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The Midlife Reinvention: How to Find Your Ikigai, Deal with Imposter Syndrome & Build Your Confidence in Career & Life Transitions

The Midlife Reinvention: How to Find Your Ikigai, Deal with Imposter Syndrome & Build Your Confidence in Career & Life Transitions

Hosted by Kavita Ahuja, Founder of It's My Time Now Coaching, Inspired By Mel Robbins, Oprah Winfrey, Brene Brown, Deepak Chopra, Vishen Lakhiani, Cathy Heller

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Jun 2026

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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 https://itsmytimenowcoaching.com/ 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. If not now, when? If would like to dive deeper into how Kavita can help you make your vision for yourself a reality, book a complimentary consultation with Kavita here: https://imtncoach.com/bu-pc-bc-ka

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June 15, 2026Episode 31247 min

#312: How to Reinvent Yourself After 50 When Everything You Built Falls Apart, with Deborah Knight

Send us Fan MailHave 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 lived through layoffs, single motherhood at 42, marriage to a partner battling addiction, the loss of her home, and a cancer diagnosis that launched her into surgical menopause. What she shares is not a polished comeback story. It is an honest look at what it actually takes to rebuild, and why the possibility you are looking for is almost always hiding in the in-between.In this episode, you'll discover:Why a life quake is so often not the end of your story, but the beginning of the most honest version of it, and how to find the possibility hiding in the in-betweenHow to let the colorful, fully expressed version of yourself back into the room after years of staying "beige" to fit in, stay safe, or meet everyone else's expectationsWhy you are never starting from scratch in a midlife career and life transition, and how every skill, every hard-won lesson, and every quiet strength becomes the ground you get to rebuild onPress play to hear a conversation that will remind you that you are not too old, you have not missed your window, and the most honest chapter of your life may still be ahead of you.Have a question about your own journey? Ask Me Anything! Send it to me for a future episode: Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.comIf Deborah's story is sitting close to home and you are ready to stop circling and start moving, book a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita for one real conversation about where you are and where you are meant to go, or take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see what is quietly holding you back from your next chapter. About the GuestDeborah Knight is an entrepreneur and strategic communications expert with more than 25 years of experience helping leaders, public figures, and brands shape their voice and tell their stories. She is the author of the forthcoming book Menopause Speaks and serves as a patient advocate and spokesperson for Mount Sinai Hospital's Mature Women's Health Initiative.You can find Deborah here:Website - https://www.dkpr.caInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/menopausespeaks/LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborahknight/_________________________Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with KavitaTake 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 | FacebookVisit itsmytimenowcoaching.comNew 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.

June 11, 2026Episode 31110 min

#311: How Your Buried Passions Reveal Your Ikigai in Midlife Transitions

Send us Fan MailWhat 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 your buried passions are not nostalgia. They are signals, and they hold real information about your purpose and your next chapter.In this episode, you'll discover:Why the things you loved as a girl were never random, and what they reveal about your ikigai todayThe difference between anabolic and catabolic energy, and how reconnecting with a buried passion shifts the energy of your whole weekA simple reflection to begin recovering one buried passion this week, without having to overhaul your careerPress play to meet the girl in you who went quiet, and to start letting her energy back into your life.If a question is rising in you about Kavita's journey, your journey, or the dreams you buried along the way, send it to her at Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.com. Ask Me Anything throughout this My Story series.If this episode stirred something in you, take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see where your own ikigai is asking to be reclaimed, or book a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita to explore what your next chapter could look like._________________________Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with KavitaTake 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 | FacebookVisit itsmytimenowcoaching.comNew 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.

June 8, 2026Episode 31021 min

#310: The Playbook You Did Not Know You Were Following in Your Career and Life Transition

Send us Fan MailFrom 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 our culture wrote. The version of success we never stopped to question. It works beautifully for a long time. Until the day it doesn't.In this episode, you'll discover:The playbook many women unknowingly follow through their thirties and forties, and why it works beautifully until it doesn'tThe gremlins quietly whispering underneath a life that looks right, and the early signals you may be dismissing as exhaustion, hormones, or burnoutThe moment those whispers became impossible for Kavita to ignore, and what it cost her to dismiss them for too longPress play to hear the story behind the couch moment Kavita has never shared on the podcast before, and to recognize the inner critics or gremlins that may already be quietly asking you the question you are not yet ready to answer.If a question is rising in you about Kavita's journey, your journey, or the chapter you are quietly questioning, send it to her at Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.com. Ask Me Anything throughout this My Story series.If this episode resonated and you sense your own whispers asking for a change, take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to understand where you are right now, or schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita to start finding career clarity on what's next._________________________Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with KavitaTake 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 | FacebookVisit itsmytimenowcoaching.comNew 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.

