Experience 50 Podcast for Midlife

Experience 50 is going on a brief, yet purposeful, hiatus. The next episode will release on June 25th, 2021. Enjoy listening to the who, why. when, where, and how behind the season-long spring break for host, Mary Rogers. I believe the finish line of your Experience 50 experience is that you become the person you’ve chosen to be. To follow Mary's adventure, become a $5 Friend at https://www.patreon.com/maryrogers Transcript: MARY: In recent episodes, I’ve been dropping some obvious and not-so-obvious hints that I’ve been itching to shake things up in the 57-year-old version of me.. Like so many of you, I’m not completely certain which way I want to shake, but shake things up I must or I am going to lose my mind. So, I’ll cut to the chase: I am taking a three-month break, a spring break, from producing the Experience 50 Podcast for Midlife. The podcast returns on June 25th. It’s really no wonder. After six years of featuring hundreds of midlifers telling their stories of audacious career changes, exciting entrepreneurial endeavors, bold experiences planting the seeds for tremendous personal growth and transformation well, it should come as no surprise that I would be inspired, right along with you, my listeners. I’ve also mentored, advised, encouraged, and cajoled mentoring clients to shed the weight of their labels, the must-dos and should dos, to get out their own way and live a little. Shake things up. Do the unexpected. Find out what you’re made of, see who they just might be under the armor of their comfortable existence. At 57, I have personally navigated my way through most of the milestones that you will experience in this stage of life. I have learned and shared my own advice as well as the gems of wisdom that my guests brought forth. In my early 50s, I made a huge leap- away from the comfort of my executive chair in a respected leadership position in my region’s business community to enter the world of independent podcasting and freelance writing, My husband and I have cared for aging parents who have now passed, watched our children grow into a couple of very cool independent adults and we have found our way into new relationships with each of them. Also, my husband and I have successfully redefined what our 24-year marriage can look like when co-parenting is no longer the focus of our conversations and our relationship. Together with this amazing man, we have grieved the loss of loved ones, supported each other through my health scare with cancer, grown into people we never expected to be, and like you, as individuals and as a couple learned how to live through a pandemic. I absolutely believe that our 50s offer us the greatest challenges in learning who we are when the labels become fewer, less obvious, and significantly less important. I believe the finish line of your Experience 50 experience is that you become the person you’ve chosen to be. The person that I have chosen to be is: a woman who is nowhere done living my life story. There are I hope, at the very least,a couple of big chapters ahead which will define my life. This brings me to my decision, that I need 3 months of undistracted headspace to take the first few steps in writing the next chapter, exploring my options for the sake of exploring. I can’t really see the destination, but I do know how to lay the groundwork for being able to jump into what’s next. .To that end, my husband and I have decided we must be nimble. We use that word a lot lately. So we are walking the walk not just talking the talk. This week we closed on the sale of our house. I now have 30 days to downsize our possessions to a fraction of what we currently own. Then establish a new minimalist home in a rented house about a mile from where we live now. As of today, we are mortgage-free, completely debt-free, child-free, and in short order, we will be free of literal generations of things and stuff, only keeping what we absolutely need.We are learning Spanish and...

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This story of a midlife pivot goes south, way south - to Ecuador. Meet Amelia (52) and JP (49), American Expatriates living in Ecuador since 2017 when they faced the fact that they had no choice but to leave the United States. Full show notes https://www.experience50.com/241 Get exclusive updates on Mary's Leaving America Pivot https://www.experience50.com/outtahere Become a Patron to JOIN our book club https://www.experience50.com/donate LEND YOUR VOICE to the podcast! Send your questions for Mary's next Cleopatra's Vagina: Answers to Listeners' Questions. Send voicemail: https://www.experience50.com Get Mary's weekly email: https://www.experience50.com/email Midlife Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MidlifeCommunity Enjoying the podcast? Could you please support the show with a donation? https://www.experience50.com/donate Be a guest on the podcast, tell your midlife story: https://www.experience50.com/podcast-guest-information/

