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The Midlife Reinvention: How to Find Your Ikigai, Deal with Imposter Syndrome & Build Your Confidence in Career & Life Transi
The Midlife Reinvention: How to Find Your Ikigai, Deal with Imposter Syndrome & Build Your Confidence in Career & Life Transi
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 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.
Episodes
#346: How to Know Where to Start When You’re Ready for a Career Change or Life Transition
Do you know something in your life needs to change, but have no idea where to begin?It might be loud, like a layoff, a divorce, or a house that feels too still after the kids have gone. Or it might be so subtle you cannot name the day it started. Either way, the pull is to do something fast, and those changes rarely last. The answers live in the in-between, in a deliberate pause before you act, an
#345: How to Borrow Courage When You Don't Feel Brave Enough for Your Next Step
Have you been circling the same brave step for weeks, maybe years, waiting for a surge of courage that never quite arrives?Most people in a life transition think the problem is that they are not brave enough yet. The truth is kinder, and far more useful. You do not have to generate all of your courage on your own. You can borrow some from the people around you until you have built up enough of you
#344: What to Do When You Can't Tell If You're Burned Out or Ready to Leave Your Career, with Andrea Maizes
Are you exhausted at work and already picturing the day you walk away, without really knowing what you would be walking toward?That one moment, when burnout and being truly ready for something new feel exactly the same, is where many smart, accomplished people make a decision they later wish they had taken more time with. In a midlife career and life transition, the stakes are high. The title, the
#343: How to Rediscover the Gifts You Have Lost Sight Of in Midlife
If someone asked you right now what is truly remarkable about you, what you are genuinely good at, and what lights you up, would you go silent?Most of us would, and not because those things are not there. It is because we stopped looking at them a long time ago, somewhere underneath decades of pouring ourselves into everyone else. In this Thursday check-in, a companion to Monday's conversatio
#342: Why the Belief That You Are Too Old Is Keeping You Stuck in Midlife
Have you started imagining what could be next for you, only to hear a familiar voice say some version of "It is too late for me, I am too old to start now"?If you are in a midlife career and life transition, there is a good chance that one belief, more than any other, is the thing standing between you and the life you actually want. It is one of the most common beliefs people carry into
#341: How to Take Time for Yourself Without the Guilt in Midlife Career and Life Transitions
Have you spent so many years pouring yourself into everyone else that you are no longer quite sure who you are underneath all the roles you carry?Somewhere along the way, most of us slid to the very bottom of our own lists, and the well we were giving from slowly ran dry. And when the idea of taking real time for yourself finally comes up, the first thing that arrives is guilt. In this Thursday ch
#340: What If Perfectionism Is the Real Reason You Feel Stuck in Midlife? with Monica Packer
Have you ever wondered if the reason you feel stuck in your midlife transition has nothing to do with a lack of discipline, and everything to do with a hidden form of perfectionism you didn't even know you had?Most of us think of perfectionism as the overachieving, driven, never-good-enough version. But there is another side of it that almost no one recognizes in themselves, the giving up, th
#339: How to Reconnect With What You Actually Want in a Midlife Transition
Have you tried to picture what you actually want your life to look like, and found that the dream would not fully come into focus, or that you felt a little silly even trying?Somewhere along the way, most of us stopped letting ourselves dream at all. We were told to be realistic, and slowly, without ever quite deciding to, we traded the big open dreaming for practical planning, and started asking
#338: The Real Reason the Money Fear Keeps You Stuck in a Midlife Transition
Have you convinced yourself that the work you truly want to do is a luxury you simply cannot afford right now?For so many accomplished women in a midlife transition, the money fear arrives in almost the same breath as the dream itself. You know the work you are doing no longer fits, and you want something that means more, and then reality steps in with the mortgage, the bills, the people who depen
#337: Why Your Future Self Already Knows Your Next Steps in a Midlife Transition
Have you finally admitted to yourself what you want next, and immediately found that a wall of fear and doubt stands between you and actually reaching for it?On Monday, in episode 336, Kristy Halvorsen left us with one question that silenced every fear long enough for us to see what we actually want. This Thursday check-in picks up right there. Once you can see the life you want, the work becomes
#336: How to Follow the Tickles of Your Soul and Trust Your Intuition in Midlife Transitions, with Kristy Halvorsen