June 4, 2026Episode 30910 min

#309: The Values That Built You May Not Be the Ones Leading You Forward in a Midlife Career or Life Transition

Send us Fan MailHave 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 tell the difference is some of the most important work of midlife. In this Thursday mini, a companion to Monday's episode 308, Kavita picks up one thread from her own story and follows it further: what happens when a new value starts knocking on the door, and what it means for your ikigai when you let yourself answer.In this episode, you'll discover:Why the values that built your earlier chapters can quietly go out of alignment during a midlife career transition, and how to notice when it's happeningHow your ikigai shifts as your strengths, passions, values, and what the world needs from you all evolve through every season of lifeA simple values exercise to help you name what is still leading you forward and what you have outgrown with love and respectPress play to begin the quiet, honest conversation with your values that every meaningful life transition is asking you to have.If you're sensing that your values are shifting and you're ready to explore what your next chapter wants to look like, schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita or take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see where your career and life are most asking for your attention right now._________________________Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with KavitaTake 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 | FacebookVisit itsmytimenowcoaching.comNew 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.

June 1, 2026Episode 30818 min

#308: The Inheritance You've Forgotten About in Your Career and Life Transition

Send us Fan MailHave 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 else's story, to notice where your themes echo, and to remember the courage that has been sitting inside you all along, waiting for you to claim it.In this episode, you'll discover:The cultural roots and family story that shaped Kavita, and why your own history holds essential clues for navigating change todayHow the values that built your life in your twenties and thirties may no longer be the values calling you now, and what that signals about your next chapterThe one reflection question to sit with this week that can shift how you see your story and your capacity to move through this life transitionPress play to remember the bravery already written into your story, and to begin recognizing the version of it that is asking to lead you into what's next.Ask Me Anything:  If there is a question burning in you about Kavita’s  journey, your journey, or anything in between, send her an email at Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.com. She  will be answering your questions in the episodes ahead..If something in this episode is stirring in you and you are ready to explore what your next chapter could look like, book a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita or take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see where you are right now and what is calling you forward. _________________________Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with KavitaTake 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 | FacebookVisit itsmytimenowcoaching.comNew 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.

May 28, 202611 min

#307: How to Tell the Difference Between Your Inner Critic and Your Inner Wisdom in a Midlife Career or Life Transition

Send us Fan MailWhat 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 to keep you where you are. The hard part is that your inner critic and your inner wisdom can sound surprisingly alike from the inside. Until you can tell them apart, you will keep mistaking old stories for real warnings and missing the steady voice that actually knows what you want.In this episode, you'll discover:The one word that instantly tells you whether you are listening to your inner critic or your inner wisdom in any career or life transitionWhy your body knows the difference before your mind does, and the simple signal it gives you when the critic has taken overThe reason your inner critic always sounds so familiar, and how that familiarity is actually the key to seeing through itPress play to learn a small experiment you can try this week to start trusting your own wisdom in real time, beginning with the low-stakes moments and building toward the bigger decisions ahead of you.If this episode lands for you, download the free 28-Day Confidence Guide for daily practices and short video lessons to help you trust your own voice one day at a time._________________________Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with KavitaTake 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 | FacebookVisit itsmytimenowcoaching.comNew 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.

May 25, 2026Episode 30643 min

#306: What to Do When the Identity That Got You Here No Longer Fits in a Career or Life Transition, with Kathleen Perry

