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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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41:01

#344: What to Do When You Can't Tell If You're Burned...

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2026/10/05

Are you exhausted at work and already picturing the day you walk away, without really knowing what you would be walking toward? That one moment, when burnout and being truly ready for something new feel exactly the same, is where many smart, accomplished people make a decision they later wish they had taken more time with. In a midlife career and life transition, the stakes are high. The title, the structure, the social network, and the built-in sense of purpose all go when the work goes, and...

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8:14

#343: How to Rediscover the Gifts You Have Lost Sight...

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2026/10/01

If someone asked you right now what is truly remarkable about you, what you are genuinely good at, and what lights you up, would you go silent? Most of us would, and not because those things are not there. It is because we stopped looking at them a long time ago, somewhere underneath decades of pouring ourselves into everyone else. In this Thursday check-in, a companion to Monday's conversation in episode 342, Kavita picks up the line that reinvention is not about becoming someone new, it is ...

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18:11

#342: Why the Belief That You Are Too Old Is Keeping...

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2026/09/28

Have you started imagining what could be next for you, only to hear a familiar voice say some version of "It is too late for me, I am too old to start now"? If you are in a midlife career and life transition, there is a good chance that one belief, more than any other, is the thing standing between you and the life you actually want. It is one of the most common beliefs people carry into this season, and it is not a fact. It is a story absorbed somewhere along the way from family, culture, an...

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8:31

#341: How to Take Time for Yourself Without the Guilt...

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2026/09/24

Have you spent so many years pouring yourself into everyone else that you are no longer quite sure who you are underneath all the roles you carry? Somewhere along the way, most of us slid to the very bottom of our own lists, and the well we were giving from slowly ran dry. And when the idea of taking real time for yourself finally comes up, the first thing that arrives is guilt. In this Thursday check-in, a companion to Monday's conversation with Monica Packer in episode 340, Kavita picks up ...

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49:01

#340: What If Perfectionism Is the Real Reason You...

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2026/09/21

Have you ever wondered if the reason you feel stuck in your midlife transition has nothing to do with a lack of discipline, and everything to do with a hidden form of perfectionism you didn't even know you had? Most of us think of perfectionism as the overachieving, driven, never-good-enough version. But there is another side of it that almost no one recognizes in themselves, the giving up, the waiting until you are sure you will not fail, the staying on the sidelines. It is the same rule und...

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9:50

#339: How to Reconnect With What You Actually Want in...

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2026/09/17

Have you tried to picture what you actually want your life to look like, and found that the dream would not fully come into focus, or that you felt a little silly even trying? Somewhere along the way, most of us stopped letting ourselves dream at all. We were told to be realistic, and slowly, without ever quite deciding to, we traded the big open dreaming for practical planning, and started asking what we can manage instead of what we truly want. In this Thursday check-in, Kavita picks up whe...

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18:16

#338: The Real Reason the Money Fear Keeps You Stuck...

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2026/09/14

Have you convinced yourself that the work you truly want to do is a luxury you simply cannot afford right now? For so many accomplished women in a midlife transition, the money fear arrives in almost the same breath as the dream itself. You know the work you are doing no longer fits, and you want something that means more, and then reality steps in with the mortgage, the bills, the people who depend on you. The fear is real, and it deserves an honest answer. But it is also rarely the whole st...

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7:49

#337: Why Your Future Self Already Knows Your Next...

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2026/09/10

Have you finally admitted to yourself what you want next, and immediately found that a wall of fear and doubt stands between you and actually reaching for it? On Monday, in episode 336, Kristy Halvorsen left us with one question that silenced every fear long enough for us to see what we actually want. This Thursday check-in picks up right there. Once you can see the life you want, the work becomes meeting the wiser future version of yourself who has already walked the path, and giving yoursel...

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45:20

#336: How to Follow the Tickles of Your Soul and...

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2026/09/07

Is there a steady pull inside you toward something different, something you keep talking yourself out of because it makes no sense on paper? For so many women in a midlife transition, the hardest part is not the lack of a plan. It's learning to trust the inner knowing that keeps calling to you underneath the noise, the responsibilities, and the voices of everyone else. In this conversation, Kavita and Kristy Halvorsen explore what it means to live by what Kristy calls the tickles of your soul...

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11:57

#335: Why Your Inner Critic Gets Loudest the Moment...

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2026/09/03

Is there a voice in your head that keeps telling you you're not qualified, not ready, or not the kind of woman who gets to want something more? That voice has a name. In coaching, it's called the gremlin, and you probably know it better as your inner critic. It was built a long time ago to keep you safe, and it has been doing its job by keeping you small ever since. In this Thursday check-in, Kavita goes deeper into step two of last Monday's episode 334, facing your fears, and walks you throu...