Joan Lunden, former host of Good Morning America, meets with the Experience 50 Virtual Book Club to chat about her latest book, Why Did I Come Into This Room, A Candid Conversation on Aging. Full show notes https://www.experience50.com/240 Become a Patron to JOIN our book club https://www.experience50.com/donate LEND YOUR VOICE to the podcast! Send your questions for Mary's next Cleopatra's Vagina: Answers to Listeners' Questions. Send voicemail: https://www.experience50.com Get Mary's weekly email: https://www.experience50.com/email Midlife Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MidlifeCommunity Enjoying the podcast? Could you please support the show with a donation? https://www.experience50.com/donate Be a guest on the podcast, tell your midlife story: https://www.experience50.com/podcast-guest-information/

Midlife divorce. Hear Dr. Katy Jane's story of divorce, including the business and financial losses which led to her becoming one pissed-off yogi. Her anger was preceded by denial and guilt and when she discovered that her husband had destroyed her business and livelihood - leaving her with only $500 to her name - that is when she allowed herself to be pissed-off. We discuss anger triggers, meditation practices, the divine feminine, Hindu goddess Kali, western adoption of yoga and meditation, self-love, and opening yourself to new love. Full show notes, guest info links, and images: https://www.experience50.com/239 Named “One of 75 Yogis Who are Shifting the Planet” by Origin Magazine, Dr. Katy Jane is a counseling Vedic astrologer, Sanskrit & world religions scholar, and teacher of yoga teachers. Dr. Katy received her doctorate in Religious Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2001, taught at the University of Colorado and Naropa University in Boulder, CO. She also created Sanskrit for Yogis, an innovative and traditional method for learning the sacred language of yoga. She’s the author of Awakening with Sanskrit and teaches immersions in Vedic astrology online. After 30 years of traveling and studying yoga & Sanskrit throughout India, Dr. Katy now lives at Dunagiri Retreat (in India’s northeastern Himalayan foothills) which she shares with her husband, five Tibetan mastiffs, and frequent groups of yoga retreatants and spiritual seekers. LEND YOUR VOICE to the podcast! Send your questions for Mary's next Cleopatra's Vagina: Answers to Listeners' Questions. Send voicemail: https://www.experience50.com Book Club with Joan Lunden 1/17 & 19, 2021: https://www.experience50.com/book-club-lunden/ Get Mary's weekly email: https://www.experience50.com/email Midlife Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MidlifeCommunity Enjoying the podcast? Could you please support the show with a donation? https://www.experience50.com/donate Be a guest on the podcast, tell your midlife story: https://www.experience50.com/podcast-guest-information/

Amy Newmark's 50th birthday included a newly empty nest and the purchase of Chicken Soup For The Soul. She didn't just buy a book, she bought the company. Now 63, Amy speaks with Mary Rogers about her own midlife transitions while discussing the latest CSFTS book, Age Is Just A Number, 101 Tales of Humor and Wisdom for Life After 60. Full Show Notes and Links: https://www.experience50.com/238 Lend your voice to the podcast! Send your questions for Mary's next Cleopatra's Vagina: Answers to Listeners' Questions. Send voicemail: https://www.experience50.com Book Club with Joan Lunden 2/17 & 19, 2021: https://www.experience50.com/book-club-lunden/ Get Mary's weekly email: https://www.experience50.com/email Midlife Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MidlifeCommunity Enjoying the podcast? Could you please support the show with a donation? https://www.experience50.com/donate Be a guest on the podcast, tell your midlife story: https://www.experience50.com/podcast-guest-information/

Jetty Nieuwenhuis, 49, has been through some stuff. Lots of it. Now she says "F*ck it". This is one woman's midlife pivot story. She is sharing the lessons learned from her experience with us today - and as a midlife influencer on Instagram as Trujetty I think of her as an early-achiever in the midlife experience beginning with the loss of both parents in her late 30s. If you've listened to many episodes of my show, you have no doubt noticed this pattern of huge shifts in perspective and circumstances after the loss of one or both parents. She also became quite ill, a mysteriously familiar theme in midlife following a major loss. Jetty experienced years of fatigue, chronic pain, an eating disorder, and depression. For years, her maladies remained undiagnosed and she found herself defending her illness to those who would say, "It's all in your head". Now properly diagnosed and receiving treatment (breast implant illness and Lyme disease), Jetty shares her story. Enjoy! Lend your voice to the podcast! Send your questions for Mary's next Cleopatra's Vagina: Answers to Listeners' Questions. Send voicemail: https://www.experience50.com Book Club with Joan Lunden 1/17 & 19, 2021: https://www.experience50.com/book-club-lunden/ Get Mary's weekly email: https://www.experience50.com/email Midlife Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MidlifeCommunity Enjoying the podcast? Could you please support the show with a donation? https://www.experience50.com/donate Be a guest on the podcast, tell your midlife story: https://www.experience50.com/podcast-guest-information/

