The Midlife Reinvention: How to Find Your Ikigai, Deal with Imposter Syndrome & Build Your Confidence in Career & Life Transitions

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From the outside, your life looks right. The career, the marriage, the achievements that everyone around you agrees count. From the inside, something has started to whisper a question you have been dismissing as exhaustion or burnout or just a hard week.
Most of us follow a playbook through our thirties and forties without realizing we are following one. The values our parents handed us. The script our culture wrote. The version of success we never stopped to question. It works beautifully for a long time. Until the day it doesn't.
In this episode, you'll discover:
The playbook many women unknowingly follow through their thirties and forties, and why it works beautifully until it doesn't
The gremlins quietly whispering underneath a life that looks right, and the early signals you may be dismissing as exhaustion, hormones, or burnout
The moment those whispers became impossible for Kavita to ignore, and what it cost her to dismiss them for too long
Press play to hear the story behind the couch moment Kavita has never shared on the podcast before, and to recognize the inner critics or gremlins that may already be quietly asking you the question you are not yet ready to answer.
If a question is rising in you about Kavita's journey, your journey, or the chapter you are quietly questioning, send it to her at Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.com. Ask Me Anything throughout this My Story series.
If this episode resonated and you sense your own whispers asking for a change, take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to understand where you are right now, or schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita to start finding career clarity on what's next.

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This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.

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Have you ever looked at the life you've built and quietly wondered why it no longer feels like yours, even though nothing on the outside looks wrong?
Every career and life transition is, underneath everything, a conversation with your values. The values that carried you through your earlier chapters are not always the same ones calling you forward into who you are becoming, and learning to tell the difference is some of the most important work of midlife. In this Thursday mini, a companion to Monday's episode 308, Kavita picks up one thread from her own story and follows it further: what happens when a new value starts knocking on the door, and what it means for your ikigai when you let yourself answer.
In this episode, you'll discover:
Why the values that built your earlier chapters can quietly go out of alignment during a midlife career transition, and how to notice when it's happening
How your ikigai shifts as your strengths, passions, values, and what the world needs from you all evolve through every season of life
A simple values exercise to help you name what is still leading you forward and what you have outgrown with love and respect
Press play to begin the quiet, honest conversation with your values that every meaningful life transition is asking you to have.
If you're sensing that your values are shifting and you're ready to explore what your next chapter wants to look like, schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita or take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see where your career and life are most asking for your attention right now.
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Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence.
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Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com
New episodes every Monday and Thursday.
This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.

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Have you ever felt like the woman you are today is missing something the woman you used to be already knew?
This week marks the start of a brand new series called My Story, where Kavita finally answers a question one of her clients asked that she had been quietly avoiding for five years. As you sit in your own career or life transition, this series is an invitation to listen for yourself in someone else's story, to notice where your themes echo, and to remember the courage that has been sitting inside you all along, waiting for you to claim it.
In this episode, you'll discover:
The cultural roots and family story that shaped Kavita, and why your own history holds essential clues for navigating change today
How the values that built your life in your twenties and thirties may no longer be the values calling you now, and what that signals about your next chapter
The one reflection question to sit with this week that can shift how you see your story and your capacity to move through this life transition
Press play to remember the bravery already written into your story, and to begin recognizing the version of it that is asking to lead you into what's next.
Ask Me Anything:  If there is a question burning in you about Kavita’s  journey, your journey, or anything in between, send her an email at Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.com. She  will be answering your questions in the episodes ahead..
If something in this episode is stirring in you and you are ready to explore what your next chapter could look like, book a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita or take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see where you are right now and what is calling you forward. 
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Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence.
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Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com
New episodes every Monday and Thursday.
This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.

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What if the voice that has been telling you you are not ready, not qualified, or not allowed to want something different is not your wisdom at all, but the part of you that has the most to lose if you actually move forward?
In midlife, when so much of who you were is quietly reorganizing, the voice in your head tends to get louder. The more you move toward something new, the more that voice works to keep you where you are. The hard part is that your inner critic and your inner wisdom can sound surprisingly alike from the inside. Until you can tell them apart, you will keep mistaking old stories for real warnings and missing the steady voice that actually knows what you want.
In this episode, you'll discover:
The one word that instantly tells you whether you are listening to your inner critic or your inner wisdom in any career or life transition
Why your body knows the difference before your mind does, and the simple signal it gives you when the critic has taken over
The reason your inner critic always sounds so familiar, and how that familiarity is actually the key to seeing through it
Press play to learn a small experiment you can try this week to start trusting your own wisdom in real time, beginning with the low-stakes moments and building toward the bigger decisions ahead of you.
If this episode lands for you, download the free 28-Day Confidence Guide for daily practices and short video lessons to help you trust your own voice one day at a time.
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Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita
Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence.
Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook
Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com
New episodes every Monday and Thursday.
This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.

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What if the identity that has defined you for decades - the career, the titles, the roles you have spent a lifetime building - is not actually who you are?
For so many women navigating a career or life transition, the most disorienting part is not the change itself. It is the quiet, unsettling realization that when the role falls away, you are not sure who is left. This conversation with Dr. Kathleen Perry - transformational coach, former chiropractor, and host of the Identity Matters podcast - goes straight to the heart of that question. After five profound losses in five years, Kathleen discovered something that changed everything: the identity you have built is not who you are. And when life asks you to let it go, that is not the end of something. It is the beginning.
In this episode, you'll discover:
Why your sense of self can feel shaken during a career or life transition even when nothing dramatic has happened - and what your mind, body, and spirit are actually trying to tell you when everything feels uncertain
Why the voice in your head is not you - and why you do not have to fix it, silence it, or manage it during a life transition, only see through it - and what changes when you finally do
The one question that cuts through everything else when you are navigating career and life transitions - not what should you do, but what do you actually want - and why the answer is already closer to the surface than you think
Press play to hear an honest, deeply personal conversation about loss, identity, and what becomes possible when you stop taking yourself to be the roles you have been playing - and begin living as who you actually are.
If the voice in your head has been louder than your own knowing lately, download the free 28-Day Confidence Guide for daily practices and short video lessons to help you trust your own voice over the noise. And if you are ready to talk through what this season of your life is asking of you, schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita.
You can find Dr. Kathleen Perry and the Identity Matters podcast here:

Identity Matters podcast - https://www.drkathleenperry.com/podcast
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kathleen.g.perry.1/
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/kathleen.g.perry.1
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/drkathleen/
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa3jLew8BduIXdKXYlSs0Hw
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Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita
Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence.
Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook
Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com
New episodes every Monday and Thursday.
This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.