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18:00

#334: What to Do When Your Career No Longer Fits in a...

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2026/08/31

Have you built a career that looks successful from the outside, and still carry an honest knowing on the inside that it no longer fits the woman you have become? Nothing may be obviously wrong. The title is still there, the paycheck is still there, and everyone around you assumes you should be grateful. But the person who chose this path 20 or 30 years ago is not you anymore. Your values have shifted, what you want from your days has changed, and wearing a career that fits who you used to be ...

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10:28

#333: What to Do When Your Life Looks Fine but...

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2026/08/27

Have you been carrying around a low, humming sense that something in your life is off, but you cannot quite point to where? On paper, much of your life looks fine. And yet underneath your days there is a low feeling of being out of balance, of moving from a good stretch to a hard one and back again without ever knowing why. Because you cannot name it, you cannot do anything about it, so you tell yourself it is nothing and you keep going. In this Thursday check-in, a companion to Monday's Epis...

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17:44

#332: How to Use the September Reset to Reconnect...

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2026/08/24

Have you found yourself standing at the turn of the season, wondering if this is really the life you meant to be living? For most of your life, September was a reset that belonged to everyone else. This year, with the house stiller and the old work no longer lighting you up, that familiar thrill may be replaced by a sinking feeling. That ache is not a flaw. It is a signal pointing to the gap between how you are living and the woman you have become in your midlife life transition. In this epis...

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8:38

#331: How to Use Your Energy as a Guide to Alignment...

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2026/08/20

Have you spent so many years pushing through, being grateful, and not making a fuss that you have lost track of which parts of your day are actually fueling you and which are wearing you down? For most women in a midlife career and life transition, the mind can talk you into or out of almost anything. But your energy tells the truth. The parts of your life that are aligned with who you truly are will lift you up, and the parts that are misaligned will leave you heavier than the task alo...

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15:49

#330: The Real Reason Some People Seem to Have It All...

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2026/08/17

Have you ever looked at someone who seems to have it all and wondered why life feels so much easier for them than it does for you? It is easy to assume they were born lucky, born special, or given something the rest of us were not. What is actually happening is far more available to you than it looks. In this episode, Kavita shares why alignment with who you are and what you truly want is the one thing that steadies you, moves your energy up the spectrum, and begins to attract the people, cir...

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7:58

#329: The One Question That Turns a Hard Feeling Into...

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2026/08/13

Have you been naming the loudest feeling of your day and moving on, without ever stopping to ask what is really going on underneath it? For most women navigating a midlife career and life transition, the anger, the stress, the flatness you cannot quite explain are not the whole story. They are the tip of the iceberg. The truer feeling, the one that is actually asking to be heard, is sitting quietly underneath, and it often has something important to say about a part of your life that is waiti...

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40:37

#328: What Your Emotions Are Trying to Tell You in a...

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2026/08/10

Have you been doing work you once loved, in a life you actually chose, and still find yourself waking up depleted and quietly unsure of who you are anymore? That feeling is not a character flaw, and it is not proof that you built the wrong life. It is a signal, and like most of the feelings we move through in midlife, it is almost always sitting on top of something quieter and truer that we have not yet let ourselves name. In this conversation, Kavita and Dr. Lorea Martinez explore what our e...

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8:26

#327: How to Stop Living for Everyone Else's Approval...

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2026/08/06

Have you spent most of your life proving yourself to everyone else, and are only now beginning to wonder what it would feel like to do it for you? For decades, so much of what you chased was pointed outward, at parents, employers, families, and a whole world that seemed to be keeping score. That proving built a real life and real skills, and none of it was wasted. But in midlife, something quiet begins to shift. The ambition does not have to end. The audience does. This Thursday check-in, a c...

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24:04

#326: Why Your Ikigai Keeps Evolving Through Every...

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2026/08/03

Have you been taught to think of a milestone birthday as the top of the mountain, when it may actually be the ground you build your next climb from? Turning 60 this weekend, Kavita shares one of the most personal episodes she has ever recorded. In it, she walks you through her own evolving ikigai, dimension by dimension, so you can see for yourself how a reason for being keeps unfolding at every stage of a midlife career and life transition. This is not a look back at what is finished. It is ...

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9:40

#325: What Is Your Real Reason to Get Up in the Morning?

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2026/07/30

If someone asked you today what your real reason to get up in the morning is, could you answer without hesitating? When researchers went to Okinawa and asked the oldest people on earth that same question, almost every one of them answered instantly, without pausing to think. Most of us cannot, because what we have ready is a list of obligations. The children. The meeting. The dog. The groceries. Every one of those things is real, and every one of them matters, but not one of them is yours. In...

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