What if the problem in your marriage… isn’t your marriage? What if it’s what you’re choosing to notice?

In this Valentine’s-season episode, Laurie shares a simple but powerful mindset shift that can transform your relationships — without therapy, ultimatums, or blowing up your life.

Midlife has a way of making everything feel louder. The identity shifts. The resentment you didn’t realize was building. The small irritations that start to feel bigger. The question of “Is this it?”

But before you make any dramatic moves, Laurie invites you to try something deceptively simple:

Change your focus.

Because what you focus on grows.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why midlife can intensify dissatisfaction in long-term relationships
• How your brain is wired to look for evidence that confirms your story
• The subtle difference between healthy awareness and chronic scorekeeping
• A 7-day experiment that can shift the emotional tone of your relationship
• Why this practice isn’t about settling — it’s about strengthening your mindset

This conversation isn’t about ignoring real problems. It’s about reclaiming your power in the dynamic. Because midlife isn’t just about redefining success.

It’s about redefining what you pay attention to. And that choice changes everything.

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The moment midlife asks more of you, and the trust and fear issues that may be holding you back.

Midlife doesn’t usually announce itself with a crisis.

More often, it shows up quietly — as restlessness, hesitation, or the sense that the life you’ve built no longer fits the way it used to.

In this special episode of the School of Midlife Podcast, host Laurie Reynoldson is sharing a live recording from the final day of a recent masterclass — a conversation about trust, fear, and the moment midlife asks us to choose differently.

Not because something is wrong.
But because something more is possible.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why hesitation in midlife is often a trust issue, not a clarity issue
• The three fears that keep high-achieving women stuck:
  • fear of judgment (What will they think of me?)
  • fear of failure (What if I’m not good enough?)
  • fear of success (What if I actually do the thing?)
• Why waiting is still a decision — and how default choices quietly shape our lives
• How identity shifts in midlife impact our decisions, relationships, and sense of self
• The ripple effects of choosing yourself — in your marriage, your family, and the legacy you’re modeling for your children
• Why regret doesn’t come from trying and failing — but from never trying at all

This is not a conversation about blowing up your life or starting over.

It’s about learning how to stop overthinking, trust yourself again, and make intentional choices aligned with who you are now — not who you were ten or twenty years ago.

If you’ve been feeling stuck between the life you have and the life you want, this episode is an invitation to pause, reflect, and ask an honest question:

What would it look like to choose differently — on purpose?

Want to Go Deeper?

The BEST LIFE Lab is a guided coaching experience for high-achieving midlife women who are ready to stop waiting and start choosing their lives intentionally — with clarity, support, and self-trust.

You can learn more here.

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The real reason you don't feel like yourself in midlife...after "fixing" your midlife body.

You’ve done the work to address the physical symptoms of midlife: balanced your hormones, changed your eating, added strength training. And you still don't feel like yourself in midlife.

And there's a reason for that. The real work of midlife? That's an inside job.

In this bonus episode of the School of Midlife podcast, Laurie is dropping us into a recent masterclass to encourage midlife women stop waiting and start living. Laurie shares her own story of rising out of a moment of deep personal and professional frustration to create what became The School of Midlife. And she names the real reason we get stuck again after the first breakthrough: we need structure, support, and community to keep going.

If you’ve taken a few big steps but don’t know what’s next—or you’re afraid you’ll lose the progress you’ve made—this one’s for you.

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