This episode begins the way Midlife Reframed began. With a call. Not a pitch. Not a plan. Just two women naming a shared frustration they could no longer ignore.

In this first conversation, we talk openly about the stories being told about women in midlife at work. Stories about declining ambition. Stories about invisibility. Stories that sound like research but feel nothing like lived experience. We unpack where those narratives come from, why they persist, and what they conveniently overlook.

What emerges is not a tidy solution, but clarity. Midlife is not a career cliff. It is a moment of reckoning. A time when experience, pattern recognition, and self trust sharpen, even as systems struggle to make space for them.

This episode sets the foundation for everything that follows. Why this podcast exists. Who it is for. And why reframing midlife is not about personal mindset shifts alone, but about questioning the frames we have all been handed.

If you have ever felt like the story being told about your ambition does not match your reality, this conversation will feel familiar.

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