S.O.F.T. and Strong: Midlife Women On A Mission
Midlife. The in-between years when you're no longer young but you're not old yet either. It's that time in your story when you're crying all the way home from leaving your kid at college. Or crumpling up your high school reunion invite because life has not turned out at all in the way you said it would. You're waking up in the middle of the night wracked with financial worry. You're going through a divorce or grieving your spouse or wondering who that man is across the table as you haven't really connected for years. It's exhausted caregiving and a waistline you don't recognize. It's staring out the window blankly and asking "NOW WHAT?" Hey - this is a transition when life doesn't give us the choice about whether we go through it or not. But...there are choices that are in our control. Life doesn't stop here. YOU are meant for so much more. And that's what this podcast is about. Instead of being known as a woman who is "menopausal", WHAT IF you could be seen as a beautiful Woman on a Mission? Someone who is taking all life by storm? Who doesn't back down? Who never gives up? Someone who knows what she wants and isn't settling for less. People know you as confident, intelligent, sensitive and intuitive. You get things done. You can be trusted to follow through. You're a woman with a vision. The antidote for sinking into all the inevitable midlife mindsets our culture trains us to believe is PURPOSE. I'm Bernice McDonald, Midlife Coach, and I'm here to guide you as you get your feet back on solid ground. Life shifts. Like winter to spring. So shift with it! Leave your past missions behind as they're done. Open up your heart and your mind to what's next. Your Next Great Mission. We all have one. And you do, too. Let's answer the Midlife Call. Find our next great mission. Live with purpose. Please come and join us!
Episodes
81 episodes
How To Be Resilient & Courageous (+Proud of Your Midlife Self)
It’s now, in midlife, that the last thought on your mind is to be “resilient and courageous”.Ever feel like you're teetering on a high wire, blindfolded, with the world watching below? One minute, you're conquering life'...
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Episode 27
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31:41
3 Ways To Master Your Inner Strength in Midlife
Midlife is a time when you start to ask, "Who am I now? What's next?"Change is, for women, inevitable. It's easy to lose your courage and stop believing in yourself.Challenges are everywhere and you wonder if you have what it ta...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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32:39
Mission Midlife: 5 Steps To Finding Your Passion
Are you wondering what the secret is to finding your passion - it seems that everyone expects you to know but maybe you're confused about the whole idea and wondering if it's something that is really going to matter?Discovering y...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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25:21
3 Ways Life Has Prepared You To ROCK Midlife
Many of us by midlife are afraid to make decisions because we’re afraid the past equals the future.The amazing news about life is this: the past does NOT equal the future. Every phase is a new canvas. And you hold the paintbrush ...
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Episode 24
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27:21
Taking Life On As A Beautful Warrior
Someone calls you 'fat'.Someone says your work isn't up the standards of the company and to do it again.Someone says your work is wonderful and to be sure that same level of quality shows up on the next project.Someone t...
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Episode 23
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20:47
So Am I Enough? 3 Ways To Truly Believe You Are
Have you ever downplayed your own work because it wasn't as good as someone else's?Or changed your mind about submitting something, cooking something, doing something because you believed what you could give wasn't very good?The...
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Season 2
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Episode 22
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26:38
The Power of Heart: Why Following Your Passion Can Transform Your Midlife
WHAT IF Midlife were actually a Call To Adventure?The only way you hear that Call is to connect to that very quiet place deep inside of you. That's where you'll find your heart. This is a powerful place. <...
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Episode 21
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26:04
How To Feel Like You Belong No Matter What
Ever walk into a crowded room and feel all alone?There is nothing like feeling as if you are in the wrong place. Don't belong. Are not wanted somewhere.WE ALL FEEL IT. And, for women, midlife can magnify this because so many pla...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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22:32
Significance...Who Tells You Who You Are?
Your heart is the most beautiful thing about you. And in that beautiful heart, you'll find every need that shows you how to find your passion and purpose.The 2nd need of your heart is SIGNIFICANCE. To know and value who I am....
