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What if the grief you feel alongside the joy of a milestone is not something to push down - but the most honest signal you have about what this season of life is really asking of you?

Many women navigating midlife find themselves caught between two true things at once: profound happiness for someone they love, and a quiet, unnamed sadness they don't quite know what to do with. That combination can feel disorienting, even wrong. But it isn't wrong. It is one of the clearest signs that a real transition is underway - one that deserves to be understood, not suppressed.

This episode is a deeply personal reflection from Kavita Ahuja. It draws on the work of psychologist Susan David, transitions researcher William Bridges, and anthropologist Arnold van Gennep to make sense of what happens when someone you love steps fully into their life - and what that crossing asks of you in return.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• Why feeling grief alongside joy during a life transition is not a contradiction - and what Susan David's research on emotional agility reveals about the cost of pushing difficult feelings aside
• How William Bridges' concept of the "neutral zone" explains the disorienting in-between phase of any career or life transition - and why this uncomfortable space is also where the most important inner work happens
• Two powerful questions that can help you move from sitting with an ending toward genuine clarity about what is waiting to begin in your next chapter

Press play to hear an honest, grounded reflection on letting go, crossing thresholds, and discovering what becomes possible when you stop treating the ending as something to get through and start listening to what it is telling you.

If this episode brought something up for you - a milestone you're sitting with, a role that is shifting, a transition you haven't quite named yet - schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita to begin moving through it with clarity and intention.

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Are you waiting to feel confident before you take the next step in your midlife career or life transition, and wondering why that feeling never quite arrives?

Most women in transition have been taught to treat confidence like a green light - something that has to show up before they are allowed to go. But confidence is not something you find before the step. It is something you build by taking it. This mini episode gives you three very specific, practical shifts you can use to start building real, lasting confidence from the inside out - so your next chapter stops feeling like something you are waiting for and starts feeling like something you are already moving toward.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• Why confidence is not something you find before a career or life transition - it is something you build one small action at a time, and why understanding that difference changes everything
• A simple sentence shift that retrains your brain to look for evidence of what is possible instead of everything standing in your way - using your own strengths, values, and ikigai as the anchor
• How to rehearse the identity of the woman you are becoming before the external circumstances have caught up - and why this is one of the most underrated tools for building real confidence during a midlife life transition

Press play to discover three small, practical shifts that will help you stop waiting and start building the confidence that moves you toward your next chapter - not someday, but now.

If this episode is resonating, download the free 28-Day Confidence Guide to start building confidence from the inside out - one day at a time. And if you are ready to talk through what's next, schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita.

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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.

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Have you done the inner work, gained real clarity about what you want in your midlife career transition, and still can't seem to take the first step?

That gap between knowing and doing is one of the most disorienting places to be - and it has nothing to do with not being ready. For so many accomplished women navigating a career or life transition, the missing piece is not more reflection. It is understanding why confidence works backwards from what most of us were taught. You do not wait for confidence to arrive before you begin. Confidence is built by beginning - one aligned step at a time.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• Why the confidence you've been waiting for in your career transition is not a prerequisite for the next step - and the simple reframe that changes everything about how you move forward
• The three quiet ways women undermine their own confidence without realizing it - through the words they say, the thoughts they think, and the actions they avoid - and how understanding your Ikigai dismantles each one
• A practical, values-based storytelling tool that shifts how you see yourself and how others see you during a life transition - so you stop leading with the gap and start showing the continuity of who you have always been

Press play to discover why you are more ready than you think - and how to close the gap between clarity and action in your midlife career transition, one honest step at a time.

If this episode stirred something in you, download the free 28 Days to Building Confidence Guide for practical, grounding daily practices you can start right now. And if you're ready to talk through where you are and what your next step looks like, schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita.

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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.

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What if the thoughts keeping you stuck in your midlife career or life transition are not doubts at all - but ideas that sound completely wise and responsible?

The inner critic's most powerful trick is not making you feel bad about yourself. It is giving you thoughts that sound mature, measured, and sensible - thoughts you never think to question. For accomplished women navigating a career or life transition, these do not feel like fear. They feel like common sense. And that is exactly what makes them so difficult to catch.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• Why "I should just be grateful for what I have" can quietly silence your desire for something more - and how to tell the difference between genuine gratitude and a thought that is keeping you in a cage with a beautiful name
• How "I'm not ready yet" disguises itself as responsible preparation while keeping you in a loop of researching and planning with no real finish line - no matter how long you have been getting ready
• Why "I'll figure it out on my own" isolates accomplished women far longer than necessary during a midlife life transition - and why navigating career and life transitions is fundamentally different from solving a problem at work

Press play to identify which of these three thoughts has been running your life the longest - and learn the one question that breaks the loop and moves you toward real career clarity.

If this episode is helping you see something you had not quite named before, take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see where you actually are right now - not where your inner critic says you are. Or if you are ready to talk through what comes next, schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita.

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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.

