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  • What does it mean to move at the speed of connection?
    2026/08/27

    What if the restlessness you're feeling at midlife isn't a problem to solve, but a calling you've been too busy to hear?

    Nevada has spent over 20 years helping teams see themselves more clearly. And somewhere in the middle of all of it, she had a realization that she'd spent decades in what she calls the three Ps — performing, productivity, proving — and had completely lost touch with her inner life in the process.

    Out of that came the Midlife Wisdom Circle, a container she built for women navigating exactly this transition: the messy, disorienting, necessary work of moving from the first half of life into the second.

    We talk about the three Ps and why the first half of life almost requires them, the grief that can come with looking back, why a big midlife transition doesn't mean blowing your life up, and how to start moving at the speed of connection.

    What You'll Learn
    ⭐ Why the first half of life is almost designed to pull you away from your inner life
    ⭐ What the three Ps are and how to recognize when they've stopped being enough
    ⭐ How the Enneagram can help you see the adaptive strategies that are no longer serving you
    ⭐ Why a transformative midlife experience doesn't have to mean blowing up your life
    ⭐ Simple practices to start reconnecting with your inner life right now

    Key Insights

    The Three Ps Were Never the Whole Story
    Performing, productivity, proving — Nevada says the first half of life almost requires us to go out and demonstrate we can make it in the system we were born into. The cost is that we can forget about the deeper part of ourselves that has a calling. And at some point, the three Ps stop hitting the mark.

    The Enneagram as a Mirror
    Nevada picked up an Enneagram book at 13, knew she was a Type 3, and put it back down because she didn't want to be one. It wasn't until her early 40s — right in the middle of her own midlife transition — that she picked it back up. And it laid out every adaptive strategy she'd been running, clearly and completely.

    A Big Transition Doesn't Mean Losing Everything You've Built
    Nevada is still married to the same person, living in the same city, raising the same kids. And her experience of her life is completely different because of the inner work. Midlife evolution doesn't require blowing things up. It requires going deeper.

    Moving at the Speed of Connection
    A phrase Nevada borrows from an indigenous teacher: moving at the speed of connection — with other people, and with yourself. In a world that rewards speed and output above all else, slowing down enough to actually connect is the hardest and most important practice of midlife.

    Timestamps
    00:00 Intro: meet Nevada and her 20 years of facilitation work
    01:26 Graphic facilitation — what it is and how she found it
    05:47 The "full body yes" as the spark of purpose
    07:25 The Midlife Wisdom Circle and why she built it
    10:07 Being in community as permission
    12:12 The three Ps — performing, productivity, proving
    15:44 The grief that can come with looking back
    17:13 The Enneagram at 13, and again at 40
    21:00 Can your Enneagram type change? A nuanced answer
    25:29 Why she started her own business 20 years ago
    29:50 Growing up in a Zen Buddhist temple in San Francisco
    35:31 The wake-up call — the anger in the car
    36:58 The searching: every modality, every retreat
    37:57 Why the Midlife Wisdom Circle came to be
    40:36 Moving at the speed of connection
    44:06 The vertical axis — what holds you when the horizontal goes sideways
    47:29 Simple practices to start reconnecting with your inner life
    49:14 A transformative midlife experience doesn't mean blowing your life up
    53:40 The legacy question

    Resources and Links
    Find host Kristin Belden on LinkedIn or at https://www.BeldenStrategies.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinbelden/
    Sign up for Kristin's newsletter Big Deal Energy: https://www.BeldenStrategies.com/newsletter
    Connect with Nevada on LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/nevadalane/
    Learn more about the Midlife Wisdom Circle: https://www.nevadalane.com/
    Learn more about her organizational work: https://www.lanechangeconsulting.com/

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    #womeninmidlife #midlifetransition #enneagram #graphicfacilitation #womenleadership #innerwork #midlifewisdom #connection #careerevolution #over40 #kindofabigdeal #kristinbelden

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  • What if the Certainty You've Been Seeking Is... You?
    2026/08/20

    What does it take to stop outsourcing your sense of safety — to a company, a title, a paycheck — and finally realize it was always coming from inside you?

    Su Zangara spent over a decade at Intel before the company let her go two days after her mother's funeral, while she was on maternity leave with her second child. It was the moment that cracked open everything she thought she knew about stability. From there: a toxic job she walked out of, an epiphany listening to Tony Robbins CDs while the kids were at school, a dream that she worked for him, and then, she did. Out of 500 applicants, she was one of 18 who got a job offer at the end of his Coaches' Academy. Now she runs her own practice working with high-capacity women who are successful on paper but exhausted from performing, and leads Radiant Year, a women's mastermind built for identity shifts.