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Episode 19
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21:32
With the Heart of a Warrior
"I'm good with life as long as it never changes and doesn't give me any surprises."Don't you wish you could have this level of control? Sometimes we think that, if we did, we would feel safe and certain.Wait a minute! Is that re...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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21:49
5 Burning Questions That Will Tell You How You See Yourself...Really
CARTOON: A midlife woman was telling her doctor - “I need a big belly. You can’t fit this much charm and personality into a small package.” There you go - the positive spin on it. However, it also kind of makes me want to c...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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21:37
Be A Diamond
Two choices when you come to the crossroads called "Midlife".We all go through it. No one escapes it because, well, Midlife is simply the 'middle' of your life. I totally feel your desire to escape it. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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21:43
Instead of Menopausal...A Beautiful Woman on a Mission
From a post on Pinterest talking about midlife women: "You know you're getting old when you get butt jiggle, bingo wing flap and boob wobble when you brush your teeth"... It made me laugh right out loud because I had just b...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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33:52
A Midlife Woman On A Mission Knows Her Own Heart
There you stand. On the edge of a chasm. You're somewhere in your 40's and there's not much left for you here on this side.Below you see a whole river of loss running between two rocky walls. You feel that loss. Loss of a h...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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25:46
Brave Enough To Do a Life Re-Design When Life Lets You Down
The BOMBS are the big things that happen that absolutely blow up your life. They happened in the past and they will keep happening... it's impossible to predict.Literally, it's as if you were walking down a sidewalk and a bomb wen...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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26:05
Brave Enough To Love Who I Was In the Past
The woman you "were" - the one in the past - comes with you everywhere all the time.You hear her voice, you feel her touch, you regret a lot of how she was. And wish she would have made different decisions.But what...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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21:37
Brave Enough To Love Who I Am
How Do I Love Myself??We get to this place a lot of times in our life where we are focusing so much on how to live a good life. How do we do this? How do we get love? How do we get the body we want? How do...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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15:30
Brave Enough To Embrace The Magic
Remember the giggling? As a little girl, remember breathing in the fun in life in whatever moment you were living? Life was an adventure every minute, right? Princesses, Knights... imagining doing whatever came into yours and your frien...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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15:07
Brave Enough To Be Strong on the Inside
Bombs drop on you.Boulders flatten you, dropping out of nowhere.Someone throws a rock at you - fast! Ouch! It stings. It leaves a mark.LIFE HAPPENS. What yo...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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26:47
Brave Enough To Master My Emotions
You laugh. You cry. You shout. You encourage. You love. You hate.You are a woman and you feel. That's natural. And beautiful!Mastering your emotions means you start to understand them. Is that even possible?
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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17:35
Brave Enough To Decide Who You DON'T Want To Be
Are you struggling with who see when you look in the mirror right now?Are you disappointed at how your life is turning out? 50 plus already and you feel this pressure to hurry up or you're going to miss out on making your life what you ...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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24:44
Brave Enough To Start A New Chapter
"Should she go for her dream of being a doctor even when her 50th birthday party had come and gone?"She decided, "Yes". She was going to go for it. And so she did.Dreams are not always "just dreams" -
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Episode 6
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23:37
Brave Enough To Love All My Parts (Smile)
This is about the day my boob went rouge. Yes. Seriously. One of those humiliating moments in life that you either transform into a traumatic event or make into a funny story.Sometimes one of the many 'parts' of us end u...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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16:56
Brave Enough To Say It Boldly - With Confidence: "I Am..."
Two of the most important words you will ever say in your life is, "I am...". The most important sentences you will ever speak in your life start with those words. "I am...". You're so many things. And the most impo...
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Episode 4
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17:36
Brave Enough To Let Go and Be Anyone You Want To Be (after all...you're over 50)
I want you to imagine a bridge, a beautiful bridge, the best in your imagination that you can come up with. Is it in a park? Is it in a garden? And you're standing there at the beginning of this beautiful bridge.Yo...
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Episode 3
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17:12