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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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Jul 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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July 9, 2026Episode 3197 min

#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 why it matters so much in a midlife career and life transition.In this episode, you'll discover:Why the goosebumps or tears you feel when something clicks are a truth signal you should never rush pastHow anabolic energy shows up the instant you see your path, and becomes the fuel that helps you walk itA gentle invitation to notice the small flickers this week that point toward your reason for beingPress play to learn how to recognize the moment your path lights up, and let that quiet certainty guide your next step.If this episode resonated, download the free 28-Day Confidence Guide to build that quiet certainty one simple daily practice at a time, so the spark you feel this week has somewhere to grow._________________________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.

July 6, 2026Episode 31816 min

#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 all along. In this episode, Kavita walks you through the story of a client who reached the top of a demanding corporate world and still felt nothing, and shares the ikigai process that helped her uncover her real reason for being.In this episode, you'll discover:Why doing everything right can still leave you feeling empty, and what that quiet emptiness is actually trying to tell you in a midlife transitionThe four circles of ikigai that lead you to your reason for being, and why the version you have seen online with a paycheck at the center may be steering you wrongHow to spot the strengths, passions, and values you have stopped noticing because they come to you so easily, and how to use them to find your purposePress play to uncover the four circles that already live inside you, and take the first real step back toward yourself this week.If this episode is stirring something in you, book a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita to map your own four circles, or take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see where your reason for being is quietly waiting to be uncovered._________________________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.

July 2, 20266 min

#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 value now, and in where the world quietly needs you. Your only work is to begin noticing what is already there.In this episode, you'll discover:Why your ikigai is uncovered, not invented, and what that changes about how you approach your midlife career transitionThe four circles to sketch this week and the simple practice that begins to reveal your purposeThe one energy signal to trust above almost any other as you start finding your reason for beingPress play to begin the practice that turns the page from someone else's story to your own discovery.If this resonates and you want a clearer picture of what is holding your purpose just out of reach, take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see where you stand right now and what your next step looks 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 29, 2026Episode 31618 min

#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 four circles of ikigai, your strengths, your passions, your values, and your contribution, were inside her all along, waiting to be rediscovered. If you are standing in your own now what moment, this episode is for you.In this episode, you'll discover:How a midlife career and life transition becomes a life you love by following the energy that makes time disappearWhy your ikigai, your reason for being, was never a four circle diagram with a paycheck at the bottom, and what the fourth circle really isThe three things to carry with you when you cannot yet see where your next step will landPress play to hear the question that changed everything for Kavita, and let it begin to change something for you.Have a question about finding your ikigai, taking the leap, or anything else on your own journey? Ask Me Anything! Send it to me for a future episode: Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.comIf everything in you is saying yes right now, book a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita to discover which of your four circles you have been ignoring and the first step toward your reason for being. You can also take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see where you are in your own midlife transition 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 25, 2026Episode 3156 min

#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 experiences you think disqualify you, including the hardest parts of your own career and life transitions, are often the very thing someone walking a few steps behind you is longing for.In this episode, you'll discover:Why "what the world needs" is misunderstood, and the smaller, truer way to think about it during a midlife transitionHow your hardest chapters can become the clearest signal of where you're neededA simple practice to notice where the world is already pulling at you, and where your gifts are quietly neededPress play to find the quiet pull that has been illuminating itself in your life for years, and step closer to your ikigai.Wondering how fulfilled you truly are in your career and life right now? Take my free Career and Life Fulfillment Quiz.Need a little more confidence to take your next step? Download my free 28 Days to Building Confidence Guide.Have a question about finding where you're needed in your next chapter, or anything else on your own journey? Ask Me Anything! Send it to me for a future episode: Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.com_________________________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 22, 2026Episode 31414 min

#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. This episode continues Kavita's My Story series and picks up in the morning everything cracked open, the gremlins that kept her stuck for two more years, and the real turning point that came later, the one almost no one talks about.In this episode, you'll discover:Why the moment that begins a career and life transition is usually quiet, and how to recognize your own version of it before it grows too loud to ignoreWhat your inner critics are actually trying to do for you in a midlife transition, and how to work with them instead of waiting for them to go silentWhy the people closest to you may understand your transition the least, and what that means for the choice in front of youPress play to hear the story of the turning point that changes everything, and to find the honest question waiting for you this week.Have a question about your own trigger moment, your gremlins, or anything else rising in you during this season? Ask Me Anything. Send it to me for a future episode: Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.comIf you want to understand where you are right now and where you'd like to be heading next, take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz, or book a complimentary Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita to talk through what comes next for you._________________________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 18, 2026Episode 3138 min

#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 have gone invisible because they come so easily to you. Others have simply gone quiet, waiting for you to pick them back up. In midlife career and life transitions, learning to see and use these strengths again is what shifts your energy and opens unexpected doors.In this episode, you'll discover:Why the strengths most central to your ikigai are usually the ones you have stopped noticing in yourselfHow anabolic energy, the expansive energy you feel when you use a true strength, begins to draw opportunities and people toward youA simple practice this week to surface a forgotten strength and put it back into use on purposePress play to reconnect with the gifts that have been with you all along and see what begins to open up when you let yourself use them again.Have a question about a strength you have set down, or anything else on your own journey? Ask Me Anything! Send it to me for a future episode: Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.comIf something in this reflection stirred a strength that has been dormant for too long, book a complimentary Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita or take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see where your next chapter wants to begin._________________________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 15, 2026Episode 31247 min

#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 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

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 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

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 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.

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