Is there a steady pull inside you toward something different, something you keep talking yourself out of because it makes no sense on paper?For so many women in a midlife transition, the hardest part is not the lack of a plan. It's learning to trust the inner knowing that keeps calling to you underneath the noise, the responsibilities, and the voices of everyone else. In this conversation, Ka
#335: Why Your Inner Critic Gets Loudest the Moment You Are Ready for a Transition
Is there a voice in your head that keeps telling you you're not qualified, not ready, or not the kind of woman who gets to want something more?That voice has a name. In coaching, it's called the gremlin, and you probably know it better as your inner critic. It was built a long time ago to keep you safe, and it has been doing its job by keeping you small ever since. In this Thursday check
#334: What to Do When Your Career No Longer Fits in a Midlife Transition
Have you built a career that looks successful from the outside, and still carry an honest knowing on the inside that it no longer fits the woman you have become?Nothing may be obviously wrong. The title is still there, the paycheck is still there, and everyone around you assumes you should be grateful. But the person who chose this path 20 or 30 years ago is not you anymore. Your values have shift
#333: What to Do When Your Life Looks Fine but Something Feels Off in a Midlife Transition
Have you been carrying around a low, humming sense that something in your life is off, but you cannot quite point to where?On paper, much of your life looks fine. And yet underneath your days there is a low feeling of being out of balance, of moving from a good stretch to a hard one and back again without ever knowing why. Because you cannot name it, you cannot do anything about it, so you tell yo
#332: How to Use the September Reset to Reconnect With Your Purpose in Midlife
Have you found yourself standing at the turn of the season, wondering if this is really the life you meant to be living?For most of your life, September was a reset that belonged to everyone else. This year, with the house stiller and the old work no longer lighting you up, that familiar thrill may be replaced by a sinking feeling. That ache is not a flaw. It is a signal pointing to the gap betwee
#331: How to Use Your Energy as a Guide to Alignment in Midlife Transitions
Have you spent so many years pushing through, being grateful, and not making a fuss that you have lost track of which parts of your day are actually fueling you and which are wearing you down?For most women in a midlife career and life transition, the mind can talk you into or out of almost anything. But your energy tells the truth. The parts of your life that are aligned with who you truly are w
#330: The Real Reason Some People Seem to Have It All in a Midlife Transition.
Have you ever looked at someone who seems to have it all and wondered why life feels so much easier for them than it does for you?It is easy to assume they were born lucky, born special, or given something the rest of us were not. What is actually happening is far more available to you than it looks. In this episode, Kavita shares why alignment with who you are and what you truly want is the one t
#329: The One Question That Turns a Hard Feeling Into Clarity in a Midlife Transition
Have you been naming the loudest feeling of your day and moving on, without ever stopping to ask what is really going on underneath it?For most women navigating a midlife career and life transition, the anger, the stress, the flatness you cannot quite explain are not the whole story. They are the tip of the iceberg. The truer feeling, the one that is actually asking to be heard, is sitting quietly
#328: What Your Emotions Are Trying to Tell You in a Midlife Career and Life Transition, with Dr. Lorea Martinez
Have you been doing work you once loved, in a life you actually chose, and still find yourself waking up depleted and quietly unsure of who you are anymore?That feeling is not a character flaw, and it is not proof that you built the wrong life. It is a signal, and like most of the feelings we move through in midlife, it is almost always sitting on top of something quieter and truer that we have no
#327: How to Stop Living for Everyone Else's Approval in Midlife Transitions
Have you spent most of your life proving yourself to everyone else, and are only now beginning to wonder what it would feel like to do it for you?For decades, so much of what you chased was pointed outward, at parents, employers, families, and a whole world that seemed to be keeping score. That proving built a real life and real skills, and none of it was wasted. But in midlife, something quiet be
#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 st
#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. Ev
#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
#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 v
#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 wi
#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
#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 dar
#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
#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
#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
#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 f
#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
#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.