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What if the voice you have been trusting to keep you safe is actually the thing keeping you stuck in your career and life transition?

Most women in midlife expect the inner critic to be loud and harsh. But for accomplished, capable women navigating a career or life transition, it almost never sounds that way. It sounds like common sense. It sounds like practicality, responsibility, and wisdom - and that is exactly what makes it so difficult to see and so hard to challenge. This episode names the specific disguises that inner critic wears, why it is so convincing, and what it is quietly costing you when you listen to it year after year.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• The five disguises the inner critic uses on high-achieving women in midlife transition - including the ones that sound most like wisdom and are the hardest to recognize
• Three research-backed tools from psychologists Ethan Cross and Kristin Neff that create the mental distance you need to stop the inner critic from intercepting every impulse toward change
• Why the shift from feeling stuck to finding career clarity begins not with having all the answers, but with getting genuinely curious about what is true for you underneath all that noise

Press play to find out why the voice you have trusted to be realistic may be the very thing standing between you and your next chapter - and how to finally start telling the difference.

If you want to see where you truly are right now - not where your inner critic says you are - take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to get clear on where you are already fulfilled and where alignment may be missing. And if you are ready to explore what comes next, schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita.

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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.

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Have you ever looked in the mirror during a midlife transition and wondered not just where you went, but how to find your way back?

When career change, perimenopause, divorce, grief, or empty nesting arrive all at once, the sense of not recognizing yourself can feel permanent. But it is not. This mini episode draws on the conversation with grief guide and life coach Marie Crews from Episode 292, and offers three practical, grounding shifts that will help you move from disorientation to self-trust - without waiting until everything feels certain first.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• Why feeling lost in midlife is not the same as being reorganized - and how that reframe alone can restore a sense of direction during a life transition
• A simple question that replaces "I don't know" and opens the door to genuine career clarity and self-knowledge, one honest guess at a time
• A quiet, powerful self-trust practice you can use anywhere to remind yourself that you are still here, still capable, and still becoming

Press play to gain the clarity, self-compassion, and practical tools to find your way back to yourself - and move forward into your next chapter with confidence.

If you are ready to get clearer on what this season of life is asking of you, take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz or schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita to begin moving forward with intention.

You can find Marie Crews here:

www.mariecrews.com
https://www.facebook.com/marieeurecrews
https://www.tiktok.com/@empowermentandgriefguide
https://www.instagram.com/mariecrewsempowers

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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.

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Have you ever sensed that the woman you truly are is still in there, but life has made her harder to hear?

When you are moving through a life transition, whether it arrives through grief, divorce, perimenopause, career change, or years of putting everyone else first, finding your way back to yourself can feel like the hardest part. This episode offers a grounding, hopeful path forward - one that starts not with a dramatic overhaul, but with a single honest question and a willingness to listen.

This conversation with grief guide, life coach, and author Marie Crews draws on her lived experience navigating profound loss, divorce, perimenopause, and reinvention. She shares the practical tools and inner shifts that helped her - and the women she works with - reconnect with who they really are and move forward with clarity and self-trust.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• How journaling opens a doorway to the self-knowledge and career clarity already inside you, even when you feel too lost or uncertain to know where to begin
• Why asking "what else could be true?" is one of the most powerful questions you can use to loosen old stories and create room for a more aligned next chapter
• How the practice of whispering yourself home - a simple, quiet act of self-trust - can carry you through any life transition, one breath at a time

Press play to hear an honest, warm conversation about coming home to yourself - and why the woman you are looking for never actually left.

If you are navigating a life transition and ready to reconnect with who you are becoming, schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita or take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to get clear on what is holding you back and what is waiting on the other side.

You can find Marie Crews here:

www.mariecrews.com

https://www.facebook.com/marieeurecrews

https://www.tiktok.com/@empowermentandgri

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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.

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What if your Ikigai - your reason for being - is not something you find once and hold onto forever, but something that evolves as you do?

You may still be good at what you do. You may still get recognition for it. But the deeper sense of meaning is not there the way it once was - and that can be incredibly confusing when everything still looks fine from the outside. If you have been wondering why something that once made so much sense no longer feels like enough, this episode is for you.

Building on the conversation about redefining success in Episode #290, this mini episode explores three specific ways your Ikigai may be shifting right now and what each one is telling you about your next chapter.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• Why work that still looks good from the outside can stop feeling meaningful from the inside - and why that is not a sign you are lost but a sign you are evolving
• How your strengths may need a different expression in this season of life, and a simple two-list exercise to separate what you are capable of from what is actually aligned
• Why your energy is one of the most practical and honest guides you have during a transition, and a two-minute daily practice to start revealing where your life fits and where it does not

Press play to understand what your shifting Ikigai may be telling you, and how to move through this season of life with more clarity, honesty, and purpose.

If you are sensing that the old version of success no longer fits, take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see where you are already fulfilled, where alignment may be missing, and what this season of life may be asking of you. And if you are ready to talk about what is next, schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita

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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.