What if midlife was something to look forward to knowing your best years are yet to come.

In this episode, I sit down with physiotherapist and pelvic and sexual health educator and author Lisa Fitzpatrick for a refreshingly open conversation about midlife, our bodies, intimacy, ageing, and what happens when we start paying attention to what our bodies might be telling us.

We explore why midlife can bring old stories, unresolved experiences, and parts of ourselves we’ve pushed down bubbling back to the surface, and the connection between what’s happening physically and what might be going on elsewhere in our lives.

We also go into territory women aren’t always encouraged to talk about openly: Intimacy after 50, pelvic health, feeling safe in relationships, and the beliefs many of us have absorbed about becoming less sexy, desirable, or relevant as we age.

Lisa shares how her own experience of heartbreak during menopause challenged many of those beliefs and forced her to look differently at her body, her relationships, and herself.

And we explore why this stage of life doesn’t have to be about decline at all…and what might become possible when consider our best and sexiest years are ahead of us.

Key takeaways:

o What your body might be telling you beyond “it’s just menopause”.

o Why midlife can bring buried stories and unresolved experiences bubbling to the surface.

o The connection between feeling safe and what happens in your body.

o What women are rarely told about intimacy and pelvic health after 50.

o Why questioning the stories you’ve absorbed about ageing can change what feels possible.

o Why menopause is not merely a hormonal event, rather a profound threshold.

o Why your 50s could be when you feel your best and come fully alive.

Get a copy of Lisa’s book, Sexy Menopause.

Get in touch with Lisa:

Website: Lisa Fitzpatrick

Instagram: @thelisafitzpatrick

Facebook: Sacred Women's Business

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COURAGEOUS ME – THE BOOK

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SOMEDAY to TODAY – event 2027

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Where to find me:

Website: Kim Payne

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What happens after you finally do the thing you’ve dreamed about, worked towards, and poured everything you have into?

In this episode, I take you behind the scenes of what happened after one of my biggest dreams, my Someday to TODAY event, became real, and what I discovered when I finally came back down to earth.

Because there’s a side to doing big things we don’t talk about nearly enough.

I walk through the incredible high, the physical and emotional crash that followed, and how my inner critic turned a handful of tiny logistical comments into a reason to question the entire thing.

I share what happens when adrenaline disappears and why high achievers and perfectionists can be particularly vulnerable to the post-achievement crash.

And why the moments immediately after doing something courageous may NOT be the best time to critique how you went.

And once you’ve rested, recalibrated, and allowed yourself to appreciate what you’ve achieved... how are you going to leverage it?

Whether you’ve run an event, finished a huge project, launched something, stepped onto a stage, shared something vulnerable, or finally done something you’ve been putting off, this episode invites you to think differently about what comes next.

Because doing the big thing might not be the finish line, instead it might just be the starting point.

Key takeaways

o Why the emotional crash can come after you do the courageous thing, even when you nail it.

o What your inner critic can do when adrenaline, exhaustion, and perfectionism collide.

o Why waiting for things to settle can change what success, or the feedback, really means.

o The question that can turn one big moment into something with a much bigger ripple effect.

o Why doing the thing isn’t enough and what we often forget to do once it’s done.

SOMEDAY to TODAY – event 2027

Pop your name on the list and be first to know about the event in Melbourne AND Sydney in 2027.

COURAGEOUS ME – THE BOOK

Grab your copy of Courageous Me – The courage to turn someday into today.

Where to find me:

Website: Kim Payne

LinkedIn: Kim Payne

Instagram: @iamkimpayne

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How much of who you are today has been shaped by things that happened years, or even decades, ago?

A throwaway comment from childhood.

Years of being criticised or second-guessed.

A relationship where you gradually became less of yourself.

Or an experience that left you afraid to go after what you want.

In this episode, I chat with life and leadership coach and Author of Life After Divorce, Claire Adamou, to explore how these experiences can shape our confidence, identity and choices…often without us even realising it.

Claire shares what it took to leave a marriage in which she'd lost herself, and how, after 40, she rebuilt her life and took her career in a completely different direction.

We also explore the fears that can sit underneath even the most confident exterior and what can happen when you uncover where those fears really began.

And why courage isn't always about saying yes, sometimes, it’s knowing when to say no.

Key takeaways:

o What it takes to rebuild your life, confidence, and identity after divorce.

o How one seemingly insignificant comment from childhood can hold you back for decades.

o How starting again after 40 can take your life in a completely different direction.

o How years of criticism and second-guessing yourself can erode your sense of who you are.

o Why the confidence people see on the outside can be very different from what’s happening underneath.

o What can change when you uncover the real source of a fear you’ve carried for years.

o Why learning to say no can require just as much courage as always saying yes.

Get in touch with Claire:

Website: Claire Adamou

LinkedIn: Claire Adamou

Instagram: @claireadamou

Tiktok: Claire Adamou

Get Claires Book: Life After Divorce: From Surviving to Thriving

COURAGEOUS ME – THE BOOK

Grab your copy of Courageous Me – The courage to turn someday into today.

Where to find me:

Website: Kim Payne

LinkedIn: Kim Payne

Instagram: @iamkimpayne

Facebook: KimPayneBiz