#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
#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
#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 you
#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
#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 tel
#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
#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 t
#306: What to Do When the Identity That Got You Here No Longer Fits in a Career or Life Transition, with Kathleen Perry
What if the identity that has defined you for decades - the career, the titles, the roles you have spent a lifetime building - is not actually who you are?For so many women navigating a career or life transition, the most disorienting part is not the change itself. It is the quiet, unsettling realization that when the role falls away, you are not sure who is left. This conversation with Dr. Kathle
#305: The One Ikigai Question to Ask Yourself in Every Career or Life Transition
What if the questions you have been asking about your career or life transition are the very reason the answers keep slipping away from you?Most women in midlife spend years asking what they want, what is missing, and what is wrong with them. Those questions feel productive. They feel like the right place to start. But they have a hidden cost - they keep you looking inward at what you lack, and th
#304: 3 Ikigai Lessons From My Own Midlife Transition (And My Son's Wedding)
Three Ikigai lessons. One unexpected midlife transition. And a son's wedding in Cartagena that taught Kavita more about purpose, identity, and reinvention than any framework ever has.Most of us in midlife are exhausted because we're asking the wrong question. We're asking what do I want, what's missing from my life, what's wrong with me. And the more we ask, the deeper int
#303: 3 Shifts to Move from Burnout to Clarity in a Career or Life Transition
Have you built a successful career, cared for everyone around you, and checked every box - and still find yourself running on fumes?That exhaustion is not a sign that something is wrong with you. For so many accomplished women in a career or life transition, burnout is not the end of the story. It is the signal that something inside is ready to evolve. This episode is a re-release of Episode 248 -
#302: Why Burnout at Midlife Is the Beginning of Your Career Transition Not the End
What if the exhaustion you cannot shake is not a sign that something has gone wrong - but the most honest signal your life has sent you in years?So many accomplished women reach a point in their midlife career or life transition where they have done everything right - the title, the recognition, the security - and still wake up wondering if this is all there is. The fatigue does not lift. The thin
#301: The One Question to Ask Before Any Hard Decision in a Career or Life Transition
What if the reason you keep going in circles on a decision is not that you lack clarity - but that you have not yet stopped long enough to hear the one voice that actually knows?When you are in a career or life transition, the noise gets loud. The voice of fear, the voice of what other people might think, the old stories about who you are allowed to be. And underneath all of it, quieter and steadi
#300: Why Women Lose Their Inner Voice in a Career or Life Transition with Gail Harris
Are you navigating a midlife career or life transition and finding it harder than ever to trust what you actually know?When you have spent years making decisions based on responsibility, logic, and other people's expectations, the quieter voice inside you - the one that knows - can become almost impossible to hear. This episode goes beyond strategy and practical steps. It is about what it act
#299: What the In-Between Phase of a Midlife Career or Life Transition Is Actually Trying to Tell You
What if the phase of your midlife transition that feels the most uncertain and untethered is not a sign that something has gone wrong - but the place where everything important is quietly taking root?Most women navigating a career or life transition want to move through the uncomfortable in-between as quickly as possible. The pressure to decide, to act, to just feel like something is moving again
#298: What Letting Go of a Role That Defines You Can Teach You About Your Own Life Transition
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
#297: 3 Small Shifts to Start Building Real Confidence in a Midlife Career or Life Transition
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.
#296: How Your Ikigai Builds Real Confidence in Midlife Career & Life Transitions
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 i
#295: 3 Ways Your Inner Critic Sounds Like Wisdom and the One Question That Exposes It
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 l
#294: The Inner Critic Disguises That Keeps Women Stuck in Midlife Career and Life Transitions
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
#293: 3 Ways to Find Clarity When Midlife Transitions Have You Feeling Lost
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, an
#292: She Never Left - How to Find Your Way Back to Yourself in Midlife Transitions, with Marie Crews
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 st
#291: 3 Ways Your Ikigai Shifts in a Midlife Career Transition
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 s
#290: How to Redefine Success During Midlife Transitions Using Ikigai
What if the version of success that no longer feels like enough is actually pointing you toward the one that truly fits?Many accomplished women reach a point in midlife career or life transition where the titles, the recognition, and the milestones they worked so hard for stop feeling like enough. This is not a sign that something is wrong. It is a sign that something important is ready to shift.
