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School of Midlife

School of Midlife

著者： Laurie Reynoldson
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This is the podcast for high-achieving women in midlife who want to make midlife their best life.


Women who have worked their entire lives, whether that’s in a traditional career or as the CEO of their household, or for many women, both. And they look around at their life in midlife, and think “I’ve worked my ass off for this?”


They have everything they always thought they ever wanted, but for some reason, it feels like something is missing.


This is the podcast for midlife women who are experiencing all sorts of physical changes in their bodies, while navigating changes in every other part of their lives, too: friendships, family life, work life.


This is the podcast for midlife women who find themselves wide-awake at 2.00am, asking themselves big questions like “what do I want?” “is it too late for me?”, and “what’s my legacy beyond my family and my work?”


Each week, we’re answering these questions and more at the School of Midlife.


When it comes to midlife, there are a lot of people talking about menopause and having a midlife crisis. This isn’t one of those podcasts. While we may occasionally talk about the menopausal transition, but that’s not our focus. Because we believe that midlife is so much more than menopause. And it’s certainly not a crisis.

At the School of Midlife, we’re looking to make midlife our best life.


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  • 186. Orientation Day: When Being a High-Achiever Isn't Enough

    186. Orientation Day: When Being a High-Achiever Isn't Enough
    2026/08/12

    The problem with high-performance coaching for high-achieving women? They're already high performers. That's exactly the problem.

    This episode kicks off something new: a multi-week series Laurie's calling Back to School (of Midlife) — not the pencils-and-Trapper-Keeper kind of back to school, the adult kind. Every week for the next several weeks, she's walking through the frameworks she's built over the years, where they came from, and how she actually uses them with clients.

    Today's episode is the origin story. Before there was a BEST LIFE™ framework, before Learn/Earn/Yearn, before Curiosity → Clarity → Courage → Confidence, there was a certification — an elite one, one of only 1,100 in the world — and a realization that cracked everything else open.

    Laurie walks through exactly what that certification taught her (and still uses in every session), and exactly how "she's already a high performer" turns out to be the whole problem, not a strength to lean on harder. She also gets into two decades of living this pattern herself — first in law, then in commercial real estate — before she ever became a coach.

    What we cover:

    • Why Laurie is kicking off a new podcast series, and why she's leaning all the way into the back-to-school metaphor
    • The "adulting playbook" — school, job, marriage, kids, promotion, retirement — and the homework she gives you about it
    • Why she chose Certified High Performance Coaching, and the Brendon Burchard connection that led her there
    • What the CHPC curriculum actually taught her — and why she still uses those skills in every session today
    • Why "busyness" is often an avoidance technique, including her own real example of over-boarding on volunteer work and marathon training to avoid being home
    • The most important piece her clients kept missing: checking in with themselves
    • Why it wasn't a gap in the curriculum — it was just more of the same
    • The two decades she spent living this exact pattern herself, in law and then commercial real estate
    • What Personal Leadership Development actually means, and why it's not life coaching or executive coaching — it's the umbrella above both
    • A preview of the entire Back to School series: BEST LIFE™, Learn/Earn/Yearn, Curiosity/Clarity/Courage/Confidence, and an honest look at what's happening with the Mastermind
    • The adult "back to school supply list" — a new notebook, a hall pass, an elective, and office hours
    • Why "I just need to work harder" is almost never actually about working harder

    Quotable moments

    • "You have one life. You need to bring all of those pieces of your life instead of compartmentalizing them."
    • "That feeling of having to become someone different depending on which room you walked into — that's not just a career problem. That's the whole thing I coach on now."
    • "The problem with high performance coaching for high-achieving women is they're already high performers... they're missing the most important piece, which is checking in with themselves."
    • "It wasn't so much a gap in the coaching curriculum. It was just more of the same."
    • "Probably 95% of the time, the statement 'I just need to work harder' usually means I haven't asked myself what I actually want."
    • "We use a busy schedule as an avoidance technique."
    • "It's not the work that's leaving you burned out. It's the requirement to show up as a different person in every different role you're asked to fill."