    We talk about what it means to stop shrinking, why wanting more doesn't make you ungrateful, and why the certainty you've been looking for was never in the company. It was always you.

    What You'll Learn
    ⭐ Why "stable" jobs are an illusion
    ⭐ How to recognize when you're exhausted from performing a version of yourself that isn't you
    ⭐ Why wanting more doesn't mean you're ungrateful
    ⭐ How to tell the difference between your sage mind and your stubbornness
    ⭐ What it means to receive a compliment
    ⭐ How to stop shrinking and start taking up the space you were always meant to fill

    Key Insights

    The Certainty Is You
    Su spent years chasing the safety of a steady paycheck, stock options, and corporate stability — until Intel let her go two days after her mother's funeral. The lesson she eventually learned: the certainty she was seeking was never in the company. It was her all along.

    They're Exhausted From Performing
    The theme Su sees most consistently in the women she works with: they're tired of the hustle, the people pleasing, and the shrinking. They've spent years being rewarded for compliance, for fitting a version of themselves that was never quite right. And at some point, they just can't do it anymore.

    Wanting More Is Not the Same as Being Ungrateful
    One of the most common disclaimers Su hears: "I know I have so much, but..." She calls it an either/or that doesn't exist. You can be deeply grateful and still want more. The yes/and is where everything shifts.

    When the Knowing Becomes Louder Than the Fear
    Su's framework for getting unstuck: you don't have to eliminate the fear. You just have to get to the point where the knowing is louder. That's courage. That's when you take your hand off the desk and walk toward the brownie sundae.

    Receiving a Compliment Is Receiving Love
    Most of us deflect compliments not because we're modest, but because we're protecting ourselves. If I reject me first, you can't reject me. Su's reframe: when someone gives you a compliment, they're giving you a gift. Not receiving it is giving it back.

    Timestamps
    00:00 Intro: meet Su, the Queen of Mindset
    02:00 What Su is seeing in women right now
    06:16 "Shoulding on yourself"
    07:12 What happens when the spark starts to come back
    10:02 "Our minds are gonna make up good shit"
    12:04 Getting let go two days after her mother's funeral
    14:35 It's all an illusion of safety — the certainty is you
    16:04 Walking out of a toxic job and finding Tony Robbins
    25:00 Manifestation, permission, and knowing what you actually want
    32:24 Yes, and — grateful AND wanting more
    32:44 "Be selfish" — filling your cup first
    34:33 Owning your accomplishments without apology
    35:21 Kristin's daughter and the magic of "I know I am"
    37:04 Why we deflect compliments
    40:05 Receiving a compliment is receiving love
    42:26 When the knowing becomes louder than the fear
    48:09 Building a business on her own
    49:56 The eagle and the turtle — raising your frequency
    57:13 Radiant Year — Su's women's mastermind cohort

    Resources and Links
    Find host Kristin Belden on LinkedIn or at https://www.BeldenStrategies.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinbelden/
    Sign up for Kristin's newsletter Big Deal Energy: https://www.BeldenStrategies.com/newsletter
    Learn more about Su's work:
    https://paperbell.me/su-zangara
    Learn more about Radiant Year: https://app.paperbell.com/checkout/packages/227950

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    #mindset #womeninmidlife #heartcentered #selfpermission #womenleadership #careerreinvention #intuition #identityshift #womeninbusiness #over40 #kindofabigdeal #kristinbelden

