Aging With Purpose and Passion | Women Over 50
Reinvention After 50 Starts With One Question: What’s Next? Aging With Purpose and Passion is a podcast for women over 50 navigating major life transitions, including career change, retirement, menopause, ageism, caregiving, divorce, loss, health challenges, and identity shifts. I’m Beverley Glazer, MA, CCC, a Work and Life Transition Coach and Reinvention Strategist helping women bridge the gap between where they are and the life they’re ready to live next. If you've built a successful life but find yourself wondering, "What's next?"—you're not alone. These conversations feature exceptional women who have faced private battles, carried real responsibility, and used their wisdom, strength, and lived experience to create meaningful new possibilities. We don't sugarcoat life's challenges. We face them honestly, learn from them, grow through them, and discover what's possible on the other side. Together, we explore reinvention after 50, career transitions, healthy aging, menopause, caregiving, entrepreneurship, resilience, purpose, personal growth, relationships, and creating a meaningful second or third act. If you're feeling invisible, restless, uncertain, or ready for change, you'll find practical insights, inspiring stories, and the confidence to move forward with clarity and purpose. Ranked in the Top 3% of podcasts globally. New episodes weekly. ✨ What's Next for You? If you've outgrown the life you've built and want a private space to think through what's next, let's have a conversation. Learn more at ReinventImpossible.com. Learn more and schedule a conversation at https://reinventimpossible.com/ 🔗 Resources Beverley Glazer, MA. – Life and Work Transition Coach, Reinvention Strategist & Host 📧 Bev@reinventImpossible.com 🌐 https://reinventImpossible.com 💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/beverleyglazer 📘 https://www.facebook.com/reinventImpossible 👥 https://www.facebook.com/groups/womenover50rock 📸 https://www.instagram.com/beverleyglazer_reinvention/
Episodes
Who do you turn to when everyone turns to you for answers?
Success can be lonely—especially for women in leadership.
Whether you're a founder, business owner, executive, board member, or a high-performing woman leading others, there are decisions you can't always share, doubts you keep to yourself, and pressures few people truly understand.
In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer sits down with entrepr...
“It is what it is” can sound wise.
But sometimes it’s just the sentence that keeps you stuck.
In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer talks with author and publishing partner Lynn Miller, whose book Ahead of Their Time is based on more than 200 interviews with pioneers who challenged broken systems and created new possibilities.
Together, they explore one powerful question:
What if there&rsq...
The scariest part of a diagnosis isn't always the disease.
It's realizing you have to make life-changing decisions when you're scared, exhausted, overwhelmed, and unsure what questions to ask next.
In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer sits down with Dr. Tiffany Troso, an oncologist with more than 25 years of experience helping women navigate breast cancer, gynecologic cancer, treatment decisions, and the...
Retirement gets sold as a reward. For many women, it quietly becomes a trap.You stop being challenged. You stop being seen.
You start wondering if your best years are behind you.
In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer Life and Work Transition Expert sits down with Dr. Sara Hart, leadership development expert, executive coach, and founder of Prime Spark Women and Antiretirement: For Women Too Smart to R...
Paige Arnof-Fenn on caregiving, entrepreneurship, boundaries, and redefining success
Your calendar can be full and your life can still feel out of alignment.
For many high-achieving women over 50, success becomes a habit: say yes, stay visible, work harder, keep producing, keep proving.
Until life forces a different conversation.
In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer speaks with Paige Arnof-Fenn, founder of...
Dr. Prudence Hall on HRT, bioidentical hormones, brain fog, fatigue, and reclaiming vitality in midlife
You didn’t lose your ambition. Your body changed the rules.
For high-performing women over 50, menopause can feel like betrayal.
You’re doing what always worked — pushing harder, eating better, staying busy, holding everything together — but suddenly your energy, sleep, mood, weight, focus, and confiden...
Mary Madeiras on intuition, reinvention, and the Akashic Records
You built the life. You earned the success. So why don't you feel something is missing?
Mary Madeiras won three Emmy Awards and The Screen Director Award of America. She is also the author of The Akashic Way, and an Advanced Akashic Records practitioner. She spent years directing on major television networks and had daytime TV hits, including General Hospital and ...
Dr. Angela Mulrooney on identity loss, forced retirement, burnout, personal branding, and rebuilding relevance after a career-ending diagnosis.
When your career disappears, your ego panics. Your identity is what needs rebuilding.
Dr. Angela Mulrooney was in the middle of surgery when her hands stopped working. Soon after, she was told not to touch another patient. Six months later, the diagnosis arrived — and the dental career ...
A late-life divorce, a kitchen-floor breakdown, and the question that changed everything: “Are you happy?