#289: How to Find Clarity in the In-Between Phase of a Career Transition
What if the uncertainty you're feeling in your career transition is not a sign that you're lost, but a sign that you're paying attention?The in-between phase of a career or life transition is one of the most disorienting places to be. Your old identity no longer fits the way it used to, and your next chapter is not fully clear yet. But there is real meaning in this phase - and when
#288: The Hidden Costs of Staying Stuck in a Career That No Longer Fits and What to Do Instead
What if feeling stuck in your career is not a sign that something is wrong with you, but a sign that something important in you is ready to be heard?So many accomplished women in career and life transitions are not stuck because they are lazy or unclear. They are stuck because they have been trying to solve a deeper misalignment with logic alone. This episode offers a more honest and grounding per
#287: 5 Practical Shifts to Reclaim Yourself During Midlife Transitions
Are you in midlife and sensing that the life you’ve been holding together no longer fits the woman you’re becoming?This mini episode speaks directly to women navigating midlife changes in career, identity, relationships, health, or purpose who feel stretched, depleted, or unsure of what comes next. Instead of pressuring you to reinvent yourself through a dramatic overhaul, it offers a more honest
#286: How to Navigate Midlife Transitions of Menopause, Grief, Divorce, and Career Change - with Angela Burk
What if midlife is not the end of who you were, but the beginning of choosing yourself again?When life feels unfamiliar because of menopause, grief, divorce, career change, or shifting family roles, it is easy to wonder who you are now. This episode speaks directly to women in transition who are ready to stop shrinking, release old expectations, and move forward with more honesty, self-compassion,
#285: 3 Things Women in Transition Need to Rebuild Confidence and Move Forward
What if the clarity you are searching for in this season of transition does not come from doing more, but from finally giving yourself what you truly need?If you’re navigating a life or career transition, it’s easy to rush into the next decision, ignore what feels off, and carry the weight of uncertainty on your own. This episode speaks directly to that experience and shows how giving yourself tim
#284: Why International Women’s Day Matters in Career and Life Transitions
What does International Women’s Day have to do with career transitions, life transitions, reinvention, purpose, and confidence?If you’ve been moving through a career or life transition and quietly wondering what’s next, this episode will speak directly to your heart. In this deeply personal International Women’s Day reflection, Kavita Ahuja shares why this day matters so much to her, what five ye
#283: Why Imposter Syndrome Gets Louder After You Gain Clarity in a Career or Life Transition
Have you ever noticed that imposter syndrome sometimes gets louder right after you gain clarity about a career or life change?Many women expect imposter syndrome to show up at the beginning of a life or career transition - but it often appears right after clarity arrives. The moment you admit you want something different, your mind may rush in with doubts, questions, and fears about leaving what f
#282: Imposter Syndrome During Career and Life Transitions and How to Rebuild Confidence
Have you ever reached a moment in your career or life where something shifts - and instead of excitement, you feel self doubt or Imposter Syndrome?If you’re a high-achieving woman standing at a crossroads - facing a layoff, a promotion that feels heavy, a divorce, a health shift, or simply a growing inner restlessness - you may be questioning everything you’ve built. What used to energize you now
#281: The Hidden Cost of Your Inner Critic During Career and Life Transitions
Is your inner critic quietly draining your energy - while convincing you it’s just being practical?If you’re in a career or life transition and feeling a subtle heaviness you can’t quite name, this episode will resonate deeply. From the outside, your life may look stable, successful, even admirable. But internally, you might feel a quiet misalignment - a spark of curiosity or expansion that gets
#280: How Your Inner Critic Keeps You Stuck and How to Reclaim Your Ikigai Instead
What if the voice you trust most - the “logical” one in your head - is actually the very thing keeping you stuck? Discover how your Inner Critic keeps you stuck and how to reclaim your Ikigai instead.If you’ve ever felt a quiet pull toward something more - a career pivot, a creative pursuit, a leadership role, or simply a deeper sense of meaning - only to talk yourself out of it with “reasonable”
#279: 5 Ikigai Shifts You Need For Clarity in Career & Life Transitions
Are you feeling a quiet pull toward something new - but not ready to blow up your life to find it? Learn 5 Ikigai shifts you need for clarity in career & life transitions today. If you’re in midlife and sensing misalignment, you may be torn between staying comfortable and making a dramatic leap. This episode breaks down five practical Ikigai shifts to help you navigate transition intentionally
#278: How to Sustain Purpose for a Lifetime: Ikigai, Flow, and Longevity with Francesc Miralles