    Resources + links mentioned

    • Episode 183 — "Did You Actually Choose This Life? Or Did You Just Do What Was Expected?"
    • Best Life Planner
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    34 分
  • 185. Untethered: The Retirement Shock Nobody Warns You About

    185. Untethered: The Retirement Shock Nobody Warns You About
    2026/08/04
    Why retirement, whether it's the literal kind or one you haven't named yet, doesn't automatically hand you the fulfillment you've been waiting for.There's something in the water lately. Laurie keeps having the same conversation, over and over, with women in their mid-to-late 50s who are planning to retire in 2027. And she loves it for them, genuinely. But there's a question she can't help asking right after she says "bravo" — and it's the question this whole episode is built around.That question: how do you want to spend the rest of your life? Not the checklist version. The feeling version. And almost every time, she gets a blank stare back.This episode digs into why that blank stare happens (hint: decades of fulfillment tied to applause and approval will do that to a person), tells the story of the "laundry pile test," and makes the case for testing your retirement dreams now, in small pieces, instead of waiting for the retirement party to find out if they actually fit.What we cover:Why Laurie's been hearing "something in the water" — a wave of high-achieving women all planning retirement in 2027The question she can't help asking right after she says "bravo": how do you want to spend the rest of your life?Why "everyone I know who's retired says they don't know how they had time to work" isn't actually an answerThe real question underneath it all: how do you want to feel when you're not working, and what does a perfect day look like?Why she's not asking you to build a checklist or a minute-by-minute plan, and what she's actually asking for insteadThe mechanism: why validation and external approval have quietly run your fulfillment for decades, and what happens when that supply disappearsThe laundry pile story: the retired client whose biggest win is that she's finally caught up on laundry, and why Laurie is skeptical that's the win it looks likeWhy "a clean floor and an empty hamper are not a life plan"Why Laurie loves the in-between time: the season where you still have a job, a marriage, a kid at home, but you're starting to ask what's nextWhy literal retirement (a job) and metaphorical retirement (a marriage, a city, a life you've outgrown) run on the exact same emotional playbookWhy we put our dreams and goals on a pedestal for decades, and what that does to them by the time we finally "arrive"The dress-rehearsal idea: testing your retirement dream in small pieces now, before you've quit anythingWhy waiting until "after the retirement party" to start living the life you've been dreaming about sets you up for a shockThe two questions Laurie wants you to ask yourself this week, and the one small thing she wants you to do about themQuotable moments"You can retire from your job, but you can't retire from yourself.""A clean floor and an empty hamper are not a life plan.""It's very difficult to take a hard-charging, high-achieving woman out of a high-stress environment and move her to the point of her day, of her week, of her month that she has no laundry pile.""We've made retirement this very precious season because we've been working towards it with this idea that we'll just figure it out once we get there.""If we don't dip our toe into that proverbial pool we think we wanna be swimming in, then that fulfillment we've been delaying, we might be surprised to find out it's not coming in the way we think it is after we retire.""I feel like you can take the attorney out of the law firm, but you can't really take the law firm out of the girl.""You are a high-achieving, wildly successful woman. You owe it to yourself to make the second half of your life as exciting and as impactful as you have made the first half."Laurie's ask for this episode Laurie wants to know your biggest takeaway from this episode.→ Email here here→ DM her on InstagramResources + links mentionedBEST LIFE Mastermind — Last change to join the Mastermind! Founding member applications open now, launching September (2 in-person retreats: Sun Valley, ID in September + Civana Wellness Resort & Spa, AZ in February)1:1 coaching — Book a call hereConnect with Laurie📩 JOIN MY MAILING LISThttps://www.schoolofmidlife.com/newsletter👉 CONNECT WITH LAURIE:📩 Email Laurie 💻 WebsiteOn InstagramOn LinkedInWork with Laurie
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    28 分
  • 184. Stop Calling It a "Passion Project." How Brooke Amidei Built Babble

