Aging With Purpose and Passion | Women Over 50

Kim Boudreau Smith on confidence, self-worth, career reinvention, visibility, leadership, and using decades of experience without constantly proving yourself.
What if you’ve spent years proving your value—and no longer need to?
You’ve built experience, solved difficult problems, taken risks, and learned things no résumé can fully capture. Yet even highly capable women can find their confidence rising and falling with income, recognition, job titles, or whether other people approve of what they’re doing.
In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer speaks with Kim Boudreau Smith, founder of Her Bold Voice and a Business Growth Strategist, about what changes when women stop measuring their worth by how much they produce—and start trusting the value of what they already know.
Kim’s path has never been conventional. She moved from corporate sales and marketing into entrepreneurship, built a successful fitness business, pioneered internet radio before podcasting was mainstream, published three Amazon bestselling anthologies, and has spent decades helping women become more visible and influential in their work.
But beneath those accomplishments is a more personal story about confidence, risk, comparison, and the pressure to keep proving yourself.
Kim talks candidly about growing up in a working-class family where hard work and security mattered, the peaks and valleys of entrepreneurship, and what happens when business results begin affecting how you feel about yourself.
Beverley and Kim also explore the critical inner voice Kim calls “the hag in the attic,” why experienced women still underestimate their value, and the difference between running everything yourself and actually leading.
For women building businesses or continuing meaningful careers after 50, they discuss delegation, visibility, thought leadership, comparison with younger women, ageism, and why experience becomes more powerful when you stop trying to be everything to everyone.
But this conversation goes beyond business.
If you’ve spent years achieving, producing, and proving what you can do, this conversation raises a different question: After everything you’ve already accomplished, what would change if you stopped needing to prove your worth?
Stay until the end, when Beverley shares key takeaways and practical actions you can begin using immediately.
In this episode:
How to stop tying your self-worth to income and achievement
Why successful women still struggle with confidence after 50
Making the transition from corporate career to entrepreneurship
How to stop playing small when you have decades of experience
Moving from running everything yourself to becoming a stronger leader
How delegation protects your time, energy, and business growth
Building visibility and thought leadership after 50
Dealing with comparison and the critical voice in your head
How women over 50 can use experience as a professional advantage
Deciding what you really want from work at this stage of life
For similar episodes on owning your power, check out When Success No Longer Fits. 182 and Success, Burnout, and What Really Matters Episode 184 of Aging with Purpose and Passion. And if you're looking for a podcast about retirement that goes beyond money and traditional retirement advice, Beyond retirement with Jacquie Doucette explores how to build a retirement that feels meaningful, intentional, and truly your own. That's beyondretirement.ca/reset

🔗 Resources
Kim Boudreau Smith – Founder of Her Bold Voice | Business Growth Strategist
📧 Email: kim@kimboudreausmith.com
🌐 Website: https://www.kimbsmith.com
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimboudreausmith/
Beverley Glazer, MA, CCC – Life & Work Transition Coach | Reinvention Strategist | Host of Aging With Purpose and Passion
🌐 Website: https://reinventimpossible.com
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beverleyglazer/
📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beverley.glazer
👩‍💼 Women Over 50 Rock! Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/womenover50rock
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What happens when life asks more of you than you ever imagined you could give?
You’ve spent years being capable, solving problems, and being there when people need you. But some things can’t be fixed, planned for, or powered through. Sometimes life changes in an instant—and you become the person everyone is counting on.
That’s what happened to Diane Filato.
Just weeks after the birth of Diane’s grandson, her daughter began experiencing unexplained symptoms. Then came the diagnosis no family was prepared for: ALS.
Suddenly, Diane was facing the unimaginable—watching her daughter’s health decline while preparing to take on a role she never expected: raising her young grandson.
In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Diane shares what happens when grief and responsibility arrive at the same time. She talks candidly about the physical and emotional realities of caregiving, becoming a parent again later in life, helping a child feel safe after losing his mother, and carrying your own grief while trying to be strong for someone else.
For women who are accustomed to being the capable one—the person everyone relies on—Diane’s story raises a difficult question: What do you do when life asks more of you than you believe you can give?
We talk about the comments grieving families wish people wouldn’t make, why there is no timetable for “moving on,” and how memory, humour, boundaries, and ordinary routines can help create stability when a family’s world has been changed forever.
Diane also shares the difference Good Grief made for her family. This community-based grief support program brings grieving children and adults together with people who understand their experience. Diane explains why peer grief support can feel very different from therapy, how children process the death of a parent, and why having a place to speak honestly—without judgment or unsolicited advice—can be so powerful.
Whether you are caring for someone you love, grieving a loss, supporting a child through bereavement, taking on an unexpected family responsibility, or simply facing circumstances you never thought would be yours, Diane’s story is about something much larger than tragedy.
It is about how you keep showing up when there is no way to make everything okay.
