Melanie Sue Hicks—workforce expert and author—for a conversation that is different. We aren't just talking about "resilience" (a word that’s been overused into meaningless). It's about the mechanics of survival when your life takes a detour that blindsided you.

Melanie pulls back the curtain on how domestic violence defies every stereotype and why "peace" can feel terrifying when your nervous system has been conditioned for chaos. We dive into the grief of an emergency hysterectomy, the shame of repeated patterns, and the courage it takes to recraft your career after a public divorce.

What we’re unmuting today:

• The Stability Trap: Why we subconsciously sabotage peace and how to reset your nervous system.
• Betrayal Recovery: Practical strategies for reclaiming self-worth when you feel "behind" or childless.
• Human-Centered Leadership: How to turn your trauma into a high-impact, empathetic professional lens.
• The Everest Within: Using Melanie’s memoir, Incongruent, as a blueprint for midlife reflection.
• The "Recraft": Rebuilding your work and identity when the "book tour" of your life destroys you.

If you’re done with "surviving" this conversation offers the honest language and grounded strategy you need to move forward.

Resources: For similar episodes on trauma and healing, - Lifestyle Change at 50 # 174. And Resilience and Renewal # 149 And if you love stories of unapologetic older women - Reinvention Rebels. www.reinventionrebels.com.

Dr. Melanie Sue Hicks – Author, Speaker & Leadership Expert
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What happens when your life looks 'perfect' but you're fighting PTSD? Kari Wells shares her raw journey of trauma, healing, and midlife reinvention.

Your life can look "fine" to everyone else while you’re quietly fighting to get through the day.

I sit down with Kari Wells, known to millions as a cast member on Bravo’s Married to Medicine, to pull back the curtain on the private reality behind public success. Beyond the cameras, Kari has navigated a grueling path through grief, an eating disorder, and a violent robbery that left her battling PTSD.

In this deeply personal episode of Aging with Purpose and Passion, we get specific about the mechanics of trauma recovery and the "unmuted" truth about rebuilding your sense of safety.

What we discuss in this episode:

• The Reality of PTSD: Navigating fear in everyday places—from grocery stores to your own home.
• The Victim-to-Agency Shift: Moving from "Why is this happening to me?" to "Why is this happening for me?"
• Healing Tools: The practical power of journaling to reduce re-triggering and the role of a support system.
• The "To-Be" List: Why choosing who you want to be is more important than what you want to do during midlife reinvention.
• The Aspen Legacy: How Kari is using storytelling and her foundation to give back as her children enter adulthood.

If you are searching for resilience tools or a grounded way forward after life has knocked you down, Kari’s story is your blueprint for hope.

Resources:

For similar episodes on healing, check out episode number 147, Finding Your Voice After Trauma, and 154, Reinvention and Healing Through Music. And if love stories of unapologetic women, 50-90 years young, who have boldly reimagined life on their own terms, check out ReinventionRebels.com

Kari Wells – Author, TV Personality & Entrepreneur
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Beverley Glazer, MA – Transition Coach, Reinvention Strategist & Host
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Is your 'biological clock' a lie? Dr. Dorian Mintzer became a first-time mom at 50 and is reinventing work at 80. Learn how to survive memory loss in marriage and reclaim your 'Bonus Years'.

Who told you the window for 'new' was closed? Most women over 50 are playing it safe, waiting for a permission slip that’s never coming. Dr. Dorian (Dori) Mintzer is the woman who burned the script.

After a near-death accident at 20 changed her DNA for risk-taking, Dori navigated a high-stakes divorce and infertility to become a mother through surrogacy at age 50. Now, at 80, she is a world-renowned retirement expert facing her own "Couple's Puzzle": navigating her husband's memory decline while staying professionally relevant.

The "Why You Must Listen" List:

• The 50-Year-Old Pivot: Why Dori chose surrogacy when the world said "it’s too late."
• The Retirement Crisis: Why most "planning" fails because it ignores the psychological transition.
• Caregiving & Identity: How to stay grounded in your own purpose while a partner’s memory fades.
• The 80-Year-Old Frontier: Why your "Bonus Years" are for growth, not shrinking.

Stop asking if it's too late. Start asking what's next.

Resources:

For a similar episode on reinventing retirement, check out The Leisure Trap episode 167 of Aging with Purpose and Passion. And if you're over 50 and love to travel, the Ageless Traveler is your number one resource for lifelong travel.

Dorian (Dori) Mintzer – Retirement & Reinvention Expert
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