Is midlife looking frighteningly dull? Let's take those chains off! Your emotional baggage and old beliefs will hold you back from any glimmer of growth, so listen in. Joanie Marx joins Mary for a deep dive into how to improve your outlook toward life by doing a bit of inward-focused detective work. Yes, this episode comes with homework. Buy the Book, Full show notes: https://www.experience50.com/236 Book Club with Joan Lunden 1/17 & 19, 2021: https://www.experience50.com/book-club-lunden/ Get Mary's weekly email: https://www.experience50.com/email Midlife Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MidlifeCommunity Enjoying the podcast? Could you please support the show with a donation? https://www.experience50.com/donate Be a guest on the podcast, tell your midlife story: https://www.experience50.com/podcast-guest-information/

Middle seat. Middle child. Oh, woe is the middle of anything. So here we are in the middle of our adulthood, sigh. Think of your life as a story. Beginnings and endings are easy. It is in writing the middle part of any story that things get a bit messy. Full show notes and quotes: https://www.experience50.com/235 Mary Rogers launches Experience 50 Book Club 2021 with Joan Lunden's book "Why Did I Come Into This Room, A Candid Conversation on Aging". To participate in Book Club Zoom meetings, become a Patron! Register here: https://www.experience50.com/donate

Canadian Brit, Tamara Bee, 50, has traveled to 76 countries, on a shoestring budget and usually alone. Blessed by the Dalai Lama, boarding down a volcano, threatened in Ethiopia, tangling with gorillas, are just a few of her tales. Since her early 20s, Tamara has worked odd jobs, bartending or waiting tables, to fund her wanderlust. Now she is sharing her stories of solo female travel across the continents on her Many Roads Traveled Podcast, her website, and YouTube Channel. Grab all the links and details in the full show notes: https://www.experience50.com/234 Support the podcast: https://www.experience50.com/donate Join the private Facebook Group of Experience 50 listeners https://www.facebook.com/groups/MidlifeCommunity

Nobody wants to be a beginner. Tom Vanderbilt, 52, spent a year as a beginner surfer, chess player, juggler, singer, jewelry maker, and more. His newest book, Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Learning, is his memoir of becoming a beginner in midlife. Full show notes with links: https://www.experience50.com/233 Get goodies: https://www.Experience 50.com/newsletter Support the podcast, get more goodies: https://www.experience50.com/donate Join Mary's Midlife Community Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MidlifeCommunity

Who joined our ranks in 2020? Mary welcomes the birth class of 1970 into their 5th decade. Also, in a first for Experience 50, Mary names her 50-Year-Old of the year. Congratulations MacKenzie Scott, 50! Full Show Notes at https://www.experience50.com/232 This episode is brought to you with the generous support of Plexaderm: https://www.buyplx.com/EXP50POD special 6-pack trial offer including shipping $14.95, money-back guarantee. PROMO CODE EXP50POD

The Happy Life formula is all about your response reflex. Michelle Fishburne, 57, joins us from her RV to share her story of how she responded rather unconventionally to the events of 2020. Michelle's project, Who We Are Now, is her response to finding herself unemployed and without a home, a partner, or kids, or... anything. Episode sponsored by: KINDRA https://www.ourkindra.com 20% discount with PROMO CODE EXP50POD. Estrogen-free, plant-based support for your menopause journey. PLEXADERM https://www.buyplx.com/EXP50POD special 6-pack trial offer including shipping $14.95, money-back guarantee. PROMO CODE EXP50POD Guest information and Full Show Notes/links: https://www.experience50.com/231 Thanks for listening, support the podcast: https://www.experience50.com/donate Get show updates delivered to your inbox: Sign me up! Schedule a one-time mentoring session with Mary https://www.experience50.com/goods

Aching to travel? Travel writer, Karen McCann of enjoylivingabroad.com whets our appetite for international travel. With a vaccine now in sight, maybe we can begin to plan our future adventures? Please? We discuss travel with purpose as opposed to travel to relax, how to meet locals, the importance of being open to serendipity while traveling and... oh, it just feels so good!!! Share your best midlife advice with Mary in a voicemail at https://www.experience50.com. Look for the Send Voicemail icon. Full show notes at https://www.experience50.com/230 Episode sponsor: PLEXADERM https://www.buyplx.com/EXP50POD special 6-pack trial offer including shipping $14.95, money-back guarantee. PROMO CODE EXP50POD Single midlife mentoring session with Mary Rogers: https://www.experience50.com/goods Support the podcast: https://www.experience50.com/donate You've Got This!