Stay until the end, when Beverley shares key takeaways and practical actions you can begin using immediately.
In This Episode
Losing an adult child and coping with profound grief
Raising a grandchild after the death of a parent
Becoming a parent again later in life
Caring for a loved one with ALS
Managing caregiving responsibilities while grieving yourself
Helping a child cope with the death of a parent
What not to say to someone who is grieving
How peer grief support differs from traditional therapy
Finding grief support for children and families through Good Grief

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Beverley Glazer, MA, CCC – Life & Work Transition Coach | Reinvention Strategist | Host of Aging With Purpose and Passion
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Jeannie Duckworth on caregiver guilt, dementia warning signs, memory care, senior living, and making difficult decisions before a crisis forces them.
How do you know when keeping an aging parent at home is no longer the safest—or most loving—choice?
For many high achieving women, that question comes with enormous guilt.
You promised you'd be there. You want your parent to remain independent. And every new problem can seem manageable—until wandering, falls, medication mistakes, dementia, or caregiver exhaustion changes everything.
In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer speaks with Jeannie Duckworth, founder and CEO of Blue Magnolia Senior Living Advisors, about one of the most difficult transitions families face: recognizing when an aging parent needs more care than the family can safely provide.
Jeannie has guided thousands of families through senior living decisions, but her understanding of caregiving also comes from personal experience with caregiving, loss, and rebuilding her own life.
Together, Beverley and Jeannie explore the early signs of dementia families often explain away, what can signal that living at home is becoming unsafe, and why moving someone into memory care does not necessarily mean you've abandoned them. Sometimes a specialized setting can provide attention, structure, safety, and support that even the most devoted family cannot provide around the clock.
They also discuss caregiver burnout and guilt, the differences between independent living, assisted living, board-and-care homes, and memory care, and why families are better served when these conversations happen before an emergency.
Jeannie shares practical areas to address early, including advance directives, medication lists, finances, CPR preferences, and—most importantly—what good care means to the person you love.
You'll also hear about caregiver support groups, Alzheimer's resources, and financial assistance that some families may qualify for, including Veterans Aid and Attendance depending on eligibility.
If you're caring for an aging parent while also managing your career, family, health, and your own future, this conversation is a reminder that needing help does not mean you stopped caring. The goal isn't to prove how much you can carry. It's to make the best decision you can for everyone involved.
Stay until the end, when Beverley shares key takeaways and practical actions you can begin using immediately.
In This Episode
How to know when an aging parent may no longer be safe at home
Early dementia signs families often overlook or explain away
When it may be time to consider memory care
How to manage caregiver guilt when a parent needs more help
The difference between independent living, assisted living, and memory care
How caregiver burnout affects families and decision-making
Conversations to have with aging parents before a health crisis
Advance directives, medications, finances, and end-of-life preferences
Finding caregiver support and dementia resources
How to plan a senior living transition before an emergency forces the decision.
🔗 Resources
For similar episodes on caregiving, check out this incredible story, Driving Miss Norma. That's episode 139. And from CEO to Caregiver, episode 152 of Aging with Purpose and Passion. And if you're going through difficult times with a loved one, the Dementia Decoded Podcast with Jennifer Fink is a masterclass for the working family caregiver. That's podcast.show/fading memories. 
Jeannie Duckworth, CDP – Founder & CEO, Blue Magnolia Senior Living Advisors Inc.
🌐 Website: Blue Magnolia Senior Living Advisors
💼 LinkedIn: Jeannie Duckworth
📸 Instagram: @jeanniebluemagnolia
Beverley Glazer, MA, CCC – Life & Work Transition Coach | Reinvention Strategist | Host of Aging With Purpose and Passion
🌐 Website: ReinventImpossible.com
💼 LinkedIn: Beverley Glazer
📘 Facebook: Beverley Glazer
👩‍💼 Women Over 50 Rock! Community: Women Over 50 Rock!
📸 Instagram: @beverleyglazer_reinvention
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Barb Scala on burnout, people-pleasing, identity, golden handcuffs, and redefining success without blowing up your life.
What happens when the successful life everyone admires no longer feels like your own?
You followed the rules. Earned the credentials. Built the career. Took care of the people who depended on you.
From the outside, everything looks right.
Inside, you may be exhausted from performing a version of success that was shaped by someone else’s expectations.
In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer speaks with Barb Scala, an attorney, mediator, entrepreneur, author, and creator of the Seeds for Success™ framework, about what happens when achievement no longer brings fulfillment—and how to make meaningful changes without dismantling your entire life.
Barb shares the mixed messages about success that shaped her early choices, why she remained in law school even when she wanted to leave, and how divorce forced her to confront an identity built around being capable, positive, and pleasing to others.
Her story will resonate with high-achieving women over 50 who have done everything “right” but still feel burned out, disconnected, or uncertain about who they are beyond their professional and personal roles.