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  • The Cage Door Is Wide Open. Are You Walking Through It?
    2026/08/13
    What does it actually take to walk away from a very good life... and bet on yourself instead?Helena spent over a decade building her career through boutique agencies, two major corporate acquisitions, and an executive role as chief of staff, before identifying a gap in the market and founding Archive Digital, an enterprise e-commerce services company that's female-founded in a space where that's still genuinely rare. She had the golden handcuffs, the title, the stability. And she walked away anyway.We talk about what it's like to navigate two acquisitions at completely different career stages, why the chief of staff role is having a moment, what 10 years of sobriety taught her about building a business and sitting with discomfort, and why she believes women have a responsibility to engage with AI right now, not watch from the sidelines.This one covers a lot of ground and all of it is worth your time.What You'll Learn⭐ What two corporate acquisitions taught her about knowing when it's time to leave⭐ Why the chief of staff role is becoming more important in the age of AI⭐ How sobriety built the exact muscle she needed to start a company⭐ What it means to trust your intuition when your board is all male and nobody looks like you⭐ Why "corporate stability" is an illusion, and what to do with that realization⭐ Why women aren't just suited to engage with AI, they're needed to shape itKey InsightsBoth Acquisitions Taught Her What She Didn't WantHelena went through her first acquisition as an individual contributor and her second as chief of staff on the leadership team. The vantage points couldn't have been more different, but the lesson was the same: the bigger the company, the further from the customer, and the harder it is to do great work with integrity.The Chief of Staff Role Is Having a RenaissanceHelena's time as chief of staff to her CEO remains her favorite job. And she's seeing data that suggests the role is becoming even more critical with AI. Companies need integrators who can translate across functions, hold complexity, and keep the human element in the lead.Sobriety Built the Business Muscle Before the Business ExistedGetting sober at 23 and building a decade of personal responsibility, sitting with discomfort, and learning who she was without alcohol — all of it turned out to be the exact training ground for entrepreneurship. The imposter syndrome of showing up sober to a wedding in her mid-20s and the imposter syndrome of pitching a global CTO aren't that different. You just learn to sit with it anyway.She Reversed Her Board on Gut AloneIn her first board meeting after raising money, Helena reversed the company's planned tech direction with zero data — just her intuition — and told the board that. Having an all-male board means there's no one in the room who instinctively sees what she sees. So she's had to learn to trust herself first.The Cage Door Is Wide OpenCorporate stability is an illusion. Entrepreneurship is an illusion. We're all navigating uncertainty — but most of us are doing it from inside a cage with the door open, convincing ourselves we can't leave. Helena left. And she'd tell you: corporate will always be there if you need to go back.Timestamps02:16 What Archive does and who they work with03:14 Navigating two corporate acquisitions 09:24 Getting further from the customer — what drove her to start something new11:36 Did she always see herself as an entrepreneur?14:50 Raising her hand before she was ready 15:48 The chief of staff role: what it actually takes19:24 Why AI is making the chief of staff role more important23:28 The transition from corporate executive to founder26:51 Sobriety and entrepreneurship: the parallel nobody talks about29:44 Reversing the board's decision on intuition alone35:58 You're building a muscle you don't even know you need yet39:41 How her idea of success has evolved41:11 The golden handcuffs — and why she walked away anyway45:35 It's all an illusion of safety46:04 Women and AI: get on board or get left behind53:02 The legacy questionResources and LinksFind host Kristin Belden on LinkedIn or at https://www.BeldenStrategies.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinbelden/Sign up for Kristin's newsletter Big Deal Energy: https://www.BeldenStrategies.com/newsletterConnect with Helena on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hailshan/Check out her substack: https://superpoweredbyhelena.substack.com/If this conversation resonated, hit the follow button and share it with someone who needed to hear it!#womeninbusiness #femalefounder #entrepreneurship #womenintech #corporatetoentrepreneur #sobriety #femaleintuition #AI #womenleadership #careerreinvention #over40 #kindofabigdeal #kristinbelden
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  • What Happens When You Stop Being the One Behind the Curtain
    2026/08/06

    There's a version of leadership that never gets a title - the one who reads a hundred pages every weekend so someone else doesn't have to, the one who becomes an expert on nuclear reactors on a Tuesday because someone needed her to be.

    Sarah Moffat spent fifteen years being that person inside Senator Feinstein's Central Valley office, then moved into philanthropy, and two and a half years ago took the leap to build her own strategy firm.

    We recorded this conversation a while back, and it still holds up. It's a real look at what it costs, and what it gives back, to step out from behind the scenes and become the one people call directly.

    What You'll Learn

    ⭐ Why "the person behind the person" is a real leadership skill, not a stepping stone to apologize for

    ⭐ How to actually read a room (and an elected official) well enough to get something done

    ⭐ Why validation-seeking doesn't disappear with experience, and what to do with it instead

    ⭐ What it actually feels like in the body to make the leap from employee to founder

    ⭐ How to build real partnership instead of competing for the same funding pot

    ⭐ Why your forties might be the moment you finally get to know yourself again

    Key Insights

    The Skill of Being Behind the Scenes
    Sarah spent over a decade and a half prepping the brief, reading the room, and making sure someone else looked good in front of a crowd. It took years to see that as a skill in its own right, not just a placeholder until something "real" came along.