What if the real secret to a meaningful next chapter isn’t figuring everything out - but learning how to live with purpose, flow, and sustainability for decades to come?If you’re in a season where what once fit no longer does - career, identity, routines, or even success itself - this episode meets you exactly there. In part two of this deep conversation Kavita Ahuja continues her conversation wit
#277: Ikigai Explained: How Purpose Evolves Through Career and Life Transitions, with Francesc Miralles
What if the quiet dissatisfaction you’ve been feeling isn’t a problem to fix - but a signal pointing you toward your next Ikigai?Many accomplished women reach a point where life looks “successful” on paper, yet something inside feels off. In this powerful re-release, Kavita Ahuja revisits one of the most downloaded conversations on the podcast with Francesc Miralles, co-author of Ikigai: Japan’s S
#276: The Cost of Career Misalignment and the Simple Shift That Brings Clarity
Have you ever thought, “Nothing’s wrong, but something just feels... off”?You’re doing all the right things - showing up, performing, checking off responsibilities - yet something still feels off. If you're navigating midlife and wondering why progress feels heavy or hollow, this episode delivers a gentle but powerful wake-up call. It’s not about burnout. It’s about misalignment.Many high-ach
#275: The Hidden Cause of Unfulfillment: Feeling Stuck in Your Career or Life
Are You Feeling Stuck in your Career or Life - or Is It Something Deeper? Do you ever feel like you're going through the motions - successful on the outside, but silently unfulfilled inside?If you're feeling stuck, drained, uninspired, or like your life no longer fits who you've become, you're not alone. This episode dives into why the quiet ache of unfulfillment isn’t a failur
#274: Why Career and Life Transitions Feel Confusing Before They Feel Clear
Are you feeling confused or stuck in your career or life, even though you're doing everything "right"?This episode dives into why smart, capable women often feel unsettled during transitions - not because they’re broken or lost, but because they’re in a powerful, often misunderstood phase of growth. If you’ve been pushing for clarity and getting nowhere, this conversation offers a
#273: The Three Phases of Career and Life Transitions and Why Clarity Comes First
Are you feeling lost in a major life or career shift - like something’s changed, but you can’t quite name what’s next?Whether it’s an unexpected layoff, menopause, retirement, divorce, or simply a quiet inner voice asking, “Is this still right for me?”, this episode is for you. Most people don’t struggle because they lack motivation - they struggle because they skip the most vital step: rediscover
#272: 3 Truths About Success That No One Talks About in Career Transitions
Are you successful on the outside - but quietly questioning everything on the inside?If your life looks “right” but feels off, you’re not alone - and you’re not broken. This episode is for women who’ve achieved success but feel an internal shift they can’t ignore.Midlife often brings a quiet nudge, asking you to pause and reflect - not push harder. This mini episode reframes that discomfort, offer
#271: The Hidden Costs of Success and How to Reclaim Your Purpose in Career Transitions
Are you feeling misaligned in your career even though everything “looks fine” on the outside?This episode is for the woman who’s questioning what’s next in life or work - even after years of success. If you’re waking up tired, unmotivated, or quietly disengaged, you’re not alone. Discover why this phase of uncertainty isn’t a breakdown - it’s a signal.In this episode you’ll discover:The real reaso
#270: How to Navigate a Midlife Transition with Confidence and Clarity
Are you successful on the outside but secretly wondering, “Is this all there is?”If you’re a woman in midlife navigating career or life transitions, this mini episode speaks directly to that quiet restlessness so many of us feel - even when everything looks fine. It’s not a crisis - it’s a calling.Discover how to start trusting the inner voice that’s been nudging you toward more meaning, fulfillme
#269: Finding Your Hidden Purpose in Midlife Career and Life Transitions, with Sairan Aqrawi
Have you ever felt like something’s missing - despite checking all the boxes of “success”? What if the key to fulfillment was a hidden gem inside you that’s been there all along?So many high-achieving women hit midlife with restlessness, self-doubt, and a quiet knowing: “There must be more.” In this powerful conversation, host Kavita Ahuja and guest Sairan Aqrawi unpack how women in their 40s, 50s
#268: Why Shifting Your Energy Is the Key to Finding Your Ikigai in Career & Life Transitions
Have you ever felt like nothing is wrong in your life - but something just feels off?In this short but powerful episode, Kavita Ahuja explores a common but rarely addressed challenge women face during career & life transitions: the hidden energy drain that clouds clarity and purpose. If you're constantly trying to "figure it out" and feel like you're pushing without progre
#267: Why Reconnecting With Your Ikigai Is Critical In the In-Between Phase of Career & Life Transitions
Have you ever felt that quiet sense of restlessness - like something’s shifting beneath the surface, but you’re not sure what comes next?This episode speaks directly to those navigating the uncertain in-between phase of transitions - a time that often feels disorienting but holds incredible power for transformation. If you're struggling with direction after the holidays or wondering how to re