Beverley and Barb explore the pull of the golden handcuffs—the income, status, and security that can make an unfulfilling life difficult to leave. They also discuss why financial well-being cannot be separated from emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being, and how thoughtful planning, a safety net, and small deliberate steps can make change possible without an impulsive leap.
Barb also introduces her BLOOM framework: Believe, Let Go, Own Your Value, Optimize Your Energy, and Manifest. Here, manifesting is not wishful thinking. It is aligned, intentional action grounded in self-worth, clarity, and personal responsibility.
If everyone thinks you have it all together—but privately you wonder whether the life you are living is truly yours—this conversation will help you examine what still belongs, what no longer serves you, and how to redefine success on your own terms.
Stay until the end, when Beverley shares key takeaways and practical actions you can begin using immediately.
In this episode:
How to recognize when outward success no longer feels fulfilling
Why high-achieving women remain in careers they have outgrown
Recovering your identity after divorce and major life transitions
How people-pleasing quietly contributes to burnout
Understanding the golden handcuffs of income, status, and security
Redefining success without abandoning financial stability
Making a career change after 50 without blowing up your life
Rebuilding self-worth after years of performing for approval
Using Barb Scala’s BLOOM framework to create aligned change
Taking small, intentional steps toward a life that feels like your own
Resources: 
For similar episodes on aging with purpose and passion, please check out Success, Burnout, and What Really Matters, that's episode 184. And when success no longer fits, that's episode 182. And if you're going through some difficult times right now, the Dementia Decoded Podcast with Jennifer Fink is a masterclass for the working family caregiver. That's dementiadecoded/podcast.show
Barb Scala – Attorney, Mediator, Entrepreneur & Creator of Seeds for Success™
🌐 Website: https://www.bloomwithbarb.com
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbscala/
📘 Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/105652459526062
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloomwithbarb
Beverley Glazer – Life & Work Transition Coach | Reinvention Strategist | Host of Aging With Purpose and Passion
🌐 Website: https://reinventimpossible.com
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beverleyglazer/
📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beverley.glazer
👩‍💼 Women Over 50 Rock! Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/womenover50rock
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 🎁 The Gift of a Safe Space: A private, non-judgmental zone away from work and family to focus entirely on your needs, your journey and what's next for you. If you are feeling stuck in your transition, this is your space to exhale.
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Deb Krier shares how high-achieving women can navigate a breast cancer diagnosis, treatment, work, relationships, and life when everything changes in an instant.
What happens when a breast cancer diagnosis changes everything overnight?
How do you continue leading your career, supporting your family, and making important decisions while navigating chemotherapy, surgery, uncertainty, and fear?
In this powerful episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer sits down with Deb Krier, executive advisor, cancer strategist, and founder of Trying Not to Die, to discuss what it really takes to navigate a Stage III breast cancer diagnosis while continuing to lead a demanding life.
Deb shares her journey from "We're just watching it" to an aggressive cancer diagnosis almost overnight, followed by chemotherapy, septic shock, emergency surgery, weeks in the hospital, and the long road to recovery. She also opens up about the challenges many people don't expect—brain fog, scan anxiety, changing relationships, and the emotional toll cancer takes on partners and caregivers.
Together, Beverley and Deb explore why high-achieving women often struggle to ask for help, what meaningful support actually looks like, and how planning, delegation, and honest communication can help protect both your health and your career during a personal crisis.
Whether you're living with breast cancer, supporting someone you love, or facing another unexpected life transition, this conversation offers practical strategies, honest insights, and hope for moving forward—one decision at a time.
Stay until the end, when Beverley shares key takeaways and simple actions you can begin using today.
In This Episode
Breast cancer after 50
Navigating a Stage III breast cancer diagnosis
Working during chemotherapy
Leadership during a personal health crisis
Scan anxiety and fear of recurrence
Brain fog and the lasting effects of treatment
Supporting caregivers and partners
Asking for—and accepting—the right kind of help
Delegation and business continuity during illness
Building resilience when life changes overnight
Resources:
For similar episodes on cancer empowerment, check out Finding Your Voice, episode 178, and How to Take Back Your Control with Dr. Tiffany Trosso, episode 186 of Aging with Purpose and Passion. And if you're overwhelmed as a caregiver, Dementia Decoded is a podcast with Jennifer Fink, a masterclass in working with the family caregiver. And that podcast is podcast.show fading memories.
Deb Krier
Executive Advisor | Cancer Strategist | Founder, Your Cancer Warrior & Trying Not to Die
🌐 Website: www.yourcancerwarrior.com
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborahkrier/
📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Deb.Krier/
Beverley Glazer
Life & Work Transition Coach | Reinvention Strategist | Host of Aging With Purpose and Passion
🌐 Website: https://reinventimpossible.com
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beverleyglazer/
📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beverley.glazer
👩‍💼 Women Over 50 Rock! Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/womenover50rock
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beverleyglazer_reinvention/
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