    Same Team, Different Lane
    Sarah built coalitions across community foundations and government offices by leading with "we're all on the same team," even when the credit could've gone just one way - a mindset shift she says most mission-driven work desperately needs.

    The Jump Nobody Fully Prepares You For
    Sarah didn't leap into her own business with total clarity. She's honest about needing someone else to say "go" before she trusted it herself, and how that need for outside validation didn't disappear just because she'd built a strong track record.

    Timestamps

    00:00 – Reconnecting after years, full circle on this series
    04:00 – Starting out in local Fresno government
    14:00 – Mentorship and working across the aisle
    20:00 – The gap between civics class and real life
    24:00 – Leaving Feinstein's office for philanthropy
    33:00 – The leap into building her own firm
    40:00 – Listening to the pull toward change
    44:00 – What her forties are teaching her
    50:00 – What legacy means to her

    Resources and Links

    Ready for support making your own next move?
    Book a Clarity Consult: https://www.beldenstrategies.com/clarityconsult
    Get Big Deal Energy in your inbox: https://www.beldenstrategies.com/newsletter

    #over40 #KindOfABigDeal #WomenInLeadership #CareerEvolution #Entrepreneurship #MidCareerWomen

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    56 分
  • If You're Not At The Table, You're The Meal
    2026/07/30

    Many of us don't think about government until it's already affecting us — and by then, it's too late to have a say in how. This conversation is a wake-up call, delivered by someone who's spent her entire career inside the rooms where the decisions get made.

    Crystal comes from a family of public servants and built her own career from the ground up, starting in Congressional Affairs at the Department of Commerce, moving through Capitol Hill, and eventually becoming a powerhouse in government relations and lobbying.

    In this conversation, we get into why public apathy toward government has never been higher, what it really costs to stay disengaged, and what it means to build a legacy rooted in showing up for people rather than chasing a title.

    What You'll Learn:
    ★ Why understanding government matters long before it personally affects you
    ★ How to translate complex, technical information into something people actually feel
    ★ What builds the confidence to speak up in intimidating, high-stakes rooms
    ★ Why trying something new teaches you more about yourself than almost anything else
    ★ How legacy shifts once you stop measuring it by career and start measuring it by impact

    Key Insights:

    The Cost of Not Paying Attention
    Crystal's core belief is simple and unsettling: if you're not at the table, you're on the menu. She's watched public disengagement from government worsen over the years, driven by misinformation, siloed media consumption, and a civics education gap that starts young and never gets closed.

    Making the Complicated Feel Human
    The real skill Crystal has built over decades isn't just policy knowledge, it's translation. From explaining a government shutdown in sixty-second videos to breaking down legislative process for furloughed federal employees who felt invisible, she's made a career out of making dry information feel urgent and human.

    Building the Muscle of Discomfort
    Crystal traces her comfort with public speaking back to literal elevator pitches on Capitol Hill - five minutes to brief a senator before he walked into a room full of colleagues. It's a reminder that confidence in high-stakes moments isn't innate. It's built rep by rep, often in the moments that scare you the most.

    Legacy as Showing Up
    Having lost her mother young, Crystal's definition of legacy has shifted away from career milestones and toward something quieter: being present, listening, and making the people in her life feel truly seen.

    Timestamps:
    00:00 – Introduction
    04:00 – What pulled Crystal into government relations
    10:00 – Starting a TikTok channel during a government shutdown
    17:00 – Making policy human: the skill of translation
    22:00 – Building confidence in high-stakes rooms
    47:00 – Entrepreneurship as self-discovery
    53:00 – What building a legacy really means

    Resources and Links:
    Clarity Consult: https://www.beldenstrategies.com/clarityconsult
    Big Deal Energy Newsletter: https://www.beldenstrategies.com/newsletter

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    #KindOfABigDeal #over40 #GovernmentRelations #Lobbying #CivicEngagement #Legacy #WomenInPolitics #BigDealEnergy

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  • What If Burnout Isn't the Price of Caring This Much?
    2026/07/23

    What does it actually take to stay in mission-driven work for the long haul - not three years, not five, but a whole career? In this conversation, I sit down with Kate, a workforce development strategist who's spent nearly two decades working across policy, philanthropy, and the private sector to build more equitable pathways into good jobs. We talk about translating complicated systems into human language, why certain skills will always matter more than what AI can do, and what it really means to build a legacy.

