Thrive After 45™ is a leadership, identity, and personal transformation podcast for women navigating midlife. Hosted by Denise Drinkwalter — Heart Whisperer, Midlife Mirror & Mentor — the show features intimate conversations that explore identity shifts, self-trust, emotional healing, and personal sovereignty after 45. Each episode offers grounded wisdom and lived experience to support women in reclaiming their voice, purpose, and inner authority during midlife transitions in life, relationships, and work.
Dr. Samaha is one of those people who just radiates light. She’s a former academic who decided to retire early at 53 to follow a mission that was pulling at her heart.
She’s navigated over 30 years of transitions, some by choice and many by chance, including relocating from Lebanon to Canada and moving through everything from divorce to empty nesting.
She’s truly a "momentum master" who figured out how...
After over 25 years with her partner, Kimberly’s world was completely upended by a divorce she never saw coming.
She describes that season as "temporary insanity," and honestly...
Who hasn't felt that way when life pulls the rug out from under you?
But instead of letting that be the end of her story, she used that rock bottom as a launchpad.
Kimberly took her 20 years of experience as a th...
Emma Lyons and I are diving deep into something we all carry but rarely talk about: Shame.
Emma spent 15 years in human rights law before burning out and realizing she had to dismantle her own trauma patterns from the ground up.
Now, she’s an Inner Power Guide helping women like us stop the self-sabotage and actually heal our nervous systems.
We talk about how those things we think are just "personality trai...
John James Santangelo is an expert in NLP and has spent over thirty years helping people get their sparkle back, but he does it in such a grounded and no nonsense way.
We really dug into the idea that none of us are actually broken. We just have these old mental programs from childhood that keep us playing small and feeling stuck in the same cycles.
In this episode of Thrive After 45™, John explains why happiness is someth...
Have you ever felt burned out while chasing a dream?
Dr. Alain Salas, the "Mind Clearing Doctor," was living the ultimate success - a thriving practice, sailing in the South of France - but inside, he was overwhelmed and exhausted.
This led to a personal collapse that hit his health (getting sick with an early stage of colon cancer!), his marriage (divorce), and his business.
Talk about every...
Anna Quigley is basically the "Intuitive Yoda" for women in midlife looking to figure out their next chapter.
Anna has spent over 40 years steeped in metaphysics, quantum physics, psychology, and spiritual studies....not just reading about it, but truly living it.
Just two years ago, she did the brave thing: she walked away from a job she loved that had turned toxic and fully committed to the work she knows she&a...
How much of your teenage self is still showing up when you parent, love, or even react to things today? That voice that just wanted to be seen and heard?
My incredible guest, Tatjana Simakova, believes that version of us is still shaping our family dynamics, and she has built her life's work on helping us heal that unseen gap.
Tatjana's own journey is one of deep courage.
Growing up with an alcoholic mo...
Jim Marshall has spent years diving deep into the science and spirit of transformation. He's talking about something he calls "The Natural Law of Becoming," and trust me...it’s a total game-changer for how we think about aging and growth.
Jim’s whole philosophy is this: You don’t have to push, hustle, or force your way into your next great chapter. It’s actually about slowing down, getting intentional, and letting you...
Dr. Len Lopez has been a licensed chiropractor and natural medicine specialist for over 30 years. He's the guy who coined the phrase “eating right and training smart,” and he’s sharing how that’s expanded into a whole philosophy for success in every area of life.
We start by diving into what "healthy" really means, especially for those of us navigating our 40s, 50s, and beyond.
Dr. Len dropped some serious w...
SuZan Peltekian is a global speaker, a peak performance coach, and a total game-changer who has spent years helping people remember they are powerful beyond measure. The heart of our chat is getting out of "default living" and actually designing the life we were born to live.
She gets super real, sharing that she struggled with self-belief for years, going from job to job until she finally realized her own divinity. Her wh...
This Thrive After 45™ episode is all about creating a home that’s actually a sanctuary for your soul, and it has me looking at my living room completely differently.
I sat down with Kim Depole, a mindful living design consultant. Seriously, this woman is a master at weaving together art, meditation, and interior design to help people create spaces that aren't just pretty, but are deeply restorative and soul-aligned.
We’re talkin...
Hey friend, you need to grab a cup of coffee and sit down for this one. This episode of Thrive After 45™ with the incredible Elizabeth Kelly is truly honest and so, so needed.
Elizabeth is a transformative self-love and mindset coach who came on the show to share her whole, messy, beautiful journey of navigating divorce, finding sobriety, and having to completely rebuild her life from the inside out.
Her story is standing ...
Hey friend, grab a cozy seat and that mug of coffee - I have an incredible conversation to share with you! This week on Thrive After 45™, I'm so honored to introduce you to Nami, a leadership and mindset coach who is challenging us to think differently about how we lead our lives.
Nami spent over 20 years in the corporate world, building high-performing teams, but her own journey through healing and self-discovery led her to an...
Get ready for an incredibly open-hearted chat with Kathy Walden that feels like a big, warm hug!
Kathy is a spiritual life coach who's been through the deep work herself, and she’s here to remind us that the guidance we've been searching for is already whispering inside us.
In this episode of Thrive after 45™️, we’re talking about what it truly means to stop searching for the answers and start listening to the w...
Get ready for an incredibly powerful conversation with Nicky Billou, a man whose life story is a testament to the transformative power of freedom and courage.
This episode of Thrive After 45™ is a deep dive into how he went from literally having a Molotov cocktail thrown into his living room in Iran as a child to becoming a two-time New York Times bestselling author and what he calls a "millionaire maker."
Nicky&...
Kristen Swinehart is seriously redefining what it means to follow a truly unique path.
You know that feeling when you realize you're completely out of alignment? Kristen did too.
She walked away from practicing law, became a flight attendant, and stepped fully into her calling as a gifted channeler known as The Flying Medium.
Imagine serving up soft drinks one minute and channeling spirit the next....it’s in...
Get ready, because this conversation is going to make you rethink the voice inside your head!
I had the absolute honour of chatting with Sabrina Trobak, a registered clinical counsellor, clinical supervisor, speaker, and author of the book, The Voice That Lied.
With over 15 years in practice and 20 years as a teacher, Sabrina has guided thousands of people to untangle their self-doubt and finally see their own worth.
In th...
This episode is for anyone who has ever felt lost, like a part of you disappeared to keep the peace.
I sat down with my dear friend, Linda Mallard, a transformational coach for midlife women. Linda's story is a beautiful, raw journey of a midlife reinvention - from building a successful Pilates business for 25 years to completely reinventing her life after a series of profound personal losses and transitions.
Linda is...
This episode is a true gem. I'm so honoured to welcome back Jacqueline Perez, the heart-centered force behind Cool Life and a powerful champion for women in midlife.
Jacqueline is the embodiment of everything we talk about here on Thrive After 45™: that our second act is where we truly rise into our power.
Jacqueline gets real about her own menopause journey, which she says hit her "like a tractor trailer" and shook h...
You know that feeling when you're in midlife and it feels like there's something more for you, but you just can't figure out how to get there?
That feeling is exactly what my amazing guest, Barbara Wood Watson, helps people with.
She's a "Logical Mystic" who has spent decades helping tens of thousands of students worldwide silence stress and unlock their intuition.
In this episode of Thri...
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