    184. Stop Calling It a "Passion Project." How Brooke Amidei Built Babble
    2026/07/28
    The "anti-influencer" who's been sharing midlife hacks in a weekly newsletter called Babble.Brooke Amidei didn't set out to build a business. She was on a hike with her dog, post-COVID, trying to figure out what to do with the next chapter of her life, when a podcast question stopped her mid-step: "What would you do if you were Oprah?" Her answer was simple...she wanted to spend all day talking with her girlfriends.Three years later, that answer is Babble: a free weekly newsletter that's part magazine, part group chat, and fully allergic to being another influencer account.This conversation goes everywhere a real girlfriend hangout goes. Brooke and Laurie talk about the moment Brooke stopped calling Babble a "passion project" and started calling it her job...and the fear that came with finally saying that out loud. Then it gets into the good stuff: the docuseries that inspired Brooke to rent out a movie theater, the bone density scan she didn't know she needed, and the pelvic floor information that's about to change how every woman in this audience uses the bathroom.It's a conversation about building something real without pretending to have all the answers, and about why the most useful thing you can hand another woman in midlife is just the truth, curated with love.What we cover:How a hike, a dog, and one line from a Rachel Hollis podcast turned into a business called BabbleWhy Brooke calls herself "the anti-influencer" and refuses to fake the polishThe real definition of Babble's "top layer" — and why it's not another deep-dive wellness accountHow a panel of 15 women actually decides what makes it into the newsletter each weekThe moment Brooke stopped calling Babble a "passion project" and started calling it her jobWhy she almost didn't want to admit, even to herself, that this was real work worth being paid forThe docuseries trailer that led Brooke to rent out a movie theater in Boise — and then do it again in Salt Lake CityWhat she learned putting together a health and wellness resource lounge for a room full of midlife womenThe perimenopause "cheat sheet" Brooke built after watching the docuseries and interviewing experts — including the one line an expert had the whole room repeat out loudBrooke's own experience going on vaginal estrogen — and what changed for her after almost two decades of a problem she thought she'd just have to live withThe book and the Instagram account Brooke says are the two non-negotiable resources for anyone starting to learn about perimenopauseWhy women aren't supposed to get a bone density scan until 65 — and why that might already be too lateWhat happened when Brooke and her business partner got their own bone density scans and found out about risk factors they never knew they hadThe colonoscopy prep Babble has covered so many times Brooke jokes she has a "frequent flyer card"The pelvic floor tip about how women are peeing "wrong" — and the small daily habit that might be doing damage without you realizing itHow Babble started monetizing without losing the trust that made it work in the first placeBrooke's manifestation experiment with the Best Life Planner's "10 Dreams I've Achieved" — and the three unplanned massages that showed up after she almost deleted it from her listWhy Brooke and Laurie both push back on being called a "female" doctor, pilot, or scientist — and what that language habit revealsBrooke's current favorite Amazon dupe, and the one product category she says is always worth the searchQuotable moments"I actually call myself the anti-influencer.""Stop calling it a 'passion project'. This is your job.""Every vagina deserves estrogen.""We are peeing incorrectly.""It's the conversation in a newsletter form that you are having with your girlfriends.""Go for it, girl. Just go for it.""It feels kind of like a sisterhood, and I love it."Resources + links mentionedBabbleSign up for Babble's newsletterBabble on InstagramBooks recommended by BrookeThe Perimenopause Cheat SheetThe Bone Health Wake-Up Callhttps://www.babblewithbrooke.com/post/bone-healthThe Korean skincare Brooke lovesThe Anthro Maeve pant dupesThe Vuori dupesThe Best Life Planner — School of Midlife📩 JOIN MY MAILING LISThttps://www.schoolofmidlife.com/newsletter👉 CONNECT WITH LAURIE:📩 Email Laurie 💻 WebsiteOn InstagramOn LinkedInWork with Laurie
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