    Kate leads strategy for a national workforce development organization focused on getting young adults without a four-year degree into good careers. Her path started with two years in AmeriCorps' City Year program working in one of Boston's lowest-performing middle schools - an experience she credits with shaping both who she is and how she approaches the work today.

    She's spent her career since translating complex policy and data into language that actually moves people, all while staying deeply intentional about sustainability and self-care in work that could easily consume her.

    What You'll Learn:
    ★ Why simplifying language builds more support for a cause than expertise ever will
    ★ What human skills AI can't replicate, and why they matter more as automation grows
    ★ How to build a sustainable career in mission-driven work without burning out
    ★ Why legacy isn't a someday thing, it's built in how you show up today

    Key Insights:

    Say the Quiet Part Out Loud
    Kate's biggest professional lesson: jargon doesn't convince anyone. Whether she's talking about economic mobility or "making America suck less for poor people," the plainer the language, the more people actually invest.

    The Skills AI Can't Touch
    As automation reshapes the labor market, Kate points to the deeply human skills - reading a room, gut-checking what feels wrong, navigating conflict - that her young adults are already building through real-world jobs, and why that's an underrated advantage.

    Sustainability Isn't Optional
    From her very first job, Kate built boundaries most people don't set until burnout forces them to - no weekend work, protected recharge time, real rest. It's made decades in hard, emotional work possible instead of unsustainable.

    Legacy Is a Daily Practice
    When asked what legacy means to her, Kate's answer wasn't about scale or recognition, it was generosity. With time, attention, and money, built one relationship at a time.

    Timestamps:
    00:00 – Reconnecting and introducing Kate
    04:00 – What Kate's focused on today
    09:00 – Why simple language beats jargon
    14:00 – AI, higher ed, and leveling the playing field
    22:00 – Starting out in the 2008 recession and AmeriCorps
    27:00 – Building a sustainable relationship with work
    44:00 – What legacy means to Kate

    Resources and Links:
    Book a Clarity Consult: https://www.beldenstrategies.com/clarity
    Subscribe to Big Deal Energy, the newsletter for folks navigating what's next: https://www.beldenstrategies.com/newsletter

    Connect with Kristin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinbelden/

    Connect with Kate on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katenaranjo/

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    #KindOfABigDeal #WomenInLeadership #CareerEvolution #WorkforceDevelopment #MissionDrivenWork #Nonprofit

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  • When the Job, the Kids, and the Identity All Hit at Once
    2026/07/16

    What happens when a promotion, a pregnancy, and a full identity reckoning all land in the same year?

    That's where Misty Avila was when this conversation was recorded. VP and Chief Strategy Officer at the James B. McClatchy Foundation. Interim executive director at the Central Valley Journalism Collaborative, brought on to stabilize it through a transition. And expecting her third daughter - right in the middle of realizing, by her own admission, that she didn't feel successful. Not despite the titles - while holding them.

    That daughter has since arrived. I can't wait for round two so we can hear what has evolved!

    What You'll Learn
    ⭐ Why Misty built her own "curriculum" instead of following a traditional path
    ⭐ What it means to lead a foundation designed to disappear
    ⭐ The moment she realized she didn't feel successful, even holding two major leadership roles at once
    ⭐ How motherhood is reshaping her sense of identity, in real time
    ⭐ Why funding local news by who it reaches matters more than what beat it covers

    Key Insights

    The Moment "Successful" Stopped Fitting
    VP title. Interim ED role. Third child on the way. Misty's own read on herself: not successful. She sits in that, without rushing to fix it.

    People Are Her Library
    Not a formal program. Not a degree. Misty's education came from travel, real skills, and real people - a philosophy that still shapes how she leads.

    A Foundation Built to Disappear
    The James B. McClatchy Foundation is on a Sunrise plan, intentionally spending down by 2030. Misty on what it takes to trust the work continues without owning it.

