Aging With Purpose and Passion | Women Over 50

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
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beverleyglazer_reinvention/
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Have feedback or a powerful story that's worth telling? Contact us at info@Reinventimpossible.com

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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Laura Rotter on financial confidence, purpose, career transitions, and building a life that reflects who you've become.
What happens when you've built a successful life—but quietly wonder if it still fits who you are today?
You've worked hard. Built the career. Earned the respect. Created financial security.
From the outside, everything looks successful.
Inside, something feels different.
If you're a high-performing woman over 50 navigating a career transition, retirement, divorce, or simply asking, "What's next?" this conversation is for you.
In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, I sit down with Laura Rotter, founder of True Abundance Advisors and former Wall Street investment executive, to explore what happens when external success no longer reflects your inner values—and why that realization can become the beginning of a more meaningful life.
Laura shares how growing up with financial uncertainty fueled her determination to become financially independent, why Wall Street once felt like the perfect intellectual challenge, and how the industry's changing culture slowly left her feeling disconnected from work she once loved.
What began as quiet dissatisfaction eventually became impossible to ignore.
Mindfulness, yoga, and deep self-reflection helped Laura reconnect with her own voice. Then an unexpected layoff gave her the opportunity she hadn't been willing to give herself—to build a business aligned with her values instead of someone else's definition of success.
Together we explore:
• Why success can stop feeling fulfilling—even when everything looks good on paper
• How to know when you've outgrown the life you've built
• Reinvention after 50 and navigating major life transitions
• Retirement planning that supports the life you actually want
• Divorce, financial confidence, and reclaiming your independence
• Why organizing your finances is an act of self-care—not restriction
• How financial clarity reduces anxiety and helps you make better decisions
• Why more money doesn't create self-worth—it simply magnifies what's already there
Laura also explains why she chose a fee-only financial planning model, how values-based investing creates greater peace of mind, and why true abundance isn't measured by wealth alone.
If you've ever found yourself wondering whether your success still reflects who you've become, this conversation will remind you that it's never too late to redefine what a meaningful life looks like.
Because the goal isn't simply to have more.
It's to build a life that feels as successful on the inside as it looks on the outside.
Resources
For similar episodes on Aging with Purpose and Passion, check out When Success No Longer Fits Episode 182. And Success, Burnout, and What Really Matters, Episode 184. And if you're going through difficult times right now with a loved one, the Dementia Uncoded podcast with Jennifer Fink is a masterclass for the working family caregiver. And that's podcast.show fading memories.
Laura Rotter – Founder, True Abundance Advisors | Fee-Only Financial Advisor
🌐 Website: https://trueabundanceadvisors.com/
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurarotter/
📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/laura.i.rotter/
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rotterlaura/
Beverley Glazer, MA, CCC – Work & Life Transition Coach, Reinvention Strategist & Host
🌐 Website: https://reinventimpossible.com
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beverleyglazer/
📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/reinventimpossible
👥 Women Over 50 Rock (Facebook Group): https://www.facebook.com/groups/womenover50rock
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beverleyglazer/
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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.
Have feedback or a powerful story that's worth telling? Contact us at info@Reinventimpossible.com

How do you keep showing up for everyone else without losing yourself?
How high-performing women can navigate caregiving, burnout, and life transitions without sacrificing themselves.
If you're caring for aging parents, supporting a spouse through illness, balancing work, family, and everyone else's needs, you know how easy it is to put yourself last.
In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer talks with Amy Lokken, founder of The Amy Factor, about caregiving, burnout, self-respect, and what happens when high-performing women quietly begin disappearing beneath the weight of responsibility.
Amy's insights come from lived experience. She cared for both of her parents until their final breath, supported her mother through dementia, and years later found herself caring for her husband through serious health challenges—all while leading a business and trying not to lose herself in the process.
Together, we explore:
• Caregiving and the sandwich generation
• Dementia and caring for aging parents
• Supporting a spouse through illness
• Burnout in high-performing women
• Self-respect versus self-sacrifice
• Leadership through life's hardest seasons
• Identity after caregiving
• Life transitions and reinvention after 50
• Resilience, boundaries, and emotional wellbeing
Amy shares why caregiving is one of the highest forms of leadership, how small daily compromises quietly erode self-respect, and what it takes to care for the people you love without abandoning yourself.
If you've ever felt exhausted, overwhelmed, invisible, or wondered where you went while taking care of everyone else, this conversation will remind you that caring for yourself isn't selfish—it's essential.
Because the people who depend on you need the healthiest, strongest version of you.
✨ What's Next for You?
If you've outgrown the life you've built and want a private space to think through what's next, let's have a conversation.
Learn more about Beverley's work and schedule a conversation at ReinventImpossible.com.
Resources
For similar episodes to help you further, check out Finding Your Voice episode number 154 and Success, Burnout, and what Really Matters, episode 184. And if you're going through difficult times, the Dementia Decoded Podcast with Jennifer Fink is a masterclass for working family caregivers. That's podcast.show Fading Memories.
Amy Lokken – Founder, The Amy Factor™
🌐 Website: https://theamyfactor.com/
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amylokken/
📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amy.lokken.3
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theamylokken/
Beverley Glazer, MA, CCC – Work and Life Transition Coach, Reinvention Strategist & Host
🌐 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/
Send us Fan Mail
 🎁 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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Who do you turn to when everyone turns to you for answers?
Success can be lonely—especially for women in leadership.
Whether you're a founder, business owner, executive, board member, or a high-performing woman leading others, there are decisions you can't always share, doubts you keep to yourself, and pressures few people truly understand.
In this episode of Aging With Purpose and Passion, Beverley Glazer sits down with entrepreneur and KELLA founder Hannah Wrixon to explore one of leadership's least talked about challenges: loneliness at the top.
Hannah's story didn't begin in the boardroom. She shares the experiences that shaped her resilience—from surviving abuse and becoming a single mother to building and selling businesses, navigating grief and depression, and discovering that success doesn't protect you from feeling alone.
Together, we explore:
• Women in leadership
• Leadership loneliness and executive burnout
• Career transitions and reinvention after 50
• Women entrepreneurs and business leadership
• Psychological safety and trusted peer networks
• Decision-making under pressure
• Asking for help without losing confidence
• Resilience, purpose, and authentic leadership
If you've ever felt the weight of leading, struggled to make difficult decisions in silence, or believed you had to have all the answers, this conversation will remind you that the strongest leaders aren't the ones who carry everything alone.
They're the ones who know where it's safe to tell the truth.
✨ What's Next for You?
If you've outgrown the life you've built and want a private space to think through what's next, let's have a conversation.
Learn more about Beverley's work and schedule a conversation at ReinventImpossible.com.
Resources:
If you're wondering 'What's next' for me?' Let's map that out together. Schedule a Free Next Act Strategy Session. 
 For similar episodes on Aging with Purpose and Passion, check out When Success No Longer Fits. That's episode number 181 and Success, Burnout, and What Really Matters, episode 184 on Aging with Purpose and Passion. And if you like podcasts for older women, women over 70 is a powerful force. These compelling stories shatter the myth that we become irrelevant as we age, and that's womenover70.com.
Hannah Wrixon – Founder & CEO of KELLA
🌐 Website: https://www.kellaleadership.com
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kellaleadership
📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Kellaleadership
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Kellaleadership
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Beverley Glazer, MA, CCC – Work and Life Transition Coach, Reinvention Strategist & Host
🌐 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/
Send us Fan Mail
 🎁 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.
Have feedback or a powerful story that's worth telling? Contact us at info@Reinventimpossible.com