Episode 11: Midlife Is When You Stop Performing
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At some point in midlife, you stop wanting to audition for your own life.
For years, we play the roles expected of us: the capable one, the successful one, the good mother, the dependable friend, the easygoing partner, the woman who always has everything under control.
Then something shifts.
In this episode, Gill Townsend and Barbara Scalzi talk about what happens when you start caring less about being liked, saying yes because you “should”, making yourself smaller at work, or chasing things you’re not even sure you want anymore.
We talk about friendship shake-ups, FOMO, being told you’re too direct, too passionate or simply “too much”, the mental load of being the person who remembers everything, and what happens when you become so good at playing a role that you lose sight of yourself inside it.
Maybe one of the greatest gifts of midlife isn’t wisdom or confidence.
Maybe it’s permission.
Permission to stop proving. Stop pleasing. Stop performing.
And just be who you are.