    Resources and Links

    Find host Kristin Belden on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinbelden/
    or at https://www.BeldenStrategies.com
    Book a Clarity Consult: https://www.BeldenStrategies.com/clarityconsult
    Sign up for Kristin's newsletter Big Deal Energy: https://www.BeldenStrategies.com/newsletter
    Connect with Misty on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mistavila/

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    #careerchange #careerreinvention #womeninmidlife #motherhoodandcareer #philanthropy #localjournalism #centralvalley #womenleadership #legacy #over40 #kindofabigdeal #kristinbelden

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  • What If the Voice You've Been Ignoring Is the One You Should Trust Most?
    2026/07/09
    What does it actually look like to build a life around your truest gifts - not because someone gave you permission, but because you finally stopped waiting for it?Brett Blackburn has been doing exactly that for over 20 years. As a psychic intuitive, channel, Reiki master, and creator of Inspired Light, Brett helps people remove the blockages, limiting beliefs, and inherited programming that have been quietly running their lives, and replaces them with something clearer: access to their own inner knowing. She believes that when you clear what doesn't belong to you, you become your own ultimate guidance system.We talk about what it means to trust that voice before you have proof it's right, why so many women at midlife are finally willing to take action on what they've known all along, and what it looks like to build a business - and a life - that genuinely fits who you are. Plus Brett shares the one simple practice she recommends to anyone who wants to start reconnecting with themselves today.This one will stay with you.What You'll Learn⭐ How to tell the difference between your intuition and your mental noise⭐ Why listening is only the first step, and why action is the hardest part⭐ What it actually means to build a life around your innate gifts⭐ How to separate other people's energy from your own ⭐ Why midlife women are finally giving themselves permission to trust themselves⭐ One simple daily practice to reconnect to your highest vibrationKey InsightsThe Voice Has Always Been ThereBrett trusted her inner knowing from a young age - through a spiritual calling, a year in Europe, and a deliberate pivot away from the "responsible" path. Her lesson: that voice never led her astray. The question isn't whether it's there. It's whether you're willing to trust it.Listening, Trusting, Acting Most people actually receive the messages more than they think. What stops them is the second and third step: trusting what they heard, and then actually doing the thing. Brett calls this the real work, and the hardest part isn't hearing the voice. It's moving on it.Your Energy Has Boundaries. Start Treating It That Way.As an empath or highly sensitive person, absorbing other people's energy isn't inevitable - it's often a boundaries issue. Brett explains how keeping your energy in your own space (and everyone else's in theirs) is actually what allows you to connect more deeply, not less.Midlife Women Are Finally Giving Themselves PermissionBrett is seeing a clear pattern in the women coming to her right now: after years of accumulating evidence that listening to themselves works, they're finally willing to act on it. Not because life got easier, but because they've run out of reasons to keep waiting.Legacy Is Who You Show Up As Every DayFor Brett, legacy isn't what you leave behind. It's about fully, genuinely embodying your most authentic self and glowing that out into the world. Everything else follows from that.Timestamps00:00 Intro: meet Brett — psychic intuitive, channel, and Reiki master02:15 "Quick suit to psychic" — how Brett found her path05:08 Trusting your inner knowing from a young age07:22 It's not always a voice — the four clairs explained09:12 Tracking your intuition: a practice for building trust10:09 Building Inspired Light — the early days13:07 What it feels like to build around your truest gifts18:14 "Do I stay or do I go?" — how Brett helps people navigate stuck jobs19:37 The client who got fired — and why it was the biggest blessing23:26 Reiki as a gateway — and Brett's own formula25:15 The season Brett is in now: family, balance, and new offerings28:49 Parenting with intention — giving kids tools to come back to themselves33:16 The Essentials Class: grounding, boundaries, and clearing energy38:29 Separating other people's energy from yours39:07 Energy, empaths, and why boundaries are the real answer44:48 Awareness changes everything — even before you do anything else47:46 What Brett is hearing from midlife women right now50:09 Permission — the word that keeps coming up54:25 The one daily practice Brett recommends55:59 The legacy questionResources and LinksConnect with Brett Blackburn and learn more about Inspired Light: https://beinspiredlight.com/Find Brett's newest offering, The Essentials: https://go.beinspiredlight.com/theessentialsFind host Kristin Belden on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinbelden/or at https://www.BeldenStrategies.comSign up for Kristin's newsletter Big Deal Energy: https://www.BeldenStrategies.com/newsletterIf this conversation resonated, share it with someone who needed to hear it - and consider leaving a review. It helps more women find these conversations.#intuition #innerknowing #womeninmidlife #psychicintuitive #energyhealing #reiki #selfpermission #midlifewomen #womenleadership #authenticself #over40 #kindofabigdeal #kristinbelden
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