Send us Fan MailWhat 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. Kathleen Perry - transformational coach, former chiropractor, and host of the Identity Matters podcast - goes straight to the heart of that question. After five profound losses in five years, Kathleen discovered something that changed everything: the identity you have built is not who you are. And when life asks you to let it go, that is not the end of something. It is the beginning.In this episode, you'll discover:Why your sense of self can feel shaken during a career or life transition even when nothing dramatic has happened - and what your mind, body, and spirit are actually trying to tell you when everything feels uncertainWhy the voice in your head is not you - and why you do not have to fix it, silence it, or manage it during a life transition, only see through it - and what changes when you finally doThe one question that cuts through everything else when you are navigating career and life transitions - not what should you do, but what do you actually want - and why the answer is already closer to the surface than you thinkPress play to hear an honest, deeply personal conversation about loss, identity, and what becomes possible when you stop taking yourself to be the roles you have been playing - and begin living as who you actually are.If the voice in your head has been louder than your own knowing lately, download the free 28-Day Confidence Guide for daily practices and short video lessons to help you trust your own voice over the noise. And if you are ready to talk through what this season of your life is asking of you, schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita.You can find Dr. Kathleen Perry and the Identity Matters podcast here:Identity Matters podcast - https://www.drkathleenperry.com/podcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/kathleen.g.perry.1/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/kathleen.g.perry.1LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/drkathleen/Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa3jLew8BduIXdKXYlSs0Hw_________________________Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with KavitaTake 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 | FacebookVisit itsmytimenowcoaching.comNew 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.

May 21, 2026Episode 3057 min

#305: The One Ikigai Question to Ask Yourself in Every Career or Life Transition

Send us Fan MailWhat 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 the more you look, the deeper the stuckness grows. This Thursday mini episode builds on Episode 304 and offers the one ikigai question that quietly changes everything - not by giving you a new answer, but by shifting the energy from which you begin to look.In this episode, you'll discover:Why asking "what do I want?" during a career or life transition almost always makes the uncertainty feel worse - and what happens the moment you turn the question around and ask what the world right in front of you needs insteadHow the shift from catabolic to anabolic energy is not just a mindset change but a real, practical shift in what you can see and receive during a midlife career transition - including the opportunities and conversations that were already thereA simple two-minute daily practice to sit with this ikigai question this week - one that does not require grand answers, only honest attention to the people, moments, and small invitations already showing up in your lifePress play to discover the one question that can move you from circling to clarity in your career or life transition - and why the world is already showing you the answer if you are in the energy to receive it.If this episode is resonating, the free 28-Day Confidence Guide is the natural next step - 28 days of short video lessons from Kavita to help you build the confidence to act on what this question reveals._________________________Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with KavitaTake 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 | FacebookVisit itsmytimenowcoaching.comNew 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.

May 18, 2026Episode 30415 min

#304: 3 Ikigai Lessons From My Own Midlife Transition (And My Son's Wedding)

Send us Fan MailThree 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 into stuckness we sink. But there's a different question that changes everything. In this episode, you'll discover:Why asking "what does the world need from me right now?" is one of the most powerful questions you can sit with during a midlife career or life transition - and why it opens doors that "what do I want?" never quite reachesThe real reason so many women only feel fully alive on vacation - and what it reveals about the permission we have stopped giving ourselves in our everyday livesWhy the transitions that catch us off guard are often the most important messengers we have, and the one question that every midlife transition is quietly asking you if you are willing to slow down enough to hear itPress play to hear an honest, personal reflection on what it means to truly live what you teach - and why the question that kept Kavita up one late night after the wedding is the reason this podcast is about to feel a little different.If this episode stirred something in you, download the free 28-Day Confidence Guide for daily practices and short video lessons to help you find your voice and step into your next chapter with confidence. And if you are ready to talk through where you are and what comes next, schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita._________________________Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with KavitaTake 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 | FacebookVisit itsmytimenowcoaching.comNew 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.

May 14, 2026Episode 3038 min

#303: 3 Shifts to Move from Burnout to Clarity in a Career or Life Transition

Send us Fan MailHave 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 - one of the most listened-to mini episodes from the archive, brought back by popular demand as a companion to this week's Monday episode on burnout - and offers three grounding shifts to help you move from depletion toward clarity, purpose, and renewed energy.In this episode, you'll discover:Why burnout is not a failure or a sign of weakness, but feedback from your body that your career or life transition is asking for something different - and the one question that begins to reveal what that isHow three honest reflection questions can point you toward your ikigai - the intersection of what you love, what you are good at, and what feels meaningful - without requiring you to start over or have it all figured out firstWhy one small, aligned action is all it takes to shift from catabolic, contracting energy toward the anabolic energy that opens doors and builds real confidence during a life transitionPress play to hear why the fatigue and restlessness you feel right now may not be an ending at all - but the pause before your next beginning.If this episode resonated with you, take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to understand where you are right now and what may be holding you back. Or if you are ready to explore what your next chapter could look like, schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita._________________________Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with KavitaTake 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 | FacebookVisit itsmytimenowcoaching.comNew 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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