Midlife crisis at 50? Mary Rogers takes you through the hallmark signs of female misery at 50, why it is a good thing, and how to speed up the process so you can get to the good part! Share your midlife advice with Mary in a voicemail at https://www.experience50.com. Look for the Send Voicemail icon. Full show notes at https://www.experience50.com/229 Episode sponsor: KINDRA *Get your 20% discount on menopause relief products at https://www.ourkindra.com PROMO code EXP50POD Single midlife mentoring session with Mary Rogers: https://www.experience50.com/goods Support the podcast: https://www.experience50.com/donate You've Got This!

Midlife pivots in a pandemic require flexibility in your planning but should not be abandoned. Colleen Chapman's midlife pivot plan changed over 13 months since her mentoring session with Mary Rogers, but she has achieved major accomplishments moving her closer to the full vision. Schedule a one-time mentoring session with Mary https://www.experience50.com/goods KINDRA https://www.ourkindra.com 20% discount with PROMO CODE EXP50POD. Estrogen-free, plant-based support for your menopause journey. PLEXADERM https://www.buyplx.com/EXP50POD special 6-pack trial offer including shipping $14.95, money-back guarantee. PROMO CODE EXP50POD Full Show Notes/links: https://www.experience50.com/228 Thanks for listening, support the podcast: https://www.experience50.com/donate

The empty nest transition is not just a "woman thing". Bruce Buxton, host of The Gray Beard Podcast gives us a man's perspective on empty nest living and relationships with adult kids & your co-nester. Bruce and Mary swap strategies on building a stronger marriage when kiddie parenting is done, how to shift to a new relationship with your adult kids and their significant others, and how to know when you're in trouble. KINDRA https://www.ourkindra.com 20% discount with PROMO CODE EXP50POD. Estrogen-free, plant-based support for your menopause journey. PLEXADERM https://www.buyplx.com/EXP50POD special 6-pack trial offer including shipping $14.95, money-back guarantee. PROMO CODE EXP50POD Full Show Notes: https://www.experience50.com/227 Thanks for listening, support the podcast: https://www.experience50.com/donate

Buckets (!) of wisdom shared by Mimi Feldman, author of He Came In With It, A Portrait of Motherhood and Madness. You'll sit in on E50's Fall 2020 Virtual Book Club when Patrons of the podcast met with the author to discuss schizophrenia, family chaos, mental illness, difficult teenagers, health scares, parents dying, acceptance and surrender, female friendships, unconventional marriage, and more. Full show notes https://www.experience50.com/226 Sponsors: Mary Rogers' Patrons https://www.experience50.com/donate Plexaderm https://www.buyplx.com/exp50pod

Cole Baker Bagwell's Experience 50 Moment at the age of 48 fueled her pivot toward leading a kindness revolution. Immediately upon leaving her successful career, Cole knew that she needed to "unfold herself" before she could lead the revolution to bring kindness to the world of business. At 51, Cole is the founder of Cool Audrey. Her midlife story is relatable and inspiring. Mary Rogers and Cole discuss the Cool Audrey approach to bringing kindness and mindfulness into boardrooms and breakrooms. Full show notes https://www.experience50.com/225 Support the podcast https://www.experience50.com/donate

Does coloring your gray hair promote ageism? Anti-wrinkle creams? What if you use a moisturizer? Is it all about intention? Vanity? Do you make jokes about being old? Hear guest Rachel Lankester of Magnificent Midlife who calls out host Mary Rogers and in turn, Mary declares herself GUILTY! Is that okay? So much to discuss and think about!!! Full show notes and resource links at https://www.experience50.com/224 Check out Magnificent Midlife: https://www.experience50.com/magnificent Support the podcast: https://www.experience50.com/donate