In this episode of Aging with Purpose and Passion, psychotherapist and coach Beverley Glazer sits down with Dr. Dravon James, transformation specialist, founder of the Next Step Leadership Academy, and creator of the Everyday Peace Philosophy, to talk about starting over after 50, divorce recovery, self-worth, and finding ...
Your next chapter after 50 may begin with the words you stop using.
In this episode of Aging with Purpose and Passion, Beverly Glazer speaks with Vera Milan Gervais, speaker, best-selling author, and entrepreneur, about self-talk, labels, and identity ceilings shape confidence, identity, and reinvention for women over 50 and far beyond.
Vera shares the story behind Words We Wear, shaped by childhood surgeries, a teenage marriage, lif...
Sometimes the moment that breaks your life open is the moment that brings you back to yourself.
In this powerful episode of Aging with Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer speaks with Frankie Picasso, international socialpreneur, broadcaster, author, artist, and co-founder of G Woman Media, about the motorcycle accident that changed her life overnight.
Frankie shares how she rebuilt through critical care, career loss, divorce, legal ...
Your life can look “fine” on paper while your body is quietly preparing a hard stop.
I’m joined by Farla Efros—seasoned retail executive, speaker, and author of Fck Cancer*—to unpack the reality of an aggressive breast cancer diagnosis hitting in the midst of high-stakes leadership and profound family loss.
In this episode, we move beyond the "pink ribbon" narrative to discuss the visceral whiplash of a ...
Why does stability feel so scary? Strategist Beverley Glazer and Dr. Melanie Sue Hicks deconstruct betrayal trauma, grief, and the ' Everest' of midlife.
Some of the strongest women are the ones quietly carrying the most pain and still showing up. I’m Beverley Glazer, and in this episode, I talk to Dr. Melanie Sue Hicks—workforce expert and author—for a conversation that is different. We aren't just talking about "...
What happens when your life looks 'perfect' but you're fighting PTSD? Kari Wells shares her raw journey of trauma, healing, and midlife reinvention.
Your life can look "fine" to everyone else while you’re quietly fighting to get through the day.
I sit down with Kari Wells, known to millions as a cast member on Bravo’s Married to Medicine, to pull back the curtain on the private reality behind public success. Beyond the ca...
Is your 'biological clock' a lie? Dr. Dorian Mintzer became a first-time mom at 50 and is reinventing work at 80. Learn how to survive memory loss in marriage and reclaim your 'Bonus Years'.
Who told you the window for 'new' was closed? Most women over 50 are playing it safe, waiting for a permission slip that’s never coming. Dr. Dorian (Dori) Mintzer is the woman who burned the script.
After a near-death accident at 20 changed...
Is your 'perfect' life actually a prison? Author Jeanne Blasberg reveals how she healed from childhood trauma, quit her Boston corporate life, and found a radical new purpose at 50.
What happens when the "right" life feels completely wrong? Most women over 50 are terrified to walk away from what they’ve built. Jeanne Blasberg did exactly that. She traded a high-achieving life in Boston for a regenerative farm in Wisconsin&mdas...
Your clothes speak before you do—are they telling the story of the woman you are now? 👗 Chief Style Strategist Bria Johnson joins Beverley Glazer to help women over 50 close the 'Embodiment Gap' and reclaim their visual authority.
Are you walking into rooms feeling unseen, underestimated, or just slightly "off" in your own skin? In this episode of Aging with Purpose and Passion, host Beverley Glazer talks with Bria Johnson, f...
"She dated 30 men in 15 months to find 'the one.' 👠 Then, she reinvented her entire career using 'Midlife Magic.' Stop waiting for luck and start choosing your future."
Is your next chapter a matter of luck, or a series of deliberate choices? In this episode of Aging with Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer talks with author and "MBA Mystic" Ronnie Ann Ryan. Ronnie shares the exact strategy she used to find love and how she pivote...
They told her to retire; she wrote 'Elderotica' instead. 🖋️ At 60, biologist Stella Fosse stopped following the scripts and started rewriting them—literally."
Can your most exciting chapter actually begin after 60? In this episode of Aging with Purpose and Passion, host Beverley Glazer sits down with biologist and author Stella Fosse. Stella’s life is a masterclass in midlife reinvention—moving from a career in bi...
What happens when the business you love becomes a burden you can no longer carry?
In this episode of Aging with Purpose and Passion, host Beverley Glazer talks with entrepreneur and author Ev Foster. Ev shares her raw journey from building a women’s gym community in Scotland to walking away under crushing pressure and ultimately reinventing herself in real estate leadership.
Whether you are navigating single motherhood, recover...
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