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The Midlife Reinvention: How to Find Your Ikigai, Deal with Imposter Syndrome & Build Your Confidence in Career & Life Transitions

Kavita Ahuja, Founder of It"s My Time Now Coaching, Inspired By Mel Robbins, Oprah Winfrey, Brene Brown, Deepak Chopra, Vishen Lakhiani, Cathy Heller

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 as she gives her own wonderful insights and interviews incredible women across the globe that will give you inspiration to rediscover who you really are, what you really want, and how to get there.You"ll learn how to overcome obstacles, find your true calling, and make your next chapter in life your best

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18:53

#324: How to Rediscover Your Purpose in Career and...

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2026/07/28

Have you been looking for your purpose as though it were out there somewhere waiting to be found, when the whole time it has been quietly living inside you? For so many women in a career and life transitions, the search for what is next feels like hunting for something outside themselves, a job to discover, a course to take, a version of themselves to become. In this episode, Kavita gathers up the whole recent series and lands on the one idea underneath all of it. Your reason for being was ne...

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8:23

#323: Say It Out Loud and Let Your Midlife Transition...

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2026/07/23

Have you been quietly turning the biggest question of your life over in your own head for months, hoping the answer will finally appear if you just think hard enough? For years, capable women in a midlife career and life transitions carry the most important questions of their lives privately, researching, journaling, and lately, typing them into a screen at midnight. It is not a weakness. It is a very old habit of trying to solve the deepest things alone. But the moment your reason for being ...

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20:06

#322: Can AI Find Your Ikigai or Reason for Being in...

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2026/07/20

Have you ever sat up late, typed "what should I do with my life" into a chat window, and walked away feeling more empty than when you started? You are not alone, and you did nothing foolish. It is the most natural thing in the world to reach for a screen when the questions get big. But there is a reason those beautifully written answers rarely move you forward, and it has nothing to do with the quality of the technology. It has everything to do with the kind of work that finding your reason f...

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8:00

#321: What If the First Step of Your Midlife Career...

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2026/07/16

Have you been telling yourself that the way back to the part of you that you buried has to be huge, dramatic, and terrifying? For so many accomplished women in a midlife career and life transition, the reason a buried passion stays buried is not laziness or a lack of courage. It is the quiet belief that reclaiming it requires quitting the job, upending the family, and gambling the whole house on a dream. When the only way out looks that big, the most human response is to do nothing. In this T...

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22:09

#320: The Passion You Buried That Holds the Key to...

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2026/07/13

Is there a part of you that you buried a long time ago, a love or a talent that once made you feel most alive? Somewhere along the way, life needed you to be practical, responsible, and the person everyone expected you to be, and so you folded that part of yourself away and got on with your life. It did not go anywhere. It is still in there, quiet and patient, and every year you leave it in the dark, it costs you a little more of your energy, your aliveness, and your years. In this episode of...

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7:43

#319: When Your Ikigai Clicks Into Place and You...

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2026/07/09

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: Wh...

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16:21

#318: Why a Successful Career Can Feel Empty and How...

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2026/07/06

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 o...

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6:36

#317: How to Find Your Purpose in Midlife When You...

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2026/07/02

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...

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18:49

#316: When Everything You Have Lived Through Becomes...

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2026/06/29

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 i...

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6:39

#315: The Fourth Circle of Ikigai That Reveals Where...

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2026/06/25

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 tr...

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14:35

#314: How to Work With the Inner Critic That Keeps...

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2026/06/22

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 ...

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8:35

#313: The Hidden Strengths That Can Reshape Your...

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2026/06/18

Send us Fan Mail 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 quie...

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47:03

#312: How to Reinvent Yourself After 50 When...

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2026/06/15

Send us Fan Mail 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 ...

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10:17

#311: How Your Buried Passions Reveal Your Ikigai in...

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2026/06/11

Send us Fan Mail 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 infor...

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21:03

#310: The Playbook You Did Not Know You Were...

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2026/06/08

Send us Fan Mail 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 wor...

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10:43

#309: The Values That Built You May Not Be the Ones...

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2026/06/04

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever looked at the life you've built and quietly wondered why it no longer feels like yours, even though nothing on the outside looks wrong? Every career and life transition is, underneath everything, a conversation with your values. The values that carried you through your earlier chapters are not always the same ones calling you forward into who you are becoming, and learning to tell the difference is some of the most important work of midlife. In this Thursday min...

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18:19

#308: The Inheritance You've Forgotten About in Your...

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2026/06/01

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever felt like the woman you are today is missing something the woman you used to be already knew? This week marks the start of a brand new series called My Story, where Kavita finally answers a question one of her clients asked that she had been quietly avoiding for five years. As you sit in your own career or life transition, this series is an invitation to listen for yourself in someone else's story, to notice where your themes echo, and to remember the courage th...

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11:17

#307: How to Tell the Difference Between Your Inner...

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2026/05/28

Send us Fan Mail What if the voice that has been telling you you are not ready, not qualified, or not allowed to want something different is not your wisdom at all, but the part of you that has the most to lose if you actually move forward? In midlife, when so much of who you were is quietly reorganizing, the voice in your head tends to get louder. The more you move toward something new, the more that voice works to keep you where you are. The hard part is that your inner critic and your inne...

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43:35

#306: What to Do When the Identity That Got You Here...

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2026/05/25

Send us Fan Mail What if the identity that has defined you for decades - the career, the titles, the roles you have spent a lifetime building - is not actually who you are? For so many women navigating a career or life transition, the most disorienting part is not the change itself. It is the quiet, unsettling realization that when the role falls away, you are not sure who is left. This conversation with Dr. Kathleen Perry - transformational coach, former chiropractor, and host of the Identit...

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7:45

#305: The One Ikigai Question to Ask Yourself in...

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2026/05/21

Send us Fan Mail What if the questions you have been asking about your career or life transition are the very reason the answers keep slipping away from you? Most women in midlife spend years asking what they want, what is missing, and what is wrong with them. Those questions feel productive. They feel like the right place to start. But they have a hidden cost - they keep you looking inward at what you lack, and the more you look, the deeper the stuckness grows. This Thursday mini episode bui...

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